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> mandatory certification and is too incompetent

I suppose, government IT might be a good example of that...
This is true. The problem is bad actors can use this to bypass Apple's review. As an iOS app publisher I slightly regret this inconvenience. As an iPhone user, I appreciate Apple looking out for my security.
Dreams are like if your train of thought suddenly became your surrounding environment; like reality itself collapsing around pretty bizarre local states.
The page says all content will be unavailable after March 15th. This is extremely unfortunate, and also in my case infuriating.
An argument based on altruism wouldn't ring true with me. I'm not an altruist and, while I'm absolutely in the minority in that regard, there are others that don't accept altruism as a valid moral system either. I don't think you need altruism to make a good argument for vaccines and that you can construct good arguments for altruists and egoists alike. Perhaps the only argument I need is to know that I need to protect myself from the damn fools that don't get them... I expect your assessment of risk to the non-vaccinated compared to the risk of the vaccines themselves in a generally vaccinated population is not correct depending on the disease. I expect that if you're not vaccinated against small pox, your chance of getting it is very low compared to the risk of the vaccine itself... but that if you're not vaccinated against measles you're risking much more than the what risk the vaccine presents.

Having said all this I can assure you that, as an egoist, I have most vaccinations and have had my young child get all the normal vaccinations. Not for some greater good, but because it's in our self interest.
The problem with Apple that you and your customers need to be aware of (or concerned about), is that once a number of your customers sidestep Apple policies w.r.t. pushing or changing features via JavaScript, Apple will change their policies to close that loophole. It's only a matter of time before companies take advantage of this path to sidestep app store approvals.
> Tests are really a misnomer -- they don't verify the correct execution of the code. What they do is probe the execution of the code. It tells me what the code is actually doing and documents my assumptions about what it should be doing. If there is an error, there will be a mismatch in the two.

Very well said.
Many of my colleagues commute 2+h/day. That's 10-14h/week.

Most everyone at work communicates via phone and email most of the time.

Why are we not all tellecommuting but instead burning fossil fuels while waiting in traffic, risking our lives twice a day and actively speeding up an irreversible climate change that will take away everything we care about?
This appears to affect apps using JSPatch which is not pushing Objective-C but JavaScript.

Source: https://github.com/bang590/JSPatch/issues/746 (in Chinese)
Right, like Uber, Snapchat, Facebook, Clash of Clans, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Waze, Shazam, Tinder, Match, YouTube, and basically every other app out there pulling out of the App Store would not be suicide.

"At most", those companies would just have to "change their businesses".
Everyone is selfish but being selfish in a way that could, if enough people also followed that movement, cause an epidemic is worth labeling as such.

Selfish is not a broad term. It is an adjective used to describe a person, usually in conjunction with some action they are taking.

Your anecdotal experience with both pro- and anti-vaccination supporters has no real backing beyond ignoring the above and generalizing the term selfish to something it is not.

The purpose of moralizing is to shame those that ignore our struggle as living organisms. It would be tragic if a ton of people died because of the movement. If it goes unchecked, it could happen given enough unvaccinated people.

Maybe there is more to be said about how these vaccines are scheduled but that warrants some scientific data I don't have.
> If it makes you feel any better

Not sure. Wouldn't a bump in canal traffic be good for the city?
The default is to map the shared page to a randomized, available address within the process space.

libc gets the address of the page by looking it up in an auxiliary vector table that belongs to the process.
In a "generic" system you will almost by definition lose some useful stuff.

The system will end up feeling a bit clunky.

People who have worked on Wordpress and Drupal to stretch them into content management systems for various industries know this.

So in that sense there's some value in having a system that is dedicated to a specific purpose.

Having said that that's not an excuse to not improve generic content management systems and solutions.
Data are useful, but interpretation is more murky. You are interviewing the people who don't want to work at Uber anymore. The people who might not "fit in" (following your logic) are the people who aren't interested in leaving.
"The spillway is 15" thick."

That is surprisingly thin. Plenty of concrete surface that you walk (not drive) on every single day is 6 or even 8 inches thick.

I'm sure it's within spec and built to fulfill their design, etc., but ... I would hardly call it "burly".
You don't think this would drive data scientists to use Google's cloud platform? I.e., if the most well-known data science competition uses the platform, then they will use it after the fact since it's what they know best. Right?
A "maintenance programmer" is a programmer whose job is maintaining a system (bug fixes and adaptation to relatively minor environmental changes) that is viewed as complete and basically static, either without major new development expected or with major new development done by separate teams in as-needed projects. Often, maintenance programmers are employed by the organization owning the system, while new development is done by contracted teams.

