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I worked for Aflac for over five years. They have a good track record as an ethical company that treats employees really well, etc. They also have a good track record on diversity specifically.

They always said something like We hire "everyone" because we sell to "everyone." There are things you just will not think of if you are not part of a particular subgroup.

The other thing I will suggest is that in order to have diversity internally, you need a certain level of general respect for people of a sort that fosters good communication. If your people are too similar, the odds are really good that there will be implicit bias showing in how you word things or whatever. This implicit bias will be something that seems innocuous to insiders. Most people are not very welcoming of hearing that the way they do things smacks of implicit bias. This feels really ugly to them, so it is incredibly hard to change such things. Even if someone is willing and able to point it out, most people will not only not listen, they will actively deny it. But if you have a lot of implicit bias, most people won't even try to tell you that you are doing this Thing that excludes them and others like them.

I do blog a bit about such topics and would be happy to pull up a relevant post or two from my blog if you are interested. I have a track record of promoting diversity in online forums and I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member of HN. Those are my "credentials," FWIW.

I could probably also find you some research or articles, if you are interested. I have posted stuff about this, probably on HN, but definitely elsewhere and I could find what I posted elsewhere fairly readily.
Older peoples' eyesight is not as good as younger people. We need bifocals, trifocals, reading glasses, etc. Font and color choices that work for young eyes may not work with older eyes. Using larger fonts in the browser may help, but not all text scales, and some layouts will break really badly. If you see a person looking over their glasses at a screen three inches away, there is a serious problem.

Slack tries to be clever and hip with its responses, but it is really silly and irritating after awhile. It is easy to be cute and snarky but end up offending people different from your team, like "Hey, dudes!".

Programmers with experience writing APIs will create better new APIs, but not if they are "too old" for the culture fit.
Don't know the details of the projects but from the pictures posted (here and elsewhere) it seems that only topsoil was eroded.

Yes, bedrock is not indestructible, it could get eroded from water, but it takes times. Plus it get eroded slowly over time. The main concerns was the use amount of water released by the failure of the spillway. For sure the water keep flowing over the collapse spillway would erode the bedrock lowering it, but at a slower pace...
> It is ultimately the decision of the Japanese citizens

I mean, that's exactly it. Why is it so shocking an idea that the Japanese apparently prefer to retain their homogeneity even if it weakens their economy?
I mean without a strong economy everything else around it kinda goes to shit.
Bought a 7710 for the same reason and love it.
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There's a similar theory regarding the formation of the Grand Canyon

http://www.icr.org/research/index/researchp_sa_r02/
You are speaking in broad terms and are making an assessment based on them. "drivers stampeded" "riders stampeded" "most parties" and you round all that off by saying that the value of the services offered were below 0.

I cannot speak to the motivation of those that chose Uber as a customer or employer. Perhaps customers chose them because of the cost and convenient app. Perhaps employees chose them because of the low barrier to entry and flexible hours.

Just because something different came along and grabbed everyone's attention does not mean that the gov services are valued at zero. There was a time when those yellow cabs had little to no rules or oversight. And that changed for a good reason - or at least a reason that people thought were good at a time.

The rules for Uber are going to change too - there will be laws and rules designed to correct wrongs (either real or perceived).

If the rules need to be different then people need to stand up and try to make the rules what they think they should be. My argument is that Uber should not decide on its own not to respect the will of the people.
Don't the opensuse folks still ship it by default?
> Uber isn't a monopoly.

Like every startup (and most companies), it aims to be; a moat is pricing power is an absence of substitute is monopoly.
I also wanted to put out there that I had a good experience ordering a Galago UltraPro from them in circa 2014.
3.141592653589793115997963468544185161590576171875 is the exact decimal representation for the 64-bit IEEE-754 number that's closest to pi (viz. 0x400921FB54442D18).

Any time you see a decimal floating-point constant with a nonzero fractional part that doesn't end in '5', you're looking at a bug.

EDIT: As long as this grizzled old Fortran programmer is giving out free advice, I'll add two more items every programmer should know about binary floating-point:

a) Every binary floating-point number can be represented exactly in decimal notation if you use enough digits.

b) Those decimal values are the only ones that can be exactly converted to binary; all of the rest require rounding.
Yep.

As Tech folks, honestly, we should just save up FU money and then stop worrying.
There you go: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-180...
I'm a software engineer myself - but I can't even contribute to projects such as lowRISC - is way beyond my abilities. Right now I'm learning to program microcontrollers, and I want to learn about FPGA's as the next step.

