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I'm going to go with Reuters for that story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-innovation-id...

Being that they were the source, best as I can tell.

summary: Schmidt joins board to help an "alphabet" US govt agency or two modernize their operations with industry best practices

editorial: This could be good or bad, depending on how things turn out. And for your weather forecast, it either will be rainy tomorrow, or it won't.

hn-cross-ref:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus...
I'm with Nietzsche, the real low-level programming involves feeling new feelings and somehow communicating/philosophizing/programming them into other people.
While I have hot-patched program text on production machines many times in my career, in this case it was a bit simpler in that we were dynamically changing the value of a variable. The effect was instant; our chat logs from the time captured our visceral reaction to the resulting performance improvement.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/628320729898045440
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How do you help him? You either stage an intervention, or do nothing. In reality, the decision to quit is really something people need to come to on their own, usually after hitting whatever their own form of "bottom" is.

Some people get there and begin recovery, some don't. You can't force someone to do it.
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I am tired of FUD stories about how broad a patent is. Patent claims are organized as a series of claims with each claim narrower than the one before. Patents are always written with the first claims extremely broad and are not expected to be granted. It isn't until near the end of the claims that the meat of the patent exists.

In this case it has something to do with using multiple neural networks to train each other. I've read that is what they did with alphaGO.
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He was specifically referring to SES-9, which was the absolute minimum fuel usage. Probably a bit beyond minimum, given that it cratered.

And yeah, even if it was 100,000 pounds, what's the point?
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No it's not. Most of them are E-classes.
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No, drug usage rates among whites are not and were not substantially lower than drug usage rates for other races. (In some years, they were actually higher, though not substantially so). In fact, in the 1980s, white people were also 45% more likely to sell drugs as well[0].

The difference in the effects of drug trade on black communities and on white communities in the 1980s are emphatically not due to fundamental differences of the drugs themselves, or due to differences in the prevalence of drug trade and drug usage.

[0] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/339610?seq=1#page_scan_t...
I would be curious about any potential differences between the two once the projectile leaves the barrel. Would all that super-heated air being shoved out ahead of the projectile make a difference in the shock of it leaving the barrel?
You seem to be arguing against something which is irrelevant to this case at hand. Google (apparently, I haven't followed this) blocked it temporarily, and then it was available again. How does that fit into your statement of "it's really just a tactic to prevent ugly things from coming out whatsoever, though they claim it's temporary"?
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You are not entitled to come to the US and work no matter how much you dream of it according to US law. You are young, make average $$ (and yes, at 150k total comp you are underpaid for a software developer in relation to the value you create), and you don't have skills that don't already exist within our borders or that can't be taught. I'm not too concerned about you not being here because you are actually displacing the best and brightest that I'd rather have immigrate here. The spirit of the H-1B program when it was introduced was to import the truly talented, not your average software developer with a bachelors degree. Over time the law has been bent and rewritten and abused by our industry to cut costs for the benefit of share holders and executives.
"The problem I see w/ UBI is that contrary to popular belief, people aren't lazy, they're industrious. People like to feel useful. And people long for meaning in their lives and their work."

You should be aware that you're deducing this by looking at the results of an enduring, pervasive, and almost universal education of people in this regard that was enforced over millennia! This education was constantly discouraging (and even weeding out) the individuals that were not so eager to earn a living to look for different (illegal) shortcuts to solve their material condition. I think that you'll change your view when you'll allow yourself to widen the selection of (kinds of) people you interact with. Hint: you may start visiting the nearest prison and meet up with inmates condemned for thefts.

Please, don't take the good things for granted, and definitely don't let our current society dominated by "industrious" people you see now become a myth for future generations!
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I don't think client side scripting is always innapropriate. I just think it often is. For example, I've seen a lot of pages that just display some copy marketing a product that won't display properly without JavaScript. On the other hand, complex sites like github work fine without JavaScript.

I totally agree, if you are thinking about maintaining user state on the server, you are probably doing it wrong, as you are violating REST. That's the nice thing about using dumb clients, is it forces you to think about application state changes using hypermedia, instead complex client side logic. I think this leads to clean APIs.
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My favorite is when you jump on a project and do a simple estimation of compute throughput for the highly complex distributed system, its something like hundreds of kilobytes per second. You could literally copy all the files to one computer and process faster than the web of broken parts. It becomes cancerous; to work around system slowness ever complex caching mechanisms and adhoc work is constructed.