It is a particularly common role in government and other enterprise shops, particularly those that still use a pre-Agile, civil-engineering-metaphor approach to software development.
Reddit.. The narrative has been violently pushed and pulled 1000 directions for a couple years now. I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting, but are you saying someone is either mind controlling him, or effecting leverage over him to coerce him to become their tool? You do believe it was indeed him in his interview with Hannity a month ago, right?
Yea because the handful of blogs and snippets you've read gives you ample perspective on the thousands of employees at Uber. Give me a break
The only gamma function I can think of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function , which doesn't make much sense in context.
Where is this vectorized expf implemented? I am only seeing softmax is calling the standard expf. Let's suppose expf from libm is vectorized. Is there any benchmark showing nnpack's implementation is really faster? I doubt, actually. Exp is quite expensive even if vectorized.
I think my record was 3.5 hours from Brentwood to Long Beach on a Friday evening. I got a job in OC and then they kept giving me assignments on the west side. (How is there no train parallel to 405?)

I guess that's the difference that the OP isn't accounting for; It's not that downtown is crowded at rush hour - It's like a billion square miles of solid cars from 6am-10am and 1:30pm to 7pm. (The freeway might be OK at lunch time, but streets sure aren't)

The guy talking about Beijing... What a dystopia. How many years until LA is like that?
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Which is also true of the Constitution and law and so on.
> people should think more when they write, and make sure they think about what they're saying

Maybe you should just stop overthinking what they wrote.
Neither Google nor Apple nor any other game platform is going to stop games from downloading new content. That's just how games work these days.

The reason this type of "hot code push" is more attractive on iOS is because the app review process is much longer, so publishers look for ways to skirt it. Looks like Apple is just starting to enforce it more.
pretty cool. i'm going to try char-rnn with rwa some time
That is exactly what is happening with Firefox.
Not necessarily. From the Apple Developer Program License Agreement:

> 3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be
used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not
downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's builtin WebKit framework, provided that such scripts and code do not change the primary purpose of the Application by providing features or functionality that are inconsistent with the intended and advertised purpose of the Application as submitted to the App Store.
I'm also British, which may explain why I was able to read the GP's post first time.
I'm kind of getting the sense that TF is presently being optimized for its own massive development: that is, the engineers are yanking out chunks of code and replacing them, quickly, and at varying scales.
You can only have two active at a time so it seems like it's a loss-leading product just to get people through the door
If all those companies did pull out, then it would be the end of Apple.
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I'm Erez Rusovsky, the CEO of Rollout.io

Rollout's mission has always been, and will always be about helping developers create and deploy mobile apps quickly and safely.
Our current product has been a life saver for hundreds of apps by allowing them to patch bugs in live apps.

We were surprised by Apple's actions today.
From what we've been able to gather, they seem to be rejecting any app which utilizes a mechanism of live patching, not just apps using Rollout.

Rollout has always been compliant with Apple's guidelines as we've detailed in the past here:
https://rollout.io/blog/updating-apps-without-app-store/

Our SDK is installed in hundreds of live apps and our customers have fixed thousands of live bugs in their apps.

We are contacting Apple in order to get further clarification on why Rollout doesn't fall under the clause that lets developers push JS to live apps as long as it does not modify the original features and functionality of the app.

I'll post updates as I have them.

Erez Rusovsky
CEO Rollout.io
Is it really that bad?! The FBI took Apple to court because it couldn't crack its iPhones...
This is obviously a talent acquisition in more ways than one (the Kaggle team, but also their ability to source machine learning talent). I wonder to what degree it's also a Tensorflow promotion move? It seems like Google is very interested in growing a community around it.

For example: some friends who run a seed-stage biotech deep learning startup were offered a considerable discount by the Google Cloud folks. Their ask? That the company switch to Google Cloud, rewrite some proprietary software in Tensorflow, and heavily publicize both moves.

I wonder if we'll see Kaggle gain a specific bent towards that ecosystem.
Uber isn't going up against one company though. It is going up against 1000s of governments.
Just keep in mind, the wider your work-span throughout the day, the tendency is for the quality of each hour to decrease. Might just be the case that you need to cut some hours, and delegate.
Perhaps he meant to say O(N!), which would be horrendous scaling.
I think this rethinkdb postmortem write-up best explains the original commenter's sentiment http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.ht...
And each one wants you to create an account and a password, each with different requirements for # of letters, digits, and special characters. Because, you know, people are always trying to break into these sites to post fake resumes.
Y apply to YC. If ur serious about anything and ur a serious developer, u don't need money, connections, etc. Y dilute yourself, Y forever be beholden to investors. I know I don't want anyone telling me what to do regarding my baby.

