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> leg crossed ankle over knee in a half-lotus manspread power pose. So, a woman with crossed legs is now engaging in manspreading? got it.
how do you do a wildcard search on Words API?
Can anyone explain tl;dr style how this will produce clean energy? I understand the idea, but how fuel is being produced because it sounds they use small quantities of helium which is easily accessible?
Fascinating. So in addition to increasing pay for police officers there are other careers that warrant hazard pay. Thanks for pointing that out.
No, I think he was attributing potential future deaths to poor leadership -- at the time of his capture, only one soldier in his larger unit (battalion level) had died -- 1LT Brian Bradshaw. This wasn't in his platoon or company.
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This rings incomplete to me.

For technical, business, and many policy type conversations, your comment has merit. Some. I do not agree much with third rate...

But, a lot of conversation is actually advocacy, and when it goes there, all modes are relevant: emotion, reason, character.

Requiring people to limit advocacy to the rational only is not realistic, nor inclusive enough to make sense.
The police subdued Eric Garner in an effort to arrest him because he was resisting. What they did was reasonable and only the hindsight of his health problems says otherwise. Eric Garner shares a large portion of the blame in his own death since he is the one who resisted, was breaking the law, and knew about his own health situation.

Your bar fight scenario makes no sense because there are lots of ways that a bar fight could result in one participant's death and the other participant would be judged to have acted reasonably just defending himself from an injury as "minor" as a knocked-out tooth.
As an example, I was introduced to my current company by an employee who had just left.
Aligns with my experience, Surface 3 Pro replaced my MacBook Pro and iPad air last year and this year I've added a Sony Z3 compact 8" android tablet - which is not an "inexpensive android" device, but it is waterproof, ridiculously light and waterproof. Love it, no interest in going back. Not sure what I am going to do with iPhone 5S... Easy to leave Apple at this point, especially with the mess they made of iTunes.
That's related to a quote from this article about how hard the thing was to build:
http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/10/feature-bizarre-r...
If I was reviewing a paper with bits on machine learning (presumably written by machine learning experts), I would ask machine learning experts I know to verify the claims I was not familiar with.

I do know that a lot of ML algorithms become, at the low-level, matrix operations. Matrix operations are typically not embarrassingly parallel. Now, I can imagine a bunch of independent matrix operations, but whether you'd call the entire problem "embarrassingly parallel" would depend on how coarse the independent bits are.
I think she's entirely correct. I consider "defensive driving" not to be about expecting horrible things, but rather thinking about (and taking action to mitigate) unsafe events.

I explicitly distrust other drivers, more than might be considered reasonable, specifically because there have been times that, had I not been so pessimistic, either I would have been injured or my vehicle damaged.

- I distrust turn signals. I've seen too many people approach an intersection that I want to turn into that had forgotten to turn their signal off. I believe it when I see your car change course, or start braking. (I also live in an area where many people don't bother to use them in the first place.)
- I assume most people are speeding, and am conservative about pulling out in front of oncoming traffic -- which has saved my bacon when my car has stalled.
- I assume people on the freeway going faster than me will cut in front if me. Strangely, this _reduces_ my stress while driving, as I am not surprised when it happens.
- I approach my car from the front, so that I can see oncoming traffic before stepping into the road.

Being prepared for statistical outliers is important, because as a driver (or as a police officer) you have many encounters in the course of your career -- and your cumulative chance of encountering such an outlier increases the longer your career.
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_And_ I was too hard on the Scotch-Irish in my retraction. I like them, at least in Appalachia as it was not too long ago; Appalachia is the only Old World society in the United States, with the possible exception of the Mormons. (What do I mean by Old World? It would take a long while to explain...)
No, my goal is to remain effective on _this_ call. If I take a stupid risk and fall through a floor, now the entire operation stops, all but guaranteeing no one else will be able to effect a rescue either. That does not mean I never enter a structure. It means I consider the construction type, the size, nature, location, and duration of the fire, and make an educated decision about whether or not the risk is worth the potential reward. If I decide it's worth it and end up going through the floor anyway, well... that was the choice I made. It sucks, but it's the nature of the job. Here's hoping the RIT is ready to pull my ass out.

Firefighting is a dangerous job, I'm not disputing that at all (not as dangerous as say, farming... but still).

My point is not to avoid all risk. My point is to avoid needless risk, and to prepare as thoroughly as possible for the risks we do need to take.

Are you in the business? From the sounds of things you either just started out, or retired years ago, before we started applying actual science and data to firefighting tactics.
The Peelian Principals – Creating an Ethical Police Force
The Myth of Gentrification
In hindsight, that's probably how it passed the penis filter!

