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> The weakness is in the computational implementation of those equations, i.e., solving the equations in a reasonable time. You can perform a relativistic quantum monte carlo simulation of protein folding, and I guarantee the results will match those obtained in the lab to whatever level of accuracy you desire, but you'll have to wait longer than the age of the universe for the computation to finish running.

This is precisely what I mean by "weak." The equation looks great on paper, but isn't so useful in practice. And the problem isn't predicting just one protein-drug binding, it's predicting the interaction with all known proteins, all molecular complexes, and the biofilms, etc. I would go so far to say that Physics with a capital P is not so useful for many physical problems at all. Where Physics is useful, it's unbelievably useful, but its domain in the physical world is vanishingly tiny.

Physics kind of has the reverse problem of AI. With AI, when you finally solve a problem, it's no longer considered AI, and AI is continued to be considered a failure. With Physics, a problem isn't part of the body of Physics until it's been solved, at which Physics is now considered a great success.
I get (maybe) your argument when it comes to Windows 7 -> Windows 10, but I think you're overestimating how hard it is to get up and running with Arch Linux. Following an Arch install tutorial shouldn't take anyone here on Hackernews more than 2 hours to get their DE, networking etc. up and going.

You should try it. It's fun!
Juries are a choice. If they want an expert then both sides can go for a bench trial. If a judge isnt expert enough, then you are out of luck. Matters must be decided in a manner understandable to the outside world. A courts decision must be understandable by other courts. Otherwise every case will be ad hoc, leading to essentially random outcomes. Dont like it? Then settle out of court.
This time, like it or not, Milo did exactly that.
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> You wouldn't say that that somebody hacked Iceland's democracy.

No, you wouldn't. The wailing and gnashing of teeth over the DNC hacks are all because the Democratic leadership is unwilling to accept responsibility for putting forward a bad candidate. Better blame the Russians, instead! If only the public didn't know the truth, we would have won!
Yeah, I honestly thought I had a hardware issue on a computer I built for my son with a 24" 1080p monitor and it turned out to be Windows 10 font rendering changes.

I use Ubuntu at work and my other Windows 10 machine has 1920x1200 monitors at a distance that makes the rendering regression not easily noticeable.

It's great for small 1080p screens on laptops and 4k monitors though. :-/
You may want to recheck the time horizons of those two charts.

The BigQuery data is way out of date, and even if you updated it to current metrics, new "rescue" mechanics make calculating inflation of stories have several caveats, and comment scores are no longer accessible.
The draft ISO/IEC 9899:201x PDF of "Programming Languages — C" says:

"3.5 bit

unit of data storage in the execution environment large enough to hold an object that may have one of two values

NOTE It need not be possible to express the address of each individual bit of an object.

3.6 byte

addressable unit of data storage large enough to hold any member of the basic character set of the execution environment

NOTE 1 It is possible to express the address of each individual byte of an object uniquely.

NOTE 2 A byte is composed of a contiguous sequence of bits, the number of which is implementation-defined. The least significant bit is called the low-order bit; the most significant bit is called the high-order bit."

I can't find any indication that a byte is the minimum addressable unit. I guess that is because of 4-bit CPUs and/or CPUs that can address individual bits.

It also uses "byte" very sparingly, most of the time in the context of multibyte (not hyphenated) to single-byte (hyphenated) conversions, but also in section 5.2.1:

"The representation of each member of the source and execution basic character sets shall fit in a byte."

And there also is a guarantee that a unsigned char is as large as a byte in a footnote to section 6.2.6.1:

"A byte contains CHAR_BIT bits, and the values of type unsigned char range from 0 to 2^CHAR_BIT − 1"

I doubt that char and unsinged char can be of different size, but didn't check that.
I think it's more that Zenimax thinks it owns the unique ideas that Carmack, a top talent in his field, created while he was working there. They're not angry that he wrote the same 4x4 matrix inverse function for both them and Oculus.

Or more specifically, if Zenimax's claims are correct, while he was working on company time and equipment.
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Understood. Same privilege escalation applies.
..and the syscall chroot is used between systems as a
primitive in either os space and semantic.
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Win10 fails for different reacons than Win8.

