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> I've never seen scientists burn out over failed experiments.

It's never a single failed experiment.

I can't think, off the top of my head, of a scientist that I've known professionally that I didn't see burn out at some point or another (besides the PIs). For those that I have been watching their experiments, it usually happens after a slew of experiments fail (anywhere from 1 month - 6 months worth). I've probably met about 75-ish scientists that I've watched burn out.* Of these, about 25 or so I have working knowledge of what they were doing around the time of burnout.

*one guy, after three successive failed projects that his PI gave to him, had a very characteristic pattern. He would come in really late (4pm or so), then play game boy tetris on a java applet for about 3-4 hours, then do a little bit of science, and come back and do more tetris. Some of the things he would do - using pipette tips in geometric patterns.

I mean it makes sense. These little achievements provide dopamine hits reinforcing self-worth after completion of a minor task.
Wouldn't be surprised if they did--they already use Unity as the default SDK for WiiU and the 3DS, so they're pretty keyed into that indie dev world now it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)
Small note, it's Dragon "Quest" X. I got really excited for a Dragon Age MMO for nothing.
I coulda told you that!
I agree, Upstart was great for most things and was simple to understand. Though I ran into some difficult fork, exec issues for certain processes. I sometimes had to run a wrapper to use upstart, but those seemed to be edge cases.

I'd prefer if we stuck with Upstart and improved on it, though it already seems like a distant dream.
> Also, it wasn't, technically, 'free' - a supercharger fee was charged either on purchase of the car or afterwards.

Not in the US, all Tesla vehicles ordered before January 15th of 2017 came with free supercharger access.
Your memory of Morrowind is way off. It's fairly common to remember games as looking far better than they did. This looks competitive with games that came out just a couple of years ago on the latest generation of consoles.
How do you figure that?

1) VCs own hardly any shared of Twitter[1]

2) Stock grants are used as compensation for people working at Twitter, NOT something that benefits investors (except in the sense people are working at the company the investors invested in I guess).

It's easy to blame VCs for everything, but I don't see how this makes any sense at all in this case.

[1] http://www.recode.net/2016/8/11/12417064/twitter-stock-owner...
>The point was that it's a leaky abstraction composed of half implemented concepts that devs have to add to their brain.

As opposed to a multitude of implementations of varying quality and functionality for the same concept in each init script that needs it?.
Yeah, in the memory card more precisely, not so pretty, but the idea was there.
Thunderbird addons provide exchange support: mail, calendar, GAL
Avoiding the popularity contest
Phase 3 certainly does test safety. It's a bigger trial and safety signals often pop up that didn't in phase 2.

Torceptipib is a great example. Phase 2 looked great; phase 3 was stopped due to an increase in deaths.
Is it fair to dismiss them for something that old? This is a thread about C++17, and Microsoft has shown themselves to be a great participant in pushing modern C++ forward and encouraging adoption; see: GoingNative, cppcon.
You know you can eliminate the ads for $3 a month, right? It's pretty cheap compared to the other streaming services.
I'm still waiting for them to support Firefox and Linux. Their support says they are working on it, but I am positive that is a lie. At least I can work around it by masking my user-agent string as Chrome (DRM needs to be enabled).
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yeah, true.
Do you want to be a game developer or an AI expert? I would suspect that the things you should do are going to be quite different.

Also, what do you mean by "at par"? Status? Money? Knowledge? Expertise in a given area, and if so, what?
I wonder what their plans for the 3DS will be given how the Switch is also portable.
They shut it down? I thought I remember reading something about Nintendo saying that the Switch wasn't meant to replace the Wii U or the 3DS. I took that to mean that it would run in parallel.
I couldn't agree more. Over the years I have become less and less interested in games as they have become more and more realistic graphically.

The games I still enjoy playing have poor low resolution graphics, but they're challenging and fun.

This is one of the things I respect so much about Nintendo; they haven't given in to pressure to make everything realistic. They keep their focus on the game play and allow players to use their imagination when it comes to graphics.
I would say it was the original Famicom or NES, which came hot on the heels of Nintendo's first hit electronic games, Game & Watch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch

The NES was a phenomenal breakthrough, a paradigm shift.

Which is not to discredit Game & Watch, which brought Nintendo forward from an era of making playing cards. I had several clones as a kid.
Most of my undergrad friends are really torn between academia and industry. And since I'm in my sophomore year, I feel it's too early to make the right call.
Anyways, I do need to decide sooner or later.
There's VSCO, Fluid, Roofstock, LaunchDarkly, and Uber coming soon. There's probably a few more great companies that I'm forgetting.
You have already mentioned the top one for me: passion.

