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Thanks for the link to the Eco-Tank/Super Tank printers from Epson. I have ordered one of the wide-format ones to see how well it works. Sad that the 'print only' wide format is only available outside the US. Seems like 'print only' is the 'manual transmission' of the printer market :-)

What I always hope for, and never expect, is people competing and using engineering quality as a competitive discriminator. I want the ink jet printer that German engineers designed to show they could do a better job than the Swiss engineers. The one that prints repeatably color and registration accurate prints as the building it is in burns down around it. I had a Mannesmann-Tally printer that I swear would stop bullets while it continued to chug away on your printouts. I remember those days fondly :-).

I'll settle for paying a 50% gross margin on a printer that is supported by all my systems, doesn't use a proprietary paper, ink, or other part that insures I can continue to use and service it for 10 years.
From the start it was obvious that the interests of the employee and Uber's didn't align at all in that lawsuit.

The question now is, what did Uber know and when did it know it. Did Uber had contact with that employee when he was still working at Google? I wouldn't be surprised if Uber sued the guy in the future.
What are you talking about? Kobe studying tape?

Point is that even one of the best players of all time was not out there practicing for 12 hour days every day. Resting the body was key to having a long and successful career.
> Or at least be stable enough for a Debian or Red Hat to switch to it as a default?

SUSE / openSUSE has had btrfs as the default filesystem for a few years (and we have a bunch of tools built around it adding features like boot-to-snapshot and auto-snapshot of upgrades). Personally I have had issues with it, but I've also messed around with btrfs subvolumes quite a lot (developing container runtime storage drivers) so it might be self-inflicted.
Unless they promised to give him a large sum / stocks after everything is settled if he agrees not to talk.
"What is more infuriating than the condescension of the ignorant?"

That quote from the article effectively summarizes the dynamic that powers present-day Internet comments.
Uber followed through on their public warning. Doesn't look good I must say.
Your app looks sweet. Can I try out the extended version before purchasing?
The benefit from using GA is enormous and the cost to implement is near-zero (for the company). The benefits you get vastly outweigh any potentially lost revenue.
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Good questions.

How long it takes depends on the mandate given by management. Sometimes it's 30 days to get from zero to something stable and incrementally improvable at which point we hand back to the company with maybe a transition period where we still manage the project. Sometimes it is just a feasibility study in which case it can be even shorter. But if it is boots-in-the-mud (which is where the real money is) then it can be up to a year.

It scales just fine provided you have the people and this is more often than not a huge problem. It's happened that we had to leave people in place for months or even years after the project was in essence done simply because as soon as our backs were turned it was back to the usual methods. That's actually really frustrating when it happens.

Existing test coverage can speed things up but if the tests are brittle or otherwise not helpful can actually make things much worse.

As for number of modules or LOC: if you're doing a platform switch that can really eat up time, if it is just to bring things under control then it does not really matter much.

One you did not mention, but which can greatly impact the speed with which you can move is the quality of existing documentation. If there is anything at all, especially up to date requirements documentation that can serve as a tie breaker between a suspected bug or a feature it can make a huge difference.
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> But if you're trying to build a more secure Internet by giving developers better tools, nobody wants to pay you for that.

Sounds like you might enjoy working at https://protocol.ai/
Apple really pissed me off about this. Magsafe is not licensed. Buy Magsafe bricks, cut the end off, and make a battery that can charge MacBooks? See you in court.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/11/01/hypermac_to_be_reb...
I wonder if this will affect the various Qualcomm suits. Qualcomm tries to collect patent royalties from (say) Foxconn based on the sale price between (say) Apple and the carrier/consumer.

Edit: moved long commentary from FOSS blog to separate thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14448205
That's true, though for myself I find that in order to concentrate on something mentally engaging I need to be physically occupied. So walking, simple chores, some types of exercise, knitting, mindlessly guitar practice. It's when I don't have something mindless to do with my hands that my mind actually ends up wandering.
Back when I had an an "Optimus" laptop with that kind of setup, I had to use bumblebee/optirun/primus (I forget how the parts fit together) to launch programs that I wanted to use the dedicated card with.

It worked a little like Wine does, you'd just wrap your program invocation with `optirun <game>` and it would set everything up for you. IIRC it was also possible to combine this with wine, `optirun wine <game>`. The first year after I got the laptop (this was maybe 5-6 years back) support was kind of flaky, but things got smoothed out pretty quickly.

Eventually I would just launch Steam with optirun and any programs started by Steam would inherit the dedicated GPU settings.

