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> The community built around the GPL UNIX-alike kernel is far larger than the ones around the open source BSDs. The license and ideology were, afaict, a large component in that.

AFAICT, the only thing the license has to do with it is that it was available under a F/OSS license at a time when all other alternatives were legally encumbered, enabling it to grab the early mindshare and benefit from network effects.
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Of course not. The article is just oversensationalised. The paper doesn't make the same broad claims as the article.
The ASF a "flat broke" 501(c)(3)?

Hardly. We simply run a tight, fiscal ship. But broke? Please stop spreading FUD.
Because it wasn't Intel, it was PowerPC, and Intel always manages to pull a rabbit out of the hat in terms of performance and price.

Also if I recall I don't think Windows NT for PowerPC ever truly saw the light of day. And this was while Windows 95/98 was still dominant and before Windows 2000/XP, so there wasn't really consumer software for it. So no real operating systems.

PowerPC ended up being a dead end which only Apple pursued. Though I guess there were variants that ended up in gaming consoles for a while.

At a job I had (IBM subsidiary) in 1997 they had a pile of early-CHRP boxes hanging around. For kicks I got Linux running on them, just out of curiosity. They were basically juts PCs (PCI bus, etc.) that ran with a PowerPC CPU. Which is effectively what Macs were for years, too.
>only watching live broadcasts (including streaming) is.

Also using BBC iPlayer even for non-live content now requires a TV licence.
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I think it's this:

News: A does X.

Thought process: A

Thought process: Pop stack about A and post it.
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well duh, matt damon did it :P
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how is this different from ifttt?
I make no claim to the validity of the USA Today article. Unsubstantiated claims should not be countered with other unsubstantiated claims. I am simply calling for a higher level of proof.
Which is also mined for data for targeted advertisement, wouldn't that be the payment for access?
They'd laugh at you since at that time ARM was something that ran in either small-format low power low-clock devices (like a Newton) or in fringe machines like the Acorn Archimedes.
My experience with CSS modules is that it has the same problems, just at a smaller scale. And because of the local scope I also see a lot more code duplication. It also doesn't play very well with global CSS libraries like bootstrap.
What's the basic point of a connectome? What understanding did anyone expect to achieve from making one? Sure, maybe you can emulate the device, but unless you're a very ardent philosophical connectionist, you're not understanding much. And if you are a very ardent philosophical connectionist, you're claiming that knowing the connections gives us all there is to understand, with no deeper principles than synaptic weights being available.

It's as silly as expecting to get a good theory of artificial intelligence by studying artificial neural networks.

(I'm aware of the irony in the above statement, but stand by it earnestly. An excellent engineering artifact whose functioning we can't explain is not scientific understanding. An excellent engineering artifact whose functioning we refuse to explain is bad philosophy, too.)
"Powering these advances is machine learning and a combination of threat yadda yadda"

Looks like they do little more than just check for a Google cookie [1].

[1]. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-16/materials/asia-16-Siva...

edit: still, it's far better than the previous state of captchas. I'm glad they did this. But it's like for anything to be considered "advanced" or "good" in tech lately, it has to have been powered by "machine learning".
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And what's the size difference comparing the gzipped css files?
You should put your spreadsheet into google docs or office365 so you can access it from anywhere.
I think implementing min is slightly different to remembering the rotation algorithm for an AVL tree (for example). But still, my point wasn't to not test, it was to allow the candidate all of the tools of their trade whilst being tested. 'Air coding' (a phrase I use for white-board/paper/verbal coding) is not a good indicator in my humble opinion.
Regarding the mushrooms both were found to have been eating, I am reminded of Terence McKenna's "stoned ape" theory http://www.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/McKenna/Evolution/theory.htm...
well, it DOES list everything (in the 'new today' tab I think). But by default it shows the ranked list of products. In that sense, it works similar to HN where only top Show HNs are displayed in the homepage.
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As far as fruit goes bananas are the least healthy. They don't have a lot in the way of vitamins, and some people have a larger insulin response to bananas than cookies.
Whiteboard coding puzzles, and interviewing in general, are a distinct skill that usually has nothing to do with actual job performance. You can be bad at interviewing and still be a great employee, and vice versa you can be a great at interviewing and a bad employee.

You should treat it as a new skill to acquire, however annoying and pointless that is... or figure out ways to get a job without going through that. Some companies have better interview processes.

Re coding on a board, here's how I deal with those: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/04/interview-puzzles/
Oh thanks.

