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Explaining to you how to do it the right way is not an obligation of anyone that says X article is wrong?

"This article on global warming could spend less time bashing governments for inaction and more time talking about how I can reduce my emissions."

"This bad restaurant review could spend less time bashing the chef's food and more time telling me where the good restaurants are."

Similarly maybe the author didn't explain what "IV" means because their audience understands that term.

"This article in CACM uses 'NVRAM' in the heading, while the words "non-volatile" don't appear until much later. Non-volatile is pretty obvious, 'NVRAM' isn't."
Yeah I was disappointed that Imgix status page was 10+minutes behind Fastly, thankfully through Twitter/HN we were able to get a grasp of the situation before Imgix updated their all green page or responded to our tickets. It shocks me that a large provider like Imgix hasnt got a simple AWS Lambda timer, or Azure Function or whatever Google version is to check the status api or even scrap their upstream providers status page using say Cheerio and post something like 'we are investigating a potential problem, standby' orange alert till a human to get the bottom of the full picture. And yes, I consider 10+ minutes to publicly acknowledge to be poor for any large scale SaaS. I guess this attitude is related to a negative experience years ago with popular transaction email as a service provider that sounds like a poststamp that went down and didn't get fixed to their techs woke up many hours later (albeit all mail was queued - they were still 200ing err.. ) - I want to know you're on it and awake.
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What vocational trade?
I know of a startup that does group lunch every day. Even the remote people join (through Hangouts). I found it pleasant... It strengthens the team _and_ forces everyone to take their eyes away from a screen, slow down, and get out of the weeds. They go on a group hike every afternoon for the same reason.

I don't know how long they'll be able to keep it up as they grow, but I thought it was great.
That's for people that have to look at job openings. Without a degree and experience alone using open source tools and freely available resources, I am getting more recruiters spamming my LinkedIn than I care to sort through or respond to about 90 percent of the time.
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I don't know of any op macro that doesn't have a way to insert the free argument(s) explicitly.

I don't like using it in this case because that amounts to admitting there is some kind of problem. I'd rather fix the cognitive root cause in the brain.
Could you tell us/me about your background in this area? I looked you up, you seem to be a computer security guy.

Yet you are talking like you have pretty deep knowledge about biology and oncology, certainly more than I would claim to have.

Just wondering.
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Survivorship Bias.
Couldn't disagree more. With this mindset why not throw all your employees in a basement and stack them up on picnic tables? If you're not scrimping on every possible front, you're not a proper business?

There are plenty of sectors that have nice offices with snacks and drinks, by the way.

It's always better to invest in growth than to fake it by shaving the budget. When human niceties start getting pared away, it's a sign that growth opportunities aren't working out.
There's a good implementation of systemd here: https://github.com/bluerise/openbsd/tree/master/sbin/init
Even a business won't allow that. We are not talking about a business or a government agency charging more for expedited service. We are talking about individual employees doing it. You think a company will allow the sysadmin to personally charge people $500 extra to get their work done faster? They would be fired immediately.
Watch out, they are modern day caltrops. My son really enjoyed them and I bought him obscene amounts, after he learned to stop leaving them on the floor.

Initially, after stepping on one in the middle of the night, any that I found left on the floor went right into the trash. I assume he dug them back out, being a kid and all. However, he learned.

Eventually, he amassed a giant collection. With his permission, I gave them away to a kid that lives nearby. There were six large tote boxes and several dozen box sets. That kid now wants to be an engineer, though my son went into biology.

So, they are really great and it's even better that the old blocks still work with the new blocks. Just look out, they're caltrops, on par with a four-sided die.
IMO, a randomly selected congress hands power to the executive, or God forbid the government bureaucracy (aka "civil servants"). Whichever one, they will become the only ones who know what the hell is going on.

If a law gets passed they don't like, they will simply drag their feet until they can get next random congress to change it. Assuming they listen to the congress at all.
If it's working right, you wouldn't hear about it ;)

And if it's broken... well, yeah, I'd expect dependencies with poor error handling to behave unexpectedly.
This seems like kind of an absurd oversimplification. Maybe what you're saying is true over geologic timescales but if SF suddenly had a large amount of vacant housing, rents wouldn't continue to increase regardless of what's happening economically in Flint.
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> Not with Wireshark.

I was under the impression that wireshark is unable to verify what Microsoft is sending via telemetry, due to end-to-end encryption.

Am I mistaken?

> I thought you didn't have time or interest for that? Blocking telemetry in 7 was much harder for me, it involved memorizing a list of KBXXXXXX numbers and making sure I didn't accidentally click one every time I updated.

