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"It takes an astonishing amount of hubris"

It really doesn't. All it takes is a person to listen to people that work at these Fortune 500 companies talk about how big decisions get made. I did that most of my day for years. I also read what many say on online forums. I believe there's plenty of smart people in them including excellent marketers at McDonalds. There's even plenty of well-informed decisions and sensible projects.

However, years of empirical data says what makes most of these companies run amounts to political skill of managers and the Peter Principle. Again, that's not my guess so much as what people in the middle and on the ground tell me. The low-level employees of big, food chains also gripe about corporate visitors saying they're worthless by adding nothing to what's going on or things they say are hugely disconnected from how the place runs day-to-day. As if they're managing a different, better-run company with more staff. Those people come and go with high turnover but a fraction of them move up into the positions making bigger decisions despite adding about nothing to the effectiveness of their restaurants. Gotta be politics and authoritarianism instead of performance given the data.
If you're the kind of person that runs dungeons and dragons campaigns, the silmarillion is amazing. As a general fantasy reader, not so much.
Have there been any public previews of this? I'm still trying to figure out how they can emulate x86 without significant performance problems due to the different memory concurrency models
Nominative determinism at work perhaps?
As well as other employees who will not have to suffer harassment as a result.
She did not just sue her employer -- she gave interviews to news outlets, touting unproven allegations.

Do you think that Tesla should continue to pay someone who is actively and deliberately tarnishing their image, without giving them a chance to make things right (if they were ever wrong to begin with)?
Literally my first thought. The way they made three long movies from the Hobbit just killed the original story.
True, but that assumes a better algorithm exists that can give the 100x speedup. In a good language (most of them) the common algorithms are somehow implemented in the standard library and optimized - I just use them. Once I finished my degree I never wrote sort from scratch, I just looked up the syntax for calling the sort built into my language. Now it is possible that I can do better than the sort built in - but that is because I know my typical data and so I might be able to make a different compromise: we are not talking about a 100x speedup we are talking about a 1.0001x speedup (and that is only after several months of work to replicate tricks the built in sort already does)

(technically I have implemented sort since my degree, but it was bogo sort: I obviously did it only for fun)
> the new operating system will include x86 emulation, giving it the ability to run 32-bit Windows desktop applications unmodified

Is this emulation done with a combination of hardware & software?
She did not go into detail, was a bit upset, and I was driving at the time... I would guess there were allusions to rituals and the like; it has been two decades since I read the first book so I'd have to again before making an attempt to answer your question. The important thing is to understand the allegorical nature of the story and what psychological insights about life one might get from it, as another commentator pointed out. "White people" (the stereotype) don't have a clue about such things, hence my wisecrack.
I hope the future is containerless (as in "serverless"). I don't want to deal with container configuration and infrastructure in general at all. These technologies will still play a vital part in the fabric underlying software solutions but deploying software should as easy as defining a function, its inputs and its output.

Function as a Service platforms such as AWS Lambda are definitely a step in the right direction.
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Are these category of bugs a constant problem in FF?
But surely in the same way amazon is less specialized in local language books or smaller scale books written by local people than a bookstore. The same still applies
FYI You can just add / at the end for the same effect
Yes, that really stood out for me too. They've essentially already admitted that they are susceptible to pressure and on top of that they may be in violation of the law too.

Screwed either way.
CPANTS is the bane of my existence as a module author, it's also extremely rad to automatically get a test failure report for every possible combination of platform/language version.
> With a Snapdragon inside your PC, you'll no longer need Wi-Fi to fetch your latest e-mail and catch up on Twitter. Instead, you'll be able to get online wherever there's cellular connectivity.

I'm not buying the optimism, especially not in the US. The cellular data is still horribly limited. In Canada it is even worse. The "unlimited" plan is surging back, but it has automatic throttling at varying points.

Oh and since we're talking Microsoft and Windows, you can't control data usage. Windows 10 uploads your personal information at unknown intervals and downloads ads and sponsored apps without consent.

What good is faster cell data with horrible data limits and an OS with a poor concept of when data is permissible even in the "Enterprise" edition?
Background hum: For Europeans who come to the US - do you notice a difference in the hum produced by electrical equipment? Because you may be used to fans, transformers, etc. running at 50Hz vs. 60 Hz in the US, and that's in the audible range.
Maybe, but "as" also can be used in place of "because or since". Here is another headline from Reuters "Uber's finance head leaves; company's quarterly loss narrows". In my opinion, both the headlines provide a different slant to the same story.

P.S:- We both misspelled "causality", what a "casualty" :)
I don't think that's the relevant point, as they are two separate things: 1) was she discrimated against?; 2) as the parent says, are her subsequent actions legal grounds for firing her regardless?

