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Thanks, yeah it's good for discovery when you're out and about. Any feedback on product?
Can you talk more about your experiences? Did you go to a top program? A full time program? Do you think it's worth it if you already have an MS and are currently a first line manager and team lead?
Seems a little vindictive to me. How about suggesting them to add a cell signal booster for his carrier at the office?
Better with respect to what? I'm referring specifically to the classes and associated academic knowledge, not to other aspects of the program.
Russians love to bathe in their victimhood and equal their participation in WW2 to Soviet, but worth reminding Belarus and Ukraine were parts of Soviet Union as well and suffered disproportionately more losses than Russia.
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Show HN: Daily Brief – Pulls news across sources into one site/email. Thoughts?
https://github.com/edenhill/mklove - mklove is end-user compatible with autoconf, without the nightmares.
Performance-wise, i think it's probably fine. But it doesn't play well with any kind of group permissions. Things are either owned by a user or they are almost impossible to sync.

Let's say you are making a CRM with couch/pouch. Let's say that you have permissions to see a Customer record, but it is shared across your company. How do you sync that? It's not owned by a user, it's owned by the company. What happens if permissions change?
>How, precisely, do you distinguish "artificial" and "non-artificial" barriers?

An artificial barrier is something that constrains by fiat, especially when that barrier comes from a third-party like the government. It's "because I said so".

You're correct that things like standards, access, and costs are barriers that must be overcome, but with a relatively small amount of effort, these barriers are surmountable.

The ongoing cat and mouse game between something like Facebook and something that multiplexed its data on the user's behalf would be the most expensive/irritating "natural" barrier; natural because, while Facebook would be intentionally creating it, it's a real capability restriction that must be circumvented technologically and not the government saying "Don't do that, or else".

A natural barrier that may constrain some otherwise illegal activities would be the disdain of the public. In this case, there is no such disdain; copyright and IP law long ago exited the space that most people consider reasonable.

>There were open networks, with Usenet being a particular example.

Fixing the law would make the data open without requiring any material change in FB. They don't have to open up. The point is that in cyberspace, the data is natively open.

As Bruce Schneier says, "trying to make digital bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet". Easy copying is an intrinsic, inextricable mechanism of the medium. Indeed, it's the fundamental mechanism that allows computers to function at all.

Blog+RSS did extremely well. Facebook and Twitter succeeded because they were simple forms of aggregation. Throughout the 00s, before FB took off with the adult crowd, many people had personal/family blogs to share information about their lives with families and friends, and you'd add them to your feed reader to keep up. FB has supplanted that by having greater usability, but at the core, the concept is the same. The difference now is that FB can lock it up due to the favorable legal situation.

As for things like Diaspora, though I admittedly haven't studied them thoroughly and they probably suffered significant real flaws, they're hamstrung by the artificial effects discussed here.

Diaspora likely would've been an acceptable "social interface" if it could multiplex streams from Facebook and multicast out both to its own network and Facebook (and for all I know, there probably is software that allows this to happen on open protocols like Diaspora; it just can't be deployed in a usable way by anyone looking not to get sued out of existence).

True there are barriers like technology and cost to overcome, but the one intractable barrier is the one that is totally arbitrary: the laws that prevent it.

Anyway, I know that we don't agree, but I do appreciate your contributions to this thread. The discussions have been interesting and given me some good feedback on how to phrase this moving forward.
Doctor sign-off on cause of death, as well as other medical related stuff.

Online processes are not yet legal in California.
This is what XMonad does by default - I hate it, but you apparently don't, so you could switch window managers to get this, if you wanted.
I somewhere heard about a Google X OS? Is this it?
Agreed, I was trying to understand what part of the classwork the parent comment found compelling enough to spend the time and money on for an MBA program.
There are lots of ways to securely transmit data -- which is a large part of the problem, there are so many ways to do it that there's no standard way that you can count on all of your clients/customers having access to... or trusting.

But everyone trusts fax since it goes over "secure" voice lines.... even though in many cases it doesn't.
Some still have that dream and are working towards making it a reality.

https://openwireless.org/

I myself am in the planning phase of hosting an open wifi network at my place of residence to do my small part.
Used to remember when my public library would kick you out if you did anything that wasn't research-related. Now I see people playing Minecraft and browsing FB on library computers...
Isn't this the applied form of the Global Village nonsense from back in the '90s? I'm sure I've seen positively-spun descriptions of the process you describe.
One of the theories (which I think has a lot of merit) is the elimination of leaded gasoline, and the subsequent reductions in environmental lead contamination.
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I am not sure but I don't think so, I am sure they would be bragging about it if they did. There may be some attempt to lessen the risks but I haven't taken a deep look into what they have done in hardening the OS.

