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The Wayfarers books The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and A Closed and Common Orbit were quite good. Fantastic world building and characters, although the plots seem to meander about with not too much purpose.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/170872-wayfarers

Recently ploughed through The Expanse series.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/56399-the-expanse

Dark Matter was a good read if you like parallel universes.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter

The Rho Agenda series was a surprisingly good read.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda

Quantum Night was something a bit different from Robert Sawyer.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734179-quantum-night

And Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard would probably have to be rated my favourite for the year.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667916-barsk
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"The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" by Jon Gertner is a fantastic book on this subject. I highly recommend it.
That's reasonable at a fund level, but when 50% of the firms have negative returns why do people use them?
"Smartphones and tablets have really lowered the barrier to entry for modern (high-tech) life."

This is true - however these devices have also completely taken away our computational freedom as well. In fact, I'd argue that computer literacy is more important than ever. The only thing that has changed is that now society suffers as a whole from computer illiteracy, instead of just the computer illiterate. They can still post cat photos on social media, but a growing segment of the population has no idea how any of this works, and is at the mercy of Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Zynga, etc.

As someone who grew up with computers and started making Doom maps when I was 8, and programming C++ on Linux when I was 14, I see this trend as an oncoming storm. Its as if we were replacing libraries with cable television. Computers (phones and tablets specifically) are transforming from a platform that enables us to do anything we want, to a sort of Disneyland marketplace where nothing exists unless there is money to be made, regardless of ethics.

I think its more important now than ever for people to understand how to identify and select legitimate software that doesn't have ulterior motives, and put together a system which serves no one but it's owner. I suppose this is exactly what TFA says is impossible, but damn is it important.
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we should measure value, that is all. and that's what agile is supposed to aim for, not developer comfort. these processes offer negative value (prohibitive costs of change and inability to execute in time which massively outweigh any perceived security). even a vaguely leaner organisation will eat their lunch.

and that error-proofing is entirely imaginary - they have added a ton of moving parts, handoffs, and manual processes and so will have way more screw ups than a small tight team practising continuous delivery, as anyone who has worked in such environments will know.
The problem is when the push back is not standardized. I've seen bad code go through with comments like "we can deal with these things in a later PR or two" but then other code gets flagged for "it fixes one problem but it could fix three other things too" which increases scope. An inconsistent standard is better than no standard but it's just as frustrating.
Bell Labs was special in that (a) they were building the largest system known to mankind at the time (an effort only rivaled by Manhattan snd Apollo projects) where they (b) couldn't use standard components but had to invent every piece by themselves, from the cables to amplifiers to satellites and lasers. Furthermore they were (c) very special in that they helped the government on certain projects like Manhattan, got a decades-long minopoly in return, and had to make their patent portfolio publicly available. In other words they were a semi-public organization with a very well-defined goal, that of building and optimizing the telephony system. Only when it became clear that a monopoly was no longer needed due to advances in technology did Bell lose its privileges, and with it Bell Labs started to wither.
It does seem to be a pattern that companies that have created monopolies tend to use their excess money to start showing behaviors of a public service. Namely the research departments of Xerox, IBM, Microsoft, Google and now facebook all come from current or former (quasi-)monopolies.
I wonder what the difference looks like in terms of the total system footprint.
It's easy for startups to be nimble because they have no legacy processes to maintain.

The startup may have 5 guys in a warehouse building their product, while the big company has 100 people on a $10M assembly line.

When the startup wants to scale by 20%, they work longer hours or add another worker. If they didn't plan properly and find that they don't have another workstation for that worker, they buy a table at OfficeDepot and there's their new workstation.

The assembly line might need an entire process flow redesign to add more workstations, plus a physical reconfiguration, software changes, etc.

If a developer just blindly adds a parameter that adds 10% to the workday without going through reviews and tests, he may find out from the physical plant engineers that they no longer have enough time to do preventative maintenance so they need to scheduled an outage to do deferred maintenance.

There's a reason why process exists in large companies, and it's not just for the sake of process.

That small startup might be able to usurp the large corporation, but the large company still has an advantage in throughput and/or efficiency. The corporation can promise Walmart that they'll have 100,000 units delivered by Dec 1st... to meet the same goal, the small startup might have to scale their workflow 100X, and they can't do that by scaling from 5 guys in a warehouse to 500 guys in a warehouse.
> And yet it didn't work out well for the company that funded it.

