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Attracting more good people won't reduce the number of bad applicants (it will increase it).

Retaining staff doesn't mean that you aren't hiring at .2 headcount per annum.

Assuming that there's a basic process of CV review (by team members who would work with) followed by non technical phone interview. You will still have people who fail fizzbuzz. I'm not talking about small errors reading the problem - but the inability to even put a for loop in pseudo code onto the page.

The fact that the test is required is somewhat silly - but it's hardly limited to dull corporate roles.
There's very little epidemiological evidence to suggest glyphosate is a human carcinogen. Millions of people are exposed to it, some in significant amounts on work sites. If there's any correlation between heavy occupational exposure to glyphosate and human cancer, it's very weak.

Similarly: there's not a lot of first-principles logic to carcinogenicity of glyphosate. It's active in a metabolic pathway that animals don't have.

Finally, there's a lot of fuzz around glyphosate that would lead us to be skeptical of its danger. In particular: glyphosate is most closely associated with genetic modification and Monsanto (part of the appeal of glyphosate is that you can genetically engineer plants that resist it). But glyphosate itself is not a product of genetic engineering!

It's not impossible that glyphosate is a human carcinogen! But it's not impossible that a lot of things are carcinogens. To be intellectually consistent about the precautionary response to glyphosate, you're going to have to get rid of a whole lot of other features of modern life as well.

Acrylamide, which is produced in basically all human dry-heat cooking, is a known human carcinogen. The science behind the risks of acrylamide is, relative to that surrounding glyphosate, very solid. But we're never going to "ban" acrylamide, or, realistically, do anything to mitigate our exposure to it.

In that light, it seems reasonable to push back on public policy interventions for a useful chemical that has, based on current evidence, much less risk than "almost all cooked food".
Yep, I am surprised this hasn't happened earlier....
agrochemicals are a leading method for suicide worldwide, although not so much in EU or US.

glyphosate is much safer than other agrochemicals, but Roundup contains more than just glyphosate.

People have died after drinking Roundup.
Dosage is important in factoring risk. Problem with prop 65 it doesn't factor in risk at all. Potassium-40 produces ionizing radiation and is present with all sources of potassium. That doesn't mean you shouldn't eat Bananas.
I dislike the use of the "robot" for anything that doesn't have autonomous movement (those were "RC Wars", not "Robot Wars"---although I, for one, would have delighted, at a safe distance, in someone strapping a circular saw to something autonomous). Nor is watering a single indoor potted plant the same thing as "gardening." An actual Gardening Robot would have been very interesting (I envisioned something trundling around with a spade and actuators for pulling weeds when I saw the title).

I actually love the Pi---one is now my primary computer---but it seems to have created a niche for "let's add a website and database to my really trivial control systems project" that I'm not sure really advances much of anything.
There are design rules for a reason. They're not just arbitrary things that someone just made up out of nothing - the human brain has preferences for visual stimulus so things like the "rule of thirds" are based on how people prefer to see things.

So yes, her opinion has more value because it's backed up by proven design rules. It's not as subjective as you're implying.
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TensorFlow and Caffe are also implemented in C++.
yes, that's exactly what he said:

> You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
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"I think the salt is damaging to the soil, so don't spray it if you plan to grow something else."

"Salt the Earth" is an established phrase in the English lexicon for a reason. The cancer-causing-ness of this mixture vs. Roundup may be in dispute, but this is certainly going to have a longer term effect than spraying Roundup, especially if you repeatedly apply it in the same place.
How do they plan on contacting the employees en masse if the computer is off?
This is great advice. Even after becoming familiar with an area, I read some authors and get swamped by unexplained terminology.

Another simple trick is to look at the journal title. Articles in journals like "Trends in... " tend to be written for a broader audience, so often have clearer introductions. In general, the less specific the journal, the better the introduction will be for newcomers.

(Be aware that journals with lower word limits / shorter articles may have less rigorous introductions, for better or worse)
i live in California and i endorse your message. prop 65 warnings have become practically meaningless to me.

those warnings are almost everywhere. the average Californian could not carry out their daily routine if they refused to enter any buildings that had Prop 65 warning signs.
There have been reports of voter data being manipulated, with some voters being unregistered shortly before election day.

I can dig up further info if anybody wants, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. This is the first report I came across:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/voter-data-manipula...
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Basically don't offer hackers any data amplification attacks, never respond with more data than it took for the attack to make the request.
Yes, I have it, but most of what I do isn't so much writing, which I believe it's a great tool for. Most of the writing tools out there are mainly for writers and not more researchers like me (learning stuff about development and etc.).

