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College isn't the end-all, but the education helps, even if it's not purely technical or vocational. Spending a few years just learning how to think about various problems, discipline to study instead of drink (or if you're me, you didn't do well with this), etc.

I do think that we over-emphasize the school itself. What I mean by that, at least in my opinion, is that if it's not an Ivy and not the top school in the field that you are 150% sure you will absolutely do (and won't change majors 3x like I did), then take the reasonably priced state option.

Time has flown and I recently realized I'm 12 years out of college. My education was ~10k a year at a public school - a decent one, but not even the best one in the state. I would not be materially farther ahead in life if I'd spent 30k a year at UVA or 50k at Georgetown. And I'm not paying off undergraduate debt right now. I am paying off grad (law school) debt, but that's another story - I was a night student and by the time I graduated it didn't make sense to restart my career in law when I was pretty well along in my industry. And the mistake I made was not going to the cheaper, public state school (and I didn't attend an Ivy).

By all means, get your education, but control the costs. To an 18 year old graduating high school it might sound like a no brainer to spend 50k at the "good" private school over the state option, but the reality is, there are few circumstances where that's true. I did it the right way once, and the wrong way once, so just my two cents.
It's a pretty well established system in marine applications, so it seems like a good idea. Of course, the hard part isn't the tech, it's building a company.
If you're finding part-time study too slow, there are a number of non-academic contexts in which you can study code full time.

Despite the reputation, there are some web-dev bootcamps that have good placement rates.

A few in the US:
1) http://www.fullstackacademy.com/
2) http://www.hackreactor.com/
3) http://flatironschool.com/

If you're a woman, there's the deferred tuition (no charge until you have a job) option:

http://www.gracehopper.com/

Or if you're not interested in a bootcamp, but rather a self directed environment surrounded by a community of other developers (and want a free option) there's Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)
This is actually pretty terrifying when you follow this to its logical conclusion.

You're going after license plates, which are regulated by state governments. It's illegal to obfuscate them, so there's no way to conceal your identity like you can with some the CCTV stuff. It's essentially an easy, legal way to keep tabs on your population. As the article pointed out, you can also tie this to all kinds of available data, and start creating profiles for people.

This is really scary, scary stuff.
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CNG fuel points are actually fairly common since multiple car manufactures have CNG vehicles (mostly fleet vehicles).
I don't think you deserve the downvotes, still the objection seems invalid; a binary ABI derives as much from a textual description (but not necessarily declarative) as a binary object from its source code. In fact I would say that the actual precondition, invariant definition, postconditions and data layout (which an ABI reimplementation would need to match) are a much more significant expression of creativity than the mere naming of functions.

So, assuming the copyrightability of APIs in the first place, an ABI should get as much protection as a textual API. The problem is that everybody had assumed until this ruling was that while APIs, ABIs and protocols were definitely an expression of creativity, they didn't reach the bar for copyright protection, especially when contrasted with the legally recognized right of reverse engineering for interoperability.

IANAL, of course.
The number of patients seen per hour is not a healthy metric.

Well it depends, yesterday I had quite along session with more, but it needed to be. Today I've had some blood test and have no problem (I'm actually glad) it was in there less than 5 minutes.
"Effective autopilot assistance features can plausibly get us to 10X improvements in safety and convenience."

So similar to the autopilot feature that Tesla already has in their cars? Plus it isn't going to up safety until there is 100% acceptance in this autopilot feature. Sure your car might be driving safer, but the other people who don't have these features will still be a danger to you.
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Feelin' the Bern!
I never realized that Zuse is unknown in the US. I am Austrian and I am pretty sure I have learned about Zuse in school.
I assume the situation in Germany is similar.
Now I am curious what people from other countries were taught.
Did you learn anything about Zuse?
You don't have 1 cannon. Better option is to have round battery with mini rockets on top of the vehicle. Your reaction time will be milliseconds for the first target. And you could intercept two targets if they are offset enough.
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Do you think that's the only major thing they're working on?
> And yes, Bob's card really is in an indeterminate state prior to Alice opening her envelope. And once Alice opens her envelope, Bob's card really is 100% either red or blue.

That's not necessarily true, there are perfectly valid deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics.
> Never plug in - Turbine charges batteries automatically while driving.

How does that work?
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Of course the coverage by libraries, accessibility of varied example code have improved tremendously, as have version control (es. distributed).

But I would say that the amount of code to put something on the screen, speed of compilation and running (non-cpu bounded) code, quality of debugging tools are all approximately catching up now to the state of the art of 1980: a Smalltalk environment created by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls and friends at Xerox PARC (I've heard LISP workstations were similarly advanced). By their work at VPRI, they still have a few things to invent and for industry to learn.