I haven't used a setup like that for a few years now, I'm sure it's only gotten better since. The Arch wiki has a good rundown.
Interesting. The situation between Uber and Levendowski always reminded me of the prisoner dilemma. If one bails on the other, might the other starts talking about what really happened? I think that staying together would have been the best course of action for Uber. Very interesting to see how this will develop.
If gravity plays a role in wave function collapse that will pose serious questions for the Church-Turing hypothesis. It might very well make it impossible for non-Quantum computers to accurately model quantum gravity.

Penrose does not argue for "something computationally more powerful than objective collapse" rather, he argues that the physical Church-Turing thesis is false due to quantum gravity. Something he is an expert on, btw.
So they did have self driving cars in the 60's. I knew it!
Ho hum. Statisticians have dealt with endogeneity problems before.
(Months of how much of a headstart they had * monthly cost of licensing their tech after it is finished)

That is how I would calculate it...
not uncommon in embedded world.lots products are still using ext2. "sync" is definitely required before rebooting ext2 fs. We all know :D
It depends.

Law is generally meant to be "reasonable" and much depends on the particular facts.
Would be tricky to pull off without a serious charge of "impeding justice".
>If you can name a game that didn't get less press a year after release I'd love to hear it.

Major nitpick, i know, but you said game not app so i guess Minecraft[1] got pretty much a stable news coverage throughout the years

[1]https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=minecraft
FCPX doesn't work that way. If you purchased it on its release date 5 years ago, you essentially bought a subscription of free updates that continue through today. Many of these have been major releases with major new functionality, not just minor bug fix updates.

This is very different from the old system of buying something like Word (or FCP 7) in a box, getting a few minor updates to fix bugs, and when the new major version came out, you had to pay at least an upgrade fee, if not full price.
Here's Paul Singer warning us in 2014 that "the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the "most significant danger" in the world":

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/07/29/paul-singer-this-threat-is-he...

All the signs are there! Seriously, some financial blowhard says something like this every day; why is this news?
While there's no requirement that a Ruby Array is implemented as an array in the implementation language (C, C++, Java, etc.), in practice it is in all the Ruby implementations. In order to traverse an array, you need to know the length so you can ensure your array index is in bounds. I.e., to read the first element of an array, you'll need to read the size anyway. That being the case, you would want to compare the size to 0 because comparing ints is much faster than reading from memory.
> But Google's suit is against Uber, not Levendowski, who could now spill beans on all sorts of unsuspected malfeasance. At this point what has he got to lose?

His freedom. There's a reason he took the Fifth, and tried to force Uber not to release information to support that.
It's apt to point out that Mr. Singer intends to profit on the long side. How many souls find themselves in the same predicament. Fearmongers will benefit from reading Triumph of Optimists by Dimson, Marsh and Staunton.
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Optimists-Global-Investment-R...
The article cites prices drifting ever higher with low volatility. Even as a card-carrying market prediction skeptic, I think this has to be seen as worrying because it implies the market is detached from the usual random news events that should each cause price movements. Certainly when there are no corresponding "you've never had it so good" economic conditions.
Is GA 'spying on users'? If so.. you should never go anywhere in public, never go shopping at a grocery store, etc. They all record everything that happens and analyze it to get similar amounts of data. Your bank tracks you way more (and sells all your data!).
It varies from claim to claim.
There are multiple types of damages for multiple claim types.
You'd have to be more specific :)

In general, "actual" damages are not the only thing in the world.
If all you ever could get were "actual" damages, it would almost always be more efficient to breach contracts :)
I just want more PvE content. Right now I'm just walking around collecting pokemon, because actual gym battles have been completely impossible for me since about a month after the game came out. All gyms are 12-stacked with pokemon with super-high CP, that I can't really meaningfully interact with, unless I level up significantly. And even then, there's no strategy involved past "pick the pokemon that does well against this element" and tapping the screen really fast.

Their problem with cheaters would be mitigated much better if they focus on PvE.
Google's policy: https://opensource.google.com/docs/
I don't know how to drive. From my perspective, all cars are self-driving.
> Back then, people were already talking about augmented reality, but nobody knew when this technology would be accessible.

I still don't get why people talk about Pokémon Go and AR. As if one had anything to do with the other.

Pokémon Go has zero actual AR; it's just overlaying a 3D animation on top of a camera feed, with no relation to reality other than readings from a shitty smartphone gyroscope. When playing, I would actually disable that feature anyway, because it made catching Pokémon harder (performance issues + no "AR" means no gyroscope input, which makes the game no longer care about you maintaining constant orientation).

