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I wonder if lineageos includes that patch as well? I'm (still) having trouble navigating the gazillion repositories..
I was literally going to say the same thing. The reason these questions are in there is to whittle out people immediately. And yes there are developers and companies out there who do exist that do not use any VCS.

Probably the better thing to ask a candidate as a follow-up question is why is version control important.
I think that's kind of the point.

If you have to study for an interview, the interview is most likely not representative of real work one would find on the job.

Let's face it. "Big Co" interviewing is about passing an arbitrary bar that they have set. It's not representative of the actual work post hire.
Pilots aren't contractors. Uber drivers are.
BTW what's with the weird grey fade out effect at the bottom? It simply slows down reading. Fortunately "reader mode" works.
Your analogy does not work because UPS drivers and Pilots are either salaried or hourly employees. Their contract is very clear and also covered by employment law.

Uber treats drivers as contractors and then makes certain representations about the payment structure. The allegations here are the equivalent of airlines telling pilots that they get paid a percentage of all the fares, then lying about the total fares.
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Everybody has personal problems.
I wonder if a clean UX could be constructed around users signing up for their own API key and providing that to the client.
This is the state of just about every trendy consumer health product. My watch tells me my heartbeat? Great. What the hell am I supposed to do with that information?

Exactly nothing.
Yes, I agree with you but with a caveat. Semi-supervised learning is well known but has, I'll argue, recently fallen out of fashion in favor of throwing gallons more of labeled data at a really big neural net, crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. Usually, the neural net is either a really big conv-net with a novel architecture or a biLSTM with some elaboration on attention (which is actually closer to memory/state).

Most of the time, in neural net land, what people are doing with the fine tuning part is taking a model trained on looaads of supervised data, chopping off the head and using those features to train on smaller data. This OpenAI method is different in that it used patterns it learned on its own, instead of the recently more common technique of features extracted from a heavily label trained model to reduce the supervised learning burden in a nearby domain.

Arguably yes, this is an ancient technique but it has mostly been forgotten when it became clear that many problems are surmountable with a large enough helping of GPUs and a small moon's worth of data. OpenAI's is a good idea because it makes you say 'yeah that's obvious, pretrain a simple char rnn on loads of free text and oh wait, why has no one tried this before!?'

What is interesting here is that such a straight forward method compares so well to glittering methods that laboriously advanced the state of the art. What I also found surprising was that there was a 'neuron' that was tracking something very close to sentiment. Why?

A bit of thinking and I came to a simple idea. One way of looking at the LSTM in the practical setting (as opposed to a theoretically Turing Equivalent thing) is as a really big finite state rube goldberg machine. In learning to predict the next character, it makes sense that one set or part of a set of states it can enter/track is extremely correlated with what we humans call sentiment in review text.

In summary, the trained model can be thought of as a computable theory of amazon reviews that also works really well on IMDB reviews (and probably short but probably not sarcastic text reviews in general).
You would be surprised how this doesn't apply to many software companies out there and how the hospital environment is exactly the kind of culture existing. There is no one thing fits all fact.
Offer a pre-installed Linux version of a machine at higher cost, but do your best to upstream patches and homogenize hardware with the Windows pre-installed version.

I actually find the fact that the Linux version is more expensive to be insulting. If anything, it should be cheaper, given that you're paying the "Windows Tax" on the W10 version of the laptop.

Now if they cost the same price, with the caveat that the $80 or so that would normally go to the W10 license is instead going to Dell's Linux team to ensure hardware compatibility and/or submit upstream changes to Canonical / Red Hat, then I'd be all for it.
Well, the article claims that they are comparing premiums to "to the average amounts paid out by insurers for liability claims in each zip code" which seems to include the additional factors that you describe.
Traffic volume for binaries is higher than that of text because the message size is larger. They are also often chunked into sub-messages that Usenet servers counted as individual messages but semantically are not. Many binaries are legitimate redistribution, although of course not all.

Do you mean to say that there are more binary messages than text messages by an order of magnitude before chunking and that none of those binaries were permitted copies under the law? Because I'm going to need to see evidence to be convinced of that.
Consumers pay the exact amount they are shown upfront. I'd much rather pay a slight premium than not know upfront how much a ride will cost.

For me, the fixed upfront cost is one of the biggest selling points for Uber over taxis.

