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> When you demand that your people bow and obey, and imprison people like A1 WW, this goes against promoting and nurturing innovation

This is a common misconception, especially by people who have never lived in China.
Thinking political censorship means people are docile all spheres of life.

Chinese people are actually much more prone to rant and fight over everyday injustices: shopkeeper ripped you off, denied entrance somewhere, etc. etc. They just have to be careful not to publicly blame any politicians for the issue or try to organize some group activity to protest it.

Why do you think the government cracks down so hard? Because they're scared: massive and violent people rebellions have erupted throughout Chinese history.

Many Chinese people are also quite creative and innovative when it comes to making money and getting ahead. Some home cooks make deals with restaurants to let their patrons sample their homemade spices with their meals and to buy jars of it if they like it.

Others have started groups on Wechat where members pay to get advice on X topic (http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2015-11/13/content_22...). There are tons more examples like this. In fact, I'd argue it can be easier to get your idea started in China because regulations are lax and it's much easier to network to get what you need.

Also, just to point out, in the West, the majority of people aren't exactly "rebelling against the status quo" and showing "opposition to the norm" because they can march in a protest or sign a petition.
That is an interesting comment...

WRT game philsophy, one might say WOW is combat focused (dungeon raids) where UO was much more personal-politcs focused (with the combat) and thus I think UO to be an 11 and wow an 8... regardless of how much $$ WOW has made... it is detracted by the fact that its massive, dedicated, userbase has never experienced original UO...
That's better than letting it get swallowed, but in my experience is pretty terrible still, as it often just results in a stack trace where your code literally doesn't exist at all. In a somewhat big project, just having a vague error message without as much as a line number is hell.
Or they issue a "lost device - remote wipe" via find my iphone / find my mac. No restoring from that for mat: https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking...

It's a shame you can't have Find My Mac active without also allowing remote wipe. So I disabled Find My Mac for myself.
Isn't the pretty much every free internet service? Your data = payment.
I'm more worried about increases in gig economy type crappy jobs, further erosion of workers rights, underemployment, and degradation of the middle class.
Maybe, but that number is not particularly wild for NYC finance.
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Audible.com pays $50 a signup. They are able to pay so much because they're masters of screwing their customers.

Here's the magic. You get an audiobook a month for $16. But "fine print" once you accrue 6 credits, you get literally nothing for your money. You just stay at 6 credits. Every month, paying, and getting nothing in return.

Gotcha capitalism at it's finest.
FWIW, there's a description of most of Erlang internal data structures here: https://edfine.io/blog/2016/06/28/erlang-data-representation...
When it comes to optimization, less if often better. If you have branching it's likely that the CPU will run all branches anyway. You also want to stay in the CPU and off the memory. And bitwise operations are usually not faster in JavaScript. I probably missed the point but blame it on the stupid examples. I also think it's stupid to write dot net C# when you can write JavaScript with NodeJS :P
Well, they're definitely not a population with a 41% suicide rate, and probably not a population with a 41% suicide attempt rate. The study where that statistic comes from uses a sample of convenience.

The tl;dr is we don't know, so we shouldn't frame our decisions and policies as if we do know.

Specifically in this question: is a surgical/endocrinological approach or a mental health approach more likely to result in positive outcomes?
> In such a world, most people will have to be on the dole at some point in their life, and that will be OK.

I don't think so.

If "most people are simply not going to be economically useful" for what reason, besides an appeal to utopianism, is it a good idea to strain the country's resources in chase of an ideal?

Basic income will pave the way to cementing this feudalistic class-inequality we possess today. Extremely simplified: Those who believe in virtue through "self-fulfillment" (leisure) will intermingle and breed with the same, and so will those who believe in virtue through industry.

The first will mimic the lower classes (maybe even the proletariat) and be "left behind," degenerating over the years into nothing more but grazing animals.

The second will mimic the higher classes and continue to consolidate power and seize freedoms for themselves.

Basic income is an idealistic idea, both impractical and separated from human nature.
There's more to it than "warmer".

Canada and Siberia will be great for wheat. Plan ahead :)
So it's hard do charge anything or much for OS/Systems because there are so many free tools (it doesn't take long at all to deploy ELK + metricbeat for example). I would concentrate on applications, but then you are competing with DD and Librato anyways, unless you can cover applications that they don't monitor because they are too complex (I can't think of any though). I think the questions more than what niche to go after is what added value can you provide.
Great stuff but the font is comical.
Looks like it comes from dispute between a Montclair Place shopping mall sushi restaurant and an investor:

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/8541827/Jeffrey_Lin...

