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Off-topic, just had this (micro)-epiphany that I wanted to share:

It is well-known that a majority of programmers dread mathematics beyond something basic like high-school math, sometimes even less.

What these programmers don't know is that a significant fraction of mathematicians (probably majority of them) who haven't been involved with programming, computers, computer algebra systems etc, have a similar dread about programming, in addition to the envy of programmers getting paid at much better rates.

It's also said by many, though without universal consensus, that programming is more rigorous than mathematics (here 'rigor' means mathematical rigor, nothing to do with everyday usage of the term).

When you start as a math major after high school, you take computational classes like calculus and linear algebra. Then you move on to theoretical stuff and "high mathematics" like real analysis and abstract algebra. Then, at an even more advanced level, you get into logic and foundations of mathematics, and at some point you get familiarized with the concept of constructive mathematics.

What I just realized is that programmers are essentially doing constructive mathematics (as well as logic, to a fair degree) all along, without realizing it, the moment they start coding!!! and yet the same programmers dread mathematics. That is funny (although not to say it makes it any easier for those programmers to learn all the rest of mathematics; IMO mathematics is still harder than programming as a discipline).

I think this is one example of many, I've found over the years but can't recall of the top of my head, where an expert of a given discipline is so encumbered by the "underlying machinery" of their field, that they fail to see that once they reach a higher level of abstraction, it sometimes becomes easier, rather than harder, if you forget about the details while working at that level, or you hadn't gone through the harder path to get there.

Another example being electrical engineers toiling through the difficult issues of power electronics, analog and digital design, computer architectures, instructions sets, only to find out that computer science people, who don't know all these things, have a much easier time working at the assembly language level, and those who don't even know assembly-language either, have no problem just sticking to a higher level language like ruby, javascript, and not worrying about or even aware of how the whole machinery works.
The "I'll know it when I see it" variety.
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Isn't it possible to detect a bot by tracking some events like random mouse moving, scrolling, clicking etc.? Why weren't these kinds of detection tried in place of captchas, for example?
> I don't feel safe biking on the street, and would rather stay on the sidewalk like I did when I was a kid. I would just have to pause to check before crossing driveways and intersections.

This is a common misconception among folks who don't cycle. Cyclists are actually safer on the street. If you ride on the sidewalk, you have to deal with more potential issues such as pedestrians, driveways and intersections become even more dangerous because you're behaving as both a pedestrian and a vehicle with the all the disadvantages of both. In general, cyclists are the most unsafe where cars are not expecting them. Large suburban parking lots, for example, are particularly hazardous for cyclists-- experienced cyclists use extreme caution in parking lots, believe it or not.

Cycling is not particularly dangerous, depending on how you define "dangerous".

Most car-bike collisions occur at intersections and are "right-hooks". This is when a car turns right, cutting across the path of the the cyclist and the cyclist hits the car because there's not enough room to stop or turn. These accidents typically result in bruises, damage to bike and sometimes a broken collarbone. They're rarely fatal unless the right-turning vehicle is a truck and the cyclist ends up under the truck.

The accident you're probably thinking of is a car hitting a cyclist from behind with a huge difference in speed. This, I believe, results in the most fatalities for car-bike accidents. It is relatively rare.

> ...what chance do you have from a physics standpoint to be truly safe...

None. You have no chance to be truly safe. That's an unrealistic goal for any kind of traffic system.
In the article (or perhaps the original article that is linked in this one) they explain that they ran the same tests on Intel processors without any issues whatsoever...
The license is GPL but I can't find the code repository anywhere.

We'd love do ditch WordPress but our users demand a web-ish interface to work with static sites. This could be it.

Also, what's the strategy for plugins?
This is what the anti-cycling agenda wants you to think. In reality, helmets are not worth the trouble. They potentially could make a difference in a very small percent of bike accidents and they slightly discourage biking, leading to worse overall safety and health.

It's just absurd to say they are "needed".
"... only works on Linux."

"Multicast is not supported."

I seem to recall other L2 overlay projects, UDP-based, that are both portable to other OS (subject to TAP requirement) and have no problem with multicast.

Curious: What causes these limitations with NATS?
I'm really happy that your comment is so highly upvoted. I really wish we modified the system to reduce the sentencing asymetry.

