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> I don't have the skill set neither have time to do/prove it, unfortunately. But that shouldn't prevent me from speaking out my opinion, should it?

Given the fact that programming language fanboy noise is a constant problem in language threads it would be nice to see less posts of higher quality then the same arguments that are always made. Its not really going to change anyone mind that has experience and the people who do argue are usually inexperienced with vapid counter arguments.

So I guess the answer is no. If you have an uninformed opinion then its better to not add noise and let the people who really know there topic enlighten us with a well argued not very noisy discussion.

I think the value of NH is very much quality over quantity.
Elon is not the first to take on so many ventures at once. Richard Branson has done it with overwhelming positive results (some losses are bound to happen). It seems that after a certain point, an entrepreneur that is so inclined gets more effective at putting the right processes in place so that they're no longer a bottleneck at the management level.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but what would you say if it turned out that after much effort the engineering team was unable to make performance equal across all skin tones?
Having dabbled in a bit of computer vision for a personal project, I saw how powerful it was and knew how important GPUs would be to cv/machine learning/AI at scale. Invested in NVIDIA late 2015, more than doubled the money so far.

If I didn't know programming, I would be clueless as to what computer vision could achieve, and thus its potential impact on society.
> "but if the Optane combination uses less battery than the bigger RAM"

With idle power specified as 0.9-1.2 W, I'm not expecting the Optane-based solutions to come out ahead on any battery life tests. PCIe power management is a horrific mess.
> Any accounting saas that can scale indefinitely? As opposed to Xero?

Need to wait for AWS to release a version of Airbnb's system. ;)
May a college expel a student for ‘unprofessional speech’ in Facebook posts?
For amounts that low, you're having meetings online, period. Nobody is flying out to check on their 20k seed investment. It's not even worth their time.
The investors came into the company knowing he will keep the control it was a risk they were willing to take. Even if he runs it into the ground they don't have a leg to stand on. They were not strong armed into investing it was a choice they made.
Solar roads are stupid because they're a terrible use of resources. You could literally build a roof of solar panels over the road for cheaper than you could build a 'solar roadway', and it would be more efficient to boot. It's nothing to do with idealism - if you were being an idealist you'd be backing a less inherently handicapped proposal.
Here's a subway line in South Korea that was built for $100 million / km.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE87IPJqW4M

Granted, it's not the most fair comparison, but the cost of subway construction in NY is abomination.

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...
SREcon'17 review article
"I wonder if the increase of size of seed round corresponds to startups waiting to seek funding until they are more mature."

Yes, but I don't think it's so much that they wait as that there's more competition. People are, in a sense, working longer on their application for funding and since they are further along (and cost have risen in general) they need more money.
Of course they know... They always get buggy upgrade on games and ironically, thanks to them, people are more or less used to buggy upgrades and may not freak out in those events.
BAM - http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v10/n7/full/nnano.2015.1...

AFAIK, it's the most promising technology for actually making the neural lace.

TL;DR: If you put electrodes on an angled plastic mesh, you can roll it up, inject it, and it'll safely unroll. Also, brain cells like to grow into it.
I'm pointing out a statistical fact from the article that black people are more hurt by this technology. I'm not arguing for racist intent, but against accepting unfairness towards one group as acceptable.

Dynamic range is of a photo is something controllable by humans building this technology. Contrast is a technical limitation and not a physical one. Lookup the articles on how early stage photography couldn't capture darker skin colors. Again, not racism, but related to incomes and advertising, but still had effects that disproportionally helped certain groups and harmed others.
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You can, and then you get a 4-byte long character 1-byte before the end of your data, you skip over the null-terminator and into the stack, and bang.

Yes, you can avoid this if you're careful and you understand the intricacies of utf-8 (or some other multi-byte encoding), but it very quickly stops being elegant.
Neuroprosthetic interface that acts as a wireless bridge
waterless urinals require a cartridge which has to be replaced
"start building" should be at the beginning, not the end...
What do they care about macOS?
I need to see desktops revealed soon.
> Perhaps the question shouldn't be whether one believes God exists or not but whether one thinks he is necessary to explain the world we see.

It's definitely a good question, but I don't think it's as important of a question, because whether we think it's necessary for God to exist doesn't have any bearing on whether God exists. If God exists, it is so regardless of what we think.

Humans are finite, one might say "very finite" on the universal scale, so I don't think it makes sense to expect humans to be able to even answer such a question authoritatively. We get so many things wrong, and looking at human history, humans have been getting things wrong for a long time. Now we have science and computers and space programs, but on the universal scale, I think we haven't begun to scratch the surface--and if that is so, how could we even begin to answer the question of whether it's necessary for God to exist?

