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“It’s an obsolete model that doesn’t address the work conditions of the future,” says Louise Mozingo, an urban design professor at UC Berkeley."

Everyone should note that Louise Mozingo has criticized the Apple campus from not having large open floor plans where employees can stare at each other across narrow tables and "collaborate" by yelling to one another over their co-workers heads.

She simply doesn't get how software developers work. When I made the case for individual one person offices to the CFO at a 100 person software company, we calculated the extra cost of one person offices over cubicles or a shared layout would increase our cost per engineer about 1/2 of 1%. In relation to the productivity benefits, that's immensely trivial.

We did it, and it worked great. And when engineers wanted to "collaborate", they'd go to each others offices without bothering anyone else! Amazing.
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As seasoned developer this things really make me feel old and dumb... so many acronyms, frameworks, unnecessary features, etc... that live me wondering, what kind of job requires to built things this way?
Mortality associated with meat, heme iron, nitrates, and nitrites in study
Don't worry--they're all getting priced out of Seattle/SF/DC/Denver/Portland/Texas. Give it 15 years.
I like Alien 3. I don't know exactly what it is that I like, but it's there. Maybe it's the religious penal colony theme? The Quake-esue feel to the setting? The different direction in style and setting it took from the other two?

Alien 3 is a lot like Temple Doom (which I also like). It's just that, in each franchise, the other two movies are so much better, I think everyone just writes off the remaining film.
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> Could you go into more detail on the examples you mention, where doing so led to new insights?

Good question. It's a bit hard to do so (especially without going into mind-numbing technical detail) -- in math you never quite know where insights really come from. "Fortune prepares the prepared mind."

But generally speaking, I would say that good exposition gets you thinking about: Why does the technique work? What is the key insight? What are its limitations? And if you think about such questions, you naturally get a better sense of for which other questions your techniques are also likely to work.
Alien 3 was actually a famously troubled production and a prime example of "development hell".
Hi there! If you're interested in synchronous mutation callbacks (https://docs.scaphold.io/custom-logic/) and have multi-region deployment (https://docs.scaphold.io/app-management/multi-region/), you should check out Scaphold.io (https://scaphold.io)! We were in the most recent YC batch and have more features for schema management like enums and interfaces as well. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out on Intercom or Slack.
Also, if your site is dynamic but doesn't really need to update on every load you can set up Cloudflare to cache for a short period (e.g. 5 minutes).
The equipment loadout of the local fire service is often a factor in building height limits. For example there are building heights below which a fire service does not need ladder trucks but at a certain point, public safety demands ladder trucks be available.

Even if a fire service has ladder trucks, the existing ladder trucks may be berthed outside the area served by the local fire station and therefore the fire service cannot provide an appropriate response time and needs another ladder truck. Because ladder trucks are big, this may mean that the local fire station needs to be expanded to house the ladder truck.

Providing a ladder truck and possibly funds may, in some cases, remove the reasons for the height restrictions...with the premise that height restrictions are occasionally the result of careful consideration rather than or in addition to nimbyism.
Related: http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2017/05/12/boston-electroni...

I always see people ragging on EMRs. They're inefficient, have poor UX, require way too much documentation, etc. These are all fair criticisms, but I don't think people spend enough time asking why. Why are all the major EMR systems shitty in exactly the same way?

I think there's 2 main parts to the answer. The first is the sales process. The people selling EMRs to hospitals aren't selling their product to clinicians, they're selling their brand to the hospital administration. It's like the saying "nobody ever got fired for choosing Oracle", but far worse. The end result is years-long implementation processes, broken promises, and terrible tools that are optimized to allow the hospital to fire a few members of the low-level administrative staff (billing, coding, etc) instead of providing better care to the community they serve.

The second part of this problem is overregulation. The justification is that EMRs should be able to meet a certain level of functionality. Based on personal experience working with these regulations, I'm convinced that the real reason these certifications exist is to prevent new players from entering the market. They are very much in the spirit of "well all these legacy systems do [something], so _obviously_ everybody else should too" without ever leaving room to come up with a better solution. They shackle you to terrible design choices and assume that all hospitals, from a 10-bed critical access hospital to a 500-bed academic medical center, should all be run the same way. And worst of all, they make it impossible to design a system based on what the HOSPITAL needs, because half of the system is devoted to what the GOVERNMENT needs. Kind of like how people complain about interoperability between electronic medical systems. So the government introduces legislation to mandate interoperability, by requiring implementation of poorly-defined "standards" (designed by committees comprised mostly of, you guessed it, representatives from legacy vendors). From personal experience, I can say that every. single. one. of the interfaces required for federal certification is completely unable to be reused by actual hospitals. But that's the entire purpose, that's exactly why lobbyists paid so much money to get the regulations passed in the first place! If potential new competition has to sink thousands of man-hours every year into building useless functionality, that's thousands of man-hours that didn't go into making their product competitive and disrupting the marketshare of legacy systems. Meanwhile, legacy systems are maintaining their market share, not by improving their product and helping healthcare providers do a better job. Instead they're actively creating situations where smaller hospitals are forced to choose between buying onto the licenses of larger hospitals or shutting their doors.