I had that time back when the issue first arose. And my final solution is effective, but significantly suboptimal.
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I've been thinking about making such an app. There are some problems in using the net as it is to power an app: the machine has a uniform background as well as multiple images of the same piece. I don't think the net as it is right now would easily work to recognize images taken with a smartphone. But if I had access to a large number of such smartphone taken images I do think that I could use the method I have right now to help label an initial training set from which a much better network could be derived.
"There was a time when most people could make a career out of a skill, or stay within the same type of job, but workers today constantly need to adapt. They must become lifelong learners: Teach a student one skill and you got him one job; teach a student to learn and you got him lifetime employment."

It's far from clear to me that any beyond a small percentage of people generally, but perhaps Americans in particular, have the capacity to become lifelong learners. Not saying folks are stupid -- the problem isn't a lack of raw cognitive capacity, IMHO.

What actually makes someone a lifelong learner? Curiosity. If you don't _want_ to learn, it's going to be very difficult to do so, except perhaps while under the gun for short periods of time. And, unfortunately, our education system seems ideally tailored for stamping out children's natural curiosity. If that sounds overly pessimistic, I'd welcome a demonstration to the contrary.

I feel that the answer is basically "let's fix our education system," which I -- again, perhaps overly pessimistically -- believe to be politically impossible.
Devops:

One word of caution. The future really will be having a docker file and finding a place to run code (docker swarm, ecs, etc). When you commit code it will be ran through a ci system (unit tested, staged) then updated.

The salts, puppets, chefs, Vaults, running your own Kubernetes (wtf), VMs, Nagios, sendmails, vpcs and all this other drama will be latin in a few years.

The future will be running the code on your macbook (with container of choice), then commiting. The end.
Calling keywords "infix operators" is a bit disingenuous, they are just labels used to mark off different arguments in an otherwise normally looking method call.
Users and revenue.

User and revenue growth rate.

One bad sign is if the CEO is replaced. Another bad sign is if the company can't figure out how to make money.
They were deliberately using old technology, presumably to avoid being traced by the police. I don't ask that realistic VIC-20 displays be used, I only ask that if they're going to employ this conceit, the displays be plausibly "old" and not have nice graphics.
This stuff seems like utopy to me. Here if my machine gets f* I have to ask for a replace and setup everything again, losing at least a day :(
Do you think (as in bet-your-company's-profits-on-it believe) that Ada will still be a first-class language in GCC ten years from now (the standard product lifecycle for RHEL), and that you'll be able to staff the project and build a community throughout that period?
It is bias because it ignores and dismisses information that is relevant. I'm not a fan of "Food Babe" but I have read up on what scientists who are not paid or influenced by Monsanto have said in their studies and how much Monsanto has done to discredit them as well.

Here is "Food Babes" response to their "Fact Check". Look into it and follow up on what she says:

https://foodbabe.com/2017/02/24/do-you-trust-snopes-you-wont...
I suspect Mobile Frame Zero ( http://mobileframezero.com/mfz/ ) players would be delighted to get a source of the more esoteric bricks that go into their builds
Hehe, yeah, your comment felt a bit ambiguous.

> They might be reasonably different markets now, but they should not be in the future.

I think that's what made me think you thought it needed to be a one-company solution.

Manufacturers of vacuum cleaners and computers are not in the same market, in the sense that is relevant here, even though both plug into a wall socket. A market is not defined by a common interface, but by whether or not you compete for the same customers. A flight search service is as much a substitute for a mobile phone price comparison service as a vacuum cleaner is for a computer, therefore, those products are not in competition, therefore, they are not in the same market, they are merely technically in some ways similar products with partially overlapping interfaces.
I think the article could be significantly shorter. It says the same thing about six times.
One of the nice things about working from home, for me, is the ability to take the occasional nap when I'm dragging. It takes me about 15 minutes to get what I need... once I hit a half hour, it becomes counterproductive as I'm starting to "sleep" rather than "nap".

Most nights, I do get sufficient sleep, but I need the occasional nap anyway.
The problem is, it's also ambiguous in practice. I used Colt which has a clause forbidding military applications (http://dst.lbl.gov/ACSSoftware/colt/license.html), and several of my customers raised concerns about it because obviously it applies to people building nuclear warheads, but does it apply to support staff in affiliated organizations? Or companies who have contracts to do logistical support for governments who have militaries? Where does one draw the line?
I see - a few times in the past bonuses have been announced if "x occurs".

Yeah I'll bring it up - I'm not sure how "important" it is compared to other day-to-day meetings and such with managers, but hopefully they can find time for it.

Thanks for all the input thus far I appreciate it.
>They'll often, for example, not be honest about the the shipping time, their return policies, product details, ability to answer product questions, and so forth.