I don't think we will ever solve that problem without more support for projects like CopperheadOS and ReplicantOS. They are struggling to even maintain and improve just a couple devices.
It's because all the stupid vendors refuse to share anything, and won't publish their sources for the various device drivers needed. So every time there's some new flash chip or whatever, there's a custom closed-source device driver for it which doesn't get mainlined or updated for newer kernel revisions, and devices with that chip are forever stuck on an ancient kernel version.

There's only two ways around this: 1) somehow force companies to open-source their driver code, or 2) have a static, unchanging (or at least very backwards-compatible) ABI for device drivers, and then just suffer with shoddy drivers written by vendors which cause all kinds of glitchy behavior, as Windows was infamous for for so many years.

This doesn't happen with the mainline tree because it's all open-source and gets debugged and inspected by others, but that just doesn't happen with the cellphones/Android.
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There are many good answers already, but my two cents is that there are many standard statistical methods that work on basic "data" type problems. If your data is spreadsheet type data, where it has some number of basic float inputs that lead to some float result, you will probably use ordinary statistical methods like boost. NNs might be able to achieve the same results but they probably won't do much better.

In fact I remember talking to an ML guy with a PHD who was working on one of these types of problems and I asked "why not try NNs on this problem". He looked at me with disgust and said something akin to "it's provable that NNs can never do better than BOOST, so why use them?"

However, boosted decision trees don't work on image analysis at all, so these types of problems have become the standard for NNs.

It is also worth noting that people are more likely to try image problems if everyone else is trying image problems, because then it is easy to compare multiple algorithms together.
Are you validating the market and focusing on a small enough niche before you start developing the product?
More like because they've done a good-enough job and because most distributions are free of charge.

(Don't get your knickers in a knot. I'm not banging on Linux.)
Anecdotal and all, but FWIW everyone I know in the Bay Area does not live with a roommate, and these are well-paid software engineers. When people first move here and/or are just getting started with their career, some of them went through periods of having roommates, but they all eventually either found a place they're happy with that is cheap enough where they don't have to have roommates, or after a couple years and a couple raises they don't need them in general.

In fairness, I'm thinking of SV and surrounding areas though- not SF, which is a whole other level of housing pain. People I know who work in SV but were determined to live in SF at all costs were stuck with roommates until later in life, but as soon as they could afford to not have roommates, they got their own place. For people I know who are >= 30 and have gotten past the initial novelty of post-college life, roommates are always something you get because you have to, never because you want to.
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I wouldn't necessarily say people are reading different meanings into the word, but rather that there are different meanings that exist for the word. Namely, the ideas of positive vs negative liberty
I haven't used SUSE, but I've used snapper with lvm thin provisioning on RHEL. It works, but it still needs manual fiddling with config files. There are a couple of other issues with lvm thin on its own. The metadata size isn't chosen well by default from what I remember. It can easily get full. There is also manual trimming required on deletes (can be done in a cron job). lvm-raid isn't directly offered with thin provisioning in Anaconda. It would still do mdadm, and run lvm-thin on top of it. Overall, the experience is not great.
Rust can speak C's ABI, so you can write kernel extensions in Rust. There's some legwork involved, but it's quite possible.
What's convenient is that TRUE is false, FALSE is true, and FILE_NOT_FOUND is also true.
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Unless efforts are made for results to be deterministic, concurrent algorithms may complete their work / return their results in an ordering that is unstable (depending mostly on host OS and CPU management of time-slicing).
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Refresh (or replace) built-in themes

- DESCRIPTION: I'm well aware that many hard-core users don't care that much about visual aesthetics of the user interface, but I think this makes up a lot of the impression first-time users have of Ubuntu. While solid and generally fine, the built-in themes look could use some overhaul, or replacement. One of the first things I do when setting up a new instance is downloading and installing third-party themes and icon sets. It's funny how some people are surprised "how good Linux can look", because many still have the impression of it being a hacky, patchy, hard-to-use nerd OS.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer, web-related full-stack, Ubuntu user by choice (amongst MacOS evangelists)
Most neuroscientists don't try to tackle such philosophical topics, unfortunately.
Our current vendor supports this. There is a barcode (or on older stuff, just digits) in a "window" on the document which the system OCRs and uses to index incoming documents. This allows the incoming (returning) docs to be routed back into a workflow for the right user. Important due to volume and data privacy issues.
The real problem is that bytes are effectively free. Here I am, using up your bytes right now. Using up the bytes on Hacker news. The only limit is my own time, effort, and energy.

