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The bigger issue is that this place sounds like it has insufficient or otherwise incompetent management, which will inevitably create issues like this downstream. I'd bet that if you looked in other departments at this company, you'd find similar role confusion/dysfunction.

Someone doing big IT projects cannot be expected to also do desktop support at the same time (and shouldn't become the de facto support person simply because they have technical knowledge).
I don't necessarily argue that everything is right because it is the law, I argue that THIS exact law is right. It might not be for you, but it is for me. And seemingly not only for.me, but for a lot of people in this country. Otherwise there would be a (stronger) opposition to this law. I think we might have to recognize that the German culture is different from yours (US I suppose it is) and that we simply cannot expect to agree on everything. This might be because we are grown up in the system that protects us both adequately and we therefore think it is the best one, only because it is a adequate one. This goes both ways, e.g. you are right to think your system is better while I am right to think ours is. And exactly that tolerance is what I would like to not only see but DEMAND from other people. And I believe this exact law is right in a way that it makes it harder for people that don't recognize that all people are created and to be treated equal to express and propagate their beliefs. I think you could even find a similar or maybe exact same argument for your position. I respect that but hope you have other ways to ensure no one creates a climate of fear, hatred and violence (physical and non-physical) against people that are different. This law will not be everything the German culture sets against that climate but is one piece of our puzzle.
Micropython is a independent implementation of Python with some microcontroller-specific extensions and able to run on smallish microcontrollers, this is a slightly modified "standard" CPython für x86.
That will definitely be interesting to see. I know my polling location is a PokeStop, so I might have to sit around and observe a bit on election day this year.
He is looking at obituaries of startups for advice. If you look at successful startups, did they face early technical risk?

Google won early by having the best algorithm. Facebook's early competitor Friendster died due to technical issues. It seems less clear at what stage companies like Uber and AirBNB faced substantial technical risk? I'd guess Slack and DropBOx had significant technical risk in early stages. I suppose WeWork probably had less technical risk.

I suppose the early prototype's code may not be totally indicative of whether the company can overcome the technical risk. Still, I think you need to evaluate whether the founding team can deal with the technical risk.

Technical due diligence isn't about looking for beautiful. It is about looking for an ability to manage technical risk. This includes an ability to hire and manage good engineers.
The same is true of "violation of the copyrights, trademarks, patents or trade secrets of third parties".
That should tell you something when the first thing a competent Rust programmer decides to code is a better language.
Thanks, I was wondering if that was the case.
After having read the whole FAQ, I still don't know what the product is. Where are these "meetings" held? Who attends the meetings? Why should I care? Why do I have to "apply"? How do they plan to make money?
Just kiss already.
Steve Jobs rule 4 should come in here somewhere.

I agree, the first software produced is just a proof of concept and will be re-written. I even believe the only way to write good code is to build it fast in some intransitive language and then throw it away and do it over in something compiled.

So I agree with this post except, to become great, you need to know upfront you are just proving the idea and you will do Technical Diligence of the final product and NOT SELL CRAP.
I feel that whenever practices like this are made acceptable, invariably abuses follow. It is an accident of history that the people being picked on now are regarded as deserving.

I'll pose my earlier question with a different group--how would you feel were this being done to conservative Christians or Muslims? Both groups express misinformation and sometimes call for restrictions on others (covering women in public, treatment of homosexuals, this sort of thing).

We can't get everyone to get along. However, we can seek to eliminate state powers that are ripe for abuse.
> Targeted ads are worthless if they aren't targeted based on correct data.

A university without well-respected and celebrated faculty is similarly "worthless." In fact, the gap in price between community colleges and prestigious universities might even be greater than the gap between targeted ads and non-targeted ads.

> As an advertiser, Google's ability to target users based on user data is very important to me, so your analogy with Nobel prizes at University misses the mark by a mile.

As a student, the prestige of an institution and the prizes it's faculty receive is an important component of choosing to purchase education there.

There's a reason that college admissions brochures love to tout the number of Nobel prizes their faculty have received.
Since the Tesla autopilot will only work on long, clear stretches of road with high visibility and very predictable traffic, it's not really hard to see why the statistic would look better than it really is.

I can build an autopilot to drive a car with zero fatalities ever; it just goes forward on an infinitely straight road.

Statistics can only be compared under the same conditions, otherwise it's just pointless self-delusion.
Lots of lost jobs in Denmark - a shame that so many European jobs are lost due to bad options of funding in EU.
I haven't had trouble with complicated queries with this style. I've been doing it for ages, though.

There nothing wrong with comma-first, it's sensible; I just never got into the habit. My joins are so I can instantly glance over the tables involved in a query.