Uber gets from point A to point B and charges me exactly what they quoted. How is this horse meat substituted for beef?
> I'm a graduating medical student with a master's in computer science.

That's... actually really neat. What made you go for a graduate degree then on to med school, if you don't mind me asking?
Understand. Some of the market is committed to open source, and so be it.

Most companies we talk to are more worried about being locked into specific infrastructure than specific software, since they would pay for the enterprise or hosted version of the open source database anyway. FaunaDB solves that problem by not being tied to any specific cloud.

There is a developer edition of FaunaDB on the way that you will be able to run locally for free.
No, that's not what I (and presumably you and others here) do. We are nerds. We like talking about things that make us think.

But yes, for the majority of people, talking about themselves is exactly what they do. They talk about their vacation to the beach. They talk about the drama going on at work. They talk about their sister's date. They don't talk about advances in database design.

I was at a live event (a play) recently and was fascinated by a small group of women in their late 20s / early 30s. They spent a good 10-15 minutes before the play started just taking pictures of themselves being at the play and posting it to their social networks. They talked about the pictures, asked others to send them their copy of the picture. They took pictures from one angle and then another. They talked about who "liked" the picture they just uploaded. It went on and on and on. Not once did I overhear them talking about the play they were about to see. It seemed to be not the point at all. The play was just a hashtag for their social media posts.
I still have my openpandora from the first preorder batch, it delivered almost all expectations I had for it and sometimes even went beyond battery life got pushed further than 10+hours and had a memory upgrade.

I have no doubt the pyra will deliver.
The problem you are describing is at once intractable and a solved problem. Most oems are at best ambivalent about Linux support. If you are lucky they provide enough documentation for volunteer labor to support their hardware otherwise someone has to for free spend their time reverse engineering their pile o' hacks.

Since there isn't an inexhaustible well of free labor to throw at other peoples hardware there will always be some hardware that either doesn't work right or doesn't work right out of the box because it requires fix foo that is only available in version bar that is the very latest that hasn't made its way into the stable version yet. If you run a bleeding edge distro you may find that you have the needed version of bar but they broke something else!

The solution is to buy hardware with the OS you intend to run in mind. If you are just curious about whether linux might be useful to you the easiest thing in the world to do is try it out either via live usb or virtual machine. If indeed you would like to run linux and it doesn't work with your existing hardware just buy with Linux in mind when you get your next machine.

Instead of asking whether linux can meet the impossible standard of running flawlessly on any pos you happen to throw at it ask whether there exists a reasonable range of hardware that meets your needs and expectations.

If you approach it that way you will most likely be satisfied.
Absolutely, and I've done that before, but the web interface doesn't really help with this. You also need to alert the original thread about it manually so others can follow the thread.

If you have five different suggestions, should that be five separate PRs to their feature branch? Probably? Or they will just need to modify or rebase out the commits they don't want.

Anyway, I just like all solutions where "doing the work" is encouraged over "talking about doing the work." Often, the doing takes less time for both sides.
It can be pretty helpful for exercise.
I'm impressed with your thoroughness in processing the responses. But I'm just curious: Why did you lump usability for children and accessibility for users with disabilities into one suggestion? Anyway, returning to GNOME should help with the latter.
Just being closed cycle isn't enough. A couple of the early British reactors apparently exposed the public to low levels of neutron and gamma radiation in normal operation because part of the cooling loop was outside the radiation shield for cost-saving reasons.
Hmm.. So in my area where Lyft is always expensive 20-30% more than Uber. I don't know how much these Lyft guys are stealing ?
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I generally think the same these days, but it made me recall 10-15 years ago when I was consulting and considered a company having no source control a place where I could provide immediate value. Now it just scares me right out the door.
if you think discussion of what is currently fashionable amongst naive Yale undergrads and partisan media sites like Huffington Post constitutes "hard left" you haven't seen "hard left".

It continues to disturb me that there are so many people in America that have no idea what the real political spectrum is. Basically the takeaway should be this: if the discussion is something that was brought up AT ALL by the Clinton campaign it is not "hard left". It's merely to the left of the Republicans, but then, almost everything is.
Yes, that is very nice, but it doesn't help if I am not a maintainer of the upstream project.

