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In my home country (Bulgaria), black people are called the N-word officially and I haven't seen any black person having issues with that. If I knew any black people, I wouldn't mind telling them what I think about words and stuff, trust me! Now, a different story - Turks during the Turkish Slavery of the Balkans were calling us giaours [0], which is undoubtedly derogatory, but, no Christians were calling themselves "giaours" like it is the case with the N-word. Do you see my point?

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/giaour
Aseprite is great! I've also been looking for a pixel based vector art tool, to be able to generate animations/cut scenes similar to "Another World" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game))
you can use PowerQuery to do this.
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Ok, now you're just being silly. I will not waste more time on this thread.
At least now I have something resembling an understanding of how this is being applied. The concept always seemed a bit odd when I'd hear how banking establishments planned to use bitcoin for contract transactions, etc, without bitcoin being the currency of the transaction.

Such a bad implementation of a potentially good idea.
When I do lie down, it's because I'm too mentally fatigued to continue working. It's usually 13-16 hours after having woken up (or as little as 6-8 hours if I am working intensely the entire time), so this is normal.

The 2-4 hours are just wasted time where my mind goes over having a million fake "conversations" in my head, recalling past traumatic events and regretting my actions then, and if I'm lucky, thinking about a problem I've been trying to solve during the day.

Can't really count it as meditation because my mind is racing at 100 miles an hour the entire time. I can always tell when I'm getting close to falling asleep because my thoughts become more and more erratic, almost dream-like in their absurdity. Sometimes I'll snap out of that state and realize what was happening.

I'd love to learn how to control it, though. That'd be super.
If that's the case, that's their own fault. Seriously.

As an engineer, you can hardcode your assumptions or make them parametric. I get that 140 chars has been a core part of the Twitter identity, and maybe there are some infrastructural aspects that have to be hardcoded to optimize for that. But if they've got `140`s sprinkled all over their code base because that was the assumption of the day, god help them.
It said I am 36 and I am 37. I am impressed (and Hot(tm))! However, it guessed a coworker was 34/Ummm and she is in her 50s. I am conflicted about telling her the results.
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In fairness, the author says at the end of the post that they do intend to rerun the analysis with actual job performance.

It seems reasonable to optimize for hiring right now since otherwise nobody would go to them to find a job, and it'd also be impossible to measure job performance when the people you collect data can not get jobs.
I agree - that there are a number of factors that benefit it's bus system over cars - the reasonable size of the country, and the enlightened attitude towards car owners paying for their externiality costs (the Certificate of Entitlement, or COE).

I also agree that Subways are awesome - and Singapore has an awesome system for such a young country, and they are going to be adding a new one each year through 2024 - That's a new line, not just a new station. [1]

The nice thing about bus stops - is they are everywhere, and the buses come by very frequently, and they all have GPS locators on them - so you can time your arrival to the stop to be when the bus arrives (which you can look up on your smart phone). I've never been a fan of buses before Singapore - but it's great to see what can be done in a country where cars are not the default option.

[1] http://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=80d3169f-dc...
I almost bought TextBar (www.richsomerfield.com). You for saved me $2.99 and 5 minutes of time. I'm disproportionately grateful for this.
Find out what type of firewall you're using. Find the vendor's website on how to request a url/domain re-categorization, and submit a change request. Most firewalls subscribe to a live database hosted by the vendor, and its request forms are public most of the time.
Wow! It missed my age for only 1 year (on the good side :P)!!
This is certainly true. All migrated stories get their publication dates set to "now." In my case, I added a footer on each migrated post stating its original post date.
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tl;dr: The U.S. government is trying to compel Apple to unlock an iPhone. In the lawsuit, the government is arguing that, because Apple licenses and does not sell iOS, Apple and not the user is the legal, responsible owner.

It obviously could have wide implications, and it's karma for the companies that try to deny end-users control and ownership.
He mentioned "KlondGmProc" and "DefColProc" as names of message passing routines, so google finds a single result [1] from win2ksrc.rar > klond.c, I think that might be the actual source code.

[1]: http://read.pudn.com/downloads3/sourcecode/windows/248345/wi...
Sure, but this is still really useful for many companies in the interviewing space such as hackerrank, hackerearth etc.

They're optimizing for hiring, not job performance.
What? Justin Webb granted the licence, NaturalMotion Limited explicitly didn't. NaturalMotion has a licence and that probably includes their veto on any following licence given by Justin.

