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Such a tiring debate.

This is what a function call looks like in PHP:

myfunc($arg1,$arg2);

What a mess, right?

Functions can represent any subset of computation within a program, or in some cases a function can represent all of the computations of an entire program. If you're hung up on small nuances of a language, you're probably just not doing it right. That's not a bad thing. A lot of people find themselves in this position, but the bottom line is you're probably just not writing your programs with the correct lower level abstractions.

That's it. It's not magic, but it's not always easy either. You shouldn't feel bad about it. Just keep trying and one day you'll realize that very little of what makes a great programmer has anything to do with the language you're using.

NOTE: This isn't in response to the author. They appear to have a strong reputation within the PHP community. This is really just a general response to all of the PHP hate in this thread.
You can search from the main page and get a list of Maker Media electronics books:

https://ssearch.oreilly.com/?all=2;i=1;q=electronics;q1=Book...
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If automation ever gets to the point where a law guaranteed basic income is required, there's no reason that incentivized or mandatory sterilization can't be required as well, especially if made a prerequisite for said basic income.
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Leadership has to stay under one roof. Team can be distributed but the leadership not. Everyone in the mother tipi.
As a student/hobbyist, since Linode doesn't have $5/month plan (and a referral program), I'm staying on DigitalOcean.
The big insight I see is that it's not only expected values, but unhedged variance that make people NIMBYs.
Keep in mind: government employees who travel international are often diplomats. Gov rates for diplomats are, overall, luxurious. (I'm not sure of the bleedover here, but would not be surprised.)

Above comment about business class / direct for long trips, and at least direct/convenient economy for ~startups (not 2 guys & a laptop) sounds right.
And how about macOS?
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Am I the only poor man here? Am I the only one who expects their car to last fifteen, twenty years, even longer with good maintenance? I see people talking of cars depreciating into worthlessness faster than I go through laptops. A toyota or BMW bought today will probably still be on the road come 2035. That's what makes them good cars. Nothing changes overnight in this field. No matter which fancy autodrive scheme you think is or isn't the second coming, these are massive blocks of moving parts. Throwing them away every five or ten years is ridiculous.

Tesla may be all cool and willing to update software, but it's very easy to be that when your fleet is all shiny. Come back when someone finds a security flaw in the 25 year-old model that is now in the hands a highschool kid as his first car. Come back when the 4g antenna in the dashboard can no longer communicate over the now-standard 67gxrr mobile network. That's why there are warehouses stacked full of parts all over the country. That's the car biz.
Network connected isn't just an implementation detail.

If it's on a network it has potential security problems and if the functions rely on the network then it needs updates.

Phones commonly don't get security updates after 2-3 years. The idea that a fridge will keep getting security updates for the lifetime of the fridge, say 20 years, is not realistic. Not to mention the problem that people often don't configure devices correctly. Perhaps some here remember VCRs with the perpetual flashing unset time.

The internet of things for companies and organisations that collect data and have staff to handle them and replace them regularly is a big deal. The internet of things in households is pretty dubious.
2 questions:

a) Is the REAL real-time, or is it delayed? (If not delayed, who's allowing you to share real-time data for free?)

b) Can I administer 100% of my configuration on the web and then just use my phone to monitor it?
> If there are elements of consciousness that are completely separate from the physical world (in that they have no effect on it), we cannot talk about them, nor even think about them.

Yet here we are, doing both, talking as well as thinking, right? If I talk about a universe where you'd never "woken up" as a subjective individual, and the present time was just like (to both of us) the previous 13.7 billion years, you know exactly the concept I mean, whether it's expressible in terms that have meaning beyond a single reader who knows (in the Cartesian sense) that their (subjective) existence is something special that only they can observe.
You just don't understand how much contractors make near Boston.

But what you say is true for new housing for sure. The style I see around here is http://www.bostonherald.com/photos/hot_property_603_concord_...

This apartment was constructed elsewhere, assembled on site. You could see whole units (I remember seeing the kitchen microwave) dangling from construction cranes.
How are zlib, gzip Zip related? What are is common and How are they different?
I judged only from the pictures in the article. I saw lots of freestanding houses three story houses and wide streets.

Compare eg this random edge-of-city in Germany http://kultur-in-krefeld.de/medien/uploads/2015/01/KiK-Dreif... It's not Manhattan by far, just a bit denser. And this is not a city centre.

(Alas, they don't have Google Street View in Germany.)
I'll just add that this was definitely a concern when I planned my flights. I chose Schiphol and KLM airlines rather than another European airport or even a US airport precisely because of how well I'd heard it was run.
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Watching Lazy Sunday again made me go check whether Mapquest still exists. It looks weird now.
> A 75kWh battery pack that is limited to 60kWh is better than having a real 60kWh pack.