Here is one of the defendants' info:

https://www.myrelatives.com/d/XIAO-LI/1353226340

Looks like he moved from Oregon to North Carolina in May 2014. Here was his old house:

https://www.redfin.com/OR/West-Linn/2245-River-Heights-Cir-9...

Here are the court documents:

https://document.li/r7zs

https://document.li/9xL1

https://document.li/2r4h

https://document.li/ThA6

https://document.li/lQoK

https://document.li/7G1S

https://document.li/Sg8p

https://document.li/0q4m

https://document.li/iYgL

https://document.li/ehHq
>If thing Y was remotely complicated and if the teams had a good working relationship why would they choose to duplicate their work.

So many reasons, but they usually boil down to simple self-importance.

Also, remember that it's harder to read code than to write it. Any non-trivial library or service is going to have a learning curve.

>Also even if a rigid structure existed I can still not use your thing Y most likely because I don't respect your work and I would implement thing Y differently ( and in my opinion better ).

Everyone has their own opinion.

In a rigid structure, this perspective wouldn't work because your paycheck would be imperilled by it.

>The problem isn't people chose different tech stacks its they don't want to work together.

Sure, I agree. In a correctly organized structure, their incentives would change, and their behaviors would be more cooperative.

>If they did they would choose tech stacks and work practices that foster collaboration.

No, that's like saying if people wanted unity, they'd make choices everyone would agree on. Everyone wants unity. They just everyone to unite to their idea of what's important/right.

Management is all about crafting an environment and structure that causes people to work in a productive way. That could happen in this company, but it hasn't.
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They were a post doc in 2004 so I doubt it.
Any recommendation?

I have found many podcasts that use this format of mixing the narration with voices and sounds from people in the story and this is so distracting and annoying to me. I never go beyond one episode when that's the format.
I have seen places as a final step of an offer ask for proof of previous wage.

Not super common in software, I know people in law and a few other fields that always have to do it...
Well the other side of this is that retail investors are usually scared off of the markets because of the last bust. It's only when they start hearing news of dow 20k and how the market is doing well when they start putting their money in. By that time, they're usually the last to the party.

On the other hand, retail investors are probably the least likely to dump money in after a crash, which is the best time (buy low, sell high). Instead they are selling and generally trying to protect capital. Then they stay out until we do it again.
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It it isn't "next", it's next{x}. It's a function, not a variable.
I saw an orange in that bin. I wonder if they are trying for agricultural applications. Fruit picking is very labor intensive...and some fruit and veggie picking remains difficult to automate, especially the more delicate items.
How is that relevant? Does it mean if the stakes are high it's impossible to overpay so don't question it?

People paid through the nose for IBM PCs because a lot was at stake. But not because IBM actually lessened their risk, but because it took a little time before people realized they were leaving money on the table unnecessarily.
This is what AMDGPU-PRO attempts to do. It's still incompatible and buggy.

When a driver is closed source, the only people who can fix bugs, keep the driver​ updated, patch security holes, implement new APIs like Wayland, Vulkan, OpenGL extensions, etc. are the employees of the company who owns the driver.

Was it important for AMD to make old ATI cards work with newer versions of Xorg? With Wayland? With Windows? AMD certainly didn't think so. Since the existing driver was proprietary, those that did care had to implement another driver from scratch!

Open source drivers exist for practically every video card, and have for decades. The problem is that they all suck except those that were supported by the manufacturer in the first place.
Take the definition that is given by the relevant government agency, which is the BLS's U-3 measure.
(Now you might argue that U-6 is also a valid measure etc etc, but only a Breitbart writer or somebody willfully ignorant would confound unemployment with labour force participation.)
Quick question: I've been unable to order these in US but will be traveling to UK in May, is there a store that carries these (and other similar goodies)?
>There's also a stronger history of Apple fighting for user privacy against government requests, etc.

Is there ?
AFAIK Google has been pretty pro-active in giving as little data to the governments as it legally can.

Or maybe I have been influenced by the PR Google has been doing about this for years.
Does it support Vim keys?
> Did they think Twitter would acquiesce?

