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Hello, I'm curious to know about people who have paid $$$$ to an internship program that places you overseas with a company to work within for a period of time and how that worked out for them as the end result.
Talked to a yellow cab driver about this last week. His perspective is that uber's market share and the resulting price power lets them set the market price for rides below what constitutes a living wage for a driver.

Uber is simultaneously lower rates & raising the margin they take from the driver. This means drivers are loaning uber money out of their savings to operate a money-losing business.

Only question is whether drivers will run out of savings before uber can roll out driverless.
It turns out Google removed the "you lose the right to the license if you sue Google for literally anything" part, but Facebook still has it in React, and Tesla has it in their licenses.

That’s the usual wording of these clauses, and the problem.
Anecdote: a (very able) friend of mine was at a technical conference and attended a talk given by an HFT firm. His take was "The tech's pretty interesting, but all it seems to do is make money."

But what do I know, I'm a second tier guy working in the finance sector. :)
It is annoying, I've been using https://www.eff.org/privacybadger from the EFF to help with this and other online tracking. I just disable cookies or block the parts that track your article counts on various news sites. Agree with the general point though, I'd be happy to subscribe if less of the content was clickbait nonsense.
Game theory does have things to say about observable, stochastic, continuous environments and has a concept of future actually.
Indeed, turns out, I was wrong on that. Now I wonder, if i own MPEG patents, could I sue Google for misuse of them, while licensing WebM? There’s quite some overlap with them.

And yes, Facebook and Tesla’s patent licenses are completely ridiculous.
> The Gimp project needs to dismantle itself

Yes, I expect you would want that.

> the same misguided and shortsighted mismanagement

It's amazing we managed so far at all without your expert input.

There are many reasons things are the way they are. That you don't know much about those is a whole different story.
Sorry, what's a Wire Transfer Letter in this context?
>His strategy of turning the WashPo into the HuffPo Insider but with a better rolodex and even less ethics seems to be going solid from a biz standpoint.

Sadly this is spot on. If it weren't for the Gawker suit, I think we would have seen many more former news agencies devolve into BuzzFeed-caliber sources of misinformation.
Who are those mythical "smart people"? I keep hearing about their habits all the time. Are they related to "successful people" in any way? Discovery doesn't have any documentaries on them yet.
Five possible headlines that could all fit the data presented in this article, all of which would make excellent clickbait:

"The billion-dollar mistake top MIT grads make: staying in research."

"Finance makes top students lazy."

"Success in life not determined by how smart you are, study shows."

"Finance industry's 'best and the brightest' aren't actually the best and the brightest."

"The jobs that really smart people avoid."

All of these have a different slant, but all of them could be supported by the facts presented in the article. Which interpretation do you prefer?
It's very unlikely. If Dave has Carol diary, then Carol made the trip already, so Carol will notice empty fuel tanks and big holes in the shield. She will may have problems with memory, but she is not stupid.
From the article, the big complaint the bus drivers have is that their commute is very long and they cannot go home between shifts. This wouldn't be an issue if people who lived locally were chosen for these jobs.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with east palo alto (and east menlo park), but it is a far different place from the rest of palo alto. Due to a long history of racial segregation, east palo alto hasn't had the success and wealth of the rest of silicon valley.

I think we both agree that there is a "line" between the haves and have-nots. However, the line also exists inside of silicon valley. Giving jobs to the poorer and forgotten residents of silicon valley shouldn't be viewed as discrimination against other unemployed people living elsewhere.
I have started doing this too. These are more general than specific, but I think the biggest things for me are:

-Cleaning my entire apartment very thoroughly and keeping it that way. Makes me feel a lot better overall.

-Positive mental attitude always and trying not to stress about things as much. I am a very cynical person and I believe trying to think about things differently is important.

-Constantly analyzing what I am doing and thinking and asking people what I could have done differently, even if I don't see it as a failure there is always something to improve. The key is thinking objectively and not worrying about those mistakes, but keeping those things in mind in the future.