Why? Wouldn't the weight reduction be useful?

> If you look at this as a $6000 or so discount on a new Tesla, it actually seems like a pretty good deal.

Yes.. but the whole battery is still being used, and is still in a position to require service. It could be the case that I have a 60kW tesla, but still need to pay the full 75kW repair price, because of the way they structured this.
> all food is tracked by RFID tags or even video

How are you going to solve the problems of 'bag of spinach I got at the farmer's market' or 'homemade pickles' or similar.
There are a few of them on their salary list and pay does not seem to have an correlation with working location. Could simply be level of ability and/or amount of quality work performed.
No airbags, can't be sold in any developed country by an OEM. You could get a motorcycle!
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Video is up:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/743602894226653184
What do you mean by banished from the world of business? I've seen variations of the core principles applied at every company I've worked for so far.
How exactly is Obj-C a slow scripting language without control of scope?
Buffer is a fully distributed (remote) team. The money they save on offices, they spend on travel.

Do you think an office for 100 people would cost less than $400K/year? (I know it wouldn't in NYC.)

See my notes on this here:

http://pixelmonkey.org/pub/distributed-teams/notes/#mixing-d...
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Do you mean this Davis Square?:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Davis+Square,+Somerville,+... ?

(Sorry, I can only judge by the Street View pictures, I haven't been in Somerville.)

If that's the densest they have, yes, that's sparse sprawl by European standards.

Have a look at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+innenstadt for some random pictures of German inner cities. (You can use Google translate to look for eg the equivalent in Spanish, centro de la ciudad, or other languages/countries.)
I just listened to recent old NPR clip on Netflix and the HR employee who created this slideshow. I'm planning on exploring this slideshow soon.
In any case, use f.lux or similar app to limit blue-light exposure.
The problem is that it seems to be cheaper to add internet crap to a bad toaster than it is to make a good toaster.

On top of this, there's no guarantee nowadays that if you pay more there's any more chance of getting a better quality product. It's just more money on advertising and shiny aesthetics usually.

I would pay double for a toaster that is guaranteed to work for 5 years. It must be possible, in the old days appliances lasted almost forever. It's just heated bread, for god's sake. I have gone through four microwaves in the last 5 years, and I only use the microwave probably every third day.
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Why not just massive flywheels? What's the benefit of having a train go over tracks instead of having a large solid wheel?
To me a smart blender is one that is available for use in my kitchen when I need it, and not when I dont need it (ie. wasting space).

Amazon style drone delivery + rental of household appliances is the future imo. A great way to save space in ever smaller city housing too
You sound like a great candidate for Erlang!
http://www.csail.mit.edu/computer_model_matches_humans_predi...
Considering that the codes to launch nuclear missiles were set to all 0's for decades, your disagreement is a perfect example of why nothing should be secret.

http://www.globalzero.org/files/bb_keeping_presidents_in_the...

Government secrecy is toxic, the very antithesis of how a free society should be run. It serves to hide corruption, negligence, and malfeasance.
Number of mass shootings is so low that "gun violence rates" may be completely unrelated to the number of mass shootings.

You can certainly argue that gun crime rates are what matter, but don't confuse the two.
"The greenish rock appeared to emit a type of radiation that was previously unknown, it was believed to have come from the planet Krypton." :-)
An option isn't equity. It is, by tautology, an option to purchase equity.

By and large, options are just a symbolic gesture. I'm sure there are some people who've reaped a bounty from them... but it's exceeding rare, and even if everything goes right they still require a liquidity event that isn't guaranteed to include you.

The first couple of times I got stock options, I exercised them... and ended up using them as a tax write-off later when they became worthless. Now, I sit on them like an old comic book that might become valuable someday... and wouldn't think twice about letting them disappear if I change jobs.
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I would love to get the opportunity to overwinter at the Amundsen-Scott base. Being cut off is what makes it an attractive adventure in my eyes.
First video I ever saw in youtube[1] is still up, worse than I remember, and has less than 500k views. That strikes me as so strange.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVslAo8Cz8
They seem to have pretty wide streets, and lots of space between buildings. See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+innenstadt for some random German examples.
I'd tentatively agree on the subway trains.
I guess I'm nitpicking, and the guy probably just needs an editor, but the whole tone of this post seemed tiresomely self-congratulatory to me. "Look at how frank and empathetic and open I am! Look at me ruthlessly dissect my own mistakes! Isn't that refreshing?"

It also all seems a bit maudlin — being laid off is a terrible thing, but mistakes happen and employees are aware of risks going in (although as others have noted, this type of situation underscores how inappropriate the whole "we're a big family" idea is). It would seem more respectful to the laid-off employees not to go on and on in this manner.
Hootsuite has nearly 1000 employees, so this isn't a good counterexample.
> wants to see Trump win simply to watch the fallout.