(And, oh yes, I, too, normally alias the crap out of tables if there's more than one in a query.)
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Oh. Well not everyone is a gamer and that's fine, but adult gaming is not a new phenomenon and it's not just pokemon, it's a pretty huge industry. I'm sure there is something you do for fun that others might regard as a pointless activity.

Still, I'd be willing to bet that there is a video game out there that you'd thoroughly enjoy (be it mobile, PC, whatever), 13 years is a long time to have never played any games and a lot has happened in the industry; I say this earnestly and not as a judgement, one day when you're feeling open minded, consider taking some gaming recommendations from a gamer friend who knows you well, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I've been playing with it a bit in the last few days, that's pretty interesting. I've got an older android phone, and it runs really smoothly for me. I'll have to give Unity another look I think.
Where is this "basic income" coming from?
I agree, but why not just take action based on the only things you have to? Namely court orders and DMCA notifications. It seems like a more complex balancing act to assume that any notification you receive is in good faith.
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Knowing, in isolation, that IQ is more closely correlated with income levels in childhood than IQ is with thing X, does not imply that IQ is not a causal contributor of X.

It could just be the case that IQ is partly genetic (in fact, it is) and that IQ may be a causal factor in income levels to a stronger degree than it is for autism or other things.
Fairly useless platitude-fest/groupthink. Kinda surprised.
I urge anyone interested in this topic to read Helmholtz's "On the sensations of tone", a fascinating 19th-century tour-de-force trying to understand music sensation as coming from physical principles, deriving the standard western intervals and consonance/dissonance from first principles (beats between upper partials), and for which he is considered the father of acoustics. He spent 8 years researching in order to produce it, and is to me a great example of a 19th century hacker.
Even if we knew exactly what physics made music sound good, that doesn't take any of the mystery out of physics itself.
That same table is showing a GDP rise from 23,400 to 26,200 between 2001 and 2008. Are those rises not attributable to EU policymaking then?

In the same time period, US GDP rose from $49,979 to $51,486 [1]. But it shows the same drop as the EU figures: 2014 was the first year that GDP was higher than 2007 (the same in 2015 for the EU). Maybe there is a common factor that could explain the slump in both the US and EU GDP figures since roughly 2008? Or did EU policymaking also cause the US GDP to go down?

[1] http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita
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BS - A lot of good stuff started as homebrew tech. GoPro for example.
All of those are communicative in nature and do not involve the bodily injury of another human being--so yes, I think it's fair to consider them free speech.

I am unfamiliar with German law, so if you would like to educate me on the nuances of the charge, I would appreciate it.
> Can't imagine why Hungary and Austin don't want them.

Because they operate in violation of local laws.
Seconded.

The one law I think you can say about harmony and melody, is that there seems to be a universal preference towards low frequency ratio combinations. EG: in all of world music, it seems octaves (2/1) fifths (3/2), fourths (4/3), and thirds (5/4) occur quite often and are the fundamental driving force of so many styles. They are seen as more "pure sounding" to the ear. Regarding the linked paper, the low ratio concept has been known for a while, and linking it to the harmonic series is fine.

But there's more to music than simple pure ratios. Even many simple pop songs often offers transitions between "purity" and "impurity" (the simple dominant seven to tonic resolutions is enough to show this.) This is where the linked paper fell short... way short. It seemed to imply in 4.3 that there is no room for dissonance (or, to describe it without using Western terms, stepping away from the pure ratios, perhaps to resolve to purity... or perhaps not...) whatsoever in music, which is very laughable to anyone who's actually composed. 4.2.1 also almost seemed to apply a certain sense of Western cultural superiority... even though I would argue that Western culture actually is a case against his ideas. (As in... equal temperament decreases the "purity" by detuning some of the ratios, particularly the thirds. But a greater freedom is allowed for key modulation, and I agree with Mathieu that the ambiguity 12TET opens up is a feature in itself. Let's not go into the large amount of dissonance in some art such as 20th century classical, jazz, even some pop particularly in the alternative realm).

I'm currently in the middle of Mathieu's book. The main disadvantage of his style is that it is a bit "flowery" which may not appeal to those who like reading their math more exactly. But one big advantage of W.A. Mathieu is that he seems well versed in three very different backgrounds (Indian classical music, jazz and Western classical music, although definitely heavier on the first two). For those familiar with neo-Riemannian theory, I consider his book a good tie-off with that side of music theory, not completely the same, but tangentially related. Unlike some neo-Riemannian books, because of Mathieu's background, I believe it avoids both some of the cultural mistakes that other music theory books seem to make and also avoids the mistake of trying to be the "one theory to rule them all".
Hmmm… would you rather hear your uncle tell his joke repertoire over thanksgiving dinner, or would you rather hear Louis CK at a theatre?

