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> This is an article about everyone getting smarter and restructuring their offering where necessary, and continuing to move forward

The article specifically states "only three projects have said they are canceling or postponing the sale of coins because of the warning." It's not a doom and gloom article. It's just saying the vast majority of ICOs are (a) probably noncompliant and (b) doing nothing about it.

> the SEC still answers to the courts

The SEC is an independent agency [1]. Congress delegated to it the Congresses' powers to make rules in and around securities with the Securities Act of 1934, as amended [2]. Courts grant agencies, like the SEC, wide rule-making authority [3]. In any case, the SEC "answers to" the courts in the same way the Congress does.

> the SEC is not mandated by Congress to undermine interstate commerce

The SEC is a creature of the federal government. Its specific jurisdiction is interstate commerce. In fact, one way to get around some SEC rules (though not all--consult a lawyer before doing something stupid) is to exclusively conduct your business within a single state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Exchange_Act_of_193...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Mobil_Corp._v._Saudi_Bas...

Dislaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice.
Yes, I think our methodology is the same, but the memo seems to expect that Google will still be <50% women in that scenario, whereas I believe it will be brought to 50%. Which is why I don't see the quota system as a fundamental risk to Google, whereas he does.
They aren't really incresing their work load by 4x because their turntables have 4 arms, as pointed out here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14961307
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Your argument is confusing... Can I deploy my Django app on Azure? If the answer is yes, what exactly, is "me too" about that?
And this is partially why people got so upset at that Googler. You understood what I said, but you're somehow displeased I didn't phrase it in the way you would have and are reading a direction of duty/responsibility that isn't in my comment nor in my thoughts.
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- Cold emailing. Find people in your niche and personally contact them, find people who are likely to need an app and make a personalized offer.

- Content Marketing + Social Media. Write a blog or make a youtube channel, share free value, submit links to HN/Subreddits, use it to advertise your service's landing page. This can be combined with smart PR/Influencer marketing(guest blog for people, get people to share your content), and SEO(think about long-tail very niche keywords that you can rank for).

- "Engineering as marketing" - create open source or free software that your potential clients will want to use, use it to drive traffic to your page. Look at draw.io or chapp.is for example.

- Facebook ads. Target audience in your niche, make an appealing ad that offers free consultation. If you think you can afford $1-2 per lead, that could be the best way to quickly test how well your offer will convert.

- Collaborate with people who already have clients(for example contact app designers, offer them development services).

- Referrals and word of mouth. This is kind of a chicken and the egg problem at the beginning, but after you have first clients, they might bring more business or recommend more clients. Consider giving people heavy discounts at the beginning, if you think they will bring you more business in the future.
It's a startling deviation from the general population statistics. That fact is why I grant a lot of plausibility to unconscious bias arguments. When you render the numbers, they are very striking.

And once you normalize that kind of environment as "balanced", an attempts to correct it are going to appear to be a new bias. With few exceptions, this is something like a Mystery Spot illusion where you're normalized to such a skewed perception that even balanced and fair ideas can appear to be unfair.
Every instance of censorship is justified by saying the offender broke a code of conduct. The Sedition Act, ban of Huck Finn in school libraries, and even preventing sex education are justified this way. Equating a well meaning discussion to harassment is a dangerous precedent to set. Anything can be construed as breaking Google's code of conduct. If I compliment a coworker's new haircut, and they interpret it as an inappropriate sexual advance, should I be fired for making the coworker uncomfortable?
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I don't think that's necessary. WSL runs Linux binaries directly, it should use the host GPU just like any Windows program.
My side projects ideas usually revolve around a problem or just plain curiosity. Some stick while others don't. Most of them, however, are tools that help with work stuff. My last side project that i still use almost every day since 2013 is pgweb - https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb
Skeptic is the wrong word, being skeptical is a component of critical thinking. Climate deniers are engaged in denialism. Other examples are flat earthers, and alt-right. They're not exploring alternatives critically, they're attached to the rejection of established reasoning for no discernible reason, and it's the opposite of critical thinking, a rejection of epistemology.