Since I haven't used it, I'm not sure, but it seems like it would also help avoid the case of "Can you squash this before I accept it?" leading to pointless delays and extra work.
I understand and agree with your stance on the sense of entitlement that some people have regarding software purchases, but I feel like you might have missed one of the finer points being made here. My response somewhat assumes that you either do not own recent Nintendo consoles, or at a minimum, are a very casual user of their platforms and are not aware of some of the shenanigans they've been up to due to negligence or incompetence in the digital space.

Purchases of their Virtual Console games for one console do not transfer across platforms. If you bought Mario 3 for Wii, you'll have to buy it again if you want to play it on the go for your 3DS. Furthermore, licenses for digital purchases on the 3DS (and maybe other consoles?) were tied to hardware IDs, resulting in a super-tedious license transfer process for anyone unlucky enough to need a repair or for those who had the nerve to voluntarily upgrade their system to one of Nintendo's hardware revisions.

So in some sense, they _do_ or, at least, reasonably _should_ have the infrastructure to manage digital purchases in a customer-friendly way, but instead settled for a system which forces people to re-purchase the same title for different platforms. Compare this to Sony and Microsoft, whose digital shops allow cross-platform purchases for many titles.

To add to all of this, Nintendo has a very confusing maze of different account systems for their different services and it is very tough to navigate which accounts serve which purpose. I have at least 3 accounts for Nintendo services at this point and it's still not clear to me what the deal is.

All of these factors combined make re-purchasing Zelda several times over a harder pill to swallow.
I like this idea and think it has legs. But, eventually it might be worth rewriting daemons for SMTP/IMAP that have a simple config file format that would allow simple white/blacklisting domains such that one could run a server that would reject all emails from any domain other than the 6 one specifies. Further, without pgp encryption/signing msgs are discarded.

I think such an approach could be interesting, but it seems there is a need for a non-profit to govern such a thing.
Great explanation of HLL in here - I hadn't fully understood how you can combine HLLs together, which is key to understanding why they can help distribute count distinct over multiple shards without needing to copy vast amounts of data around to check for uniqueness across multiple shards.
Oh! I get the confusion. A lot of recommendations are done by people on email where they send their notes to me. Alex Turnbull was one such example.

However, by putting the title of Alan Kay's reading list as present tense too, I've muddled it up.

You're right. There are tons of lists that are curated from varied sources, some from authors' websites, some from university reading lists etc. Currently, I didn't have a specific section where I could mention the attribution links, but I think it'll be wrong to continue without it.

I'll work on it right away to integrate a section like that. Till that is done, I'll make sure there is grammatical distinction between both.

Thanks a lot. This was valuable.
I think it should be revised to, "Do the office conditions satisfy YOUR needs?"

Some people like having lots of noise/people around them (all the noise blends together at some point) or they just put headphones on anyway so they don't care. Others want their own office, or could do a shared office. It's such a personal choice these days.
I'd rather see a universal single consumer server with easy download and plugins for all of this stuff. Host my social network, my mail server, my cloud apps, etc. Basically, make social network a part of OwnCloud and sell OwnCloud boxes. Instead of a million small devices, I do one big one... and "big" can still be RaspPi.
This is great stuff and applies to more than just OSS. Working with vendors? Other parts of a large organization? A lot of the times the dynamics(or at least the learnings here) can be applied.

Kudos to the author, I'm sure that was no short amount of work to put together.
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So it seems Stripe Atlas was set with highly-funded startups in mind.

Exactly the kind of startup that is not actually in need of Stripe Atlas.
Yellow cabs in New York have meters that are supposed to be checked regularly. Never the less, I have taken yellow cabs with unquestionably different rates per actual miles and time driven (e.g. same distance/time, different fares, because one taxi's meter was faster).
They probably use the AWS Activate program (which my main startup is part of). It basically gives you a set amount of "credit" with AWS. We got ours almost a year ago and it just ran out this month. It allowed us to run key workloads on AWS for a year at zero out of pocket cost.

Of course Amazon does this, in part, because once you have built a functional business on their platform(s) you are more likely to stay there and to continue paying them long-term.
On articles that I read on the subject (the subject of 23andme tests, not genetics in general) and my own capacity for acquiring information and transforming them into learnings and opinions that I form to better live my life.
And Tesla is already deploying self driving cars in far larger numbers of cities as part of the "own a goddamn Tesla" network.