I'm sure they didn't think it would result in a frenzy. I wouldn't have either, given Twitter's behavior in the past. What's really disturbing is the implication that executive policy is not considered de-facto lawful. If it's not lawful, the ramifications could be extreme. What about the Secret Service policies, the TSA or IRS or any other executive policy, not explicitly outlined by congressional language?
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Most hackers don't commit crimes, because most of them aren't stupid. But some are. (I have known those stupid people, and they were in their 30s, did really stupid shit, and are now doing time)

I would posit that most people engaged in cyber crime are not hackers, from the botnet owners who literally paid for and downloaded a tool with instructions, to the people who install skimmers, to carding merchants, people running protection rackets, email scammers, etc. A small number of people actually "hack" into a system using any form of advanced skill in order to do things like extract accounts like those in the article.
The creepy poster of a pole-dancing centaur hanging on
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over the years…

Someone dug up the original art of that poster: http://ultimacodex.com/2015/10/remember-that-centaur-poster-...
Scientology is decades old. At this point so are the supposed real-life Jedi, too. And aura healers. And... So you're not just on to something, there are actual examples to back you up.
Frequently, by a language based on that of the Roman Empire.
Note that the vast majority of lifetimes in Rust are elided so that no explicit annotation is required. When the compiler can't figure out the annotations, or if you're declaring a type that contains a borrow, then you need annotations.

The annotations have, for the most part, faded into the background for me. I don't find them to be particularly pervasive in the code I write, and when I do need them, it's usually to fix a reasonably straight-forward case where the compiler failed to elide them. With that said, in the years I've been using Rust, I have committed one or two lifetime-related bugs. (No memory unsafety resulted, of course, but it did result in data being annotated with a shorter-than-actual lifetime.)

> In short, I thought Rust was "we solved the pain of this difficult thing."

Part of the pain that Rust purports to solve is the significant reduction (and debugging thereof) of memory unsafety errors. In return, you must deal with the pain of an ownership and borrowing system, which might present challenges to patterns you may have used in another language. The benefit is that you have a compiler to tell you when you've mis-stepped instead of an end user filing a bug report (or worse).
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But how is that used as an argument against superinteligence?.I could say computers are already as intelligent as human because computers are Turing complete.How do you go from computational equivalence to saying computers can't be better than humans .
Could this be used to generate simple missing characters in Western fonts too? For example many nice fonts are missing Greek letters (useful for science), punctuation or diacritics.
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That's a function of your expectations. People get sad when they don't win the lotto but they don't celebrate every day they don't get hit by a car. It's not the odds, it's the expectations that are off.
> smartphones are impossible to use if you’re restricted to Chinese characters

This isn't actually true. Handwriting recognition is much more popular than any other means of text input in Hong Kong.
The ABI is not portable. Good code is portable. A static ABI is a stupid goal. Nvidia is stupid for relying on it.

IMHO
And according to the article the DoL has provided no evidence of this extraordinary claim. But of course since the headline is framed as a[n indirect] quote, the Guardian supposedly can't be accused of spreading fake news if it turns out that the DoL is full of shit. How convenient.
I recently had an hour or so's conversation with a younger but seasoned neuropsychologist who is strongly invested in making logical diagnoses.

It was the first time I actually heard someone in his professional area tie testing results to functional areas of the brain and their inter-dependent interaction.

I'm sure what we discussed will be refined, re-evaluated, and in some cases corrected. But it made sense. From verbal profile and testing down to functional analysis including the insights being gained from successive generations of ever-more-revealing scanning and physical measurement.

Up until now, I've been inclined to call psychiatrists "witch doctors". (And psychotherapists, "rent-a-friends.") Maybe that's beginning to change.

With some people. I still expect the majority are locked into institutional perspectives and career tracks. Despite its call-out to science, the practice of medicine is actually a very conservative -- to the point of not infrequently being counter-productive -- activity. At least, in the U.S.
Why would you include religious texts in a fact checking process unless the subject is religion?
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I almost always reject companies out of hand that ask for comp history. It signals a desire to lowball the candidate and/or a company's lack of faith in their own ability to ascertain talent. Neither bode well for working there even if the request is later rescinded.

Asking for the candidate's expected compensation, OTOH, is fine, although a little tacky.
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I agree with multi-tasking only with other "automatic tasks", but regarding the kind of audiobook my list looks like yours in reverse. I've listened to dozens of audiobooks and by far my favorites are the nonfiction with technical or conceptually challenging content.
Your would have to jailbreak your car to do that, of course…
What if you and your wife enter on different flights? Wouldn't it makes sense to carry each other's devices and not share the passwords with each other? You aren't refusing; you have a plausible defense to not knowing the passwords.

It's less compelling, but i guess you could have a trusted friend change your passwords for you and require them to later unlock them. (after you get out of detainment 5 days later and fight in court -- instead of the gov't winning, you both lose)
Whomever wrote the title, didn't follow it's advice.
> "free" healthcare would have strings attached that I quite frankly find disgusting.

But you are fine with letting people with less money die?

