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This is really true. After working my way up in a mid-sized organization, I've learned being a CEO is hard and really easy to screw up.

As you mentioned it's about motivating people when they all want to go in a different direction. And it's not about saying "do this". That doesn't work. It's about convincing them it's the right path forward.
More Google hypocrisy.
No, I did not say that. I said that there are plenty of cases in which those less intuitive interfaces + a bit of training pays off. I even added an example where we built intuitive web interfaces on top of DOS/terminal programs to make them more accessible for 'new people'. Nothing wrong with it, just wanted to provide a case (mentioned by the parent) where a company makes significant profits because of a faster workflow with a hard to use (for beginners) interface.

My local (tiny) bank went from TUI->GUI->TUI because the, again decade long employees who train their colleagues and follow ups, found it awfully inefficient with all the wizards and forms spread out over multiple pages and design elements where more option buttons could have been. It's not a contest either; for most cases a carefully crafted GUI works better; in some cases, a TUI or very dense (considered ugly) GUI works better. I miss the Expert Mode button in web applications.
The Orthogonality Thesis
Can't edit (yet?) but obvious typo 'and = 'add.
Blue screens issues are for drivers but not for user mode applications. In general companies try to avoid doing Windows drivers. The solutions based on drivers are more stable and based on existing frameworks.

For example, in the case of companies like Trend Micro they sign a yearly support contract for supporting any OS app update.

I can answer any "extreme" public or private (via our website contact) question.
The end of the article

> This axiom is especially important in a “post-truth world” where we must work even harder to question our assumptions, whether in science, medicine, justice or any other field of problem solving.

tied in perfectly with the ad that followed below

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With new administration that is hostile to truth, we need real journalists now more than ever. I've tried to do my part to support them with subscriptions to NYT and Washington Post.
President Carter had training in nuclear engineering. President Hoover had a geology degree, later practicing mining engineering. Neither were particularly exceptional Presidents.
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Is there a simple way to say what Facebook and Twitter are currently optimizing for?

... what most users would want them to optimize for?

... what a critical mass of users would want them to optimize for?

... what you wish they would optimize for?
You accused him of intentionally lying. It's no surprise that he didn't respond well to that. You could've just said "I haven't heard that before; do you have a source?"
This question that I asked on StackExchange a while ago seems relevant here http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/2874/why-are-ther...
I am wondering how is it going to end openly defying POTUS executive order?

Why there was no outcry when similar order was issued in 2011 by President Obama?

Is there wider issue and if tech industry is failing to come to terms that Mr. Trump is the President now.
Related: get a lightning cable with no data connection, only power.
TUIs require training. After training they are often very fast to use.
From my experience, guys with the highest IQs are the worst leaders and they inexplicably, usually lack vision and courage.
excellent Idea. I would recommend adding the founder Bios to the page.
Also can you comment on using Bitcoing blockchain vs rolling your own chain?
"Because" is pretty much what I was thinking. An FPGA gives you a real circuit, but a real silicon chip is something that feels a lot more permanent.
You should check out typera.net for in my opinion, more realistic typing tests. I just tried the 10 fast fingers test and got 750 on my first try on a cheap keyboard (I maxed out at a tad over 700 on typerA where it uses random sentences albeit much more difficult generally).
That list is exactly what I'm talking about.

By the time I wanted to go back, that list was completely full of links back to the current page and I had to load HN from my favorites instead.
They won't be fully autonomous until we reach level 5, that is what level 5 is by definition. Whether or not a car that isn't fully autonomous but can handle a variety of common situations is completely useless to someone is an individual assessment. I personally look forward to the extra safety.
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It definitely doesn't scale linearly. They had a section of the tube only several meters long for vacuum testing pods and that took 15 minutes to depressurize. It's likely bigger/more pumps would be used.
If you haven't seen the technical criticisms of Hyperloop, Thunderf00t has an interesting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

I haven't seen most of the issues he raises addressed.
Here's the link to reddit with some explaination from the Author himself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5qvphu/a_simpl...
There's a huge difference between a vertically integrated company competing for customers and vendors and the entire economy of a country, IMO. One evidence is that large companies keep ossifying and failing to adapt all the time which means the economy needs more than one giant company to move forward. A new Google needs a way to tell the state/the giant computer/whatever, "you're wrong, search works badly and we can do better." It's very hard to do that if the giant computer is running everything and effectively decides what you do (and it cannot run the economy if it cannot decide who does what, or at least what projects are funded and which aren't.)

