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My chief problem with both iOS and Android is far less the OS versions and far more the app update treadmill of despair that has eventually effectively bricked every single smartphone and tablet I've owned.

For if one opts out of updating those apps, either future versions require an OS update, they stop communicating with underlying cloud services and break, or they require current HW not to make the phone unusable.

If this trend continues into IoT, IMO it will be a dystopic fail whale. At some point these gadgets become appliances (with apologies to Cory Doctorow) wherein IMO their behavior should be well-defined and consistent over time.

Example: do you really want a Smart TV that has to boot and which by default communicates analytics about you into the cloud? I don't. But maybe I'm just an old fogie who remembers how awesome it was when TVs starting turning on immediately instead of having to warm up the picture tube.
I'll also note that, though the DSL service is obviously not very fast, it has had excellent uptime and consistency for me. I'm consistently able to stream HD video (1080p 30fps, 900p 60fps) without interruption. Contrast this to local cable where many people complain about poor streaming performance around peak times, despite much 'faster' service.

As much as 12-14Mbps is limiting, you genuinely get that performance nearly always.
About a month or two ago here in California, I picked up a bunch of pressure treated 2x4s from Home Depot. They're copper-azole treated.
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Yes, but that period won't last long.

Pretty soon the benefits of having all of that computing ability, unrestrained by human limitations will simply be too great to ignore. And just like it happened in Chess, some form of intelligent agent will be the absolute strongest, and humans will have a playground to move in.

If right now, a hypothetical space aliens came to earth and said play one chess game for the survival of your planet, we'd absolutely put forward our strongest chess computer. Not a computer suggesting moves and a human ultimately choosing, but a computer to play the full game. This thinking will gradually seep down into less and less important tasks as costs go down, until they're used to analyze/decide/pick everything.

Would you pick your own stocks when your AI can do it better? Would you choose your own health care plan when an AI can choose better? "Hey AI, I need a diet that wil work. You know my psychology, you know my will power, favorite foods, pick my food for me for the next 2 months."

Then "do my job for me and give me the pay", "help my kid get better as soccer", "organize my schedule", "run my life for me".

And don't think it won't happen. People are too competitive. It will be looked at oddly at first, but people will see the results and then feel they're being left behind if they don't do it too.
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On the one hand I've never seen a successful project with non-colocated teams, whether 300km away or 10.000km away. On the other hand, I'm surprised a airplane company is so much localized in UK.
I didn't follow the part where you couldn't give them a Microsoft id for a commercial office 365 license. Presumably you were giving them your personal Microsoft id used with office 365 home at home for your own personal non commercial use? Why did you not just give them the id for the commercial office license your company must have to use office for commercial purposes?

It's understandable that one of the differences with the greatly discounted non commercial use office home license is lesser support than the more expensive commercial license is entitled to. Support is expensive.
That's not being pedantic
The main long-term of Scala is nobody is making money on it. Lightbend tried (formerly called Typesafe), but haven't been that succesful and pivoted to other tools (Akka).

Java also stagnated, because money obssesed Oracle is not earning much money on it.
Southwest was never on Sabre, per se. They had their own, separate reservation system, operated by Sabre the company, but not the main "Sabre Res System" / PSS. It was called SAAS, and sometimes "Cowboy".

They moved off of that recently though, and are now on Amadeus/Altea.
I treat regulations the same way I treat what seem to be illogical programming/engineering solutions. If I don't understand the problem well enough to know why the regulation/solution is the way it is, I have no business commenting on it until I do.
"Pedantic"?

Your post is wholly based on time travel (~"nosql predates sql") and introduces a completely alternative evolution of database design in which quel never happened and we go "full circle" to the nosql-that-was-prior-to-sql.
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The parent may have a point.

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."

(attributed to E. Dijkstra)

To a large degree, computer science is a branch of (discrete) mathematics.
Or you could just use

INT 19 ; (CD 19)

On my Windows 9x box it was the fastest way to soft reboot when made to be an MSDOS mode shortcut
Just as a PSA, lead in any quantity is toxic and particularly so for children. Copper, silver, and gold are in the same family of elements (group 11) and lead is in the carbon family. Very different characteristics.