Obviously this is all just my personal opinion.
I clicked the link, interested, saw the design of the article's website, and closed the window.
It's demonstrating one-shot learning. If you want the robot to do something that you can do, just doing it while the robot watches is a lot easier than building simulations.

It's not easy to get a million training examples, if you can learn something useful from just one example, that's great.
I found the Gibson script (which version though I don't know) a few years ago and read it - it was indexed by google.
Apparently the author, Alex Tizón died days after finishing the story and never knew it was chosen for the June cover.

He was 57.
A bribe is secret and typically illegal. This type of exception to the rule would be completely public and could be debated, discussed, voted on, etc.
I hate Reddit; but what you've brought up is simply a feature not a bug:

> /r/all

It includes all the subreddit potentially; that's the point. Make a metareddit if you want tighter control; or tailor your FP
Security is a process and not a product of some checklist.
> but I think that very few businesses are buying 20 GPU's and sticking them in servers.

No, they're not buying 20, they're buying 100's.

And not just for deep learning either, CFD and all kinds of other computationally expensive algorithms are more and more found on clusters of servers with GPUs in them instead of mainframes. There is definitely a huge shift happening there.
"Ogg Vorbis is superior in every way [except ways] I don't really care about"
If you don't know what happened, all you have to do is read the publically available account of the situation that Susan wrote.
I might just have to fork this and wire it up to the GitLab API...

https://github.com/LestaD/atom-gitlab/issues/8
Oh, they'd be able to deorbit big satellites, too, which is a bit of a problem.
Everyone would jump on board if the city would just allocate the parking revenues to the home or building owners.
That page is out of date. They added filtering for everyone in November.
I keep hearing people say that technology can't solve political problems. This has never been more true than in this case.

Instead of contriving ridiculously convoluted solutions to a non-problem we could simply stop electing politicians who propose implementing ludicrous airport security theatre.
"So far it sounds like an common high memory HPC cluster unit with really unknown technical parameters."

And really anemic CPUs to boot...
It would probably require your own self-hosted version of Google's cloud infrastructure, so it's unlikely to happen.
Actually, they aren't free. That's the point, that's what's cool about indoor farming. It is the ultimate in agricultural intensification, even if marketed as some sort of sustainability. The land required to support a human goes way down as agricultural intensity goes up. It is actually weird, but a hunter gatherer "living in harmony with nature" actually does orders of magnitude more ecological damage per human than industrialized society.

Having a 1 acre garden as a hobby, is huge ecological violence since industrialized agriculture requires far less than half an acre per person and the loss of habitat is the same.
India and Pakistan spar over the fate of an alleged spy at the Hague
I have always found Ars to have relevant and well written content. Conde Nast has a lot of good writers at their various properties.
I always embrace change and appreciate all kinds of experiments, but I don't think you want the same thing on your phone and desktop.

I want different files on my desktop that I don't want on my phone—like accounting and tax stuff. I might want Skype on my PC, but not on my phone (because I can just call people), etc. etc.

iCloud and similar are a good balance, allowing you to have a shared virtual folder that you can browse on both your phone and desktop and is kept synchronized automatically. Google apps are great to keep things syncronized, too: contacts, passwords (iCloud or Google Chrome), etc.

I use macOS as a desktop OS and Android as a mobile OS, and I'm perfectly happy with using the right tool for the job which works well for what you need to do, instead of a security-nightmare OS and complicated mobile OS.

Just my two cents.
A modern phone CPU is way closer to a modern desktop CPU than what most people think, due to the mobile-first (and power-efficiency-first) nature of most of the current CPUs in the market - in the detriment of pure performance.
Power-efficiency matters more than pure single-threaded performance in both the mobile and server markets.
This is interesting but I always fear the lock-in related problems.
I'm opposed to it beacuse it is censorship, while I reject private property altogether. Different ways of reaching the same conclusion, I suppose :)
A bit of a non-sequitur, but I knew very little about Egyptian history and recently decided to listen to a Great Courses series about it. The professor who delivers the lectures, Bob Brier, was amazing. His affect is that of a guy from Brooklyn discussing the Mets, but focusing on pharaohs and hieroglyphs. The course was so well done it inspired me to but a few of his other books and recommendations and start thinking about taking a trip to my Museum's Egyptian collection.

https://www.audible.com/pd/History/The-History-of-Ancient-Eg...
Well... it's open source and Electron works on Linux. Give it some time, perhaps some enterprising soul will submit a tested patch to get it running on Linux. Not sure if it's widely known or not, but there are only a handful of people at GitHub who use Linux as their primary OS. Better to ship a tested version than to guess that it works for people.
Back in the day (early 2000's) it had some interesting features. I remember seeing a facility for writing methods in C, but I'm not sure if that was a demo or if that made it as a feature. Also, if I recall correctly, it was a JIT VM when Squeak and Dolphin didn't have one.
These responses seem completely alien to me.