I have actually now started to think maybe I use DEVONThink instead and I get all the features I wanted, but I guess the UI on the mac isn't the nicest. Then again going from Emacs to this is probably nicer.

Ugh so many options. I like OrgMode and Emacs as it is! Why can't I just use one thing and focus on all the things I need to write down and figure out.
It's no different from saying MS had an effective monopoly/dominance in the 2000s, even though you could theoretically install Linux

I not only could, I most certainly did.

The situation was different, though. Microsoft Windows had a kind of real monoply, since it was - and is - difficult to find a retail pc without the damned thing preinstalled and included in the price. No such mechanism exists concerning Google, as long as we politely keep Android out of the picture.

Mind you, my position back then was more or less the same with regard to EU vs MS as it is today, with Google taking over: I dislike both companies. I very much more intensely dislike the monolithic and terrifying EU throwing its weight around.
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The article is pretty light on details. It's unclear if there's any new physical infrastructure being put in place or if the "microgrid" is a financial overlay built on top of con-ed's wires. And I'm entirely unclear where exactly a blockchain fits into the architecture.
Completely disagree. Instead, we make it illegal to record people in public spaces without warning and consent. Make it a criminal offence with strong penalties, especially for the publication of people-identifying records. It should be illegal to set up a camera on one's fence along a highway and publish the license plates and times of cars passing by.
Probably via their smart phones
Cool, thanks! I haven't looked closely at it, but the "version controlled" part is something I don't need/want. Does it get in the way at all? I'm mostly looking for incremental, semi-real-time streaming processing, not something where you shoot off a big job on a dataset and get back results.
Both are related to mortality.
Yes, it is a "petya variant" [0]

[0] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/22560
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As true as that is, even those that live in a desert would limit their activity on especially hot days. At some point even camels are going to refuse to cooperate.
Are there any plans for porting this to Android? For example by using Kivy?
"Actually, every single Windows PC with an internet connection that has been used before March 14 should be considered irrevocably compromised."

March 14 of what year ?

I would say 2000 but I am open to discussion ...
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This may not be the right place for asking this but....

I am not a Facebook user until I wanted to create a messaging bot. I created an account and then created a developer account. Soon there after, my account gets disabled asking me for photo and then remains disabled. It gets disabled for 'suspicious activity'. I am not interested in using FB for social purposes. My account was bare and perhaps that was suspicious. I actually then create two more accounts and the same result. I have emailed disabled@fb.com and submitted an appeal here: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/260749603972907

What can I do that would not raise flags about suspicious activity with my account? I do not mind creating another account.

Quite frustrating...
That's exactly what they're doing in Brooklyn:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/15/how-a-stre...

That would scale just about as well as your crappy elastic search thing would.
Just a note on immutability, I feel like this is pretty straightforward in ES6 (map, spread operator, and Object.assign) and will be more so with spread-operator for objects in ES7. Am I missing something?

I mean, you still have to THINK about whether you need to keep something immutable or not, but that's the difference between a junior developer and a more seasoned engineer, right?
Sure, didn't mean it to sound accusatory.

So the reason I say that it's "almost by default" is because on really quality VO systems, if you turn in a 360 degree circle, the image descriptors and pose estimates returned are almost exactly the same. It's not of course the same, but the effect for an end user is the same and can be extended relatively easily.
Exactly. This is a huge attack. The amounts paid don't mean a thing.
Can someone explain how this works? It's not like they built a new grid in Brooklyn. I'm not sure why it's called a micro grid. Presumably if the house with the panels sends its excess into the regular grid they get credits or money for this from the local electricity utility. But to make this trading across the grid happen is there some market system that allows them to say, hey this electricity generated over here is bought by this consumer over here? If so that seems like it has nothing to do with block chain and is just an offering of the local utility and/or the energy market regulator.

Actually, it kind of sounds like all this company is doing is being a middle man to collect money from customers who want to feel green without adding any value.

(I may have this completely wrong, I am genuinely curious how this makes sense though.)
Wow, just checked this out, super interesting. Worked on something similar. Will reach out!
The conversion rate is likely very, very low for these, especially so soon after infection.
Decided to keep my phone out of my pocket while at home. Just put it on a shelf. I was really surprised at how often my hand just reflexively goes to my pocket for the phone. I only noticed it happening because my phone was not there.
I think that there has been a rise in America lately (and possibly the West in general) in the notion that in order to not be a hypocrite—in order to be taken seriously in any position—you must be ideologically pure. You can't, for instance, advocate for environmentalism if you have a nonzero carbon footprint, or advocate for the poor if you don't live a life of simple humility.

