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And it's not as crucial to have one here, I only got my license at 35 (and now that I have kids, I'm really happy with it). That's not completely normal of course, but it'd be much harder to do in the US.
Leap seconds are a big enough problem that stock markets shut down for them.[1] Google starts advancing their clocks hours in advance of a leap second. Power companies take about four hours to catch up after one. (Every 1800 RPM generator has to make 30 extra turns.) Very few systems properly handle a 61-second minute. Unix timestamps are fundamentally incompatible with leap seconds.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/29/technology/leap-second/
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Yes. To further play devil's advocate; a lot of times it's better to just write time handling in a naive manner. Even if you know it will fail under certain circumstances, the program might not need to always be correct to be successful. I HATE writing stuff like this, but sometimes the ROI is just not there.
No, but if you had a crystal ball that could distinguish between those who had been given lots of opportunities but never improved, and those who just need a little bit of training to make them a world class engineer, then you'd have an amazing hiring advantage relative to your competitors.

I know some smart, thoughtful, enthusiastic developers who have only ever worked in one team, and that team had a bunch of dev practices that don't fit the industry's typical expectations (e.g. zero automated unit tests). Many companies would pass them over because they'd bomb that apart of the interview, but with a couple of months of on the job training, they'd fit right in.

When they go looking for a new job they're going to find it hard, but whoever can see through their inexperience an is willing to take a chance on them will be happy they did.
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Is that why the pay is shit? You can get a higher salary in Eastern Europe with a 5x lower cost of living.

Western Europe is horrible when it comes to the software industry. Underpaid immigrants that are just happy to live somewhere with clean streets.

There is no shortage. Companies are just fighting for the same set of naive students and juniors. And complain when their shit offers get refused.
1) this is not a clever workaround, this is common sense. if you don't do this already, you're a terrible motorist and shouldn't be allowed to drive.

2) do high end cars have proximity sensors for this sort of thing yet? comparable to the way that large vehicles alert you if you're about to back into something.
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If it is free, how do you sustain your company?

How can I, as a business which integrates with you solution, be sure you are around in 6 months? Why should I spend my time on integrating with that?
My favorite time-related false beliefs are about time zones:

1. 1AM happens 24 times a day

2. Ok, so 1A is screwed up because of DST. Noon happens 24 times a day.

3. The maximum distance between time zones is 24 hrs

4. Time zones are in 1hr increments

5. In half hour increments?

6. UTC offset is a good thing to store in someone's profile

7. People live in a fixed number of UTC offsets
No, it is scanned locally
Context switching is more efficient due to less context.
No, no, no and no.

If you need to meet with 100 investors to raise money you are promoting a shitty deal and you shouldn't be investing your personal time in it.

Conversely, if 500 startups routinely invests in companies where 90+ other investors already said no, you gotta worry about 500 startups.

> So, I made up a rule of thumb: 5-100-500. Over 5 weeks, meet with 100 investors to close $500k in your seed round. If you want to close $1m, double all of these numbers.
Sure is a problem when you are writing a system for processing stocks, not really if you are making a calendar app or ecommerce website.

I guess what I mean is that things like that are a nice piece of trivia, little fun facts, but nothing to be concerned of for most of us.
No, it's just plain goto, to a named label which is (for this case) later in the function.

It's quite common in low-level code where you want to do a bunch of things that can all fail, and you need to rewind and undo the things that succeeded up to the point of failure.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13001067/why-do-some-kern... and https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle (chapter 7 but that's raw text so I can't link).
Practically... no one would really use this.

Anyone wanting a scheduler on a microcontroller based system would not want the baggage of a linux-level general purpose OS. You use a simple scheduler such as FreeRTOS/RTX/etc.

These days the only systems without full MMUs are microcontroller-based ones for which this is not appropriate. No embedded system is going to be dynamically-loading applications like this, its all bare-metal, all built into the one image.

No-MMU linux did have a use back when say the 68000 based lines were still in wide use, but these days all I can think of is for user-space linux where everything is simulated in a single process under a full general-purpose OS.
>but now Uber solves real problems such as mobilizing senior citizens that don't have a license or reducing drunk driving.

Taxis existed before Uber.
The lead map also appears to depict the Presidio and the Golden Gate Bridge as occupied. (By the creative and working classes, respectively.)

Weirdly, they managed to carve out gaps for several other parks, so it's not like they didn't support unpopulated areas...
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I would first ask: how are they being biased? Could you give examples?
Complex rating systems do not work. Even meta tagging on porn sites doesn't work properly for that and they have the most avid searchers.