She can be a victim and still subsequently act in breach of her contract (acknowledging that the contract must be legal).
Tenured professor is one exception I know of (but they're usually an exception in many things). Didn't know the story personally, but heard from other colleagues when I worked at a college.
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This is basically an emulator though; it will be quite slow.
Cool work, but note that a 1024 point FFT isn't really sufficient to visualize music. At 44.1kHz, the lowest frequency you can resolve is 43Hz. Anything below that will be folded into your DC component. Your bass response is mostly going to be overall volume, rather than beat.
Sorry, I was trying to convey that Kmart had the upgraded card terminals, which should mean point-to-point encryption of all cardholder data (including mag-stripe), but couldn't figure out a way to fit that into a headline in a way that people not familiar with payment systems would understand. This story is quite interesting to me, because my understanding was that terminals which support EMV must be point-to-point encrypted, so the cardholder data should not have been available to any system between the card terminal and the host/bank.
People have argued that cryptocurrencies themselves are pyramid schemes - the people who start mining early win out, and the people who join later to speculate on the currency have less and less chances of striking it rich.

(Obviously this is based on the view of cryptocurrency as purely speculative, not as an actual currency with which to buy things, but even now, it's still pretty difficult to buy a lot of things with Bitcoins.)
Our business decision is that Firefox needs to be supported as well. The fact that most of the developers use Chrome as their daily driver, however, results in a lot of bugs being seen and caught early (or at all) there.
Dubai was built on slave labor... I don't think anyone there cares at all about homeless or hungry people, as long as they're in the outskirts or out of sight.

Here's a quora link: https://www.quora.com/To-what-degree-has-Dubai-been-built-by...

Google if you want a legitimate news source - I've been seeing articles since at least 2009 covering this issue and there are even books.
It's like an ice cream guy named Cone.
(Ex-CAW member here; have been out of it for more than a decade. Posting anonymously for professional reasons, but I used to be personally well-acquainted with both the founders of Church of All Worlds and Robert Anton Wilson.)

Church of all world still nominally exists, and has been through several incarnations during the 60s. Although its foundational premise was indeed deeply silly, it was self-consciously so: an act of intentional myth-making. It encouraged its members to explore other spiritual paths as well as to create their own; and there were many CAW members who were committed Buddhists, Jews, atheists, etc.; a large majority counted themselves as Discordians. The only principles held as official dogmas were things like "Nature is Good", and "Be Excellent to Each Other" (because why the fuck shouldn't Bill & Ted be part of your mythos?). So it was all in rather good fun.

This is not to say that the organization didn't have its problems. Chiefly, it was frequently subject to nasty internal politicking -- personality-driven power-plays of the sort that are unfortunately quite common in idealistically non-hierarchical organizations. But when measured against typical metrics for cults, eg[1], it fails on every single count.

Anyhow, just a gentle reminder that not every new religious movement is a cult (in the conventional modern pejorative sense of the word).

[edit: fixed link.]

1: http://www.icsahome.com/articles/characteristics
Report to what?
because maybe it was a ploy to get a better raise? who knows. you're right, though - if the allegations were true, why continue to work there?
Tesla isn't merely claiming they've met her needs, they're actually claiming that she's received privileged treatment because she's a woman:

> Tesla added that Vandermeyden had been granted numerous positions “over other more qualified candidates” and was “given special treatment and opportunities for advancement that were unwarranted based on her qualifications”.
ARM is already in the desktop (or laptop, rather). See: the numerous Chromebooks powered by Rockchip processors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockchip_RK3288
Silicon Valley’s basic income fans should defend the actual safety net
Calling ponzi scheme a "ponzi" is pretty epic.

This is also very honest: https://medium.com/@cincinnati/the-ponzico-white-paper-8baa9...
For some reason, I've always suspected that this life might all be a dream and one day I will wake up as a 7-year old boy just starting school.

And I always wonder - if that happens - what should I do ? (provided that all the 'truths' I've learned while dreaming are still true)..

Should I buy Apple stock ? Should I write a search engine ?
How would I convince my parents to buy me a new PC ? How should I talk to my teachers, now that I know all there is to know about math and geography and history ?
Should I meet the girls that I loved ?

Things get complicated fast if you go on that path, so I hope this life is not a dream from which I'll wake up and have to live it all over again.
The latter indicates that there was something there. Why should someone get special treatment of that nature?
Tech firms hoard huge cash piles – Their excuses for doing so don’t add up
Good that nothing can go wrong with robotic weapons:

https://www.wired.com/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/
God I hate Hacker News so much. For years you guys have been disparaging Bitcoin as a Ponzi. Now, as time goes on and you guys can't ignore it anymore, you just keep shitposting like this.