This is absurd in any practical sense, but it's being used to dismiss all kinds of people's arguments simply because they have to actually live in the real world, rather than some ideological fantasy land.
One could hook the RPi up to a solenoid valve and then standard Orbit drip tubing or variable drop line emitters.
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Call me paranoid but I consider even a clean, freshly installed and fully updated Windows PC already compromised by the NSA.
Good article! I want to learn more about LEADING EDGE MATERIALS... looks like it could be a way to make some $$$
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I switched from glyphosate to a mix of diquat dibromide, fluazifop-p-butyl and dicamba (sold under the brand of Spectracide) but I don't know if that's any better.
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I was thinking about this exact same thing. I first saw the story when I woke up this morning. Two hours later I was at the office, and the story was already on the second page despite having a massive number of votes and comments.
So? That has also changed a lot since 2003.
yes. it's the boy who cried wolf.

one building may have some asbestos fibers in the interior of its walls, used as, say pipe insulation many decades ago. the asbestos is contained and does not enter the air.

another building, say, an auto body repair shop, may have organic solvent vapors floating around at a relatively high concentration on a daily basis.

both have the prop 65 warning. which one should i prefer to work in?

(the real answer is i don't know and i don't care because, like most Californians, i don't pay any attention to those signs. i don't even know what they mean. it's all noise to me. i think i'll have two bags of potato chips on my lunch break today.)
Well, I don't know about better, Ceylon is just a different approach. There are some things Ceylon does that I like better than Kotlin, and vice versa. Both are certainly better than Java though.
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> Attempts to measure these spikes on a cheap scope years ago ended up blowing the scope input FET up.

Yeah - they make special high-voltage probes for this kind of thing (some can go up to 10 Kv and beyond - just depends on how much money you want to spend).

I believe that the main difference between a standard probe and an HV probe is one of resistance; I think the HV probe puts a large value (mega-ohm) resistor into the mix (not sure if it's in series, or between the probe input and ground - see my further note below).

If you have a scope, it's handy to have one around "just in case" if you can afford it. I got lucky myself; I found one for a few dollars at a local Goodwill thrift store (the strange stuff you can find there...)

Note:

Hmm - I decided to look a bit more into this - I guess things on HV probes can get complicated quickly!

https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/hvprobe.htm

So - a basic probe is just a voltage divider with large value resistors (like I alluded to earlier); but as the frequency increases, lots of other weird and fun stuff come into play (and in the comments section of that article, someone mentions special chemicals that had to be added to certain special probes he used in the past!).
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Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any evidence that this is actually a 0day attack? I didn't study the last outbreak that closely, but it seemed like it was a vulnerability that had been patched, but affected computers that weren't patched. Maybe I'm wrong though. But 0days or no, there will always exist some number of computers that have not been properly kept up-to-date and thus will be vulnerable to security exploits even after they've been disclosed and patched.
Anybody can take photos or videos in public area, so does the government. If you are so paranoid about your privacy, stay at home, order online, simple as that.
I was not aware of the existence of a Culinary Institute of America, and assumed it was the Central Intelligence Agency.

"Why would the CIA have a cookbook..?"
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Sensible advice overall, but I completely disagree with these:

> Before you begin reading, take note of the authors and their institutional affiliations.

and

> Beware of questionable journals.

Institutional affiliation and journal imprimatur should have no bearing in science. These are shortcuts for the lazy, and they introduce bias into evaluation of the paper's contents.

Even more than that, dispensing advice along these lines perpetuates the myth that scientific fact is dispensed from on high. If that's the case, just let the experts do the thinking for you and don't bother your pretty little head trying to read scientific papers.

If the author's approach to reading a paper only works by checking for stamps of approval, maybe the approach should be reconsidered.
Only if you connect the external drive again during a silent incubation period.
Same issue here with my actual personal account. Uploaded my picture, did the appeal. Got no response. I decided if they don't want me on fb then I don't want to be on there either (too much ads and fake news)

Plenty of other social networks with less ads out there. You probably specifically want a fb bot though so good luck
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Yeah, see also:

> When you shop online, you want to find the products you’re looking for quickly and easily. And advertisers want to promote those same products.

