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That account (bertilda-lovejoy) was made 10 minutes ago, so don't get too bent out of shape over it. Its likely a mens-rights red-pill-er intentionally misrepresenting feminist values by taking them to a tone-deaf extreme in a repo thats obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
Mrs Pteranodon just gave buddy a loving family. Love works miracles. ;-)

And, apart from the fiction, it's good. My daughter learned that flowers didn't exist yet in the Jurassic.
For example, you could use the BSD TCP stack which has been refactored into a user space library as part of the rump kernel project.
I saw someone say once that it is done to fulfil a legal obligation to make certain clauses obvious and noticeable, or a similar phrasing in contract law.
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That account appears to have only one comment ever.
What you describe is sadly very common (and I've seen it happen first hand in a few places, including Tuenti by the way[1]). However, if you look you can find places where it doesn't work that way. I've found that the closest to a sweet spot is working for any European (i.e., not American and not Spanish) company that does in-house software development (i.e., not an outsourcing company).

[1] I mention this because someone else has mentioned that Tuenti infuriated some companies by paying more than the average one. On the other hand, I could name a few people that were literally fired from there because of not doing enough unpaid overtime.
If this is available with a few meters of range, it has potential for automatic door control. Star Trek quality door control has been done experimentally [1] but the standard sensors are too dumb. You want range, azimuth and range rate. This is no big deal in a radar; it just costs too much.

If someone is moving fast, the door opens sooner, and faster. Moving parallel to the door should not trigger it. (In Japan, automatic sliding doors on street storefronts are common, and false triggers from passers-by are a problem.) With good sensors on both sides, you can open the door further in advance if there's someone on the other side. This allows opaque automatic doors.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhrLetrTSYA
Ok, are you saying that there are no companies that every hire women/minorities to fulfil a quota and appear more diverse? Even though companies like Amazon openly boast that they have certain % of black/asian/latino employees which is apparently meant to show how diverse they are?

I mean, if I gave you names, what would you do? ring them up and ask if they have a preference for hiring women? You can say that all of this sounds like a myth as many times as you like, you are not going to change the world this way.
You are speaking about gross salary I guess. I don't really believe that in Italy you can get much more of 3k€ net as a developer. And contracting market in Italy is really fucked up, when I was there on average contractors were paid less than permies.
"forbid imei use by applications, i am just curious why you think IMEI cannot be used for _device_ identification"

I may have phrased it unclearly. I was trying to say that things like UDID or IMEI that can be used to identify individual users and/or devices are strictly verboten by app store policies (and PacketZoom doesn't read or use any of those identifiers)
Tell me what's the difference between selling physical goods and digital services when none of them are stored or distributed by Apple
Worth mentioning if it's still correct; last time I heard, terms are capped at two years tops.
Somewhat off topic, but I wish NVIDIA published more information about Denver's DBO and the reasoning behind some design decisions. For example the company line is to just generate 'decent code' and let the DBO take care of it [0], but that clearly doesn't always work in practice [1], which requires a lot of trial & error and some reverse engineering to generate good code for it. Also, the decision to always invalidate the translation when writing to an executable page (or whatever other super slow operation is done in that case) seems odd (and affects the performance of some JIT approaches) since ARM software is expected to explicitly flush the caches when modifying code anyway.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM

[1] https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/wiki/Nexus-9-(Tegra-TK1...
Yes, that is "well known" in Internet time.
It _should_, but, as we know with clickbait titles (which are not prevalent on HN, thank goodness), the title doesn't always convey anything even discussed in the article.
I dunno, I think he earned the right to criticize them. It was fairly mild, considering the effort he put into it compared to them. And he was complimentary to them overall. He didn't even launch into what would probably be an epic rant if he were to provide all the details, but rather stopped himself.

Apparently he has gotten the "style" feedback enough that he felt it necessary to put a full disclaimer at the head of the article.
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Not only that, most places(?) have fire codes that mandates that all houses are easy(ish) to break-in to. Maybe not easy to sneak into, but certainly easy to break-in to. Because the fire department and emergency services need a way in.

I suppose the analogy would be that just because Microsoft has the power to remotely upgrade your windows 10 install (and potentially install any back-door), that should not violate your expectation of privacy.
Actually, from a computer security standpoint his way may be safer.

