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I like their 16-port dumb gigabit switches... they work quite well and they don't cost a fortune.
Thanks, I didn't see that. But yes, that's weird. In regards to pcie4,I believe the power9 will be the first to have it, but I haven't seen a solid release date for that. Naples didn't look like it had it -- just more pcie3 lanes.
>You don't tell a receiver to catch X number of throws per game

They kind of do though. In the NFL, many contracts are incentive laden with bonuses for (in the case of a wide receiver) X number of catches or Y number of yards.
>I think it's just simply wrong to do anything to something that belongs to someone else without their permission unless you absolutely have to.

If your neighbour had gone out and left their front door open, would you close it for them? If your front lawn crossed the boundary into their property, would you mow the whole lawn? It's not a clear-cut moral or legal issue.
Semi off-topic, but i am curious. How much of CS fundamentals do you expect a backend (or fullstack) developer to recite in an job interview? I did all CS theory stuff many years ago at university, but i could not pass a interview test full with these CS basics.

Isn't it far more important to know how to design a modern, maintainable, scalable web application? Know how an when to cache stuff. How to design a API. How to integrate with third party APIs. How to setup logging. How to sanitize data and other common security problems. How to setup test/build/deploy structures. Et cetera, you get the point.

If, while building a web application, i encounter a "big data"/"data processing" problem, i will find a appropriate solution using CS best practices. But hell, i would struggle to implement a simple array sorting algorithm under pressure.
Now we just need to get rid of those pesky poor people and presto... instant utopia. Purge anyone?
Ugh what's the deal with college aged kids going to Asian countries to "Teach" English with zero qualifications?
That list is correct, but it's only half of the problem. The other other half of the problem is supply.

In fields like mathematics, physics, computer science, grad students have excellent non-academic options. There is an oversupply of PhD students with respect to the number of available positions, but the excess PhD students have fantastic career avenues.

In fields like the humanities, and, to a lesser extent, the molecular biology/ecology, there is a huge excess of PhD students, and there is a very limited number of career options outside of research (for bio, there is pharma, for everything else, eh). This is compounded by the fact that for professors, postdocs are an absolute steal (http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/01/price-doing-postdo...). Professors get to pay 50-55k (and that's on the high very high end) a year for a PhD trained researcher who will often work themselves to the bone in the hope of getting the publications that will allow them to become a professor. Thus - the very people who have the power to change the system instead greatly benefit from the status quo.

The real reform that has to take place is that PhD programs need to become way more selective. Not every PhD should have a guaranteed spot as a professor (that would be insane) but when less than 8% of postdocs become professors, the system is in crisis.
Exactly. I am pretty sure there is a (well tested) library out there to do those things.
But the question is if "pure" democracy is what you should be aiming for. It might be a flawed concept, just like a pure free market is considered flawed.
Nice! I started on something similar (project's resting atm). The approach I took was to look for the phone Wi-Fi MAC addresses on the LAN, as in the article. In my case I couldn't get logs from the router, so I pinged the IP space 192.168.0.x, which would update the ARP table and then I could check that one. If a host is unreachable, it is removed from the ARP table. I was hoping for something like `ping` but lower, on Wi-fi MAC level, but alas.
[Google, Facebook, Microsoft] Research are probably similar in many ways -- well funded by rich companies that are self-interested in moving the field forward. We'll only know their true impact decades down the line, of course. MapReduce has certainly been very influential.

Bell Labs wasn't just a playground with infinite cash, they were very much supposed to figure out telecoms stuff for the benefit of Bell -- they just had a very wide berth for determining what that something was. I suspect the same is true for the aforementioned research departments.

(That said, I don't think either, nor Bell Labs, is a meaningful model for academia in general)
I'm Jamaican. My mom (64) says that when she was growing up, it was standard practice to hammer nails into the soles of the dead, so their spirits couldn't "walk".
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Or when little Robby drives through 50 people at Westminster bridge. Hmm, makes me rethink self driving cars...
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"Hey, at least have the courage and in integrity to tell them directly how to run their project. On the mailing list. Not here."

Option A: Discuss shortcomings of a project that its members don't intend to change on Hacker News like a lot of other things. Maybe learn something.

Option B: Send email about those to the project's official mailing list. Spend some amount of time in a flame war that teaches nobody anything.

Although you want B, I think most should just stick with A. Better time/reward ratio.
I was really neutral on the idea of HOA before this post, now I hate them, and people that like them.
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China has been aggressively industrializing since the 70's and their work is paying off, while America has been aggressively deindustrializing, shipping all the work overseas, gutting the middle class, all so the upper class can benefit from the cheaper labor. The global economy means nothing to me when I can't get a job.