Thanks for doing your mod thing and preventing genital pictures, i know it's generally thankless.
Don't call Brian
What about Portland?
I know exactly where you coming from, ESPECIALLY if you are in the javascript ecosystem. There are a lot of gaps in the whole flow, from what you have mentioned, build tools, frameworks, standards, architecture (flux? mvc?)

Personally, I would suggest, to go at it one at a time. The reason being, these "things" (build tools, frameworks, etc) are there to solve specific problems. If you don't have that problem, then you don't need to understand it, yet.

Pick a project and start building, you might find that you need one specific tool, which then you would use that specific tool or you might find yourself having trouble with a certain design then you use a framework that fits your model. This resonates well with @johansch comment. Over time, you will notice a pattern in your knowledge where jumping from one framework to the other is not that difficult because you are jumping from a higher board knowing the frameworks you already used, this applies generally.

Be depressed but don't give up, the joy comes when suddenly it all just clicks.
Paul Thurrott is known as a serious Microsoft fanboy/apologist (he used to run or still runs the Thurrott SuperSite for Windows), so his 'knock down' carries a bit of weight.
No one says everybody needs to be creative or artists or mathematicians or scientists. All I'm saying is human life is too precious to keep assembling iPhones for 12 hours a day or bag groceries at Walmart. I think assertion that everyone start doing drugs if they need not do jobs shows utter and incomprehensible ignorance. Sure, not all are creative but that's not the requirement to have a life without mandatory jobs you don't want to do. People may turn in to beach bums or surfers or just hippy wanderers - whatever. It's their life they got one shot at living and it's still better activity than forcing them to flip burgers mechanically at McDonnalds 10 hours a day.
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there's no other ProRes decoder that works on Linux!

Lightworks supports ProRes: http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
well, it's not the job of a physicist to understand the many many different sorting algorithms, how to optimise loops so they are cached in the cpu, and plenty more.

I guarantee that most CS professionals (CS; not necessarily developers) are able to write much more efficient code than most professional physicists, because they spent the same amount of time understanding software and hardware that these guys spent building a fusion reactor.

that said, considering the billions that have been spent on fusion research, I doubt they did it in a bubble. it would seem strange if they didn't enlist the help of some CS
V3 of my iOS music app, Harken, is now live
I've been following this case, so I have to ask a stupid question: can't this be resolved in an afternoon? And one that could have happened years ago?

1) Take blood for the Theranos test.

2) Take blood for normal test.

3) Do they get the same results? If yes, Theranos has viability; if not, they've been scamming.
If they had fun making it, why not? Not everyone will go to the Olympics..
I'm trying to build a real application and building real applications seems to need to sew together a whole bunch of real bits n pieces.
He just gave it to you. Their system is not really competitive in any metric people are measuring.
Why we shift objectives and not release dates at GitLab
>As good as slack is for communicating I don't think it should be used as a "knowledge" store.

It's not that it shouldn't be, but that it probably won't be when it should. My company uses HipChat and not Slack, but ever since we first adopted it about 4 years ago I have been preaching that our in-house technical support staff use its search function before asking the developers for help. Maybe 10% of them do, if I'm being generous. The rest think their issue is unique and requires immediate one-on-one developer attention.

We also have an in-house wiki that doesn't get consulted as often as it should. I spend at least half a day documenting, from a end-user perspective, every project I complete on our wiki and still find myself repeating what I've written in a one-on-one chat on a daily basis.
I'm glad MS finally open-sourced LiveWriter (yay Scott Hanselman!), but I wonder who is Brian, and how many times was he called?
Some people find farming, construction, housing, etc interesting. Something like cleaning toilets... the robots can have that. :)

Though, I must say that I subscribe to the notion that creating AI will very likely be the last big impact we will have on history. We will just live while AI will thrive.
Anyways, if no one had to work, most people would just do drugs.

And when people do have to work, they just alternate between drugs that make them better workers, and drugs that let them forget work.
Agreed. I personally can't wait for the inevitable ad blocking war that ensues.

Unfortunately, if I had to posit a guess, it would be that the main "application space" for AR won't be the free and open web. It will be the walled garden appstore(s). You'll have your staple apps, but they will all be self-contained, and the owners of the hardware/OS will have strict controls around the ability to do things like, block ads from their ad network (which might be the only one allowed on the device).

Big tech companies don't like the users being able to control what they see through a browser that can install whatever plugins the user wants. Make no mistake, they want full control over the experience, and have no qualms about doing whatever it takes to own that experience. To not do so enables their competitors to claim a foothold in their territory.
I'm trying to get an application built using a modern JavaScript approach.
This is exactly as I see it. A company and it's investment in me is how I determine my investment in it. Pay market average expect an average 8 hour work day.
The knock against this this is that it's a very clickbaity title. If it's true, it's a big deal, but the title made it to be a BIGGER deal by implying it's all sales. Which would be huge, but also absurd.