The AR we've been promised for decades now was about overlaying computer data that's related to what you're looking at in the real world. At this point, even those "point camera at the printed tag, see a 3D model on your phone" have more AR in them than Pokémon Go.
So... paying to level up is not 'cheating', but using a bot is? I don't think the distinction is as stark as Niantec would like one to believe.
This is a process nearly every Enterprise oriented SaaS, a lot of which are built with Ruby/Rails. I think there is a lot of room for this to take off for you!

http://www.kiba-etl.org/ could use some work in stating the business problem and how Kiba can ease the pain of growing your own ETL. If you're not sure what an ETL is (or what problem they solve), the landing page provides 0 justification into reading more.
I don't understand how you could think this. It's not merely the fact that it's incorrect I don't understand the line of logic that would lead to the conclusion that zfs requires any more sophisticated setup or ecc to function.

Furthermore backups and raid may be related but they are pretty orthogonal. Having a reasonable strategy to ensure performance integrity and reliability isn't obviated by having a good backup strategy.

If you have to restore from backup aren't you going to lose some amount of data even if it's only the last hour -> day.
What's the first most popular Taxi service? I haven't seen anyone using something different than Yandex.
SuSE/OpenSuSE has been using BTRFS by default for a while and it seems to work well enough. There's a default schedule of running 'btrfs balance' every week, seemingly based on when the OS was installed (it relies on the timestamp of a file that gets updated with every run), that makes the system(1) virtually unusable for about 15 minutes.

(1) I've only seen this on one machine, so maybe it's a quirk of that machine's workload. But it sure does suck when it's in the middle of a workday.
Yes, emailing third parties for social proof is one way to go about it.

Then there's contacting the newsletter directly for proof of their actual numbers by making available current and previous month's screen shots of MailChimp campaign reports, for instance.

And as pixelfeeder mentioned, they'll also gather their own internal analytics based on how money changes hands on Upstart.
> I rarely hear from it's users

that's not necessarily a bad thing. Those sound like libs with pretty simple responsibilities, so if they work great there may just not be any real opportunity for feature requests​ or feedback.

With a backported shim (like at least one of those), I'd honestly take a silent userbase as a sign of success if you know there are downloads/installs.
> I bet once they add PvP it'll pick up.

At this point I honestly lost hope that they'll ever add it.
"By the way, if you have any trisections or any works of mathematical cranks I would be most grateful to have copies. I have sought such things out for years, and my collection of analyzed trisections [...] is in it second hundred."

I would love to see that collection. Anyone knows if anything like that is available online?
Applying Data Science to Epidemiology: modeling cholera outbreaks 2010–2015
An achievement originally unlocked by a 19 year old Gauss. The badge is a 17-pointed star on the base of his statue in Brunswick.
So there is now a proprietary graphics ppa that is (as I understand it) a collaboration between Nvidia and Canonical. You install the nvidia drivers from there and can also install a command line tool called "prime-select". You can then select which "profile" you want to use via:

$ sudo prime-select [nvidia|intel]

Then a logout and log back in will swap the adapter in use. From there you will be using either the intel or the nvidia chip full time. Bumblebee is an option...but you would have to mark special commands with "optirun" and would be suffering a performance penalty. But it is a good option if you don't want to deal with the logout to swap.

For me, I don't mind the logout for swap so I just use the "prime-select" tool.

Edit: Here is the ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

It looks like there is a bumblebee something in there.

Here is a news blurb about it:

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-official-ppa-graphics/
The depth of the tangents and jargon in IJ are an aesthetic DFW adopted to counter the clever minimalism so popular in commercial speech of the late 90s. He called it maximalism.

The burden is to some extent intentionally constructed; the reader must flip back between 2 bookmarks to read it at all since there are over >10% of the 1000 pages are footnotes located at the end of the book. It seems to be a meta-satire of two voices always present in late 90s US anti-depressant ads and the fine print that was always read quickly at the end. This burden forces the reader to constantly consider the "fine print" reality of the authors voice behind the fictional nonlinear narrative he is presenting you through the voice of other characters.

The form of the novel reflects the content of the message it presents, this is feature not a flaw.

The paragraph after the one you quote reads...
"if you can come to terms with his dense and labored style, the rewards are often tremendous. There’s no doubt that Wallace’s talent is immense and his imagination limitless. When he backs off and gives his narrative some breathing room, he emerges as a consistently innovative, sensitive and intelligent writer."
Guild Wars 2: Free to play, no subscription if you play for the game, and plenty of "things to do." The game revolves around story lines and open world events. What I like is that I can pop on and just do something and then pop off without feeling like I have to get my money's worth every month. Sometimes, it's nice to fell like I've managed to complete something (when it doesn't feel like it at work).
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John Deere's stuff can be seen as a legal quirk that actually SHOULD be unconstitutional and the [EFF's Apollo 1201](https://www.eff.org/press/releases/cory-doctorow-rejoins-eff...) project is specifically aiming to find just the right case(s) to take all the way to SCOTUS to declare this.
Agreed.