I have those same strange morbid feelings but not about Trump. Because I know the damage would be too severe. It's like saying there's a sick part of me that wants to play russian roulette. There's morbid and then there's knowing that the damage will be so massive that you already know the final outcome. Nothing mysterious about that.

The GOP has been preaching hatred, fear and bigotry for the last 2-3 decades so someone like Trump was inevitable. The only good thing to come out of all this is that you know damn well the GOP leadership is sitting in a room somewhere, trying to figure out how to do a 180 and move back towards the center. Because if they don't, they lost the moderate and independent vote forever. Hell, I can see moderate republicans (like Kasich, etc) becoming democrats if things don't change or get worse. Trump is the worst thing to happen to the Republican party and I couldn't be happier.
BMW, Mercedes, and Volvo have emergency auto-brake on all the time when installed. Only Tesla only has it on in "autopilot" mode.
Did you even read the original article?
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I can tell you about the resources, books, and guides that I'm familiar with - they are specific to the United States public sector. Not all of it is specific to Operational Security, but one could say that it is all related. Many federal departments and agencies must implement security programs based on guidelines and recommendations from Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, who created the Special Publication 800 Series for Computer Security, also the Special Publication 1800 Series for Cybersecurity Practice Guidelines. (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html) These departments and agencies are also required to report their cyber security incidents to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) so that security events, incidents, and responses may be coordinated across departments and agencies. (https://www.us-cert.gov/government-users/compliance-and-repo...) Today's federal departments and agencies are connected to trusted internet connections (TICs) that are all held up to high standards of incident reporting and security management. (https://www.dhs.gov/trusted-internet-connections) Same goes for the providers of their PKI infrastructure (https://www.idmanagement.gov/IDM/servlet/fileField?entityId=... ). Other key pieces of computing and communications infrastructure are also held to standards, such as the ones published by Federal Network Resilience group, but are not made available publicly. The CAESARS Framework (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/nistir-7756/Draft-N...) is the best example of a highly-integrated continuous monitoring program which integrates security operations with executive-level risk management. Lots of money has been invested in creating great frameworks, but many agencies and departments struggle to implement these in practice.
Not all professional sports pay millions.
Buffer's scheduling tools are far superior and a generous free plan as well. http://bigfishpr.com/social-media-smackdown-hootsuite-vs-buf...
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They pay market rates, just like sports teams do.
Seems like they finally got the "Clipper" chip through... this is basically a trojan horse for spy agencies.
Pretty sure that distinction goes to Taco Bell...
somerville was last rated the 16th most densely populated city in the US. i don't know how you can call it "sparse sprawl". have you actually ever been there?
Well there are degrees to this. Buffer seemed to want not having to fire people, but made a mistake.

You can compare this to big game companies, which have no problem hiring a bunch of people and then laying them off when the project is done. All the disadvantages of being an employee (IP assignment for side projects, low pay) with all the disadvantages of being a contractor (no income stability).

Companies do what they need to in order to survive, but that doesn't mean that the people running the companies are always 100% soul-less
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You'd need to store chilled water or something similar in order to do that....
My uncle was showing off his new car to me - it had all the fancy bells and whistles of "modern" cars, including a sensor for everything. The same day, one of the sensors told him a tire was low on air. He filled it up at a gas station and ended with a blowout on the highway (up until then the sensor still said it was "low"). The damage to the car was minimal, but it wiped out the "blind spot" sensor on that side of the car. Needless to say, these sensors are ridiculously expensive to replace.

I hate that cars are bloated with superfluous components that always break before the car itself does. That said, there are some gadgets that I would miss on a fully mechanical car. I'd be happy to find a manufacturer that could balance that correctly.
I don't think so. Tor could make the address bar red when you're on a non-HTTPS connection, for instance, warning you that any information transmitted can be sniffed by the exit node.
This is more like "Kind becomes Microsoft Certified Solution Provider". Not really big news.
They're all drunks, and if you're lucky someone you live, work and sleep with won't sexually assault someone you live, work, and sleep with.
Good point about the weight. 15kWh means an extra 75kgs or so of (arguably) dead weight.

