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Slack fucking sucks dick. All its developers should be hanged like Saddam Hussein himself. How can just a fucking chat app use so much goddamn memory and be such an unresponsive pile of satanic shit? Of course by being done in some pile of shit JS UI engine. These fuckers don't know the first thing about memory or how it works. I want to chop all their nuts off.
Planning to do that this week actually. Just have to make sure all the folks I know on Facebook have me email address and I'm good to go.

I am so sorry I ever joined that f*cking site.
Yes. But decimation, as far as I know, was something the Romans did to their own divisions for "unsatisfactory" services. But regarding Afghanistan, if you crucify a few thousand men, women and children every day for the smallest offence, resistance breaks fast.
> Maybe we, as a populace, believe that the data will save -American- lives?

I'm not trying to be snarky; I'm genuinely confused. Are you saying that UK citizens support surveillance, by and for the UK government, because it might aid the welfare of American citizens?
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I do this too and this is way more intuitive in my opinion, as you can easily see which entries of the resulting matrix are linear in which rows and columns. Also, you don't need to transform the matrices in a way that is impossible to do on paper.
You could also do that with my public statements, so I'm not sure if your comment very well demonstrates the threat imposed by privacy invasion.
It's undoubtable that surveillance is becoming harder now

I disagree, that's very doubtable. Modern law enforcement has access to an amount of information that exceeds that available in any other era in human history, by an order of magnitude, both in breadth and in depth. The surveillance programs revealed by Snowden and the remote sabotage of Iranian nuclear faclities are but two examples. Surveillance in the developed democratic countries we both (I assume) live in is broader and is done with less oversight than at any point in the 20th century, and not just on the Internet, either. In addition, while I don't want to go quite as far as to state that the trend is clearly upward, I'm also not convinced it's clearly downward; the recent law passed in the UK is evidence enough to discard that notion.

Even if we encrypted all our communication today, there are still weak points in our system that governments can and do exploit when a clear need arises. On the technical side, 0-day exploits are not cheap, but well within the budgets of the law enforcement agencies we depend on to protect us from real threats. And on the legal (and not so legal) side, Certificate authoritities can be compelled to hand over the keys required to compromise secure communications.

Finally, even if we're indeed "Going Dark", as the spokespeople of law enforcement agencies would have us believe, then that can only be true relative to the last decade. As far as I'm concerned, that's a return to the right balance, not a decline into an age of death and despair, where evildoers can commit crime at will, without fear of repercussion.
I had read all the horror stories online about google interviews before going into one.

My interview had the interviewer and I on the phone simple enough. She had glanced and really had only glanced at my resume and I assume just noticed I had worked at 'x' which was good enough for her mind of recruiting. She didn't even look at any projects I had worked on or have any questions aimed towards previous work.
I was good enough to her for the next stage of interviewing but I ended up wanting to just cut dealing with their interview shit out of my life at that point. Pathetic company that wants me to slave away memorizing from some book to pass an interview process that hires plebs that probably surf Facebook all day while attempting to hire college grads that may have interned at other tech companies.
they were more than "all-in"; they were levered 25*.
Kinda. Goggle, like every company, does what it does because it believes it has served it well.

Sure Google does TONS of cool stuff but very few things have been market successful. In short, Google makes a TON of money from ads. But it uses blindness and denial to view that as a cultural / company wide success. Take away ads and Google is just another fuckup struggling tech company.
Also, falling furni was fun as fuck and nothing anyone can say will change that.
First - I've never entered Google as a fresh grad, so I have no idea what the experience is like. More of my students have entered after their Ph.D. than after their B.S., so again, more bias. All but one of the fresh Ph.D.'s who went there are still there, and seem generally happy with the way their careers are going; one left after a few years for a startup.

But, to more directly address your question with the information I do have, there are a lot of things that make a job good or not good. When it comes to a lot of the other things - benefits/perks, ease of getting things done, low overhead, responsive management, good culture, smart colleagues - Google does very well.

w.r.t. the actual job spec and happiness - all I can say is that there's likely to be a bias in hearing from people who were dissatisfied. But, again, my colleague set is biased towards seniority and people who've chosen to stay, so either way, you're getting an uneven view. :)
If project sites were still mostly individually hosted using a wider variety of services and software, then a single outage wouldn't be a big deal.

Now, an outage at github would be difficult because you would not only have to get your stuff available again, but you might also have to track down a long list of dependencies that are also hosted at github.
Our whole civilization leap frogged forward with the invention of the Internet. Because it connected us humans mentally. We able to share thoughts and ideas and have conversations with anyone on a planet without physical movement. It is a mechanical telepathy if you think about.