Music isn't just a series of clever notes, strung together. Sure, it's that too, but there's so much more to it than that.

I agree with what you're saying here.
What do you think is reasonable?

The video game industry market cap is around 17e9 USD2015[0]. Unity accounts for ~9% of the value. I'm not sure if it's an accurate valuation but it doesn't seem to be a ridiculous percentage given where they are in the production food chain.

[0]http://www.statista.com/statistics/246892/value-of-the-video...
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I am looking to buy a suitable Windows 10 tablet to use as a secondary device for

Work email (Outlook)
MS office document edit, reviews
Sharepoint access

My main requirements:

fairly light weight that I can lug it around when traveling
work at home in quick breaks without having to open up my laptop, quick email review or review a doc
ease in using MS office, esp. word document review & edits

my primary laptop is an MBP 15
The entire point of the ISS was to consolidate all the efforts and budgets of various space programs and build one trans-national station. Why would you participate in this and then also build a second one? What benefit would you get? This is like saying its depressing that there's only one internet.

Arguably, without the ISS there probably wouldn't be any space stations. Stations were falling out of fashion by the 90s and even before were largely propagandist projects. The ISS was an attempt to turn all this wasted effort into something world usable (not just for the space faring powers of the time) and into something more science-centric. It was also an attempt to stop Russian militarization of space like mounting guns on stations (Salyut 3's 23mm cannon) or building more space battle platforms (Polyus). In fact, parts of the old Polyus system are now part of the Zarya module on the ISS. Seems like win-win for international cooperation, science, and peace.
How many startups fail every year again? Well let's find out: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-startups-fail?srid=...

Technology solves problems, but it doesn't mean every "problem" is actually a problem, or that it's worth solving. There will always be outliers.
This is a bit off topic, but why such aversion to purpose built tools in JS land?

In my experience it's much harder to onboard devs to a custom-ish process than it is to hand them a purpose built tool with proper documentation and lots of examples of real-world usage to learn from.

I tend to try to use already made tools over doing it myself* as it makes onboarding easier, lightens my cognitive load, reduces my testing surface, and is generally quicker than coming up with my own solution.

* A bit of a disclaimer... I mean well made, well tested, and well supported tools taking into account the time cost of doing it myself, the complexity of the tool, how important/ingrained it will be in my application, the number of contributors in the project, the test coverage of the project, the speed/ease it can be switched out, how well it actually solves my problem at hand, and a ton of other things. I do not mean that you should blindly use every tools you can whenever possible, or that you should use it because Facebook/Google/Other-Company uses it.
Do what the author did: take Koller's course and follow the research that interests you. In this case, the propagation through factor graphs is also a good analogy for when you start looking at back propagation in NNs and the autoencoder.
I believe you, that you don't drive at all. You call both situations strawmen, yet each is a common occurrence. Safe speed in an automobile is proportional to sightline distance. If drivers or robocars see a child (or any hazard) near the road, they should slow down. By the time they reach the child, they should be crawling. That's in an urban alley or on a rural interstate. If the child appeared before the driver or robocar could react, the car was traveling too fast for that particular situation.

In that "traveling too fast" failure mode, previous considerations of convenience or property damage no longer apply. The driver or robocar already fucked up, and no longer has standing to weigh any value over the safety of pedestrians. Yes it's sad that the three kids in the backseat will be woken from their naps, but their complaint is with the driver or robocar for the unsafe speeds, not with the pedestrian for her sudden appearance.

This is the way driving has always worked, and it's no wonder. We're talking about kids who must be protected from the car, but we could be talking about hazards from which the car itself must be protected. If you're buzzing along at 75 mph and a dumptruck pulls out in front of you, you might have the right-of-way, but you're dead anyway. You shouldn't have been traveling that fast, in a situation in which a dumptruck could suddenly occupy your lane. In that failure mode, you're just dead; you don't get to choose to sacrifice some children to your continued existence.

Fortunately, the people who actually design robocars know all this, so the fucked-up hypothetical preferences of solipsists who shouldn't ever control an automobile don't apply.
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A quick skim of CB Insights' collection of 150+ startup post-mortems reveals that only ~5% of post-mortems referenced a lack of technical ability/execution. Most startup failures were caused by building the wrong product, or lacking sales skills, or not having a viable business model. The strong presence or absence of amazing engineers was rarely a factor.

"Our biggest obstacle to growth, right now? We still can't seem to attract candidates with strong CS fundamentals. Maybe we should crank up HackerRank hazing process from 3 hour-long sessions, up to 5. Because I mean, just look around -- aren't we amazing? At this critical juncture for our venture, surely we can't afford to dilute our crack team with mediocre talent."
For the price of 16 Tbs plus, real steel becomes very appealing.

