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An absolutely indispensable tool when it comes to eBook management and conversion!

I just wish the UI wasn't such a mess. Anyone know if they're open to UX contributions?
Such a lack of imagination. Hire a good enough warlock, and requirements can be fulfilled at compile time - you just need well-typed customers, which is the tricky part.
>I couldn’t afford a $3,000 40-hour prep course or tutor.

If you aim for an elite college, you should be an autodidact anyway. You should be able to teach literally everything you want yourself, using only resources like the internet and books. Because trust me, nobody will help you with that integral that spans one page and you just can't resolve. Or help you find that annoying bug in your program. You're all alone. But you can resolve it all if you invest enough time. And at the end of the day, at your workplace, you will never have trouble with the challenges they throw at you.
Shipping self-hosted APIs is painless with Go thanks to how easy it is to cross-compile. Especially if your customers are enterprise and run Windows internally.

Previously, we had to ship virtual appliances to our customers which then involved debugging their wacky network setups, their wacky version of VMWare etc. etc. Now it's just one liner build, upload to s3, send out a link, done.
Cool Features of Google Container Builder
Most C++ developers won't easily develop systems in Rust because of lack of well-known libraries and a stable ecosystem(profilers, static analyzers, concurrency tools, many skilled and mediocre developers, etc). C++11 and subsequent versions have a good amount of memory safety(though not as safe as Rust).

Rust is a modern language with very good concepts and features. It's quite complicated to learn.

My answer is it will be a good language, but won't be a top language.
My second ACT score went up 3 points for no other reason than I had a less-obnoxious "science" (i.e. answering questions about intentionally-misleading graphs and data) portion the second time.
Unions do kill jobs. That's simple economics - if you force an employer to pay more (and that's the reason you need a union), less jobs would be available at higher rate. If you sell something at higher price, you sell less of it. You can argue that these jobs are better and there are other benefits, but denying basic economic laws is not going to get you very far.
With regulations it's more complicated - some regulations may make economic sense, especially externality-related ones , some are explicitly aimed at killing jobs - such as licensing regulations which are explicitly designed as a barrier to prevent non-licensed people from having certain jobs and thus reduce the number of people in certain occupation. It's in its explicit design, and no matter how many times you say "propaganda" it's not going to change.

> it's just a ploy by those with inherited wealth to get a bigger share of the wealth.

By blocking access to good jobs to lowest tier - people without union connections, without union seniority, without ability to complete complicated licensing requirements, etc. - you are doing exactly this. You are making harder to gain footing on the job market for people that do not have a base to complete complicated licensing requirements, that can not deliver enough productivity to be hired at the above-market rates set by unions, who may not fit the job descriptions and requirements set by unions, etc. You benefit a narrow sliver of the population (1/3 at the highest times, much less now) at the expense of everybody else.
How Rose's classy reaction to friend Garcia's Masters win warmed our hearts
Explanation of DeepMind's Neural Turing Machine
I took my SAT scores from 90th percentile to 98th percentile by buying a book, doing a few sample problems every night for a couple of weeks, and reading the test taking tips in the back. Probably the most helpful tip was that all the math diagrams were drawn to scale.

The bigger benefit of all of this to me was the SATs as another example of how truly arbitrary the world seems to be, and how little extra effort is actually required to curb that arbitrariness towards your goals.
It's the PixelQi display. I was impressed with the OLPC screen when I first saw it in person in 2009 or so. Just a year or two ago I decided to get a netbook and install one of them. It turned out to be not impressive at all, the screen looks muted and it is like the backlight is not working rather than being great like e-ink.
Deis CTO Gabe Monroy on the Decoded Show
Password Strength (2011)
Mine did, most students didn't take it.
10 Email Mistakes that kill your internship chances
> Am I really that screwed if I want to work at Google/Amazon/Whatever and I haven't graduated from MIT or Stanford?

The vast majority of Google/Facebook/etc. employees aren't from MIT/Stanford/Harvard/Berkeley/etc.

It's definitely much harder to get a job at these companies straight out of college if you didn't attend a big name university. 10 years later, it doesn't matter.

I got my undergrad from an unknown French university, and went to grad school at a large US state university with no brand name recognition (as is the case for many, many immigrants). Recruiters from top tier companies ignored me out of grad school, but after a few startups/talks at major conferences/open source projects/etc., I now work at such a company (and now recruiters are very eager to get some of my time).
Also anyone big besides mozilla, who created it?
I've had a bit of exposure to it (writing some HTTPS audit tool using Go\Crypto & some third party library - from CloudFlare) and I agree mostly, what struck me as a guy with 10+ years of PHP background is the speed at which I got the first versions of my tool out, really impressive. Definitely keen to may be transition to it if I can find stuff to do to better my knowledge of it.