Colleges rarely teach you what you need to know professionally - they can't, tech moves too fast. Instead, they teach you how to learn what you need to know. This is an important distinction because it should inform your approach to your professional growth.

1. Stay passionate both about software and your own growth/education in it.

2. Start some personal projects and, important, work on them until they reach a place where you can talk about what you learned, the techs you used and be able to at least show a page or two of it working.

3. Be forthcoming in interviews about your desire to create. The longer i am in software the more importance i put on hiring creative people.

Finally, think of software development as modern day blacksmithing. Those who do well have a few things in common: passion, persistence and a great set of artisans (mentors) to learn under. Prioritize finding some people who have compelling opinions on software development and work with them. It will change how you build software and the value you will bring to teams in the future.
Yes, I had those little bricks as well. They were quirky but cool.
Not inherently, but renewables generally have high cap-ex but low op-ex. Therefore highly depends on your entry price (this year's solar panels are cheaper than last year's).

Seems like solar is at 3c/kWh (production cost before transportation) in certain regions now http://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-prices-plunge-to-new-lows-a...
BI doesn't do much for its credibility when immediately below this article is:

"NOW WATCH: Forget the iPhone 7 — here are 11 reasons the next iPhone will blow everyone away"
C++ library wrap 7zip
My state allows for a per-kW, at-cost fuel rate in addition to the controlled base rate. So definitely not true everywhere.
I would be nice if people realized how actually MSVC and Intel Studio are in regards to other commercial vendors.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support

And the embedded ones like TI are even behind those.
The problem is that every issue that is escalated costs more money to resolve, so there is pressure from managers to make sure that the number of escalated calls is minimal. The reality is that this is a horrible metric to go by. The issue that a caller wants resolved it what dictates the level of support that they need, and the company really has no control over the volume of calls that require more than tier 1 support (other than building a decent product, I guess).
I call this to drop into an immediate repl at the point of invocation in a language that doesn't hate me (Ruby):

require 'pry'; binding.pry

This is, in fact, 2017. One might call it the current year. The stone knives and bearskins of shell scripting have not kept apace with, like...anything else in our industry. You might be comfortable with them, but that doesn't make it easy, it means you have frayed countless synapses learning it.
To be fair, "very low" is like 220 mi/hr compared to standard 360 mi/hr based on my experience.

They do have a disclaimer on charging rate: "Charging from 10% to 80% is quick and typically provides ample range to travel between most Superchargers. Charging from 80% to 100% doubles the charge time because the car must reduce current to top off cells. Actual charge times may vary."

https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
The issue is that he wants Nintendo to engage in pointless SJWish virtue-signaling, and is disappointed they didn't take the opportunity to do so.

The fact that they didn't do this makes me much more inclined to buy a Nintendo Switch!
Well, yeah but that's handheld vs console, etc. Then we'd get into even sillier comparisons of nintendo card games vs mechanical games vs electronic games. In the console space, SNES->N64 seems like the bigger jump qualitative jump to me. You can do 3d, vs you can't.
Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says
Though I have an interest in games and AI / ML, I would still consider being a good software engineer first. I'm aiming for a strong foundation and expertise in one field: AI or anything related. Being a fresher, I believe I won't get to work straight at these.

And by "at par", I meant the same opportunities that a top school student gets.
Make $1. Then you'll just need to make $999,999. To make $999,999, make $1 and then make $999,998. And so on.
Exactly. I've watched him on stream be first in nintendo store for multiple releases :)
I'm confused, what's happening in 9 (or 8, now) hours? I haven't watched the entire video yet but the release date isn't until March 3, yes?
Power doesn't matter. Phones get slower with each passing year as more bloat is added OTA. Consoles get faster as new games exploit more and more of the power available at launch. The experience has almost always been better on consoles, and not the most powerful ones.

If it were about power we would wax nostalgic about the NeoGeo, TurboGrafx 16, and Atari Jaguar.
Hardware Is Hard: Some Lessons
How Muhurat Time App Reached to 50,000 User? – EngineerBabu
They also said the 3DS would be a "third pillar" and not replace the gameboy. Just hedging their bets in case it flops.
The trials were completed. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13347086
Sure, but... We have clients hiring individuals looking only at cmu and see an online ms tangentially related to analytics then they associate that with cmus world class ml program and then touting them in our faces as the latest and greatest in machine learning. When we interview folks from the same program they don't make it past our first round because they don't know technique or programming
Funnily enough, just dealt with a bug caused by this at work. The small PC would boot before the cellular modem had an Internet connection. Services that communicate via MQTT would immediately attempt to reach the broker, and throw an exception. My quick fix was just to add "RestartSec=5" so that the faulted state would never be entered.
Its inbound through content. Works well for various markets but its not for everyone.
Same for gnome shell. I also prefer this way a lot
I'm following the first two points earnestly and I'll start with the third one as well.