See this for some food for thought on some of the ways digital alteration can fail you: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/126932/how-secur...
I guess it depends on the sense in which "productivity" is being used.

A remote dev working for a Bay Area company from Spain can be just as productive for his employer as one located in Los Gatos, CA. However the above method would categorize this dev as "objectively less productive", which seems counter-intuitive...
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I didn't read it as necessarily knocking those languages, but saying most programmers had experience in those languages. And most jobs did not ask for any unusual skills, so companies should be able to find decent local developers.
Given the fact that they are perpetually hiring, looks like their process is broken and their CTO has unreasonable expectations.

Anyhow, won't recommend applying either.
Nice trigger haha
Well the single-photon quantum theory is just classical EM. So in a fairly stupid sense, it really is true that the only explanation of the polarisation is the quantum theory.
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We're a group of primarily Americans developing an app in the US, aiming to launch in the Netherlands. Despite making lots of progress on our product, we've yet to create an actual company. We're bootstrapping it as far as possible and would like to keep costs minimal.

If we want to launch in the Netherlands, would we be at a disadvantage being incorporated in the US?

How would the decision affect us in terms of:
Taxes?
Equity or Debt Funding?
Ease of business in Europe?

Thanks in advance!
Also there are just too many mediocre people to go around. I'm not optimistic, I suspect this will end with the very best people leaving the company.
It's a sharp and well-written review that highlights the inherent/implied hypocrisy in a social-awareness documentary. Thank you for sharing the thoughtful article.
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What's the company if I may ask? Or at least the niche. Thanks!
Exactly. Managers decide who is high level on the engineering side and also want to save money and have high management salaries. It's completely stupid to think that there won't be 500 VP's and 3 distinguished engineers in this situation, which is how it exactly is at the large tech companies.
I think it is rather the contrary. There has been a fundamental regulatory change that would make it more likely that a Lehman would go bust and that's a good thing: the introduction of bail-in.

Bail-in is the power given to the regulator to declare a bank non viable and to impose losses on its creditor over a week end, and as a result auto-recapitalise the bank, which will be open for business and healthy the following Monday. You can see it as a flash, extra-judiciary chapter 11.

The regime is designed to impose losses on regular creditors (bond holders), rather than clients taking a credit exposure to the bank through derivatives or deposits, even if in a bankruptcy these would have the same ranking and should suffer the same losses. This should reduce a lot the disruption on the market of a bank going bad.

Banks have been required to hold minimum levels of bailinable wholesale debt to ensure regulators can do a large scale bail-in.

This a fundamental shift which banks, regulators, and large bank creditors are well aware of, but seems to be completely unkown to the general public. That's kind of as absurd as keeping the dooms day machine secret in Dr Strangelove. The ability to do bail-in is probably the main factor that reduced dramatically the risk of another 2008-style financial crisis.
No wonder they r always hiring can't find anyone
These big companies don't like uncertainty in their IT platform though. And this apparent lack of commitment to Java EE without any communication could scare them away.

We can only speculate what's going on at Oracle.
Some options come to mind: 1) the JCP is moving too slowly to keep up with the changing IT landscape 2) Oracle no longer sees benefit in standard APIs with competing implementations and interoperability. Maybe it's eyeing enviously Salesforces cloud lockin...
> They must be vetting each email for sensitive (secret) information, otherwise I can't imagine how it would take 2.25 years to fulfill that request.

Yes, that's the gist of it. From the filing in question:

"Furthermore, in this case in particular, the substantive review process is challenging given the wide-ranging subject matters covered by the documents at issue in this case. Id. ¶ 25. The documents implicate subject areas governed by multiple different bureaus within the State Department, all of which must be consulted before materials may be released. Id. State must also consult with other agencies within the U.S. Government. Id. Moreover, because Plaintiffs’ requests cover communications with outside organizations, State must consult with such outside organizations if the organizations’ confidential business information is at issue."

Though there is certainly tech incompetence involved as well:

"Specifically, it found that one office had not conducted the search by keyword, but rather had only searched the ‘To’ and ‘From’ line of the latest e-mail in an e-mail communication, a method that would not capture responsive e-mails found only in older communications that were part of an e-mail chain."

