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> readymade set of sacraments and oaths one can apply to any business to achieve magical effects

On the contrary, MBAs are designed not to be a "management formula" but teach by experience in two ways: first, exposure to thousands of real life case studies (often, in the better programs, with the CEO who lived it participating in the class discussion), and a class formed of carefully balanced profiles to have a mix of experiences contributing to the class discussion.

Domain experts will of course judge what they know: the accounting classes are weak, the investment classes are outdated, etc. but I'd argue there is no better way to speed-teach a generalist exposure, because the real world is complicated and management is about juggling inadequate resources and conflicting objectives for which there are often no rules. Whatever "rules" are taught (such as accounting standards, or using EBITDA instead of revenue for company valuation) are the product of generations of trial and error and tend to exist for a reason; it's good to question the rule and look up the reason, part of building a better mental model of how the world works.

Look at Enron: today, the black and white story is that they were fraudsters, but if you dig into the history of the company, first there were tons of genuinely interesting and moral people employed there because they believed in the vision and second there was a pattern of "the end justifies the means" from the true believers in management. So when you see a ton of smart people hired by true believers taking ethical shortcuts because "the end justifies the means"...

The generalist part is important. You might think you do not need to know about accounting or legal issues now, but as a manager they will come up. Just being aware of what can go wrong (reducing unknown unknowns) can go a long way in mitigating temptation. I think this is missed by many people who are on a certain career track: for example, I often hear that the CFA is better than an MBA if you want to stay in finance, and this may well be true (disclaimer: bailed out after failing level 2) but the CFA won't teach you, for example, how to deal with a toxic C-level hire, nor will you hear first hand a former infantry officer describe instances of creative leadership under intense pressure. Anecdotally, this kind of experience comes in a handy in private equity whilst being less useful in global macro trading.

Philip Delves Boughton's book [1] in particular captures this quite well.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/d...
Inside the Dangerous Convergence of Men’s-Rights Activists and the Alt-Right
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Stabilize wifi
- DESCRIPTION: I use 16.04 on three generations of Thinkpad (x1 carbon, x220, x230), and the wifi on all of them is always dropping off without warning. I have to rmmod/modprobe the wifi driver to get it working again. The flakiness is especially bad with wake from suspend. Wifi has been a pain point with Linux forever and I would sooooo love for it to just work.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer
Multiple simultaneous incoming is fine. They'll all get received properly.
> "turning pencil drawings into photos"

errr.... I hate to break it to you but... https://github.com/phillipi/pix2pix/blob/master/imgs/example...
Did you time the delay?

Being in a car makes you feel like your drive gets 10x longer when stuff like this happens (whether it's a slow car or a slow bike), but the reality is that we're rarely stuck behind someone slow for more than a minute or two, and for that minute or two you're still only going maybe 30% slower at worst. In other words, it's mostly perception.
> a simple #ifdef against the platform (Windows/BSD/Linux) and it's gone.

That's equivalent to the uname trick the GP was complaining about. That means your software won't compile in a lot of platforms.

On a small scale, I don't think that's a big problem. Somebody on those platforms only has to add the correct conditions to your #ifdef forest and if he sends the update back, other people on the same platform won't even have the same problem. It's not much different from software not working on untested platforms.

It starts becoming a problem when done often, or on high level (at the calling stack) code.
Thinking about this a bit more, Musk should run a split test: Half the people queued for a Model 3 are offered $100 to move to the back of the queue. People who decline such an offer will feel compelled to buy the car when it is released in order to be consistent with their previous actions. I'm confident this would boost sales, but the split test would tell us for sure.
Pretty much. It's probably worth $6K at replacement cost today. It's for deep learning and I included what I spent on it and I've refreshed the 4 GPUs once. The current config is probably still good for a couple of years. Now if I need more GPUs I'll just get a second box. The irony is that I graphics power coming out of my ears yet I spend most of my time in vim and tmux.
Oh that's so kind of you! I'm interested to hear what aspect or sections you particularly liked?
"Wet signature" being a term with some legal standing. DocuSign, not so much, other than for preliminary real estate actions.
Explicitly doing 'make' is redundant for makefiles generated by any version of automake I've ever used. Dependencies are setup correctly so that install also builds everything that it installs and isn't already uptodate (I'm not sure whether 'install' also explicitly depends on 'all')
Already discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929950
The libraries here seem to have transitioned heavily to services and tech.

The computers have not only internet, but MS Office and Adobe products, and I see everything from playing games and social media to job hunting and learning being done on them. (There's even a special bank of computers with resources for job hunting downtown.)

Pretty much every day, the library holds some kind of starting a business, learning to use tech, ESL, or other kind of class.

Then there's the cultural shows (opera, movies, story readings) and free tax prep services at the central branch downtown.