edit: I should also note (since bringing up families of elements) that - supporting your anecdote - silver has known and studied antimicrobial properties (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16766878). Sadly it has been coopted by quacks, so there's also a lot of misinformation out there about it, too.
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In my opinion, vendors are oblivious to the notion of the buggy code. From the releasing-a-product standpoint, there is a tested or an untested code. While personally I wouldn't be surprised that someone could knowingly release firmware containing known "stability issues", I doubt any vendor hides source code out of fear that someone else will discover some hypothetical bugs. Among other problems, finding bugs in an unknown firmawre is not so simple, as it requires an intimate knowledge of the underlying hardware (and a fair share of the bugs is closely related to its quirks), which might be not so familiar as, say, well-established (and relatively well-documented) Intel Architecture.
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I can vouch for this one. I've been building apps with PostGraphQL for about a year and love it. The dev community around that project is strong.
well, that's a minefield, but maybe those make good examples. The instinct to throw these people into a dark hole and lose the key is strong. However, if you despise them so much because you think their crimes are so horrendous, that's even more reason to find something that works. Otherwise, you're placing your wish for revenge above the protection of their victims–exactly the sort of failure to control an instinct you're judging so harshly.

Because this narrative of child abuse as the-worst-of-the-worst crimes does nothing to stop people (harsher punishment really doesn't work very well beyond a certain level). But it does scare people away from seeking help.

I wouldn't have a problem with talking to a psychiatrist, or even friend or family member, about some anger problem that I feared might make me harm someone. They'd understand. But being attracted to children? That sounds like a really quick method to lose everything you have, just by asking for help.

And asking for help would be exactly what we want people with the potential to do: because it's pretty much accepted that sexual orientations are innate, and that sex drive is among the most powerful, hard-to-repress emotions. Of course people who harm others because of a lack of self-control have failed, morally. But, wow, did they not win the birth lottery.
Fair enough, maybe I should've said it reduced variance? Good for power-law investments, trending toward zero for house-edge blackjack.
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It should have a way to set your location by physically being there X hours a week. Then you could take part in a community even if you sleep somewhere else, but you'd still need to show up to be "in".
Where did you find this information for chess? It sounds unintuitive that a superior player would benefit from a weak player's help.
Why zero first, that's already been explained. Why alloca from the stack: this is because there is a pass in LLVM which converts alloca locations into SSA form[1], and SSA is what many of the other optimizations in LLVM are built around. The rules around SSA mean that variables are renamed rather than modified (every assignment is final, except for phi nodes where control flow merges), so producing SSA output from an imperative language is a bit more difficult. Since LLVM comes with something that converts mutable stack allocations into SSA, it's easier to just leverage it.

The pass is called mem2reg:

http://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#mem2reg-promote-memory-to-r...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form
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If at all possible, I'd hire someone and gradually teach them the real pain points for you. Don't forget, something you hate may be something that someone else finds to be the coolest challenge! By giving them some things they might like as well as a few of the worst things in your work life, they could thrive and it cuts you some slack. Yes, it may be difficult domain material but people can learn and you may be surprised at how fast and how much of it someone who has a real interest in it can absorb.

One of the reasons you feel completely trapped is that, effectively you are. You need to get one or two people who can start giving you a break. Then you will get perspective and can make reasonable career decisions. When you're trapped, it gets worse and worse and you may just toss all that work to now and walk.

Hire someone, or delegate bits to others (or do both) to get some space from the things that are driving this ideation. You will be much happier and it will buy time to determine what you need to do for you to thrive.

My heart goes out to you!
Yes, I know they are different, but I was talking about C++. I heavily use the STL and greatly prefer it to C idioms. I also like namespaces. Templates can be very hairy but void pointers are not great either.

In short, I simply think C++ can be used responsibly if you limit yourself to the subset of features that you (or your team) can understand.

For example, there are people who go crazy with Python metaclasses and such. A statement about interacting language features being dangerous could apply to anyone in any language who is trying to be unnecessarily clever.
Customer complaints can get a canned response. Legal requests are paid, right?
I am unable to answer your questions for you, but I wanted to talk on the topic because it is something I've been thinking a lot about lately

There recently was a lot of talk and reporting surrounding YouTube 'changing their algorithm' and hurting a lot of YouTubers I watch frequently

One of my thoughts was that unfortunately the best solution would probably mean content creators would need to seek their own advertising'sponsorships

I can tell you the only ads I have clicked on in any recent memory are all, every single ad, of the ones that 3blue1brown places at the end of thaer videos(o)

Considerate effort like this really made me think how inconsiderate and detrimental the current hands off one size fits all ad networks are

Some content creators will surely protest 'im a creator stead a salesman' which is a fair complaint but I'd argue 3blue1brown really brings an artistry to the personal ad network the channel is creating.. self curated ads has the potential to be another medium of self expression

