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>Arguably yes.

What do you mean "arguably yes"? What are we losing by having blacks be over-represented in the NBA?

>But there is a huge pressure on African American kids to focus on being successful through sports instead of academic pursuits.

BY WHO??! Who are these individuals who are pressuring black kids to focus on sports instead of academics?!? I have never met such a person.

Professional Hockey is dominated by White Canadians and Russians. Baseball is over-represented by Latino/Hispanic players. Asians, who are 5% of the US population, account for almost 25% of all Physicians. Which industry has this perfect ratio of races that should serve as a model for us all. And you conveniently side-stepped the issue of 1) why it is race/ethnicity where proportionality should be prioritized over (for example) religion, and 2) is it even reasonable to expect that such a ratio to be achievable in a society where people are free to choose and 3) what the heck is the actual gain to society if it is versus the cost of brainwashing people to want things they don't actually want.
True - it would be interesting to use, say, the coding layer of an autoencoder trained on one of the many face datasets and then training only on the last few layers to fit their data.
You should have a specific idea and not just the desire to start a company. I'd recommend waiting until you have that idea.
This reminds me of Markdown before the CommonMark standard was created. Actually...even with the standard, there are so many derivatives.
I never got to see The Hobbit in 48fps. That was only available in theaters. Blu-Ray standard constrained releases to 24fps, and the studios don't care enough to release a better version.

> Everything looks weird at 48/60fps

Everything looks jarringly different in 48/60fps. That does not make it bad. For several technical reasons, higher framerates look better. If you really want 24/30fps, you can always get it. Just like you can have grayscale on a color display.

I use Smooth Video Project to interpolate frames when I can (anything without DRM), but that still leaves me with a blurry picture, and artifacts. Even so, it's a more comfortable experience, especially with camera panning.
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Fear of regrets is not a good justification for avoiding a change, especially when you are young and healthy. That said, it seems you fo not have a well understood goal and just want to run from Google. If so, I'd flesh out where you want to go next and the way to get there before you make the jump.

Once you do I think you will feel a lot less worried -- your cash cushion is pretty hefty to allow for quite a bit of risk
These coding guidelines might be a good idea overall but they do not seem very specific to C++. You could take the same guidelines and apply them to C, Ada, Obj-C, Pascal, etc.

If you look for C++ specific guidelines I suggest this: https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...

I am saying this since C++ gives you a lot of power, but also a lot of responsibility and room for error making a more specific guide a very desirable thing.

Then, you don't use INT_MAX anymore, you use std::numeric_limits<int>::max()
I think your definition of armed conflict is more expansive than mine, because my research[1][2] says 16 African countries have ongoing countries. This works out to just under 30%. Perhaps you were counting belligerent nations rather than countries where conflicts occur as I was. If I were to calculate by actual geographic area,my guess is I would be well under 7% of inhabited regions, and < 1% of African population directly affected.

I too was guilty of generalization as we when I asked about countries involved because the conflicts are highly localized, it's never the entire country that's a warzone (excepting Somalia).

Bonus 2-part question:A) What is the current total number of African warlords? [Thanks Hollywood] B) what is the probability that a random African resides in an area controlled by a warlord?

1. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-wars-ravaging-...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Africa
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This is why I can't play coop games. I often have the most experience, so I know what's coming, couple that with a good sense of strategy, and I become the asshole that chases away new players. I know this about myself, so I simply excuse myself from playing games like pandemic.
People already making about what the new minimum wage is will probably be hurt the most by the price increases. Most everyone below it should still benefit even with the price increases. In that sense, minimum wage hikes are sort of a regressive solution to the problem, in terms of where the most harm falls.
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Silly question, what other applications would work for rim-driven turbines work? The naive side of me wants to see how it would work on a plane.
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> But is the fact that black Americans dominate the league actually a problem?

It's a symptom of one.

> And what the heck are you supposed to do to fix it?

