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"Was the toolsmith idea about some people in the team building tools, that others in the team use for the project? - and if so, what was the benefit cited - specialization?"

Yep. The benefit is efficiency. However, modern SCRUM advocates simply advocate grinding away at stories.

"What was the second system effect about?"

The glittering new rewrite of an existing system is usually overengineered and worse. Seen it several times.
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Fair. How about an excellent 4-minute YouTube video to get a basic understanding? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM
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My problem with our brains and NN is exactly this "fuzzy geometry" you speak of. Using precise geometry, if we have a pair of cameras equivalent in layout to eyes we can reconstruct a world with mm-precise accuracy. That is something that cannot be done with neural networks (artificial or biological), instead you get a sort of semantic tagging of "green sofa here, table here, bed there".

But if afterwards you want to use this model to know if the sofa will fit into the alcove (or the car into the garage), the NN systems will be wildly unreliable.
I've been doing this for 6 months now, and haven't had any issues. Over the last 7 days my deliverability of 64k emails has been 99.5%. The only bounces I have are because of invalid email addresses or mailboxes being full. I didn't do any 'warming up' of the IP when started, I just started sending.

I've heard this many times, and maybe it was true before but it doesn't seem to be any more. I suspect now companies like Sendgrid still spread this FUD so people are more willing to buy their services and assume it's the only option.
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Agree -- it's better than most (and good job fleshing out the design), but there does still seem to be an air of "let's make 1-person spaces undesirable because we don't really trust the minions to work without someone watching them."
>from the lack of reasonable iterators

p = p->next; and p++ are perfectly reasonable iterators.
Marketing, sales, numerous supporting jobs in entertainment, skilled trades and engineering, (as many mentioned) white collar food industry jobs, logistics, accounting, statistics, mediation, community builders, I could go on and on. So many diffierent types of jobs, even when you exclude all the shitty ones that make the world a shittier place, like low-information political shills and propagandists, (tiny conservative talk radio shows and online communities do decently, moderate and liberal not so much) junk and junk food marketers.
You have to have meeting rooms. People always say you don't, but you always do. Where do you do sprint planning? Project brainstorming? Private meetings (with actual privacy needed, like reviews)?
> I can also buy O365 Home Premium (5 user including thick apps and Skype credit) for less than $10 per month ($99 NZD per year) -- and that's for 5 users.

I have an Office365 subscription that I don't use.

Their OneDrive client is shit and they don't do file version history, which means that files are very vulnerable to mistakes and ransomware.

With OneDrive you basically get exactly what you're paying for.

> Microsoft are consistently adding value to their O365 offering

One way of looking at that is the quality of their offering is so bad that the only way to go is up.

If you objectively analyse their price, Office 365 is in fact overpriced. For example I spent about $20 on Apple's Keynote and it was a one time fee that happened 3 years ago. It's still the best presentation software for me.
And personally I have important data, like a big family photos archive, a lot of documents, presentations I did, stuff I found interesting, etc. The cost of losing it would be pretty high.

I'm very frugal in general, but I don't mind paying for email and storage.
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This looks really nice. Can you share your reasons for building this? Also, maybe compare your vision of a blogging app with existing platforms. There are some good open source blogging apps already available like https://ghost.org/
Just to geek out even more-- I really liked this one of enceladus too [0] ... I wish I knew an astronomer who could explain what that 'shooting star' looking thing is in that pic..

Do you have any ideas?

I'd expect every bit of light to be streaked if it was a long exposure, so it has to be something moving? Massive "I'm totally uneducated on all this stuff" disclaimer -- but if this pic was taken from inside saturn's atmosphere; did it capture a 'shooting star' ??

[0]: https://saturnraw.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGF...
George Church's group at Harvard is proposing using similar technology in their attempt to clone a mammoth by replacing the DNA in an elephant egg with DNA from a mammoth. They want to grow it extracorporeally for its entire development, because doing it in utero in an elephant would present additional ethical issues (i.e., potentially harming elephants in an experiment of a technology that is far from mature).
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I'm currently on track for my fourth year at my current company. It's been my first job out of college. I've been having good growth, good raises and was promoted recently.

I've been thinking about changing companies, not because I'm currently bored or have problems with my current position. Merely because I think I've been with this company a long time.

Thoughts?
Like anything, the more tools in your toolbox, the more problems you can solve!