Also the USSR didn't just have problems optimizing supply chains. It had a problem deciding what to make. You couldn't buy woolen sweaters so you bought woolen socks and made sweaters from the woolen threads making up the sock (yes, I fucking participated in this fuckery). How is a giant neural network going to figure out how many socks and sweaters people want better than demand affecting prices affecting production, even if I grant you the assumption that the problem of managing the socks supply chain is nailed today?
3D Revision Control Framework [pdf]
Safari has done tab throttling for years. Things like that are why Chrome used to cut battery life in half compared to Safari. I don't understand people who complain about something that's essentially a feature, not a problem.
While hearing about COBOL in banks quite often all my friends actually working there say Java and Oracle and all related job adverts I have seen so far were Java or C++. Could someone please provide some relevant facts?
Thanks for working in Firefox. It is so much better than where it was whe Chrome first shipped and I switched to Firefox (and also to DDG thanks to AMP). There are two issue that bug me a lot and I use FF on Mac. The back swipe behavior is not so great and enabling browser.snapshots.limit is buggy. I feel it is also slower rendering and scrolling.
Google doesn't have to be an abuser directly to benefit from industry wide wage deflation.
Jimmy Carter was an engineer and he turned out to be bad president. I think the president should be someone who can work with people and gets things done. You could be the smartest person in the world and if you can't deal with people you will end up not being an effective president.
She had a doctorate.
Exactly, you better at least be aware of some of the "dark arts" to defend against them. For one, being a provocateur can actually be a good thing, strange right?

Generally, we want people of good character, integrity and intelligence to rise to the top. STEM is fine, but other backgrounds are fine too. They should inspire people so as to draw the attention away from the power mongers they will be running against.
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In 20 years I've never worked on a project that had a test suite strong enough to merit blind faith. Usually the weak points are

* realistic test input: either you carefully scrub actual production traffic and replay it (these require a ton of setup that doesn't age well), or you guess what you think users are doing and create dummy requests (and miss anything wacky you didn't know users do)

* load & perf: it's rare for a team to spin up a prod-sized cluster just for a test, and before AWS it was almost unheard of to go out and buy twice the hardware you need, even when you were lucky enough not to be deploying on your customer's boxes. A change that tanks your cache hit rate can ruin your whole day yet look fine at trivial sizes.

* visual design: Microsoft famously got bitten by moving away from manual testing that would catch dialogs made unusable by layout changes

We usually had best-effort integration tests, but they never caught everything, and we always had to make tactical decisions about when to release what based on risk.
and employees.
What, A/B testing not good enough for you? Please rate how you liked these two socks, this will be taken into account in order to serve you better.
Oh, no doubt. The offer to do a blogpost still stands. I can include the pertinent info in a piece I have been planning for some time about information security online for women.

Best.
> I want someone well-versed in science to head the EPA and the like. Similarly, I want someone with teaching experience (and confidence in bettering public education) to head education. And so on.

Canada's Cabinet [1] is diverse and the positions are individuals representative of those fields.

Quoting from the article:

> The defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, a decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian armed forces, was the first Sikh Canadian to command an army regiment

> appointing two Aboriginal politicians to cabinet, along with indigenous affairs minister, Carolyn Bennett

> The veterans affairs minister, Kent Hehr, has also overcome adversity to get to his current role. A one-time hockey player, he was struck in the neck by a bullet in a drive-by shooting, and rendered paraplegic in his early 20s. He went on to become a lawyer and an advocate for the disabled before jumping into provincial, and now federal politics.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/05/canada-diverse...
With that position, I'd prefer co-chairs. For one, I'd prefer an economist with an intimate knowledge of banking, actually, who is paid a decent wage in hopes to better deflect corruption. For the other, a consumer rights specialist.

Alternatively, a banker is acceptable, as is someone well versed in the ins and outs of banking - but of course, there is the little issue of bankers not exactly being trusted because of ... well, history.
You should make Firefox feel native to each platform and follow its conventions, instead of trying to have a sort of unifying 'Firefox look' that feels out of place everywhere. Using platform-specific enhancements (like VideoToolBox on macOS for example) also would go a long way.
Edit: most important of all is battery life though. Your browser can be super smooth, have all the nice extensions in the world and be FOSS, but if it cuts battery life in half everyone will hate it.
Shareholders are not the only stakeholders in companies, employees and consumers usually have some stake in and influence over what they do.
While I also use Verilog, I don't understand your plea. VHDL has it's benefits over Verilog, most notably an actual type system (Verilog has none - you'll be redefining the same signal bundles over and over and over again). But yes, Verilator is quite nice.

I think both Verilog and VHDL are fairly terrible and are unnecessarily stuck at the connecting-wires-together paradigm. I have high hopes for systems like Clash[1]/Chisel[2]/SpinalHDL[3] to gain more widespread usage and finally make higher abstraction levels and metaprogramming standard in the industry.