-Really pushing myself to do things out of my comfort zone every single day.

-Focus on making progress on something non-work related every single day.
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Yep. For scale: if you count for one minute, a knot every 30m or so on the string will give you your speed in nautical miles per hour (=knots)
- 15kg is not light even for a tank build.

- 2 speeds 26in wheels addes to that weight ensure that you can only ride flat terrain, specially if you aren't a fit experienced cyclist...

- disc brakes are great when good quality but also require regular maintenance and truing unlike traditional brakes

- bikes twice the price don't have 25 limited frame warranty. they have life warranty.

so basically whats good about this bike?

well, the belt drive. thats it. at this price, i dont know if I'd recommend it given the issues and that nobody has really tested the bike yet
I'm sorry, but I see a categorical difference between a partner's death, and abandonment.

Maybe others don't, but in my categories the latter implies at least deliberacy, if not malice.
Gates belts are dramatically stronger than chains. The bigger downside is the frame needs to built to accommodate the belt. The chain/belt passes through the rear triangle and you have to have a way to open it for a belt.

The transmission efficiency is probably nothing compared to the IGH and it's weight.
Unreal is open source.

Unity is making commitments to open source and is open sourcing more of their tech but open source remains a very very expensive option only for AAA teams.

Open engines like Godot and Irrlicht are still around even with all that happening. Sometimes the building blocks to build a AAA game engine are still somewhat closed (due to licenses on platform SDKs or 3rd party libraries) but overall you can make some pretty advanced game engines using openly available graphics techniques.
Uber can simply declare bankruptcy and reorganize at that time.
I'm working towards owning no shoes with laces. Between my Dubarry boat/deck shoes and a pair of laceless Converse, my other shoes are eschewed!
I recently saw PS on a friend's computer, and it seemed to be multi-windowed just like GIMP, so that might also be out-of-date.

Also, can't you just position floating windows in the right place so that they look pretty much docked in-place?

Note that I don't have any OS X machines to confirm this myself, this was at a designer's mac a few weeks ago.
> The angle of the belt doesn't change, the way a chain does, which means you can add a chain guard, as this bike does.

That has nothing do to with belt vs. chain, you can easily combine a chain with a gear hub and add a chain guard.
No, it's different.

The article is about a specific problem and tries to tell people 'everything is okay, you just need to accept that things change' while this may not the solution many long term relationships need.
There is motion blur on the traffic cone suggesting that camera was moving right and slightly down. There is no blur on the plane itself since the camera was locked to the plane's motion. So I deduce a landing photo.
E-commerce giant Alibaba adds WCA network to its list of logistics partners
How would you compare the 5k screen vs the P2715? I have the latter at work and I find the picture quality (color, contrast) great. And dpi is also fairly good. Is the 5k noticably better?

PS: I personally wouldn't like that setup, too much lighting from all sides. But if it works for you it's certainly cool.
Can still get Dell 2007FPs on eBay; I find a good set-up is 1920x1200 centre with 1600x1200s to both left and right (for linux, all driven by a single nvidia card nowadays).
Yep. On Apple platforms there is basically just ONE way to do this conveniently and correctly: an enumeration function on NSString that visits composed character sequences individually, as substrings. And, it was only added in OS 10.6, which shows how slow the evolution of correct Unicode processing can be.

And, there is still no completely reliable way to guess the cell/column width of a symbol just by looking at it, especially if your goal is to be consistent with any other interpreter of the string (like a text editor). Still heuristics at best for any case outside common tables like CJK.
I have a 4k 40" curved Samsung HDTV as my monitor, the UN40JU6700.

In terms of dimensions, it is physically less wide than the 2 24" 1080p monitors I had before while having 4 times the resolution. It's also a similar width and horizontal resolution to the 34" ultrawides that are on the market now but significantly cheaper. The DPI is similar to a 27" 1440p monitor, which might be tiny if you're coming from 29" 1080p.