Not been my experience for shipping time. They usually claim such a large shipping window that it is always delivered within that window.

As for lower quality service, I'm not sure I see the problem. The consumer wants to pay a lower amount, and he gets what he is paying for. There's nothing fundamentally wrong or unethical about it. The same principle will hold in the US too. And frankly, I've had plenty of poor service on eBay from US based sellers.
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> It's served me well to have at least one interview per year with a different company

That sounds like really good advice: finding out what's out there, getting interview experience and stopping that "fear of change" feeling you can end up with when you work for one company for a long time.
Turns out I was wrong. These applications use niobium-titanium or niobium-tin, both of which are type II superconductors. They do have relatively low Tc -- 10-20 kelvins versus >80 kelvin for the best HTSC, and are cooled even lower to maximize the critical field and current (i.e. maximum they can withstand before losing superconductivity).
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Tuition + books/fees. No student loan interest, housing, meals, etc, accounted for.

And that's probably a good way to think about it. I also came out with fewer math courses -- the specific CIS track I took had a lot of electives, as did the German major, so I just married them together. A pure CIS track would have included a math minor instead.

edit: Also, assuming the 2 years for the course in the article is roughly equal to the computer science education I got, I could see being willing to pay the same amount to get out 2 years earlier and start earning graduate salaries more quickly. I certainly don't use the gen eds or German knowledge in any money-making way that I have noticed.
A few years ago a friend and I started work on a similar machine for sorting Magic: the Gathering cards. We weren't using any machine learning (this was beyond our capabilities) but our design was similar, except the bins were on a moving platform which slowed down as the weight of the cards in bins increased - due to the cheap parts/weakness of the motors we were using. Unfortunately it occupied an entire room in my house and was never completed and ultimately dismantled.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly re: these alleged 21%.

I don't know many people, so my sample size is extremely small, but I don't know anyone who's on Windows and wants to switch to Apple. All Windows people I know resent Apple and think it's stupid. I only know people who want to switch away from Apple, as is the majority of the comments on this thread.
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Ditto. I had two years of VoTech (1/2 day) electronics, which I'd say was the equivalent of an AA degree. It made EE easier as I could focus on the math & physics in the first year instead of electronics.

Unfortunately they scrapped that program in the early 90's as they shifted everyone into an academic track.
> I would also like a transliteration of IPA into pseudo-english

Wikipedia already has a respelling key for this purpose. English orthography is such a mess, though, that I wouldn't trust a machine with this task. And even a human can't get around the problem that many pronunciations simply can't be expressed in “respelled” form, because they violate the rules of English phonology. That doesn't necessarily mean they're hard for English speakers to pronounce, but it does mean that trying to spell such words as if they're in English will get you nowhere.

And that's before we get to the issue of different accents!

> can people please start "transliterating" names from languages that use the latin alphabet in very different ways

No. Transliteration doesn't exist to make words from other languages pronounceable by English speakers, it exists to express a word in a different script. Focussing on English speakers would sacrifice important nuances, like maintaining phonological distinctions English doesn't have, or the ability to convert back to the original script losslessly. For example, Mandarin Chinese has at least two different consonants that sound like “sh” to an English speaker, and at least four that sound like “ch”, but the distinction between these is critical to Chinese speakers, and if we “transliterated” them to just “sh”/“ch”, we would end up with large numbers of homographs, and the transcription would be useless to Chinese speakers.

Also, what you're describing is the job of transcription, not transliteration.
> I don't think removing or reducing these benefits is a sign of poor health. I think it's more a sign of turning into a proper business (which needs to answer to the people who put the money to buy all these drinks in the first place), which isn't for everyone, but it doesn't _have_ to be a bad sign.

Free drinks are incredibly cheap compared to buying the same results through paying higher salaries. Losing them is a sign that the company cares more about fitting into the herd than being effective, which has to be a bad sign.
I had to look up what a caltrop is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop
Neat!

So each item is actually identified right down to the size, colour, type, etc, but then literally bucketed into a group of similar items?
5 months prior being offered to relo to another city within the same company - and nobody else was. At the time, I was looking after my mom who had cancer. My manager, without saying anything, was trying to help me.

I declined as moving her would have meant undo hardship (doctors etc). He pressured me hard to take it though.

I went on vacation for a two week motorcycle trip (my gf was looking after mom, giving me a break, god bless her!) and logged into FB to find all my co-workers had been terminated. I received no notice, so I continued on my vacation. Upon return, I went to work as expected only to find myself locked out.