I think part of the problem is many engineers can debug an application, but surprisingly few learn performance optimization and finding bottlenecks. This leads to an ignorance is bliss mindset where engineers assume they are doing things in reasonably performant ways and so the next step must be to scale, without even a simple estimate for throughput. It turns into bad software architecture and code debt that will cause high maintenance costs.
More the way the game plays you.
The next major update in all browsers absolutely must be this: inability to turn off JS. Because no one in a sane state would EVER do this now.

Why not a checkbox to turn off HTML? It would be just as "useful"...

I do need JS to achieve all my goals that can be achieved with JS. For those things that can be achieved without JS but often mistakenly involve it (hamburger menus, animations etc), I use plain markup and CSS3. But I'm not going to ruin the UX on mobiles, where in developing countries traffic still matters, just for some paranoid freaks' sake.
Conversely, polysemy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy) is a concept that exists, and please consider this person's /nom de mic/ in this context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE
Were they better off in these homes which they choose to move to, or do you think they were better off where they came from? Discrimination is terrible but I don't see how it would have forced them to move next door to someone who oppressed them. I would find it more probable that they moved as an act of defiance than out of fear. In any case, I think we have to assume that the vast majority of people (including these people) who move from one area to another do so because it is in their own self-interest and that they're better off for having done so. When someone moves, it's as if they're voting with their feet in favor of their new location. I don't have any idea how bad their previous locations were, but on the whole this community was preferable.
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Another concern for uber is what are people going to do to the inside of these driverless cars now? Passengers today are respectful to ridesharing vehicles they sit in--because the owner of the vehicle is close at hand and the human connection commands some respect. But when its just a group of (maybe drunk) passengers in an empty vehicle--where's the accountability?
no pressure on Daimler then...
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They're proprietary traders (that is, they trade with their own money and don't have clients - unlike a hedge fund), so they're very unlikely to tell the world what their performance looks like. If it's bad, they'd not want you to know, if it's good they'd not want their competitors to know!
Are they somehow profiting from those actions?

That's a point you seemed determined to dodge here, just as when you ask if your friends who have never been to the US are somehow implicated in US segregation.
The reason many people in SV are in a position to create wealth is because they broke their brains studying to be able to understand complex things. Given the state of online education today, if we have a UBI anyone with the willpower and a normally functioning mind can achieve this. No one is being denied anything with a UBI. It is the ultimate freedom.
If you're still benefiting from those criminal actions, then yeah you probably should feel guilty.

Redlining had a very direct and profound (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-raci...) effect that's still seen to this day.
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> No, the shortage is only in from a much smaller subset of primarily programming related skills.

Heh? Have you tried hiring quants, materials scientists, fluid mechanics experts, RF engineers, supply chain experts, etc.? I have, and know friends who have been on both sides of the job hunt in these areas. It is often quite likely that you can only find international people for a job opening. Then, given how shitty H1B and green card systems are, you come up against the same problem: you invest tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on the person and put yourself at the mercy of an arbitrary visa.

Given any specialized skill with enough demand in the job market, there will likely be shortages because there are so few specialists. Also, if 10 people apply for a job, you interview 3 of them, 1 of them is an international and that international performs better than the other 2, as a company looking for talent, wouldn't you want to necessarily hire the best candidate? The immigration system is full of unfair and arbitrary roadblocks to hiring international candidates for legitimate jobs, while enabling semi-legitimate gaming of the system by mass-recruiters such as Indian software services companies.

The market is not as elastic as you think as say, for a commodity like steel, to talk so naively and inexactly about supply, demand, and shortage. Supply-demand-shortage dynamics is more like specialized drugs, luxury items, and so on: where you have very specific needs on the demand side (i.e., hiring companies) and very specific issues affecting the supply side (candidates with specialized training and skills)
Residents of Atlanta did not "inherit" anything. The city government inherited public works and uses them to provide city services to residents. It charges residents taxes to pay for those services and probably lots of other silly things as well. The residents pay for water and receive it. Done.

This is like saying I "inherited" something from Tata and Aditya Birla and that I'm also responsible for their crimes. That's silly. I pay 300rs/month and IDEA gives me voice+data and runs MITM attacks on unencrypted connections. That's the end of our relationship.
Motivation is irrelevant to my comment.

If you're using private APIs in a library, any user of the library is at risk of submission rejection because of the library, the least you can do for them is let them make an at least somewhat informed choice about it, and ideally (if your library is multi-purpose) have them opt in the behaviour requiring private API access.

