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I loved the part at the end where he talked about the "Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich". I'd read the same article a month or so ago, and his intution on the subject seemed spot on.

I think the mindset speaks to exactly the sort hubris that could most directly threaten our species.
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CRISPR sounds extremely powerful. Like turning all blue eyes brown powerful.
The largest financial systems are running on COBOL/mainframes.

Planes are running on embedded microcontrollers still written in C or Ada. (They can't even get the approval to write C++).

Docker is not 1% ready for critical use. The day these things will use Docker, planes will fall and we'll have the next financial crisis.

As someone who worked both in finance and aerospace, handling systems that traded billions of dollars and planes that were carrying hundreds of passengers. This is my testimony on the year we tried to use Docker in production:
http://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-hist...
If he's not getting funding perhaps his work doesn't hold up under scrutiny? I'm a geologist and biology is greek to me so I don't know what to make of it.
Of course that is a huge caveat and even then there is still significant degradation to the quality of your life.
Does anyone know any ARM SoCs which can run without binary blobs? I'm looking for something with a fast serial video interface, H.264 decoder and a SATA or PCIe controller. So far I'm looking at the Allwinner A20 and the i.MX6 - however the latter doesn't have enough bandwidth on the video interfaces to drive a high-resolution display.

The RK3399 mentioned in the article looks great, however it seems like at the very least, the Mali GPU requires a binary blob (not sure about some of the other peripherals).
I suppose the nice bit of this (original) proposal is that it works without any kind of connection or storage. You could use something like a blockchain to store this kind of thing, but you're still reliant on that existing in the future. Nice idea tho. You can also use hashing if you're the origin server (the idea behind content addressable stuff), and if you go away the data goes away anyway so it doesn't matter...
I'd talk to Gigabyte. They build systems to spec. If you want to go to Cavium directly then you're right that you have to convince them you have a solid business plan to move some thousands of units a month, in which case they will bend over backwards to help you do so.
Being able to inspect messages is down to the proper tooling.

But I can certainly understand where you are coming from. I've designed several text based protocols in my time for that exact reason. And I still do for stuff that I positively know will never require any sort of performance (mostly on embedded systems, somewhat ironically since those are sometimes constrained down to just a few hundred bytes of memory :-))
What do you mean by reverse mode? I assumed integration, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.
The Amiga was the first consumer OS with pre-emptive multi-tasking, absolutely, but BeOS was the first with such aggressive multi-threading and exceptional support for multiple CPUs.

On BeOS the menu UI had its own thread. Even if the app was busy thinking it still wouldn't jam. That wasn't the case on other operating systems that simply had multi-process support.
In addition to the raw time investment, these are also exhausting because they impose on you to remember so much trivia and detail -- what's relevant? -- while they are building up to the eventual point. And when you don't know what's ultimately relevant and why you are noting and remembering all this (short term memory, at least), it becomes all the harder to stay on task and focused on / caring about remembering it.

I've come to hate the... I won't even call it an essay, because a well-written essay doesn't do this. There's a word for a short-form sort of (auto)-biography, that might apply; it escapes me.

Anyway, I've come to hate this form of "news". Even as story-telling, it blows, particularly when it becomes an all-pervasive form.
Neitzsche! Genealogy of Morals is such a classic.
Erm... not really? For the pro account you don't get much other than the ability to message people whether they want to hear from you or not. Plus some more visibility into profiles, unlimited searching, etc. You don't get much more in terms of search fields.

--I haven't used Linkedin as a recruiter since the new UI update, so this may be different now.
Maybe the economics don't factor in the fact that the more efficient marketplace reeks of rotting fish all day long.
You're arguing short-term consequences whereas the parent comment is arguing long-term consequences.
> please recognize the determination it takes to make it that far

> ...it's easier to get hired as female engineer because of diversity quotas...

I had seen both of these play out through my partner. She was consistently invited to interview for positions significantly ahead of her experience at the time. She declined these offers on ethical grounds, but it did seem that the surface area of opportunities was expanded because to her gender and age.

Conversely, when she did choose a new role well within her bulletproof expertise, she would be systematically harassed and undermine by otherwise well-meaning people. For example, she's had a dotted-line manager suggest a threesome (in writing, over WhatsApp), offers to work from the client's office because "we need a girl there" (this would make the company look better), and changes to her briefings to sound "...maybe less you" (she had spent years doing conflict resolutions and suicide hotline counseling).