If globalization doesn't help everyone of a country, it will lead to widespread disdain for globalization and eventually the reversal of the policies. If globalization is so important to create a more prosperous world, then we need to find a more sustainable way of doing it.
GPUs are hardware, not software. The patent situation there is much clearer. Critical hardware features of GPUs belong to different companies and the licenses for using those features often include highly restrictive licences for the code that drives them, or contractual obligations to use and not publish such code because doing so would reveal internal details of the hardware implementation of those features, which are trade secrets. Many drivers also load proprietary microcode into the CPU. AMD's 'Open Source' drivers do this.

Put simply, the GPU vendors do not actually own all the rights to their own driver software. AMD had a project to improve the state of their drivers on Linux, but the approach they took was to try and rewrite and open source the code implementing the public API to the closed binary blobs inside the drivers, to make it easier to maintain the stability of the drivers across kernel versions. Open sourcing the blobs wasn't possible for AMD because the code in them just doesn't belong to AMD.

>Don't just accept it when lawyers say no.

Which lawyers though? It's not necessarily ARM lawyers that are the problem. You'd need to get agreement from the dozens of patent holders of various bits of the technology, most of whom are unknown as their identities are confidential.
Is there something similar to GSoC that does produce shippable code?

(i.e. less emphasis on experimenting and more emphasis on quality and being accepted by upstream, perhaps by assigning "smaller" tasks)
I'm not expert in the field.

My gut feeling is that tamper resistance boils down to cryptographic signatures and that boils down to the problem of trusted sources rather than self identifying artifacts.

An analogy would be checksums when downloading an archive. There are two digital artifacts and only when the source of the checksum is trusted is the integrity of the archive trusted.

In terms of a consumer market, I dabble in photography and I don't see signs that it is in demand nor do I see an interest in creating demand from the companies developing photography platforms.

In terms of developing a solution, something like an iPhone app that encrypts photos using standard public/private key techniques on the device might create an infrastructure for trust. Putting something like that on a DSLR would be next to impossible because the platforms are even more proprietary than Apple or Android.

In the end, the ways in which digital images are like chemical film form some of the significant boundaries of the attack surface: namely chain of trust.

Good luck.
This was my impression as well, especially since the Speedtest.net screenshots show each test was done on WiFi. It seems to me the author has a very loose technical understanding of WiFi and networking in general. I'll usually be among the first to criticize Comcast, but this was just a waste of time.
In my experience the league sources usually black out local teams, which makes them useless for fans of local teams.
A good solution for universities is to pay researchers a full salary for a 30 hour week. Where 10 hours must be dedicated to teaching and the rest can be used at their leisure. It is a happy arrangement for all parties.
Yes, because one hardly sees outrage directed at the taxi companies?

If Uber is an improvement over status quo, stop trying to bring them down for not being perfect. Sure, talk about how Uber could be better. But 'Uber is evil ZOMG never use them' is counter-productive.
Scientists are employees in many contexts (almost all contexts). We may just have to agree to disagree on that one. Be they in service for an NGO, school, or oligarch.

But to say nature has no hierarchy? I suppose "hierarchy" can mean many things. But in my case I mean fitness and selection for it. The most fit are at the top. Nature tends to select for those better suited to their environment. And those best suited thrive and push the success of us all forward. It is how you got here and have what you have. Intellectual, emotional, and physical traits are all subject to this selection. The thriving academics with the most freedom are closer to the top. The best employees (however you want to define employee) tend to be given the most freedom and trust.
I really appreciate the effort that went in to this. This is a perhaps the most thorough hand holding through a "Cracking the Code Interview" regimen I've seen thus far.
Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, the applicable definition is:

"A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence."

It's not entirely clear that the "grammar vigilante" has actually committed an offence. There is a reasonable argument to be made that he is effecting a repair rather than damage. Consider a "cleanliness vigilante" who cleans dirty windows or a "bicycle repair vigilante" who repairs parked bicycles.
Very good point @bilbo0s and thank you for bringing this up. I didn't mention it as we focused on a non-clinical diagnostic (thus not subject to FDA), decided to entirely avoid the US market (focus on more less risk averse economies open to innovation and aligned via ACO-style systems.)

FDA is definitely the biggest hurdle of them all. I'd shudder if we had to deal with that 600 pound gorilla.
And get crushed by drone strikes. The old methods of overthrowing power don't work any more!
What matters is how much the company you want to work for expects you to whiteboard or code to pass their screens.

Big company? You almost certainly need to have your CS challenge question toolbox full.