Deal with the problems that deny so many black youth any better opportunities than the lottery-ticket of aiming for success in sports.
These are all environments designed for humans. Vending machines already get warm food, and fresh coffee to me. The system once automated will not look just like the current human paradigm.
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This sounds a lot like the warnings of "grey goo" described by K. Eric Drexler's book "Engines of Creation". If we're going to design materials like these, we need a fail-safe way to keep them in check!
And Edison, who I've heard (as a kid) [1] had said: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

[1] When I was a kid, not him :) Parents and other elders used to quote it. A lot of truth to it.
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Yes you could, but there's no guarantee whatsoever they actually will let you come back. It's a subtle point which many people don't understand. The first part, them deciding to let you come back, is not deterministic. The second (no interview if you didn't suck before you left) is. I know several xooglers who went back (in one case 3 years after leaving, no interviews). I also know several who got their applications chucked into /dev/null, in spite of being kickass engineers and good people in all other regards.
FORTRAN pioneered expressions which were used in addition to statements. This was huge. Modern languages are still expanding on the idea of programming with expressions (especially functional languages).
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You'd be surprise to know that a flagship Android phone/tablet can run Dolphin. In fact, GCN ver. of Twilight Princess is playable.
It's important to know that LISA and LIGO aren't really competing for sensitivity. Rather they complement each other by looking in different frequency ranges. The relationship between LISA and LIGO is analogous to a radio telescope and a gamma ray one. They observe different parts of the spectrum. At the frequencies that black holes merge for example, ground motion is not much of an issue, and other noise source dominate.
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CIA and Pentagon forced Finland to cancel this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_(submersible) (too good submarine)
This sounds like humans are born to be enemies of nature as they inevitably reshapes what nature looks like. But humans are part of nature, and the symbiosis of human and environments led to the co-existence of beauty and ugliness today.

However, I do think Terraforming Mars could be a bad idea. Technology-wise it is unclear it's easier than transforming human ourselves (say cybernetics).
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Because the window manager gives your the same consistent experience for non-terminal windows as well, and I'm pretty sure you use at least a web browser. Of course it's all a matter of taste (and habit).
that's also the original moral.
> People already making about what the new minimum wage is will probably be hurt the most by the price increases.

No, because they'll see the next highest (after those currently below the minimum) degree of upward pressure on their wages.
Thanks for sharing.

And thanks for being thoughtful in the way you present it.
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I can answer that. I am not rich, and when the company that insured my car raised it rates a lot I went looking elsewhere.

The new company got my car insurance, and when my truck insurance was due they got that too. Later that year I added my house insurance and since I was getting discounts I also added my cabin up at Parry Sound.

So the result of having a cheaper car insurance is they sold me four policy not just one.
Yes, but only if you aren't already transpiring minifying code such as for front end frameworks
There must be SOME minimum wage level at which jobs would be lost. (If you doubt this, consider how a $100 minimum wage would work.) The question is, what is the maximum minimum-wage before jobs are lost?
Come on man, that's harsh. Where's the programming language you made?
From around the 1:03:00 mark:

In advertising, we want people to do this thing.

What prior stimuli will we need to get them to do it?

People won't use moist lavatory paper! That's one

of my totem obsessions, by the way. What the hell?

I mean what is it about the West that thinks it's ok

to wipe your ass with dry paper? We need Japanese

toilets. If I were Trump that would be day *&^%ing

one, ok...But for whatever reason, people don't

really buy moist lavatory paper. So I've got to ask,

as an advertising person: what prior conditions might

make this more likely? Let's hypothesize a bit. You

might say: actually it's the shelving! Because when

you look at supermarket shelves, we instinctively

derive social information from the relative

prominence and proliferation of wet versus dry

paper. There a ton of dry rolls stretching as far

as the eye can see. On the top shelf, there are two

meagre little packets of moist lavatory paper.

That means its basically for perverts or people with

abnormal medical conditions.

Basis of Nudge. Another book he recommends is The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. As well as some of the "happiness literature" such as Meik Wiking's The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living. So, feel free to trust your gut. But still employ split A/B tests!
> Prime Factorization - Have the user enter a number and find all Prime Factors (if there are any) and display them.

not to sound pedantic, but for any integer greater than 1 there is always at least one prime factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithme...

edit: for prime numbers, it is the number itself
This will change just like one of Philips "lights-out" factories have.
We could be using an app-centric XML-like language¹ for the UI, and an app-centric protocol versus a stateless² one where we apply hacks like cookies and WebSockets to.

You can: just write a C# or whatever app, and use some stateful protocol.

In any case, I find the whole "layers deep" to be a major overstatement. WebSockets are essentially framed TCP sockets, with a single initial handshake that looks like HTTP. They are not a "layer" over HTTP or anything like that.
Thanks for sharing. My humble feedback would be that the website and README would be much more helpful however if they showed pictures of sample output. That's the main thing we want to see :-)
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Yeah - sad!

IMO that's the reason that OnShape exists at all though - the rockstar team that founded Solidworks finally got fed up with Dassault and decided to write Solidworks for the cloud.