I've been a professional dev for a decade now, but failed out of college due to mental health issues (depression). I know a ton about stuff higher in the stack, but I've never spent much time writing C and mucking around with the OS itself.

This project is interesting enough to me to be worth the time to read it, and it's given me the idea of writing my own shell as a means of learning a Nim.
> What does that question have to do with building sofware? Like, real world software with real world homework that suddenly out of nowhere expects you to have skills that were not taught previously.

You're way beyond the scope of the original discussion.

Someone suggested people would drop out of CS due to the grief factor of - for example - breakage due to missing semicolons.

Another person then suggests that maybe it's a good idea that CS majors have some experience programming before they enter the program. Note: some experience - no one said you need to have built a "real-world" team project before going into a CS program.

Then all hell breaks loose because, apparently, getting online and reading a couple tutorials and screwing around in a browser-based programming sandbox (there are tons), is something only wealthy people with college educated parents can do.

Sorry, but I don't believe that.
while I agree with @ckozlowski that Gingsburg's dissent is based on technicality than politics, yes, who can forget the likes of the weasel Christopher Dodd and his long dealing with the wall street and now Hollywood.
Software licenses are copyright licenses.
Thanks for the response, this makes me feel a bit more positive.
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Let me try to boil down patio11's argument even further.

Premise 1: Technical skills like programming are broadly generalizable to solving many problems applicable to many businesses.

Premise 2: Programming skills are too abstract to be easily marketable, and "programming" devoid of business framing or value-add is a poor pitch for billable hours.

Premise 3: "Programming", as a solution, is equally applicable to problems that are very lucrative to solve and problems that are not very lucrative (swap out "problems" for "clients" too).

Conclusion: If you are good at programming to the skills approximation of a mid-level engineer at a reputable company, you can charge five or six figures per month to solve problems for people.

There is no secret club. If you are good at JavaScript and React, you can earn $250/hour, or $10,000 per week by targeting the right clients and asking for it in return for solving their problems. They don't have to know you're using React, in fact it might be better if they don't. You can also charge $50/hour, or $2,000 per week by targeting the wrong businesses and solving their problems with the same programming skills.

If you want to argue about the semantics of this and call it "sales consulting" - sure, fine. I wouldn't, because that means that all software-enabled consulting becomes "sales consulting." The simple, empowering truth is that you can do the same job with the same skillset and earn more money by literally asking for it and choosing companies that can pay it. You do not need to be a sales wunderkind or rip people off.

If you use Rails to solve a local business' problem that was costing them $1 million/year, and you use Rails to solve another business' problem that was costing them $20,000/year, and you complete both in the same timeframe of a few weeks, target the first business and charge $20,000 per week. They are almost certainly not going to say no, and you will find that there is no race to the bottom for consultants solving six or seven figure problems.
I never said it starts off bad. DFW just makes a point to make the book inaccessible. It isn't meant to attract a wide audience, but many good things are initially dismissed because they aren't easy.
Penrose' claim is much simpler. He thinks that gravity playing a role in wave function collapse will show that non-quantum computers are incapable of accurately modeling quantum gravity. IOW, he thinks gravity will end up showing the physical Church-Turing thesis to be false.

Say what you will about Penrose, but can you seriously deny that he is one of the world's foremost experts on gravity?? You might not like his conclusion, but to say that he is out of his element here is ridiculous. Are you in your element when discussing gravity causing wave function collapse? Who do you think would be more in their element on this subject than Penrose??
OK:

Here is some context for those who aren't current on the case.

One result of the injunction (all of the hearings up until now) was that uber needs to use all of its power to compel levandowski to testify, the extreme limit of which is firing him. Uber followed through as was legally required

This is one part of a number of things that came out of preliminary injunction hearings, other parts are (1) the breadth of the case is much smaller than as originally filed, its now about trade secrets, not about patent infringement (2) Waymo is allowed a bit more indepth "discover" to see if they can find evidence of their tech in ubers documents or in ubers hardware itself.

Legally, there is no inference that can be drawn from this to imply uber is guilty, they have willfully carried out a court order.

Uber still has a self driving car program, that is staffed by a few hundred engineers.

The case against levandowski has been referred to a federal prosecutor to review the possiblity of criminal charges against levandowski, if I was his lawyer and he was in this position, I would likely refer him to "plead the fifth" regardless of his guilt.

The case is most definitely still going to trial