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> Maximizing possible futures rightfully ought be a mere subgoal or consequence of the actual prescriptions we care about.

To play devil's advocate though, it may be the case that our normal prescriptive preferences have the consequence of maximizing possible futures. E.g. 'attempt to survive' -> you will have future possibilities. It's possible that these are equivalent goals.
Could you please keep your statements truthful. There is no proof that Kalanick or Uber stole anything from Waymo. There is an ongoing and unresolved court case to determine that. It's only appropriate to make such a statement, if it's proven that Uber stole anything. This is HN not reddit.

Thus far, all we know is that Levandowsky alledgedly took files as leverage to make sure Google paid him the bonuses Google was late on, but he was expressively forbidden by Kalanick from bringing any of those files to Uber. All the discovery performed so far has turned up zero evidence that any files from Waymo ended up at Uber.

It's not uncommon for legacy companies to sue newer, more nimble and more promising companies over IP issues when they lose star performers. It also happened to Google when Paypal sued them for trade secret theft when promising senior talent left Paypal to join Google Wallet:

https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/paypal-lawsuit-google/

It's perfectly okay to recruit promising talent from other companies with better offers so long as the recruiting company keeps everything kosher via due diligence that ensures the talent does not bring intellectual property from the previous employer to the new company. All evidence made public thus far suggests the Uber did its due diligence here and made sure nothing belonging to Waymo made its way to Uber.
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Lanczos or Gaussian are separable filters. That reduces computation considerably.
It took me 14 days from the day my profile went 'live' to the day I signed an offer being unemployed. Most companies scheduled 2 phone screens with me before offering me an onsite interview. The first with a recruiter and the second was usually a technical phone interview. I consistently did 3-4 phone calls per day during the first week and usually 1 full-day onsite interview during the second week. If I had to use their jobs platform while employed, I'd probably quit first or use up vacation time.
See https://www.fitbit.com/technology for a partial and outdated list of novel Fitbit technology.
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No questions. Just wanted to say I enjoyed what you wrote, particularly how honest you were.

The part about how you had assumed expectations for the meeting that he had not been explicitly aware of was a breath fresh air as I read it. We as people often forget others may not be reading a situation the same as we are. To see it from the others perspective is important.

I did get angry reading about you using your "femininity" as an advantage during your recruiting days. And I would like to offer this analogy. A women using her sexuality as leverage over a man for a career advantage is akin to a man using his career as leverage over a women for sexual advantage.

I see them as nearly the same, because men generally hold the chips in the professional world and women hold it in the dating world. And using that as leverage against another is wrong on both sides.

But I kinda got the feeling you were starting to agree with that. Maybe you do maybe you do not. I appreciate the honesty either way.
You can trade with less. You can't day trade, defined based on the number of trades in a certain period. Some brokerages may enforce additional limits, but I've personally traded on NASDAQ via US brokerage accounts with less in them than that, so you certainly can do it.
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Yes, but you can't do that four or more times in a period of five business days if it accounts for over some percentage of your portfolio.
For now the apps that aim for a kill are games. I've tried many VR games and I've only really liked one, Elite: Dangerous. I don't know if it's the killer app VR needs, probably not, but it's impressive and I truly felt transported to another world and that the technology has value, flaws too but value. I've never watched a 3D movie that made me feel the same.

I think VR and AR will be very big in the future. I don't know how long it will take. The current generation might fail for some understanding of the word but I think they are on to something.
The question that really bakes my noodle is, what if the people who try to make him go to zero collectively make his value higher? ;-)
Yea, it's not really a lack of morals to fuck over someone whose actively fucking you over like many low end jobs do. The few bosses I had that didn't exploit people ended up with much higher loyalty and rule following on the employee end. The other employees helped enforced it with social pressure too, as no one liked seeing the good boss get advantage taken of them
The best hardware startups are really "software wrapped in plastic". This provides the opportunity for more a business model that supports repeat transactions. Dropcam is just one successful example.
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Manhattan no longer has gas stations south of 12th street, and yet people pay > $400 for a parking space. This sounds like an ideal starting point for a burgeoning delivery service.
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That's a fair question to ask but I have some close friends working in the Petroleum industry and they insist on only getting gas from Chevron and Shell from the insider information they have. Not sure if it means much at all though.
He totally is just some random guy. I know this, because I worked with him for a few years in Amazon Fulfillment. Just found out today that it was him that made this project (haven't talked to him in a while).
I think the simplest answer is that apple simply kept innovating at a pace that shenzen couldn't match. Back in the iPod's hey-day, every new release was a groundbreaking improvement in miniaturization. The other OEMs were racing to copy the iPod mini while Apple was developing the iPod nano, or the iPod Colour while apple was working on the iPod video.