ShapeManager by Autodesk is probably the technical #2, and is doing well. You can't buy it easily though. It powers Inventor/Fusion360 and is also in Revit and AutoCAD.
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Screen binding to ctrl-a and tmux users binding to ctrl-a so it feels more like screen is a bad idea imho. Ctrl-a (move to start of line) is one of the most convenient key combos on the command line. I bind my tmux key to ctrl-s, because I have never needed to freeze my screen.
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I would. A more general system will (almost?) always be less efficient than a single-purpose system, at that specific purpose.
This is what I remember, thanks for clarifying.
I understand your vision and analogy. I'll make use of your tip. My best wishes! :)
If the law worked the way you think, they wouldn't need a test.
>What is your explanation for the underrepresentation of black people and women in engineering besides structural racism and sexism?

Null hypothesis. YOU are making an unsubstantiated claim. What is YOUR proof of this structural racism. And feel free to define your terms, because I have no effin clue what 'structural racism' is.

Here's an alternative explanation, people are influenced by the sub-cultures they are in and ideas that go viral in one sub-culture, may not go viral in another. In the early 1900s professional basketball was dominated by Jews. Why basketball? I don't know. It just happened to strike a chord with that specific population, in that specific time.

I'm not saying this is the reason, but what it is, is an example that YOU have to dismiss or account for to prove YOUR claim.

>If the answer is "self selection," explain to me what could possibly cause women and black people to self-select out of high paying interesting jobs?

An average salary for a radiologist is $350,000/year. Why aren't you a radiologist? I'll tell you why I'm not. I would rather shoot myself than spend the amount of time it takes to become a radiologist because I have no interest in it. I have no interest in memorizing massive amount of latin names and reading volumes of biology and anatomy text books. Similarly, if you don't love programming, programming is an insanely boring and tedious profession. You may sit in-front of a computer screen for days trying to find a bug that occurs sporadically under some very specific conditions. I find that fun, others who have no interest in it will want to shoot themselves too.

So to answer your question: "I don't know" but if your criteria is human irrationality, I can go on and on and on and on... Why are middle-class kids borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to private liberal arts colleges with no real hope of landing a job that will provide them an income to pay of those loans? Come to think of it, why do humanities degrees even exist? Why do people buy lottery tickets when investing the equivalent money will net them a significantly higher return rate?

Humans are not rational agents. We're driven by emotion.
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Sensor and ADAS technology integrated directly into the body of these newer vehicles increases repair cost substantially.
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COBOL was designed for organizations transitioning accounting systems from unit record equipment. It makes sense in that context, and could have been much worse. Someone said (I think about FORTRAN, but it still applies) that criticizing the designers of those early languages is like criticizing Lewis & Clark for not taking Interstate 90.

> Unlike FORTRAN and Lisp, it begat nothing.

Cross-platform portability.

And long-windedness, though I don't count that a positive.
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Stay just a little a bit longer. Another year or maybe two.
Don't stay 10.

Stack up a little more cash, get a better plan.

Don't go away from something. Go towards something.
The title here is absolutely useless. For those who are curious, the article is a biography of Alexander Grothendieck, a mathematician.
I see something like this and first look at the source. My first question is why would I trust a study from any interest group any more than I would trust a study from our favorite boogeyman on biased studies, the Tobacco industry?

Without reading the study I can already guess the conclusion. Naturally, their being an interest group doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong, but it does seem unlikely they would push a study that had mixed conclusions or found something contradictory to their study. I wonder how many times, for example, they rebut nameless "critics" of their position and set out uncited positions of those critics rather than specific examples and studies.
Have you looked at the winning submissions code? Every single one I saw (not all of them) was just a straightforward implementation of the algorithm / solution. I don't see much weirdness.
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I run a small business. Seriously, please point me toward some of that sweet corporate graft so I can get some.
Yeah. Even without maliciousness, it would be good to have airlocked subsections.
That was in October of 2014.
where I live this joke is used for people that change relationships in that way
> If cryptocurrencies have value, the value will likely increase in the future.

That's not axiomatic. You really want to do more to prove this is indeed the case.
These kinds of activities are really immature for adults regardless of country
Not to sound pedantic, but a number is only its own prime factor if it itself is prime!

(Your point stands, though: every integer > 1 has at least one prime factor.)
I wonder what the shift arrangement is for the crew of 24. Do they have some laws in Sweden about working hours so that the vessel only needs six crew but has a staff of 24 to cover all shifts and weekends?