What we are seeing with implementing such laws is a more larger trend. Mental world is being taken under control by Mr. Smiths, agents of the matrix. Our thoughts and self-expressions more than ever are under the surveillance.

What I don't know is whether it is a good or bad thing in general for the mankind, but they way our technology worshipping civilizations develops it seems to be unavoidable. It seems we are way too far in this to go back.
My two cents...

Why not start by investigating some religions first, in order to find those whose values, dogmas, rules, etc., align with your own set of values? I guess that it can be easier to make the "switch" if there are something to adopt as own, or to feel identified.

As example, I could use myself: I'm also an atheist, but, some years ago I was very interested in the mythology of the Scandinavian region (as, you know, there are some "revival movement" around the Heathen/Odinist religion — I can be wrong in the "labels", sorry in advance for that) and somehow I got into a group of people who were trying to follow those "religious beliefs", more important, I felt identified with most of the ideas of those beliefs... So, in resume, thanks for that feeling, I almost start to believe on such divinities (albeit not in the same sense of the Abrahamic religions)... But I guess that my lack of conviction on believe in such things is so hardwired that eventually I left that path and continued my life as an atheist.
Which makes me wonder: what would it take to match the capabilities of this setup with modern hardware?
Wow. I got downvoted for being straightforward and transparent?
This is sounding increasingly like the Monad situation, where everybody has their own incompatible approach for explaining it, and none of them make any sense.

I feel like I understand Matrices _less_ now than when I started reading around here.
The best quote was in one of the comments: "If Zuckerberg was an action figure, his spine would be sold separately."
This is why I find the Soylent movement so refreshing; the DIY stuff has never been marketed as quality or healthy, but competes with the industry on its own terms (volume and price), and beats them by a significant margin. So in some sense it's a more "honest" perspective on food.
It was meant as a strikethrough - I guess I fucked up the formatting. The "American" part was purely comedic.
You know that's not true. Come on, have you seen the community here? I've done so before with things like this and it hasn't mattered. Besides, a nothing but ideology link like this (and the above comment the demonstrates a self deluded echo chamber mentality) provide no basis for any real conversation because there's nothing there to discuss. Don't feel bad though, I couldn't give a shit about some online news aggregator karma score. I just couldn't let this article sit on the front page without a clear denouncement for being what it is.

Edit -

At the time, mine was the only comment.
Well at least you were able to contain your anger long enough to create a throwaway account.
How many of OP's taxi drivers were savvy university graduates in your opinion?

Censorship being soft and porous does not help - it keeps the outrage from bubbling over as the 5% of smart potential leaders who could give a voice to discontent will (a) work around the censors in ways that the 95% can't or don't bother [VPN etc] and their discontent has an outlet, and (b) these 2% can be kept in line by offering or refusing career opportunities based on compliance to the mainstream party line... [if you speak out against current policy, you won't get that professorship or that managerial role or your company returns will be tax audited in a way your corrupt competitors aren't]
I didn't say we need a new OS now, we need existing OSes to be a bit more open. Have you tried programming on an Android phone? I have, the experience is horrible. I used termux which is a full blown linux terminal. I installed python and wrote a few python script and later Go programs also. Wasn't able to get dependencies for Go programs because of root issue plus terrible experience with typing things on mobile. Maybe I didn't have the right tools.

I want all my OSes to be able to talk to each other, when I write code on my phone, I should be able to transfer it to my machine. There is a new project which aims to do this, mobile OS and PC OS are the same in it.
I think it's time for us to question the belief that everyone in the world can put aside their differences and share the same values.

If I had to guess, I'd say that most of the fear that underlies prediction of catastrophe is fear that we'll never get to that ideal world. Can we imagine a different future, where groups of people form their own local cultural norms and value sets, and we still manage to all live and thrive? I think it's important that we do because that may be the world that we live in.
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I'd like style guidance on these kind of tasks. One place got turned off that I put unit tests on a small toy problem.
That's true about Appalachia, and it's gonna need to change.
I did that roughly a year ago. My happiness level increased immediately.
Let's say that, as you say, his wife is now frustrated with every other color wheel that uses the standard behavior. She now feels that his program is distinctly better, at least in regard to color picker behavior than other programs that use what is now considered the standard. This is what I would call a competitive advantage.

If enough users feel the same way as his wife, his competitive advantage will be so much bigger.