When I was a kid I was visiting my aunt who lived outside of Denver. I was walking around their property and on the other side of a fence was a stream which was exactly this color. I've always wondered what the deal was
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They're an even bigger thing in emails. Usually, companies would include a pixel from an external resource and then figure out if you've read the email or not by looking at was that image loaded or not.

IIRC, GitHub does that. If you read the email of some notification, it won't show you that notification in your notifications. The solution is to block external image loading in your email client (I know that Thunderbird has that, and I know that Zoho's email client on Android has that).
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You can find out by using dis and checking what is load_fast, load_const or load_global. Attribute lookups are always just that as far as I know. The dot operator has a bunch of paths.
Whiteboard coding is nothing at all like real work. In your real job you never code on a whiteboard with an arbitrarily short timeline, without access to the Internet while stressing about getting a job.

It's just a hazing ritual.
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I was just thinking that, holy cow. It's bad enough when a smoker sits down next to you on the bus. Imagine the guy next to you lighting up on a four hour flight. Holy shit.
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

And then once the trick is revealed, it stops being magic and just becomes "boring" math/engineering/etc.
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Well besides the creepy factor of what this data could be used for, the average user doesn't "consent" to it, because they have no idea it happens.
I know I owe my career to adderall.
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Then:

- Yawn, another landing. It just lands, nothing exciting to see.
Because if it were a real surveillance state, there would be jackbooted thugs, and the fact that I can say this proves that I'm not Scottish.
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FTA:-

“I have spoken to many memory competitors who can perform astounding feats and yet they say they can be quite forgetful in daily life, like the rest of us,” he says. “They are not generally using their techniques as they walk around the world any more than you or I are.”

:(
It does, although only can only assume the effect of performance on search rankings. It's non-tangible metric as far as revenue is concerned.
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You need someone else to list your first product I think.
Indeed; I believe casual dress in general-purpose, public adult leisure contexts was initially associated strongly with the upper/upper-middle classes and was seen as a signal of higher status, even in cases where the dress item in question was an appropriation from the working class (e.g., jeans).
A loss of a subsidy is a tax hike? Seems like that terminology is misleading while technically correct. If solar is so efficient why would it need a subsidy; wouldn't the market make it more desirable? If it isn't so efficient, then why subsidize it? It seems like the people that want solar should pay what it costs.
Whiteboard coding is one way to understand how a person thinks about a problem.

Regarding arbitrarily-short deadlines--the only difference is that IRL it wouldn't be on a whiteboard. Deadlines are still arbitrarily short, and people will be watching you work.

I've never asked someone to code on a whiteboard (I tend towards paper anyway) as anything remotely approaching hazing, which is specifically designed to humiliate, demean, or over-stress.
I think that's because two of the most important problems with food are quality and quantity that people eat. I'm general terms we eata lot of bad food, so if you have the same meal (so same quality) eating less (or only what your body needs and no more) that should be healthier.

I think I get your point though and eating well is a lot more that eating good food in adequate portions, and I agree, but for the general population over eating and junk food are the worst problems right now imho.
I consider it more a donation towards posterity than getting stiffed on some short term compensation.

It's just an opinion, but if the things Google has created and shared into the whole of human knowledge towards the betterment of future societies are still being used in a century for my grandkids (and the rest of humankind) to benefit from, then I think it's better than not having it because a few million people who couldn't have done it themselves said 'no' over a pittance.

I can't speak for you, but my dying thoughts won't be a sour reflection on all of opportunities to monetize my existence I might have missed.
Its works fine in Ubuntu.
Nah, the simple reason is a straightforward, almost-apolitical "Someone found a bug. We were doing something wrong. So we fixed it."
The safety is trivial, the cost is minuscule. The worst thing the critics say about it is that "it wasn't peer reviewed or done in a big study". Indeed, it wasn't - but asking for it in this case is simply cargo cult.

Most diets, whether tested in a large scale study or a small one, don't work equally well (if at all) on all participants - you'll notice that more often than not the only thing reported is the average weight loss, and that's usually because at least one participant didn't lose anything (or even gained).

The Shangri-La diet actually followed from experimental results in rats and people, which Roberts published, for free, on his own website[0], with all rationale, all the references you can ask for, and a description of his personal experience. This paper became very popular, but is too detailed for most people, that a publisher approached Roberts with a request to write a simplified version for lay people, and it is this book version that became an NYTimes best seller.

"No backing studies" in this case is knee jerk reaction -- when you can just try yourself at essentially zero cost and zero risk. Personally, it worked for me when I tried it; Roberts collected anecdotes from people on his website, urging anyone who tried to report starting and then their progress; IIRC, he assumed anyone who started and didn't report progress (there weren't many) as "didn't work", and after a year or so, it had ~80% success rate.