No, Google: advertisers don't want to promote the products I am looking for. Advertisers want to promote the products they want to sell. They may happen to be the ones I'm looking for, but probably they are not; probably I don't even want to buy anything and you still want to show me ads.
How about we just build grocery stores where low-income people can reach them? Farms produce vegetables more cost-effectively than low-income people or retail outlets. This is a solved problem.

I'm not sure if you shop mostly in Whole Foods or buy individually plastic-wrapped bell peppers at Trader Joes, but go to a Mexican grocery store some time and fill a cart full of green things. Vegetables are very cheap.
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I usually first start reading or glance over papers (and non-story books) from the end to the beginning before I read it the other way around. This has the following benefits for me:

- By knowing about the conclusion first I will better understand the motivation and why certain steps are being taken.

- I find out sooner if the paper (or book) is something I am looking for.

I like to read papers unrelated to my field to learn new thing to apply. To be honest, some papers still take me a long time to understand because they usually assume you already are researching the topic (for ex. certain terms, symbols and/or variables that are not being defined).
I've run into trouble with human vision in this case: I can see that a plant is stressed, but it's often much harder to figure out what is stressing it.
While I agree with much of your response I specifically disagree with the notion that a single person on the outside cannot identify a problem with the decision making of an insular group.

Many people in microsoft seem to be thoroughly stuck in the microsoft way of doing things even when not ideal. How many COM objects did they for years after COM was dead? For how long did they ignore the concept of an AST during parsing of C++? Even in msvc2015 rev 3 you can't reliably turn this feature on for even a moderately sized codebase, but it is the default for GCC and Clang and has been for years. There might be a lot of smart people as microsoft, but they are often isolated from cutting edge ideas or squashed by bureaucracy.

I even really like C++, but perhaps for a security product that isn't particularly performance sensitive something else would have been better. It doesn't seem to run all the time like other AV products and just at the boundaries where information can get in and out this means it does a lot less work and has looser performance constraints, perhaps they could have used C# another in house languages.
You hacked his phone. You influenced his wife.
Avoiding the various herbicides and pesticides is the reason everyone I know who eats organic and non-GMO food does so.

As always you should do your own research, draw your own conclusions. Be aware there is a shocking amount of astroturfing on this topic.
Quick Google search: https://www.zazzle.com/ca_prop_65_t_shirt-235283992142706565
you can set it to black and white (iphone under accessibility). i've heard this makes it less attractive to stare at. you can disable apps under restrictions on iphone - like safari. i've tried all of this and i inevitably just roll these changes back after a while.
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kitty (fork of putty) does the reconnect thing on Windows, among many other things: cinst kitty
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>we'd be able to see something very special where vehicles would be able to travel at speed while maintaining very small marginal distances

Braking distance alone (excluding the reaction time) is going to be over 100ft at highway speeds. Considering how often human drivers tailgate AVs will probably have more space between them on average.
I see.

I was just reminded of last week, when I needed a utils lib. I read many good things about Ramda, but then I wanted to debounce a function and it failed me, haha.
The proposition was perhaps a good idea that was horribly executed. The idea is to get companies to stop using potentially dangerous chemicals, so the proposition required that companies give a warning if they use any of a set of chemicals on a certain list. Which might be okay, except it has several problems:

* Private citizens are able to initiate civil enforcement and collect penalties; it's not limited to regulatory agencies. Which virtually guarantees that enforcement is going to be about milking money rather than trying to actually reduce harm.

* There's no consideration for dosing, anywhere. So a potential trace contamination is considered as equal a violation as dumping vats of the stuff in the public water system.

* The requirement for listing a chemical is .001% of causing cancer of 70 years. That is a ridiculously low bar, which means many low-risk chemicals are going to be swept up.

* There's no danger for excessive labelling, and the labels remove the liability for violations.

Taken together, it's a recipe for companies to just slap the warning on everything.
I love how simple and clear this post is.

As a kind of weird aside, if anyone ever emailed me about any of my journal articles, I would 100% respond to them (assuming they weren't a machine). I think most of my colleagues would do the same (except for articles featured in a newspaper, which might garner a lot of weird emails).
They aren't shortcuts for the lazy, they're shortcuts for non-scientists who aren't capable of fully evaluating the science alone. If you're capable of objectively peer reviewing a paper, you're not the audience of this article.
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My friend's work laptop is a victim of this same attack... all the way here in the Philippines.

There was a company wide email blast to disconnect all workstations from the internet at once.

Fascinating development