I also work at a company that has exactly this focus - to sell, and eventually produce devices that can be run with free software from top to bottom - but I don't see ourselves producing our own devices in the next 5 years, even if we would become wildly sucessful.

The hope seems to lie with ARM for the moment - C100 / C201 have even the Embedded Controller (EC) code avaiable - but they do have plans to implement something simillar to ME, AFAIK.
Agreed- this is the first time I really understood the sequence of events and the scale of the damage.
> A macro processor is not of the language; it is above the language.

Then feel free to use the C preprocessor with Rust, it works just as well. :P Just like it does with Python, and Java, and...
The better question is why should they have to? Because Western countries decided their economy is more important than their autonomy to decide these things?
Interesting. Which countries?
Quarter-to-quarter AIBs shipments increased 5.6%, and 21% year-to-year
There is a new URL api but it's still "experimental" and not supported at all by IE. This new API is just a different interface to the url parsing logic already used for the location and href objects so you can use those instead and get the same functionality.

A tag elements expose this with the href attribute and it's very lightweight since it's not inserted into the DOM. Create one reusable global element and make a wrapper function around it if you want to be even more efficient.
It sounds like you're coming from the land of GC. Rust helps a lot with managing memory but the pattern you're talking about is creating garbage which the GC would then have to collect.

Manually collect the things you need to hold onto and put them into a struct and return that from open_log(); Do the same with prepare_db(). Then give the structs some methods for getting to the actual db object.

Alternatively use log4rs and rust-postgres. Or inspect their code to see how they handle it.
i understand uber needs to use my location for their service. i don't expect them to use it to determine whether or not i should be allowed on their service.

and also i don't expect them to continue using my location once i leave the app in the name of "user safety" _especially_ given the above info.
Massively speed up 3d printing by using holograms
Yeah 1ML is what really benefits from this: You really want subtyping for modules to handle library evolution, and 1ML means if you want it for modules ya better have it everywhere.
> It ignores all of the important things that make usability good

Can you give some examples?

To me the approach presented here is not just about coming up with an initial design (where I agree there are more aspects to be considered), but iterating on existing design aspects (in this case language syntax and semantics) to make them more useable. Seeing the first dimension the author mentions is 'Applicability' it seems they pay attention to consistency, but I can see it is not explicitly mentioned.
Muhahaha, my plan is working! ;)
I'm not right-wing by any stretch of the imagination (pretty hard left, actually), so the fact that instead of actually thinking about my arguments you just slap a label on them and dismiss them out of hand should disturb you.

Perhaps what's confusing to you is that I'm capable of considering the thought process of people I disagree with.

> Point me to a recording where Schulz said anything like that.

You understand that not everything politicians say is recorded? That said, Burg has literally no reason to lie about this.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.574332

> On the contrary, Schulz has a decade long track record working for Germany and the European Union

All you've done is prove my point; even people who work for the EU for a long time appear to have plenty of conflicting non-EU interests.
Thanks for the detailed answer. In regards to:

>" Most implementations only allow 1 PK, and that PK is Microsoft's."

Isn't this a bit monopolistic and coercive though? "If you want the Microsoft Hologram on your product the PK has to be has to be Microsoft and there can only be one PK." I can't believe this doesn't violate some type of anti-trust laws.
And the word 'entrap' is disingenuous. Entrapment is used to describe situations where law enforcement induces someone to break a law they would have been otherwise unlikely to commit.

In this case, the drivers were already breaking the law (opinions on the righteousness of the law notwithstanding), and law enforcement was seeking to apprehend, not entrap.
Risky business requires systems which have measures of risks and hazards.

This is what bothers me about some of the self-driving efforts. You need a metric for "how long until we hit something on current course", and that has to be connected to braking. This has to work even if you don't know what the "something" is or the planning and evasive action subsystem hasn't decided what to do yet. Tesla's "plows into unrecognized stationary objects projecting into left side of road" feature indicates that they relied too much on recognizing known objects. This is also a criticism of automatic driving using deep neural networks. That's likely to perform well until it performs very, very badly.
The Linux authors don't write the C standard.
They probably underestimated the number of people who believe that not all regulations benefit consumers necessarily.
Or people for who English is not their first language. In Spanish at least, an "americano" is anyone from the Americas. People from the US are "estadounidenses".
Citizens of the five countries currently have to get a full B-2 visa to visit the U.S., which costs $160 and involves an interview at the embassy. Why do you think the requirements for U.S. citizens coming to Europe would be much less onerous?
gah! Yes, I mean "we would never consider tracking you without your express given consent." That's opt in not opt out.
Depending on what group you're trying to attract or improve the experience with, you could potentially setup contracts with the level of person you would like to deal with and pay them to implement something in rust while you monitor their progress & with full access to their work and what they're doing.
Maybe not. That might tie their hands in court. It might leave "have the court declare the law invalid" as their only way to win. Limiting your options that way tends to be bad legal strategy (whether or not it would be the moral high ground).