And the mentor aspect is what I'm missing right now. So, I have planned to contribute to open source and/or apply to GSOC '17.

Any other ideas how to find suitable mentors?
This is one of the big problems App.net always had, in that it wasn't at all intended to be a "Twitter alternative". Alpha was supposed to be an example of what could be built on the platform, not the entire product itself.
There is no "best," but you mention AI in two of your three questions, which I think answers the third.
I'd like one :)
That is a nightmare fuel comment-- are people's valid C++11 codebases going to execute in materially different ways when someone flips the std flag to c++14?
Do you guys remember privacy? Yea that was nice.
I am pretty sure i got a win7 driver working without any further issues. I could be wrong tho
You would be tying up a $100,000 depreciating asset to mine bitcoin for a few weeks or months until you are discovered. You could make more money by not buying the car.
Counterpoint: cassettes are between CDs and Vinyls for portability and durability. You can leave them rolling around in your glovebox for eons and still have them play decent music, better than a radio station.

They also degrade in a way that is more pleasing to my ear than a vinyl or a CD. A scratched CD is unplayable, a damaged vinyl sounds bad. But the sound of a distorted tape has a unique sound I find pleasing.
The Saturn 3D pad also had analog triggers. Not sure if anything actually used then though.
Why was it shelved?
I get the SJW overtones of his comments, I'm just trying to wrap my head around the logic behind them.

He'd prefer girls beating up guys, or robots beating up robots. Basically, every combination of beating up is okay, except male on female? What?
The SNES lasted a while in the market, and—almost uniquely among consoles—it ramped up in power over its lifetime by putting coprocessors like the SuperFX into game carts. By the end of its lifetime, the "system" of the SNES + a cart like Starfox, was much closer to the N64 than the base SNES, making the N64 much less of a shift than it seemed.

Interestingly, if you think of the PSX as descending from the SNES architecturally, it's nearly identical to the end-state of "SNES + SuperFX GSU-1", but with the one added feature of DMA-streamed block IO from the CD device. (Thus why the FF7 demo on the N64 used polygonal backgrounds, while on the PSX you get pre-rendered backgrounds. Each version plays to its console's strength. Makes you wonder what would have been possible in an alternate world where the N64 had a CD drive as well as its better polygon-pushing abilities.)

This also means that the PSX->PS2 likely represents the largest single-generation leap in power of any console: it was a catch-up from "basically a SNES" to modern-for-the-time hardware, representing a literal 10x jump in CPU and GPU power.
Damn. I'm a second gen Indian and this makes total sense. I may do an experiment and go with a western name just to see what happens. But then I'm reminded of all the other Asians who do that and think isn't it a little odd for an Asian to be named Winston Chang and more normal for something like wu Xi or something. Or maybe that's too nomenclature-normative and we should be more agnostic to the orientation of someone's chosen name
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
But we do need more things to do while waiting for compilation to finish. In addition to making sandwiches, seeing movies, building pyramids, etc., I mean.
Some time ago, a study was done to investigate basically the effect of the munchies on blood sugars. The study was years ago IIRC. Ironically, the MJ smoking (or was it eating?) crowd had better controlled blood sugars. The suggestion was that something about the MJ controlled sugar spikes making the users less prone to the diabetes.

I'll try to find the study.

Edit: Here's reference to the study I recalled...
http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/21/marijuana-the-next-dia...
Funny. Just saw a medium article where some talking head from Pandora was giving patronizing advice about how to fire people.
(This is the submitted article, not the pre-print that circulated some months ago; dunno of any changes)
Next time you go to the dentist, try to ask the person taking the x-rays what radiation setting they used or how much radiations you will be getting from the x-rays... in my experience, they don't know... Also ask them why they cover your torso with lead but not your brain...

Also, I think that you confused some units and you forgot to include link #2 ...
I dont think the lye itself is supposed to circulate in the floor/radiators. There would be a heat exchanger.
The inflation-adjusted price of a Model T in 1930 would be about $4000 2008 dollars, but the per capita income was only about $7000. (A big reason the Model Ts seems so cheap is because labour costs were comparatively low - but so were incomes.) Now, US per capita income is nearly $40 000, and a Honda Civic has an MSRP of about $20 000 new. So the average person is not really working more, but they're getting much more. Most modern goods really are vastly better.