The idea that Surface is selling well should be taken away even if the article is clickbaity. By all accounts, MS is hitting supply walls with Skylake before they meet demand or cross some sort of arbitrary sales goal they want to maintain [0]. They're sold out everywhere and backordered on the SP4 and SB. I'm glad I pre-ordered!

And the MS devkit? It's.. um.. I mean I know that people will be shocked to hear it but it's not only really damn good these days, but it's open source. Look at how you do Async programming on Windows Phone with C# or JavaScript, and what kinda performance gains you get. Check out the MS GitHub and see how much of themselves they've put out there and opened to the community.

It's a big deal. I'm actually enthusiastic to join their dev community.

[0]: http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-core-i5-i7-processors-glob... http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/there-will-be-a-major-sh... http://www.winbeta.org/news/rumor-surface-book-surface-pro-4...
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Hi! Thank you for posting and doing this! I was wondering if I could still apply even though what I'm working at the moment is still just a side project that I work on on nights and weekends. It's generating revenue and I'm hoping to pursue it full time in January/February. The problem is that I only qualify for the general office hours. Would you suggest that I apply or wait until June for the next general office hours?
Since we're B2B and know who our customers are, we have only a very sparse site at www.cubescape.com.au, but you can email tom.allen at that domain to get in touch. Cheers.
We have a lot of experience reading applications so it doesn't take us too long
I think the fundamental problem is that these companies would want to own the customer relationship, rather than simply be a branded content provider for some pay in someone else's solution.
Most great startups would not exist if not for the work of some critical helper in a position to help.

Apple had Mike Markkula, Facebook had Sean Parker, Airbnb had Michael Siebel, and Viaweb had Julian Weber. The list endless.

The ingredients are: great founders + great products + great helpers.

It's easy to say that great founders with great products will attract great helpers, but that ignores how few great helpers there are and how inefficient the "market" is.

YC is the greatest helper of startups in the history of startups, and expanding that help to a wider group is a great thing for the world.
Apply :)
Yes, of course: deliver.
Sparta _existed_ for 500 years; they flourished for zero. They existed at the cost of innumerable distorted or ruined lives, and contributed nothing to the human patrimony except possibly the idea of totalitarianism (which is not much of a contribution).

They fell well before the Macedonians, too: a commander of a minor city -- Corinth, I think -- noticed that the Spartans always used the exact same tactics, deployed his troops in a preposterous formation that ensured that the Spartans would lose if they changed nothing, and won decisively. The Helots immediately revolted and recovered their independence, and that was the end of Sparta.
Sometimes it is about the money. Recognition, good work, good teams, good leadership, meaningful product, etc. don't feed my kids. I left all that once because I was at half market value (evidenced by finding a new job at double the pay).
There's no such forum, other than these Ask posts.

Might be Ritzy or Ghost.
It sounds like you guys/gals made sound decisions. I think there could be other harmful side-effects you aren't considering though. VCs like to superglue a cinderblock to the gas pedal, speed up spending to get to billion dollars or bust. There is no paying dividends, no having a strong business that isn't a billion dollar business. Also when it is so easy to get a great valuation and limited dilution, it's hard to maintain that valuation after the markets turn. If you really are able to maintain control and not increase spending with the additional capital, then that's fantastic.
Wow. So complex and tightly packed. I wonder if they have any information on how serviceable the unit is, or what its operating life-cycle might be.
In any case, a fascinating achievement, this is a historic day certainly.
> You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Don't give up and keep learning!
You would definitely split that project up into multiple crates at the moment. 100KLOC would take an eternity to compile. My guess would be 15 to 45 minutes for a release build, depending on things like how much you were using generics.
I put down Skype on my application because Mountain View is a 12 hour drive from here... but now I'm wondering; does Skype vs in-person have an effect on whether you'd be accepted?

... 'cause I'm pretty sure I'd make that drive for the chance to meet with the YC partners if it made any difference :)
Fortunately the FDA is quite used (and resistant) to lobbying from companies that would eat Theranos for breakfast if they wanted to. E.g. Pfizer had "Other operating expenses" in 2010 bigger than the entire much-hyped $9 billion valuation of Theranos.

Edit: if I was trying to shore up support for a company, I'd at least make sure the CEO doesn't look unhinged on business magazine covers. The one ~15% down in the article is just scary.