Hindsight. My manager was a class guy and knew what I was going through and tried his best to help me while honouring his commitments to the company.
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What I found recently of someone who switched from another career to programming is not that they struggled with programming so much but that they struggled with the environment. I had the misfortune of working with an ex-lawyer, two years of programming experience. Hell. He also lacked the ability to have any sort of interesting conversation about programming as he had no background to reference.
I agree with you, and so do others -- some much more vehemently!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647698
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It can, and gets even more complicated when that widget was available locally for $Z and $Y < $Z. Was $Z so much greater than $Y that the person would have never started to save for it? Or did $Y mean they were able to start spending at the restaurant again sooner? How do you calculate the value of the cool new widget once the person has it?
The human body has both physical and mental limits at which point rest is the preferred course of action. So if you're not getting tired from your work, it sounds like you're not working hard enough.
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Maybe search Flickr/google images / imgur with the lego tag ? Or ask the lego subreddit?
>A good middle man ensures that you get what was advertised...for example, the chipset is what the product listing says it is. They also provide better documentation, support, the ability to return the item without high shipping costs, etc, than the direct-from-china seller.

On eBay, from a customer's perspective, there's no difference between a US seller and a Chinese one. We have the same way of "punishing" them. I cannot punish a US based seller any more than a Chinese one.

>If these tradeoffs were known before hand, I get your point. Typically, though, they are deliberately not disclosed.

Frankly, the stuff I've bought on eBay from Chinese sellers is so cheap that I don't really care to return them. They fall into the price range of "I don't give a damn". In the US an item may be $30. From the Chinese, $7. It's worth the gamble.

(And it really is worth the gamble. I've not been disappointed once).
Yup. I would take getting paid overtime over freebies hands down. 1.5x for every hour worked over 40? Sign me up.
Thanks for posting the link. I am actually fine with this. In my reading of the article it seemed to be a sketchy one-off employee thing. I will amend my previous posts.
these test repos are hilarious.. heartbleed and trump's wall in prolog
"You think it’s Orwellian for there to be an objective truth separable from political spin?"

I think it is "Orwellian" for me and everyone else to have blind faith in them just because they sport a "Fact Check" moniker above their statements.
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I thought the whole idea with html5 and responsive this and that was the ability to very easily serve one layout for mobile and another for traditional desktop.

This redesign is god awful for desktop use. The Bing alternative is only marginally better. I honestly have no idea who they test these on before release to think they are a) good and b) an improvement.
Instead of buying the book, why not get Safari (the website, not the browser) and read that book plus many more? And if you are an ACM member you already have access to it through http://learning.acm.org
I guess on the 'constant surveillance' bit, it seems relevant that someone who knows Mark personally reached out to the site maker and suggested that he'd like this. That (plus the fact that the site doesn't actually have accounts or user data) really lowers the level of "strangers watching me" in play here.
Yes, because otherwise I'd have to make very many passes through the machine to sort a particular batch.
Yeah, good point. I didn't think to factor in interest. Noted in the OP now.
Why don't you buy a used mid 2012 MBP instead? For 5-600 pound you can get one with a still good quad core i7 cpu and you can upgrade/replace everything, removing the ODD gives you extra space for additional HDD/SSD, can handle 16GB ram, easy to replace the battery (I just did, it was about 30 quid from amazon), it's perfect. I'm still using mine and not planning to replace it until it dies.
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Techmeme remains the best tech-focused news aggregator. Their sister sites Memeorandum (political news) and Mediagazer (media news) also deserve a spot in your bookmarks.

One of their best features, which Google has moved away from, is linking to multiple news sources for each story.
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Snopes doesn't know the objective truth. All they do is check other sources: other media, press releases, and such, and decide whether they trust those sources.

How well do they choose sources to trust? When "fact checking" claims that Obama paid for the release of hostages from Iran, they used Vox as a primary source.[1] Surely we all agree Vox is biased.

The story originated in claims by Iranian officials, and lacking direct evidence to support either claim, any objective observer would admit there was no way to know whether Iran or Obama was telling the truth. Snopes, not being objective, confidently rated the story "FALSE".

Snopes is most useful when they're able to trace a story back to an admitted satirical source. When they attempt to judge the truth of disputed claims, they don't know more than anyone else. They shouldn't attempt to rate those disputes at all, but the temptation to use the platform to promote opinions is the Shakespearean flaw in fact checking.

1: http://www.snopes.com/obama-bribed-iran-400-million-to-relea...
It would be neat to also have an option to pay up front and then get a refund if you can't find a job. Would that be cheaper for people who have the money?
Your processor isn't affected. It would be i[357]-[67]xxx processors only.

But a new computer may serve you well...
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