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The examples here don't make anything close to sense.

Yes: Uber is a case study for ethical lapses in tech companies. Nobody could disagree with that.

But holding your developer conference while a killer who used your product is on the loose isn't an "ethical lapse". Facebook has no culpability whatsoever in the murder of Robert Godwin. It's actually creepily instrumentalist of Vanity Fair to exploit that murder to make this point.

And Juicebro is less a story about ethical lapses at tech companies than it is a story about the lack of judgement in tech investors. Juicebro does what it says it will do. It just happens that the thing it says it will do is also something you can do with a Capri Sun bag. Whatever it is they themselves did wrong, it doesn't come close to Uber.
The trouble is it's hard to know how many other people had exactly the same characteristics but not the luck. Without knowing that, we don't know how useful this definition of "genius" is.
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> being an asshole is being an asshole. If you're going to be a jerk to someone who's working a random lunch counter, you're probably just generally a jerk

I'd take it step further. You should be gracious to a fault to the person at the lunch counter. Their life categorically sucks.
I was a relatively early adopter of Redux and, while I understand the appeal of the architecture and mental model, I was always annoyed by the boilerplate (to turn plain language functions into serializable events) and unclear approach to modularization (single state tree is too much like a global). For moderately complex apps I found the practical downsides of those heavier than the pros of unidirectional flow and reproducible execution. Haven't touched it in over a year so I can't say if things are better, but somehow I doubt it.
As the author, I'll say that there's a large amount of "ooh shiny bleeding edge" and "if it works for me it's fine" going on. I see that newer Safari has a _different_ failure mode and I should look into that… okay fixed https://github.com/kpreid/shinysdr/commit/67327273
Jaw drops

Opportunities here. "Oh, you want the audiophile quality version of the firmware? That's a separate download, from our degaussed and quantum-aligned servers, just a sec..."
Do you really think people are stupid enough to work menial jobs for little money when they can sustain themselves on an alternate source of income? Employers would have to increase their wages/benefits to a point where people would want to work.
To people making fun - this is not about creating audio files, but rather about techniques to reduce latency and jitter when playing audio files. Similar to the crazy techniques that the VR folks like Carmack have proposed. Yes, indeed, audio files these days have WAY more information content them the human ear can distinguish, but if your playback has skips and assorted corruption that doesn't matter.

For example, one of the responses proposed pre-loading a large fully-rendered audio segment onto a DMA buffer to remove the CPU from the latency-sensitive pipeline entirely.
It might be useful to put contact information in your profile.

Good luck.
We don't bill per second, so this really doesn't apply. Our customers see it almost instantly if we're down though, so it matters a lot.

Besides, that switch you're talking about just doesn't work out of the box. We never had any success with failover on our Galera cluster. Now, I'm not saying it's not doable, because I'm sure some teams have this work flawlessly. My point is that with Cassandra, it works out of the box without problems.
Yes, a good percentage of people suck. They are nasty, selfish and, TBH, just assholes. The best thing you can do in life is to surround yourself with good, honest, hardworking, thoughtful people that you can care about. Excise toxic people from your life/business as soon as they are discovered. That is all you can do.
It turns out that UI is hard! But the biggest not-crap thing from back when I wrote that (persistent waterfall) is not actually visible in a screenshot; it would need a video.

— a video would make sense, wouldn't it.
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Given that I am currently a windows user on visual studio, I'm not exactly sure how I would get started with neovim and deoplete. The instructions on deoplete [0] assume you're not running on windows, to start, and looking in the issues [1] It's not supported

[0] https://github.com/zchee/deoplete-clang
[1] https://github.com/zchee/deoplete-clang/issues/57
Burning less, eg in engines and heating stoves, would very much help both.
"Rewriting the Behemoth vaginal scene." not what I expected...
Awesome! Nice find.
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I would say it is significant but not disaster. For some sources, look at

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w...

AFAIK, in terms of number of birds, house cats kill about 1000 times as many birds as windmills, but cats of course prey on small birds and windmills kill large birds which are far lower in numbers.
Brings to mind the map of the Pacific American States and the Nazi States from the Amazon TV show: The Man in The High Castle

How about the Low Wage Zones of America, vast surreal areas policed on the exterior borders by robot teams, ruled internally by meth labs and cartels, much like the Rio de Janero slums today . . .
Dentists for sure. Probably could really teach someone to do most of that in a several month bootcamp followed by a couple of years apprenticeship.

Source: Several dentists in the family and that's about what they say. (doesn't stop them from charging large fees though, I mean, they do have student loans to pay off:)
Or we could just debate it, if it matters.
Been there, seen that.

I some months ago, they asked me to join a new team because they needed help with React and, although my main technology is RoR, I quite like JavaScript.