Disclaimer: IANAL.
Sure, but the silicon & libre drivers already exist and don't need to be manufactured, so at this point its a marketing problem of selling a more secure computing box.
> fired up Access. In the spare time I had here and there I put together a database everyone could use at once, input once… until Access became too limiting (I honestly can't remember why now)…

Didn't Access have a 20-or-so-simultaneous connections limitation? I guess it depends on how old the version. Yes, I tried using Access on a website once (Lowers head in shame).
I suppose the question then is, did writing Unix make C ergonomic? :)
Most of the screws I have seen are trashed from people using screwdrivers instead of impact drivers. Even with the proper JIS bit the screws will still be ruined if you don't use an impact type tool. There's just no way to apply enough axial force to the fastener with a normal hand tool, even if the shape is correct.
I'm interested in nix too, but lots of folks still wanna keep their .deb and ..rpm based systems just the way they are, but enhance them.

Lots of folks are against a fundamental rethink. It'll have to be introduced a piece at a time (like with snaps and flatpak).

Hopefully we'll end up with something like nix in the end.
I don't really use foldr even in Haskell. It's almost always a performance problem.
You're really underplaying how much extant "Japanese culture" sucks for young people, and women, and everyone who isn't a wealthy old man. There's so much pressure to get a particular type of job (or marry a dude who has that type of job) and jobs of that type are quite unpleasant. Mis-investment on an immense scale (roads to nowhere, tearing down 20-story office buildings to build slightly fancier 22-story office buildings, ever-more-remote Tokyo suburbs while other cities wither, etc.) has deprived the rest of the economy of needed resources. That's left formerly-successful industrial organizations unable to reorganize for the "knowledge" economy. Big brands like Sony have been soundly beaten by Korean brands like Samsung. Those in charge are out of ideas, save for ideas about how to stay in charge. Everyone else is on the outside looking in.
Why use Neo4j for a program you're going to run once and not store the data? Multimap<T, T> works great.
And (in many countries) significantly underestimate the the threat from actual threats like pollution and climate change.

I've been working on a project related to greenhouse gas emission savings lately and it's depressing how "massive" gains in efficiencies are a drop in the bucket of total emissions.
No, but a few have enslaved thousands of people, and worked them to death in coal mines. Long after the Civil War ended.

Like, uh, US Steel. [1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php? storyId=89051115

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics-jan-june12-slavery_0...
From TFA:

The systemd cabal (Kay Sievers, Harald Hoyer,
Daniel Mack, Tom Gundersen, David Herrmann,
and yours truly) recently met ...

If this isn't an insight into the mindset of a person, nothing is.
> It's a fair observation that you could build end-usery UIs on a LispM.

Texas instruments ran the Interface Builder on their Lisp Machine, which was demoed to Steve Jobs and which then was developed into the NeXTstep interface builder.

> I guess a more important factor is that PCs were cheap enough to create a market for friendlier UIs, and LispMs weren't.

The higher-end commercial applications on the Lispm were kind of user friendly. Using something like the font editor or a graphics editor was not difficult. There was a problem that during its lifetime much of the UI landscape was under development - both in look&feel and APIs. There were even UIs on the Lispm that looked similar to Mac apps (like Plexi, a neural network toolkit).

Symbolics' Dynamic Windows GUI had some polish, which came from being used in some applications and it had seen some substantial investment in development. Where this investment was not done, applications lacked polish and remained experiments, demos, sketches, research prototypes, ...

TI also developed a more conventional UI toolkit for their Lispm.

> I guess a more important factor is that PCs were cheap enough to create a market for friendlier UIs, and LispMs weren't.

The market was small - I would guess that around 10000 machines were sold. Additionally the software was not portable to other platforms. CLIM was thought to support that - with some applications using it - but that was bound to commercial Lisp systems, some of them expensive... Generally I think the Lispm impact on other UI systems wasn't that great.
I've never used VB.NET but it's pretty much basic, isn't it?
>Why is it so shocking an idea that the Japanese apparently prefer to retain their homogeneity even if it weakens their economy?