I get that point. We're all interested in building great and successful companies on here, so of course it's a bummer when there is success from one perspective, but the whole thing kinda doesn't work out overall.

But I also want to ask: As a society, don't we benefit so much from any advancements made in the open, through publicly shared research as well as the open source movement, that sometimes we would do well to just bask in the glory of those advancements and never mind what individual entities (financially, structurally) stuck around or not, profited or not, in the procuring of said advancements?

It's also very clear of course that it is beneficial to look at the past in a discerning way, learn from it, make it better now and in the future. Still, there's something about the thought in the paragraph above that I wanted to bring up.
$1.60 seems too steep sorry. I used few and settled for ship zoom which i had issues in communication but is really cheap for fulfillment : around $0.60
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Indeed, "Taking Over.." is a misleading, click-baity heading. "Resuming Abandoned..." would be a better title.
I really like the idea of approaching rapid development like writing an essay or a blog the first time. Just getting all the words out on the paper goes a long way; same thing goes for programming.
Can anyone explain the etymology of "witness table"?
I think this risk is a lot more prevalent early in your career or in the bay area.

I can't imagine this happening in the Houston market to someone with 6-7 year of experience.
Cool stuff - Peer has been working on this for a while, I think. He's a bright guy.

It'd be nice to see what's been built with it, and also get a better idea of what kind of hardware it runs on.
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That's not true - they don't lock global weights when updating, so if you have lots of cores and threads, asynchronous updates will result in very poor accuracy, making training useless.
No, graph planarity can be determined using Kuratowski's theorem, which essentially states that a graph is planar if and only if it doesn't contain K_{5} or K_{3, 3}.

I believe the planarity test algorithm has been improved, such that it can be done in O(n) using the edge addition method [1].

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/planarity-by-edge-addition/184406070
Terence Tao has written about his routines - https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/on-time-management...

I also found http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ has some pretty good suggestions.
The discussion does exist, although you'll need to use the "translate" options on some of the comments

https://www.facebook.com/groups/173510639329747/permalink/14...

I agree with your comment 100% and that's what I commented in that discussion as well.

Question is, with 3 things that conceptually serve almost the same purpose, why would you choose one over the other.

For example: Rails, Django, Meteor.
Manipulative use of a dead child as backstory to build character. Lack of science in general, merely spectacle and CGI. Overly emotional melodrama instead of a real story. Is that good enough for you?
My recent experience with LA Fitness, or City Sports, as they call them here in the SF Bay Area, have been similar to what the video describes. However, it was not as painful as I'd imagined it will be. I went to my account page and clicked on the Cancellation Form link (not necessary but recommended). After several screens I got a cancellation form for my account which I printed and mailed using USPS Certified Mail. After two business days I got an email stating that my account will be closed and when my access privileges will end.
No, Google has been signing power purchase agreements with renewable energy developers. The signed agreements are what developers need to build new solar and wind projects. It's new renewable demand driving new supply.
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Your third link doesn't work unless you come from http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgshp5.htm
such a great analogy and something I'm absolutely going to steal. I don't play guitar but compete in a sport. The people that do it will be stoked that you've accomplished an intermediate scale though to other people you're some scrub with no talent. The same people unimpressed people will be amazed when you play their favourite song or for the OP his business is earning millions with many employees unfortunately I don't think they'll ever see, understand or appreciate the work that goes into learning things.
I'd wager that it probably isn't. Too much variation in fabric, manufacturing, etc. might just make it impossible for hugely mass-produced clothing to have really low variability.

Sure, opening more stores might be very expensive, but it's a known cost and a goal that's known to be achievable.
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Except "power poses" do work. I experience a marked increase in my energy and confidence when taking a "power pose".

Moreover, the "power pose effect" is a subset of the general experience that posture changes mood. The opposite effect can also be observed. Try exaggeratedly slouching. It produces a near-immediate decrease in energy and confidence.

Perhaps hormone levels do not change, but the subjective difference is (for me at least) undeniable.