The library also provides desks to work at, which are used by students (HS and college), professionals, the homeless, etc. The value of a workspace in the city is itself fairly large. I made frequent use of it when working as a freelancer. Cheaper than coworking space, cafe on site, reliable internet, etc.

And of course, the library is still a library. Their ebook collection is nowhere near the size and scope of their physical book collection. Not just the normal stuff of modern books, but fairly large archives of things like financial reports, magazine editions, etc stretching back nearly 100 years (longer in a few cases), a rare book collection, specialty archives, a collection of official government documents, and probably more Im forgetting.

That isn't stuff I need every day, most of my borrowing is (or could be) ebook/audiobook, but I think the city would be poorer without a publicly owned archive of history, even if there were digital copies available. There's something about reading a book older than your great grandparents that digital copies don't replace.
I understand your position, but it comes from a false assumption that this is just about images. This is a demo that uses images as a way to "wow" the audience.

However, the kind of network used here (GAN) can be used in domains other than images (text, financial data).

Imagine if you trained a network to generate fraudulent financial data and another to become an expert at catching fraud, each feeding back into the other's skill. This is the concept of GANs at heart and definitely disruptive if correctly executed.
When he/she is about to murder your loved ones with a machete.
AFAI(Nexus 5x user)K Android removed Night Mode.
There has already been an attempted American military coup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
The removal of systemd.
React routing library that syncs your router state with your Redux or Mobx store
Administrative overhead and piracy issues?
>> ...and there is no stigma associated to getting your degree from a public school

What countries have this problem?
Mruby – the $500,000 release
I feel like this is part of the story behind Lyft and Uber. They traded inconsistent timing and consistent pricing for consistent timing and inconsistent pricing. Certain people seem to like the better (I do).

I can always get a Lyft in a minute or two in a major city. I might pay slightly more for that at certain times of the day.
OnePlus Dash energy beverage https://oneplus.net/dash-energy

Google Maps Ms. Pac Man mode
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/31/15136848/google-maps-april...
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

HEADLINE: Simple support for modifying installed packages from source

DESCRIPTION:

For instance if user wants to modify system installed Python to either submit a bugfix/ implement an improvement/ add instrumentation. User should be able to easily do something like

a. apt fork python forkname (checks out python source code)

b. apt build-fork forkname

c. apt install-fork forkname

d. apt revert-fork forkname

Adding above will lower barrier to entry for users to submit improvements. It will also help power users.
Space Australia is best Australia
"unethical" <> "illegal". And even if he did violate some bogus statutory bullshit posing as "law", hackers (of all stripes) should be supporting him because of the precedent setting effect, and the chilling effect, of holding software makers liable for the actions of downstream users of that software. This is not a path we want to start down.
EMACS Conference
Not true. Scientific method does accept axiomatic systems as long as properties of them are verifiable.

Axioms that can be empirically shown to be likely true or likely false.

Also it treasures smaller set of axioms rather than larger ones.
I'm as pro-space exploration as anyone, but the pitch we should fund NASA because it produces technologies that are beneficial on earth overlooks a crucial fact. If not working for NASA, those engineers would be working elsewhere, also on technologies that are beneficial on earth. The difference is they'd almost certainly be working in an organization that's a much smaller bureaucracy, and it's investments not driven by political patronage. There is little evidence that NASA engineers are as productive as engineers in other organizations.

The majority of NASA's budget today is being wasted today on the SLS, a launch system that will be at cost at least 10x more per pound than commercial systems. Most of NASA's budget since Apollo was blown the Shuttle, the most expensive launch system in history, cost over $1.5B a launch for a cargo capacity similar to a Falcon 9 and couldn't get out of LEO. The rest was blown on the ISS so we could run questionable science experiments at a cost of only $200B+.

I want to see a NASA devoted to robotic probes and it's manned missions restricted entirely to commercial launch systems. If they want 200,000 lb lift capacity, bid it out and let commercial providers step up with affordable solutions that aren't required to be built in every state and congressional district.
I'm going through similar stuff at the moment; fluffing up my opengl application with an actual interface that is forgiving and functional is proving slightly less trivial than I thought - but fun. And oh so nice compared to native Windows.
Some things that make chess engines non-deterministic:
1) Most chess engines use an opening book instead of calculating moves early in the game. These books are often programmed probabilistically, so it may have 4 reasonable responses to a given move and pick one randomly.
2) Many engines are programmed to "ponder", that is do optimistic calculations during the opponents turn. This means that the time taken by you to make the move could potentially affect the calculations performed by the engine.
> people have come to associate the circle head with masculinity, and because of this association, we felt that it was important to explore alternate head shapes. […] As a result of these iterations, we ended with a more gender-balanced figure. We chose grays because they feel temporary, generic, and universal.