Have you found a decent way to deal with the dependency management, I found it a bit clunky...
I think it has a fair chance (Go is a "systems" language and grew very quickly). I also believe you'll see it pop up in unikernels as well. Why, you ask? Because there's always 1 person that starts a project that gets traction.

I don't see it growing and replacing C++ though. I don't think there's much incentive post C++11 to really consider porting anything (even small things) over. Most of the features Rust gets praised for are either: (1) Ridiculous - if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer (CLARIFICATION: if you act like segfault protection is some majorly useful feature, you're an imbecile who must also think writing C/C++ is like disarming a bomb - nonsense; give me a real argument for Rust that isn't: insignificant, badly contrived, already in C++, etc. - you can't convince a generation of systems programmers to drop everything to move to Rust without this). Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic. I've not segfaulted in the past 8 years in anything but assembly. Or, (2), things I've been using in C++ for the past 4 years.

Rust will definitely end up in these areas I believe but I just hope that it's not some horrible binding to a C/C++ library or something. I think backwards compatibility and current dependencies is a big thing.
The police can also talk to the guy, determine he has a ticket and apparently has the right to be there, then leave and tell United to not call back until they've exhausted all their options.
>How expensive and competitive education is in the USA seems so alien to me

Expensive: Yes. Competitive: Not really. In the state university I went to, if you could not get admission, you really did not deserve it. The SAT score required was fairly low. In fact, if your SAT score was just above the threshold of admission, chances are you'll flunk college anyway.

Compared to some other countries in the world (Turkey, South Asia, etc), the competition is ridiculously low. I know many people in those countries who could easily score well in the SATs but still not be good enough to get admission into a decent public university.
Many casino games don't work well with cash. You'd use plastic or ceramic chips even if you were playing at home against friends. Common coins have too little value, larger coins get very heavy and loud in bulk. And paper money doesn't work well. You can't toss it to the center of the table as easily as chips, it's harder to count a stack of dollars, paper money would tear when handled so heavily, etc. There are very practical reasons to use chips instead of cash in a casino.

Slot machines, which don't have those considerations, can be played with your choice of cash or cards that can have value loaded onto them, as of the last time I checked.
http://www.insatiablefox.com/blog/2016/6/23/ikea-is-the-larg...
I cannot take my 5 year old son into a supermarket. Entering and exiting requires passing by so much candy and other garbage that it's just not worth it. He will invariably pitch a fit when I say no and we will invariably have a tear filled exit from the store. The store is effectively weaponizing my child against me to extract money from my pocket.

This is similar. My kids don't play video games, but I have friends who will hear no end of whining and crying when their kid needs more Minecraft $$$. Of course they can refuse to participate, but as a parent it's frustrating.
Does it ever work though?

First thing I do is do the math on what each individual item I'm interested in costs in dollars based on the price of both the most and least expensive coin pack or whatever.
Partitioned Elias-Fano indexes [pdf]
I grew up in a SuperZIP and I resent this article revealing our precious secrets.
The Case for Neo Isolationism
Or because they got a garbage degree because they bought into an idea that getting an overpriced useless degree is the only entry way to the job market.
The SAT is a pretty silly test. When it was out of 2400 I took it for the first time and got a 1800. I studied for literally a week and increased my score to 2100, which isn't really that good, but a testament to how "studyable" the test is.

If education in this country was worth anything the SATs would be unnecessary.
I've been doing Node for a while and wasn't sure if I should take some time to learn Rails, you've just helped me to decide to do so. Thanks.
Three activist tools we need
How is it down there in Galt's Gulch?
Not really. If you're from a decent university in your country you can at least get an internship at Google. I've had quite a few colleagues in Romania that did that. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
Is it that expensive? It wasn't when I took it.
The difference is that bandwidth is being used by incoming pushed assets before the abort. This might not matter much on fast wired connections but can make a big difference on mobile networks.
Also, specifically about minimum wage, raising it much more often than not has negative outcomes. There is clearly mixed research, but most studies including this meta-study make the case that at best there isn't much benefit, and more often than not it has a negative impact:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w12663

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A few that come to mind immediately are the record-keeping requirements (need to keep two acceptable and non-conflicting sources of evidence for each place of supply, for a long time), geolocation inaccuracy (geo-IP databases typically have about 5-10% error rate in country identification according to most reports I've seen), regional variations (dependent territories might have different tax rules to their parent member state, so the country alone isn't sufficient to determine the correct tax rate), and dealing with refunds/returns/replacements/etc (where unlike most VAT returns as I understand it, for a MOSS return you're supposed to retrospectively update things once you've already filed them and then deal with how to adjust for any tax now over/underpaid originally).