(o) https://youtu.be/mvmuCPvRoWQ?t=22m41s

.. an aside: the ad that YouTube ran in front of the video I linked when I first clicked on it was offensive and jarring, it depicted an animated Albert Einstein literally
scribbling on a black board while a student looked on in dread and three words came in the screen, two of which I can remember 'math ___ sucks' the middle was either: teachers, lessons, or tutors; this ad actually upset me.. contrast that with this great 3blue1brown ad(i) and I am more confident in my conviction that a new collective effort in this direction would be both beneficial to all parties and is seemingly compelled by the momentum of inevitably

(i) https://youtu.be/gB9n2gHsHN4?t=19m52s
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Ask HN: Remote work just doesn't work?
This is something that I hear a lot. I live in Finland and I work as a developer. Many companies, co-workers and colleagues repeat the same thing "remote work just doesn't work". I'm sick of hearing this. It is extremely hard to find work as a developer with remote option in Finland. Common case is that remote work has been experienced in the company before and one person exploited it badly. Because of that one person, one single bad experience now no one is privileged to do any work as remote.

I really want to hear what experiences of remote work you guys have, does it work? And how to make it work? Next time some one makes that claim, I want to be prepared!

ps: I'm mainly talking about 100% remote work, not only 1-3 days in a week.
You might be thinking of CCA (Chromated Copper Arsenate). It's still in use but harder to find vs. forumations that don't use arsenic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromated_copper_arsenate
I think you mistook the section separator for the end of the article; that sentence isn't even halfway through it :) The rest of the article tries to answer exactly this question, and has a more interesting hypothesis than A/B testing.
The Pirahã language of South America can also be whistled or hummed, and has other interesting characteristics , like lacking words for numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language
Go already has its own intermediate representation to solve this problem, so this project must solve some other problem.
So could we also make door handles out of copper, or does it only work for water storage?
For reference, British Airways' parent company made a profit of €2.5 billion last year, and expects higher profits this year [0].

Without meaningful consequences at the top of the executive chain for sub-par IT/infrastructure quality, these kinds of incidents seem inevitable. But how do you hold people responsibly for "bad" software? We could adopt something akin to how PE licenses are required for civil engineering in the US. I suspect it is in the industry's best interest to address this need before a government entity decides to.

[0] http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iag-results-idUKKBN1630MA
In fact, StarView was in essence what we now call the Visual Components Library (VCL)

Any relation to the Borland/Delphi VCL?
> I've yet to see the efficiency of mass surveillance in a direct relation to catching terrorism.

It is possible that the libertarians are right, that mass surveillance doesn't in of itself prevent acts of terror. There's considerable evidence there's a TMI problem. Just as with any form of education, too much information can prevent learning because prioritization gets shot.

What the libertarians don't address though is the possibility that mass surveillance may as a side affect hold back a higher order of terror.

The feeling of being watched changes people's behaviour, known to often make them self police. This applies to future terrorists becoming more passive also. Terrorism is a very tiny subset of human behaviours after all.

The supporters of mass surveillance don't want to make that argument because they rightly think it plays into the hands of the civil liberties people.

Against this is 'Culture' or the side affect wouldn't be as consequential. Post World War 1 German society, Islam today, different Mafias, they have in common a normalization of political violence. To get the full value you'd need to break the society down e.g. Denazification, anti-racketeering laws...
Cooking sour liquids in lead vessels makes them sweeter - but not in a way you want. The lead reacts with acetic acid to make lead acetate, "sugar of lead." The Romans used this method to sweeten sour wine. It's the oldest artificial sweetener, and the oldest dietary source of lead poisoning.
Why are we looking at Norway? Because it is doing something right, or because it fits the authors preplanned narrative?

Singapore has much lower crime stats than Norway and the USA [1,2]. Let's take a look at how Singapore treats its prisoners.

The punishment for even minor crimes (like graffiti) includes caning[3]. They stick you in a prison cell for months, and on some random morning, they will wake you up and give you the sentenced number of hard beatings to your backside. The beating is done by someone with specialized training to inflict maximum pain (while remaining safe). So for months, every day you are scared, never sleeping soundly, as you don't know if this will be the night of your beating.

-Would the graffiti rate in the USA go up or down if the USA imposed the same penalties as Singapore?

-Would reducing recidivism rates by 20-50%, as the article claims possible, really be enough to lower crime in the USA to a OECD average level [4]?

-Norway and Singapore each have ~5M people. Singapore has 130 rapes a year, Norway has 1,000. How do you justify leaving the Norway justice system in place to the additional 800 rape victims in Norway, when a better system for reducing crime has been invented?[5]

Maybe the US is stuck in middle-no-mans land that leads to bad outcomes. To address this, they could either make prisons into hotels/universities (Norway) or impose stricter penalties (Singapore). But if someone did something terrible to one of my family members, I know which system I'd prefer.