So while I agree barriers have decreased a lot, it is important to remember that the gap between state of the art what is common is also commonly huge in this area.

Arguably, _introducing_ people to programming through C++ and R (complex languages with difficult tooling) adds about 30 years worth of barriers right back, and is still common practice in some places.
I didn't realise I was offensive, sorry. If operations is moving towards being automated by software it's only natural to want to move more towards programming side.

I'm not saying this a bad thing, only natural. If infrastructure people see traditional server management moving towards automated deployments/monitoring/automated server setup. Then a lot of them would want to move into those skills, which a lot did.

Is there anything wrong in wanting to cross-functional? Most DevOps people are developers who automate infrastructure, or Infrastructure people who move into programming so they can automate.

You need to have both to be really good at it. That's what crossfunctional means.

Btw I am actually devops, and I've been working on it for a few years.
not really useful unless you also happen to have access to a license plate database.
Very unoriginal.
I think this could be one of those really tasteless jokes that the people who are stationed in truck made. I'd imagine it gets pretty boring in the car, and someone thought it would be funny. It probably is funny to them, but taken out of context it looks really bad.
This is awesome. I could see this being useful in tightly regulated transactional situations as well, like securities.
Exactly. And I'm absolutely expecting an AWS lawsuit in the next couple of years.
does this mean you can be drunk in the car?
I can't stop thinking of The Oatmeal.
Her initial investor, yes, but I don't think they're responsible for Theranos's entire ten billion valuation.
#whitegirl?

come on!
Martin Odersky illustrates this very same problem in his scala course very well:

https://class.coursera.org/progfun-002

Lecture 4.5 Decomposition

Lecture 4.6 Pattern matching

(ps. I am not associated with Coursera or Martin in any way, just found his particular explanations very easy to understand)

Edit: formatting
Lets assume your claim that Newtonian notation was not "clearly inferior"* to an unbiased person of the time, it follows then that teaching both ideas in English Universities might have helped to more quickly determine which notation is more useful. Consider the result for the English Mathematical community if the Analytical Society was never formed.

If biases exist then a spectrum of ideas from cultures which hold a different of set bias can be a critical aid in the search for truth.

*I disagree with this assumption but it is a hard case to make in either direction and I recognize the value of your perspective.
Obviously, who in their right mind, would go work for Oracle, when they can work for Google?
I'm not a programmer, nor did I graduate from college (2009) with any technical skills.

However, one option you may consider is taking a non-technical job someplace and using your programming skills at your non-technical job to impress the hell out of your boss/company.

For example, a few years ago I joined a government human caiptal consulting firm. I basically learned Excel and al ittle VBA to automate some really tedious tasks, and also learned enough to do some interesting analysis.

I impressed a few clients with my work and I became an independent consultant making far more money just because I work in a field that doesn't have many "technical" people in it.

Being a big fish in a small pond that doesn't expect you to be a big fish could lead to some interesting opportunities. Analytical/technical types in non-analytical/technical fields is a good way to do that.
There's conventional liquid fuel on board -- gasoline, or diesel, or compressed natural gas -- that allows a turbine to run, which in turn drives a generator, which in turn charges the batteries.

Same thing as the hybrid cars with an internal combustion engine that recharge the batteries, but just in a better, more efficient way.
It is powered by CNG
Maybe I've missed it, but how exactly do they know it was cut off for 5.5M years?
This seems like a willful misinterpretation of the comment.
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I was new to the industry and the recruiters would get me offers for 3-5k more than my extremely low starting salary. The only way to make it work was to tell them that I was paid better at my job. Then they would give me opportunities in the right range. When speaking with a potential employer, I would always be honest (if asked). That is a different relationship.
I'm really hopeful that this - or for that matter any reasonable platform - deploys and gets used. I'm a big fan of decentralization and hope these kinds of efforts pan out! Good luck to the Akasha folks!
>If you think an idea is worth teaching just because it came from a certain culture, you must not care if it's right.

They only care if it's diverse, not if it's right.
"Topsy" is taken (by Apple, of all things) but "Topsy the elephant" might be available.
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Heh. The missile defense systems are super controversial even now exactly because we have been unable to effectively demonstrate that they work[1].

This stuff sounds like it already works in the field. Nice.

[1]: Tests are run and performance is usually quite horrible, until they make them way way easier than real world conditions. https://www.google.com/search?q=missile+defense+effectivenes...
full Release Notes :

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My favorite is pop science reporting never linking to the press release for the publication that it's pulling from, much less to the publication itself. Often the title of the article isn't even mentioned.
Interesting! So first they teach their undergrads a year or two of completely outmoded Greco-Roman and religious stuff based on bad metaphysics, and then they manage, near the end, if the student hasn't dropped out, to throw in an introduction to formal logic and actual modern philosophizing.