And there's always the question of what caused the universe to exist: whether one believes it was a Big Bang or anything else, what caused that event? How can we say whether it is necessary for God to exist to have caused it? What if "God" is simply whatever caused the universe to come into existence? One may not believe that the universe was created by God, but that leaves the question of the universe's origin unanswered; and having no answer for that question, it seems unreasonable to rule out the existence of God.
Or, if you prefer this point in audio, filled with interesting bits from the history of industrial design and the dulcet tones of Roman Mars:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
The goal is for women to be treated equally. That's on us, not them, and words like this being used on us are attempts to communicate that. They've been asking us for the equal environment for centuries. And if you honestly believe in women being equal, nothing would push you away.

"Mansplaining" doesn't hurt my feelings or oppress me and my expression at all. This isn't necessarily true for the hundreds of other words we use to dismiss women and their behaviour.
To illustrate one of the paths for the new Musk company to achieve profitability in the near future.
Cure for divorce

A 16th century chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.
Soliciting help for a project to target Davis with unkindness is inappropriate, to put it mildly.

I can't argue with your observation regarding understanding the Hacker News community.
To my mind, using innerHTML is far better than including a 32K library just to avoid using it.
I support union, but when a crane operator makes $500,000/year just because of union and location factor, I become ashamed. This reminded me of story from a few years ago about Spanish air traffic controllers making $1,000,000/year+ while others in far more wealthy Eurozone made 1/10th of that.
In my dreamlife, Apple decides to support the LibreOffice format and uses that as the default for the Pages, Keynote, and Numbers formats. For features that they need added to support features, they propose them to the standards body.

That way they become the best editor of a free format. I can't ever see them going head-to-head with Microsoft so this would really open up their marketshare.
When we deployed O365 to 100k+ people, we ran into a few things like this.

A big one was the meaning of "everyone" in OneDrive. Many people thought that it meant "everyone on my team", and posted all sorts of wacky stuff.
And hey - maybe we won't all die!
Speak to any artist or musician and you'll probably find that 95% of their work is unfinished...
I'm sorry I'm not quite following could you explain a bit what you mean?
I imagine Wansink does get it. Now that he's outed, he either trolling for fun, or hoping the blasé approach is the one that quiets all the fuss the fastest.
Masala is a mixture of spices, or the liquid portion of the stew a dish is cooked in.

In this context, it would mean spiced up, or exaggerated for entertainment reasons.
I appreciate your response. I have a couple of other questions, if you are willing.

> I do not feel I have any reason to believe in God, especially as God is -- by any usual definition -- super natural.

Why do you rule out the possibility of a supernatural entity? How do you define supernatural, considering that what seems supernatural to humans has changed throughout history?

> I used to be pretty heavily religious as a kid, but just fell out of it over time.

May I ask, what did you used to believe then, about God, religion, etc?
NAND flash memory already hit the wall for horizontal shrinks, and some products plowed past that limit and into the regime where day to day use was invoking the second level error correction methods to compensate for data degradation.

3D NAND turned the clock back on horizontal scaling and cell sizes by several years, and now the only scaling opportunity is to increase layer count. That's not going so well. Samsung started with 24 layers but didn't ship retail products until they hit 32 layers. Their 48 layers was about a year late and caused several products to be scrapped entirely. Toshiba's on their third generation 3D NAND and it's only just starting to show up in the market. SK Hynix is doing worse than Toshiba. Intel and Micron started off reasonably well with their 32-layer and are working on ramping up 64-layer.

By the end of this year, all four manufacturers should be shipping 64-layer (72 for SK Hynix) 3D NAND in volume, or else it's time to admit that 3D NAND just doesn't scale up as well as we hoped it would.

There's some reason to believe 3D XPoint memory might be able to avoid the worst vertical scaling problems that are holding back 3D NAND flash. Each pair of 3D XPoint layers can be pretty much isolated from the rest of the layers except at the edges, whereas 3D NAND is building columns of bits that run through all 64+ layers and have aspect ratios that are quite high.
> often results in a lack of experience and understanding in how to work with women

> There's a hell of a lot more challenges that women face in tech than outright harassment. Unintentional sidelining, the bar for proof being much higher, general unwarranted skepticism in their abilities, etc.

These are very bold claims of sexism. No one can really comment until they're somewhat proven.