There is a distinction between "belief in" things that are not falsifiable, such as religious beliefs; and "belief that" which is knowable and evidence based. And denialists conflate these things, and become emotionally attached to belief in rejection of facts. So they spend a lot of brain cycles on myriad conspiracy theories to deny the conventional wisdom. What they claim to believe in as an alternative is more of a "by default" position rather than a sincere belief. e.g. if you ask flat earthers if they really think a person falls off the disk if they walk to the edge of the earth, or if there really is a giant wall of ice that mankind has never figured out how to climb, if we've never really been able to find out what's on the other side of the flat earth, they totally get stuck. They spend way way more time trying to disprove the convention, than the prove their position. It's a negative position, not one of advocacy.

It is denialism.
Thanks for the kind words! Results are currently never deleted, but that would certainly make sense. I've added it to my task list for the coming month.
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> The SEC will never ever ever use the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as currently written to ensure a fair market of all cryptographic token issuances

If the SEC categories an asset as a security, it has rule making powers over the trading of those assets provided an American buys or sells the asset, inadvertently or not. Many respected lawyers and lawmakers, as well as the SEC, say many ICOs look like securities.

Note that coins offered in ICOs being securities isn't a death knell to the concept. Just to the scammy elements of the market.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice. Don't be a dummy and treat Internet comments as anything but casual banter.
@AP — BREAKING: Trump: If NKorea escalates nuclear threat, 'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

Great!
Linux is the name of the kernel. It is also used as the name of the kernel plus the userland, which has a lot of GNU code in it (although give Poettering some time and we'll see). WSL is the userland without the kernel.
In certain contexts, certainly.

Modern small cars with small engines can be quite fuel efficient in highway driving, though, and there 40 mpg isn't quite the very top. A month ago or so I did a trip in a 2016 Seat Toledo (petrol, non-hybrid), and the drive computer reported the consumption as 3.9 L/100 km after 150 km of driving at speeds from 60 to 100 km/h, averaging IIRC 78 km/h.

A 80 km strip at 120 km/h increased the average to 4.2 L/100 km.
What are the problems with I/O? I am looking at this thread with an eye on buying a windows laptop for dev. instead of a mac.
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Methods or framework for complex object segmentation
We are currently developing a software, where we want to classify food on a tray in canteens from one top image. So where we have issues is, that we need a method or existing framework (not OpenCV, we already using it :) ) to be able to segment out for example touching objects. For example you have a tray and you have different items on it, your soup next to it your main dish, something to drink and maybe 2 snickers, and they all touch each other.

What would be your ideas, methods to segment out each object, so that we are able to send it to our neural networks?
Much appreciated! Let me know if there's anything you see missing :-)
I would be tempted to try it if you could name a few reasons it would be better than Postman.

I know the "if it works for you, stick with it" saying, but I would really like to give it a go if it would have better features I may not be aware about!

Congrats on the app and being able to work on it full-time! That's a big achievement!
Ubuntu on WSL lets you run sshd. You can get to your Windows file system at /mnt/c/.
They have an interesting somewhat-hybrid called i-eloop that uses regenerative braking and a capacitor to power auxiliary systems:

http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/i-eloop/
I dispute that. Most major newspapers in the states have existed long before it was common for media outlets to be publicly traded companies. The term "fourth estate" dates back almost to the time of the French Revolution so while it's always been expected that newspapers need be profitable to exist, the interests of its readers and those that stand to profit from the paper have not always been so far apart as they are now.
All the problems you listed are going to be issues with most major cities. I would hope that self driving companies are testing their tech outside the SV bubble because the rest of us have to deal with rain, snow, sleet, high winds, and other weather that causes low visibility and low traction.
theres an app for that. https://nugget.one
The Bay Area voted overwhelmingly Democrat in the last election. Your doubts about having 30%+ Googlers declaring affiliation with Trump is right: there's no way it could've happened. Just not for the nefarious reasons you want to suggest though.
I was frustrated running into seg faults while working on an OS project for my undergrad. I wanted a tool to quickly prototype bitwise operations without having to write and compile C code. I made bspl which is a REPL to do exactly that [https://crates.io/crates/bspl]. Like others have said here, the project usually finds you. And it's up to you to drive it to completion.
They also have an interesting somewhat-hybrid called i-eloop that uses regenerative braking and a capacitor to power auxiliary systems:

http://www.mazda.com/en/innovation/technology/env/i-eloop/
scott alexander at slate star codex absolutely kills it with a statistical analysis that supports the memo writer's opinion.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

he's also very balanced about his conclusions imho.
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Because credit card companies offer incentives to sign up for their cards. A lot of people here regularly carry a lot of debt on their cards, and the credit card companies know if they give those users more cards to juggle around their debt on, they can leach more money from them.