It would be better as a baseline to use the forum's memory as a filter for each user instead of coming up with an objective standard for what is novel or complex to them.

I also believe we can extend this forum memory concept by some kind of generation of valid information (a sort of autotldr bot) to be inserted into newbie threads. This bot could then be rewarded by users if it gets a 'hit' because you're right at the point where somebody was helped out so you could suggest a small payment of $0.10 or something. That would be a nice way to scale the forum to large numbers of users and you could also reward the sources of the original information so those users get credit for their aid.
They probably pay their taxes as well.
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So basically like programming for AmigaOS 3.x?
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Commonly there is no water fountain.
That the clock always moves forward.

As one example, some clocks are cpu specific (rather than system specific). When a thread gets scheduled to a different cpu, it might be talking to a different clock, and getting a backwards time.

The user might also be changing the clock while the program is running, of course.

If the forward direction of time is important, make sure the the source of time is a monotonic clock API.
In Denmark. The percentage of people here wearing helmets seems to be dropping again after having been on the rise for the past few years (based on my anecdotal evidence of biking around copenhagen), but it's still relatively rare. I know at least 3 people who had simple accidents while not wearing helmets and while they did not die they suffered severe concussions that take years to fully recover from (if ever). One guy was unable to work for close to a year, and still 3 years later suffer frequent intense headaches. You don't have to die in an accident in order for it to be something you really should try to avoid.
I'm not quite sure I understand. Do Americans not look at what's coming from behind them before opening a slab of metal and glass a meter out the side of their cars?

Kind of reminds me of when I first moved to Thailand. My (now) mother-in-law asked her daughter why I kept looking over my shoulder when driving her car, and why/if I couldn't use the side mirrors. She had literally never heard of nor understood the concept of a blind spot.
Pi3 + screen + 20ah lipo + mic + speaker + usb 4g modem (removable)

and linfone or equivelent.

Just need a 3d printer so i can print the case.
A bit of a brick. but a quite the "swiss army knife" of comms.

I also dont know how many people are aware just how sensitive the mic is on modern phones. I wrote a little app that turns android phones into bugs (broadcasts sound from the mic over wifi) a few years ago. It can pick up a whisper from 40m away, while when using it as a phone there is never any background noise.
This is certainly not the first such case and it's unlikely to be the last. I recall Sony having numerous recalls related to similar issues.

It's the nature of dense energy storage media to run into problems if the energy is allowed to be released too quickly, but the characteristics of Li-ion do make it more conducive to cause these type of incidents. Battery university has a nice explanation of the typical causes here:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/safety_concerns_w...

Also, "Charge and Catch Fire: A History of Exploding Batteries and Other Product Recalls":

https://www.thestreet.com/slideshow/13728952/1/samsung-s-bat...
No one using a microcontroller-based system would be wanting dynamic loading, etc.

This is purely a curiosity-satisfying project it seems.
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This is a very interesting video by Computerphile on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
> So what? I did not say that you specifically could only get jobs through
> networking, I said it is the predominant method of hiring.

And I said your "proof" only seems to apply to the US.

> I have a bunch of anecdotes in this thread,

You are a funny chap, unfortunately a little on the ridiculous side without seeming to notice it yourself.
How do these and other variants compare to simple Hill Climbing with random restarts, because I feel that gradient descent, simulated annealling etc are just local searches within the local search space.
Yeah, same thing I was thinking. Being exact in time can drive you crazy. Don't run yourself in the ground.
Maybe add an option to view content with standard pagination?
eh, depending on the car, often times a blind spot is just due to someone failing to adjust their mirrors properly. if you actually do it right, you should not have a blind spot. if you can see your own car in your side view mirrors, you've adjusted them wrong. if they are adjusted correctly, cars approaching on either side of your vehicle will pass from the rear view, to the side mirror, into your peripheral vision with no gap of visibility.
Gosh, your username really instills confidence that you'll think about this reasonably.

In the 70s the people of Amsterdam decided exactly that: cars were too dangerous and cycling infrastructure should be prioritized. It's worked out exceptionally well.

http://www.iamsterdam.com/en/visiting/plan-your-trip/getting...

>I'm usually forced to change lanes on short notice, which is dangerous.

Slowing down and waiting for a safe opportunity to pass is usually a better option than making abrupt and dangerous lane changes.
> for example you can map all the example in the parent article to SQL pretty easily

How would you map the map coloring example? You can model the color table and the neighbor table in SQL, but that's just the data model. What Prolog also gives you is backtracking search. Is there a good way to do that in SQL? I guess it would work by computing the Cartesian product of states and colors and trying a select on that...