This is why some programs are considered easier to use, or even "better" than others. It's the sum of these tiny little behavior differences that add up to a better user experience.

Over time, some of them end up being standard. This is evolution at work.
I was kind of imagining they told it exactly like that, as a joke, to see if it ended up in print without getting picked up by someone who knows what a computer is
he's stated in the past they generally fade direction. the strategy isn't scalable, so it's pretty obvious most of what they do is liquidity provision, market-making, and short term arbitrage.
How about the simulationist argument?

Atheist:

1) There is no god.

2) That means no supernatural woo, ghosts spirits, souls etc.

3) So everything you are comes from natural process happing in your brain.

4) This means that there is probably no fundamental reason the same processes couldn't be run in a computer. It might even be easy since it takes only a few watts in a few cubic inches and is duplicated billions of times by nature.

5) If it can be done it probably will be given time.

6) There can only be one "real" reality but an unlimited number of potential simulated realities.

7) So the overwhelming likelihood is that this reality is one of those simulations. A created thing. By something/someone greater.

Theist:
One additional selling point of ReSharper to me has been the embedded continuous learning enabled by it. Almost every time a new language feature is introduced, it is ReSharper that shows me how and when to use them, using suggestions in my existing codebase. I especially like how they are able to translate several nested foreachs and ifs into one line LINQ statement - and back again. This ability was instrumental for me to really become fluent in LINQ. This level of code analysis and refactoring is something we just don't see yet in Visual Studio.
Great comments. I agree, definitely need to add more context and detail around the curriculum and it's development. Thank you.
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And that cow is blocked and ignored by many millennials.
Never too late to learn one!
I like Vim for editing markdown (I write books on Leanpub, and use Deckset for my lecture presentations, so this is serious work). I'm still learning it but I enjoy learning how to customize it. My advice: google and implement one change at a time, rather than trying to add ten different features to your .vimrc all at once.

For coding Python, I prefer PyCharm from JetBrains. In time I may get Vim to do everything a real IDE does, but time is money and I can't wait.
Suck isn't bowing to censorship. He's bowing to profits. That is, ultimately, if he didn't need profits, he wouldn't have to deal with censorship.

Put another way, stop blaming censorship for what is really a fault of Capitalism.
That is the classic recent example of the phenomenon, right there. Seriously, if you don't usually read Twitter threads and you're interested at all in this HN story, you owe it to yourself to read that one.
This is why it's important for alternative companies to be started, ones that have ethics built in that won't bow to censorship.
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Hahaha! I am European also. Well... British, so European for now :-(

I think it depends on the office culture. Where holidays are booked months in advance, taking "sick days" for interview seems more normal.
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As mentioned, it already exists and it's not democratic and you can't complain about it or anything. Completely useless fascist censorship board.
This answers the question: http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-get-hired-as-tec...
I think you're spot on. A classic example of this:

The Jews didn't have anything to hide and lived in the open for many years prior to Hitler's rise to power... and then suddenly their innocent life was exactly what condemned them to their deaths...

So yeah, everyone has a responsibility to ensure their privacy. 99.9% of people aren't terrorists. Terrorists cause less death every year than heart disease. Why should the 99.9% of people give up privacy to fight a war caused only because of the "West"'s inability to negotiate fairly for access to foreign resources? Instead of raping and plundering other countries, installing puppet Governments and causing people to act with "an eye for an eye" or "I will rain what you rain down on us a thousandfold over."

It's a band-aid solution to a symptom of the underlying cancer that needs to be cured. They're using the war on terror as a land grab for more power and control. Realistically there should be no war on terror, for terrorism is only "an eye for an eye." If you want to stop it, someone has to be the bigger man and say "You know what, we're not doing this any more. This behaviour is bullshit and it ends now."

If you want peace, you've gotta live peacefully. You don't spread peace with bombs, guns, violence and invading everyone's privacy to maintain control. You spread peace and trust with acts of love and kindness.
As mentioned by others in the thread, deleting it would just make it possible for someone to take it over the open it again. Setting the community to private not only solves the issue, but it allows them to bring it back in its current state at any time if they wish to in the future.
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Is he not a huge crisis that humanity now faces? Racists, homophobes, white supremacists, and climate-change deniers running the whitehouse?
You should read the story of Cheng Ho.
Dial up lines are still available in some datacenters, had some both for services and for OOB access as recent as 2015 (San Jose)
I would be infuriated if I purchased a condo there. It seems like every month since last year, there are articles talking about the project. I haven't heard any solutions to the problem and I don't know anything about construction. Is this the type of problem that can be fixed, or will they have to destroy the building and rebuild it?
Why does it have to win? Maybe it's wrong on all counts?
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Me too. This is like seeing someone write legible English starting from the right hand side of the paper.