Take it for granted for a moment that posture affects mood. In that case, how do we interpret a failure to reproduce? Could it be a case that they were not testing exactly what they thought they were testing, but that the folk-knowledge of posture is still correct?
Of course! And a lot of people called motherfuckers do not fuck their mothers, and the ones that call them that are possible fucking mothers themselves. But I think the meanings of both "motherfucker" and "SJW" are broadly agreed upon.
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It's not a grey area, it's a dark pattern, and you're basically intentionally breaking Apple's app policies, and screwing your users over just to get more permissions than you would get if you followed the rules.

Fuck you.
I mostly agree with you. This has been an issue with multiple free DNS providers for many many years (and one I personally reported to DigialOcean years ago).

Unfortunately we now live in a world where control of DNS is proof of ownership. Look at the entire mess that is Domain Validated SSL certs and how CloudFlare has abused this to get certs for domains that have never pushed SSL traffic over their network.
>...it's amazing how happy we are to optimize for developer satisfaction over all other metrics (I'm looking at you, Agile).

Developer comfort is not a goal of agile; the goal of agile is always having the project in a known good state.

Any developer comfort is a side effect of the prerequisites for having the project always be in a known good state.
I'd be interested in seeing a list of how each of these was achieved, not achieved, kinda achieved, or other (based on a major misconception?).

For example, for the first series:

Aerial navigation: achieved, but not as convenient and ubiquitous as suggested

City Improvements up to date: not achieved, although it's possible to move individual homes and buildings at great expense, and you can buy deliberately-portable ones for certain uses

Shopping made easy — moving sidewalks: achieved, but not as convenient and ubiquitous as suggested

Summer excursions to the North Pole: marginally achieved, but not regularly commercially available; also, the image's notion of "North Pole" seems to be "inhabited Arctic regions" which are not, in fact, the North Pole

Concert and Opera at Home: achieved (and how!)

No more Droughts. Rainmaking machines at work: not achieved (unreliable and expensive rainmaking technology doesn't prevent droughts)

Dispensing with Bridge and ferry: marginally achieved, but not convenient or popular for most purposes; http://hydrobikes.com/ is really awesome but still expensive and most people don't have somewhere to store one, and other waterwalking apparatus is generally in the same boat (if you'll pardon the pun)

New uses for Roentgen rays: achieved (!!), though not all forms are routinely available for civilian law enforcement use

Roofed cities, fine weather insured: not achieved

Submarine Excursions: achieved, but much less convenient and ubiquitous than suggested

Cruisers evading an enemy: not achieved, but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW (on a much smaller scale)

It would be neat to see this kind of analysis for all of the other sets they've collected.
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Interesting, there was more ambiguity than I was initially aware of. From the article you've linked, it does sound plausible that Trump thought he was talking about illegal immigration (for at least the initial question, not sure about the follow up questions). However, as the article notes, further attempts to clarify his position later do not show him unequivocally distancing himself from it.

I think it's fair to say that we can't be totally certain what the intention of his administrations are; though this is trivially true in all cases, I never seriously questioned the possibility of such a thing with previous administrations. As I mentioned in another comment, failing to distance himself from such a comment when given the opportunity later does alarm me.

> Tell me what you think of Trumps reply wrt that last "Nazi Germany" question from NBC?

I read it as ducking the question. What do you make of it?
I've worked in two kinds of companies: Places where it's kind of a hassle to get code past a code review, and places where everyone's always having to put out fires all the time.

Of the two, I've had to unexpectedly work nights, weekends or even vacations at only one kind.

Guess which one I decided I'd rather work at.
This is what escalation is for - the job of a VP or Director of Engineering is to decide what is actually urgent and approve fast-tracking it, and what should actually follow process. Having an efficient escalation process is critical.
"The CTO mandated that we reformat the TPS reports by Friday. We'll add the change next week."
Those aren't web site design issues, they're truth-in-advertising and business practice issues, which apply to all forms of advertising and business.

I'm talking about technical and design issues, like requiring every web site in the EU to pop up a stupid banner while you're trying to read something that blocks the content just to say, "Hey! We use cookies! Got it?" Now imagine taking that to the next level, with pages of regulations saying where and how other form elements must be laid out on the screen. Imagine another banner popping up on every EU web site saying, "Hey! Here's the link to our privacy policy! Got it?" Then clicking that away stores a cookie, which pops up the cookie banner... All because some bureaucrat who doesn't even know what an HTTP cookie is wrote a regulation requiring everyone on the whole continent to acquiesce to the bureaucrat's ignorance so he can claim to be pro-consumer and privacy-conscious and get reelected.

