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The biggest constraint would seem to be political or specifically lack of willingness to update building codes in one of the largest cities by area in ca -SJ. Land is so very underutilized in San Jose. Its development on the surface looks more like an agglomeration of suburbs rather than a city proper. If they allowed for new code to allow density in the city of San Jose alone, it would go a good way to alleviating the housing shortage.

SJ is over 3x the surface area of SF but has barely 20% more residents in that area. Imagine if they just doubled density --you'd allow for the absorption of an extra million residents. If they only upped the density by 50% they'd allow for over an extra 500,000 residents --that would alleviate the issue by itself.

There is so much poorly built stock from the 60s and 70s that it would not only renew the city but it would become the undisputed powerhouse of the bay area.
It's more like the difference between writing C and writing a cookbook. As in a kitchen cookbook.
You know, for this news to come out along side the news from Imagination Technologies Group, you know they have to have something impressive already.
> to boot some hardware and coordinate some processes is too low a barrier.

No it obviously isn't. If it boots and coordinates processes, it's an OS.

> expensive niche workstation

In the Lisp machine era, anything that actually had a "real OS" was an expensive workstation (or mini, mainframe, etc).

Affordable consumer machines had software most examples of which didn't control processes, yet was still called some kind of OS: MS-DOS, Mac OS, and the like.
Whats your email.

I'd like to apply - but my macbook battery caught fire (yes literally) a few days ago and I am on a backup machine... so I dont have a copy of my resume handy which is a required field of yours...

Can I email you please? (Remote devopsy stuffs)
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The depressing conclusion of people like Charles Marohn[1] is hard to get around: if the full cost of living outside of major urban centers were actually being born by the people who lived there, very few people could afford to live outside of major urban centers.

1: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
We are much further, already. iOS today only controls 10-15% of global market share.
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I wish there was a way to distinguish the quality of a worker from the degrees of a worker.

Its not just that one wants a "computer technology worker", but one wants an individual who can communicate, work hard when needed, take on responsibility, easily read and comprehend instructions and so on.

These are weakly correlated with degrees or how technical a field of study is. An art history undergrad could easily display more of these qualities than a PhD studying the physics of plasma.
Personally, I'm okay with this in the short term. Electric vehicles are still at a fairly press-sensitive stage of development. And there's definitely skulldoggery that ICE competitors could manufacture if they wanted to.

Or even crazy customers. See: https://www.tesla.com/blog/when-life-gives-you-lemons

After they're accepted and the new normal? Absolutely agreed that the balance should be shifted toward the customer.
You're somewhat cherry-picking the quote. The point of that paragraph was to draw attention to the vague requirements present for unmasking:

> But Rice's multiple requests to learn the identities of Trump officials discussed in intelligence reports during the transition period does highlight a longstanding concern for civil liberties advocates about U.S. surveillance programs. The standard for senior officials to learn the names of U.S. persons incidentally collected is that it must have some foreign intelligence value, a standard that can apply to almost anything. This suggests Rice's unmasking requests were likely within the law.
This intrigues me, as it clashes with everything I know about how classic game software was designed. Around what decade are we talking about? Can you name one or two examples of games that were designed like this?
Which sounds like a variation on various Socratic learning techniques.
7th paragraph ->

Last month when she was asked on the "PBS NewsHour" about reports that Trump transition officials, including Trump himself, were swept up in incidental intelligence collection, Rice said: "I know nothing about this," adding, "I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that account today."
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Is life really better when you're blackmailed into being a CIA asset than when you're jailed by Chinese authorities?
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> Even if you have students that are already contributing to your project, and just want to allow them to do so full-time during the summer, GSoC is often not worth it.

Having an already-existing contributor sign up for GSoC actually backfired on us. He had to come up with a "project" rather than the minor, drive-by contributions he'd been making (a project which he probably wasn't that excited about, to be honest). He then got behind and didn't finish, and then I guess was embarrassed, as we never heard from him again. So we lost a useful contributor.
With the exception of performances (sports, acting, music) you can make a decent living despite not being at the next level. It is generally not so with academia.

And even with the stuff like acting and music, the advancemnet of society doesn't depend on the efforts of professional athletes and performers. So we tend to be a lot more tolerant of people falling out of that pipeline and winding up in more prosaic positions and honing their craft in community theater or open mic nights or whatever while making ends meet some other way. With research it's not the sort of thing you can do on the side after a day spent waiting tables.
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Having that full fidelity raw data would be a gold mine, even without instructions. I'm sure the hacker community would reverse engineer it within months.
Aside from batteries, supercharger network, and any true desire to actually build nice electric cars. I drove an electric Ford Focus for 2 years, and it was an absolute terrible afterthought of an electric car. It was downright dangerous on wet surfaces with front wheel drive and batteries in the rear, not to mention the horrendous user experience that is Ford Sync. I drive a Tesla now and couldn't be happier.
I agree, and it's not just drivers that would be able to make use of such "black box" log data but also insurance companies and law enforcement.