Programming apps is quicker than ever now. All you need is a ramen noodle revenue stream to keep you afloat while you build.

I urge you to question why you really wanna go to YC. Is it to get consigned by "daddy"? It sure can feel good. It's an accomplishment of it's own, but a sub-par intention.

You got this far, why not monetize on your own so you can support yourself through your product, and never have to give up any equity and rights to decision making for YOUR COMPANY!

Too many people are eager to allow others to have a say on their baby. Don't do it unless you absolutely need to. Start charging. I'll pay for this product. Forget YC. Believe in yourself. Are you a follower that eagerly seeks direction from others or a leader who just knows what must be done and doesn't look to others for validation. Validation seekers will always fare less well because they are less confident. So the question is: why are you not confident in yourselves? Why is this going to fail if you don't go to YC? To put the question in the positive, how could you get to where you wanna go and farther without YC?? What do you need? Is it just ramen noodle revenue for you guys while you build? If so, maybe there are other ways. Have you even tried to explore them?
> I should also make the point that the DNC/Hillary stuff is not a foregone conclusion that it was Russian. These leaks cast new light on the DNI's Grizzly Steppe paper where the NSA gave a 50/50 level of confidence that Russia was involved (but CIA and FBI said that it was greater than 50%).

Why would the CIA hack the DNC though? It certainly wasn't a smart strategic decision for the Democratic administration. Why would they hack the DNC and not the RNC?
Conspiracy as Governance. Assange wrote a paper predicting this 10 years ago as his vision, and it's clearly coming true: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/want-know-julian-assanges-endg...
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just because the demands are difficult, doesnt mean that the staff will work to make it happen.

The staff can let it fail and place the blame on a rival

The staff can fail, and distract the president

The staff can fail, and blame a convenient political opponent.

The staff can succeed, in a few things, but not the whole remit. They can then spin it as a success

The task could be very complicated and would require multiple steps to achieve it.

But finally, the reason this fails as an argument - is that gutting the security apparatus of the state when you control it, is absurd.

The assumption for this to be non-absurd, is that the CIA is working against the government, and the constitution.

If that was the case, then following the constitution and declassifying their arsenal was not necessary in the least.

Essentially, the theory can be disproved by contradiction/occams razor.
Having worked at companies with varying degrees of "hustle" culture, I have to say I prefer (and I know others who prefer) the hustle, the energy, the sense of urgency, the culture of always being present and checked in. If you've got in-born hustle, it's tough to work around people without it. Once lack of hustle takes hold, it spreads like a virus through a company, and soon everyone comes down with this "eh, we can always do it later" attitude about everything. People start not taking deadlines seriously, start worrying more about taking time to build consensus rather than being quick and decisive. Roll in late to meetings, etc. You can even see it watching foot traffic--non-hustlers physically walk slower through the halls. Companies that hustle aren't for everyone but let's not condemn it. It's good to have a variety of work cultures available because different personalities work better in different environments.

Note the above rant doesn't excuse illegal or discriminatory behavior. I'm just addressing the simplistic "hustle = bad" argument.
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Actually, I work and am friends with a number of ex-Uber employees, did contract work for them years ago, have driven for them in the past... But you certainly think that the few words of mine you've read seem to give you ample perspective into what I know, don't you?
It seems that most people are overlooking one of the more significant points Apple have made here:

"Even if the remote resource is not intentionally malicious, it could easily be hijacked via a Man In The Middle (MiTM) attack, which can pose a serious security vulnerability to users of your app."

Source: https://github.com/bang590/JSPatch/issues/746
The largest improvement you can make to reduce the cognitive load of your code is to move to a functional language with immutable data and optionally static typing. Empirical data about bug tendencies by language http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf is IMHO indirect evidence of cognitive load issues.
I just "downgraded" a legacy $10 instance to a $5 instance, as it now has better specs than what I was using, so they do allow it. It seems the $2.50 plan is a special class (probably loss-leading) and doesn't fully integrate with the rest of their products.
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That does seem to be the dynamic. The popularization of the Internet beyond military and academia did catch oligarchies off guard. Also the associated popularization of PCs, and public-interest cryptography.

So yes, the cat got out of the bag. But not out of the prison. There is no real freedom using smartphones, and now PCs are becoming more and more like smartphones. The Internet is a morass of nested panopticons.

Anyway, hand wringing about FCC etc policy seems silly. Even if it does materially affect privacy for US citizens, it's irrelevant to everyone else. What we need are better approaches for individuals and groups to guarantee their own privacy.
This isn't halo effect. When hiring someone from a company that has a certain culture, you expect people to share some of that culture. With more severely negative points of Uber's culture coming to light, companies are wondering how much of that culture the current employees share.