[1] - http://www.clash-lang.org/

[2] - https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/

[3] - https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SpinalHDL
Do I want more critical, evidence-based thinking, or more decent human beings who want to serve rather than play god? I wasn't thrilled with say Cass Sunstein's ideas when he was appointed by Obama.
You can bulk delete a bunch of functions and won't break anything. Your patch may require changes to 30 files but the change is minor. "Small enough pieces" is ambiguous I admit. I think a better way to put it to work is make your patch enough to get your code reviewed. If there are drastic changes, just let people know what you are planning to change (really, write out your plan). You may have to write wrappers or keeping the original function intact but write a my_api_function_2 for the newer version so people can start adopting it.
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Here's a list of PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) graduates from Oxford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_p....

They're very much a mixed bag.
If the pattern matching isn't exhaustive, it will greatly reduce their usefulness.
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It doesn't take much time to be equally comfortable with vim/emacs as you are with your normal editor. Anything you learn after that is a bonus. It's hard to say how much faster I am using vim than a normal editor, but I'm a hell of a lot more efficient and comfortable doing it.
Flagging political threads isn't stopping that either - that spillover is what flagging comments and downvotes are already for, and moderators detaching off-topic tangents.

But what hiding stories does accomplish is preventing people who don't want to see that content from being angered by its presence, especially when a topic threatens to overwhelm the site, and otherwise takes up most of the comments feed in a heated discussion, or most of the new topics page in the case of a popular story.

Although a more proactive approach would be to better curate the comments feed. It still seems that high traffic or volatile threads contribute a lot of low quality spillover there, and a lot of low hanging fruit for flamebaiting and drive-by comments.
Is a simple non-violent oath in the name of Allah enough?
Is a simple oath in the name of Allah to neither commit, encourage, nor aid acts of violence while visiting the U.S. enough to protect us from fanatical Muslims? Forswearing in the name of Allah would surely ban one from Paradise in the minds of the sorts of Muslims who commit terrorist acts.
I have respect for Trudeau, in part because of this.
please explain how they sell personal information, as far as I know.. they allow companies to target attributes in aggregate and you may see an ad based on your behaviors. No company actually receives your personal information
This will help, but isnt the real issue .. which is that the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth.

The measure of wealth in and of itself selects for people without the depth of experience in fields other than personal-wealth-generation. Due to effects explained in Piketty's Capital, it also has a secondary selection bias, preferring inherited wealth over entrepreneurial wealth.

Given the prior, that we do have money-in-politics, it makes sense to erode that bias in a minor way by having more STEM [ and poor but innovative entrepreneur ] people get involved in politics.

It also helps as a partial measure to reduce the power of the daily alternative facts, post truth media barrage we now face [ itself partly due to big-money owning the media ] - STEM practitioners are familiar with sifting facts from noise.

We should also solve the real problem - big-[old]-money in politics - perhaps by flushing the big-money out with little-money : a torrent of 27 dollar contributions from citizens.

The massive womens rally and the Bernie movement give me hope we might achieve this - but clearly the DNC itself is afflicted by the same cancer, and must be taken over by real/progressive Democrats for there to be any hope of sane policy in America.

[edit : clarity, intent ]
Trump: I would shut down certain mosques in U.S. if elected
Though if we must have egregious politics, it's best if they're implemented incompetently.
This is the double edged sword with XSL as it has enough that it can do that it's hard to tell what you should do at that layer. When it's useful though, it's very useful.
This headline got me excited that MTA would have real time, official data. But, it's just in the Transit app. It's a clever solution to a real problem. If Transit was really nice, they would expose this datafeed to developers. I created the only Alexa app that uses the official MTA feed for arrival times of the numbered lines (plus the L and S). I'd love to add the lettered lines to it if I could tap into Transit's feed. I presume they won't expose this data, though, since it's thier app's key value add :(

NextSubway skill link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N9MO4DT/
You can't assume that someone who bought a $200 phone would buy the exact same phone for $300 if the $200 option was unavailable (I don't know the exact prices but the Ars article said that there were price differences of up to $100).
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OK. Sorry I got involved in this thread. Note that I can no longer delete my comment.

>You accused him of intentionally lying.

I'm not the author of that comment.
the idea that mail provides any functional redundancy over the internet is based on a scenario in which the government censors some kind of content that a person requested?

That person would then ostensibly, through a subsidized mail service, be able to send the original purveyor of that content a letter, requesting a facsimile of the webpage they were requesting, and then that provider would send such a facsimile to the requester.