As people have noted in various other comments here, you also have to keep up with any changes in the rates themselves and understand any local rules in each member state on which rate applies, possibly deal with just plain incorrect demands from foreign tax authorities or more reasonable but still onerous tax audits if your number comes up, and of course there are the basic overheads for operating a second tax scheme on top of your national one in the first place, including some slightly eccentric rules for dealing with exchange rates if they affect you.

Also, the VAT rules don't override consumer protection rules about advertising VAT-inclusive prices for B2C sales, which creates some interesting dilemmas if you're running a web site where you want to show correct prices based on a visitor's location but you don't have sufficient evidence until you get to the payment step to actually verify that location to a satisfactory standard. The only completely safe solution to this that I know is to advertise a fixed price to everyone, which means you're taking the VAT hit directly from your revenues and if nations change their VAT rates then it's your business that wins/loses, not the customer, which is entirely not how VAT is supposed to work.
Absolutely not. The airline made a bad situation worse by refusing to offer adequate compensation, and they made it even worse by introducing violence. This man saw that he was being wronged, and he refused to allow them to wrong him without some type of protest. If he had left and said, 'Well, this isn't right,' nothing would have come of it. He would have received no justice. Now, there's a good chance that he'll be adequately compensated for his trouble, and United will be adequately shamed/penalized by would-be customers.
Like... Cobol... 'cause all those reasons are vanishing and will vanish.
Do they really say this? They assume this just as Newtonian mechanics does. And like Newtonian mechanics give reasonable answers in the domains they describe. How would they change if there was a cutoff at some infinitesimal scale?
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html
I think you missed the entire point of the article. It's not saying that they just need to study, they also need to know what the secret to the success is. Would you have thought that a test like the PSAT would be useful for 11th graders only so that they could get national merit scholarships? I didn't know this until my wealthy friends told me...
Can you expand on how Spring or Asp.Net are better than Laravel with respect to form validation, route management and templating which are generally regarded as PHP's fote?
OS jitter analysis for the masses
Not many people do it just for fun. Stopping people from doing what they need to achieve job being done is usually not the most productive idea.
First rail freight service to China departs UK
It did, twice actually. 2 applications, a few interviews for every of them. Then for two years there had been a dozen of applications with no answers. And I'm thinking now whether I should bother applying again or I'm in a blacklist of some kind.
> in time those would converge to the best midlayer design

What makes you think that?
The neural networks that have exploded in popularity lately are nothing like actual neurons. They're usually just elements of a matrix, and the "layers" are just matrix multiplications. "Neuromorphic" ones are still pretty simple compared to the real thing but they are much more complex than the other neural networks. They try to physically model interactions between neurons, so each neuron is constantly sending and receiving and self-tuning. It's nothing like a matrix multiplication.

Edit: It also runs efficiently on very different hardware. https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/02/15/memristor-research-h...
Pretty is nice, tell more please.
To summarize your point (and correct me if I'm mistaken), Apache httpd is legacy that people don't seem to want to make the effort to move off of, but still want the benefits of nginx, so they'll stand up nginx in front of httpd, rather than migrate off of Apache (and update their platforms to support that).

I feel the "marketing" concept is less actual marketing and more feature appeal, but I guess that's similar? Maybe not, though. Features provide actual value, whereas marketing is ... tricksy.
> Ridiculous - if you need segfault protection, you're a bad programmer. Let's be honest, you don't segfault unless you're doing something idiotic.

I've caused segfaults in the runtimes of three major languages in the last year by running code that, from a user perspective, is completely fine.

I don't think the developers of those runtimes are "bad programmers".
> Does anybody know why Amazon stop selling the DX?

The Kindle DX was exorbitantly priced (nearly $500 at launch), inconveniently large, and poorly marketed. And it didn't really play into the primary market for the Kindle, which was light reading.
Plenty of companies manage to make money and provide well above minimum wage and health benefits. If Uber were "forced to employ them properly", there very well may not be an Uber (at the very least there will be fewer drivers), and the drivers you're worried so much about will have one less option.

The beauty of capitalism is that no one is forced to do anything, but no one is entitled to anything either. Uber isn't conscripting it's drivers, they're free to seek out higher pay, better benefits, and the best deal they can somewhere else, or, if they can't, invest in their own human capital/move etc so that they can.
AT&T bets on 5G with Straight Path Communications buy for $1.25B
Yes, not really an official solution yet, but they're getting there.
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen (1850)
19th Century Fortune Telling: From the Drawing Room to the Court Room
By JSON validation do you mean just checking if it's well formed or rather something like JSON Schema validation?

The latter seems tricky. It's validation inside the application a bottleneck?
Certainly more then Nim.