You think this means that we're all equal; we all have equal access to sharing bytes. But the problem is that trolls have infinite time and energy to post bytes. They have significantly more power and influence than you do because of that simple fact. Trolls could, if they wanted, completely bring down hacker news with just endless content and it would be near impossible to stop.

I've had to deal with real determined trolls on some of my own sites that simply have infinite time to post, to write code to post, to obfuscate themselves -- a single troll can shout out dozens to hundreds of other people. This is why the trolls are winning.
can you say tiberium sun GDI?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tiberium+sun+GDI+logo&atb=v56-7_a&...
A "Globalist" is someone or some entity that seeks to take advantage deregulation and the liberalization of financial activities. Essentially capital flow moves where the profit margins are maximized with no regard for the nation state
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I'm guessing it's an American thing. I think they still use checks too.
Agreed with the first paragraph, but I think this sort of behavior is normal for most disciplines. That is, it's not CS looking like psychology or sociology, it's normal for CS to do this. I think we're seeing a similar thing right now in biology with CRISPR.
I would have thought the PC was already there -- but maybe not in the right place.
Is there a biological basis for food texture preferences?
Or at least snapshoting and then booting to last good snapshot.

Both solutions (a/b partition and snapshost) would require separate partition or subvolume for /home.
Wise+Folder+Hider+4+Crack+Activation+Key+Download
I think sunfish (https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py) would be a much better example of a simple chess AI (~100 lines of python code), even if it's not very well documented.

The article doesn't talk about very important concepts like quiescence search (https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Quiescence+Search )

Sunfish doesn't use any of the "further improvements" proposed in the article and still performs much better
I don't want to implement the OCR code. Most other clients would probably not want to, either :-)

It's a huge value add, if a vendor is going to offer this service.
I used to work for the San Francisco Mayor's Office and I wanted to let this crowd know that they're accepting applications for their Startup in Residence program, which gives tech startups access to City agencies for 16 weeks to co-design innovative products that improve public service delivery. From a startup perspective, participation means:

- a committed government partner to demonstrate market fit and a user testing group that's usually hard to access

- being fast-tracked for a government contract, as participating startups are pre-approved should department want to buy

- exposure to other potential government clients (many cities keep an eye on this program and the success of participants’ products)

- cross-sectoral mentorship and being part of a learning cohort

- no requirement to give up any equity

There are 4 cities and 20 challenges that cross a lot of tech spaces. I'd encourage you to apply!
Is this really a problem of technology though? Seems more the artifact of a modern culture so predicated on con-artistry and spectacle, that abuse and manipulation have become the dominant form of expression.

Technology makes this easier for sure. But I think it's the futureless world of hucksterism being articulated to everyone that makes behaving this way attractive to so many people.
Eh, with Trump I have to disagree. He has shown time and time again that he is a petty, egotistical sicophant with little regard for humanity in general. He's a documented liar and swindler. I have a hard time giving his supporters the benefit of the doubt and I am certain ly no San Francisco liberal.
CMake was a step in the right direction, but it, too, suffers from thousands of under-documented options and fiddly behavior. In a former life I was tasked with maintaining a CMakeLists.txt for a project with multiple dependent libraries, binary blobs, open source dependencies that needed to get pulled in, and the whole thing had to be built for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, and a handful of other lesser-known mobile platforms. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
Different regions have dramatically different average commute times which don't directly correlate with population. Thus disproving your point.

Insufficient roads, poor zoning, etc all add up into a complex whole. But, roads reduce the value of some peoples property which is why you get such strong opposition.

PS: Importantly, congestion has a cost not just for the average commute but the number of hours in the day that are congested.
> From "RTFM" attitudes

While agree some internet users are a bit too gung-ho with RTFM, I think it's unfair to lump them with trolls. While veterans can be harsh and unfriendly, the RTFM response is often warranted (though, again, it could be phrased more nicely -- and the default assumption should be that the person seeking help is well-intentioned). Otherwise, many online communities would be completely overrun by people demanding help with minimum effort on their part.