Both points can be true at the same time: women in tech (or finance, or law, or consulting) may have more options presented, but almost none of them are healthy. Working as a female seems to provide the same advantages as going out as a disabled - yes, you have special parking offers and can get to the front door quicker, but no-one will swap places with you.
Average Joe doesn't need any Win32 applications anymore

This is earth, not Mars. But it's nice to dream.
> Seriously: if a TOR hidden service offers hard-core drugs or human trafficking or fake IDs, then they should be shut down.

If it were possible to do this, TOR would lose any shred of value it has for people using it to fight oppression.

Ok, let's say we put technology in place to "shut down" sites that sell fake IDs to teenagers (god forbid!).

Well now, Mr. Lawman from the U.K. or China is going to come in and say "hey, wait a minute, you can shut down websites that illegally peddle fake IDs, so you obviously have the ability to shut down websites that peddle illegal extremism (meaning falun gong, anti-government groups, etc.)." The only defense against the TOR project and its supporters being forced to do this is that it's not technically feasible.

It's really bad that this isn't manifestly obvious to someone who is apparently involved with the TOR project to a substantial degree.
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The context is tradeable tokens that are built on top of cryptocurrency platforms like Ethereum.
Yeah - https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/internation... - ouch.

It feels like this has changed a lot in a very small number of years.

Does anyone know how common it is to actually be put through this rigmorole?
Display DPI - the problem that could've been solved more than a decade ago, but still isn't. Once you get it right on all layers you'll never be bothered by it again. It sometimes makes me sad that we still have to work with or around it, even though it is trivial to solve.
> Why don't they just ship it with W10 Pro already installed?

Are you sure they don't? In the past, many Windows edition upgrades (e.g., Home to Pro) were just a matter of enabling features that were already installed.
This is happening. Sergey Brin reportedly invested over $1B in Calico (biotech / life extension).
Why does Common Lisp get the distinction of being the "true Lisp" and not Scheme? Scheme precedes Common Lisp by almost a decade
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>using the Surface Dial/* to run your Spotify playlist

rolling deep with the asterisks here
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I hear that most kids live on their phones. Phones are really powerful these days. If kids did their schoolwork on the same device they spent all their time on anyway, it could save lots of money, and latency switching. Plugging peripherals into phones isn't too hard. I don't think educational institutions are getting much value out of the near thousand dollar phones kids live on these days.
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Well, for one thing, there is nothing relational about a giant HTML document. But for another, is a page that long really the ideal experience for a discussion forum?
I think the target audience of Cap'n Proto and JSON are almost non-overlapping sets. If you use JS, anything other than JSON is a damn inconvenience. And if you cared about what people who are the target audience of Cap'n Proto care about, you won't be using JS :-)
But net profit is down [0]. Problem is losing competitive edge. They cannot do vertical integration like Apple because they lost mobile. Traditional enterprise is moving to cloud and Azure is only propped temporary[1]. Edge is bleeding users and Internet is already belong to Facebook and Google. Chrome and Mac slowly eat desktop market[3].

MS already already lost all chances to do a comeback. Current CEO lack product vision. Buying LinkedIn is silly where for the same price they could have ARM.

[0]https://revenuesandprofits.com/apple-vs-microsoft-revenues-a...
[1]http://uk.businessinsider.com/leaked-microsoft-cloud-sales-f...
[2]http://uk.businessinsider.com/chromebook-sales-versus-other-...
I enjoyed the markup. Reminds me of the old days with font tags:

<p class="pageWrap pageWrap--s marginBottom-m paddingBottom-s c-slate lineHeight-l fontSize-l fontWeight-3 breakPointM-fontSize-xl breakPointM-lineHeight-xl">...</p>

and of course

<strong class="c-slate lineHeight-l fontSize-l fontWeight-5 breakPointM-fontSize-xl breakPointM-lineHeight-xl">9–14px</strong>

Seems a bit excessive, perhaps we could use a document to store all these classes in an organized fashion and then just refer to them by some sort of tagging system. We could link to that document from multiple pages, even, and change it without changing the base markup at all.
A quick search will turn over dozens of years-long studies on the subject. You said it yourself: there is no conclusion on the subject matter based on this retraction, so really nothing to challenge here.
Is the problem you are describing that CRISPR antiviral therapies aren't effective because you don't usually know that you've been infected until, well, after you've been infected?

