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Shouldn't need a license to prove you're an engineer unless say perhaps you're running an engineering business, where people's lives can depend on your work - e.g building a bridge.
If you have formal education in engineering, then I would think you can call yourself an engineer?
Even if it wasn't nonsense, it would be.

Because the description focuses on how we perceive the world; not on who is this we that perceives.

The mystery of consciousness in the observer, not in what it observes.
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>mandatory volunteer

Is it volunteering if it's mandatory?
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An odd statement to make, considering that his defense was that he doesn't need to be licensed engineer to call himself an engineer.

Where is he licensed? Why is he not licensed in Oregon, despite having been timely notified, without penalty, of the requirement to do so if he wished to claim that title? Why did he agree to abide by this requirement then break his agreement within months?
I prefer working in an office with other people, where I can communicate directly. It has it's price, and may not make sense for everyone, but nevertheless, I don't think it's something to just shrug off.
the land (and house, usually) are used as collateral in home mortgage lending, which is a major category of lending but not nearly as foundational as Federal Reserve lending, which is the basis of the entire fractional reserve banking system.

there are many other categories of credit that rarely use land as collateral. small business loans don't (or almost never do, in any case). corporate bonds don't either. consumer credit (including student debt) is totally non-collateralized.
> "Personally, it's hard for me judge other value sets because I see so much dissonance and irrationality in value norms, and I'd end up passing judgment on most people. My current belief is that there's no real inherent value in anything. As a result, no one value is truly better than another. I've found that this perspective makes me more understanding and tolerant of other people whom I previously would have been repelled by."

Most of your post was pretty well thought out, but you're likely getting downvoted because this last part just sounds strange, and intellectually lazy to boot. By the reasoning above, any behavior, including murder and rape, can be justified. "They just happen to have different values. Who am I to judge them?"

I agree that it's hard to judge the relative merits of different values, but just because it's hard doesn't mean we should give up and call it a day.
My wife's car has ACC. I typically set it for about 6-7 over the limit on the freeway (about 85% speed here). Every now and then I will suddenly realize that I'm now going 50. Usually about the time some car flies past my in the left lane and I'm wishing for some traffic enforcement. Then I see that he was really only going the speed I planned to go and I've settled in behind a slow poke.
The bureaucracy wins again. Clearly this is just an attempt to shoe a fly.
I think the argument rests on the fact that on net, people generally do positive things with their time.

If the break-even point isn't 1 million people, where is it? 622k? 100 billion? 3^^^3?

This is Eliezer Yudkowski's dust speck argument all over again. http://lesswrong.com/lw/kn/torture_vs_dust_specks/
> He's perfectly at liberty to [share the information]

No, he's not according to the violations cited in Final Order, page 6, section heading #14; in particular:

By reviewing, critiquing, and altering an engineered ITE formula, and submitting the critique and calculations [...] to members of the public for consideration and modification of Beaverton, Oregon's and worldwide traffic signals, which signals are public equipment, processes and works, Jarlstrom applied special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences to such creative work as investigation, evaluation, and design in connection with public equipment, processes, and works. Jarlstrom thereby engaged in the practice of engineering under ORS 672.005(1)(b).

...and summarizing:

By engaging the practice of engineering [...] without registration, Jarlstrom violated [laws]. [...] By again providing the public with his traffic engineering calculations for the modification of Beaverton's traffic signal timing, Jarlstrom again engaged in the practice of engineering and, specifically, the practice of traffic engineering. He thereby violated [laws] on a third occasion. By providing his publicly released traffic engineering calculations to the sheriff of the 20 county where he advised changes in traffic signals, Jarlstrom again purported to be authorized to engage in, and did engage in, the practice of engineering. He, therefore, violated [laws] on third and fourth occasions.
When you add a .png file to an xcode iOS project, it will add a build step to pngcrush the asset automatically. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1681/_index...
How could Uber become such an awful company?
Ok so why not DNS-sd with service monitoring to balance, etc?
"Cannot online add a new column"
This is false.
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-create-index-...

Very weird.
It's great investigative work into Windows binaries, and I hope it gets addressed for the sake of people's disk space, but I think the tone is too harsh and overstated.

Example: He cites effects on startup time - but has he considered the existence of virtual memory? When explorer.exe loads and maps the bloat into address space, it doesn't need it in RAM until the first page fault accessing it which likely will not even happen.
I like this book/article/interview for its willingness to explore (at times controversially) what Western cultural syndromes might be. So much of the coverage of 'cultural syndromes' seems to be in the Entertaining Stories of Benighted Cultures genre - snickering about penis thieves and latah.
The issue that the Board has is that he claimed to be an engineer in a public forum. The Boards interpretation of "engineer" in this context was to mean Traffic Engineer.