"In order to do so, as explained in Mr. Stein’s Declaration, IPS must manually open and review every e-mail with an attachment amongst the 34,116 potentially responsive emails in order to determine whether any responsive attachments had inadvertently been omitted."

("Responsive" in this case means "sent or received by four current or former State employees – Michael Fuchs, Melanne Verveer, Cheryl Mills, and Huma Abedin – to or from individuals associated with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings".)
FreeBSD has the sysctls you are looking for to control the reserved port range, allowing unprivileged users to bind (curious that Linux doesn't):

$ sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow=10
net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow: 0 -> 10
$ nc -vvl 1
^C
$ sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow=0
net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow: 10 -> 0
$ nc -vvl 1
nc: Permission denied
...and yet there are still nursing shortages, with many unfilled posts. These are jobs that have been advertised but unfilled.
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I'm not sure which distinction exactly you're drawing between free software and open source, but most open-source licenses don't aim to restrict how people use the software, for many reasons.

One reason is that it's just harsh. "Free for non-commercial use" means that if someone builds on your software to make something successful, they can only succeed on your terms. Sure, that may be what you want, but it's not what users want if they're going to take the time to understand your code.

While such code may technically be open source, much like the "shared source" initiatives of large software companies, the code won't be able to participate in the larger open-source ecosystem. Would you expect someone else to contribute to the code? Why would they? They'd be enriching your IP but they wouldn't get any additional rights to the code, nor would they get revenues from commercial licenses. Unless you hire them as an employee.

Also, restrictions on how you use the software violate the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Indeed you indicated that you're not interested in "free software", but you shouldn't expect to find "common open source licenses" that violate the DFSG.

Restrictions on use tend to be more tolerated in creative works than they are in software, in which case the license you're looking for is Creative Commons By-NC-SA.
Ha, good one!

I've got a similar story in Spanish, which to cut a long story short, results in a foreign student trying to ask a young woman 'Cuantos años tienes?' but instead asking 'Cuantos anos tienes?'! For the Spanish speakers here, I'm sure I don't need to tell you that the young woman was shocked! For the non-Spanish speakers, I'll let you look up the difference between años and anos for yourself. ;-)
I born in orthodox Russia, this branch still have tradition of fasting 40 days each year, so your "pretty apparent" is pretty funny. I know a lot of people who each year follow this fasting rite but never donate to poor, they don't even think about it.

1 visit to Orphanage will give lesson much more effective than this ancient spectacle. I know what I'm talking about.
There are going to be a couple director level IC's and several hundreds of directors. Those IC's have to make industry changing tech worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Those directors just have to show up to work and be 'in charge' of whatever those IC's are doing. That's how the scam works.
Sadly if employers are able to pay so low it's because there's a serious oversupply of devs... On another note how possible is for a non European to get a job in Spain?
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>However the above method would categorize this dev as "objectively less productive", which seems counter-intuitive...

It wouldn't, it purports to explain the differences in local salaries, or more precisely salaries paid by local entities to on-site developers.

It's true I didn't specify that explicitly in the first comment, along with definition of productivity, so your reading of it was a reasonable understanding. It's a good thing you helped me clarify the intended meaning.

One assumption is that foreign demand (for non-local use) for local on-site developers is small enough to not change the workforce demand significantly. So it won't work for India or other common offshore destination, but it seems to explain pay differences between USA and Spain, Norway and Switzerland reasonably.
I think it was a research project only so simply a project from which features would be ported into production tech. I'm sure something found its way into C#, but I'm hoping for more. C++ isn't the horse to bet on...
I know a lot of US companies that are incorporated in so called "tax heavens" where the corporate tax is much lower than usually i.e.Ireland, Luxembourg,Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Monaco.
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Did anybody analyze recently how effective and why is the set of primitives chosen in APL?

If Iverson wouldn't be constrained by ASCII and still knew what we know today, how he could design APL?
You've been using HN primarily to post inflammatory ideological rhetoric. That's not a legit use of this site, so please stop doing it.