I'm not a lawyer or particularly strong with English, but at least it makes sense in this interpretation.
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The gripe: Working in a cubicle enslaves you to micromanaging bosses.
My view: Working with other people keeps you engaged and visible.

Is it anyone's experience that micromanagement is different depending on remote vs. on-site? Maybe micromanagers are less inclined to take remote positions because it could theoretically make it harder to micromanage, but at least in my experience, you can find that attitude wherever you go.
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Don't feel too bad -- I ran a photo of Brad Pitt through it and he merely got a "Nice". Granted, I tried a second one and he got "Godlike". I wonder how sensitive the results are to general lighting in the photo.
> Specifically, I did not claim that we are on a precipice. I did claim that using the official unemployment calculation is not necessarily sufficient for claiming that we are not on a precipice.

This is a good point: you're right that those are not the same claims. Sometimes I am imprecise about who said exactly what in HN threads.

We still haven't resolved whether or not we're on a precipice, though. :-)
I'm 41, it thinks I am 33! YAY!
The Ubuntu Developers Summit used to use Gobby for collaborative notes and it served it reasonably well with hundreds of concurrent connections.. but it did crash on occasion. However, it did later move to Etherpad (Java based).. and then Etherpad Lite (nodejs based).
For those that want to go down the rabbit hole of this lawsuit (which covers many more issues than the one raised here), here are related posts:

1) https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/10/federal-judge-shi...

2) https://www.justsecurity.org/26964/update-apples-compelled-d...

3) https://www.justsecurity.org/27109/writs-act-software-licens...

4) https://www.justsecurity.org/27214/quick-update-apple-privac...
Super impressive that you kept all that data over so many years. Great job!
Yes a "delete" button would nice.
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The issue is, product development in the DOD is a high risk low reward proposition. It puts the careers of individuals who have dedicated their careers to the government on the line.

Nobody gets a merit boost for successfully fielding a new tactical system. If they do a good job, their accomplishments are dismissed as 'business as usual'. If things don't go well, it could irreversibly tarnish a lifetime of hard work and dedication.

The bureaucracy barriers are in place to protect people's careers. The 'move fast and break things' mindset will never be accepted when somebody's career is on the line.

Contracting fills the gap because if things go bad, blame can be shifted to the contracting organization. It's not uncommon for contractors to continue picking up new work despite a trail of failed projects. They're just 'playing the game'.
This would make a great psychology experiment. Use an algorithm to detect someone's age, then randomly assign them an attractiveness score and see how their behavior differs based on the result. How does the random attractiveness result effect how likely they are to share their score? To retake the test? Does this vary based on the users age?
That is exactly what I've always thought would be ideal for me - 3 month hyper productive periods and a good chunk of time off.
I think this is a good question - I hope someone who actually knows about this stuff chimes in with some answers.

In the mean time as a thought experiment, going with a blood test example:

* levels of the compound being tested may rise or fall naturally, and the test checks for a certain concentration or above.
* the patient may have the condition, but not have had it long enough for markers to have risen to "trigger" levels.
* The patient may not exactly follow pre-draw instructions on eating etc, skewing results
* in the case of false negative: the person's immune response may be temporarily suppressing the marker
* in the case of something like cell counts - this sample could just be a random local variation
* The tech or doctor or whoever could randomly make a mistake on one sample, but not on each sample.

And so on. My devil's advocate point here is that the patient, doctor, lab, and so on are not deterministic code - there are a lot of random inputs in the entire process chain.
It is possibly true that most chips are compromised by various state actors, but the outrage here is the leak. If the NSA must compromise US Tech, could it at least ensure the compromise remains secret? Kudos to the Chinese for at least maintaining the appearance Huwei hardware is free from backdoors.
OK Thats awesome! Their design was light years ahead of everyone else.
It seems likely that this will help some doctors in at least simple cases, but natural frequencies don't 'compose' well if you are doing multiple tests; you can't use them to compute posterior probabilities when combining a half-dozen different tests, at least not without involving impractically huge numbers or fractional people.

Moreover, the trend in modern medicine is towards combining binary/categorical tests with a range of distributions based on age, gender, race, genetic factors, vitals, continuous lab result values, etc. Yes, we can theoretically delegate some or all of that to software, but that is true for medical diagnosis in general; while we're not there, doctors must understand and perform these calculations.