[0] http://media.sethroberts.net/about/whatmakesfoodfattening.pd...
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That's what I liked about it
I usually eat lunch somewhere between 12:00-14:00 and then something between 18:00-20:00 in the evening.

That's all, been doing it for about 17 years now and it works great. Although I drink coffee throughout the day.
> $1000 worth of raw materials (photovoltaic cells) would be much better used in countries like Syria.

In case you've not noticed, there isn't an electricity link all the way to the UK from Syria, and there's a war on in Syria; securing your solar panels against theft and aerial bombing would cost a lot more.

Yes, the UK should probably be looking more at wind and the tragically neglected tidal power opportunities. But solar is still surprisingly effective even this far north.
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What exactly are you suggesting? That they defeated modern cryptography or compromised Google to unprecedented degree?
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Why? I provided an argument with a source. Also, I wasn't saying that those feelings were immutable; I was just stating the fact that we make somewhat-lasting impressions very quickly on first glance, and those impressions can take time to change.
A bit off topic... Was just watching the old episodes of Star Trek on Netflix, still classic and very entertaining.
> thus producing more power

more power than if the temperatures were higher in the UK, not more power than if the UK had the solar irradiance and winter daylight times of Sahara.

It's still much more efficient to do produce electricity with solar plants in the Sahara. The problem is moving electricity over long distances is both costly and not efficient.
see also https://taskwarrior.org/
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Am I the only one thinking about the slime river under NYC in Ghostbuster 2 ?

Same colour, but not the same texture
I think it's cultural.

Many developers lack traditional credentials.
Others have credentials but didn't really learn the material.
Companies know that hiring bad developers can really hurt performance, morale, culture.
So big tech firms that do lots of hiring decided to invent tests to screen applicants. Smaller firms decided to follow suit since large companies were doing it.

If you truly want the jobs on offer, you probably need to cram a bit to pass interview tests. This is easier than it sounds, remember that it's likely going to be tests about the basics of well-known structures and operations (tree traversals, hashing, et cetera). I know it's annoying since it rarely comes up day-to-day, but the worst case is you learn your craft better than you need to.

Another route, go into parts of the field that don't have this requirement. I've noticed that certain areas (ERP Development, SQL DBA, etc) don't tend to focus on this and are more concept oriented in interviews. I think it's because you don't really build the tooling, but rather use it solve problems. Also, the job usually isn't for a company that makes its money from software.

No judgement (I'm a former ERP developer turned SQL DBA, so I'd probably fail most of these interviews spectacularly).
Because foreign countries are not explicitly exempted, while PR is due to past agreements. Note that you have to live there for a good amount of the tax year to qualify, which is fairly typical.
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luckily between here and there the'll be a lot of entertaining fireworks to be had.

the only shameful aspect of it is how the press will portray failures as terrible events for SpaceX, while they're still pushing the envelope and boundaries of what we think it's possible with failures being normal for quite some time yet.
But is the sexism so pervasive it would prevent women from starting companies and making an app? The meritocracy of technology means that people downloading your app have no idea who the coders are, or what their genders are.

Perhaps this is an opportunity for VCs because people certainly love money more than sexism.
>However, I think the article still makes a strong point, which is that neuroscientists use many experimental and signal-processing techniques whose utility hasn't even been demonstrated in principle, much less in practice.

This is the point. There are multiple levels of interpretation layered on top of the physical process. There is no reason to believe that they are tidy or hierarchical either, abstractions and indirections can leak left and right (or top to bottom). We lack the language and tools to describe these structures laid bare, and words like "abstraction" and "indirection" are probably a bad fit. Even "interpretation" might prove to be conceptually misleading when cracking this nut, so to speak.
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>Super funds only make sense when you have more people paying into them than withdrawing.

It feels a bit like you might be confusing the difference between a pension fund and a super fund. A super fund only pays out to you what you put in (plus hopefully profits from having your money invested). Provided the fees they charge cover the fund's running costs it doesn't matter if there are more people withdrawing than paying in. You only get your own money back, they aren't a ponzi scheme where old investors are paid out with money from new investors.

>Super funds being a business still need to make a profit to pay investors, wages, brokers, and building associated costs and lawyers

You might want to research some low cost funds. There are lots but as a starting point https://www.ingdirect.com.au/rates-and-fees/superannuation-f... This sort of thing will likely cost you much less than whatever you accountant is charging you to oversee your self managed fund.
Your invocation of common sense is insulting.