For financially responsible people, that means you can sometimes get a few freebees if you're willing to deal with the hassle.

I don't know what it's like in most other places, but debt is a weird part of culture here.
There are two different ways of NFC payment. One is through NFC of your phone and another one is NFC directly in the card.
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The difference in metabolic rates between large and small animals is directly linked to why large animals typically have longer lifespans the smaller ones.
Sounds cheesy, but I worked on something I actually enjoyed working with it, not thinking if it's a commercial success or anything that sort. I can't think of myself working out of working hours on something I do only for money.

People and their energy levels are different, I guess. I wish I had the willpower and stamina.
Great article, would be interested in more in depth articles on say, JPEG compression in the future.

Really liked the better/worse thing too, added some nice comparison
Terrifying is ordinary tho; just look at every other living creature ever.
The fundamental purpose of a currency is to pay taxes and debts.

Which means that bitcoin isn't really a currency, it's just a particularly transportable bottle of wine. Nothing more than an intangible asset.

You still have to swap it for some actual currency at some point - or go to jail for tax evasion.
How much does Authy pay for these exclusives? The comments on the blog post are already mentioning their refusal to support standards-based TOTP apps. Companies which place business relationships above user security should be shamed, security options is not the place businesses should be monetizing.

Cloudflare finally let up on their Authy-exclusivity this year: https://blog.cloudflare.com/you-can-now-use-google-authentic...
For those nay-sayers pointing out the incidents where the cars had to have manual control taken, I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

When there's an incident of a car needing a human to take control, what happens next? Cruise will record the incident, and add it to the training data set. Now, the system will learn what it should have done instead and that same kind of incident becomes less likely to occur.

I think this isn't about beta testing the product. I think this is primarily about gathering those failure data points. More cars driving means more miles driven, more data collected, leading to a consumer ready product faster.

And if it happens to give the employees a neat benefit, all the better.
In the linked page they say they're pursuing both internal combustion and electric vehicles and they explain their rationale:

- In line with this policy, continue efforts to perfect the internal combustion engine, which will help power the majority of cars worldwide for many years to come and can therefore make the greatest contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and combine the results with effective electrification technologies

- From 2019, start introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution
It certainly will be as long as people sit around moaning about what is going to be imposed on them rather than asserting any opinions about how society should work.
Well, the very reason for conceiving of dark matter is because there is evidence of gravitational effects from mass we cannot observe. So dark matter by definition must at minimum interact gravitationally, and be hard to observe by other means (electromagnetically, maybe even intent to the nuclear forces).

Black holes sans accretion disk clearly satisfy these criteria.
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Brilliant. Time to patch it back to CPU loads.
I'd also suggest that another factor is that the author assumed that his reader base would have basic statistical knowledge, which I'd suggest would not be true even among software engineers. Just erase any reference to distributions or averages and you'll see what most people see. This just adds to your points.
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For what it is worth, the huge fire linked to by the parent wasn't in a forest, but I suppose people shouldn't live outside of a city?

For some of us, living in a city seems as stupid as living outside of one seems to others. Each has their risk, but when a person is mugged or killed in a city I don't blame them for a poor decision.
There's no objective system I know of that accurately measures a person's value to an organization. As soon as you try to reduce things to such metrics you lose sight of them as people.

Yes, it's great to strive to eliminate one's own biases and "confounding factors" to make one's organization stronger, but most "meritocracy" thinking is about finding the right magic numbers to describe people and that is its own bias/set of confounding factors.