This approach reminds me of the Greendale mascot, the "Human Being”.[1] The egg was better imo, it treated identity in a more light, not-so-serious manner; no need to think of genders, and you could even see it as a symbol of possibilities waiting to happen.

[1] http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Greendale_Human_Being
I very much rounded the output to represent minimal accuracy and while 9.51 e-1 is not accurate to 3 digits 1 digits of accuracy * 1 digits of accuracy = less than 1 digits of accuracy.

Anyway, if you actually trace the furthest bit of a ram chip to the CPU it's a longer path than you might think > 1 foot but < 3 feet.

As to my point tCL is a round trip latency and actually not that far from optimal. DDR is not designed for pure random access so much as cheap access to lot's of ram so yes there are many trade offs, but they are more reasonable when your close to hard limits.
Most chess engine opening books weight their branches to pick certain moves x% of the time, and offer 0 or negative value to 'bad moves' never to pick.

e.g. 1.e4, d4, c4 and Nf3 will get picked more often than 1. b3, c3, nc3 and f4, and 1. g3, e3 even less (or not at all).
The tragic reality is that in modern conflict you often engage with people you can't readily identify as an adult or child until after the shooting is over. If someone is trying to kill you, often from a distance with an AK-47 or mortar, you're going to act to save yourself and the people around you.

Of course, many people will struggle in the aftermath regardless of how necessary their actions may have been. "Oh I had to kill that kid who could have been my nephew..." can be very cold comfort indeed. In the worst case when someone is trying to kill you with a blade you're going to shoot them, and it's probably going to be pretty traumatic.
The fact that this is the case is pretty terrible. And the only reason talking to the hiring manager first works is because it's not the norm. If everyone does it, the value is lost.

Same with the degree. When everyone has a degree, it's not special anymore. It's merely a way to get people in debt and transfer the cost of job training to the employee.
While I guess it's true that not all that many people understand the restrict annotations in the various compilers, I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation from people writing saxpy-like computational kernels. It's certainly a prerequisite to doing research work on optimizations like this.

STOKE isn't really doing dynamic alias analysis per se, although if run for long enough its results should theoretically be equivalent to such analysis. As the example assembly shows, however, it's far from a sure thing. More generally, things like PGO exist because they specifically do things traditional compiler-level optimizers fundamentally can't. For STOKE to make a similar claim we should see much better code examples than the one shown here.
I'd be surprised to see more than a couple minutes for even a complicated fax page. I've seen 45-70 seconds average for a not-too-complicated page.

It also depends on the baud rate (never thought that term would come back, eh?) negotiated between both ends. A 14400 baud transmission will of course be faster than 9600.
I disagree. You might want to experience a change of pace. You might be interested in what "highbrow" is. You might like to challenge yourself.

To be a snob, I believe you'd have to look down on other people for their preferred content forms. E.g. "Oh, you're reading a website? I remember when I used to do that. Before I had discovered podcasts."
This is a doctrine that now starts with kids at a very young age. People reverse engineer their way into that Ivy League school, then the herd mentality drives them into finance / consulting, etc.

The further they go down this road, the greater the perceived risk of leaving it becomes. Add in the financial aspect for many, and you get the golden handcuffs. Spend too many years here and I suspect it just becomes your entire worldview, especially as your social circles thin out and become more homogeneous, especially in environments like business school.

In my own experience those who eventually escape are often driven out by what can be the psychological stress of conformity, or the realization that they are far from what they had wanted for their lives 5, 10, 15 years ago.
Sure, but in context this is an argument for, "see, we should slow cities down, because you'll be equally happy."

It's easy to move farther out in response to faster travel. Low housing prices in the outer suburbs with reasonable commutes attract people to a city. How are people going to move closer in if fast travel is eliminated? Should the people who can only afford the outer suburbs just leave?
The article leaves out that the reason miners would rather have the mining jobs than the Arby's jobs is that the mining jobs pay a lot better. The problem for these folks isn't that there isn't any other employment, there isn't, in a lot of mining areas, other employment that pays as well.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Please make system settings more accessible and consistent

- DESCRIPTION: I understand that system UI has been a bit volatile in recent years. The GUI has looked different almost every time I've installed a new Ubuntu, and when a big overhaul happens, it takes some time to flesh out all the stuff on the periphery. This sort of thing is unacceptable, however: https://twitter.com/Zikes/status/829882331959795712

I'm a bit of a "power user" yet I struggled to accomplish something as basic as adjusting my mouse pointer speed. It's just those sorts of oversights that prevent me from being able to recommend Linux to family and friends.
As a serious Catholic, I appreciated this humor and its legitimate insight.
Google doesn't sell an indexed list of users and their interests: you can't buy the data and then use it how you want.