This does a lot to explain why so many highly-educated people believe in outmoded stuff based on bad metaphysics when it comes to philosophy: it's what was taught in their classes!
I'm going to take more Tylenol thanks to this study.
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> Nobody would ever dream of arguing against eurocentrism in number theory

I wouldn't argue about it, but there's actually lots of interesting ways to look at mathematics that do not come from Europe. For example, Chinese counting rods as expounded by Liu Hui or Seki Takakazu's theory of determinants. Sure, with some twisting around, you can show how the way they worked with polynomials or systems of equations is the same as how we teach it today in the west, but if you look at the way they thought of things, not how we translate them today, you get to appreciate a different mode of thought, just like reading Galois's original papers, badly written as they are, give you an insight into how he thought of polynomial equations, permutations, and substitutions.

Even Mayans' astronomical calculations (that is, calculations about the stars, not unimaginably big calculations) offer unique insights. You really do get a narrow view of mathematics if you only ever get it from one cultural tradition. Even within European mathematics there are lots of culturally different ways of doing things, such as differences in notation and nomenclature (e.g. "tan" or "tg", "[0,1)" or "[0,1[", "distribution" or "generalised function"). For example, Soviet mathematics has a very unique and distinct flavour, driven by the needs of engineering and analysis and the pressure to produce science that served the proletariat.

Mathematics, like philosophy, is a very human affair, rooted in the ways that humans think and communicate. It is thus also important to not separate the humans from the ideas that they produce. Ideas don't form in a Platonic void; they come from humans and the cultures they lived in.
I get the feeling that destroying a kids soccer ball thrown at a tank is the least of the kid's worries in that situation. I would assume it would only go active with the permission of the people in the tank.
The lip isn't detected by the sensors. The car stops on it when the tires hit it because of the physical obstacle it presents and the extra force needed to climb it.

It's weird, usually the car actually passed over the lip with the front tires, but then stopped when the rear tires got to it. The threshold for stopping must be very close to what it actually encounters there.
The whole company looks a bit shady to me. The claims, the name, the renders, no legal entity named, no info on founders/advisors/investors on the website or LinkedIn, etc.

Also, why would you redesign the cabin from scratch if what's unique is the drivetrain?

"NO COMPETITION"

"MANY TIMES CLEANER THAN DIESEL ENGINES"

"Nikola Motor Company is not currently accepting walk in visitors. After we launch the vehicles at the live press release later this year, contact numbers and locations will be provided for visits."
There was a nice talk given by someone at Twitter about how they use Redis, including their shortcomings (which, interestingly, they had to solve by forking Redis and fiddling with the internals; maybe modules will help them get back closer to upstream ?)

Here's the highscalability writeup: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/9/8/how-twitter-uses-re...
No, one is in jail for hacking offenses in Denmark. One wants that to happen and TPB to evolve better but is not involved with building it. Third is floating around south east asia I think.
I've been using this keyboard on and off for a few months and overall really enjoy it, but is not without its downsides.

Pros: Glide is really well done if you like it. I'm not a glide person (and haven't taken the time to get used to it), so it's nice you can disable it if you'd like. Emoji auto-suggest is pretty fun, I've been tempted to use it in emails but avoided it for now. :) The dictionary it populates from your commonly used words is fairly aggressive (which I like), so it picks up on unique words quickly (and it is easy to clear/reset this list at any time). Being able to send people animates gifs with ease over txt message or whatever service is pretty fun. Overall it's pretty easy to type on, just takes a little getting used to compared to the default iOS keyboard (finger detection differs slightly), but I'm able to type just as fast on it.

Cons: Most of my issues are really due to the API limitations Apple has in place. This keyboard is disabled on password fields (as are all 3rd party keyboards). There is no voice dictation (siri or Google's). You have to paste in images from the search (the keyboard can't auto-insert images for you, but text only search results can be auto-pasted with "share"). Landscape mode on an iPhone 6s takes up lots of screen real estate.

The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of Google.
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Obviously, not all academics write like this. Not by far. It's the hallmark of various followers of postmodernists like Derrida and Lacan. Particularly favored by far-left academics in departments of gender studies, multicultural studies, women's studies, etc.

Multiculturalism is a wonderful thing, but not the brand that these frauds sell.

You can read a pretty devastating critique of these pseudo-scholars in the book Fashionable Nonsense, which describes how two physicists made up a completely bullshit paper, full of utter nonsense, had it accepted for publication in one of the leading postmodernist journals of the time, and confronted a fierce but intellectually empty counterattack by postmodernism's supporters(this was in the 90s) [1].