Alot of things can be scams on the internet, why do you guys not focus as much on Craigs List "scams"?

I know why, because the majority of you "missed out". You thought you knew what bitcoin was, you didn't and now you think it is too late. well, its not too late.
They probably meant Windows CE or Pocket PC (P/PC)
Regarding the DNA bank: I would like to know what information will they hold - just digital fingerprints of the DNA, or actual organic material. Depending on what is stored this could become a big target for various organizations to get a hold of.

Then next you have to worry about a) Someone abusing their power and using the information/robots against you for unfair reasons, or b) Hackers are constantly trying to break into various systems and I'm sure this bank/human-less-cop-force would attract some sort of attention.

To be fair though I have never planned to visit Dubai because of personal conflict of interests so hopefully if this does become a thing and is successful it stays in Dubai.
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Some of these bugs could've been prevented with Rust: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-0...
Billy Joel - "The Entertainer", Recently Sylvan Esso - "Radio" (Exactly 3m:30s long).
They showed games (WoT I think) running using this emulation, so maybe not.
12k - 2.2k (rent) leaves 9.8k. You can get a great full time nanny for 3k a month. That leave 6.8k. Where is the rest of their money going? 6.8k for food/bills/clothing/etc is HUGE.
Hi there,

you seem to know a lot, any chance we could talk about this topic, would love to hear more of your thoughts on the topic? I don't see an address to contact you.

Thanks!
I guess I just protect my inbox more (or I'm just not that important - much more likely) but I don't have an issue using "Inbox Zero" without an "Inbox Zero" method. Am I alone?
I enjoy when older, unrealistic movies become more realistic over time.

Remotely hacking the sprinkler system in Hackers was so unrealistic when it came out but today it's scary how real that could be.
Never thought I would see an article on Philly stoops here on HN! They are certainly low-tech but there's nothing like a cold drink on a stoop with your friends in the summertime.
I haven't see the movie, but this only makes sense if the spacecraft is actively using thrusters, and the human obviously is not.
that might not matter
Her employer is a company. Companies don't have the emotions people have.

In large organisations, the effect of employee lawsuits may even be beneficial, because it allows for a mechanism to escalate serious issues before they become even worse, while the high barriers in terms of cost, emotional burden etc. serve to discourage frivolous complaints.
If you knowingly join a ponzi scheme, it's pretty much like a casino - you go there knowing there's a pretty good chance you will loose your money, and a slim one you will win some. Some people like the rush.
Yes, this sounds awesome.

Can this be used as alternative to native modules in Node.js?
Most companies would refuse to comment on a situation like this, especially one that is high profile. Based on Tesla's willingness to make such an incendiary public statement, I'm guessing they have a big pile of documentation to back it up.

I agree that they probably just opened themselves up to other legitimate lawsuits. Oops.
Putin: Hackers 'are like artists' and choose targets 'when they wake up'
I would find it amusing if Tesla won the case against her, and then lost the case against a male engineer she was promoted over, based on those statements -- you know, for sexist promotions.
Perl is not more readable than Python.

I know that "readable" is a subjective trait, but Python is 1 cm away from being pseudocode.

And when a programming language is basically the thing we write when we don't have any tools to assist us, that says a lot about the language's syntactic quality, including its readability.

Both the data science libraries and Google's backing come from this. And to be honest, I don't really see how Google's backing mattered that much... 99% of the popular Python libraries have nothing to do with Google, especially Django.
USD and stock market are in the same boat. The ONLY difference is bitcoin has a limited known supply, the others are 100% ponzi.
How to let your users upload images directly from Facebook, Dropbox and more
$500 (for the Jetson TX2 Developer Kit) :(
Perl has a core function called 'unlink', which maps directly to unlink(2). Same for stat, rmdir, link, etc.

They're good for when you want something more than what the coreutils give you, but don't want to compile some C.
You have a microchip that tracks everything you do. It's called a smartphone.
Keep giving it a try every now and then: there's a lot of focus to improve in these areas.
You mean something in this line? http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jrjohansson/qutip-lecture...

For QM my strong suggestion is to start with 2-level states anyway (vide http://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sch...).
Microchip tagging was parodied well in Idiocracy.
We don't know yet. Overhead could be something like 5% or 25%. We'll see when the reviews come. For what it's worth, it seems to run x86 apps just fine in Microsoft's own demo (keep in mind it's still a mobile ARM processor, so performance will be similar to Atom/Celeron/Pentium, rather than Core i5, etc).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_GlGglbu1U
Subtle RoboCop reference (this movie is now old enough that lots of HN-ers probably haven't seen it). ED-209 [1] [2] is an AI-driven competitor to RoboCop (cyborg/zombie).

"Your move, creep."