We have ample evidence that Uber's self-driving cars require human intervention orders of magnitude more frequently than Waymo's. The fact that they're using human-driven cars with self-driving assist in a vaguely commercial manner is a marketing tactic, not a statement of technological proficiency.
Realistically, it takes 4 years to attempt to get your foot in the door at a medical school unless you have pre-admittance or you're looking at a special case like UMKC's 6-year program. Getting into an MD or a DO program isn't a guaranteed thing. It's a substantial downside risk.

Also, you can have a STEM-based undergraduate education as your pre-med, even math and computer science can count if you take the right additional electives. The two aren't mutually exclusive. It's a good fallback if you bomb out of getting into med school (or decide 3 years into ugrad that you don't want to apply).
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Linear power supplies voltage sag as they're overloaded. This famously exploited by some players to create "brown tone", or audio compression, as the input signal gets louder. I don't particularly care for this type of compression and a lot of other players don't either.

As far as safety, the input transformer is -boosting- your 120vac to 400vac-500vac :) So it's not protecting you from anything :D

My topology could be arguably safer... First, 120vac->24vdc via switching PSU. This actually provides the isolation you refer to. Then the 24vdc is split, part of it is switched down to 6.3vdc for the tube heaters and the other part is put through a ZVS boost circuit 24vdc->376vdc. Even with the double conversion, my efficiency is about 78%! I have complete isolation from AC via the first power supply. I bond my negatives to earth for safety. The best part is, this amplifier is dead quiet because the switching noise is very easy to filter.
Presumably most (98% isn't it) of our DNA is the same thought, right?

About 98% of our DNA does just makes an ordinary human body with normal systems.

So we're only interested in the 2% that can vary.

Or whatever the actual numbers are.
From what I've read, it seems that open offices reduce productivity. The only real advantages I can think of are projecting coolness and saving money on office space.
Thanks. I asked a question in your Q&A section. I am very curious about how this MOOC is being run.
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"important" might be one adjective, but typically less specialized, less competitive, and more common
The joel test seems very applicable to a scenario where you have a large team of people working on a small number (or even just one) of big product-oriented projects.

I find that a good chunk of it doesn't apply in my job, where I'm one guy working on a large number of simple web applications.
this might be instructive

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5oczc7g4979s95k/the%20political%20...

now place on Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) on that chart such that its left end goes over Steven Pinker and its right end goes over Donald Trump and you have the political spectrum, as it is currently discussed in American mainstream media.
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But they aren't. They're paid per minute and per mile.
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It's more than just quiet. Having a totally open work space creates a lot of visual distractions as well. People walking around you all the time is far more distracting than the noise in my experience.
In politics, memories are short. A year from now nobody will even care.
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I think being rude to someone who's rude to you is childlike and petty. It's how wars start. It's much more productive to either ignore it or try to figure out what's really going on.

It's not always natural and of course we all fail at it from time to time, but justifying poor behaviour because someone else started it just isn't cool.
> Ok, so Android is open-source as mentioned already by other comments.

Is it ? I thought that only the AOSP part of Android was actually open source and not that useful by itself. I might be wrong here but my understanding is that the opensource in Android is mostly for show/marketing and is getting worse with time.
AI hype journalists will find something to write about, regardless of the industry making their research accessible to the wider public.

Markov-chain generators have been around for a while, and have been used to throw off spam detectors. This should not stop research, but instead grow more research into adversarial usage of machine learning models.
I'm not saying you don't have big issues if you drive drunk but that statement is obvious and does nothing to solve the problem. No one is going to start accepting drunk drivers as good people. But maybe we can understand why people drive drunk and can fix that underlying cause. After all, all I want is for fewer people to drive drunk.
For the less seasoned, we should all learn from this. There are 2 sides to every story and I am almost sure that management has a dramatically different view of what transpired. Not because either is right or wrong, but they seem to be viewing things through lenses.

That being said, working at a startup is like a marriage, you have to find the right fit. When he joined Gitlab, it may have been the right fit, but companies and founders much like everyone else who suddenly comes into money, often change. Sometimes even thought you love the company, priorities shift and change. When you start noticing that, it may be time to move on.

Kudos to him on not choosing to cash in his options. Definitely putting his money where his mind is.