Not wrong, but discordant with my expectations.
It wasn't, but if you have a satellite, why not? :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/us/san-francisco-files-law...

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/9/16/12945600/why-millennium-tower...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/San-Francisco-Taxpayers...
Weird, I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13030881

I assume medium's #random at the end of the URL makes every HN post unique?
> " The easiest way to be disappointed is to expect others to act contrary to their self-interest."

This opening summarizes the entire sentiment.
FB and Zukerberg are not on your side and do not uphold any banner of morality.

I am going to have this quote framed and put up on a wall somewhere. For some reason, I suspect life and business will be easier if I remember it.
If that's true, that people really can't live in the same country as those with different skin colors, or accents or religions without blaming their problems on each other, then why wouldn't they just blame people in other countries?

Seems like blaming the foreigners that immigrate and blaming the foreigners that don't, go hand in hand.
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I've learnt from previous discussions on HN that it is indeed a major source of concern for everyone involved, especially since it's also tilting and since it's a seismic area. They build the sidewalks again a few times a year. The tower is quite new and the builders are probably liable. The use of the satellite is probably rather to highlight that the Millenium tower isn't the only one.
it boggles my mind that the developers were not required to sink the foundation piles all the way into bedrock. how unusual is this for tall buildings in the city by the bay? there is so much wealth in SF, this is a luxury tower, it's all a bit strange.
You probably know this already, but "label as a currency manipulator" doesn't mean calling the Chinese names, but refers to some provisions in the IMF and WTO.

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22658.pdf

You could of course claim that a formal dispute under the WTO would go nowhere, but you haven't yet done that.
See the very first video in Strang's MIT Linear Algebra course on YouTube.

There's two ways of seeing matrix multiplication (from a matrix POV, rather than as linear transformations).
For understanding the mechanics of matrix multiplication, I found it useful to think in an analogy consisting of a grid of two layers of pipes; One -- the input-pipes -- coming in one direction, and the other -- the output pipes -- laid in an orthogonal direction. Then there would be "taps" in the cross-sections between the input and output pipes, representing the numbers (multiplication factors, really) in the matrix. I illustrated this in this little drawing: http://imgur.com/gallery/gBs64

The point then is that the taps (again, representing the matrix values) determine how much of each item in the input vector, that should be mixed into each item in the output vector.

This analogy has the limitation that the taps are allowed to enhance the flow, not just limit it, like physical taps would. That is, outputting more than 100% of the input :P Also, while this way of illustrating it may make some sense for matrix * vector multiplication, matrix * matrix would probably become a prohibitively cluttered image.
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Bullet train technology could be used in our future buildings
And before Skype, actual phone calls! :)
You can also build your own power to some level, with solar and wind.
One fintech app to rule them all?
You don't. You use the profits from the transaction as capital that then eventually funds the operations of some third party, who then uses that capital to hire employees and to purchase services and materials.

Now, does it improve liquidity? Investopedia claims so, thus, making capital cheaper and making it (in theory) easier e.g. to hire new people.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/050515/l...

In itself it's not evil and actually beneficial. Lower transaction costs and more liquidity means there are more resources to go around. What people actually choose to do with the amassed capital is another thing then entirely.

Does it cure cancer? No. But blaming smart people from not trying to be a superman is stupid. Very, very few alone are that smart that they alone would make a huge difference.

It's hard to see why a career in finance would be less ethical all around than a career in some company that just harvests clicks.

Science currently, as a career choice, needs burning enthusiasm or it will burn people out - I see no reason to chide people for not choosing it.

As a fairly low-income engineer I find it hard to see any other reason than jealousy to bash people in finance in the general context.
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It will work on mobile but wasn't optimized.

The code is here:
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Sounds cool. But the website says the topic is "A Trump presidency will be good for America". Which is correct?
Indeed. AUI was a killer. We had a policy of turning it into 10base2 right away with an adaptor, then 10baseT when that became a thing.

I liked this era so much I used to skip dive all the kit that was chucked out. Had myself a nice stacked Sun 1000E as a desktop in 1999, until I got the electricity bill. Must have cost as much as a house when it was new.

Then I found HP/UX was horrid. Had a run in with some HP N-class systems with Oracle. Yeuch, and that turned me to open source.