I love that humans seem to be innately wired to constantly create new and better tools.
it actually does in a certain way. if at some point the lone pointer ("pointer") to that memory goes out of scope then the memory is deallocated. happens a lot.
I posted a comment! Hooray for participation in government.
You won't appease bigots by changing your terminology. "Secular humanist" has been just as much a curse as "atheist" for many years now, in some circles. There's more power in reclaiming slurs than retreating from them.
Ridicule and a good memmory are whats needed here. Because this is farce.

The ideal communication now would be spot on recall of previous bad behavior, interleaved with humor/abusrdity.

The current FCC's communication expects a certain context, and meta cultural structure. If those features are removed (corporate speak, governance speak), and the response are couched in absurdity+accurate facts, then they dont have much.

They're claim to authority is undermined and the legitimacy of the action is removed.

This is about the way the facts are communicated, as it is about the facts themselves.
> Is it? I've heard it as a theory, but never as an actual example.

Yeah, I think it remains a theory; that's what I meant by 'a thing'. Something to discuss, perhaps, rather than something that's already being done :)

> I'm not saying that their aren't opposing viewpoints, I'm saying that the language isn't intentionally unclear to hide that.

I think that's our point of disagreement. Take e.g. the "Free Higher Education for All Act". "Free" in this context is pure Newspeak.
Can you elaborate on why you think this is the case?
Uber has requested that Larry Page be deposed and they have questions they want to ask him under oath. That's fact, not hearsay. They clearly have questions the truth of which will weaken Waymo's position. Lawyers don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to. The only unknown is if Larry will lie under oath or be able to skillfully answer in a way that doesn't hurt Waymo's position.
As soon as you need to be able to access low-level pointers for performance, you run into a problem: you can easily end up holding onto a reference to memory that's been cleared, or otherwise invalidated, by some other piece of code. This type of bug is insidious, and can easily be missed by the most stringent unit tests and even fuzzing. Of course you can try to get around this with abstractions on top, as every higher-level language does, and as you can do in C++ if you're willing to build reference-counted pointers around absolutely everything... but these are not zero-cost abstractions.

What Rust does is track reference lifetimes at compile time, giving you certainty about who can safely "own" or "borrow" memory in every single line of code, without any runtime pointer indirections or other slowdowns. The language is built around this feature at every level, with "lifetimes" being a syntactic construct at the level of type and mutability.

Imagine if you wanted to safely parse user-submitted JSON, maybe cache derived products from that JSON, and then make sure that when the input buffer is released, you weren't holding any handles into strings inside it. The only safe way to do that in any other language is to proactively copy the strings, or rigorously reference-count the input buffer. But Rust has your back here. If you use zero-copy deserialization from Serde ( https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v1.0.0 ) then the compiler will refuse to compile if you are using any of that data longer than the lifetime of the original buffer, and do so without needing to add any runtime bookkeeping.

Yes, it's an annoying language to learn because of that "fight with the borrow checker." I LOVE that the language designers and steering committee are so open to quality-of-life improvements for newbies, like that string warning. The language will only get easier to learn over time. It may never be what you use to make your next app, but if you're doing systems programming, it's the wave of the future.
No, no they didn't. They inherited the machine, or bought it from someone else. This isn't software engineering, where people bootstrap their compilers.

They signed exclusive contracts with suppliers.

They designed parts which took many iterations of surface finishes and annealing schedules and tolerances to get right. Each iteration requires months of turnaround time and $€£ in manufacturing costs.

Sure the team can go elsewhere. But it will take them almost as long to set it up the second time around, and almost as much money.
Well doing work for Queensland Health (front-end websites and apps for marketing purposes, not client data or anything) was an exercise in absolute frustration. But hey, I'll give our gvt the benefit of the doubt for now; we have to move to a tech economy or we will fail the moment we run out of resources to pull out of the ground.

Interestingly, a small data centre is being built pretty close to me in Fortitude Valley, so there is some investment going on. The Advance Queensland Innovation Summit I attended talked the big talk, let's see how well they've learned how to walk I guess!
I disagree. You are suggesting everyone should write error handling code manually rather than rely on compiler.
Interested in where you're going with this. What are the advantages you are seeking out? I've done some computational geometry with slice data from meshes, but have been operating off of STL files, not a feature-based format.
>If there was ever a point that our military paid for itself (even on the margin) in terms of cheaper oil

Of course it doesn't pay for itself. Cities with their GDP growth pay for it (financially), and exurbs with their cheap sprawling subdivisions and giant SUVs benefit from it.

People are most needed where they would create the most value, regardless of cost of living.