"RTFM" is not trollish behavior, because trolls have a different goal: to disrupt communities, start flamewars and generally annoy the hell out of people. It's not merely being "unfriendly"; in fact some trolls fake cluelesness instead of anger.
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I don't think so. The reason being that it sounds like they are still adhering to standard fire codes and occupancy limits to be in full compliance with the law so it's building owner friendly. For a 2 bedroom, it's probably packed with 4 roommates, the company just helps make the living space more amenable to that setup vs. the awkward college dorm / no privacy situation. It's possible in a 2-bedroom you could have up to 6 people (by converting living room to a 3rd bedroom) which this facilitates as well. The cool part is that you get all the community benefits as part of your package which at these high end condos/apartments usually include gyms, swimming pools, etc.
This `for` loop looks particularly curious to me:

for (int i = this.bindings.Count - 1; i >= 0; i = Math.Min(this.bindings.Count - 1, i - 1))

Why isn't the last expression a normal i--?
Looks like it's written in C++. Regardless of how "clean" the code is right now, it's only a matter of time because it becomes roughly as bad as any other OS written in C++ in terms of vulnerabilities found in it per million lines of code.
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There are folks like us working on this: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/

The trick is a scalable means to do identity verification on the internet...basically a way to do it that preserves user privacy and security and it is dirt cheap so everyone can leverage it.
> I think that if you looked at the scope of executive orders over time it would be instructive

Indeed, but instructive in an opposite direction IMO.

The sum of Obama's executive orders pale in comparison to the other Roosevelt's singular Executive Order 9066, for example. And that was hardly the only controversial FDR order.

Vietnam was really the first time that a war-time president didn't suspend the civil liberties of a crap-load of Americans.
> That said, I see you've been on HN long enough to not be surprised that all kinds of people can be found on here.

Well, quite. For example, I am a coder, an investigative journalist and a digital forensics consultant with a scarily good track record over the last 25 years even if I do say so myself.

> It's bad enough that my old DM lost his child in a senseless tragedy. But when people try to insist that his greatest pain was all a hoax, that the child he lost maybe didn't even exist, that's just beyond the pale. Maybe it's easier for me to have all the facts because I know people affected.

You have some facts? Great. What are they? Because so far you haven't given me any, just a second-hand sob story which may or may not be true. What's this guy's name? Where can I check out his details? Does he even exist? Because there isn't a single scrap of evidence to prove that Adam Lanza even existed, just for starters, let alone how this 120 pound kid with development problems managed to carry such a heavy arsenal into the school and kill so many people in under a minute. Where are the crime scene photos? Just one will do. Why isn't there any video or camera evidence of the shooter? Who cleaned up the blood? There are strict federal laws governing that. Not a single photo of a body. Not the shooter. Not his mother. Not one child. Not one teacher. Nothing. All kids were ruled dead at the scene. Which if you've ever talked to an EMT you never rule a person dead at the scene unless they've been decapitated. You can get shot in the head and a doctor can revive you. But no, everyone was ruled dead at the scene and there are no pictures of any blood, bodies, shell casings, anything.

> No matter how bad the media is, some stories are about real people, who can hurt. Please consider that when you spread bullshit online.

Yeah I'm deeply moved. Not.
Why did you build from source and make your own daemon instead of using the Ubuntu package?

* http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/redshift
I'm not looking for startup ideas in this domain, I was just wondering "in general". If the PC + printer is already there (surely it has to be for accounting, etc.) why have a fax.

But ok, if the fax and the phone line cost next to nothing and it "just works", then sure it makes a lot of sense.
"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad."

That's not an opinion necessarily shared by others who worked on UNIX and still do in some cases.

Certainly, there are commercial UNIX releases today that have relatively recent innovations and capabilities that still aren't available in other operating systems.
"Tech companies are very receptive to their employees' influence. We believe that employees should come together and clearly define the values and policies they'd like to see their companies uphold."

Maybe he should replace "employee" with "investor" and start working on that? In the end it's the investors that force companies to make money at any cost.
Is your jenkins code public?
Give us creative freedom and ownership of our IP.

When you claim all of our thoughts on and off the clock, you encourage us to avoid creatively-fulfilling ventures, burn out, and leave for greener pastures.