It's not a question of purpose or of "badness", and really has nothing to do with your book.
I don't think it solved it/avoided it, so much as throwing more IOPS at the issue means it takes less time.
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Budget constraint and obsolescence. By the time it was withdrawn, the Russians had finally managed to get the capability to shoot it down.

The MiG-31 with the R-33/AA-9 missile could engage a blackbird. It interdicted soviet union overflights in the mid 80s. Modern Russian SAMs is probably also able to intercept it.

If the ability to penetrate the targeted air defences is taken away, you're better off just flying a jetliner crammed full of sensors around the target country or use satellite. Or drones (since they're disposable-ish when they get shot down.) The Open Skies Treaty also allows mutual airborne surveillance.

The SR-71 however, wins hands down on sexiness.
Impossible right now, as the sensor just gives you motion/no motion readouts. I think it has a way to configure for mass, though, so it only considers large masses moving. If anyone has any information on that, please let me know, because my blind cat keeps making my lamp turn on :P
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Sure, and that fixing is the process of making sure that the code still works, and that you still have the test suite as a second client of the code.

As with everything there are costs and benefits!

A lot also depends on the quality of your tests. If the team doesn't care about test quality or doesn't know how to write good tests, you can easily get these big blobs of incomprehensible and tedious tests...
For anyone interested in a deeper dive into how labor matching and employee/employer bargaining is taught in macroeconomics:

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1. I was responding to your Mercedes/Uber scenario; the comment I was replying to literally didn't mention Tesla (which fits more aptly to Apple's position in the desktop computing analogy).

2. Interstate driving autonomy and city driving autonomy are different beasts. Gathering a ton of data about task X isn't necessarily helpful for task Y; ML isn't magical. If anyone, Google is ahead of the pack in the market Uber is vying for (automated taxis).
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Cameras? You could even just take a picture when they come out and when the cars come back for the cleaning crews, they'll find out pretty quickly which rider to charge the cleaning fee.
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This is a supremely ridiculous set of suggestions that has no merit whatsoever.
Companies aren't libraries. They aren't paying you to sit and read books. There is an assigned dayjob, a set of tasks you have on your jira that you have to resolve by your deadlines, and that occupies the 8 hour workday ID you are doing any justice to it. So any reading you do is on the side, on your own time.

Furthermore, people have these roles precisely because of their talents and their choices. As a Data Scientist, most of what I do is read ML literature, build ML models and write technical reports in Tex on what worked and what didn't. The skills to do this were acquired over many painful years of graduate work in math, statistics, ML. To suggest somebody can just read their way through that material is quite laudable, but you are underestimating the difficulty by orders of magnitude. Essentially, you are suggesting that all of the graduate study and mentoring and homeworks and assignments and all that went into the learning process be condensed into a book which one can just plow through and become a DS. Well, good luck with that.
By the same token, expecting me to have the same level of efficiency and passion as a data engineer when faced with a Hadoop/Oozie/Presto/Pig/kafka or what have you is silly. I don't care for these technologies and how to work them. I know it takes a really long time to get good at them - that's why the engineers get paid a lot of money and also get yelled at when the ETL job fails. Because it's a set of seriously valuable skills that were no doubt acquired over lots of time and practice. It's not like I can buy a book on these things, just read through them and suddenly I am a DE! I neither have the interest nor the time to do that.

>>the distinction between data scientists and data engineers is bogus

Not at all! Both DS and DE professionals do distinctly different work and conflating everything under 1 umbrella buys you nothing.
Same thing we do for car co-ops I guess (next people report the car is fucked up) -- plus cameras?
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I don't know... Are you saying that someone like Donald Knuth had a lot of free time? Data problems are arguably the hardest problems out there and they require deep understanding of mathematics as well as computers, that's just the way it is. It does take time and effort and even may be a bit of talent as well, not everyone is cut out for it.
How does this benefit Uber?

Imagine Daimler can produce 100,000 self-driving cars. They would continue to produce and sell self-driving cars to other people as well. They could sell self-driving cars to Lyft. Individuals could operate their own self-driving car services. They could organize in to cartels and have a single app that competes with Uber or Lyft.

Uber is destined to be a commodity in an open marketplace of taxi services as soon as they adopt self-driving cars. Their primary roll right now is as a labor organization. They currently create the economic incentives needed to attract a fleet of drivers. Self-driving cars are not motivated by economic incentives. Uber can't control the sale, distribution and organization of self-driving cars.

All that riders care about is being able to reliably get from one side of town to another. They'll know that they can trust Daimler self-driving cars, regardless of the dispatcher.