Let's say your programming labor would be worth $120k/year ($40k in taxes) in San Francisco, but you're stuck making $50k/year ($10k in taxes) in Indianapolis because San Francisco would still be a net less for you.

Your not being in San Francisco costs the government $30k/year. Any subsidy below $30k/year that gets you to that more productive job is profitable for the taxpayer.

Now imagine someone who costs taxpayers $20k/year in Appalachia, but could generate $30k/year ($5k in taxes) as a barista at the Googleplex. It's still worth any price below $25k to get her to Mountain View.

Of course, these subsidies might just arm you (and the barista) to displace other, also productive Bay Area residents, resulting in no net change. There would also have to be a zoning policy intervention to create new units.

I do agree that high and low density regions are codependent, and subsidies are appropriate in both directions. I simply argue that subsidies to get people to high-productivity cities are much less costly (they can even be profitable!) than subsidies to help people stay in low-productivity situations.
Weren't tax break and incentives given to American telecom firms to solve the problem you described here?

I remember it being couched more in terms of far flung houses in rural america than poor suburbs, so I could be mixing things up.
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It's specifically for founders with existing startups, outside of Queensland, in case others missed that on first glance.
I'm not saying they aren't reliable in this instance but I encourage you to be VERY skeptical of zero hedge..
Why would that be a trope and why would that be offensive? Nintendo markets heavily to American and Japanese markets. Their games are popular among women. And the white man and Asian woman aren't explicitly in a relationship.

The Switch campaign had no problem including multi-racial pairs, which is seen most clearly in its ads for 1-2-3 Switch: https://youtu.be/j7p47TOmicQ?t=1m53s
"We haven't notified the journalist that we have breached and accessed that particular journalist's data without the warrant."

Cynical prediction - they self-reported this without identifying the journalist, because they intend to use it to lean on sources, informants, and suspects across a bunch of different cases... "Well, you know, we've already got the phone call metadata from the journalist you leaked to - there's no point lying to us son, we're just trying to help you out..."
Here comes the most over used method in the playbook 'selective enforcement'

Even google is falling in line, https://streamable.com/uq0d6

Troubling times.
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Yes, and people want to be listened to and attributing what you are saying to someone with better credentials is essentially a way of increasing the power of what you are saying.
Ok.

Now please explain how the decision to block proposed housing units near my office is not responsible for the prohibitively high cost of the units that did get through.
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you mean r? you can't eliminate s regardless of goo throwing.
"Any entrepreneur currently based outside of Queensland with an existing startup or entrepreneurial experience can apply. "

Note, you have to currently be outside of qld to apply.
Agreed, the loss of institutional knowledge will cripple the team. However, what I am arguing is that they leavers won't be able to take the business elsewhere just with what is in their heads.
>I really disagree with this. I work on compilers, so I feel for the people who work on GCC, but, I think it is totally unreasonable to expect the average GCC user who might have encountered this bug to be capable of fixing this themselves.

That's not my take on it. It doesn't read like an urge to fix it yourself, rather it's literally an urge to consider why you haven't, in order to understand why others also have not.

"Not all developers are hobbyists that can afford to detour from their work for weeks or months to ramp up on GCC to fix this" seems like an appropriate response and probably more or less the point that the GP wanted to make.
Gotta love 'fast processing power'! :D
> As a GOOG shareholder, I want an Android phone that doesn't run out of battery after 8 hours of typical use, but I'm probably not gonna get it.

Probably not from Google.

Bit my most recent phone (UMi Plus) has a 4000mAh battery that has for the first time gotten me in the habit of not plugging it in at the first sight of a charging cable. It's also helped that it's USB-C and charges faster than any previous Android phone I've had.

There are also a few Android phones with 6000mAh battery, and at least one with a 10,000mAh battery that (unfortunately or fortunately depending on how important the battery life is for you) has a less battery hungry screen (and lower resolution) than most similarly priced phones. (both the 6k and 10k phones I mention are available from AliExpress sellers; read reviews carefully...)
Reagan was an actor, not a businessman. He did shill though.

Zuckerberg is waking up
to how easily manipulable the portion of Americans who voted for Trump are. It's too easy. Just look at the republican response to sb18 in CA. The counseling association was suppossed to be working on an initiative to help but I'm starting to worry.
> On this and everything. What on earth can we do about it?