While 8 tried to make tablet the priority use case, and thus breaking the muscle memory of many long term users, 10 abandons the notion of the owner of the hardware being in charge (sadly one that is increasingly taking root in FOSS circles as well).

Thus you have things like updates being ramrodded through even if the user says no, and keep saying no.

Damn it, i keep having to roll back the driver of my igpu because for some reason MS keep trying to update it along with the dgpu. This even though the support has been discontinued by AMD...
The problem in Florida was not hand-counting - but rather, an absolutely insane (One could almost say 'deliberately sabotaged.') ballot design.
We also do a bit of OCaml. (But not sure whether we are hiring for that at the moment.)

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I participated in the experimental deployment of digital ballot box in a rich north Italian region, during regional elections.

The system worked, and worked well. But overall, it was a failure. Putting the digital in something as simple as voting, just increase the risks at all levels: security, deployment, rechecking, etc.

Pen and paper it's just so much better: simple, cost-effective, safe and understandable by anyone.
The vast majority of recent protests in this country have been completely peaceful. I don't think it's a problem of protesters forgetting how to be peaceful, but rather small group(s) of violent people that are drawn to certain protests with the intention of violence.
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> You can not rely on any further information about them.

Not entirely true. One may assume that sizeof(short) <= sizeof(int) <= sizeof(long). In particular, one may cast from short to int and back without loss of information, and likewise from short to long and from int to long.
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Regardless of what you want to call it, the real question is why liberals are now fighting against civil liberties.
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The largest protest in American history was just held last month and was completely peaceful.

This event had a set of 10-12 agitators.
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In the UK it's fairly standard to get financial support in terms of technology to help with the disability
I worry more about the long term support workload than the initial install.
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Most people dont mind caring cash. Personally i prefer it to digitalized closed systems whenever possible.
And you have some balls saying "repeatedly".

What I said is that immigration is the bane of the West and there are strong arguments that support that. I said it once, you did not asked me to stop, but I say it again now.

You can't just shut down people for saying things that you don't like. This is a relatively public fora, and nowadays it takes more courage to say things that are not the norm that to quietly sheep along the masses.

Shame on you.
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They didn't seem to do clean room here. Seems like Carmack was wrote code for both companies which is the exact opposite of clean room.

(Please correct me if I misunderstood the facts of the case)
This should be accomplishable by tweaking fontconfig.
I'm sure you would agree that security updates/upgrades are an exception to your rule.
A reminder that at a similar protest in Seattle just last week one of the protesters was shot by one of Milo's supporters. The shooter was not arrested and has not been charged. But you know, breaking window's is pretty bad too.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/25/shooting-mil...
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> If you're genuinely mutating the AST, you'll end up with a different program that does something different or performs differently.

If the original program was written in, say, F# and used a lot of pattern matching, then you could rewrite a straightforward moral equivalent in C# that used lots of visitors. Both the AST and IL will be substantially different, but the performance and functionality will be similar.
> Passionate and skilled women in tech certainly exist, they are just relatively rare.

exactly. I dont agree with you that women have "never been" discriminated against, but I do agree that vocational fields are not homogeneously populated (and that is not the result of discrimination).

* I dont see very many women police officers

* (this was mentioned on HN last week) not very many oil-rig workers are women

* I dont see many heterosexual men working as hair dressers
or bridal shop/wedding planners/fashion designers/makeup artists ("this is clearly a glass door organized by the Gay Male Establishment to prevent heterosexual men from breaking into this field. Such abuse of privilege" /s).

* I don't see many women working as bouncers at night clubs

* I don't see many women working as commercial pilots.

But you know, for all the "I don't see"'s , when I do see one that defies the norm, I dont think much of it. They're people just like anyone else, free to pursue whatever they want. But it's not automatically discrimination when groups of people gravitate to certain fields.
I think a minimum wage of 100K for all H1-Bs may not work for all roles, it should be a certain percentage above the prevailing market wage specific to that role.
There are options beyond "hand counting" and "computer software."

IBM was founded, way back when, on what were basically electrical (but not electronic!) census-punch-card-tabulating machines. One could use a similar, or slightly improved, design just as easily, along with correspondent electrical "polling machines" that are essentially a grid of buttons hooked up to pre-patterned card punches.