One idea (that has flaws) would be that sentences cannot exceed double the plea offered or something.
SimTower started life as an elevator simulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTower
Makes me actually respect Google! Would have not expected them having such an open culture that lets controversial viewpoints survive.
Start planning on the next jump. Can't stay a director forever.
I would wait. I bought a 1800x Ryzen and had some stability problems under Debian Buster which disappeared after a BIOS update, but I'm not compiling large projects continuously nor it has been up for a lot of time (maybe 3 days uptime? Got the new computer two weeks ago.. when it gets to 100+ days uptime I will be happy)

Under Windows it worked flawlessly even with the old BIOS.
I don't have one. The normal definitions of life are useful approximations of some property, but we should always be reminded that they are just that, approximations.
I worked in the games industry for a stint. Five out of every four people smoked weed. Because for every person who didn't, there was that one guy who REALLY did.

How the fuck else are you supposed to make games about slaying dragons and defending extra-terrestrial Earth colonies from fungal-based zombie invasions? Somebody's gotta be high to come up with that somewhere in the development pipeline.
I'm in a position where I sit behind a keyboard and answer the telephone all day. Nonetheless, I pretty much have the raw power to destroy someone's life financially even at such a low rank in the organization. That we don't have widespread drug testing but do have a problem with rehiring staff who were discharged for misconduct says quite a bit about the organization too.
While I don't have a dislike for any letter, I do dislike a couple of decimal numbers, one of which is a birthday number. I prefer odds over evens.
how can they possibly call it open source without providing the source code. Also on the website it says it is licensed under GPL, doesn't that entitle users to source code access?
And why is that a good thing for them? I mean if they provided an API to get their pricing, wouldn't it be in their interest? Does anyone buy airline tickets from the airline website ever? I don't. I use sites like Expedia and Priceline. And if an airline is not listed or has shitty prices, I don't buy it. Wouldn't it be in their interest to be listed on there? Moreover, wouldn't they want the other companies to have similar API's to have dynamic pricing?

I get that at one point not having this info out there was a good thing for them. But now the car is out of the bag. You can't keep pretending that booking sites don't exist.
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Ah, yes, the true believer in meritocracy, who assumes that the present-day distribution of careers and job titles is a perfect reflection of inherent skills, talents and interests hard-wired in by biology. Because there is no evidence whatsoever that anyone's ever tried to rig large-scale societal systems to discriminate on the basis of factors like race or sex, and even if there ever had been such a thing, it is completely eliminated now and has no lingering consequences whatsoever! And anyone who disagrees is obviously living in some kind of censorious leftist echo chamber.
There's already extensive discussion of this here, with the full text linked as the top comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14934581
Anyone who says that this guy's opinion shouldn't matter should consider that he likely interviews female candidates, sits on hiring committees that evaluate female candidates, decides whether or not female engineers get promoted, etc.
Oh dear, this seems like a bit of an unwise thing to have written. Whether or not it's true, it's something you're Not Allowed to reason about, where "Not Allowed" is in the sense of PG's http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .
I always see those kinds of policies like a "Get out of Jail" card for the employer. They have a policy of testing on their books, so if taken to court they can point to their policy. They never enforce testing, because they know it would destroy their workforce. Yet they still have the option of selectively and "randomly" selecting a bad employee for a drug test, and if they fail they have a free pass to fire them and not pay unemployment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937967
The question is not correctly formed: what we really want to know is if there are life-like beings that could operate on a totally different scale than ours (both time and size wise, including viruses and whales here). Self centered thinking, i.e. restricting our inquiry to only include protein-based lifeforms or other qualities required on our scale obviously prevents us from having the required open minded mindset.
We once wanted to buy 200+ JBODs from them and they seemed very happy to put us in touch with their engineering team so we could ask for any modifications we wanted. It felt like they were very flexible and knew how to close deals. We ended up buying that quantity but without any modifications.

Maybe they have gone too large and now have to explore the same tactics from other big companies, like you mentioned. That seems the most plausible explanation.
Perhaps people should stop speculating if they can't even think of this.
OsmAnd+ managed to have more than 100k paid installs (according to Google) while being open source: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.plu...

For most people, it is easier to pay than to compile software.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until these systems can recognize that what they are seeing is not trustworthy like humans do on a day to day basis, the systems cannot be trusted or even depended on in a real world setting.
It's not that cut and dry. Consult your legal counsel for the correct answer to this scenario.
Meh, the employees will just scan the barcode and look at their computer anyway.
Thanks, that's what seems obvious to me too that it's just public data and it's possible to collect it without overwhelming the server with requests. I just don't get why someone wouldn't want you to look at their website.
There's a github account, but no repo published :/
https://github.com/GetPublii
> People ought to be more willing to walk out the door in at will states, and need to be more specific about trigger conditions in contract work.