I highly recommend using this DPI calculator to find a pixel size that's comfortable for you: https://www.sven.de/dpi/

My workflow has definitely improved. I normally work with 2 terminals side by side, but now I have 3 terminals or 2 terminals and a browser window. There's no bezel in the middle to ruin that center terminal.

I keep my main applications along the bottom 1300 pixels or so with email/music/monitoring along the top.

Virtual machines and laptop connections are significantly less finicky because there is only one large display to configure.

The only negative to this setup is that the Samsung is definitely a television. I need to turn it manually on whenever I wake my computer and DPMS sleep doesn't take effect immediately.

On the other hand, I got rid of my speakers and now use HDMI audio instead.

Finally, if you're getting an HDTV, make sure your computer is compatible with HDMI 2 and the television supports 4:4:4 color. You want 4k@60Hz via HDMI 2 and 4:4:4 ensures your text isn't blurry.

RTINGS is invaluable for finding a TV with the right color input and latencies: http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-usage/pc-monitor/best
And if you use PS 5.0 (not the default for Win 7/8/8.1 but downloadable as WMF 5.0) it has PSReadLine by default.
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And when I start getting paid in Dogecoin, I'm sure Shapeshift will be very useful. Right now, I'm paid in government controlled currency, and I don't see why efforts to get people to trade it for cryptocurrency shouldn't be applauded by cryptocurrency enthusiasts.
> didn't find a good way yet to encourage it

This is why we have public funding of basic research. Allows resources to be allocated to things that don't have obvious enough commercial benefits to get funding or are too risky for private investment alone to accomplish. Microelectronics are a prime example: http://wvvw.thebhc.org/sites/default/files/beh/BEHprint/v024....
> someone might give some money to a Gimp developers Patreon making all sorts of promises that never get finished

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/?qt=author&q=pippin

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/log/?h=pippin%2Flinear-is-...

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/log/?qt=author&q=pippin

https://git.gnome.org/browse/babl/log/?qt=author&q=pippin

Commits speak louder than baseless accusations.
the obvious counter this argument is that companies could create a competing version that tastes the same as a competitors product, similar to what coke and pepsi do.
The cheap bikes are much cheaper today (in terms of build quality, though there are some that are, inflation-adjusted, lower priced than the cheapest bikes when I was a kid).

I mostly had cheap bikes as a kid, and they held up really well. The quality was lower than that of a "good" bike, but not remarkably so. My first two bikes, a Huffy (from K Mart) and a Ross Piranha (from Toys R Us) had Chromoly frames and forks, and held up to years of intense abuse (ramps, dirt jumping, lots of falling and running into things). When I started earning my own money, I bought a General RL Osborne, which was a significant upgrade...but, not orders of magnitude better.

The quality of what is sold at Walmart today, at least in the general case, is really low. I wouldn't trust the linked bike to be safe on day one, much less to hold up to years of service. I tried to fix up a friend's low end Schwinn, that was less than ten years old, but it would have been cheaper to buy an all new bike than to fix everything that was wrong with it (shifters didn't work, derailleur was broken, brakes were soggy and couldn't be adjusted to work well, the fork had shocks and would bottom out when applying brakes even lightly). The frame was definitely not chromoly (might have been aluminum, as it was pretty light weight, but could have been thin steel, too I guess). On the other hand, I have a mid-range Giant mountain bike that I bought in 1994 for about $480 that has often been my primary mode of transportation. It's needed new shifters one time, a couple of new cassettes, one new set of brake and shift cables, a new seat, one new rim (I ran into a fire hydrant at a pretty decent clip), and tubes and tires. It's taken a beating over the years.