Try brute force.
Heh, alright. Well, if it is news some famous Russian guy unfollowed his network activity helps other HNers have a tiny bit more information about what others are doing. I will elaborate some though. I am in information security and have been reforming my overall footprint online. I have been making an effort to cut down on the analytics I generate for other companies and keep my data and activity on the Internet to myself. I have migrated away from Mac and Windows as primary operating systems due to analytics and ongoing downward trend for Apple (Sierra was not a good update from a privacy perspective).

Perhaps I am simplifying too much, but this problem does not seem complex -- but we have collectively made it complicated. People need to claw back their privacy one app, and website at a time. I have also made efforts to begin educating my family.

I have also connected my entire home Internet to a full time VPN end point that tunnels everything out. The VPN endpoint IP is changed every day at night (Trail of Bits -- Algo, cron and a bash script, and a good amount of battle with IPSec to make the gateway work). No more ISP super tracking cookies in my home. Everyone that is on the home network goes through is so it is easy for everyone to use (nothing changed on my home network from the end user perspective).

Consistent usage of privoxy. Casual browsing is done using Chrome in a docker container that is removed when chrome closes.

There are other things, but most of that has been over the last 6 months. It is a good start... But there are still a lot of obvious leaks. I have also been steering friends and family towards paid service with no advertising over anything where they are the "product".
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A service like DSC that I thought was brilliant is that one that does air conditioning filters. I forgot its name, but I always forget to change my filter, and you're only supposed to do it every 6 months. Then because it's been so long, I invariably forget what size I need, buy the wrong one, have to go back... Ship me a filter every 6 months? Awesome! THAT'S a company I see as "adding value".

No affiliation, not even a subscriber -- just had a "duh" moment when I saw their ad.
> it becomes less and less uncommon to have more than one query per page.

I said transaction, not query. A database transaction is on a single connection at a time and queries are performed via the transaction serially.
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> This is because if we were honest, artisanal cheese is close enough to regular cheese to be hard to differentiate, so they sell the intangibles of artisanal qualities, and people pay more for pretty much the same benefit.

If people are willing to pay significantly more to derive greater enjoyment from a basically identical product, then there may be a case to be made that they are deriving greater benefit.
Alacritty is full of render issues and missing features. It's fast because it barely does anything, and doesn't even do it correct. Just check the ever growing laundry list of issues it has on Github.

With that said, it's a very interesting project. Especially with regards to its rendering engine.
err, no. The model is a "black box" if the only thing we have is the input and the output, and only little intuition how the model produces output from the input. We have spent at least a couple of thousand years studying geometry; we know geometry quite well.

Let me demonstrate with a stupidly simple geometric model.

Suppose (for the sake of the argument) that we have simple image input, consisting only simple solid geometrical structures. Say, solid 2-d circles of one color, on the background of different color.

From high school geometry, we know that we know everything there's to know about a circle when we know its location on x-y plane and its radius. We could easily come with a parametric model for fitting circles in the pixel image data of circular objects. (For example, we could minimize difference in 2-norm between data image and image corresponding to a set of circles, [x_i,y_i,r_i], i=1..n ). This kind of descriptive parametric model would be particularly easy to understand: model structure consists nothing but representations of circles! (But of course, it wouldn't be particularly interesting model; it would apply to simple images consisting of circles only).

Alternatively we could work out the mathematics bit more, and come up with something like Hough transform to find circular shapes. Still nothing mysterious about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_Hough_Transform

However, my point is: We could also train a neural network to find circles in the images of our example. It might be good at it. However, understanding how the circle representations are encoded in the final trained network certainly would not be as easy than in our nice parametric model.

Some realistic applications of "simple" geometric models would be active contours / snakes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(computer_vision) ) or (stretching the meaning of the word 'geometry') the various traditional edge detection algorithms that have been around long time.

Or read the post, in which the author describes how they utilized projection geometry model to account for camera positions and orientation, or for stereographic images. We know how the geometry of stereographic vision works: we don't need waste resources to train a network to learn inscrutable model for it.

Deep learning is useful when we need models for things complicated enough that we don't know how to model them. (For example, model that tells us "is there a dog in this image".)
Perhaps he enjoys working at high profile companies on advanced high profile projects.

Having a ton of money means you don't have to worry about food, transport, or housing. In no way does it scratch the itch to build and sell cool new stuff.
> "We have raised the level of internal authorisation required for access to data of this type," he told reporters in Canberra.

> "We are limiting the number of authorised officers who can approve access of this type.

> "We are also re-rolling out and stepping up mandatory training to all investigators and authorised officers to make sure they are fully aware of their obligations under the Act."

Oops, we didn't mean to get caught, now we'll tell everyone they really shouldn't do this again.