[1] http://robocop.wikia.com/wiki/Enforcement_Droid_Series_209

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrXfh4hENKs
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I understand that, I was really looking for the specific app so I know which to avoid. I use fitness trackers.
Taxes are not exclusively redistributive, but redistribution is at the core of what the government does.

Healthcare transfers resources from the healthy to the sick. Government redistributes resources to children and to the elderly, because they can't provide for themselves.

We pay for roads we don't drive on. We pay for airports we don't fly through. We pay for parks and libraries we don't visit. All of this is redistribution from people who pay for the services to those who use them.

That these government services create wealth doesn't change that they are still redistributive in nature. In fact, the government has created and enforces the rules by which people can accumulate wealth in the first place. If the government makes the rules such that wealth automatically accumulates in the hands of the few, that's redistribution too!

It seems to me that you look at society as if there is a natural wealth distribution, and it's only redistribution when the government intervenes with that natural equilibrium by taking from some and giving to others. My perspective is that the government creates the very rules through which wealth can be created and accumulated (property law, IP law, incorporation, etc) and taxation is just part of this system.
This is what I am not understanding why there is even a question about it. The minute she went public, Tesla has the right to fire her. If they were retaliating, she had the chance to do that internally. She could leave a paper trail and let them have a chance to correct the problem.

I don't know why it is up to Tesla to keep an employee trying to tarnish their image.
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If you can use a static site generator then you also have the capability to spend the minimal time having a pretty good setup like nginx with cached WordPress. In which case both would likely survive HN.
If you're interested in static analysis, you may find this series of articles useful: http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2016/11/12/even-mo-static/.

FWIW, I did not see a lot of false positives in the tests I did with clang. On the contrary, I would say that clang tends to be rather conservative, and doesn't report warnings unless they are almost certainly bugs.

I'd certainly be interested in what others think -- if so inclined please leave a comment on the article, or email me directly.
Tesla says, and Vandermeyden says something else. But if this is going to court, I suspect the outcome is very much going to depend on which party can prove their side of the story.
It feels like another case of someone bringing their political ideology to the job rather a willingness to do great work.
It is software only.
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=37172...
Perhaps if the people responsible for the problems were fired instead?
All of the comments are right, we, in Philly, never called it "Stoop," but simply steps. Stoop seems like an NY word. My mom still sits outside daily in the summer, she doesn't have a misting fan though (I didn't know those were a thing). I'll get her one
Or use the browser that works better for you...
Their head of HR just left last week. The replacement is from EA, a company who really knows how to handle their employees.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/following-allegati...
Asus, HP, and Lenovo are all planning to introduce Snapdragon Mobile PC systems
at some unspecified time in the future, for some unspecified price.

In other news, today at the Vaporware Expo every computer manufacturer announced plans to release a new device featuring unspecified hardware at some unspecified time in the future for an unspecified price.
Wow they must be really screwed up at Tesla then.
> Not sure he would have wished its publication.

The first half of the book is collected published works of his (columns, articles, etc.) including an introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's posthumously published and unfinished Sunset at Blandings. In that introduction he makes it clear how fascinating he thinks it is to see a master at work. I think, based on that, he wouldn't be too upset to see that he got the same treatment.

That said, The Salmon of Doubt is very much unfinished and for me isn't the best part of the collection by far. Still worth a try, even if you just don't read that last section.
Companies are free to give all the special treatment they want so long as it isn't rooted in one of the protected classes. While gender is one of the protected classes, they never admitted she received said treatment because of her gender. It could have been because they thought she showed a great deal of potential, despite her less than impressive resume.
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=37172...
ARM64 Windows leaked - and can run in Qemu.
That's why I chose my words carefully in the previous comment.

Perl and Python are perfectly comparable regarding origin, corporate backing, marketing, platform restrictions, etc. Javascript isn't.

Perl and Python were both started by a BDFL, acquired a grass-roots community that promoted them and never really had 1 major corporate backer or sponsor that outshined all the others. They also didn't become the main or even the only suppported language for a platform.

They had a really similar trajectory, just with different peaks. Perl peaked earlier and IMO lower.
Ive worked for companies that have shorted me financially to the tune of high 5 figure sums. I have been passed over for promotions that were unfounded. I quit, I didnt get lawyers involved. Suing would damage my reputation on the job market. I cant endorse bad behavior, but what makes people expect that a nuclear option wont have consequences, fair or unfair?
> Why should I want to live my life to the same degree of effort and reward as every else?

I think a constant effort/reward ratio would be something to aim for, since it keeps each individual equally motivated. This might not be optimal for the society as a whole, but it is pretty close. ([0] discusses this in terms of network usage pricing, but the math is more general.)

[0] http://www.mit.edu/people/jnt/Papers/R-04-rjsm-elastic-tr.pd...