1. http://www.amazon.com/Fashionable-Nonsense-Postmodern-Intell...
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Sometimes SQLite is not an option and I created FlatDB for my own needs. This is not a replacement for SQLite or other database engine.
Good points, I wasn't thinking of the communications problems.

It's too bad the phone app can't communicate directly with the car using local radio, like Bluetooth or peer-to-peer WiFi. That would solve this problem and others besides.
> Probing just 30% of the top prefixes is likely not enough for their use case. Probing is also an after the fact approach. Fastly needs a solution which will give best possible path from first packet. <

Considering that Fastly deploys PoPs and not colos or datacenters, I think that the top 30% of their transit routes would be the lionshare of non-peer activity. Fastly's PoPs are generally at (or have reach to) the largest Internet exchanges for peering purposes. Peering routes are generally the best, cheapest, most concise routes you can get. You don't need a big, expensive router when you're in an exchange's peering mesh. Considering that you're only handling local traffic (by design of having multiple PoPs), peering plus two default transits will probably optimize for the traffic that matters most.

Also as mentioned, you can't really determine "best possible path" without probing. You can see what BGP tells you, but that's not always the best possible path. People that run networks know this. That's why things like FCP/IRP/RouteScience exist (for better or worse).

> Different game indeed. Netflix just cares about throughput, Fastly also needs low latency, hence the need for more optimizing. <

Sure, but you won't get that optimization from BGP. In a Fastly PoP, you're mainly dealing with in-country or in-region eyeball networks. If you buy transit from 2-3 major networks, BGP probably won't help you with those eyeballs. The path length will probably be the same (the eyeballs either peer or buy transit from large tier 1s). You generally can't trust MED to do anything useful with it, so that's out. Those are the only 2 things BGP can use to impact route selection. If path length and MED are the same, it's a coin flip as to which path to take (not really as the first installed route is the winner).

If you just took default routes and peered locally, you'd be much better off in a PoP scenario than trying to re-invent route reflectors and taking full BGP feeds.
It has ultrasonic sensors in the bumpers. They're too far down to detect a trailer at windshield level, but they'll detect the legs of a person standing in front of it.
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Standby for some serious noise complaints.
>Why do people feel the need to dictate to others what they should do?

They are not passing a law or advocating passing a law. so there is no 'dictation.

>hen why don't they just simply teach non-Western philosophy.

They do. Go to their homepages and look at the courses they teach. (eg: http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/110syllabus.pdf)
Argh. Right. After more thinking equal or greater than wouldn't make much sense.
Absolutely, Python and Java are next. It's based on gRPC so adding new languages is relatively easy.
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It is quite common in railways.

A diesel-electric transmission system includes a diesel engine connected to an electrical generator, creating electricity that powers electric traction motors. No clutch is required. It also is able to supply full torque at 0 RPM. Diesel-electric systems are also used in submarines and surface ships and some land vehicles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel-electric_transmission
They have been able to for years now.[0][1] If you want to wonder, imagine this tech being used to identify faces instead of plates.[2]

[0]https://github.com/SandroMachado/openalpr-android

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ3kDr-dYo

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMUpq-JRTIc
So... this is backend infrastructure (i.e. it runs on a server) to let your team deploy "severless" apps...

So they're serverless. Except the server you're running it on. And the lamba/style code they wrote and uploaded to it.

But serverless, because no ops staff required. Except the ones who installed and maintain this.

This is like a snake eating its own tail and wondering what hurts.

Edit: despite my sarcasm, it's always good to see open-source solutions to reduce reliance (or risk of reliance) on closed vendor solutions. Just stop calling it serverless, and I'll stop telling you how fucking ridiculous that name is.
It feels like the Steorn of car companies. Or a dodgy Kickstarter. All designed to create a buzz with no real evidence of a product.
In OCaml polymorphic variants solve the expression problem.

Solutions to the expression problem in Haskell feel heavyweight. I've personally never encountered the problem in serious or production code. I cannot say whether that's because it isn't that important in practice or because its difficulty causes me to avoid designs that run into it.
>How do we choose which ones to teach?

Which one leads to a richer vein of further research?

Which one makes better predictions?

Which one finds more applications?

Diversity and scope can be important only so far as they improve the systems in terms of scientific validity.

Your arguments are exactly the ones used by creationists for the purpose of making that internally consistent system seem as valid as the theory of evolution.
> our electric semi truck can stop nearly 2x faster than any other semi truck on the market

I suppose it becomes even more critical to make sure the load is well secured within the hold.
This is probably the best type of CV imaginable - actual project work for a AAA game title, with screenshots and easy to understand commentary on what worked and what didn't.
You'd be complaining about the heat at that point.
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