Smaller company? Many follow the big company interview methodology, but some don't, so more likely you can get away with not breaking the spine on your Cracking the Coding Interview.
Sure, id say that shippable code really isnt the point of GSOC, but if they arnt getting long term contributors or useable code out of it, there isnt really any advantage for them to participate.
Agree but checklists have been shown to reduce error all around.
I didn't say manipulation was evil, just pointing out that manipulating someone and calling it love seems more like abuse than love.
> If you look at real hardware (or FPGAs) they will basically do polling: The input gets sampled at each clock cycle and will then get processed. And hardware is definitely realtime :)

Smiley noted; I think we can agree that "polling at 10s of MHz on an input pin" becomes something quite different than "polling at 10s of kHz on the other side of a USB link".
> Apple had a lot of saying in the architectural and design decisions of Imagination's GPUs that ended up on their iPhones. A good part of the development actually happened at Apple's offices with Imagination people flying over.

So that's why Imagination is insisting Apple can't not infringe: they know Apple won't have a cleanroom implementation not using the guys who've talked to Imagination.

Apple have a classic "they saw the copyrighted sourcecode" problem on their hands.
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I would close their door (if the situation is as simple as you describe) because I think there is a clear need.

I wouldn't mow their property without asking them.

Amusing yourself by making a petty point about grammar doesn't even begin to come close to being as reasonable as either of your two examples.
Not really, it would be a grammar mistake if they actually meant, let's say, "its" in place of "it's". Since the pronunciation of the two is the same, they word they actually meant to write is "it's", they just spell it wrongly.

Oh, can I add another pet peeve. "Semantics" when discussing naming of things when the meaning is clear. "Semantics" is about meaning, not about naming. But it's "semantics", obviously :).
Unemployment is only a press release for the launch of the 'Jimmy Choo Robot Edition' away.
Why Can't We Have HD Audio and SIP on the 4 Major US Carriers?
So, why can't we have HD Audio? We know T-Mobile has SIP servers that play nice with others[1] when they aren't walled off, Sprint supports SIP as that is how RingPlus (which supported G722 HD Audio), Google Voice, Bandwidth.com and others tie in, AT&T offered nearly the same type of interconnection with their WebRTC developer offering they killed a month ago, and Verizon has been showing the SIP URI as of late too[2].

Wouldn't it be possible to get the IPSec cert off a few phones and get access to these PBXes/SBCs, so we can get decent quality audio? As it stands today, carriers are essentially driving away their customers with low quality G711 audio or worse, no one is benefiting from high bitrate, low quality audio.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/2y4glg/calling_tmobile_subscribers_directly_via_sip/
2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/verizon/comments/2y7nrd/is_it_possible_to_call_verizon_subscribers_with/
Why should I ever write a merge sort when there are libraries for that? What if I have a better understanding of some other aspect of your system that you fail to identify and which your team is sorely lacking?

Not all programmers are good explainers. Someone who speaks English as a second language might have difficulty articulating the differences between two terms despite being able to code circles around you.

One of the best programmers I know explained Object Oriented Programming as "Imagine everything is a thing".
Personal political contributions (in the US) are mostly on the record, for everyone.

For voting, I don't really see how you do it officially (what do they get in return for their votes being published), so you just reward liars and punish truth tellers.
I think you're making a good argument for the rise of fringe publications like infowars or (to keep the balance) motherjones.com.

But what I was trying to dispel was the myth that previously well-regarded institutions like the WSJ and NYT changed for the worse.

I'm pretty sure the Blair scandal (someone completely making up interviews etc.) would play out very much the same today as it did in 2003. I also cannot agree with the idea that these specific institutions are "publishing outlandish claims" any more than they previously did.

Note that these newspapers' finances are still very much structured as they ever were. The NYT makes 70% of its income from subscriptions ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/media/new-york-t...) and the number is probably higher for the WSJ, which started its paywall much earlier and is more stringent in its application. Digital advertisement makes up only 10% of its income.
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I think if you are fresh out of college, cute little algo challenges are OK.. because

a) You should have just learned it

b) You don't have years of experience with 12 languages

Anything past fresh college grad and they are pretty dumb...
Hammering coffins shut and burying them also ensured they were dead.
@drchiu, it is uncertain how the system will evolve, but one way to solve the fall-guy problem might be to purchase insurance on these systems and have them bonded. It is all new territory, so no one really knows.

Self Driving Cars will face the same challenge w/r/t liability insurance when there isn't a driver. It might be a insured & bonded set of algos and systems.
Swedish employees agree to free microchip implants designed for office work
"if there was really nothing positive to say about Uber, why do people still choose to use and drive for them?"

if there was really nothing positive to say about Comcast, why
do people still choose to use them?
On the contrary, consider team sports as a perfect example of a meritocracy which often also promotes solidarity. A good team, led by a good coach, recognizes merit is earned by the performance of the whole. The whole wins and the whole loses together.