You want more of that?
I understand your point if you're referring to government regulation. I don't think your argument makes sense if you're referring to "regulatory capture":

Regulatory capture is a form of government failure that occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

In the case of regulatory capture, you'd think regulation would most likely be reduced rather than impeded.
[msft] Fair points jsjohnst. I don't have a good solution for you. Perhaps the teacher can setup one Microsoft account (eg school.outlook.com) and multiple ppl can use it? (but that comes w issues too sadly).

Perhaps www.code.org is a better offering?
See also: https://wordpress.org/news/2016/12/vaughan/
In the early 80's I worked on a Jovial compiler and runtime libraries for the Mil Std 1750A processor (which was a spec delivered from several companies in hardware) used by the Airforce and also used on various NASA spacecraft, in my case we used it on the F16 Fighter. Fairly sophisticated for back then, an antique today.
Once this goes into effect, an easy and early move by the HN crowd would be a synopsis of how exactly to get your ISP to comply with this, and a draft letter that one could fill out and send.

I'm also interested in ways to sidestep this being overridden by every quiet EULA change. I expect the definition of "explicit" consent here to be a battleground.
Pauses for GC are per-actor for the Erlang VM, so indeed no stop-the-world, or if there is, it's a very low latency sync point where the GC to switches mode.

There are plenty of soft and hard real-time GCs though suitable for use with any GC'd language. For instance, the CHICKEN collector in [1] is an absurdly simple copying collector with an observed maximum pause time of 120 microseconds with average pauses of 1 microsecond.

Low-latency GC tends to sacrifice a little throughput though, which is why it's not more widely used. Relative to a standard concurrent MS, CHICKEN adds up to 30% in execution time, although the average seems to hover around 10-15%.

[1] ftp://ftp.inf.ufrgs.br/pub/geyer/PDP-Pos/Artigos/PDP-2011-2-TL1-artigos/PDP-2011-2-TL1-GT-A%20Study%20of%20Concurrent%20Real-Time%20Garbage%20Collectors.pdf
Limiting the scope can't be emphasized enough if you're married with kids.

I've failed to ship 6-7 side projects because of limits to my free time. The best side project I've successfully shipped, besides blogging, was limited to 2 "features" one of which I already had from a failed project.
Let's say that for a basket of 100 VC funds:

* 30 return 0.5X (i.e. half of the initial investment)

* 30 return 1X

* 25 return 3X

* 10 return 6X

* 4 return 10X

* 1 returns 20X

The fund class overall returns 2.4X, but the median fund is very underwhelming (investors just get their money back). The "average" fund return (2.4x) is also kind of underwhelming because that's so much worse than the top funds. However, if an investor either a) has broad exposure to multiple VC funds or b) has some insight that helps them pick out the top 20% or 40% of fund managers, then the asset class is a pretty good investment. I think a good evaluation metric for VC as an asset class would a combination of expected returns and variance, and how those two quantities compare to other assets like public stocks or bonds.
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For the company I work in the daytime for and the company I moonlight for, this has been the case in both situations. The looming nature of legacy code, especially with prohibitively work-expensive policies lead to much more than bad programmer effectiveness. It lead to lots of extra lead-time on deployments, heavily decreased morale, and when we lost our two rockstar-20/30-year developers, turnover exploded.

There's more to it more often than not than just policies and the amount of legacy code, but even when we had the most supportive of managers, morale was very low over it. I definitely think companies, as they age and go from startup to a firmly placed company, should really take stock of their code assets and policies and really make sure they're kept up-to-standard yearly, and really look at every policy and make sure it's absolutely needed. It's a lot easier than taking a 1 line project on a 9 year old piece of code and turning it from a half-day full-review to a 6 day haltingly slow process.
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I just meant that, in the context of this post, and given the poor history of corporate research turning into corporate profits, I can understand Apple's reluctance to fund blue sky research.

I do admire a company that contributes in that way, recognizing that it's a contribution to humanity rather than investment for future profits.
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Heya!

Thomas Huth, and myself are organizing the 2016 edition. We still have a couple of slots left, so don't hesitate to contact[1] if you have a cool disk image (or two) to contribute!

Edit: Check out the original announcement[2] by Thomas about disk image requirements.

[1] http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#contact

[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg039...