What part of drinking water makes it self-evident that it was drank before beer? Additionally, how does it establish a long history? You seem to cite your entire comment as a source for the extraordinary claim that drinking water has no substitute and that adding things to water only makes it worse.

Are you saying that any additive to drinking water is harmful?
100% true if you are a career employee.

My sister and I are at similar career paths. She works as a principal engineer at a big software company. I work for a state .gov. She makes more, but my costs are well defined... no $10k health deductible, etc.

The present value of my pension is the equivalent to her performance stock grants, except they are near zero risk.
>It won't grow for me

It will depend on your specific fund but the funds already in there should be invested in some way. If they aren't doing a terrible job the money will grow even without you putting more in.
It's the usual comparative-advantage thing, though. Five seconds of your brain reading something is essentially worthless to you (unless someone is paying you to read this comment), but of value to Google. The resource behind the CAPTCHA is of minimal value to Google (what are they going to do with an account at startup-of-the-month), but of more value to you. The transaction is mutually beneficial.

The value Google gets from the thing they want, and the value you get from the thing you want, aren't particularly comparable.
In theory yes, how it actually develops no. Friendship in Brazil is really close and intimate, in Ireland is a casual every now and then encounter.
> Certainly a pain that no one should ever have to endure

And yet... almost everyone does, at one point or another, endure that sort of pain.

Perhaps it's better to not have to go through that sort of pain in your youth, but when older and you have more perspective and experience, which may help to put the pain in to a context which may help alleviate it some?
I usually go to bed about 10, usually at the same time as her. We get a few hours every night to just us.

Mind you, I'm not forcing myself up at 4:30 with an alarm or anything. I'm up when I'm up and it's nearly always before or at 5.
You would run 96 processes one for each core. Performance more depends on IO that CPU in reality.

What ARM will bring is competitive market and no Intel Tax.
Average 1U in ARM will be massively cheaper. For servers OpenPOWER is more interesting[1]

[1]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/07/open_power_summit_p...
yeah if computer ram size growth taught me anything is that once there's capacity, there'll be consumption.

/me looks sternly at DooM
I think it's partly a problem of not having a roadmap to get from where we are now to where we want to be.

Contrast AI with, say, interplanetary space travel. We're a long way away from that too, but there's a more obvious path to getting there. We need better control of nuclear energy, more robust robotics designs, and more efficient environmental control. These are engineering challenges: for the most part, the science is already laid out.

With AI the science isn't there. We don't know which direction to move in, let alone how to move in that direction.
No event period has a single cause. In order to hit a pool ball with another pool ball, you need to create the universe first. It sounds pedantic, but you can't always find more than one reasonable cause for any event. Aristotle named four, but there's always more than that.
I switched to Emacs specifically because of all the Org mode love I'd read about. I've barely touched the surface of Org, thank you!
> A PC (yes, true, technically Macs are now PCs, but they're still special PCs).

You obviously don't understand what those 2 letters stand for (hint it stats with Personal and ends with Computer).
Taskwarrior is a powerful task manager, but it's in most cases excessively complicated while the features are not used.
This one is simple enough for ordinary use.
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I absolutely HATE the people in the financial industry. They are rotten scum. I want teams of civil servants spying on them until kingdom come. The notion that I'm going to let the rotten scum who treat civilization like a casino game operate the financial system is pure stupid.

It is 100% pure stupid. Harvard is full of these types. The absolute WORST of humanity. The absolute WORST. People who have absolutely no respect for anything.

Let me tell you this clearly: we are talking about letting LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE run our economy.

NO FUCKING WAY.

no fucking way.
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We used permanganate when I was in grad school to clean glassware of organic residue. Concentrated it is extremely good at it. At such minimal concentration its not an issue.
Definitely not. Men are also the victims of sexism. But the world is (and has been) controlled by men in most societies. Women suffer the most from sexism, so knowing the scope of sexism requires being a woman.
I'm not doubting your site was "down for four months". I'm doubting the part where you said "They just shut down the Python app engine sites with no notice".

Most notably, I know many people who run these types of sites and outside of GAE being mediocre, I've never heard them complain about anything like that.
Org-mode is on my list of things I should probably learn better, but never seem to get around to. Here are some entries in that list:

Emacs
Regex
Latex
Bash/Terminal/Powershell
Unicode
APL/J/K
Linear Algebra
Category Theory
I've dug into these numbers and it's rarely clear how "subsidies" are defined. Often tax breaks and "unpaid externalities" are included in the total subsidies. "$X of subsidies for fossil fuels" usually does not mean the gov't gave $X to fossil fuel companies.