My comment was mainly about a "bro" environment and harassment which is more tangible.
Comment offers examples (that many people in New York on his site have experienced) and you fire back with some nonsense about some kind of PR campaign? Consider the possibility that people have had awful personal experiences dealing with unions (we hired a part time guy to help out cleaning our office and the office management threatened to shut down our building access because we didn't use approved union labor) that have colored their opinions on them instead of just dismissing them as "instinctive union bashing"

Youre doing exactly what you accused the comment you're responding to of, just on the other side of the coin: instinctively defending unions
Appropriate username. Ditching credit cards and smartphones are the best ways of increasing privacy.
In my experience, the least technical users are the ones who read more than the rest of us. While I just want to click the "Next" button or whatever is in its place until something like "Cancel" takes its place, my grandpa wants to read every word to make sure everything is happening correctly, and even asks me questions about what the words mean. He doesn't like to proceed until he's sure that everything will work just the way he wants it.

As GP said, users got a very obvious warning. It's not like there was a 1000-word long essay greyed out which contained the words "oh and this is all public" in a random location. This isn't about how technical users are, it's just a user error that anyone could make. I would be extremely surprised if you told me that, for example, there are less than a hundred Google Docs with sensitive information that are publicly viewable. In fact, I would probably call anyone above the age of 20 a liar if they said that during their entire life they had never, ever shared something they didn't mean to share. Even when it comes to things we're very familiar with, like our own mouths, we sometimes share more than we intend to.
Don't upgrade immediately unless you're willing to deal with problems. If these security updates were critical they'd be made available in a 10.2.x point release.
Yeah, I shoot semi-manual on my old D700 SLR. If you want high contrast ratios in dark areas of an image, everything else will be blown out - and you'll have to use a longer shutter speed - or suffer iso degradation or blur.
Optical illusions are neat, but I don't think it rises to the level of a "hack" in the sense that anyone is talking about here. Subliminal stimuli is, as the massive warnings on the article suggest, utterly unproven. There is a difference between being swayed or marketed to, or just too lazy to disengage from the onslaught of marketing... and "hacking". If hacking humans worked, the marketing wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
It all depends on the context. Microsoft's audience is for everyone from kids playing Minecraft to corporate O365 users. So it's not surprising that it's a mess.

People often assume a level of security at work that doesn't match reality.
Mysterious superintelligent AIs, which are too smart to communicate with baseline humans. I think this is just a plot device for post singular fiction. You just can't write superAI explaining its own behavior, because you aren't smart enough. The best you can do is write about mysterious AI, which can't communicate with you or can't explain its own actions because they are too complex to explain.

Returning to your post, I think that human-AI hybrids will be perfectly able to communicate or explain their plans to baseline humans (merging with AI should enhance communication capabilities, not hamper them).

They could have problems explaining their feelings, thought processes, perceptions, as those things may not correspond to anything baseline human experiences. They could have no reasons to talk to baseline humans at all. But it is not inability to communicate.
If you are actually comfortable at all with JavaScript as a proper programming language and not just as a bucket of jquery plugins you bundle together and use to toggle a class or two, then the tooling (gulp, webpack) are going to be only an hour or two each for a basic working understanding. Those tools in particular are very well documented and have a great community around them.
Any good alternatives to this?
I've done ephys in mice and gerbils. Spike sorting is nontrivial, and the effects on local tissue from jamming long shank electrodes into cortex are nothing i'd like done to me.

Unfortunately, less invasive recording techniques will never give you the ability to record from single units.

edit: pulled your google scholar and boy am I preaching to the choir...
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Possibly related to how Netflix streams in Chrome are 720p because Chrome doesn't support a certain level of DRM crap that Safari and Edge do?
I think this is a business decision.

Some building developers will reap the reward if it was a good decision, others will suffer the consequence.
Here's an example from my world: IT technicians were kicked out of their office building when the electrical contractors saw them crimping cat 5 for a network closet. That's how bonkers unions are.
There are a lot of these kicking around.

It's a very bare-bones EEG system: the Muse has 4 channels and a few references; EMOTIV has either 5 or 14. The slick part is that they use "dry" electrodes, which do not need to be filled with a conductive gel before use. The signal from wet electrodes is still a bit better (less noise, etc), but the gel is fairly gross to have in your hair.
I have unfortunate news for you: If you read http://reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport , you will very quickly learn how much attention the ordinary corporate PC user pays for warnings and error messages. I don't ordinarily link to reddit, but the stories on that page are the perfect illustration of just how blissfully ignorant and clueless many people are.
Neophyte impression--Enjoyed the notion of time-less language and the similarities to other series/state issues in langauge theory such as Synchrony and Diachrony[1]. As a neophyte programmer I find networks and version control are also similarly intresting structural contrasts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrony_and_diachrony
Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks
Okreader: Free/libre firmware for Kobo ebook readers
VueJS can be optimized using the Closure compiler
Short of the military, and professional sports, it is. The difference is that in tech instead of being met with jeers and gropes, you're met with jeers, gropes, lengthy justifications, apologetics, and organizational inertia.
They didn't say anything in fact, since all his messages are being ignored...
"These days" ??