Edit2: From TFA: "She determined that a vegan, macrobiotic lifestyle would allow her to “train” her body to work all the time and to function on very little sleep, like an android." I'm quite sure "very little sleep" for extended periods of time is bad for your physical and mental health regardless of how macrobiotic your diet is.
Bloomberg had someone from Glasdoor on yesterday and they were asking them how they arrived at these results. He said they had an "algorithm", when pressed further about the criteria he mentioned the company had to have at least 75 reviews in the last year, seemed kind of laughable. Their site feels cheap and tacky, not sure how much credibility they have but I don't ever hear people talking about it. I don't doubt AirBnB might be a good work environment but it seems like this is a way for Glasdoor to ride someone else's coat tails to a headline.
The Aztec Empire wasn't even 150 years old; if memory serves, Tlacallel flourished about 80 years before Cortes. Nor were they in decline -- Montezuma had stopped the empire's opportunistic conquests, and was focused on conquering the independent countries that still formed pockets of resistance geographically surrounded by the Aztecs. Tlaxcala was the most important of these, as it happens...
They're using helium to scale up and test that the various systems work. The actual fusion will likely be done on deuterium and tritium, which are hydrogen atoms with 1 and 2 neutrons respectively. Hydrogen is readily available via electrolysis but you have to get the isotopes of it to serve as fuel.

Fusion reactions of this sort are quite clean. The actual reactor will be bombarded by neutrons so parts of it will become radioactive but the effect should be much less than a conventional fission reactor.

edit: as for how the actual energy production works, you get deuterium and tritium up to very high temperatures and get the atoms to collide. The kinetic energy in these reactions will be so high that electrostatic repulsion will not be able to prevent the collision (normally, like repels like, but this force can only stop so much energy). once the two collide, the strong nuclear force takes over and forms helium and releases one of the neutrons plus a whole bunch of energy
You make a compelling argument based on your presuppositions.

If one doesn't hold a Christian theology based around total depravity, then yes, sin does seem like an arbitrary construct. In fact, even among Christians who hold to essentially similar theological views, there is disagreement about what actions are disobedient to God's instructions, and that's not an easy task to sort through.

As for if I would be willing to substitute any definition of God, no, I wouldn't. But my argument still holds up due to my personal presupposition that the Christian Scriptures are the inspired Word of God, and other religions that deny part or all of them are not correct.

Again, this is heading way off topic for the article, so if you are interested in continuing, feel free to email.
Speaking for (GHC) Haskell:

- There are curly braces available if you really want them, but people almost always use the whitespace-dependent syntax. There are usually a few ways you can organize your code, but I have never seen any "syntax wars" over Haskell code.

- Haskell compiles down to one binary. Foreign C libraries are linked dynamically by default, if that's being counted.

- Comes with (very cheap) green threads and threading primitives, along with useful concurrency structures (like channels). The standard library includes STM for safer shared mutable memory, and many libraries (like async) are available that extend this. I have not done much Go, but I think forkIO is basically equivalent to "go".

- I couldn't find a whole lot comparing Haskell and Go in particular, but here is one blog post where Haskell was about the same speed as Go, in one narrow application: https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/benchmarking-level.... The http server (Warp) used by some web frameworks (Yesod, Scotty, ...) has been noted to be very performant.

- Haskell has a strong, active community. It's not super big, but it seems to me the number of open haskell jobs is smaller than the number of qualified, talented haskell users. Recently there was an issue with a company advertising a non-Haskell job on the haskell-cafe mailing list, because they believed they could get some good developers that way.

EDIT: I posted this without realizing I loaded this page yesterday, and that there were already some responses
I personally worked on a similar system for a major mobile video solutions provider six years ago: none of this is particularly new.
And come to think of it.. WTF! Do you seriously believe that what is wrong with German auto makers is that they don't have enough process? Come on... reality check please.
I think you've done a great job outlining the differences between the two missions (and many of the things you mention are why I agree with the OP).

However, I think there is value in understanding _why_ LEOs seek to minimize risk, rather than assuming they all just want to be Rambo (though there are certainly those too...).
The problem, as always, lies in the fact this is powered by an AllWinner SoC. They are not famous for respecting the licenses of the software they use, namely the Linux kernel, and things like graphic acceleration are usually hard to get working (and I'm not talking about working without blobs, I mean they are hard to get to work at all).

IMO this is the major downside to Raspberry Pi alternatives like the Orange Pi and this. The Raspberry Pi is more expensive, but at least there's more documentation available, an effort to merge kernel stuff upstream, and there are even people working in getting proper, blob-free Mesa drivers working: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/VC4/

With that said, it's nice to see cheap ARM64 development platforms becoming available, even if they aren't as open/supported as they should be.