The circle of hell that is the IQ race war is particularly unwelcome here, in all its idee-fixedness.
The complete omission of "free" is strictly necessary after a "gets memory" comment, though.
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And if you don't want to pay the memory/bandwidth costs of doubling your image size, you can keep storing your images in 8 bpc sRGB, but convert from sRGB to linear before blending/interpolation and convert back afterward. Modern GPUs have built-in support for this. There's really no excuse for incorrect blending!
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Yeah, but not in other 11 months, lol. When charity is forced by tradition - it's not charity, it's just rite.
i find it pretty useful. I would even pay a few dollars for more information and tips on how to improve myself over the competitor.
That argument misses the point, which is the ecological costs incurred by shifting that water. For example, depleted rivers effect fisheries.

Also, irrigation requires energy. The more water, the more energy. Though, I'm not sure how significant of a factor that is in the grand scheme of things.
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"released back into the environment", yes, along with all of the contaminants introduced by the industrial agricultural system, and in a different place from where it started. The "water" runoff from feed lots is considered toxic waste to be managed, not a natural resource to be celebrated or conserved.

It's not a zero-sum game. There's a reason there's a (political, at leas in the US) war being waged over water in every region where water is scarce and cows are plentiful (likewise for many kinds of plant agriculture, admittedly, but the water used for the same nutritional value of plant-based foods is vastly lower).

Anyway, these are complex systems, sure. And, as with climate change science, in general, there are all sorts of variables one can debate the precision of. But, the general trend is in a dangerous direction. It's pretty widely accepted now, by folks who study the subject, that meat consumption is a large part of the equation. How much is debatable, but no one who studies the field that I'm aware of is saying it isn't a big part of the picture.
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Word was fine for my PhD. My supervisor from those times - now 80 and still collaborating with scientists from around the world - has written hundreds of papers with it. I think I can speak for him when I say that over the last 30 years he has found it a far more reliable option than the typewriter and carbon paper he used to write his own PhD in the 1960s.

I frequently use Excel for calculations. Just the simplest way to check I have entered the correct numbers.
Fair enough on your first paragraph. (Though what distinguishes mathematical facts which are "coincidence" from mathematical facts forced true by mathematical structure?)

Actually, I'd say it is odd to find this sort of analysis to give great confidence about the results, not just because it ignores the possibility of structure, but also because it ignores the possibility of coincidence!

After all, there are some things which we probably want to call mathematical coincidences which heuristic argument would tell us are bogglingly unlikely and yet which nonetheless happen. For example, another probabilistic argument: Consider the basic arithmetic 2-ary operations +, -, * , and ^. There are 20!/(10! * 11!) full binary trees with 11 leaf nodes, 10^4 ways to label their internal nodes with one of these 4 operations, and 11! ways to assign the values 0 through 10 to those leaf nodes in some permutation. Thus, there are at most 20!/10! * 10^4 (overall, less than 10^16) values which can be generated using these operators and the natural numbers up through 10 once each (and this is an overestimate, ignoring the structure of, e.g., commutativity of + and * which causes less distinct values to be produced).

We would expect, therefore, that the closest we could get one of those values to line up with a particular unrelated mathematical constant, even focusing only on the fractional part, is no more than about 16 or so decimal digits. If there are thousands of mathematical constants we might compare it to, perhaps we'd get a match to about 20 digits on one.

And yet! And yet (1 + 9^(0 - 4^(6 * 7)))^(3^(2^(10 * 8 + 5))) lines up with e to 18457734525360901453873570 digits.

Now, what's happening here is that we have this other nice lining up of 9^(4^(6 * 7)) = 3^(2^(10 * 8 + 5)), which we can then plug into e ~= (1 + 1/n)^n with huge n. And this, in turn, is because 9 = 3^2 and 4 = 2^2 and 1 + 2 * 6 * 7 = 10 * 8 + 5. There's a bit of an explanation. And yet... surely if anything is a coincidence, this is?

So... I guess what I'm saying is, it is odd to use probabilistic arguments to rule out coincidence. The whole thing that makes a coincidence remarkable is that it is the sort of thing we would consider unlikely, and yet such things do occur, even in mathematics.
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We're all hypocrites, so getting personally nasty about it is self-refuting.

There's nothing that matters here that requires personal disrespect to point out.