What I found is that the last developer shoved 2500 lines React, Redux and Typescript in a Rails application just to make a sortable and filterable table!! Apparently, after perpetrating this atrocity, he updated his resumée and found a job in another company.

I really think that it is good to have a grumpy senior developer in each team stopping those things from happening.
Which market?

I agree a lot of hot metros are looking expensive (SF, Seattle).

Things are cheaper in places farther from growth and money, e.g. rural Indiana. I'm not sure whether they're better deals on balance, but quite different.
A public demo instance is blocked on adding sufficient anti-DoS provisions to the server. One possibility I've considered is to make a simulation-only version packaged for Sandstorm, which would allow for a one-click trial experience — but not show any actual RF, so the internal simulator would need to be made much richer to actually show off the features.
Better systemd integration would use the LISTEN_FDS mechanism, letting the service management subsystem open the privileged-access listening socket as instructed by a socket unit.
I think a lot of computer scientists have a hard time believing quantum computers are possible. Not saying I agree, but I've heard this viewpoint a number of times.
Doesn't really matter whether they went forward with the design or not. Google alleged "You took our lidar design, and you could only have gotten that design if Levandowski stole it." Uber initially: "No we didn't!" Uber later: "Actually, here it is, but doesn't matter because we don't like that design anyway."

Uber is playing games that 5 year-olds play when they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
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Hypothetical question:
If you could make 1/3 more laying bricks than coding which would you chose?
I hope that doesn't finish as a "quantum bubble".
> Uber denies this and says it eventually produced the device in question. A representative for Uber told Recode the company did not initially produce the device because they did not think they were required to do so as its designs had been abandoned.

In litigation, one side serves the other side "discovery requests," which are pointed requests for specifically described documents or information. Everyone produces as little as they can get away with in response to discovery requests. Here, it sounds like the discovery request was possibly susceptible to the interpretation that it was only asking for designs that Uber was still actively pursuing, or at least that's how Uber originally tried to interpret it and an employee blew up their spit at a deposition. It's hard to tell without knowing the exact wording of the discovery request.
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Pumped hydro or battery storage are one possibility. Smart pricing to industry who can throttle back usage if demand outstrips supply is another.
Agree 100%. Any climbers who haven't checked out the Red River Gorge don't know what they are missing.

And for those who don't know, the correct pronunciation of Pikeville is 'packvul'. (I grew up in the area)
Reducing jitter for file playback is easy. Just use a huge buffer. Done. Latency doesn't matter because the whole file is available ahead of time.

Even if this did matter, it's still bullshit. Memcpy isn't going to add latency and jitter over some "optimized" copy routine. And C++ new certainly isn't going to be better than malloc, when it's almost certainly calling through to malloc.
http://www.audubon.org/news/will-wind-turbines-ever-be-safe-...

I didn't realize that was such a big issue. Over time, humanity will figure out ways of making wind turbines less of a danger to birds.

In the mean time, I would assume that wind power still remains a net positive for the overall environment versus coal, etc.
My view is that most programming work is more of a skilled trade, like being an electrician or plumber, rather than a profession, like law or civil engineering. Doing something useful doesn't take a whole lot of formal education, doing clean good work requires lots of experience plus good teaching in industry best practices, and there are a lot of opportunities for self-employment.
ditto https://medium.com/@gianluca.guarini/i-thought-it-was-clear-...
The oldest temporary hack in the Linux kernel? (2016)
jellybeans [1]

[1] https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim
Oh Jesus. The shenanigans that went down at Trilogy. The stories and forwarded emails that went around Austin I still talk about.

The guy who replied all seeking clarification on what exactly a "serious" relationship was (regarding who could be your plus one in the company retreat). He got quite graphic.

The guy who got hired, showed up one day to do HR paperwork and got paid for 3 months before anyone figured out he never showed up again.
Yeah that seems strange. I hope a mod can unflag this because there's nothing spammy or off topic about it.
I use one now, 80 bucks a month. I only used one because I was a brand new landlord and wanted training wheels.

Turns out all I need them for is a rent-collector broker. I interface directly with my tenants to address all issues. While I still make a small profit even after the $80 fee, I think whenever these tenants decide to leave, I may strike out on my own, maybe make a little more money.
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The problem is that definition just as easily applies to an unapologetic convicted rapist.
Pretty sure the only thing quantum computers are better at than classical computers currently is simulating quantum mechanics
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Windmill technology is fairly low tech. there are a few things around the wings but besides that it's not really a "tech" business IMO.
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He was being sarcastic... He wasn't shocked; he was mocking the idea that Russia caused Brexit. They didn't. The UK citizens themselves voted for Brexit because they're fed up with all the shit the EU brings with it.
You are totally right, and everyone who has been a landlord or hired people will agree, but all the others, including the majority of people here on HN, will say you have a problem, you only see the worst of people blablabla.
While there are reasons to be skeptical it is worth noting that this effort is carried out in the south of Germany which is where there is a cluster of high tech resources within driving distance <2h