Do those of you who turn your phones off or leave them places not have spouses/children to be responsible for, aging parents/grandparents to help out with, or in generally want to be available for friends when they need anything or just want to grab a beer and catch up?
It may not be new to the world, but it's likely new to users. Many recycled ideas go on to change the world in a second (or third, or nth) attempt.
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How do they plan on dealing with vandalism and theft? Those robots look pretty defenseless.
The SQL support is currently for queries only. DML is not supported (yet), so keep that in mind.

(I work for Google Cloud)

Side note:
Cosmos is really confusing to me, it has 5 consistency models, supports 4 different database models (I don't think relational is an option?), multiple different APIs, etc.

For example, Azure advertises the p99 latency, but don't specify the consistent model. I'm thinking it's for the eventual consistency, so in that case what's the latency for the strong consistency model? Definitely need to learn more.
Have they announced the End Of Life date yet?
Apple Park partially sits on a superfund site - not the best place to build a daycare.
You're right, but gyms are also an enormous liability and widely available.

It's not that either service must be offered by the employer, it's more a rorschach test to see how the company thinks about what services will most enable their workers to be productive. As an employee, I'd certainly take onsite childcare over a gym.
>Security is part of your development work

So is everything else, apparently: databases, algorithms, data structures, operating systems, cloud infrastructure, front end design, business logic features, etc., etc., etc. -- the list just keeps fucking growing and you people are turning devs into skill black holes where they're never going to master anything. All of it apparently matters at one point or another and you're not a good developer if you're not prepared to be the best at everything!

As a web developer, your security knowledge is rarely assessed and tested. If you're not focusing on security 100% of the time, you're not going to be as good as a professional and the bad guys.

You need people focused on security doing the security work. Having someone do business features and security work at the same time is an indication you don't take security seriously because you do not have dedicated people for it. If Bob who's mostly front-end but some back-end says it's secure, I'm not going to believe him. That's the same false confidence that companies parrot to us when they say that "security is a priority", but they have XP machines on their network still and code vulnerable to SQL injection in their code. Don't tell me this doesn't exist because I woke up this morning and read that exact email. You can't half-ass security and a line of business developer is not a security professional.

This doesn't mean you get to be lazy and continue to concat SQL strings even after someone has told you it's bad in a code review.
he's suggesting that you can turn it from an angry "the poor take from the rich", into an enlightened "the rich know that it's best to appease everyone in the long run".
How the big TV networks are adapting to ad-skipping viewers
Apple does offer all sorts of alternate commute options: Coaches that run all over the Bay Area, shuttles for the south bay, shuttle service to Caltrain/ACE, carpool arrangements. There even are multiple shuttle service to connect the various Apple buildings in Cupertino. Ultimately, much of the South Bay is not very walkable (I lived there for one year without a car, and 7 years without a driver's license of my own), so it's hard to compete with cars, but I'm pretty sure a large percentage of our SF/Santa Cruz commuters, if not the majority of them, are not taking their own cars.
"Just google it"

>First google result
x230 for example? its too quick with 4x 2.6-3GHz cores (about 4-6 times faster than Pine). Too much ram and disk space, who needs 8-16GB of ram and 256GB of 600MB/s SSD anyway? USB 3.0? Did I mention non flickering not TN screen? all for ~$150
It's totally rational. Mass transit provides transport from points A to points B, C, and maybe D. Cars provide transportation to anywhere from anywhere. You regard this as irrational because you don't value individual liberty.

Could cars be more environmentally sound? Yes and we are on our way to making that happen.
Overwhelmingly likely to NOT be an oversight. I worked on Apple Park for a year as the IT guy on-site.

I can tell you that every conceivable detail was painstakingly planned. And many inconceivable details, as well.
There's a perennial discussion of AGPLv3 here on hacker news. A surprising number of projects select it, then revert to something less toxic to corporations.
I HATED Red Delicious as a kid!

Honey Crisp Apples are the best tasting apples I have ever eaten but they cost almost triple the price. Pink Ladies are also phenomenal. My 6 and 10 year old like them better then candy.
Now I'm curious: what about Detroit makes it attractive as a party town?
More accurately it's "Robots learning unprogrammed tasks by observing behavior" they'd be pretty impressed.