The best of sport very clearly defines success and failure. It uses competition to spur innovation and the pursuit of excellence. Solidarity is often the consequence of that pursuit.

Very little about education, from how teachers are managed to how schools are run, does the same.
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Drivetrain aside, I think the E-class would compare favorably to the model S for many people. This comparison is similar to the Apple computers sales numbers at least from the Jobs days. They would claim to set sales records, but only had a 4 model lineup when their competition would have 6 models just in their SOHO lineup.
Thank you for this! Cheers!
I switch off wifi on my phone and laptops to conserve power.
I haven't come across anything that is like a "history textbook of marketing", but would be glad to read something like that one day. I am sure something similar must show up in marketing/communications/journalism graduate schools.
Smart TV hack embeds attack code into broadcast signal – no access required
Thank you.

WP seems to be a nice fit, but I wanted to avoid deploying my own servers.

Does this work with the SaaS version of WP?

And does this allow access control of the content based on roles?
> qualifier " for low skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector"

For most of the people whose main reason for voting for Brexit was immigration's effects on jobs, these are the jobs that they seem the immigrants as competition for.

The theory is that the immigrants were willing to work for less so "stole" the menial, mind-numbing, often physical, & sometimes seasonal jobs. Having a number of such complainers in my family and otherwise in ear-shot I'd say the issue for many employers is not "being willing to work for less" but more "being willing to work to much of a standard at any price", but I digress... If the robots work out cheaper over a short enough amount of time (allowing for the large up-front investment in both the robots directly and any changes needed to make the environment one that can be efficient in) then it is logical that businesses will let them "steal" the jobs instead of accepting that they'll have to pay local workers more.

> keyed to feed our current robot fears

This isn't the first article to cover the possibility. I've been reading the headlines, particularly those in the UK press, as more a poke at the people who voted for leaving mainly due to the jobs issue - a message of "not what you wanted, eh?, don't say we didn't tell you...".
Ask HN: Why doesn't my landing page work?
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Perhaps not. Existing GPU makers protect themselves through cross-licensing their patents: you can use mine if I can use yours.

However, it sounds like ImgTec is considering going full-on troll, so they won't need access to the other patents any more and can just sit under their bridge extorting tolls.
You can work 20 or less hours a week and earn a reasonable salary and have a pretty fun life - booze, travel, girls, culture. Or you can work 40-50 hours a week and earn a cracking salary, maybe save a whole bunch, maybe get exposed to entrepreneurial opportunities that you wouldn't back home.
Open sourcing commercial products like hardware architecture and algorithms to the public is not exactly an easy thing to do.

There are millions of registered patents and the chances that your clean-slate ideas were already invented and patented are really high.

Open sourcing means exposing patent infringements to the public (even if you are not really aware that you are infringing anything), which means that you need to invest on a strong legal team in order to go through all possible patents and to deal with all possible litigations you might face.

In order words, open source requires much more than ideals, it also requires butt loads of money.
My late grandmother (Trinidadian) used to tell a story of a funeral procession where the body sat up in the coffin (something to do with the bandaged, poorly-embalmed body swelling in the heat?).

Apparently the locals wouldn't approach the body for some time afterwards, for fear it was 'walking'.
Why does it matter? Milk nutritionally is simple to replace. It's sugar water with fat and some assorted vitamins. It doesn't have anything that isn't easily replaceable.
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Wondering if someone can help figure out why my landing page doesn't work? A potential issue could be our corporate firewall but I was wondering if anyone else was having issues.

Is there anything I can do to fix my SSL certificate? I'm using the Free SSL Certificate on CloudFlare and am getting a ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR on Google Chrome.
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Don't disagree, but SLC is insanely close to the Wasatch mountains. Colorado has mountains too, though they're a ways away from Denver, Colorado Springs, Bolder.

I have co-workers that go skiing in the morning, and come in around 10:00am.
This article is paid for by current Indian govt supporter or mr Raoul's knowledge is pretty limited. Govt spending is never efficient, we have seen first hand misuse of aadhar by Indian police and politician. All this digitisation in India is a farce trying to create a totalitarian state.

China has an active 600 million mobile wallets in use on regular basis by people as old as 75, including Mom and pop shop despite push by govt to reduce it, diametrically opposite to India, since transaction cost is 0 with daily interest credited for even 10 cents deposit.
UNI is a step in right direction but paying 1-3% extra for just moving money is not efficient when the cost of moving digits is much lower, which is true for India. Paying 45% in direct tax and then adding additional tax will make Indian politicians more rich, they can move money offshore easily. This cash ban is boon for those industrialist who got more money to play from hard working middle and lower income groups in India.