Universal health care doesn't mean you can't pay extra for supplemental stuff.
Austin McDaniel just gave an interesting talk at ng-conf where he demoed a visualization of an Angular4 app's architecture and component parts as a series of gardens populated with trees using A-Frame.

While not perhaps a very useful visualization, seeing A-Frame in use was great and now I need a VR capable rig!
Really odd, since phronix has been on the frontpage of hn hundreds of times before.
Thank you! I fixed it :)
Back in my MechE days, I'd buy everything from McMaster-Carr. Probably overkill for little desktop robots but if you want to build things that are the size/power of an industrial arm it should have what you need.
Yes and no, usually it's enough to allow for broadly guessing at meanings[1]. Contrast that with the Roman alphabet - I am a native speaker of English, and if you hand me a book written in German, I can sound it out (to some extent), but without knowing what it means. Reading written Chinese, you may be able to guess at what a line means, but without any chance of sounding it out! (Disclaimer, I studied one year of college-level Mandarin, so I would have a slight chance, at least...). Of course, it's interesting also to think about the impact computing and smartphones are having on written Chinese, stroke order of characters, for example was less important when using a keyboard for input, but if you're drawing on a touchscreen, it comes back into play.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(Chinese_characters)#S...
> the driver should be run inside a controlled environment

That literally cannot work. The driver is the program that does interaction with hardware.

Unless you mean to put your computer inside a literal box and fill it with sand, which is just hard on those fans.
With that definition of fact, very very few facts actually exist at all.
Latin script is only slightly worse than Hangul (which eliminates syllabic ambiguity), but English is a horror. In sane languages using Latin script, new letters are invented or diacritics are used to represent sounds not used in Latin.
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Thanks!

I actually got a great response from the Stripe customer support team today where they said that it's not possible today because of your banking partner in Europe, but that you're working on it, and hope to have it done later this year.

So that's great news for us! :-)
Corporations are already propped up by a variety of opaque laws and incentives. There's little natural or intrinsic about the way they tend to be structured. People are malleable and adaptable, and I think new social and economic structures should at least be explored to see what comes out on the other side.

I agree that centralized leadership tends to produce better products, but I don't think a more democratic company would necessarily have to put every decision to vote. Hierarchies could still emerge and responsibility could still be delegated. (Again, see Valve.) But I think distributing power, reward, and responsibility more equally throughout the company would be massively beneficial in terms of "social good".
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Well then maybe Google should hand over those salary figures that the government is asking for, as required by law.

Hopefully the investigation that the department of labor is doing will prove or disprove these claims.
It wouldn't have killed them to throw in a few crates.
US govt: "The government’s analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry.”

Google: "Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap"

I expected different takes from both sides, but this is diametrically opposed. Should be interesting when the data comes out.
There is a radio module for Micropython that allows devices to communicate with each other without the full Bluetooth stack
It's interesting timing that just today, for the first time in a couple of weeks, my Facebook feed has fake news clickbait ads again.

Unless both Kevin Spacey and Burt Reynolds are, in fact, dead. Again.
Try Maplin, an electronics chain. It's like what Radio Shack used to be.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14059057.
See also: https://www.nudgemail.com/
so you're saying he's not smart. Oh, OK.
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1.5x is usually what I use too. I think the 3x mentioned in the article that someone uses is BS or just a way to "skim" the book.
>> early programmable logic (PALs and PLDs) were easy to program with available documentation.

FPGAs now are much easier to use now than early programmable logic (PALs and PLDs). You can do 10x more than you could before (about 1990 IIRC), in 1/10th the time.

The main thing that has shifted is that the bar is higher. 10x more than an early PALs/PLD design is not worth much today.
> as the DoL claims is required by law

Unless you're a lawyer with more-than-public knowledge about this case, you're not qualified to determine whether or not Google has fully complied with the law, which they maintain they have.
Metrix:Create...is that the place in Cap Hill with a laser cutter, poor lighting, unsupervised live-in children, a few tool drawers, a plastic mill, and a couple of 3D printers? Yeah, that place isn't even worth walking to when you're in the neighborhood. Surprised they're still in business.
Having trialled these at my school, I think they have the potential to be the new turtle. I only hope that the botched rollout in the UK hasn't damaged the project's reputation to much.
On that note, what are the odds I could get the features I requested in my last email? ;)

1) A POST API that can take a template link and a blob of source and create a preview?

2) A GET request that can take a template link and a blob of source, allow someone to login/register and that doc to their account.

I'd love to get people directly onboarded from this into Overleaf. I'm busy trying to break the LinkedIn TOS to get the entire resume history for the users but I could definitely use those outlined above :D