So it seems fine to use natural frequencies to help out, but building Bayesian intuitions early and often seems a better path.
That's a nitpick on a correct statement. Unless two tests are always perfectly correlated, you will reduce your uncertainty. They don't need to be independent.
>hard working engineers

How exactly do you measure that? Sisyphus obviously works very hard.
So here's my problem with this. There is no bricklaying in software. If something is really repetitive and mind-numbing it should be automated. That is the difference between software engineering and engineering/construction—the computer does all the rote work.

I get that there are amazing semi-technical managers and UX people who add outsize value even though they don't code—I don't subscribe to the SV worship of "hard skills". However, SV is also full of jackass wantrepreneurs who think they don't need to learn how to code because their singular vision is so valuable. These "idea guys" are the antithesis of what it takes to build a successful startup, and I worry that defining Product Engineer this way just gives them another place to hang their hat and further their own preciousness.

"Engineer" should be reserved for someone who codes or at least administers technical systems hands on. I'm well aware that traditional engineering disciplines look down their nose at programmers for declaring themselves engineers with such informal practices, but nevertheless software engineering is a thing with its own challenges (in many ways more difficult than physical engineering due to the breadth of scale and lack of constraints). Why do we need to water it down when we already have terms like Product Manager or UX Designer?
Maybe wireless ISPs, maybe wired ISPs in Asia, but not wired ISPs in the US or Europe.
>not much money to be made in Solitaire

Are you joking? Wes Cherry said he's made $.08!! in Solitaire royalties alone!
There's quite a few fields in SS7 not accessible via SIP, one of which should indicate whether or not the call was originated internationally or not.

Whether or not a call with domestic looking CPN from an international location will be accepted is up to the switches handling it, but they're designed to successfully complete a call in almost any possible circumstance. It's possible that the international gateway might rewrite the CPN field with something else, but I doubt they'd go as far as refusing to let it through.

The screen parameter within SS7 details whether or not the CPN field has been defined by the end user. Most SIP users won't have access to this either, but the vast majority of calls from them (but not from other sources) will look like the number is user provided. For that reason, some voicemail systems that've historically let you log in automatically just by setting your CPN to the subscriber number have started to only let you do that when the screen parameter is set to network provided.
Talking of open source, it seems like many of the people who'd have once been shareware developers are now the one making add ons and mods for open source software. Just look at how much of the WordPress plugin repository is filled with 'lite' versions of commercial plugins, many of which act like shareware software of old.

Same with the plugin scene for other scripts, including some commercial ones.
It was probably the nicest way to teach new people how to use a mouse. I am grateful to the author for that.
If my last post came across as a suggestion to move your family here, that was not my intention. I mentioned it to contrast happiness against economic success. In American media, the two are so frequently treated as the same, and from what I see here, they're quite different.

It seems like some societies are willing to teach people to be unhappy to achieve economic success. Singapore and South Korea are good examples of this. I question in which direction America is headed.
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Which seems totally at odds with what their clients want and furthers the perception that tech interviewing has become a hazing ritual totally detached from evaluating the ability of the interviewee to actually do the job.
The benefits of the Big Dig are confined to the excellent removal of the hated green monstrosity. (Not to be confused with the beloved Green Monster) The new greenway park brings the city back together and makes us ache once more for the West End that was raped and smashed and destroyed by so-called Urban Renewal.

The new underground freeway is a waste. Twenty billion dollars were buried for a road that does little for outer suburb traffic and nothing at all for Boston. The best thing would have been to knock down the Central Artery and replace it with nothing at all.

Or we could have had a North Station-South Station connector. You could have that as a cheap cut-and-cover subway for 1% the price of the Dig. You could find a way to demolish the new City Hall along the way; that hideous thing has to go. It would be a bit slow and have a turn or two at that price but would be fantastic for transit service.
I haven't. Heard very bad things about prescription sleep aids not giving you proper REM sleep cycles, and being very habit forming (makes things worse when you get off or you build up a tolerance), and causing nasty side effects.

That sounds nice, though. The Adderall would probably help a lot too, but I don't seem to have any luck at all with doctors being open to letting me try things out to see if they'd benefit me or not.

The last time I went to one for sleep issues, she tried to push an SSRI (Zoloft) on me >_>
I've worked at companies that had completely open spaces, individual offices for everyone, and cubicles. By far my favorite is cubicles.

I hate open offices and will actively avoid them. They are noisy, distracting, stressful, and not conducive to productivity. They are conducive to collaboration though.

Offices are stifling. They put too many barriers between talking to people, and I found everyone tended to rely on chat and email a lot more. Offices are fantastic when you really want to put your head down and focus.

