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I don't believe that strict LOS is a requirement. If the room is getting ever so slightly brighter and dimmer, that's enough of a signal. Current wifi works down to -80dBm (or lower) which is a crazy small signal. -100dBm is a tenth of a picowatt of received signal strength.

I'm not saying that non-LOS is guaranteed by any means. But LOS isn't strictly required for this scheme to work. If only one light bulb out of 100 in a room is Li-Fi enabled it's going to be tough. If all three light bulbs in a room are Li-Fi enabled there's definitely hope.

The proportion of non-Li-Fi lightings to Li-Fi lighting is probably going to determine your SNR and thus your feasibility. Trying to make Li-Fi work with a 100 lumen bulb in direct sunlight is going to be a bad time since the sensor only has so much dynamic range. But if you increase the power of your light to be within an order of magnitude or two of the sunlight, you've got a fighting chance.
Well that as well as does hydro power 35 died building one of Scotland's pumped storage systems.
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>The Ivy League will survive because of social and political momentum.

...and their endowments in $10-40 billion range:

http://www.ibtimes.com/ivy-league-endowments-2015-princeton-...
Like said it's my personal opinion. However, there are tons of studies that support porn impacting society and relationships in a negative way. Just Google it.
Haha, I was just thinking that if I'm only 4 years away from being an adult, then that feels about right. I don't feel like an adult at all, but maybe when I'm in my 30s.

Wow, I can't imagine having 2 kids or a house.
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Thanks!

At the moment we're focusing on the quality of the abstracts both for Twitter followers and the beta testers.

If there's enough demand to scale further a crowdsourced model might be a good way to scale, whereby "abstracters" could benefit from exposure and social capital it gets them, similar to Quora and other services.
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I beat you by a fair bit on seniority--going on 50 years. I was the kid whose dad figured out that looks were nothing and weight was all. Somebody who optimized for weight and aerodynamics might have beaten us, but that somebody didn't show up in our troop.
I agree entirely. I majored in philosophy, as well as biology. I currently work in biotech.

The more useful of the two majors, even taking my career into account? Philosophy. Understanding the principles which govern the properties and flow of ideas/arguments/concepts is far more important than the particulars, which can be memorized and understood as needed.

The cliche is that philosophy teaches you how to think, and it's true. Of course, philosophy isn't the only way to learn how to think, but it's a good primer.
Well if you have stiff enough molecules, then the distance a given molecular structure moves due to thermal fluctuations can be smaller than an angstrom. In addition, if one cools said system down, thermal fluctuations become less of a problem.

Actually assembling individual atoms together to make stuff is still very much an unsolved problem. Freitas' work on mechanosynthesis tooltips shows that we may need to control more than just position to precisely react atoms and that 'fat fingers' is still very much a problem.
Why do you think that developed countries have below replacement birth rates? Many people cannot afford to raise families anymore. By afford I mean, afford to raise them to an adequate first world standard. So that's already happening.
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My understanding from skimming those two links is: John Wiegley is considering/being considered for the head maintainer, but the decision hasn't been made yet. Is that correct?
VBScript would be something a Samba admin would know of due to VBS being used often for login scripts. Netlogon is a share you would have on your Samba server. Group policy is distributed over SMB. Is this news to you?
These stories are always interesting to read, both from what they say, and what they don't say. For example, do you know that world wide there is a shortage of people in various trades roles[1] ? (Welding, masonry, carpentry, electricians, etc) And why are their young people who are loading up on debt they can't afford to go to Ivy league schools when they can be just as successful going to state schools? How much part time employement might be found if there wasn't a floor on minimum wage? [2] Since we don't have the category of 'extra' or 'part time' job like we used to, current minimum wage policy is geared toward making every job pay a living wage. That prices a lot of jobs out competitiveness for humans and spurs the development of robotic replacements. Not that those jobs are career paths, but they do offer people a bit of extra change in their pocket.

A more intriguing question is to what end might you employ two or three hundred million people? Imagine they are sitting outside your window waiting for your command. Assuming you are paying them a living wage, what economic output could they accomplish that would be "worth" say 5 to 15 trillion dollars a year?

[1] http://facilityexecutive.com/2015/05/u-s-employers-suffer-la...

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44995
I would make sure there is good contact info: Name, address, phone number, email address, possibly a map. I would also include hours of operation.