The thing is it would require A LOT of cooperation from Tesla. Once Tesla starts sharing logs, they have to support it and can no longer change it at a "whim" for internal purposes.

Perhaps most importantly, Tesla would also have to defend the accuracy of the logs when they go against other observations. Just because something is in a log, doesn't mean it correct, accurate or true.

I can understand why they would exert a mighty effort to avoid giving out logs.
Can you expand on what you mean by "you can easily take extra power units with you (disposably cheap at that)." ?
There wouldn't be any problem with Oracle if they didn't try to scam Sun.

There are lots of companies selling JVMs, many of them with extensions, and none of them got sued.

Why? Because they play by the rules, instead of trying to be different.

And at least on those platforms I can make use of proper Java 7 and 8 features, not the cherry picked ones on Android.
"and in certain cases"

Specifically having a completely open and unsecured wifi. If you put much of any security on it, that protects your users. Which is where the seemingly weird advice comes from for guest wifi to not use completely unsecured connections and at least try some kind of password.

So if you connect to completely unsecured wide open "Car Dealer Last Name Service Guest" network while you're getting your oil changed or whatever, someone can set up "Car Dealer Last Name Service Guest" at starbux and MITM you a bit, or at least mess with you. On the other hand if your car dealer has a wifi named "Guest Network" with a WEP key of the car dealers last name then its hard for a guy hours later at starbux to set up a WEP secured "Guest Network" that you can connect to and get MITM'd.

For a real good time ask yourself what stops someone from MITM you at the car dealer by setting up a WEP secured wifi with the same name as the dealership and the password thats the same as the sign on the wall. Well, basically nothing. This can make life entertaining.
Not sure it is a hypothesis unless the hypothesis is that the bug is either in subsection A or subsection B (and yes, there are the odd cases that both or neither is answer). Mostly the dissection is about reducing the space in which eventually either an exhaustive search (like stepping through) is conducted or a hypothesis is tested. Experience with similar systems and their architecture is extremely valuable for partitioning the system.

Whenever I form too early a hypothesis and test it I run danger of going down bunny trails. I may see something wrong but I can't be sure the wrong is not caused by other systems.
Bingo.

"Apple currently holds more than 8 percent of the company."

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/3/15158982/apple-iphone-gpu-i...
Interesting, I didn't know about "sea bay" as a translation, thanks.
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> No, that isn't what I said -- you are moving the goal post now from "a lot" of growth, to "holding on to their marketshare".

Ok true, but Ford is way past "post-ipo". Growth is not the metric to measure them by (they will grow, but no where near as much as Tesla). That's pretty much agreed upon by market analysts.
The biggest difference is probably that you now have more or less a handful of respected national US and international publications that still (in spite of cuts in many cases) spend serious time on reporting and investigations.

And there are various niche publications that have some combination of loyal subscribers and wealthy backers. (I don't mean the last point as a dig; lots of smallish publications are someone's labor of love.)

What's become much tougher is maintaining serious investigative journalism or even covering all the boring city council meetings in all the markets that don't have a New York Times or Washington Post. This is especially true because journalism looks like an increasingly precarious career choice. There may very well not be a job at the end of the tunnel for the budding reporter who would previously have paid his dues for a few years getting paid peanuts.
This happened to a photography editor who sits in the cube across from me. He found out he had a ticket in Pittsburgh, a city he had never been to, when he tried to transfer his license to a new state.

No lawyer would take the case either. He eventually went to an identity theft company, who took $400 and fixed the issue in three months.

I use to work in Identity Management at a major university. A number of people came through our systems without SSNs. We had a complicated set of rules to make sure we didn't provision two accounts. We'd check if the names were reversed and we'd check both the month/date = date/month on the date of birth (people from other countries might enter it backwards without thinking about it). We even had rules for SSNs that were off by <2 digits with similar names. Every morning we'd have a set of "manual provisions" we'd have to stop and check.

Occasionally duplicate accounts get created and we'd have to go through a big manual process of combining them and telling them "You need to use this account; forget about the other one. It no longer exists," and get their stuff synced across all AD domains (Universities typically have several).