Oh wow, who knew it was that easy! Why didn't anyone think of that? I'm glad you've single-handedly solved the problem.
Keep in mind when the original tech bubble burst in 1999 people were still on rotary phones. The general impression was that the internet was a fad, that it was never going to be fast enough to be useful. This was before broadband, people assumed they been duped and the crummy dialup was the internet. They had sunk huge money into badly run businesses like Pets.com. Today the only thing that could destroy the internet as a business platform could be the ending of net neutraliity. If we see the internet seriously injured as a platform we then could see an unravelling that would be worse than 2000. Most of the native apps also rely on the internet to function to do what they do, snapchat for example cannot work offline at all. If the internet is sufficiently damaged by the Trump administration you could see a huge unravelling of value for businesses across the economy.
Additionally you should know that functional programming is a lie. Your computer is an imperative machine with no understanding of functional programming

Yet you program a register machine as if it were a stack machine all the time without batting an eyelid!
ZFS on FreeBSD and on Illumos has been used, abused, tested and stressed all the way to the Moon and beyond. Loads of people with loads of data over loads time.

This makes bugs appear, and get addressed, and eventually gives you confidence that nothing nasty remains uncorrected, and it won't eat your data.

ZFS on Linux, due to the unfortunate licensing situation, is considerably less tested and thus scary, data-eating bugs are at least a bit more likely to exist.
>He could face up to seven years in prison, as well as fines from $40,000 to $400,000

That's bullsh*t. He's taken off well more than seven years of people's lives and he's made well more than $400k in performance bonuses.
He explained on Reddit that he has some support from Canonical as well.
Modern hardware is unreliable, especially under GNU/Linux. Ryzen didn't give me any problem under Windows, but GNU/Linux.. the same can be said of Skylake/Broadwell i915 gpu driver. Both my Thinkpad T450s and X250 are not able to get past a few weeks uptime while using Debian. Under Windows they can go on for months.
Oh yes, we're living the dream already. But the poor natives of the various environments, just can't convince us universalists to follow their customs, share in their libraries, unpack our stuff into the designated locations.

I mean, I'm fine with doing that for my favorite OS, but I'm not going to learn the details of everyone else's OS, not when I can ride above it all on a magic abstraction layer.
Most likely to generate clicks.
I fail to understand the outrage but attribute that to the fact that few bothered to read the document before allowing themselves to be outraged by it - such is the shallow, feeling-fueled, hysteria-laden media cycle of today.

The doc presents a point-of-view, grounded in reality. Furthermore it's not "anti-diversity", but rather anti-discrimination - specifically 'positive 'discrimination which it discredits while presenting alternative policies that are more inclusive (according to the author) and reflective of inherent psychological differences.

Have I read it wrong? Somebody correct me if I missed the controversial bits.

Edit: OK, it comes off the rails a little at the "Why we’re blind" section but overall it's food for thought (and no doubt a catharsis for many Right-leaning Googlers).

Since when is dialectics grounds for ostracism?
You could ban all the container ships in the world and the NOx level on your local city streets would still be above the limit. Not all emission is created equally.

c.f. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/03/pariss-first-a...
I wish Supermicro had a similar chassis around the Cavium ThunderX. That would make a lot of sense for network-attached storage, regardless of whether one goes with SATA or drops in a SAS adapter or two. Does anyone know if any of the Cavium accelerators (crypto or compression) can improve ZFS perf?
Because it doesn't stop working. A tall chimney still works.

It works during the day just fine, as long as the atmosphere is sufficiently unstable, or you can concentrate sunlight to get excessive heating at the base of the chimney.

But the web site linked here claims that their super-chimney can work forever by exploiting the temperature difference between the bottom and top of the chimney. This is nonsense. It justifies this by saying that the air in the chimney somehow doesn't expand and cool as it rises the way that air outside the chimney does. This is bullshit.
Could be an issue with the motherboard, BIOS, or RAM though. If this was repeated across multiple motherboards, CPUs and RAM combinations to exclude the possibility of it being a flaky part, then yes, sure.
The segfaults repro on Intel systems as well with his setup:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

The segfaults being seen on that Epyc test are not the fault of the hardware - either that, or they're a problem that is common between Intel and AMD processors somehow.
It's an Electron app so the source code comes with the package. They've also tweeted "We have a plan release it for Linux with the first stable version" [0] and that a proper source code release is planned. [1] Haven't tried it myself.

[0] https://twitter.com/GetPublii/status/878563554118561792

[1] https://twitter.com/GetPublii/status/871670397145665537
Well the article has one potential answer, create a page just like Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/about/legal#security-vulnerability-rep...
> Motherboard has not viewed the full document, but a screenshot we reviewed shows it's titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber."