The whole design could be done by one or two electrical + mechanical engineers in a couple of days (based on previous designs whose patents have long expired) and then given months of testing.
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I think I stumbled on this about a year ago, anyone from Google know when this was officially rolled out?
Exactly, That was my whole point, Microsoft tried vigorously to ignore me and you (their current users) to compete with apple and google.

Do you see the irony? Microsoft does suffer from mismanagement.

You should never ever mess with your current user experience to improve your imaginary users experience.
No, nobody's claiming that. If that's your takeaway from outreach programmes, maybe you should talk to women about their experiences in computer science.

The reason for outreach programmes is that what's currently offered seems to appeal to men but not nearly as much to women, and that we should fix that. There's nothing patronising about admitting a problem and attempting to alleviate it. Some attempts might be misguided or based on incorrect assumptions, but that shouldn't discredit the entire endeavour.

(Since we're talking about computer science education, I'll disregard the entirely unrelated comment about quotas in businesses.)
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Yeah. From the docs:

> pauseWhenHidden – whether to pause playback when the tab is inactive. Default true. Note that browsers usually throttle JS in inactive tabs anyway.
The YCs and large companies can easily move their investments and offices to Canada and hire the world's best and brightest there.

I'll give you the often conservative advice:

Tough luck? pull yourself up by your own boot straps! Go to school. Go back to school. Work hard, and interview with Google/Amazon/Microsoft again.

And stop perpetuating the idea that you are at a disadvantage because of immigrants and refugees. If you end up with a job at Apple or eBay or Expedia btw, remember that your livelihood was made possible because of the hard work of immigrants and refugees.
The switch jumps directly to the case labels, skipping the valid_command_message call. At least that's the concept, but you better know what your compiler makes out of it.

So this might be useful if you want the jump table performance now on the known values, but you suspect that in the future some maintainer might add more values to the enums and forget about the switch, because maybe the enums are hidden in some header file far away.
The issue of potential IP transfer is why companies sometimes include non-compete clauses in their employment contracts.

I don't know if they can be enforced in the relevant jurisdictions though.
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Well, at similar protests at UW, where one of Milo's supporters shot an unarmed man, the police released him without charges.

This should tell you exactly where the police stand, vis-a-vis fascism in America.
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FB post is solely about "literal" vs "non-literal" code copying. These are words that the lawyers chose to use to communicate a complex (for non-programmers) idea to a bunch of non-programmers.

I think of "non-literal" code copying as R&D. I think the Zenimax lawyers were claiming that the R&D that Carmack did for the Occulus, while still an employee of Zenimax, was key to making Occulus valuable. And it seems like Carmack even used Zenimax IP (Doom) to develop a demo that was shown to investors, without Zenimax permission. Essentially Zenimax was used as an R&D arm of Occulus.

Pretty messy case and pretty different from Google vs Oracle IMO.
Our R&D team put out a beta version of 'ODN' this time last year; we're up to a billion requests/month & millions of dollars of revenue running through it.

The product lead just published a blog post celebrating some of the milestones, and shared some early data from a successful client test.
Given how often violence is started by police officers, I wouldn't jump to this conclusion. False flag operations also occur, in order to being about exactly the sentiment you're expressing.
Specifics matter in legal proceedings.

In general, this argument would be laughed out of court of course. However, Carmack worked not only in the same domain, he worked on developing the exact same product at both companies - so this opens up to potential liability.
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Too many people read too much into "peers". These are your legal peers, not social or educational equivalents. These are fellow citizens. So long as they arent royals, elected officials or cops they are peers. (Lawyers can technically serve on juries but every court i know doesnt want them to do so, nor law students.) We live now in a society with fewer official class systems, or we at least now better separate legal classes, and so easily forget the original intention of such words.
Enforcement of contracts is ultimately dependent on the goodwill of the state, just as honouring visas is.
Sure, if you do elect to do them, I think the best thing you can do is share you experience and help someone else avoid having their time wasted by companies that act like this.

I think it can be seen as a telling sign about the company itself.
Does anyone have a link to Milo's condemnation of that act?

Anyone?
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Would a jury of technically-minded people have helped here? Put aside the natural bias that software developers would have to be skeptical of any claims against a company with which John Carmack is involved. Now, you're trying to sell the story that Code B is a copy of Code A, even though they don't look the same, because of fancy math. Is that harder to sell to a jury of software developers than a jury of ordinary people, or easier?