> You specify a world as a set of tuples and determine whether one set of relations determines another set of relations. That lets you do essentially what prolog can do

Datalog, maybe, if you have the search mentioned above. Not Prolog, though: Prolog has terms with free variables and unification. Those have no simple "database" interpretation.

The featured article only shows off a small (non-recursive, negation-free) fragment of a Datalog-like language, which itself is only a small (function-free) fragment of Prolog. You can't make broad claims about Prolog from this small set of examples.
It's the exact reason the US still doesn't use the metric system.

The Homer Simpson of excuses, if you will:

"Trying is the first step to failure"
Operators, yes – they can get typical compensation. But a non-profit founder doesn't get anything.
I see the point you're trying to make; the authorities apparently accept a risk in terms of expensive equipment produced by corporations with strong lobbying funds, but decline that risk in terms of bottled liquids.

One fact that is overlooked is that there is actually a limit on the lithium-equivalent permitted per passenger just like there is a liquid-volume limit.

Last time I checked, the total maximum carry-on lithium-equivalent was 25 grammes which was about four smartphone batteries or two-dozen AA cells. Now as to whether that's an acceptable risk is for someone else more knowlegeable to evaluate.
I see your rant here, and I say this to all our developers who do not want to go mainstream.

You write your own code, very performance driven, fine with that. That doesn't really work well in a team. Hire new people, tell them "yeah, learn our codebase of 100k lines. No, we don't really have any real documentation. Yeah, there is some sort of coding style here, but its merely performance driven and adapted as we go along."

Compare that to: "Hiring react/angular/famousframework-developer." Measureable knowledge. Streamlined. Replicable HR.

Frameworks have many upsides and some downsides. One of the downsides is mostly performance. For me the upsides outweight the downsides by far - so far. If you have very simple and basic things to write (ToDo List) it doesn't make much sense to use React or full blown Angular.

If you, on the other hand, write apps that require routing, auth, services, etc. you'd be happy to have this level of abstraction to _not_ have the ultimate complexity chaos of writing your own vanilla language.

In addition you get a huge community around all frameworks.

My rant against framework rants!
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You've described why you're an unskilled car driver, which just makes me think that car drivers need better training.
There are situations in which it is not acceptable to make a "loud crash", e.g., while a plane is flying.

There was a quote by a nasa engineer that an incorrect action is better than no action at all, but I cant find it at the moment.
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When I was in primary school and maybe high school I remember not wanting to wear a helmet because it looked silly. As a adult I think it would be a lot more silly to loose my life, health, ability to focus or to walk just because I didn't want to look silly. I'm not saying you are wrong, but that all people you know are. Besides the helmets these days really do look better, the producers have moved on from a purely utilitarian focus to actually having someone think about the visual aspect as well.
That's a completely different situation than the average Dutch cyclist faces. First, there are no hills to be seen, so not that easy to pick up speed. Especially on a city bike which is 99% of the fleet. It's unusual to even reach 20km/h. People carry their shopping, kids, furniture and pets in them. They cycle in whatever they are wearing - suits, skirts, jeans, whatever; the fact you can just hop on a bike without having to gear up makes it much more attractive to everyday life.

There was also this study from a university in Utrecht showing that [in the Netherlands] cyclists wearing helmets are more careless and cause more accidents, nullifying any safety benefit...
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I use Hugo for a Deep learning blog I just started writing (http://navinpai.github.io/ga) as a self reference.

The main reasons I like hugo:

- The single binary (which others have mentioned)

- The theme support (Somehow, Hugo themes are well designed as opposed to Pelican themes which seem more thrown together)

- The folder structuring is very intuitive

All in all would definitely recommend
Don't know about the American thing but what I do know is that while in Europe they teach us to turn our heads and bodies when driving, the modern world caught up with blindspotless mirrors and teach you to use them. It's much safer as people tended to turn their hands together with their bodies, effectively steering a car to the left when looking out the left window.
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As someone outside the US, I first associated "US carriers" with US Aircraft Carriers. I thought this was about the navy banning Note 7 aboard the carriers, before sales and replacement brought me back to thinking this is about mobile carriers. In India we just call them mobile networks :)

NLP and AI is tough, no wonder.
Novice here. How would you go about testing the integrity and ability to restore from the backup as part of an automated backup/restore pipeline?
There is another benefit to the "Dutch reach" not mentioned in the article: if a sudden gust of wind catches your door it will be easier to hold with your right arm. (They taught me this when I got my license)
I'm not talking about Dutchland, I'm talking about where I ride. :)
It seems quite inconvenient to use.

One of the posts is just a raspberri pi picture. You have to go to the "source" to get what it's actually about. The whole idea of pinterest and co is that you can browse lots of content just by swiping, not by having to click through on each one.