What surprises me about this article is the NYC system doesn't use the SSN (which is good in a sense, it should never be used as a identification number, see the latest GCP Greg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus).

The idea of an identity and criminal record us that follows us digitally is a very new concept, one that didn't exist 150+ years ago; or at least no where near the complexity it does today. Immigration was also treated very differently. Most of are criminal background procedures in the US are plagued with problems like this; which is why most counties require fingerprint/criminal checks for immigration screenings.

Today, the idea of a national identification number is highly opposed in the United States. In some ways I favour this as I feel digital identities lead to a situation where people cannot escape their pasts. But it also means people use absolutely terrible ways to associate people such as name and birthday; totally non-unique fields that should never be used to identify people. SSNs offer no real security; no photos and your number +1/-1 is most likely a valid SSN of someone who was born the same day as you.
Thought of that as well. I wonder how the DMV handles legal name changes. Wouldn't it be funny if the name change wound up renaming both Lisa Davises?
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Or the device maker and network provider, both were the bottlenecks in pushing out updates.
Just wondering... are you black?

This is a serious question. I was not trying to be snarky, just trying to determine just how different things are if you are, say, a young black guy breaking a minor rule like that. I know the consequences are definitely different in Chicago if you are black, but I was wondering if things are better in other places in the US.

(Given the contents of the article, I realize NYC is similar to Chicago, I guess I was assuming you live in another area of the country?)
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To quote from the document (top of page 3): https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocume...

> The [previous] memorandum also does not properly explain or distinguish an entry-level position from one that is, for example, more senior, complex, specialized, or unique. This is relevant in that, absent additional evidence to the contrary, the [Occupational Outlook] Handbook indicates that an individual with an associate’s degree may enter the occupation of computer programmer. As such, while the fact that some computer programming positions may only require an associate’s degree does not necessarily disqualify all positions in the computer programming occupation (viewed generally) from qualifying as positions in a specialty occupation, an entry-level computer programmer position would not generally qualify as a position in a specialty occupation because the plain language of the statutory and regulatory definition of “specialty occupation” requires in part that the proffered position have a minimum entry requirement of a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree in the specific specialty, or its equivalent.

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Question: BTW, does this mean that a candidate would necessarily need at least a Bachelor's degree in a CS ("in the specific specialty"), in order to qualify? Or does "equivalent" apply to Bachelor's or higher degrees in other (technical?) fields as well?
>Tesla is potentially a trillion dollar company...

Huh?
Well, if you have control over which patches you accept, you've created an exponential explosion in the testing state space. That may be even worse for security, never mind reliability.
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It is foreseeable that ICEs will become banned, at least in Europe. Right now there is still too much lobbying by the traditional car makers, but long term there is no other choice for reaching climate goals.

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https://www.autoevolution.com/news/germany-asks-eu-to-think-...
It is like comparing a spunky startup to an entrenched corporation. Ya, IBM once spent more than Facebook, but Facebook was worth more because it had potential while IBM didn't.

Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future, they are too busy with the here and now and haven't shown an ability to do anything but incremental improvements with their R&D spending. Like we don't expect much more from IBM, we don't expect much more from Ford, but we do from Tesla.
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I imagine the bits that to talk to Google's servers need to be.
It's not enough to be on the team, the person has to be able to talk, not a mute engineer.
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But that implies that no one needs a different OS than Windows NT or Unix. People are constantly coming up with reasons to have new programming languages. Are there no reasons to justify a new OS?
Tracing is great but often gives you a low signal-to-noise ratio and for new code, is often missing for the bug you're trying to investigate.

A debugger lets you add tracing as the system is executing, which in my experience is extremely productive, especially in C++ codebases where adding some logging can result in 10 minutes to rebuild and deploy. And I don't know what I would do without data breakpoints that give you the callstack and threading info when an address is written to.
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You're not wrong, but I think slightly talking past the point of the article. I don't know which is right, but my understanding is:

Prior to the guidance, H1-B filers could just say "this is a programmer, thus they are a specialist" and now they need to provide evidence (i.e. more effort in filing/submitting impending applications). So while the big H1-B filers might not have had an intention to sneak in an Associates' Degree holder, their ready-to-be-submitted applications for Bachelors and Masters-degree holding developers just got a whole lot harder (if the rest of what the article says is correct).

I understand this is an old guidance, but it is not clear to me why that in itself means it hasn't been in effect. If it was (which is what the article claims), then this is still a fairly significant last minute change that requires additional last minute documentation for these applications.
I don't see why quick sort with a random pivot takes a non deterministic amount of time.