And there's a difference between being scrappy and hustling.
I have 2 kids - 4 year old & a 3 month old.

I am writing this (comment), as I put my son to sleep. He is almost 4 & wants me to be in the room as he drifts to sleep. So i am sitting beside his bed (after an evening full of quality time with him), checking up on left over work for the day (& hackernews)

We just had the second one - who is 3 months old now. So it's still adjusting phase for all of us at home. Sometimes, I just wonder, how people have/manage time with 3 or 4 kids. I seem to be struggling with 2.

Let me write down, what works for me/us:

1. Early dinner & 8 pm bed time for kids gives me 2-3 hours every night. Sometimes, I choose to work on side projects/hobbies. Sometimes, I just binge watch netflix with my wife. Sometimes, I make my kids bedtime my own & wake up early next morning. It depends.

2. On weekends, afternoons - I can easily get a couple of hours - when kids go to nap. Of course, this is not working out recently, as our new born colludes with the elder one - and they nap at different times.

3. What really would help me - and i struggle with this - if i have clear priorities in my head - what I want to achieve in the 'extra time' that I have got. The clearer the goal, better the results.

Ultimately, I have realized, kids give me far more joy than anything work related can. However, hats off to all of us parents - who are juggling of priorities - work - life & trying to do the best we can.
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Maybe someone can clear this one up. So from the Snowden leaks, we know the extent of the NSA toolkits and the requirements which need to be met to utilize them. Now we know what the CIA has to work with, which requires the same authorizations, however apparently they encounter less oversight/obstructions(irrelevant), and after Apple refused to unlock the San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, we found out the FBI was playing some sort of politics, by claiming that justice might not be served without Apple's intervention, and proceeded to publicly shame the ethical position they took. So why on earth was Obama trying to force Apple's hand in that matter? Soon as Apple said no, the FBI somehow found the single magical person willing and able to defeat the privately enhanced security of the 5s the shooter carried? Makes no sense to me.
This is the reference implementation of softmax, i.e. implementation used as a reference in unit tests. It is designed to be simple, readable, and correct, which is why I linked it here.

Optimized implementation is in assembly (PeachPy). See https://github.com/Maratyszcza/NNPACK/blob/master/src/x86_64... for the vectorized expf
That's disappointing. Google will probably keep the service alive for recruiting and the consumer base, while most of it's technologies will probably be shut off. Being owned by Google might also mean that some companies might not want to post challenges on Kaggle anymore, like Facebook or Microsoft.
Games updating DLC is nothing new and is not what this is about.

Google did recently change the Android permission model; previously, apps had to request all their permissions at install time and it was all-or-nothing (and frankly, hardly anyone bothered to look them over.)

Now, certain permissions have to be requested when they're needed (at least for recent versions of the SDK) and the user can choose to allow or deny. But an app can't grant itself new permissions without going through the official update process.
I hear the frustration, but what about optimizing the build? Are there pieces that can be cached? What's the longest running part and why?
That's absurd and offensive on a lot of levels... The thing anyone in a protected class wants is to not be judged on that as a factor one way or the other. People working at Uber are "struggling" because their perceived ticket to the stars is looking kind of bad; they wish there were getting offers left and right for working there, because plenty of people get jobs on the basis of their last company.

You get judged in interviews, and it is a best case scenario if it is over recent stuff you had control over.
It's not supported by the underlying .NET object model, so no .NET language can handle it without reinventing the wheel in a way that's incompatible with the rest of them. Since cross-language interop is one of the bigger benefits of OO in .NET, no-one really bothers.
We already knew they probably don't care about hiring "the best" since they cut out a large part of the pool that they'd be able to hire from: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/state-marijuana-law...
Congrats to the Kaggle team! One great thing about Kaggle was that the team listened and sought out feedback from users (even if they didn't always follow the feedback). I hope that doesn't change with the acquisition.
Yeah, just because something looks like chaining doesn't mean it's really repeated calls on the same object. Even with some static-checking of types, it could also be a copy of the object.

While blocky, the repeated thing.do() format is explicit about what object is being operated on.
Whoever named this company has literally never spoken to a woman.
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They have 500,000 developers, do the math at 30% commission for each assuming a $180k salary that's $50k even if they hire 0.1% of them that adds up to $50k * 500 = 25m they probably paid a few times more than that but not a few hundred times, which therefore makes this a pretty sweet deal for Google assuming the community keeps growing.
No, government IT mostly doesn't have "required certifications"; it actually has far less credentialism, IME, than private industry.

Competence is something of a mixed bag; I'd say the biggest problems aren't with technical competence of line staff but with government IT management and organization and policies imposed from outside of IT in government that constrain IT practices.