As someone who knows you can identify similarities between seemingly dissimilar text using mathematical analysis, I feel like it'd be easier to convince me that there was "non-literal copying."
> I think there's an obvious and more general question here to be answered: if a piece of software is good enough, namely, it "disappears" when you are trying to do your job, then why bother to change it?

I find I care about the applications I use: my IDE, git client, console, and the various web apps I use. I don't so much care about my browser UI, as long as it gets out of the way and shows me what URL I'm on and renders the page.

Likewise, I don't care about the UI of the OS itself, as long as it does its job properly: lets me start and switch between apps, connects to wifi, manages the display power, and sleeps and wakes up.

When I'm looking at the computer screen, I'm looking at what I'm doing, not the UI chrome. Even now, I'm only paying attention to this comment text box and your original message.. Everything else -- all the other tabs I have open, the visible bits of the OS, the other window open on my next monitor -- all blends into the background and gets ignored.
Yes, but a 5-acre farm will sustain maybe half a dozen people, not thousands of people. The article is simply absurd.
> You wouldn't say that that somebody hacked Iceland's democracy.

Right, because the Panama Papers leak wasn't a leak targeting specifically one Icelandic party, traced back to a foreign government with active geopolitical disputes with Iceland who also had similar hacks of other Icelandic parties traced back to them with no corresponding leaks.

There are quite a few additional relevant differences, as well, but I think that suffices to demonstrate that the situations are not, at all, parallel with regard to the applicability of the description in question.
Well... in the past week, I've been in that particular shopping center four times that I can recall. All four of those times I was armed.

I'd say the odds a random person on the street in Charlottesville, VA is legally armed is probably 3-5%, given the number of CHPs issued by the state.

It's also interesting to note that no license or permit is required in Virginia to carry a loaded handgun in the glovebox of your vehicle.
>model called TARDIS (Temporal Automatic Relation Discovery in Sequences).

Very clever.
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I think that you would really really like modern causality research if you bothered to look into it. It's all about f(A) ~ B, but recognizes that there are different ways of varying B. Do you disconnect B from the rest of its influences when you vary it, or are you letting them vary.

If you try to model f(A) ~ B in biological systems without simultaneously modeling causality, then it's going to go wrong. This happened to me in year 2 of grad school. The bayesian network built around data without modeling the causality was wrong, the one that took into account the causality from the knockout experiments was right.
Yes, I do realize that. Which ought to have been clear from the use of the term 'cross-licensing', frankly.
Also using big O notation here makes no sense surely? The claim that the switch version is (in contrast) O(1) is not even wrong.
I'm sorry, but the fact our president doesn't actually understand what free speech means is appalling.

Free speech doesn't mean a college has to give you a platform from which to spew your hate speech. Ironically him threatening to defund them over this is actually a borderline violation of the college's free speech rights.
Why exactly was he not charged? The police aren't exactly there to say "oh yea you did it .. but you're free to go" They're highly incentivized to put people in jail.
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Hear hear, it was a nightmare getting teachers for my kid's German school in SV: so much H1 uncertainty and they usually all vanished at the wrong time (i.e. all taken before the time when teachers change jobs).
Firstly, congratulation on resisting the urge to entitle the post "Karma Police"

Secondly, consider one mechanism for why stories might get more likes: do they linger for longer on the home page? If HN population is increasing, then getting to the front page might increase the momentum more now than it used to. And then it collects more likes once it is there.
So not only are we wrong, but so is every other country on earth. How is it all countries, many of which would like to become relatively more competitive than America, seem to all be making the same mistake you allude to?

W/re training. America is responsible for training our own, I don't think we should think we should off load that job to say Canada, and in the same way people's home countries should be responsible for their own citizens wellbeing and development. We cannot be responsible for nor absorb the deficiencies by other countries with respect to their own citizens, in effect subsidizing malgovernance.
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And im getting bunch of 404s for .net docs. Which means its not really a serious project
Milo has no god-enshrined right to hold a rally at a university campus, just like he has no god-enshrined right to hold one at the country club down the road. It is completely consistent to protest the establishments allowing him to do so.

There is also the argument that fascism is an existential threat to liberal democracy. See the paradox of tolerance.