Maybe add a link to the source on the Cards themselves, saving a useless page load, or expand inline somehow?
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Because 'slamming on the brakes' is not an option for older cyclists, slamming on the brakes (especially on a wet road) is a small step away from falling for an older cyclist. They can however coast to a stop while braking. They can't swerve either and they can be forgetful (forget to indicate, forget to look around them). And still they are perfectly valid cyclists and should not have to worry about arriving in one piece (or at all) because they are a little bit older.

Cyclists are perfectly safe on their own, it's up to the rest of the traffic to keep them safe and treat them as if they're made of glass.
> but there was a lot of low-hanging fruit in photolithographic precision, there for us to pluck, and pluck, and pluck, year after year.

As i grow older i find myself recognizing similar trends in a number of fields. You have a initial slow takeoff period where basic science has to be figured out. Then you have a steep climb as that science unlocks a bunch of iterative refinements on the concept. And then you find yourself at a plateau as new iterations become expensive and complex.
I use this one:
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Hardware is a thing too. I post that from my work station. Bad cheap laptop, one really small and 12 years old monitor... Yeah that company is shitty.

You really can't get how important that list is before working for a 0/12 company. Really.
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Have you been to the Netherlands before and seen how effective and safe the cycling infra is even without people wearing helmets?
Nesterov's method attains super-linear convergence on Convex functions. They don't really (if I remember right) work otherwise; but then this is okay, since Convex problems are really the only ones we can solve in poly-time (esp. if P/=NP and UGC is true).

SA/RR are global optimization methods which come with very little (if any?) complexity guarantees.
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"Every 1800 RPM generator has to make 30 extra turns."

I'm having trouble wrapping my my head around this one. If the goal is maintaining a steady output, shouldn't they keep revolving at the same rate, without worrying about what day the "current" second (no pun intended) belongs to? After all, I'm assuming they don't "catch up" after leap days, they just run for an extra day at the same output level. Why would leap seconds be different?

Put another way, what do they need to spread those extra 30 turns over a 4 hour catch up period? Weren't they given an extra second in which to take care of them?
I've read about this supposed "solution" and the greatest thing I took away was that it trades side-of-car blind spots (which I can resolve by turning my head) for rear-of-car blind spots, which I can do nothing about, as my head doesn't rotate 180º.
well even on hardware.
on my daily base I use a macbook pro late 2013. however we also built a workstation from ebay components. the workstation is as fast/faster than any computer you can buy at the moment, however money wasn't the problem, more the resources to get everything, resources would be the correct word, not money. not every resource is buyable.

and some stuff on the list also only applies to bigger companies.
The key stuff is from this project (not mine) https://github.com/ryansb/hugo-lambda

I couldn't get to CloudFormation template deploy working, so set it all up by hand, using the scripts in that repo as a base.

Once you figure out how it works, it becomes easy to start adding other commends to run (for example, I added some lines to invalidate CloudFront when I uploaded a blog post).

If I get a change over the next week or so I'll update a repo with the scripts I use, but as I said it's based on the above anyway.
See my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12675780
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That is simply not true, the helmet will be the first part of you head that touch the ground in almost any fall. Especially if you are using one of the more covering "skate" helmets. If you get hit by a car head on the helmet will also most likely be the first part of you head to hit the car. I would reverse your statement and say the helmet will only not protect your head if you fall at a horisontal, actually upwards pointing, direction.
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> the modern world caught up with blind spotless mirrors

How modern are you talking? I've seen some very new cars (I think in a trip to California once, driving an SUV thing that almost needed two lanes to itself) with slightly odd mirrors - perhaps slightly concave or convex? I don't remember, but it had more view, and I vaguely remember the 'image' being distorted slightly though?

Besides that, no car I've driven has had that feature, and I've owned cars from VW, Honda and Toyota all built from 2005 onwards.
If you live in Amsterdam you'd be hard pressed to find more than one scooter a month that's going under 25km/h.

Amsterdam is also pushing very hard to get an exception to be able to force them onto the street though.
I switched from Jekyll -> own rolled Node.js generator -> Hugo.

For me it is better because of simplicity and speed. I use it to power a 400 page blog (https://shapeshed.com/) with this source code (https://github.com/shapeshed/shapeshed.com).

I used Jekyll in a small organisation and it meant everyone needed a working Ruby environment This caused much pain across platforms. Hugo ships a single binary for multiple platforms so setup is far simpler. It is also amazingly fast and there have been major performance improvements in 0.17 too (https://gohugo.io/meta/release-notes/).

I love it!