If everything could be automated to video-game easy so that you didn't need someone to chuck more rods in the nuclear reactor or do things with bilge pumps, what would be the minimum complement for a submarine that played the deterrent role, lurking under the waves for months at a time?

The problem (allegedly) with submarines is remote control drone submarines that are clever enough to know how to communicate. Apparently it is possible to program one submarine to follow another without having to carry 24 people plus their lunches, dinners and oxygen supply. There is a danger that mutually assured destruction assured by submarines with nuclear weapons could end.
That's like saying it's impossible to design a motherboard because you can't show all the bypass capacitors on the top level schematic. Hierarchical design and layers of abstraction are vital in both hardware and software.
He also took a lead role in reducing software engineer salaries in the Bay Area for years. How's that for a contribution that isn't off-hand?
We do account for the expansion of the universe in fact. We estimated that this source was at about z ~ 0.2 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift). Roughly speaking this means there'll be only ~20% effect as the scale of the universe (a) has increased by (1+z) over the time it has traveled.
A million year asteroid could hit almost literally at any moment.
"the rockstar team that founded Solidworks finally got fed up with Dassault and decided to write Solidworks for the cloud."

The hacker spirit in action. Roll up one's sleeves, write some code, and give a big FU to the establishment. :)
Wouldn't that ethically be wage theft? The employer is claiming ownership of your ideas when your off the clock, thus they should be paying you overtime if they want ownership of those ideas.

Nevermind the salary/overtime exempt scam that has been popular as of late, which is also wage theft.
Who the hell pays for these studies???
I agree with you in principle, but I've seen shit you wouldn't believe when there's a few million dollars at stake: otherwise fine, ethical, upstanding human beings can turn into the worst weasels you can imagine if you don't hold the sword of legal retribution over their heads to assure their good faith. You won't quite understand that until you actually work on something you have a vested interest in succeeding, as in, a substantial financial stake, not some bullshit koolaid they feed you as you're slaving away on an irrelevant product #24554 at a Megacorp Inc.
The main idea is to have every line of text fall on an evenly spaced grid. Here's an example where the middle paragraph is not grid aligned: https://i.stack.imgur.com/XskJu.png

Generally you also want the baseline of titles to fall on the grid. Possibly also the formulas, figures etc.

LaTeX is pretty bad at this: by default it inserts stretchable vertical space between paragraphs, and around things like bullet lists, centered text and formulas.

Stretchable space is a good thing when you have a lot of elements beside simple paragraphs: it gives TeX flexibility to produce a nice page layout. For example the optimal spacing around equations might not be a multiple of the inter-line space. And you might still want to have the last line land precisely at the bottom of the page, so there must be a stretchable space somewhere. This flexibility also helps avoiding widows and orphans[1].

On the other hand I think non-grid-aligned text looks terrible for novels, especially when the page is thin and you can see through the paper the text on the other side (it's much less noticeable if the lines on both sides are perfectly aligned). Grid typesetting is also nice when you have multiple columns of text on the same page: it looks odd if the lines of one column are not aligned with those in the next column.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans
Hypothesis: this is coming from insurers whose pricing isn't mileage-based, and Teslas are getting more miles per month than other cars in the same class.
Recently Seattle did a min-wage increase. Many small businesses complained loudly but they are still open, they simply raised their prices. My fav pizza joint had their price increase rolled out before the pay rise went into effect. Which gave the owners a nice little spread for a few months, to invest in tools to reduce labor requirement.

At $12/hr I earn enough to buy 2 lunch specials (at $6/ea). Now at $15/hr I earn enough to buy 1.875 specials at $8/ea! And that one manager I didn't like got fired. Yay economy! /s
I left Google as well.

Not many workplaces will match Google in terms of overall lifestyle, but there are companies that come close. And others can beat it in terms of pay (Google's base pay, for example, sucks).

I'd recommend leaving. The company is becoming more boring to work at all around. I've heard this from many friends. More enterprise focused, short-term money driven and less willing to innovate, mostly monetizing internal technologies or playing catch-up to other companies. It's a good time to try something else.
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yes, google is too good a salary to leave. for most people. or at least that's what i understand. I consider it unlikely your startup would succeed as like 9/10 do not. being at google is prestige and money. so if you want the most prestige or money, i recommend staying.

but money as they say is not everything. the amount you saved up counts for more the further away you get from the place you are now. perhaps there are places you could happily live out the rest of your life with the money you have now. so in that case and it sounds like you want this, yeah go have some fun :)
Self-replicating computronium will make our definition of life even more awkward. Probably we will even stop caring about what is alive and what is not.