The way I understand the problem is that the lag time can be rather long, and it's always long enough for the virus to get a good running start. Symptoms, after all, don't occur until things are well under way. So in the real world, the two opportunities for antiviral therapies are (1) something that you can take long before you're even exposed, and that lasts for a long time (like a vaccine) or (2) something that you can take after you've already realized that you're sick (like an antiviral drug).

It seems like the DRACO proteins fall in between these two unless something has changed since the last time I read about this in, I believe, 2012.
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The largest national/ethnic group contributing to the American population is German, followed by the British Isles/Ireland, none of which are known for a heavily seafood based culinary tradition. Could be relevant as well.
Spices are cheap in those markets only because people are used to the completely nonsensical markups you see in grocery stores. Those little jars of mustard seed that cost $12? That's almost entirely markup. McCormick is a total racket.

For stuff like potatoes or beans it's really hard for me to care enough that I'm paying an extra $0.50 compared to the market down the street. Vegetables are cheap, unless someone slapped that organic sticker on it. It's just not worth the effort. But for spices I'll make the trip.
Just for biotech?
HTML sizes were standardized over screen size a long time ago.
While I know it is not the answer you are looking for, I would say you can't – they find you.

This is just my experience. I put a lot of stock in the importance of having a "mentor" early in my career. And I lamented the lack of being able to find one.

I eventually changed gears – different job in a different field – and found someone I consider to be a mentor. The most interesting part is that instead of this person being someone I want to be exactly like or even someone that I share a great deal in common with, I just find myself trying to do what I think they would do in situations I am faced with. It's the way they handle themselves, communicate with others, make decisions, etc.

So I would just say be involved in as many things as possible and be open-minded. Ideally you will share a lot in common and be in the same field. But I don't think that has to be the case.
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Will it run Linux out of the box?
A little condescending and obnoxious for my taste but mostly everything here is well-known and while the TOR-Browser devs could implement everything this guy wants it, and it will end in a moral dilemma of what could be considerable "malicious". IMHO the Tor Browser is not suitable for the truly paranoid but usually this wont matter because the truly paranoid is not using the TOR network as-is (with the integrated browser) and those who aren't truly paranoid can live with those risk.
I think you'll find that a lot of people who enjoy wildlife photography are also those who stand for the preservation of all things wild. If demand for wildlife photography creates a profitable market for raising animals in captivity, it's a bit of a contradiction. There are of course sanctuaries that responsibly protect wildlife, but profitability is likely to breed some not-so-responsible organizations as well. It's not like orcas don't swim and eat fish, and yet public opinion has turned against SeaWorld because of the circumstances that came with commercialization.
Have you investigated any of the accessibility tools available to you?

That's what they're there for.
AFAIK, the main feature neovim will have is the ability to replace viml with lua wherever you want to.

According to the roadmap[1], lua will be built-in in 0.3.

[1] https://neovim.io/roadmap/
I'd argue that writing a lot of code that is intended for frequent extension is a good way to 1/10x an entire team over time.
I see. Is the unused eliminated automatically on a later stage in the case of an affine type ?
I totally agree with this, after all is common sense. Even if all the hardware were perfect, and all the software were bugless, you would still have to deal with physics and with those imperfect and error-prone machines that set up all the things called humans.
This doesn't make sense. A single engineer might represent as much as 10% of a 50-person company's engineering capacity (many of Basecamp's employees are customer support staff). Forget about the cost of a year's compensation for them: if a small company loses an engineer for a year, they have to fill the gap. What do they do about that? Besides discriminating against anyone who might potentially claim family leave, I mean.
I certainly don't want to discount the presence of sexism (by the way you can just call it that, "gender bias" feels a bit euphemistic IMO). But I've had some interesting conversations with female colleagues wherein they are surprised that I share many of the same frustrating experiences they do. (I'm white and male.)

I think this stuff happens if you don't fit someone's idea of what a developer "should be", and that occurs not only in sexist ways but other ways as well. Of course it's rare for a person to just come out and admit they don't respect you, let alone why. But I suspect things like my appearance and my manner of speaking represent me as insufficiently nerdy to people who care about such things, which results in the type of shit they describe.

Again, I don't want to diminish the problem of sexism or other forms of discrimination in our industry. I just suspect that for those who are affected by it, all would not be well even if the discrimination were to evaporate overnight. Sadly.
... at 15 seconds into the first video, it clearly shows an i7 chip. The specs call out an i5. So, M$- what exactly is it? Bait and switch? Also, I want to load my own software - not the crap from your $tore.
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I initially read this headline as "Facebook's female engineer claims gender bias", which would make a funny Onion headline.
That policy decision can instantly be reversed and isn't a technical limitation of any kind.
> It's also because they are really bad at providing it.