We're going to end up right back to where we started, with a commodity system of private taxi dispatchers and a productive industry of automobile manufacturers, with an emphasis on the automatic nature of this new form of transportation.

Daimler is the big winner here if they can bring a self-driving car to market.
A great reason to charge more money!
It's probably more along the lines of:
"Whenever you guys are done making it fully autonomous, we want 100,000 of 'em to replace our drivers"

If that was the case, the volume makes sense. Makes zero sense to buy 100,000 of today's model and watch it depreciate in value while providing none back 'cause you still need a driver.
Oh, I agree with you. I'm not even saying that I disagree with RUM, but I'm just saying that it's too easy and possibly lazy to apply "Pick Three, Take Two" to other technical problems.
Their cars are white in Tel Aviv (as all taxis, in fact).
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While possibly true, it's simply a courtesy to the reader to parenthetically define any acronym the first time it's used in a published piece of writing (of course this would not apply to internal emails, casual comments such as discussion forums here, etc.)
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Passengers won't be anonymous and Uber already has reputation system. Also you can already rent a car, and rented cars are usually not vandalized.
with some diversity, if the job lets you explore new tools, you wouldn't end up in that dilemma to begin with.
Other than it saying "Hillary Clinton Email Archive" at the top implying where it came from and it says "Office of the Secretary" in the email itself? I mean, I understand the committee thing was a waste of time but don't pretend with your obvious bias that absolutely nothing happened here.
I agree. Sometimes your soup could use some salt in it, but you shouldn't just skip the soup and go directly to eating salt.

If someone decides they don't want any salt, they should still be able eat the plain old boring soup. They'll get the nutrition they need. Maybe it won't taste quite as nice, but the primary function of the soup is still there. Plus your soup is more accessible to people on low sodium diets, and takes less time to prepare!
How do taxi drivers afford them?
I don't think this is quite an accurate analogy. A shredder removes the ability of anyone (including the owner) to read what was on the documents before shredding. A locked phone retains the ability for the owner to unlock it so it's not quite the same thing.

(Not that its relevant, but I support Apple in this fight.)
>> I don't care for these technologies and how to work them.

And I'd argue that this is precisely the problem. I personally care about all of it.
> I wonder if this could be avoided by switching to WKWebView?

Nope, the keyboard UI is pretty much the same and the API does not provide any more support for disabling the accessory bar.
Which is why I suspect this isn't a simple cash transaction, and may involve equity or revenue share or something along those lines.
Hopefully, then, they've dissuaded you from all browser-based crypto.
Hey, the market economy is already 'planning control of lives'. We're talking about loosening those controls. By removing the threat of starvation and homelessness.
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I love the twist of submerging almost the entire barrel in the ocean, pretty awesome to wrap your brain around how that could actually work out. It was also really interesting to hear Hunter's thoughts that even if the physics all works and launch costs could be cut 1/10th, how it would still be unworkable for someone SpaceX to invest in the R&D alongside their reusable rockets.
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SMB also relies on polling the sprite0 flag to know when to write to the x-scroll value. If the timing isn't right, most of the playfield jitters back and forth. Same thing happens with other ROMs that use the same method (like Balloon Fight's "Trip" mode and, bizarrely, Arkanoid). My emulator assumes that there won't be a lot of shenanigans (PPU writes) before the sprite0 flag, and pre-calculates the cycle that it'll hit on. That seems to work.

One of the Ninja Turtles games shifts the x scroll back and forth a couple times per line during some of the opening screens. Skate or Die changes which CHROM bank to use for background tiles a couple times per frame in its inter-level screens. I solve that by logging PPU writes (address, value, cycle it would be received). In practice, most of those mid-frame writes don't change anything that matters to the CPU, but I need the info for rendering.

Rendering the scene at NMI without logging writes to the PPU works for a lot of games, but there are plenty that do mid-frame PPU changes (and it starts getting more difficult with more-advanced mappers including their own interrupts).
This has always been a difficult challenge when job hunting for me, and I'd be curious to hear how others deal with this in their careers.

Nearly every job offer I've encountered expects a response within a few days. In practice, I'm usually interviewing at multiple places and at different stages of the interview process at each. The 'exploding offer' system makes applying to multiple companies near impossible for the job seeker.

Sure, I see how it creates leverages for the job offerers to get candidates to accept. However, the flip side is that turns the hiring process into a game of forced, snap decision making, which doesn't necessarily seem to be in everyone's interest, either.
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