- BMW

- Mercedes

- Audi

- Porsche

- Airbus suppliers

- Military aerospace companies

- Key tech universities (Munich, Stuttgart) including aerospace oriented engineering

- World class glider manufacturer Schempp-Hirth
It's amazing how so many people on the internet feel so confident in their own intellectual abilities that they can read something that they don't understand and dismiss it as if it's non-important.
I think all he's saying is that there are jobs that you can solve either with JEE & XML or with Kotlin, and that for those choosing Kotlin is often the more efficient thing to do.
If you want to read the paper laying out the plan the article is referring to, it's here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00263
>I am not a js dev, but isn't the issue of no-framework that you have to write a bunch of code to deal for various browsers?

No, because it's 2017, not 2007.
While the landlord theoretically has more "power", tenants have them over the barrel, in a weird sort of way.

Tenants can decide not to pay, break stuff, make noise, waste tons of the landlord's time, etc. The worst the landlord can do without a ton of headache and hassle is ask the tenant to pay, then evict them and perhaps keep the security deposit.

As a commercial tenant, I run into this sort of "practiced politeness" all the time with my landlord. And I think it's common of people who'd rather not upset the status quo.
> I'd take it step further. You should be gracious to a fault to the person at the lunch counter. Their life categorically sucks.

That's awfully fucking judgmental. I've got friends who have been working in the service industry their whole life. Many of them are much happier than I am. Just because you have some high paying office job doesn't mean your life is automatically better.
50h average is highish but not overwhelming.

That's 25% over a "standard" work week in the US. If that 42k is based on 40h/week, you'd need to earn 53k+ to "break even" on a 50+h/week (which Palantir appears to do).

FWIW, there are plenty of 40h-45h/week software jobs in the US that pay well into six figures.
I don't know your use case, but my experience tells me that people uses react in places where it is absolutely not necessary.

Having state both in the front-end and in the back-end multiplies the complexity of any project, and the gains are only worth if you are (or you have) a good UI designer.

For the rest, the good'ol Rails + Turbolinks, jQuery and SJR can do a fantastic job, without having to think about synchronizing several sources of truth.
Nick Bilton doesn't mention it but the one story of Travis Kalanick ethics that always sticks in my mind was his handling of employee tax withholdings in Red Swoosh (2001). Excerpt from BI[1]:

>Kalanick and Todd had different opinions about how to keep the company afloat, which blossomed into serious disagreements. They began cutting corners to get by, in some cases pushing the ethical and legal boundaries.

>For instance, at one point, the company stopped withholding income taxes from employees’ paychecks — a criminal offense.

>Kalanick insists that Todd made this move without his knowledge, publicly blaming his co-founder for the infraction. Todd insists the decision was made jointly.

>As Kalanick has recounted the story: "We owed $110,000 to the IRS in un-withheld income taxes, which is a white-collar crime that pierces the corporate shell, and it doesn't matter whether you knew or not. If you're an officer of the company you're going to jail."

>"Travis is a very smart guy but he and I clearly have different memories on this 13-year-old detail," Todd says. And an email sent by Kalanick at the time and obtained by Business Insider appears to demonstrate his participation in the tax plan.

By my count, Travis didn't just commit one but two sins in ethics. (1) was not paying the IRS. The (2) was shifting all blame to his business partner and claiming ignorance.

For some, I suppose that his paying back the IRS resets the sin odometer to zero and therefore's he's redeemed. However, I personally wouldn't invest in Uber at all while he is running the company. I believe his earlier behavior is indicative of an inherent personality trait and I would be afraid of new "skeletons" from Uber's closet that were of Travis' making.

Maybe Travis is a nice guy to have beers with but I'd be wary of doing business with him.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-travis-kalanick-bio-2014...
Presumably this can be ameliorated by refracting the light with a plastic screen?
My point is that it is possible that no one in the history of their high school, or anyone they have ever known, has attended such a school. The student nor their parent(s) have the mental framework to reason about it.
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Number of jobs, by itself, is a worthless statistic. What's the median wage? If it's $10/hr then it's like reporting on how many people are employed in fast food.

Reality is that most jobs, in most sectors, pay crap. Wind energy is no exception.
I have been using helm and projectile to easily find files. How do you use it to make edits too?
You're right they are arcology. Here is one[1] of the examples, among many others they had. And another one[2]. Surely they relied on a bit of fantasy in the way that architects always seem to know what people want (but usually don't) and future availability of materials which would allow the construction of such visions.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000
Yes.