What makes you think that? A huge chunk of an ISPs' operating expenses go to paying people to move dirt around, and the metal and plastic they put in the dirt. How do you expect to disrupt that?
If you want to go to prison, this is definitely a way to see the inside of a federal prison cell.
i've found that:

* if all you need is a toolchain, go with crosstool-ng.

* if you want a toolchain and a bootable kernel with busybox and dropbear for a popular chipset, go with buildroot.

* if you want buildroot plus flexibility in every direction (at the cost of configuration pain), go with yocto.

* if you've outgrown even yocto, you're back to crosstool-ng and rolling your own build/bundle system.
What I don't like so much is the dark theme and the actual design looks a bit... duh. That's what stops me from actually signing up. In fact, dark "social based" websites, make things look rather amateuristic then anything else. Take any example you like: reddit, twitter, pinboard, etc.. no dark themes.
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> I just can't wrap my head about how all the people are doing it. You can't just leave that small kid somewhere, is there some way of taking unpaid leave or are people just quit the job? I don't know.

People figure out a way to struggle and survive. It's in inherent to us as a species.

Some people have family help. Others have older children. Others can support on a single income. Others have paid help. Others bring their kids to work with them. Others work from home.

You just figure it out as you go.
Chinese don't eat raw foods at all, and especially not vegetables...

Not true. Things that are definitely commonly consumed raw include all fruits, some roots and tubers, garlic, cucumbers, onion, herbs and leaves, chilli, sugar cane.

Perhaps your perspective is skewed by a limited, US-only sample. Food preparation preferences are largely regional in China, anyway.
So in this example when would you read or write the file?
Haha, yea, my wife who is Chinese loves 99Ranch and finds all sorts of things our local neighborhood American groceries don't have.
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I was thinking it would be interesting if you could get ChromeOS for these new laptops :-)
Was just able to apply using Chrome, doesn't look like greenhouse had any server issues.
Just disable JS by default and it will be good for 99.99% of the cases you don't allow explicitly allow it.
There's no such thing as a faceless politician, they are human beings too.
Yeah, my high school has them and your description is spot on. What I notice is that Google's chromebook ecosystem is dedicated towards sharing and collaborating which works well at schools.
Wow!

If this could be used to fight bacteria resistant to antibiotics then it is the start of something fantastic.

If it can be used to fight also diseases in animals (e.g.: foot & mouth disease in cattle) or plants (e.g.: citrus cancer) then it is even bigger.
Yes, I'm one of the pre-orderers and it's moving closer to delivery. Nobody knows yet when it'll happen though.

Current status:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/i-wish-you-could-fe...

Here is the cost break-out:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/money-makes-the-wor...

The current setback is that a first batch of cases was either damaged on delivery or not sent:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/the-following-is-ba...
I have a full alcantara steering wheel in my Mercedes AMG. It's awful, and AMG Private Lounge forums will tell you the same story, it's not uncommon for people to literally go and swap their alcantara-clad wheels in their $100k vehicles for normal leather. Initially it feels amazing when the car is brand new, but you need to keep cleaning it every month or otherwise it becomes this dirty clump of neither pleasant leather, nor smooth material, it's just unpleasant to touch - and after a certain point it doesn't matter how much you clean it, it just looks like an old rag and the only thing you can do is have the wheel re-done. Having a laptop covered in alcantara sounds like the worst idea ever, probably only a notch better than having shiny black piano plastic on surfaces which scratch from just looking at them.
I think they just mean faster to boot (but still slower than Chromebooks).
Upvote for subsonic here too, great piece of software been using it years very robust.
There were a lot messaging apps before whatsapp so they weren't first. I think the smartest thing they did was use the phone number as the user ID. It really reduced the friction for a lot of people.
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But they didn't have first mover advantage. There was ping and a few other similar apps on the iOS app store.

WhatsApp focused (correctly) on distribution over several platforms.
It happens to be where I live, so I guess it seems less random to me.
No, this is in fact why everyone says not to use SMS as an authentication factor. When you use TOTP applications like Google Authenticator on your phone, you are no longer relying on the security of the GSM network. I don't think your arguments here are very coherent.
> Every country has foods they're good at and foods they're not.

I mean... sure.

But I've travelled a whole lot of the world and some places on average have way better food than others. It's sort of impossible to go to Lyon, France, say, and then pretend everywhere else's food is just like different, but no worse.