and, of course, as another reply says the software has always been a big part of the iPod.
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> The overwhelming majority of "high-level language" developers are, at an absolute minimum, familiar enough with C, or C-like languages, to be able to read/contribute to a C project.

This is completely untrue. My experience with Rust is that many, and likely most, Rust developers came to the language as their first systems programming language. That's one of the main reasons you see so many questions about the borrow checker: it's codifying existing best practices in C and C++, but most developers coming to the language aren't aware of those practices in the first place.
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I think that's a good comparison. The difference between the first portable computers and what we have today is massive. If AR/VR technologies evolve that way then what we'll have 30 years from now will be almost totally unrecognizable. It may not even involve a headset, or even glasses.
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As far as I can tell, Microsoft told nobody. A blog post and an email to OneDrive users would have sufficed, neither of which use telemetry or happened.
The iPod wasn't that popular before Apple launched iTunes for Windows, though. So I imagine competitors were considerably less interested in it as a target.

Also, one of the iPod's major interface innovations was the click wheel - IIRC they've patented the hell out of that, so no one was about to launch a competitor.
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Day trading has a specific definition in this context (can't remember if it's SEC, FINRA, or some other acronym), and refers to the buying and selling of the same security with a single day. That $2.5k Fidelity account will go out of its way to tell you that you're not allowed to do that.
You realize that this sounds like more of the same hype to anyone who was burned by the overpromising in the 1.x and 2.x days? Whether your statement about 3.x is true or not, the MongoDB people dug their own hole that they need to try extra hard to get out of, and so far it's not enough.
AR is a separate line of development. Being able to label the real world has many use cases. There are many industrial applications. The big technical problem is getting location information good enough to register the annotations on the real world. That's not solved yet for big spaces.

In AR, the graphics don't have to be as good. Text and line drawing alone would be useful. This translates to less-clunky headgear. The Microsoft HoloLens is far less clunky than the HTC Vibe or Oculus Rift. Being able to walk an oil refinery or a server farm or a WalMart and have displays of what everything was and how it was doing would be valuable.
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That's a fair point, I edited my comment to get rid of the part about intellectual property violations in response to your comment.
Sphero is worth it simply because of connections, they're in Disney's Incubator program (2014):

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-ann...

Which pretty much assures increased growth as they produce more toys for Disney IP. Who knows they could also be using the tech in their parks or for production purposes.
The first iPhone was expensive and limited, but it inarguably caught fire with a group way bigger than early adopters. No comparison. They sold 1 million in 74 days.
I know you're just being an ass but I'll entertain you. You write post-install scripts to ensure basic functionality.
Disappoints me that major creative tools for VR are mostly being pushed out by the likes of Google and FB who are extremely likely to drop the projects within the next 2 years as their objectives shift because they're not creative tools companies.

Would be much happier if some indie devs took up this space.
Are you a bot? The comment you replied to made no mention of Waymo or stealing.
So, Keith Emerson's Moog Synthesizer[0] was an analog computer, yes?

[0] http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03593/emerson6_3...
It's always fun to watch media before a thing explodes in popularity and becomes part of everyday life; during that period when the thing still sucks, but a lot of smart people are working on it because they see some incredible potential. I'm not sure that VR will be one of those things, but I'm pretty confident of it. I recently got a VR headset, one of the cheapo kind that you stick your phone in, just to try it out. It's pretty much amazing.