I might treat it primarily as a kind of internet business card (at least at first, even if I had no idea what else to do with it), but if I had a small local brick and mortar business, I absolutely would have a website. The reason I would do this is because so few SMEs do this that it means when people are looking online for local small businesses that are not a franchise of a large chain, if you have a website of any kind, you will stand out from the crowd.

It is shocking to me how little info there can be online about locally owned businesses. I live without a car and have for several years. So I use the Internet a great deal to find information before I make the long walk to check things out in person. Thus, this is something I have a lot of familiarity with: There is a dearth of good info online about local businesses that I might be inclined to go to if I had any idea they were there and what they offered.
> I am not applying because working here is the most important thing to me, I am applying because there was an opening I might be qualified for and I was looking for a job.

Yep, I'm actually too scared to state the real reasons why I'm applying. I think HR will filter out my appplication when I write "your opening sounded somewhat interesting and I want to know more about the tasks I have to do when I work here".

Instead I just drop some additional keywords and bullshit into the obligatory "Why do you want to work here?" field. This approached worked so far.
How does it compare to 60GHz 802.11ad wifi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance

If only our celing lamp sockets had ethernet then you could wire up 60Ghz transmitters in every room and there would not be a lot of need for wired connection.
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They're just saying that some skills typically come about with experience, and I don't think they're attacking you or unemployed people.

You talk about information being limited to job applicants, but interviewing is a two way street. Interviewers are human and also trying to sift through the information you deliver, and they tend to lean towards false negatives in order to avoid false positives.

Sometimes there is a gap and it really does come down to luck (or your experience in communicating during an interview).
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Ground_Forces#Army_A...

"Surface-to-air missile systems and complexes of division level are characterized by their long range and firepower and are equipped with surface-to-air missile complexes;S-300V,Osa, Buk, Buk-M1 and Tor."

2. No they did not need to do that, it was enough to park it closer to the zone

3. I am not sure what is this gibberish about, I did not mention anything about SBU or anybody else saying anything.

Thanks for the downvotes, even when you are obviously wrong. It is just showing how much HN lost its way.
I'm afraid I don't have the money to devote my life to politics and I'm much too idealistic to be a good politician.

In any event, I've come to the conclusion that the best way to influence the system is to have a lot of money to throw around. Then you can hire a guy to go make speeches for you and spread your message, you can buy scientists to publish research that supports your agenda, you can buy lawyers to silence dissent and block action, you can buy your way into meetings of the other elitely wealthy that really decide where investments flow, how the economy works, who wins and who loses.
Same here, but I think she’s discussing how much more of an issue these types of non overt symptoms are for females than they are for males, not denying its significant presence in males.
Yes, phrased differently, asynchronous programming is like non-preemptive (cooperative) multitasking from the Windows 3.1 era.
The US isn't going to go assassinate a high profile world famous journalist. Everyone would suspect them.

It would be an enormous risk and an even bigger disaster of international diplomacy to kill an Australian without trial. Grow up.
Afaik, no, proofs of correctness are not currently implemented in the languages that are used. Some of them iirc have a way to do that in part, but currently the languages aren't set up for full proofs of correctness. (But, iirc, some things can be shown)

It is planned though.

Ok, yes, I suppose that the contracts will/would eventually get kind of long. As it is now though, It hasn't taken me /all/ that long to read the contracts I've looked at. (But perhaps I've only bothered to look at the ones short enough to read )

Regarding finding security flaws despite people looking carefully: yes, that seems a good point. I think proofs of correctness will be important for important contracts. However, many contracts logic is not really all that complicated. A contract can be powerful without being complicated, I think. Because of this, I think much of the time the proofs should not be too hard to write.

Regarding running out of gas:

Well, yes, if the transaction you send does not have enough gas, and you needed it to run, that could be a problem. But, if you run the transaction locally, and use that to estimate the amount of gas which needs to be used (might not be exact if the state of the contract changes in a way that your transaction needs more computation, but for reasonable contracts I think this would not be much), and one can provide extra gas in case this happens (the extra gas will be refunded), to have a high confidence that it will be enough.

But, if the transaction is important, one would be watching what happened carefully anyway, to make sure the transaction gets in the chain, regardless of the complications from the computations in the transaction. If, counter to your expectations, the gas you provided did not end up being enough, then you would be able to notice this, and, though you would be out that gas cost, you could just send the transaction again with more gas.