Cubicles are a nice balance between the two extremes. Collaboration is possible and still happens, but privacy and space is still available too.

Susan Cain in her book "Quiet" advocates for a space that is basically an open office in the center, with private nooks around the edge, so people can consciously decide when they want to collaborate versus concentrate. I've never been in an environment like that, but it sounds nice.
I ran lichtenstein's m-m-maybe, and it returned stunning, and 26, which is probably about right, even if it's a copy of a comic.
That strongly implies it's not open source.
Most measurements do affect the event.
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Communication without face-to-face time is still difficult in many ways. A couple of years ago I worked remotely as a software developer.

The boss would only give me tasks through email/JIRA and we would have standup meetings daily.

Almost every time I was assigned a task, I would be given an extremely vague description. Now normally, this is what we need to deal with as developers, but I could barely get an idea of what we were trying to accomplish with the task. I usually just finished the task with what little information I had and it would have to be re-rewritten almost every time because the boss wanted something different.

This was all through email. Some people just don't know how to effectively communicate in writing.

They let me go after about a year because they could hire '4 people in India for the cost of my salary'. I had to chuckle.
You could also look at it the other way: Using the same doctor and lab and procedure is the best way to eliminate a false positive, because if the cause was external, then the cause may not be repeated. But if you went to a new lab/doctor/whatever, you've now introduced new variables that could cause a false positive on top of whatever already caused it.

Given that it could go either way, it makes sense to think of each one as independent.

Now if you really wanted to take advantage of Bayes, if you got a positive test then you should get two more tests, one with the same lab and one with a totally independent lab (or even if you got a negative test, assuming your first Bayes run gives a 50% confidence)
I don't know about the technology, but clearly they are way behind Tesla (and all Musk companies) in one crucial feature: Hype.

Where is the breathless, credulous coverage? The dozens of fanboy posts? These guys clearly don't understand how to sell tech.

My tone is sarcastic but it's a serious point.
> If computation is a necessary element of the research, it ought to be a necessary element of publication as well.

Correct. Imagine reading an article in a journal that said, "We were able to prove that Theorem 3.1 is true. The proof is omitted because we want to use similar techniques to prove theorems in the future, and by not publishing any details of our proof, we will have an advantage over rival researchers. That will allow us to recover the significant investment of time that we put into doing this proof."
Why don't companies manage open source projects, and simply require a certain amount of contribution as a gateway to a final interview? This would allow candidates to prove their ability to write production ready code.
Hmmm... I would say 100% of workers should earn above minimum wage, that's the whole point of the law. Right?
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My understanding is it's much worse with big publishers. IIRC more like 60% publisher / 40% developer.
Whatever the underlying algorithm, the fact that it will continue to show you the same things when new content is available is by far the biggest failing. Surely they should prioritize fresh/unseen posts above all.
I used it on an old Moto Razr for a while back in college when that was my daily driver. Address is still in my phone copied from SIM to SIM to Cloud (shortcode 40404).

On an old iPhone with just basic speech to text abilities I would sometimes use Bluetooth to "text twitter ..." and that worked. (Nowadays we got our Siris and Cortanas and direct app integration, but that "text twitter" is still sometimes a more reliable voice trigger than "tweet".)

I still often turn on SMS notifications for accounts I want to specifically hear from or events I'm attending.
> Simply missing updates that might fix vulns

Yes. A huge amount of hacking is only possible because software is out of date.
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I'm almost sad I've never met one of these people in the wild. I'd really like to sit down and watch someone, with a straight face, try to say they both have a set probability for their belief on Jesus AND the probability that some vague ~evidence~ would exist given that belief.
I think ethnicity does play some role too (which maybe works with the lighting hypothesis?).

I put pictures of really attractive Asian guys (specifically men who honestly have a lot of diehard female fans who are interested in them) and at best they got "Nice"
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Because they'd filter out all the good candidates who don't work for free (for for-profit companies)
It sounds like what they are saying is that (a) NaturalMotion owns the copyright on the code, (b) NaturalMotion granted Justin permission to sub-license the code, and (c) Justin distributed the code under a BSD license.

However, the language defining step (b) ("granted by Justin Webb with the permission of NaturalMotion Limited") is hand-wavy and doesn't spell out exactly what rights are granted, so I would agree that this seems legally pretty shaky. What rights is NaturalMotion intending to reserve by including the following sentence? If there are any, do they conflict with the ability to redistribute under a BSD license? If there are none, why is that sentence there ar all?
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