[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Norway/Sing...

[2] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Singapore/U...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[5] Of course, it's never fully accurate to measure systems by comparing numbers across different cultures/measurement systems. The main point remains though.
Spoiler alert: GP was spot-on
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Or have a total population metric, some communities are more spread out. So the heard would be people within x radius or increase radius x until population is met.
Silver sulfadiazine 1% cream is a highly effective antibiotic for preventing infections in deep burns.

In my experience, while while the wound is open, this was the only cream that had no skin reactions, and that made it far easier keep it on 24/7. The cream kept air out, greatly reduced pain. Eliminating infection allowed more rapid healing.

I don't know whether it's prescribed today, but it was the only cream that was effective at both reducing pain, and speeding healing.
Justin O'Beirne's articles are extremely detailed as always. It's definitely a must-see for mappers whatever the company or products you're working with.
Christianity? That is a stretch. Christians believe in divine forgiveness and some sects even believe man does not have the right to punish man; that doing so is doing God's job.

Punishment as retribution is way, way older than Christianity.

Are we hanging onto it in the United States as a relic of our (specifically) Puritan origins? Possibly.
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I hope this will help in reducing bias in the recruiting process, but your statement is a prime example that we just want to move the problem somewhere else in the career pipeline.

We won't achieve parity in the workplace simply because there is no parity in STEM programs (and particularly in Computer Science).

So, if everything was done w/ IA, I would just force a 50/50 split for employees to encourage girls to take up coding classes (at the tiny expense of coding abilities).
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No, my "systematically" meant "by design, throughout the system". Also, I definitely didn't say "meh", act particularly elitist, say anything about the system vs "your success", or try to make excuses for America based on "Puritan roots". I think the system is racist as hell.

I'd love to have a real discussion about this, but you're putting words in my mouth, versus responding to my actual comment and trying to have a conversation
Actually I believe prison should be the option of last resort as nobody benefits from locking someone up where they can't work or benefit society. I would prefer compensation in the form of money or labor if possible. If not, then that individual should be sent to prison.
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This article is a fine example of IYI - "intellectual yet idiot" as Taleb terms it. Verbal cleverness + plausible statistics + apples/oranges comparison = what? Equals: "We have the answer to everything, but sadly the rulers and electorate aren't as wise/clever/compassionate as us." Others in this thread have pointed out specific fallacies in this article - for example there are prisoners in the US using chainsaws and axes; there are prisoners in Norway in solitary confinement who would be in general population in a US prison.

But let's zoom up to the bigger syndrome. Notice the author quotes at least one offender, but doesn't bother talking to any corrections officers. Did it occur to him that someone who worked in a prison for 20 years might know a little bit more about corrections than someone who read a bunch of studies and statistics?

Symptomatic of a broader problem - the chattering classes, who consume and generate information, are increasingly cut off from the real world, and increasingly influential. Of course it's easy to have opinions about how something "should" work when you have no experience and no skin in the game.
Modern AI, things like AlphaGo are examples of applied AI. "Common sense" falls within the realm of artificial general intelligence, which is a line of research that's largely abandoned now in favor of applied AI. Modern AI solutions are engineered to solve very very specific problems. You are never going to see attempts to teach "common sense".

https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807

With that said, the above is what the world's AI researchers think is possible hopefully within my lifetime using just applied AI without the notion of "common sense".

Common sense is AGI. That's not the goal anymore. The goal is to do things like self driving cars. Both Google and Tesla have placed vehicles on the road that have driven for literally millions of miles.

The idea is to build a bunch of classifiers and regression models and use them together in an ensemble to solve your problem. The same approach is being applied successfully to a lot of unrelated fields where deep learning is concerned.

Also, modern AI doesn't even pretend to be biological in nature, in fact we'll known researchers like Andrew Ng make a point in saying that they are only biologically inspires and that's where the commonalities end.

There are other models like HTM that are way more ambitious and want to come up with a single generalized scheme to solve a broad range of problems, AGI style. These guys think biology is important and are trying to emulate the neocortex. They ARE going for AGI, common sense, etc.
For rasam, it's tin, not lead.

But lead has sometimes traditionally been used in cooking etc, because many lead salts are sweet :( That's why children chew on flakes of leaded paint. They're like candy :(
Varg Vikernes (author of Burzum) mentioned that European barbarians used to clean water by letting it stand in a copper vessel over night. The custom of throwing coins into sources or wells might come from this pagan tradition.
Not only that - drivers now rely on GPS turn-by-turn navigation so much, there's less value in making the roads legible enough for human navigation.

Or maybe Google wants to make human navigation more difficult so you'll help collect some more trip data.