The block times are very short (under a minute), so you probably wouldn't have to wait long to send the transaction again with more gas. Most of the gas costs shouldn't be too large, so unless the transaction you are sending is very time sensitive, or very computationally expensive, a transaction running out of gas shouldn't be /too/ much of a problem?

I think you make some good points btw, just explaining my understanding of how those things are addressed.

Also, I'm not sure, but it seems you might have a small confusion about gas. Gas is included in the transaction, not stored by a contract over time. Gas only exists within the context of a particular transaction, the token which is actually exchanged is ether. You might have just been choosing not to mention the details of that though.
They are only hostile to newcomers not willing to learn what is important for the project. Things like bug free code, code that does what is supposed to do in a way that does not interfere with other kernel parts, ...
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Yeah, and if you don't vote you get what the money wants without a fight. If you work to create things like Uber, to solve a first-world problem such as "mediocre taxis" you should be able to work towards a communication system that can combat traditional marketing and its effect on voting patterns. Otherwise, you're just admitting it's "hard" and you don't want to work on "hard" problems...
I had read a couple of books both of which said the sandwich technique is an out-of-date way of delivering bad news and it's significantly better to do it immediately to help not continue to build up to the bad news that the person on the other side knows it coming (because, let's face it, the sandwich is obvious from 100ft away).

Unfortunately I can't figure out what books I read and I'm having a hard time finding studies (just keep finding damn buzzfeed like article about using the sandwich). If someone else finds these sources or debunks them I would be greatly appreciated :)
What is disrespectful about removing repo access? What, did he need to fix those last-minute bugs for his former employer?
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I find it hard to imagine that one will see less of these incidents with even more guns around. Incidents like this are not common in developed nations.
Even for 18 year olds with an inclination to think it's all bullshit-- nobody will ever present you with an alternate viable path. It's always "You don't want to end up a loser right? Sign here..." and next thing you know the creditors are calling looking for their $X0,000.

Classic peer pressure techniques apparently count as sagely advice when coming from high school guidance counselors
A philosophy major is not a poor financial instrument because it's not financial instrument at all. Education has aims other than making investors money.

As a practical matter, philosophy is typically studied by those who will go on to law school, a Masters in something employable, or as part of a minor or "core curriculum" alongside a trade.

In most of the liberal arts and humanities - particularly philosophy, a graduate from a reputable institution will have extremely sharp critical thinking and writing skills. A philosophy major's daily grind is very similar to proof-based math. Across the disciplines, people are mostly writing papers that argue positions. Particularly at top-tier institutions, those papers are held to a high standard for quality of argument, evidence, and style. It may not correspond directly to an efficient way to turn capital into more capital, but it's hardly a "waste."
Could this RNN model perhaps be used to filter click bait headlines from HN automatically? Perhaps one could perform some sort of backward beam search to figure out how likely a particular headline would've been produced by it. If there are words in a headline that the model doesn't know, one could perhaps just let it replace it with one that it knows.
> people don't do well with unpredictability

Neither do long term views, things are moving so fast that long term views are pretty meaningless.
> complained that it's not possible to produce a 'flat binary array suitable for direct copying to output device memory'

I believe my mistake was using the term 'array' rather than 'string'.

This should read it's not possible to define a 'flat binary string, of variable length, in a pure functional manner, through implicit concatenation, with the guarantee that every return value reduces to a binary string, using the commonly accepted semantics of s-expression evaluation common to all Lisps'.

It certainly possible to build and process fixed size binary strings by adding, as I mentioned, "non referentially transparent features" to your language implementation, including Common Lisp's "replace" operation.

However, since such semantics are procedural and imperative in nature, they do not lend themselves well to the production of concise and declarative definitions suitable for describing the encoding of formatted binary strings adhering to a specific protocol, such as what one might find in the documentation of protocols for mass communication, encryption, and long term storage.

If they did, then we would most likely expect to see Scheme\Lisp\Clojure programmers of all varieties directly importing the same open protocol definitions from an established sources directly into their application codebases, and not repeatedly rewriting this functionality or relying on bindings to C\Java libraries.

> Common Lisp was built to be an industrial-strength language

I am not discussing the limitations of Common Lisp in particular, I am discussing the limitations of Lisp family of languages as a whole, and describing why there will most likely always be someone implementing a new slightly different variants of it, of which Common Lisp is but one example, and why it is unlikely that Lisp programmers will ever converge on one single language.
Those pictures are of Putin on a military base in Armenia that runs joint operations. Both Armenia and Ukraine use 9M38M1, Russia stopped production in 1999 and begin phasing it out.