Servicing costs aren't really something you need to worry about, though. Tesla battery packs are warrantied for 8 years. After that time, battery costs will have greatly reduced and there may even be cheap aftermarket replacement packs available.
Finally! This is a big step forward in common sense reasoning. Robots need this.
A microkernel could go into the kilobyte range too. seL4 is definitely in that range. The smallest Linux kernel bzImage that I ever compiled was something like 570KB, so embedded Linux might be able to reach that range too. That would of course include an application. The QNX demo likely could reach such sizes too if most of the things in it were removed. For those that are unaware, QNX is a microkernel based system.
It boggles my mind why a company like buffer that has a relatively simple product and a pretty straight forward transactional sales model would ever need that many people.
Why is this several hundred upvotes news? A startup grows from 30-something to 90-something it's too much it trims a little. That's entirely normal. What's the big news?
The generated images look like the stuff nightmares are made out of. Which is to say they're extremely aesthetically unpleasant. So what exactly have these networks learned?
Thank you for your feedback!

Recruitly is a community that helps its members code better. It does this by helping managers to pair with other developers and by having members rate each other.

Given your confusion, how would you rephrase the headline "Evaluate Code To Get Paid" to reflect this?

Thanks
> Yet they don't pay people millions of dollars like an athlete.

They also don't fire you at 30 for being washed up and leave you with brain injuries and zero transferable skills.
An option isn't equity, but I would wager that a lot of people who subscribe to the "if I have equity I'm family" model are naive enough to not know that.

I definitely agree with your attitude on them, I really wish startup culture didn't frown upon electing to receive higher salary and no equity.
If they have a call option on your stock (read your agreement), they're still not "yours". And it's for a private company you have no control over and probably no anti-dilution clauses on either.
Ambient noise cancellation is more complicated than that. Consider that as you changed your distance from the speaker you would be going into and out of phase with the signal, you would effectively be doubling the ambient noise at some locations, and cancelling it at others.

Also 10ms response time would definitely be too slow for such an application.

If that worked, you could just use an opamp with a sub-microsecond response time with a cheap mic and speaker for a couple of dollars, and I'm sure China would have flooded the market.

I would give anything for a working ambient noise canceller. I would point it at the leafblowers outside while I sip champagne.
No link to an app/site, and a random as shit gmail address make this look really sketchy to me
Trump got more GOP primary votes than and GOP candidate in history. It should surprise nobody that the sub(dom)reddit is incredibly popular.
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It trimmed the most recent employees, who decided to take the job after rejecting other job offers. Hiring 60 people in one year and then firing 10 of them in less than a year isn't nice and it doesn't feel nice. It's definitely a screw up in planning.

I understand why it can happen for sure, but still sucks.
hey thanks for your question!
a) this is real time data (not free!) provided by Nasdaq's consolidated feed.
b) At the moment, we are mobile first however we plan to offer an API where you can set your triggers programmatically if you are so inclined, and monitor them on your phone.
I know about this because I started my career helping an agency achieve a CAESARS-like program, which was based more on NIST's Risk Management Framework (RMF) - The basis of it is to define your systems, their Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability impact levels, a chain of management who has authority over the systems, security controls to protect the systems, continual evaluation of the security controls, and expedient management of risks associated with failure to implement security controls properly. (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-37-rev1/sp800...) The best security operations people I've worked with are the ones who are very curious. They scour over the configuration management, patch management, and defense systems - always checking to see if they do the things they're actually meant to do. Alerts on security events are very useful. Having multiple tools to cross-reference pays off when the results are different and it reveals an underlying problem that nobody expected.
David Silver's Reinforcement Learning Course teaches from Sutton & Barto's book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0
In my experience, it was actually the Lonely Island video mentioned in the article that launched professional-quality video on YouTube.
Um, go on …
It's definitely a great business case study. Most people don't get exposed to this kind of stuff.
They weren't humans, though: humans have only been around for about 0.2M years.
What's the difference? Equity in a public company is cash. You can even lock in what your RSUs will be worth when they vest with some options contracts.
>I'd rather have some sort of standardized modular system where I can put my own tablet-sized computer in an appropriate place and have it get power, audio sync with the car's speakers

I did pretty much this in my car, and it was surprisingly easy. ~7 inch tablets are just about the same size as Double DIN radios, so a little but of modification to the mounting bracket, some wiring, and a used Nexus 7 I picked up on ebay got me this: http://paste.click/RILfPr

It's hooked into the car's speakers via a USB dac and a small amp, and pulls sensor data from the OBDII port with a cheap bluetooth scantool, but otherwise is completely independent of the car's systems. Turns on and off instantly with the car's power thanks to Timur's Kernel (super low power standby really, but the battery drains isn't much different than having it completely off).

I also attached a wireless remote via OTG so I don't have to mess with the touchscreen for simple things like volume and media controls while driving.

So it's definitely a viable option. I'm surprised no one has come out with a standardized D-DIN to <popular tablet> bracket yet.
IoT is just manufacturers trying to apply the SAAS model to their product. Sorry, but I don't want to have to change my thermostats every 2-3 years because the company I bought from decided to break the service it uses cough nest.
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