I dunno what I'm trying to say, exactly, but I think the overall quality of bike-to-dollar has gone down, especially at the low end of the market. The mid range of the market still seems pretty good, when inflation adjusted, though I will note that finding an all chromoly frame and fork (or other high quality material) bike is much harder than it used to be, and it is impossible in the low end, where it used to be very easy.
> Random time later send garbage

Random is bad because you need some random distribution and by gathering statistics server can determine if your distribution of delays match. Delay until really clicking the button would be highly individual. That is why I said "when they open the application".
So we're giving self-driving cars arrest powers now? Will they have automated restraints in case the passenger decides they want to try to break out?
I guess to take this a bit further, the thought that came to mind for me is if we start processing every user on their own vm with own core and memory. Is that something anyone is doing today with web sites? It'd seemingly be horribly inefficient, but it's an interesting thought experiment.
> They'd get even more customers of they refused to comply with any subpoena.

Dubious. They might capture more of an existing niche market. Coinbase is aiming to expand the market significantly to people don't see Bitcoin's murkiness as a feature. That is, the rest of us.
From the article: "No right-thinking or peace-loving alien species would choose us, humans, for alliance. The heptapods chose us because we, like them, are consummate destroyers, so skilled at war we wage it from a distance, almost invisibly, speaking softly about co-existence."

It seems like the author has a lot of shame about being human.
Aye right, there was no reason for all that. But, this was far from the only
case where the company could have optimised its processes. For instance, as a
junior dev, my work primarily consisted of copying some stuff off a
spreadsheet (as in, with Ctrl+C), pasting it into a text file and creating
some xml structure around it by hand. That was an extremely time-consuming and
error-prone process and it caused all sorts of delays and frustrations, to
myself as well as everyone that depended on my work.

I spoke up about those inefficiencies very early on, but I was very
inexperienced at the time and, to be honest, I had no idea how to properly
communicate this sort of thing, so I never got anywhere. I only managed to
come across as snotty and get a reputation as a trouble maker.

After that I just kept to myself and focused on getting some experience with
C# and learning psh and so on, generally learning as much as possible until I
felt confident enough to look for a better job- which I took as soon as I
found it.

Generally, I was really unhappy in that company, but at the same time, exactly
because I had to jump through hoops and learn how to automate my work, I
taught myself a whole bunch of stuff that were very useful in my next job
(where, btw, I had a great mentoring relation with my boss). So it all turned
out alright.
A very usefull command is Alt-m. This command repeat the last digited string in the current line. It only works in ZSH.
I wonder if the Gates Foundation could fund journals or otherwise try to help fix the (fundamentally rotten) academic publishing ecosystem.
My god. How could I have been doing something so simple wrong for 40+ years.
I picture things like drivers, kernel extensions, etc. I do a lot of network programming with raw sockets and custom packets, parsing Netflow / IPFIX, etc.
I use Ubuntu. Can't comment on Windows. The Dell XPS+Ubuntu is staggeringly fast. Massive battery life, and no loud annoying fan etc.

For the same money as a mbp, you're getting more memory, faster CPU, better battery life, etc etc
I just have a tough time believing a belt is better than a chain, when I've had two cars with timing belts break before the suggested replacement mileage, but never had the problem with a timing chain. It seems like the same would be true of a bicycle.
This is going in circles. You still need to put in Born's rule by hand somewhere. If you can explain the origin of Born's rule we'll have gotten somewhere. I also don't understand why you call a trace a slice. It's an ensemble average. Try deriving the density matrix formalism by coupling a small system to some collection of ancillae and you'll see that it doesn't really add anything. The trace is just convenient notation for the operator sandwich of closed quantum systems... it's just that your closed system is now an open system tensored with a bath.
I'd be for 99-year or lifetime leases. Just so that you can own your property for as long as you're alive, but not long enough to establish mini-dynasties where the only people who can own property are extremely wealthy (family becomes wealthy because they inherited a house and have no mortgage, supply of houses goes down, prices go up, gradually the only people who own them are those who inherited them).
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> The Game Theory has nothing to say about partially observable, stochastic, continuous environments and has no concept of future.

This is not true. What makes you think this way?