I'm sure there are a few of these still around here and there, but no one is lying about the production stop that happened 16 years ago (that can be verified many ways).

Those pictures are sourced from -
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/19731

And they are still up.

It's not much of proof of anything.

As far as the other 2 whole pictures at parades, etc, well, that's proof of itself that these missile models are dwindling in numbers and are a rare sight.
the reconstruction is wrong as they depict the missile coming from the front-right and crossing the flight path of the plane. In reality the missile came from the front-left, from the rebels positions much north of the Torez/Snezhnoe (that the report strangely insists on as the point of launch).

The BUK missile shrapnel flies perpendicular to the missile's direction. It is a simple geometric task to show how that shrapnel has also hit the left engine and clipped the left wing with the direction of the shrapnel damage there matching the direction of the damage to the pilot cabin.
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First thing I thought, too.

But seriously, "Our mission continues to provide great products and services! We're turning off divshot in 60 days. Migrate your hosting to Firebase. And if you used our Architect UI, that's gone. Completely."

"And if you had a $20/month plan with us, sorry! You'll have to go to a $49/month plan!" (of course, this point, they don't mention...)
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I contacted someone in my professional network.
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> Divshot will shut down existing products and services on Monday, December 14, 2015

aw, man... my consulting web page is hosted there. Now I've gotta move it - costs $5 for a custom domain at Firebase.
Well, the newer Macs have limited USB ports so you have to either do a lot of switching around, or have a USB hub on your desk. Now you have 3 or 4 cords laying around which look ugly and, worse, usually end up getting hung up on my mouse and causing me to rearrange stuff. It's not the end of the world, but I really, really enjoy my wireless keyboard/trackpad and am looking forward to getting the new ones (at least the trackpad 2).
Your comment is baffling. It appears to be saying that you don't care if people are shot and killed if they also happen to be criminals.

I find it hard to believe that anyone actually holds that opinion. Am I misunderstanding you?
"every interviewer complaining that no applicant can do it"

I've noticed a correlation between that and insanely low pay or horrific working conditions, or a crazy disconnect between demands and the requirements.

"I don't understand why none of the applicants can explain the details of why one BGP route is preferred over the other" -- says the guy trying to hire a CCIE for $50K at a dying utility company.

"Well, sure we pivot every month and require 80 hour super high pressure work weeks and the runway ends in six months but aren't all companies, everywhere, on a perpetual death march?" -- says the guy who doesn't get any fizzbuzz-able applicants

"I can't find any applicants with PHD level programming skills and encyclopedic knowledge of algorithms who have written a widely used LISP and/or hold a Fields math medal and/or a Nobel" -- says the guy complaining about getting no serious applicants when trying to hire for an entry level CRUD shoveler, upon being told everyone's unemployed so he should aim high.
Only if referring to "Agile" methodologies. I believe here the usage is "able to move quickly and easily".
I browsed through the email thread briefly and it looks like a lot of "political ideology vs technical purism" drama... Seems high stress.

Looks like after some hearty back and forth it settled down: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...

Although it seems they ended up on an "agree to disagree" finale: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...
It's produced with a tool called Graphviz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz

The main Graphviz website is down at the time of my posting this comment:

http://www.graphviz.org/
From what I recall on their original Kickstarter info, the frequency of the laser light only reacts with something that is in hair and not skin. The "breakthrough" was finding something that worked for blond hairs.
Thanks for the link. I remember that from the 90's.

I personally can't stand Apple's keyboards, laptop or desktop. I'm probably in the minority, but preferred the non-chicklet keyboards on the old (before 2008-ish) MacBook Pros ...
> In fact I wouldn't choose to live anytime before the last 100 or 200 years. 1950 or later would have been my preference had I been given a choice.

1950 is the earliest that would be OK for me - I had cataracts. In a world before cataract surgery, I would be blind.
To advertisers? Absolutely not.
The simpler explanation is that the VW Diesel that won was cheating the system too ;)
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> But imagine you’ve been working on Castro 2 for the last year, betting the company on a big launch and a sustainable income.

Sounds like the Castro 2 dev(s) made a bad bet if their success hinges on the available of a free alternative :(
What do you think about the "project" interview?

Do you think that if companies had 2-4 hr projects for applicants to complete, that there would be a better interview process for both parties?