It's always been this way. Many people are self-rightous, nosey, and judgemental.
I worked on some locked-in stuff. There was recently a bit of a furor when a researcher snuck off to venezuela and had an electrode array implanted in his own brain: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543246/to-study-the-brain.... It, um. didn't go over well in the research community.

We had tried external BCI for locked-in patients based on visually evoked potentials -- thought being that even if you lose the ability to move your eyes you can still steer an on-screen keyboard. EEG is so noisy, though, that it doesn't work unless the patient's looking at the target directly; ie, they can move their eyes. In which case, you should use an eye-tracker because it's $90 and 10 times faster.
I agree that there isn't enough context. The example doesn't even specify that it's being sent to a female employee (that's an assumption everyone is making) and I can imagine plenty of scenarios - with context - where it wouldn't necessarily be inappropriate.
The 750 series also costs a lot more, while the 600p is comparable in price to Samsung's 960 EVO. The numbers are still interesting :-).
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I second that.
With honorable mention to Dropwizard
Sigh... people just don't get good software design. Doesn't matter how meany features your software has if it sucks. Better with less but properly implemented features.

Sorry but you got to suffer Stockholm Syndrome or possibly only used MS Word if you think LibreOffice is nice to use. Try doing any kind of layout work in both LibreOffice and Apple Pages, and tell me with a straight face that you prefer LibreOffice.

I don't use word processors a lot. I usually write using Ulysses and sometimes LaTeX, but if I need a word processor it is because I need a lot of visual control which you don't get when writing latex or markdown. Pages is awesome in this regard, while LibreOffice frankly has little of interest.

Both LibreOffice and Scribus are stuck in the Windows98 era user interface paradigm and haven't moved onwards. A lot has happened since then.

It is an unfortunate sad reality of open source software. One just ads one feature after the other indefinitely with little attention to detail or overall design and usability.

Here is a little anecdote. A colleague struggled with figuring out how to do something in Excel. Software he had used casually for years. I suggested, try Numbers instead. He had no experience with it. But I knew that it has way better thought out UI. In 3 minutes he had figured out how to do what he had wanted, after wasting and hour trying to figure out how to do it in Excel. That is what good UI design means. Features are pointless if people can't use them.
It wasn't even 720p — it just stayed in SD for no reason! Mousing over the greyed out HD icon provided no information. Also, I had to fast-forward to the end of the movie on my laptop because it couldn't tell when I was switching to my iPad and vice versa.

Meanwhile, Netflix works consistently on all my systems with no issues.
If anyone wants to try out Red, I'd recommend setting up the Red plugin for Visual Studio Code, it's not essential (you can code effectively without it) but it does do the basics very well IMO.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=red-auto...
These consumer Optane Memory drives rely on a chipset hardware feature (that was introduced in the last generation) to work with Intel's caching strategy for Windows, which is complicated and ugly partly because it has to work around Windows limitations and partly because it has to enforce their product segmentation strategy. On Linux, it's just a NVMe device that can be used with any pre-existing caching software solution.

On the enterprise side, Intel is offering the Memory Drive Technology software that is a minimal hypervisor to present a pool of memory equal to about DRAM+85% of Optane, with the actual allocation managed by the hypervisor and opaque to the guest OS. The hypervisor can run on several generations of Xeon processors.
people are not holding signal flags bc the contractor wants to higher more people but DOT state or federal require it.
What is K&R? It's referenced several times but not defined.
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> everything should fall magically into place

I'm not so certain. I agree, it should. But engineers don't like to talk about their salary; I have no idea what my peers earn, and it isn't easy to find out. Researching data such as discussion on HN, Glassdoor, BLS data, surveys from companies that are more open, etc. yield absolutely ludicrous ranges; I might ought to (depending on who and how you ask) be earning anywhere from 60k to 250k+ as an engineer; that includes throwing out some high & low figures. The situation is made worse by the huge disparities in cost of living between various geographies, making it hard to translate salaries in one area into anything sensible in the next. (You're lucky to get a breakdown to one of a geographical area, or actual line of work, but not both. I want to know what a backend vs. mobile vs. PM makes in Boston vs. NYC vs. SF; and ideally, along even more dimensions. Alas, it seems that blog-studies never release the data.)
I just assumed "golf standard" was some QA term I hadn't heard of before.