I'd say, before Rust becomes really mainstream, we have to wait for the current generation of sysdevs to die.

But I guess till this is the case, there will be new languages invented that may be better than Rust.

On the other hand, most new companies don't hire old devs, so maybe IoT will give rise to new companies and young sysdevs all using Rust before the old generation is gone...
The remarkable community around a 27-year-old MS-DOS racing game
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The brain is a highly inefficient system evolved arbitrarily and slowly over a long time. It does seem likely that we could, with much fewer computational resources, simulate the function of some of the tasks which brains are responsible for or "good at", such as image classification.

However, "simulating the brain" in general is a much broader problem in scope. Consider: Can you even really truly say that you have "simulated the brain" without also including a physical body for this system, since a brain is inherently tied to a body and corporal existence in the world? It's not clear.

It's likely the problem won't be computational power but figuring out how to extract or isolate only the bits of the system we are interested in from the rest. Consider the genome, for instance: we have had the human genome mapped since 2003 but the unfathomable complexity of the system as a whole makes it difficult (though not impossible) to apply for useful stuff.

It's not just about computational power, it's also about defining computational models that can create human-competitive performance for certain tasks, or, in the case of AGI, for all tasks that might be expected of a human. That's the fiendishly tricky bit.
Maybe it was Visual Studio Community that was making it worse, that thing was unstable as hell as well. So much time spent fixing project files...
>Is that concept so alien if you're not a "rich kid"?

That's the point of the article - why is the concept alien at all? Why should it be strange for children from lower- to middle-income backgrounds to be in academic programs over the summer, but perfectly normal for the rich? What has normalised that divide in society?

It's a valid question. Do poor children not want to work hard, or do they not know how hard they're obliged, or able, or work?
People just assume that superhuman AI will have human desires: safety, control, power. We want those things because any humans that didn't want them didn't survive to pass on their genes. But a human-built AI will be subject to very different evolutionary pressures. I don't think we can say anything for certain about what it will want.
Any data on the correlation between SAT score and dropout rate?
For some people, yeah it might very well be. If no one you know personally has that kind of attitude nor has even been to college, where do you learn it from? Theoretically you'd learn it at school but many underfunded public schools are just glorified babysitting anyway. So yeah, it might be a foreign concept.
I would say unlikely, for the simple reason that Rust is just really hard.
Networking is not necessary for a software engineering job. The two main factors are:

- can you code in a whiteboard to pass the interview?

- are there visas available to get you to work in your country of choice?

I studied in Chile, and worked there too (in several companies no one has heard of in the US). Six years ago Google interviewed me, and I've been working for them since. Google paid for all expenses to bring me from Chile to the US - and I'm not the only one.

Now, having someone inside Google to refer you and endorse your hiring helps. If you don't know anyone - try open source. There are some awesome communities to join:

- https://medium.com/google-cloud/analyzing-github-issues-and-...
Most schools/the test company offer it for free with waivers for students who have demonstrated some level of financial need (by receiving free/reduced meals or otherwise)
That's certainly true for us, everything is just put behind a pair of Brocade Traffic Managers. I really do like, and to some extend prefer Nginx, but we're perhaps 20 different people servicing different customers so we standardised on Apache, because it support everything, and the traffic managers deal with performance.

People like to think they are special, and that they've need more speed, so they turn to Nginx, but most of us can easily be served by Apache.
There are degrees of complexity, there's a kind of spectrum even. If you want a full-blown business logic that requires language like PHP or Go, it's insane to try and make Apache do it. If you need a set of simple rules that are within what Apache (including there all the module ecosystem) can and is designed to do, it would be a big mistake, costing a lot of scalability, to deploy high-level language instead. Right tool for the job, always.
It seems like these are just the most common jobs, not actually the most in-demand jobs. Many of them are very low paying. If they were actually in-demand, they would pay more. For example,

- Retail salespeople
- Janitors
- Personal care aides
- Maids and housekeepers
- Childcare workers
- Teacher assistants
- Cooks
- Security guards

are all pretty low paying jobs.
Can we view this as nature's mechanism to prevent cannibalism amongst species? Mad cow disease occurred when cattle were fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal
Even their old device (DPTS1) can do that - so I would assume yes.
Why I hate current recommendation systems
So, the web was created to freely distribute unhindered by geographic position or social class...

But apparently people are using it to do bad stuff

Better censor it, that can't go wrong /s
> Many medicines also cause more harm than they provide help

How many is 'many'? 50%? 25%? Or simply 'more than zero'?

> but I will take natural (or at least human incrementally improved over generations and generations) over artificial (top down diet science-ing) any day.

I assume that you would prefer an 'unnatural' vaccination to the 'natural' disease it prevents. If so, which categories of 'natural' do you prefer?