The Board warned Järlström that he was in violation of the Law and asked him to stop claiming to be an engineer, to which he agreed. It was later, when he continued to claim to be an engineer that legal action was taken.

It is also of note, and stated in the Board's documentation of the case, that Sweden has no legal standards for engineers of any kind.

Finally, full disclosure, I am a registered and licensed traffic engineer.

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Yeah, but you'd expect the golden master .iso of a major Windows release to be examined in greater detail and not sloppily add bloat like that. It's in great contrast to earlier releases like Windows 95 where blinking dots were removed from the task bar to save a few kilobytes of demand paged memory. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031010-00/?p=...
Not often enough. Looking at you highway 101.
Grade A bellendery. There are so many holes in this I don't even know where to start.
My opinion is that most are not too high. Though there are many that may /technically/ be that way due to the driveways of older houses which are a legacy from before the rest of the city moved out to the area. Society should do a better job of encouraging the increase of density and arterial conversion.
And the plot thickens. If Waymo is correct, and such a contract was signed, they seem to be as good as toast.
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Don't you think the engineers building self-driving cars would consider reaction times and make adequate safeguards? If your thesis requires a group of very smart people to be completely oblivious to a very basic issue for multiple years, then you should reconsider your thesis.
Per my understanding of game theory, games can be run for different amounts of time. Additional rounds just naturally balloon the possibility space. But your logic seems sound for "We play the NK game out over the next 30 years, making a decision every 5 years."

They've made technological progress. They will continue to make technological progress. Therefore, the status quo for 30 years leads to an untenable situation. And the options then are worse than the options now.

Also, NK's political system makes Iran look like Switzerland.

I agree that the Chinese are going to determine in a large way how this plays out. Since the US government seems to publicly be expressing a hard line, the Chinese are going to have to pick a side.

Which is probably what the assassination of Kim's half brother was all about: given that regime replacement with a moderate (who would agree to suspend development in exchange for guarantees of sovereignity) by the Chinese would have been the obvious first option.

My expectation is that the Chinese are going to attempt regime change with the US's tacit agreement. The US, Japan, and China all don't lose if a Chinese proxy is allowed to continue to exist there.

All other options end with a NK-controlled peninsula (unlikely, and unacceptable by China-suspicious regional powers) or a SK-controlled peninsula (unacceptable by China).

Not to mention China could use an outlet for their bloated construction industry. "We will rebuild North Korea for humanitarian reasons!" would obviously play well.
> In this particular case, the defendant is licensed as an engineer.

The first linked document in the article states that the defendant is not licensed by any state.
Not the fire in a crowded theater thing again! Take a look at Trope 2 here (written by an actual lawyer):

https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...

It's a meaningless saying that doesn't actually have any real bearing on the law or the first amendment.
Then make a pull request that adds TDD. :)

But seriously, these apps are large enough where adding in testing initially would only complicate the core mission: to show the common software patterns that are required for day to day development.
I had a similar experience. I had an ex-MIT professor at a branch campus of a state school and other faculty with 10 year old handouts on Ada. One other problem we have here is that there is sooooo many more people who want to be faculty than positions that they can get Ivy grads to teach freshman comp at state schools. Makes me sad...

We need some kind of schools that care about learning and not maximizing cash. We also need a lot more trade schools and more apprentice style learning.
Here's a plain text version:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/0f377b79eb4bae5...
yes, battery power to weight ratio is the factor that increases range, you are correct current technology is on is limit, the increase on range is based on speculation that new chemistries will evolve in the future.
It's high time for mods to launch ubernews, they are in the spotlight every single day. 71 submissions last week [0].

0: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=uber&sort=byDate&dateRange=pas...
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I am curious if these types of beliefs are similar to western "fad disorders"
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Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio
The main approach of how AlphaGo went around the issue of never seeing the positions and playing good moves is search (monte carlo tree search).

In the same way, if the world is modelled accurately and succintly, can a car predict the various scenarios and adapt, even if the current sitation was not seen before (extremely high speeds or unusual number of cars, etc.)
That's 5MB, for the humans among us.
> Can someone explain to me why an FCC that is currently made up of three Obama appointees is "Trump's" FCC?

Because it has a Republican majority as a result of Trump's election, and Trump selected the chair from among the two Republican members, so Trump's election and Trump personally have set the direction of the current FCC. Hence, Trump's FCC.
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Which is a shame. Because what he said was worth saying.