And for an extra three days of leisure a week, you'd be giving up not just driving on the highway, but indeed a whole load of things.

Again - for most things, nobody is making you consume these additional goods and services above the 1930 average. But, as we can see, they're quite popular and people apparently prefer to work more and consume more rather than work less and consume less.
> As an example, if I setup a bunch of bit-coin miners in the trunk

It costs about ten bucks to fully recharge a Tesla and about one hour of time. You might break even if you earn minimum wage? But then, how did you afford a Tesla to begin with?

Even if we assume you use your time productively while charging ... it all seems a bit silly for ten bucks?
I'm not too annoyed to quickly jump through their useless hoops to get to the next step if I have to, but I find it super hard to cope with the accent.

I'm in Australia and I've noticed more of them being Filipino which I find just slightly less difficult to understand than Indian, but still difficult and irritating.

But I agree, it's such a relief if you win the lottery and get a native English speaker, things always seem to move along so much quicker.
I'd be very curious to hear the kind of questions this raises about the app economy. Do you mean mobile apps? All software?

App.net was neither. It tried to be a platform for too many things for not enough people. So I can't see how its failure reflects on the economy and not just a bad idea.
Google wants to make encryption easier for everyone
Consumer Reports now recommends the MacBook Pro after a software fix
I don't know what it's like there, but I would get involved in research with a professor if possible. Doing so had a really positive impact on my undergrad experience, and will inform if you want to stay in academia or not.
My opinionated version is that you should bail out on games and focus on AI/ML, then try to get into the best grad school you can and get really good at difficult things that other people can't do (even better, things that they can't do and don't want to do). Games fail that test because too many people want to work on them.

Becoming a good software engineer seems to come from working with people with good taste (on real projects). In my experience I haven't met anyone who learned to be a good SE from university (it may be possible, but I doubt it would happen at a mediocre university).
Mixing Geographic and Temporal Data in R
> Now agreed, if your workflow demands that you embed a Bash while loop in a unit, you’re already in a bad place, but there are times where this is required for templating purposes.

It's right there in the post. I have indeed had to do something like this in the wild to run a Docker container with special needs.
You're right! So sorry for getting your hopes up.
The underlying content was good, and they did well with the Zelda launch date announcement, but to praise the whole presentation as masterful, I'm not so sure. It was extremely awkward throughout.
College is a good place to try things out before diving into them. But I have found no passionate profs in my college and getting a research internship under a good prof is a task in itself.
assuming that you aren't trolling with this....

> Why is tobacco demonized

Because Tobacco smoke is made up of more than 7,000 chemicals, including over 70 known to cause cancer (carcinogens).

Source: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/carc...
Maybe 'closer' but still 'ridiculously far'. You weren't going to coprocessor your way to a Mario 64.
So you can Switch your tabs back and forth while trying to spot the difference.
[Gentoo] Nginx Exploit Root PrivEsc Vulnerability CVE-2016-1247
FIFA looked so promising. I can't remember what bullshit political reason kept Madden off of the PS Vita, but that's why I sold mine.

Very much looking forward to the switch.
Uber is also moving into the old Sears building that's a few blocks from Pandora's offices
Tetris gets into this too. The official modern Tetris rules (known as the Tetris Guideline) reportedly specify the use of a shuffle bag [1] to avoid having too-short or too-long periods between repeats of any given shape. Other versions have their own methods of making the distribution "fairer".

[1] https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/11217/how-do-i-a...
Burundi: Farmer finds new technique for preserving tomatoes
But productivity is defined as GDP/unit of labor. If it takes less labor to make a unit of GDP (because less inputs were needed), then the productivity statistics should show that. They shouldn't miss it. Even if those efficiency gains cause the prices of output to fall, inflation adjustment should, in theory, address that. So I don't think that greater efficiency can explain the productivity puzzle, at least not by itself.
Firefox does this :-)
"A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which two individuals can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction."[1]

As far as I know there is no evidence that neanderthal females could produce fertile offspring with a male homo sapiens -- but only the other way round.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
I keep forgetting why I hate systemd (and as a FreeBSD user for all things, I have never used it) and then an article like this reminds me ... binary logs.

Seriously - just reading it is painful. binary logs

That's a lot of things, but it ain't unix.
Still waiting to hear on how they're going to solve charging for those of us without garages. They're not going to want all of us to do all our charging at the stations...
Regarding the lossless JPG compression change: the review strategy... was that done manually by eye or automatically using some sort of image comparison library?
I think that behavior is built-in to the way most people value their own time. There is no way I'd feel like I was gaining something by my vehicle charging slower - even if I effectively pay a lower per-hour cost.