I mean, it's stupid, all the games and apps are stupid, all the videos are stupid, interaction is clumsy, almost everything I try to use shifts steadily to the left until I can't see anything anymore without turning my head, and eventually turning my whole body around to keep up with the shift, and all around it just barely works at all. But, it's still amazing.

That tells me something really big is going to happen; the Internet started out the same way. It was stupid. You could watch a video, if it was 1/10th the screen size, buffered for several minutes, and you didn't need it to look very good. Regular old television was a million times better. I feel like we're at that same point right now with VR. It all sucks right now (probably because I have a cheapo VR headset that uses my phone and my phone isn't well-supported by the VR players, but it was cheap), but we're only a year or so into the "anyone can afford it" phase.

Think how many years it took for the tech to use the full potential of the Internet took to make it into the majority of homes. I think we're still way too early to tell how VR is gonna play out, but when I use it, I feel a bit of that old "OMG, this is gonna be huge in ways I can't predict" feeling the Internet gave me the first time I logged on.
Because subjective experience is not a one way affair. It clearly plays at least some functional role. The proof of that is that we're having a conversation about it.
It's kind of turned out that many of these things have turned out to just be features or sets of features of more capable hardware.
I worked for an employer who had a large percentage of union employees. All employees were held to the same rules and as a result, you could only be out sick twice in one year. The third time meant you were written up. If you were out more than a day, you had to have a doctor's note. I had a procedure done and was so terrified about the rules, I went to work. The pain was unbearable and they sent me to the on-site doctor. He looked at my stitches and asked why the hell I came in. I could barely laugh through the pain at the irony of it.
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Brokerage fees on each transaction may quickly eat up his principle.
> PHP has changed A LOT in recent years — especially since the release of v7.

I was curious and wanted to see if that is the case. So I checked for the most basic thing. The arrow notation for lambdas. Surely they must've added that by now. Surely they must've added that before Java did. Nope, still RFC. Now I wonder if it's idiomatic to pass those "long form" lambdas around when writing in functional style or is it something nobody does. In any event this little discovery makes me think parent's sentiment seems to be still justified.
>>he mass produced his art"--so did Warhol, so do most modern artists on some level

Not sure how far back "modern" goes but Florence was full of workshops[0] during the renaissance. A lot of the good stuff (David IIRC) was produced by teams of professional artists to some degree.

[0] http://matthewgream.net/Professional/HistoryOfArt/workshops_...
It amazes me how you can tell that a blog post is going to be full of misogyny just by the title.

If you think dates are you exchanging dinner or whatever for sex you're doing it very wrong.

Why people want to go on the record defending someone who obviously did something wrong by any standard is beyond me.
> they felt perfectly justified in escalating the situation

So they should have been, being accused of transphobia is a serious accusation. Anyone accused of anything like transphobia, homophobia, islamaphobia or any other of these discriminations is absolutely right to escalate the matter straight away to their manager or HR.

> The data scientist was not even named

She was gendered, how many data scientists work at GH? How many are female? She was narrowed down enough that she may as well have been named IMHO and transphobic is a serious mark on her character. Especially from someone who has tried to push people off projects before for being transphobic.
>"Most of well-known particles are composite of quarks"

And that's why they're boring.

At this point, bring me hints of supersymmetry or bring me pillows.
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Samsung too.
people have to choose to display publicly that they are part of a github org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.
Done. Should be working now.
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Analog computing makes a lot of sense in the context of genetic algorithms and "deep learning" and I wouldn't be surprised if there's already some ASICs under design using those principles.
One big challenge is that the design kits from the foundries aren't likely to include all the analog computer cells that would be needed (but perhaps for example a current mirror into a MIM capacitor could make for an integrator?).
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Any reason this had to be a fork?

I would much rather this feature be in Pillow so ALL of the python ecosystem could get 6 times faster image resizing.
I don't see this mentioned too often in the critique of vr, but I wonder if the isolation of putting on a headset is another barrier for adoption. While the isolation could be an advantage on something like an airplane or even an open office, I just don't feel like disconnecting that much from reality when in the comfort of my own home.
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Citation please? I am skeptical that 'scientists' monolithically predicted 100 years of drought due to climate change. I never recall reading such a thing in years of news coverage.