Essentially, the day before he saw a company FooCo having open office hours with Sam Altman and Yuri Sagalo.. Sam and Yuri were talking with FooCo about their business and industry X.

The next day he got a (closed, but easily viewable apparently) office hour with another YC member, along with... A direct competitor to FooCO in industry X. Possibly funded by YC was on the same call.

To the author (and to me) this looks like a nice PR mechanism (with some social pressure once you're up on stage) coupled with a great competitive analysis rolled into one.

I don't think YC liked having the drapes pulled back and having the information asymmetry revealed.

But the real moral of the story is finance guys (and YC are just west coast bankers) look after the finance first.

Original link: https://medium.com/@Nico_Cabrera/i-got-kicked-out-from-y-com...
PHP's PDO database abstraction layer actually escapes by default under the hood, but it presents a prepared statement interface.
Unity games are often reported to have performance issues, allegedly due to the underlying GC (or lack of understanding of it). I'd rather hope for the adoption of a less messy C++ alternative that is suitable for quasi-realtime applications. So far Jai seems to be the most serious competitor in this regard.
I don't think so. I think when you introduce computers to anything, you add more edge cases, not less. They are just different ones though. And I'm also skeptical about the quality of this software once it hits an actual mass-market. People here are assuming high levels of rigor when for all we know, it could be similar to Android in the long term.
I think the idea is to use traffic calming methods to change the 'realistic' speed limit from 35 mph to 25 mph, and then post signs for 25 mph.
I feel like that quote is being taken somewhat out of context; she's basically repeating an extremely common "business-ism": "their perception is your reality".

Let's say you sell widgets. Your customers become convinced that you widgets have a defect that causes them to break after 2 months of use.

You're frustrated because you know via extensive testing that this is a misconception, but it doesn't matter.

You need to take whatever reality is (your widgets are fine), and make sure that peoples' perception of your widgets is that they are fine also. People don't make decisions based on objective truths, they make decisions based on their own perceptions, regardless of how faulty those perceptions might be.
Your car already comes packed with software. If you're worried about hackers gaining access you should be worried right now.
> When a PNG file is incorporated into a JAR or a Word Document, the XMP content in the file may not be compressed because the archiver may not attempt to compress the png file since it assumes the data is already compressed.

PNG can apply DEFLATE to blocks though, right? Does XMP not use it?
Two documents in play...

The "Uber agrees to defend Levandowski" document and the Uber-Otto due diligence documentation.

Levandowski asked for the former to be redacted, was denied. The article says it was signed just a few days after quitting his job at Google.
This is a tactic used by authoritarian governments and is a distinct reason why laws that are poorly enforced are bad laws.

A poorly enforced law provides a tool for executives (the law enforcers) to legislate (make their own laws) without any say from the real legislators. It's a loophole of sorts in the US's separation of powers.

Take marijuana. It's illegal to smoke marijuana. It's not illegal to be black. Yet the selective enforcement of the marijuana law allows authorities in any given district to shape policy on race without ever having to explicitly put a law on the books.

This is why the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is so dangerous. It is broad enough to be used as a tool to enforce laws that would be too unpopular to explicitly pass.

It's also why threats from the US government to "ban encryption" should not be taken idly. You think to yourself, "Certainly they couldn't ban encryption, nothing would work without it." But they wouldn't enforce it across the board, only selectively.
Public FTP servers were where I downloaded most of the software for my computers, back in the 90s. There's nothing really like it anymore - you can't have anonymous sftp.

But perhaps we don't care anymore. The web is gradually consuming all that came before it.
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> I've seen it argued that shoulders/sidewalks actually make roads more dangerous, because drivers drive faster when they're present.

Sounds plausible, I'd love to know the context. Got a link?

As for the victim-blaming... Teaching safety isn't something that should be controversial. If it's victim-blaming to teach our children to look both ways before crossing the street, then I'm ready to throw American culture into the garbage.
For example, I routinely need the use of laboratory equipment to measure pneumatic and electrical properties of the systems under control of my software. This equipment is both expensive and in some cases dangerous.
Were you on Slashdot when SCO was ongoing? If not, this is what a corporate titan proxy war looks like in the news cycle.

And it's objectively defensible. The outcome of this lawsuit will shape what an incredibly important future technology looks like and who controls it.
There is little incentive for Pakistan to change the laws. People see it as morally correct. And it silences any criticism, particularly theological, about the religion or Muhammad PBUH. They infact have a larger incentive to remained hardline and aligned with the gulf states like Saudi. I have seen the transformation among Pakistanis over the last 20 years ("Allah hafiz", "Al bakistan"). Hopefully a Pakistani person can expand more.