Or perhaps they mean some sort of other redundancy?
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In most parts of Asia there is strong societal and family pressure for males to major in STEM. Colleges oblige by renaming some subjects like economics and business and trades engineering.
Then articles come out how the West is losing the STEM defree race to Asia. They are, but not as bad as it looks to these naming conventions.
Anecdotally I don't think choosing leaders with STEM backgrounds would produce improvements in acceptance of climate science. Here's some members of congress who are climate deniers despite their STEM backgrounds.

Joe Barton, Texas 6th, industrial engineer and climate denier.

Tom Coburn (senator from Oklahoma from 2005-2015) is an obstetrician and leading climate denier.

Thom Tillis, climate denier and senator from North Carolina, has a degree in "technology management".

Timothy F. Murphy, Pennsylvania 18th, climate denier with a Ph.D in psychology.

Steve Scalise, Louisiana 1st, climate denier with a B.S. in computer science.

And that's just what I found off the top of my head plus 5 minutes of clicking through the bios of some of the Republican members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, then googling to check if they were climate deniers. I'm sure people will take this opportunity to bash medical doctors, but I think it definitely counts as STEM, and they generally have abhorrent views on health policy as well.
Firefox needs a UI implemented in AppKit, I think.
that's not how widevine works
Going even further, the analogy is still a little bit flawed, because the people buying the phones have reason to believe the phone was NOT stolen (it came brand new, sealed in a box).

It'd be like if you bought a brand new car from a dealership, then two weeks later the police came to your house, told you it was stolen and burnt it down.
Congress' job is to write, evaluate, and vote on laws. It makes sense that we have legal experts--IE, lawyers--doing that.

I can definitely see a good argument to the contrary: Politicians should be the experts in negotiating/being the interface between field experts (scientists, lawyers, economists) and public values (voters or all citizens). Having them distinct from the legal experts seems sensible.

But right now, law is the language of politics/policy, so I'm not sure how this separation would work. Congress can say "NASA, based on your input and the public's preferences, you get these resources to do aeronautics" and leaves the details up to NASA, and that's fine, but if Congress just says "lawyers, based on your input and the public's preferences, write a law on decriminalized cannabis use" and let's the lawyers handle the details....I dunno. Somehow, it feels like law requires less delegation and more technical understanding on the part of Congress than aeronautics does.

I see the problem not as too many lawyers, but as corruption (though not in a literal bribery sort of way) and--for lack of a better term--politics. (e.g., the problem isn't lawyers don't believe in climate change. The problem is that climate change has become a political issue that half of the country rejects ideologically.)
Right I'm the only STEM major I know that I'd even sort of vaguely trust to not fuck over large swatch of humans due to a belief in elegant solutions. And even then thats only because I'm a tad biased.

More Studio Art Majors and Interpretive Dancers please.
A law degree is great thing for a leader to have, but not sufficient. You need people with integrity too. I think a lot of the common backlash against lawyers is due to the fact that a lawyer lacking integrity is good at circumventing the law. Similar to how a doctor, usually a profession known for healing, would also know how to make many people sick.
I've been using Macs for almost a decade now, never had something go belly-up that wasn't my own fault. Referring my anecdote, can't say the same about Linux sadly..
A brief scan of the article suggests this relies on a difference in difference identification strategy. Not normally the most convincing approach... But it does shift my prior a little bit.
Sorry but can someone explain the problem. I'm very familiar with widevine, hls / hlse, and other various DRM type solutions. To me it appears a lot of uninformed answers or something that's completely blown out of proportion. So looking for someone to explain ?
>It happens with copy protection on software. I've heard of games that become impossible to win if they detect they're pirated. Others that just fail entirely. Is that not OK either?

It wouldn't be OK if the developers intentionally affected copies that most users would explicitly believe were not counterfeit (for example, if all Steam copies did this because the game developer had an exclusive agreement with EA/Origin).

The users of the counterfeit phones had no way of knowing they were counterfeit. They were advertised as brand new and came in a shrinkwrapped box.
My experience with "NR in C" is 2e. There were a number of routines I wanted to run on data stored in native C arrays, so I painstakingly re-wrote the NR functions to use 0-index single dimension C arrays.
For reference, here is link http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/02/by-the-numbers-th... to 2011 - 2012 congress and their career backgrounds.
Saying that Carter wasn't "exceptional" is quite an understatement. He kinda sucked at his job in general, and at getting the Congress to support his agenda in particular.
Overturn Citizens United and publicly fund elections.
And make sure I don't hit the wrong letter to start a new fish! That always manages to trip me up. That makes sense, my range is usually around 110. Damn I hate those toxic sharks!
They probably assume that the person whose job is to maintain the code can more efficiently investigate the nature of the problem, provided they give instructions on how to reproduce it.