You've got to remember that block storage is >> faster than s3/http. Its also has significantly lower latency.

Also if you want fast processing you need to start looking at shared filesystems/NFS
Why would you need multiple executives to handle a business that is mainly silly 6-second video clips and could never be more than that without changing the name in which case it becomes an unknown brand?

What do top executives do for these types of companies. It seems like a joke.
That should tell you something when many new programming languages pick Rust for their implementation.
> Most founders aren't doing the sort of cutting-edge development that no one has seen before; they're making a SaaS app that boils down to a few CRUD forms in a browser and some nice design

They should probably ask themselves what sort of defensible competitive advantage they're building, though.

With many founders I know, the answer is "none". This is probably necessary in the very early seed stage - it's hard to build something unique and difficult and still get to market - but it's disturbing how many companies end up with $50M in funding and the answer is still "none". Probably a good indicator of a shake-out in the SaaS world in the near future.
It's a video game OS.

1. video games are bigger than movies.

2. MS made most of its profits from its OSs.
Wow, this brings back memories of when I was just a kid with a Commodore SX-64.

GEOS amazed me, although it was the 300 baud modem and getting access to QuantumLink that literally changed my life.
Management fired the entire HostesUI team and shipped bare-minimum maintenance to India.
You just described all fields worth doing research in.

If we knew the right answers we wouldn't waste our time implementing the wrong ones. It's not a bad thing: it means there is room for you to discover something genuinely new and understand something, however small, that nobody else ever completely understood.

I think that's great. But YMMV.
You're neglecting the emergent effect of neural networks. Fully understanding the output of one or more individual neurons hardly tells you anything about how the network behaves has a whole. From that standpoint, neural networks are nearly impenetrable. With human written software you can at least trace through the source code and get an idea of what it's doing. Imagine being handed a large matrix of numbers, being told it represents a neural net, and then being asked to find out what it does. Good luck!
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If you're interested in how law enforcement (in the US) has really evolved toward this (including so-called "consent" searches where the courts have ruled things like stop-and-frisk are legal because people are hypothetically allowed to decline to be searched), I recommend reading "The New Jim Crow" - it's excellent, if depressing, reading.

0: http://newjimcrow.com/
Why would you say that? Sorry, I don't know much about Unity Technologies.
When he talks of humans being richly involved in the environment, not sleeping in the trunk, I imagine an interface with several levels.

Example: you are driving down a highway that has full monitoring by overhead cameras. No obstacles are going to jump out at you, and the position of the car is mapped precisely in real time. The human controls via a joystick to select a lane position, and brakes are automatically applied if avoidance is needed.

Now the car leaves the highway, onto an isolated road. Before leaving the known environment, the interface switches. Now the lane position becomes a trajectory projection, and the driver must observe the road. The task of safely following the trajectory is automated. The interface adds random noise to the trajectory projection, to test that the driver is paying attention. Failure to demonstrate control results in the car pulling off to a rest stop.

Finally the car goes downtown. A well known road, but with many pedestrians and bicycles. The interface is based around identifying obstacles, with a joystick for max safe speed <-> stop. Trajectory is automated, with the driver choosing turns. The car scans for pedestrians, but if the driver does not acknowledge them, the car slows since the driver is not paying attention. If the car misses a pedestrian, the driver is aware and has been conditioned and trained to react in time.

All of these interfaces would require driver attention (minimal on the highway), but would significantly reduce fatigue associated with driving.
I was trying to engage you in a discussion about your error, not Tesla's. Hopefully you're an internet commenter trying to make Hacker News a better place?
Yeah, but on the other hand the resulting project has happily eaten research statistics. It's not all bad.
Oh lord, clearly I wasn't processing what I was reading, I thought my original parent was saying they thought carry-on wasn't x-rayed.
Those with nothing have plenty to gain, but they should have more to gain. If private companies are profiting off of the backs of the public (both the "haves" and "have-nots"), why shouldn't/doesn't/didn't the city negotiate a profit sharing agreement so that money can go into programs that (among other things) can help the homeless more directly? Shelters to get people off the street, job training programs, libraries, resume workshops. As the article indicates, the city has a ton of leverage that it left on the table, in terms of lost opportunities for increased privacy and increased financial opportunity.

If we go "hierarchy of needs" on this situation, music for a homeless person seems like it should come a little bit behind shelter and food.
I should rephrase that, it's not "really bad" but the way that most people use it is not good. The main issue is caching from your OS, and caching from the hypervisor ( the one that runs your VM ).

There is also the problem about i/o syncing. By default OS buffer the data before writing it to disk.