Programming robots to stack blocks directly is pretty easy.
The RDS service is literally scripted EC2 instances running MySQL/Postgres/SQL Server etc. Anything you do in the RDS console/API runs (or schedules) scripts on EC2 instances. If you would have downtime on any maintenance of your self-managed DB instance (say, upgrading the DB engine), so will RDS.

Some people get disillusioned at this fact, thinking RDS was something more magical. But AWS does offer the Multi-AZ option, which does the maintenance on the standby, fails over, and then performs the same on the main instance. It's effectively transparent. RDS also makes backups, restores (including point in time), encryption using KMS etc. really easy. If you don't have a full-time DBA, RDS provides for a very easy to use DB with virtually no maintenance required, but Multi-AZ is absolutely required for any kind of production deployment.

AWS's answer to Cloud Spanner is much more likely to be a future cross-region replicating version of DynamoDB or Aurora, not RDS.
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I have a portable air conditioner that I throw my Z5 compact into when I'm tethering. I assume you would need to do the same with this to get good performance.
Daycare is not an "enormous liability". It is rather easy to insulate your company by hiring an outside vendor to run the daycare (they will probably do a better job). There are quite a few and they are skilled in safety, safety procedures, and regulations.

Apple sends a pretty clear signal as to what they want out of an employee with this campus.
It isn't even that they like their lawns. It is the cost of labor to do this. The Salinas and Imperial valleys (where 85% of US veggies are grown) concentrate labor and other inputs in a way that you never could in small plots.

It is the same thing as we could assemble cars in almost any workshop or hangar, but we build cars at scale in only a few places.
Are you implying that the CTO created a culture of harassment and told HR to sweep things under the rug? Based on what? Assumptions?
Not all of Texas, surely?
The relevant issue is "can the product's behaviour be changed after purchase - and if so, by whom?"

This was an important enough consumer rights issue even before the invention of the internet - now that it can be done secretly and remotely, it's paramount.
How we taught dozens of refugees to code, then helped them get developer jobs
I don't get the negativity in the comments. Maru might be early and probably won't be the one, but this is definitely the future.
You still interact with the virtual world from inside buildings.

Many virtual environments try to incorporate familiar elements too.
> with fewer surprising semantics (crossing Perl and Javascript off the list)

Actually, I think Perl has fairly few surprising semantics after you learn the major ones. The real problem is that the major one (or specifically the major one, context) is somewhat hidden in normal C-like usage until it jumps out at you and confuses you. Once you understand what it is, it's not all that surprising (but there are a few annoyances with it that still persist and cause problems). You can write Perl that looks almost exactly like C 95% of the time, but that 5% where it matters makes people that do this very confused. There are, of course, other parts of the language that are poorly chosen, but I maintain there are actually far less of them than many people seem to think.

As for JavaScript, I still can't get over all the different ways to check for equality and null or undefined. I understand a good portion of that is because I never have to use JS enough to become truly proficient, and some if it is just poor design.
My thought exactly. Here is a 1971 video of a robot arm stacking cubes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1oJzUSlTeY

Obviously, it's not entirely equivalent to what's described in the article, but the point still stands.
> it's patently false to state there's more women-only shelters than there are non-specific shelters.

show me who tried to state that
Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler
Meh. The first time I ever see fiiirst or rfst or some nonsense, I'll cry out in terror.

Till then, I can live with car/cdr/cadr/cadar/etc. Somewhat opaque, but not nearly as bad as the folks complaining about it.
From the FAQ:
Is Maru an app or does it replace my current Android OS?
Maru is firmware for your device, so yes, it will replace your existing Android OS.

I wonder how this works: is Android a virtual machine within the Maru/Debian host? It would be very interesting to be able to use the underlying Linux networking, for example, to control the Android functionality.
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> Cyclist usually isn't lucid to give their account.

Then you give your account later.

Drivers aren't in a good position to discuss particulars when they're strapped to a gurney in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Chicago has a pretty good head start. LinkeIn, Groupon, GoGo, CareerBuilder, SalesForce, Orbitz, BrainTree...all based in or have a presence in Chicago. There's even a few game companies.

Detroit has...Compuware (mainframe software - zzz), a couple small studios building stuff for the big three automakers, and some consulting companies also doing managed IT for them.
When a hack shuts down a hospital, who's to blame?
It seems like for nuclear power to be accepted it needs to change its name like every other product using radiation or the word nuclear. One of my favorites is how Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging dropped the the Nuclear. Many people now use radioisotopic instead of radioactive when they want to avoid the negative feelings around the word radioactive. Maybe isotopic power? Use it for both fission and fusion.