How can you write an article about a document you have never read? It is a disgrace this Vice/Motherboard article is the first result on Google. This is not a news article, but a biased blog with a blatant political agenda.
I want to go the opposite way. I am normally all for more regulation but I look at the cfaa and I think these people can't get anything right.

Until we are able to abolish the cfaa, I have zero faith in our ability to legislate or regulate.

tl;Dr abolish the cfaa before any new restrictions on software development
RedHat is apparently building something new called Stratis based on XFS, they're shooting for delivery within the next 1-2 years. Supposedly it'll be feature-equivalent to ZFS/Btrfs/LVM.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Stratis-R...
Except using only car and cdr does imply complexity—linear complexity; instead of being a constant-time operation, access to an arbitrary element in a list is O(n) with respect to the length of the list.
What about that infamous "rogue engineer" sneakily modifying all of VW's 2009+ cars to cheat?
A skinny kid is looking at a few weeks for the joint they smoked to leave their system. An overweight person is looking at roughly 30 days. Obesity takes you in to ??? mark mode, as many as 90 days is plausible from what I've seen. That's just casual use, habitual users skew the math wildly. Why? THC metabolizes in to your fat cells, and sticks around.

Alcohol? Since it's typically just a urine test, you can expect the traces to be gone within hours. If they're doing a liver enzymes test, they can detect alcoholism or heavy alcohol use in a wider window, but it still doesn't compare to the time weed stays in you.

Further, alcohol abuse can generally be explained away because it's accepted by society. As long as you're not obviously drunk when talking with them about it, you can get a pass. Weed is the devil's herb, cause of all manner of calamity and reefer-madness, don't'cha'kno. There's no explaining testing positive for marijuana away.
> Microaggression training

wat? They now train people in microaggressions at work? Is the "training" mandatory?
Except that people are indeed running the same test on Intel systems and getting the same segfaults:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
Octopus does have the "central brain" though - which, I guess, may account for making it "one animal". On the other hand, an animal with a truly decentralized nervous system often can regenerate from its pieces, which makes the question of it being "one animal" in the first place a bit fuzzy.
Can you elaborate on why that is a bullshit situation?
Not sure about the rant about lots of plugins being written in python.

He has a point about keeping compatibility - (this has not been something that has happened with gedit and plugins), but there has been a large community of python based plugins for gedit written by third parties and this can only be a good thing.
If you're creating a vehicle that invests in equities and distributes dividends (sounds like a mutual fund), you would need to register it with the SEC and comply with all the laws and regulations that govern such investments (e.g., reporting dividend payments and capital gains distributions to the IRS on 1099 forms, etc.).
An excellent read! I had the same thought. It's almost negligence not to mention it.
Odd, I'm pretty sure both of the first two are wrong. We used to have to make sure we had legit certs for selenium to work with https. That or configure the Firefox profile to have already accepted the self signed one.

And, really, the first two points are clearly contradictory. I'm guessing I just misunderstand what you mean?

Do you mean the communication between the driver? I'm curious why ssl would be important there? Should just be done locally and a standard ssh tunnel can help with any remote encryption you might want.
The concept is not bad, but how do I change the actual looks of my site? Can't I edit the frontend somehow?
It’s interesting that the author considers the conceptual framework of microaggressions spurious, while describing his negative experiences as a conservative Googler in terms of what a feminist might describe as microaggressions. To further undermine his own point, he asserts that several harms against conservatives have been caused by these microaggressions.

The difference between effective negative feedback and harassment/microaggressions is the former encapsulates a desire for the person receiving the feedback to succeed. Or, in the feminist lexicon, empathy.
There is bad with the good. The suggestion that men and women ARE different is taboo. The premise that the differences between them are social as opposed to literal is a much easier way to force the same point (and IMO more correct but I respect I lack the science to be certain). This person lacks tact and the way they view the entire political sphere as just left/right is ultimately of concern. Way too simplistic outlook IMO.
I'm sorry, but you're mischaracterizing what he wrote and by doing that making his point. There's no "genetic predisposition" for not liking tech, but there are biological differences between the sexes that affect a great many things and he's arguing that career choice might be one of them - which seems a pretty boring observation to me to be quite honest. I think it's weird that you've extrapolated that to conclude that he'll be discriminating against women in hiring decisions.
Particulates from cargo ships aren't a major concern for human health. They're not long-lived in the atmosphere, so when emitted over the open ocean, they're removed from the air long before they reach populated areas.