Is this true? How do you know?
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I wish I could believe you. I also agree with the sentiment. However, I have worked at Agencies, and ultimately the career bureaucracies are the real governance.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/11/the-deep-state-goes-to-w...
> I personally believe a big reason for the Mac resurgence

Mac resurgence is more of a perception than reality. In 2016, Apple sold ~18.5M Macs, down from the previous two years [1] and off more than 10% from last year.

Granted that the Mac numbers are falling at a slower pace than the PC market as a whole, but resurgence is probably an over-characterization.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/state-apples-device-sales-1940...
Exactly.

You are not obligated to assist the police.

But lying to / actively deceiving law enforcement in the act of their work is usually considered a crime.
Why do you think DTLA and eastside are becoming more important? (For tech) It seems the opposite is true, "Silicon Beach" continues to be the center of LA tech and there's no signs of this changing. Especially with the new train, many can work westside and live somewhere near a train station.
As an American I'm inclined to agree, but I still think that's for the Japanese to decide.
This isn't true, his base of support is motivated by any number of factors and many of them are financially well off.

Plenty of his political supporters would be happier if he behaved more like the usual politicians but will put up with his shenanigans as long as they get what they want from him.
I started with the VU's 3rd, and self-titled, album. Standouts from the album: Some Kind of Love, Pale Blue Eyes, I'm Set Free, After Hours. It's a much better album than Loaded, which has some great songs (Sweet Jane, I Found a Reason, Sweet Nothin'), but Reed famously complained that he gave them an album full of hits, and they returned shit (to paraphrase). The Velvet Underground and Nico has its share of accessible songs, too: Sunday Morning and I'll Be Your Mirror stand out (Venus in Furs and Heroin are also great songs but not particularly accessible). White Light/White Heat is great, but it's almost entirely experimental noise rock.

Transformer is another good starting point. Other posters mentioned Perfect Day, Walk on the Wild Side, and Satellite of Love, but Andy's Chest and Goodnight Ladies are also great.

How Do You Think It Feels, Oh Jim, and Sad Song are songs I'd also recommend from Berlin (like the recommendations of Lady Day and Caroline Says II).

From Street Hassle, Gimme Some Good Times is right there with his best work (as is the title song), and Wait is one of my favorite Lou Reed throwaways. There are albums as good as Street Hassle, but for my money, there are none better.

Stupid Man, With You, City Lights, and Families are standouts on from The Bells. Don Cherry worked on this album with Lou, and Transformer and Street Hassle are his only 70's albums I'd put ahead of it (similar level to Berlin and Coney Island Baby, though they all have completely different sounds).

I like 80's Lou considerably less, but Blue Mask is a great album (Underneath the Bottle and Waves of Fear are also great tracks from it). New Sensations doesn't get the love it deserves (I Love You Suzanne, My Red Joystick, and the title track are great). New York is probably his best 80's album aside from Blue Mask. Romeo Had Juliette, Halloween Parade, and Last Great American Whale are my standouts, but it's a pretty consistent album.

Outside of his work with the VU and his 70's masterpieces, Ecstasy might be my favorite Lou Reed album. The title track, Baton Rouge, and Big Sky are all perfect, and Mad and White Prism are both clever and pretty devastating.

The quote about the first VU album, only selling 5,000 or 30,000 copies but everyone one who bought one started a band, is attributed to Brian Eno (brilliant musician in his own right), FWIW.

Lou Reed studied literature at Syracuse under Delmore Schwartz (he was the first great man I ever knew, Reed sings of Schwartz in My House). No musician has been more influential to rock music than Lou Reed. When the Beatles and Stones were trying to sound like Blues or R&B Bands, Reed was making altogether new sounds.

John Cale's solo stuff is also worth checking out (Paris 1919 and Fear are good places to start).
The problem is not only permissions. The problem is that code execution model within anything a mile close to web and browsers is a security threat by itself.
Alright, I'll bite. What's missing?

I ask as I type from my Dell XPS 13" DE (aka Sputnik).
You may be leaping to conclusions here about the energy density. I have seen no info that says the battery is 2.5 times heavier for a given energy capacity. The article from UT only said that the volumetric energy was higher. There is no information about the specific energy (wh/kg). Throughout the rest of the article they only refer to energy density without specifying Wh/liter or Wh/kg. I think it is a huge leap to deduce that this technology will be 2.5 times heavier for a given energy density.That does not make sense. A glass electrolyte will be very thin and is not likely to add much weight to the battery. The weight is much more likely to be dependent on the electrode materials and the weight of any necessary containment materials. Some battery chemistries require steel plates compressing every cell to prevent electrode expansion.
Society > USA.
But imagine how interesting the system is. Tying together so many data sources, and creating any output you want.