Good fluorescent bulbs will have electronic ballasts (the driving circuit) that supply current to the bulb with a higher frequency (in the low kilohertz) than the time response of the bulb's phosphor. Thus, any sort of flicker gets low-pass filtered and doesn't appear in the output light.

Even with a subpar magnetic ballast that drives the bulb with line frequency, the phosphor never gets close to fully extinguishing -- so there is flicker, but the instantaneous light output never gets less than, say, half the maximum instantaneous light output. Look on page 3 of http://www.usailighting.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/1/e18f88d... for some instantaneous light vs time graphs for fluorescent bulbs.

LEDs have a much higher frequency response (in the tens of megahertz, easily) -- they respond quicker and more faithfully replicate their electrical drive signal as light output. You can see on page 4 of that report how violently jagged the LED's light/time plots can get.

If the manufacturer didn't want to include filter capacitors in the LED's driver because of cost/reliability concerns, well, I hope your eyes enjoy that signal because the LED, unlike the fluorescent bulb, isn't going to smooth it out.
Not just kill birds, they are noisy too.
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What about quantum machine learning? assuming quantum computers become powerful tomorrow, won't they be useful in that field?
StackOverflow is fantastic. What is bad is to copypaste code from SO without understanding it.
Good luck with the broadband, especially in the current political climate of the FCC.

I believe that having affordable, high-speed internet (where you are allowed to actually host a server), would revitalize Appalachia.

Between the shuddered coal-plants that can be repurposed as data-centers, and rails-to-trails right-of-ways that can be used for fiber runs, there is plenty of opportunity.

Good luck convincing the politicians, though.
Except Palantir doesn't do work that's valuable to anyone except the government. Palantir doesn't have advanced tech. They had a profitable government rent to exploit. The government is not allowed to spy on citizens as freely as the private sector is, so the former administration leaned on Palantir to do the spying on behalf of it.
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The recurring pattern seems to be some new tech gets introduced, preferably by a well known SV company. Usually it matches their use case and is a struggle to adopt generically.

People scramble to learn it anticipating demand for jobs or contracts and become part of the hype cycle. If they can kick start the the cycle then everyone benefits and they are too vested to discuss quality, architecture, design or anything that risks the gravy train.

Things can become haphazard. Technical or complexity issues take a back seat and are hand waved away, apologism thrives. Discussion becomes heated as is wont when it comes to money.

There can be 100 articles like this about React but it won't matter. Because this is not about quality but economics. Even the most hardcore react fans know the ridiculousness of its setup is not tenable technically or otherwise.

Experienced people won't respond to fads and certainly not badly designed one as they have no need to. If the market for work was stable and less heated it would be much more difficult to pull off these hype cycles.
>Over time, humanity will figure out ways of making wind turbines less of a danger to birds.

Or the birds will evolve to dislike wind turbines.
>previously I was in the field

unintentional pun?
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You still can use it through Sandstorm, or even self-host it!

There's a free demo here: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/2m8rty615fcj11z2u5674s8a74yv48...
I agree that these are useful and interesting things to learn. I just don't agree that they should be taught first when learning to program.
Back in 1997-8, I ran across custom hardware that used this strategy to directly transfer large volumes of ADC data from the sampling hardware to a disk array. It made absolute sense given the the data volumes involved. (100-200MB/sec to persistent storage, which was a lot for commodity hardware back then.)

Audio is full orders of magnitude less data and this is on hardware that's 20 years newer. With any reasonable buffer size this is a slam dunk, unless perhaps you're really concerned about latency.(In which case automatically streaming multiple megabytes of audio data across DMA isn't going to help you either.)
Did you check the linked BLS statistics page from the article? Median is $25/hr
I would think a skilled mason would make much more than an entry-level developer.
I've got this weird place in my mind for electronic music. I listen to it in the background nearly 9 hours a day while working. I've got a pretty huge collection on Spotify and a well-tuned Pandora channel. Generally up-beat, few words for the most part, not too Vegas or rave like. It needs to be interesting but not necessarily so interesting I start paying attention to it.

I've got some classical mixed in, but I found that either I get bored of it or I start paying attention to it, and thus, it's purpose as background music is nullified.

When I'm in the car or at home, anywhere else other than in my office I never listen to electronic music. Heavy metal/rock for the gym, and then basically anything under the sun that I like when I'm just listening.
Wake me up when it's ready. For two decades we hear announcements that Quantum Computers are almost ready.

Yet beside bluffs and prototypes that require superconductor with very cold -230° C to do little, none of them resurfaced later.

Quantum Computers can be exiting and devastating. What happens if the first company/state keeps it a trade secrete and uses Quantum Computers without telling the rest of the world? (what if...) With Quantum Computers all the "secure digital stuff" of today can be broken, say good bye to your cloud online security. A good/bad actor can read everything. We should think about how to mitigate this issue, isn't it?