Having grown up in a similarly oppressive environment, I absolutely cherish the freedom of speech in the US and I hope it is protected as the most sacred thing in this nation because a lot of places in the world don't have it. And when you don't have it, it is like being suffocated. Any criticism of the religion will quickly get you labeled as a kafir because you are trying to cover the "truth" (defined as Islam). You can never have a real conversation because first you will be called names and then, you will likely face violence. You cannot get together with others of similar mindsets openly because mobs will shut you down, start riots, etc.

For people who don't know, please read up on Salmaan Taseer. Interestingly, his son's article about getting a greencard was on the front page of HN 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025996
Would recommend joining the Design Systems Slack [1] and attending the Clarity conference [2] to meet like-minded folks!

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[2] https://www.clarityconf.com/
There aren't million other factors. Saying that cholesterol is affected only by saturated fat is not true. just like saying it doesn't affect it at all.

there is no coherent nutrition advice available at the moment, other than observational evidence of various diseases forming when a population is fed an improper diet.

for example, if starchivores like apes are given huge amounts of sugary foods, they will develop atherosclerosis, the same happens if they're given huge amounts of fatty foods. if carnivores were fed huge amounts of fatty foods, they don't get atherosclerosis, only if you do not remove their thyroid gland, if they on the other hand are fed sugary foods, they develop atherosclerosis. so the mechanism involved in absorbing fat and using it (through various types of cholesterol - lipoproteins), seems to be different between the herbivores, omnivores, carnivores. interesting thing about this is that the discrete classification is faulty and that different hormonal balance can give rise to no or different disease.

there's plenty of examples like this one. but it has nothing to do with the individual as population statistic is quite different from needs of an individual.
> As for your summary of the left, well, it's just an unhinged partisan rant not grounded in any facts and not worth arguing with.

It's grounded in the experience of actually talking to people with differing opinions, rather than trying to claim they are racist or "not worth arguing with" or declaring them a "partisan" without even knowing their political leanings, much less their positions on individual issues.
Yeah, sorry should've been a bit more specific I guess. I was referring to the "agree to defend Levandowski" document.
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Unnecessary and complicated for whom? If you don't need circuit breaking, retry windows, metrics, ack/nack and advanced load balancing techniques for your platform then you are not the target market. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
Right. Because the fact that there's a Google employee in the driver's seat ready to take over control makes no difference whatsoever.
It's the law here in Colorado. I don't think it's working. People drive in the left lane (when the middle lanes are wide open) all the time.
That's the economically rational thing to do if things are all equal. However, the reason many people are moving to SF is because that's where the VC money is, and therefore that's where the tech jobs are (yes, I know there are other tech hubs out there, but none as big as SV). If the VC money was more willing to spread out, and not require everything to be in SV, then we'd have less of a housing issue there.
Put obliquely: I suspect that Washington or California would have yielded better outcomes.
Are you saying poor people do not raise their children to hunger for success?
You do realize that the cost of air travel has become much less since the 70s?
Yes but he wouldn't be engaging in the practice of engineering if he were to disclaim the title of engineer. Of course, if Jarlstrom were to disavow being a licensed engineer, he might not have garnered as much as interest for his proposals as he did by implying he possessed the relevant credential.
This is exactly what is wrong with the tax code. I empathize with this guy. Even I find some parts of the tax code completely incomprehensible, and I am a lawyer with accounting experience. Thankfully, Trump and the Republicans are planning to simplify the tax code.
She might become a VC.
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Well huh, so it does. Some maybe it was just a temporary gap that I fell into..
Thanks for the feedback - I'm still trying to sort out my beliefs :). Edited to more appropriately reflect what I learned by writing this response.
My plan is for sure to retire somewhere cheaper, but life sometimes have it's own plans.
409 grains of sugar please or I am going elsewhere.... Actually....
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The Killing Fields won 3 Oscars and was nominated for best picture. We watched it in Junior year history in high school. I don't think you can get out of an American high school without learning about Pol Pot.

More importantly: recognition of human suffering isn't zero sum. Acknowledging the scale of what happened to European Jewish people doesn't take away recognition of what happened to Native Americans --- in fact, in my experience, the genocide of Native Americans and European Jews are usually the two textbook examples of nationally-sponsored genocides.

Finally, I'll observe that nobody has condescended to you here.
I would put good money on 'none'. Apple is way too much of a stickler about MacOS' graphics APIs to not be using custom authoring or optimization routines on assets. Edit: I presumed you're talking about first-party applications only, as you said 'operating system'.