Game theory studies games with stochastic outcomes, adversaries, and partial observability. Bayesian Nash equilibrium, trembling hand equilibrium and correlated equilibrium are generalizations of Nash equilibrium into these domains. Game theory also extends to continuous environments and sequential games that have concept of past and future.
What kind of input lag do you get with that setup?
It's interesting that a lot of answers say that it should be possible to figure out if it's landing or taking off by figuring out the direction of the landing strip. Do most airports have only one-way runways? I know my local airport, in Krakow, Poland, can operate either way, depending on the wind on that particular day. I've both landed and taken off in both directions, many times.
With this option it is still possible to use the app securely. WhatsApp is insecure for everyone.
The Dell XPS laptop ships with Ubuntu, and all the hardware works flawlessly.
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It's something like 20ms after a firmware update last year.

You need a GTX1080 to render games at 60fps and even then it's a struggle for more modern ones.
The 2 killer features for me are:

1. Vi(m)-like keybindings
2. Portable configuration (dotfile)

Like Vi(m), there are standard keybindings mapped to common commands, plus the ability to create your own. My fingers never have to leave the keyboard to navigate the Web, unless I have to interact with certain plugins.

Vimperator reads its configuration from a ~/.vimperatorrc file when it launches. I keep this in version control like the rest of my dotfiles, so I can deploy it to any machine for a reproducible environment. It supports setting Firefox preferences (about:config settings), bookmarks, search engines, etc. I have mine set to remove all the browser chrome, so Firefox has looked almost exactly the same to me since 2009.

For example, I have a bookmark defined for Hacker News in ~/.vimperatorrc:

bmark -keyword=h -title="Hacker News" https://news.ycombinator.com/

Now I can open Hacker News by typing 'oh' ('th' if I want it to open in a new tab), then 'f<n>' to follow a link where <n> is the number highlighted over the link (which decreases if you start typing some letters found in the link text).

I can create searches, as well:

bmark -keyword=g -title="Github" https://github.com/search?q=%s

Now I can type 'ogvimperatorrc' to find interesting configurations on GitHub.

The tab completion is great, so don't feel you have to limit keywords to a single letter.

I'll be really sad if/when Vimperator becomes incompatible with Firefox. At least there are other extensions or browsers that provide some of the same functionality.
A lot of advances in deep learning have come from providing more data and semi-structured information, but there are a finite amount of fields for which this can apply. Using game theory dynamics can move AI to transfer of domain knowledge and can create more adaptable deep learning architectures. It could also be a pathway to "stronger" forms of AI.
But it seems like frivolous lawsuit - its a blanket request for all data.
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This "post-hoc" nature of game theory bothers me a lot. People love the stories they can tell about things using game theory, but I have seen far fewer example of people understanding a new scenario using it.
While I'm sure you've ridden lots, if you experiment a bit and try different braking techniques you'll learn how much more effective the front brake is. In fact the famous "fear of endo" is actually just a symptom of this: when the bike stops suddenly rather than slowly, some riders find they don't have their COG positioned far enough back to stay over the stopped bike. One never gets that with a rear brake, because as soon as the COG starts moving forward as it must when the bike slows, the rear tire rises off the ground and the rear brake no longer helps. On steeps, I often have my stomach rather than my butt on the saddle, because I want to be able to stop quickly without flipping.

I've actually faced the "child jumping out from behind a parked car" before, and I passed that test. When I jammed hard on both the front and rear, both tires locked, the rear tire swung around the side until even with the front (at that point it was no longer behind the COG so it rotated down instead of up), and I twisted my back foot to unclip and stomp. I looked at her, she looked at me, then she ran on across the street. Glad I wasn't driving a car!
Game theory is part of the toolbox used to design, study and understand machine learning algorithms. It's currently the bleeding edge of machine learning.
I tried no laces (slip-ons and zippers) now I'm trying out Xpand[1]. Have you considered those?

[1] https://www.xpandlaces.com/
It's not unlike the way many extroverts think about introverts.