But, yes, pimping it out was just hyperbole for renting it for particular, well-defined purposes. But even that doesn't convey the fact that advertisers never have full access to the underlying data itself. They can specify the market demographics desired and google or any other ad network delivers the matching eyeballs.
Flavour: Ubuntu Desktop

1. A more modern Icon and Windows theme.

The current theme looks very old fashioned, especially compared to the new theme (partially) in use under unity8. I think something more flat and less realistic could work well. The current suru/unity8 design seems to go in this direction, so it would be nice to have something similar on unity7 too.

Flavour: Ubuntu Desktop

2. Make unity8 more user customizable.

I would like that unity8 could be heavily configurable, so that every user could have his/her desktop customised accordingly to own preferences. I mean things like moving the panel and the bar to other places of the screen, changing the background color of the panels and so on.
I've also encountered this issue, and I assumed it was a bug to do with the fact that I sometimes use apt-get and sometimes accept the Ubuntu GUI software update prompts.

If people are encountering it on this wide a scale, it must be a truly severe problem (that's also probably causing many people who haven't learned about apt-get to give up on software updates entirely!).
How to test your idea without wasting code
Total side note, did anyone check out the EyeEm website (the apparent authors of the article)?

Their curation algorithms are doing a pretty good job! Their "selected" Galaxy photos look amazing.
https://www.eyeem.com/en/pictures/galaxy
My experience (currently running two 27" panels at 3840x2160 and one 27" panel at 2560x1440 in KDE for most stuff, Windows for gaming, and previously had one of the first edition retina MBPs with external non-retina displays):

OS X, years ago when the first retina MBP was released, did everything right. It was seamless from monitor to monitor, scaling done well.

Windows 10, now: OK, ish. Most applications scale badly with blurry text because it's just literally scaling the image afterwards. Newer applications are fine. The actual scaling isn't great - having a window half on one monitor and half on the other leads it to 'picking one' and looking weird on the other.

KDE, now: Pretty good. Correct scaling once you set it up. The autodetection can be dodgy, and the DPI scaling for text isn't linked to the rendering scaling for windows, for some reason. The GUI still only gives you a single scaling option for all monitors, but the autodetection can do different for each monitor, and environment variables can be set to solve it manually. The actual scaling is perfect for the vast majority of things. Things scale correctly and no blurriness. The only application that doesn't handle scaling is Unity3D, so everything is tiny (no fallback to raw image scaling).

In general, it's what you'd expect for interace stuff across the platforms - Linux does it right, but the interfaces around it are bad, Windows does it fine for new stuff, old stuff (which is most stuff) sucks, but the interfaces are OK for doing it, and OS X gets it all right.

Edit: Just to be clear, it's only the Unity3D editor that doesn't do scaling, the actual games work fine, as you'd expect they just get the full space and the game chooses how to render to it. To be fair to Unity about the editor, they support scaling on OS X, and the Linux build is still a beta. It is annoying though.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Fix perf packaging

DESCRIPTION:
I want the Ubuntu-supplied version of `perf` to be built with support for Python scripting. Last I checked, I had to rebuild `perf` myself to get that, which is silly.

AFFILIATION:
I optimize other people's code for a living.
Starting a Hardware Company with $60K
Intent matters. Roads aren't built with the intent of facilitating crime. A firearm is a better comparsion, because it's built with the intent to kill. Indeed this is the defense route that many are choosing here for this app. However there's an additional problem, in that this app was originally launched on HackForums, where the author also frequents. HackForums is a cesspool of criminals, so while there are some legitimate use cases that can be conjured up for this app, none of those legitimate users would visit HackForums.
Well if Amazon is still around in 100 years, probably, as the link uses a ASIN [1] which can be converted to an EAN [2] or is equal to 10 digit IBANs

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification...

[2]: http://erwinmayer.com/labs/asin2ean/index.php#EAN-to-ASIN
Ask HN: How to make sure idea of an app you working on does'nt already exist?
Would appreciate a link showing this.
There's actually a bit of work that could be done on the installer/partitioning IMNHO. As have been mentioned here, 512MB is a little tight for /boot (although 10GB would be too big).

As it is, it's rather hard to set up lvm/zfs volume management for everything but /boot over an encrypted partition - unless you can "use whole disk". Eg: a windows machine with a handful of hds/ssds - it can be pretty tricky to end up with swap, root (/), /home on a separate filesystem/mountpoint along with a conservative (10-20GB root filesystem/mountpoint) -- and the rest available to grow/add filesystems (for eg: containers/vms).
The people that I had in mind asking me would not know what an SSD is (the less technically literate). The people who go to Dell, HP, etc, and are trying to decide on a "good" laptop.
Technology has provided benefits but the rich take an ever increasing slice of those improvements and that's deliberate to keep the proles working. Housing was arguably better built in the 50s (and earlier) than it is today and it was certainly bigger.

Maybe we need to figure out a way to use technology to help the problem of high quality affordable homes.