As a layperson, I always assumed that most weather we experience is in line with historical variability. Climate change causes (or is) small changes in the bias and variance of this weather. Saying that some of the drought is caused by natural variability and some of drought was exacerbated by GHG-induced warming seems like a perfectly consistent and reasonable position.
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Pretty good read, the idea of Prestige being separate from dominance explains a lot of behavior I've seen. One I find funny is watching subordinates of a a high level manager nod their heads whenever they receive eye contact (I am of course part of this too).
Here is one of my favorite Kafka stories, Before the Law.[1] It's very short. You can read it in maybe five minutes.

[1] - http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/beforethelaw.htm
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yeah. You have to chose to be publicly visible as part of an org. I can assure you they have more than 35 devs.
You've gotten hung up on the word "losses" without understanding the perspective that shows them.

We're talking about a decline in GDP related to a depression in the birth rate.

Imagine a society in perfect stability. Every year there are 50 people in their 20s, 48 people in their 30s, 45 people in their 40s, 41 people in their 50s, and 15 people over 60 but not yet retired. Every year, people die, causing the kind of "population losses" you're worrying about in your comments to me, but this causes no population losses or shrinkage of the kind you're talking about in your earlier comments, because those deaths are balanced out by an appropriate birth rate, keeping the population constant.

Now the birth rate drops. 30 years later, there are 30 people in their 20s, 48 people in their 30s, 45 people in their 40s, 41 people in their 50s, and 15 people over 60 but not yet retired. The economy has lost 40% of the age 20-30 worker demographic (it did this over a period of ten years, but still). It has lost 0% of the age 30+ worker demographic. We asked the question "are population losses randomly distributed over the population, meaning that GDP per capita should stay constant?" and we see that the answer is no. We also asked the question "are losses concentrated among older, unproductive retirees, meaning that GDP per capita should rise?" and we see that the answer to that question is also no. Losses are concentrated among the young, which means that GDP per capita should fall when those losses age into the productive segment of the workforce. (And then rise back to exactly where it once was when those losses have aged all the way through the population, including the population of retirees.)

I must say again, if we want to explain (1) a loss in GDP (the number has gotten lower) by reference to (2) a loss in the population generating the GDP (again, the number ["population"] has gotten lower), which is (3) attributed to lowered birth rates, THEN (4) the loss in population (in the sense of point 2, where we said that the population declined) has occurred among the young, not among the old. It's not even necessary to use comparisons to a hypothetical reality to perceive the losses; the bare fact that the population was once larger than it is now is a perfectly conventional interpretation of "population loss".
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beware that this is only one side of the story.

I joined after the re-organisations that Phil mentions in the linked post here were well underway. From all I could tell, no one regrets it. At the position I head, I only heard rumours about the struggle that he went through trying to improve the engineering problems there.

Everyone (with perhaps a couple of exceptions) I know personally there (Brazilians or otherwise) was trying very hard to improve things. Their efforts could have been misdirected. Their strategy could have been even counter-productive. The intentions were good, though. And I did see some ill-intentioned people in other places.

I even think that thowaway999 was probably well-intentioned. However, an anonymous director calling people that he disagrees with "conniving and intensely political" and claiming a moral high ground is almost comical.
This is cool but I'm a bit unsure how to actually use this. Kubectl doesn't seem to be able to connect to the server from within the terminal. It just gets: `The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?`
He addressed that in the article: Pillow is cross-platform and cross-architecture, so these sorts of specific optimisations (x86-64 only, with some pretty specific instruction requirements) meant that the author felt it wouldn't be a good fit in the original library
Here's [1] minus the paywall: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.sci-hub.cc/document/7523376/
I'm assuming that the underlying isolation mechanism is formally proven (or at least as good as possible). With a single set of reasonable features, it should be able to provide isolation between processes, users, containers and VMs. What am I missing?
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I was surprised that taxes cover garbage pickup in some cities. I'm in Portland, Oregon and private collectors are assigned to various parts of the city with regulated fees. You choose your can size, frequency, etc. and pay the collector.