People are often more than just "value", they are part of relationship webs, and full of complex emotions. You generally can't just assume a person is an interchangeable widget/commodity in your system and you insert paycheck and receive some magic amount of "value" in exchange.

A person's productivity absolutely depends on things besides skill, work habits, and leadership ability, however you define them and however you try to metric their value. A person's productivity might be powered by finding that random coworker's leftover cake baking experiments in the break room on those Wednesdays when they need it most. Another's might be powered by interesting gossip. Other people's are tanked by the extra buzz of the a/c on days in the Summer above 80F. You can't predict when someone might have a huge break-up that ruins their productivity for weeks and you can't predict when someone has just the right sort of vacation that their productivity is amazing for the next year... and so on and so forth.

The very term "culture fit" alone, and how often it is used in "meritocracy" contexts, is a giant neon sign that meritocracy doesn't exist in the real world and people are trying to keep themselves warm at night rationalizing that the decisions they make on semi-random metrics or gut "culture fit" decisions are the best they could make, rather than deal with messy subjective world of dealing with actual people.
Jurassic Park is one of THE seminal movies of the 90s and the female kid in the show saves the day because she "knows Unix". That was pretty cool. Though it was only a small role, not the lead like in War Games.
It's possible and mutually beneficial to instead send that user targeted ads for therapy, suicide hotline etc...which is effectively what happens.

The cynical dystopian insinuation around technology, on a technology site no less, is getting old.
And, how'd it go?
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> Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term.

He says that and then proceeds to provide absolutely nothing to back up such an extraordinary claim (emphasis on the serious negative + long-term part).

This article reeks of some terrible combination of nanny state authoritarianism and trite moral lecturing about proper use of one's time (something that was more common a century or more ago when the US was overflowing with lecturing about how to live a 'proper' life).

Want to know why people are spending 50 minutes per day on Facebook? Because for those people it's better than the alternative, their lives are devoid of anything better to do with that time (specifically the person doesn't want to do anything else with that time, after all it's their free will choice). That's the same reason those same people were previously watching four or more hours of TV each night (which they frequently pay/paid a lot of money to do). They want to watch hours of tv, they want to spend 50 minutes on Facebook - who are you to tell them how to live?

Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Kik, Viber, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, email, text messages, etc. People want to hyper socialize, you can think it's unhealthy if you like, you still don't get to determine how people live and you never will.
It is very slow. Like noticeably slow. Especially if it comes to stuff like rsync and a lot of files. If you just use vim and such you would probably not notice it as much.

Also depending on how you develop you might run into unsupported things. For example, I once tried to run IntelliJ Linux version on it through X11 Forwarding. Didn't really run perfectly.

So right now I am too afraid to develop in it because what if the real Linux acts differently? I guess you could always test it, but then why not just develop in Linux already?
I have wished with my friends that there was a way when binge watching a TV show to know if the next episode ends in a cliffhanger.

We've gotten caught out several times watching 'just one more episode' because there was a cliffhanger only to discover to our frustration that it was a double cliffhanger.

It would have been better for us if we had saved the previous episode for another day instead of going down the rabbit hole.
Do they? These black holes would have masses of some multiple of ten times the mass of the sun, which doesn't seem terribly heavy (relatively). How does this explain the Fermi paradox?
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With Pichai they're steering more towards a service-oriented company. Linux clearly has a place in their vision. You can see this also in their offerings on Azure.

Microsoft is a large company. In recent years, many *NIX developers joined them. Although I don't have statistics.

Gone are the days where its funny or righteous to bash Microsoft on /. heck gone is /.

Its also not only Microsoft; its Wintel at a whole. Desktop market lost a lot of its relative relevance. Intel is also having trouble with ARM platform [1]. That's not only desktop market. ARM's onto the server market as well.

I'm not really backing the above up with sources and numbers though so take it with a grain of salt.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/02/intel-corp...
It appears we have a spectrum:

* harassment and intimidation

* calling for harasser to be fired

* firing harasser

All three behaviors fall under the broad umbrella of harassment and intimidation. Clearly the first is a fireable behavior, and the last is not a fireable behavior.

The middle one certainly stands somewhere between. I suppose it's possible that if the author was exonerated, the middle group may be deemed as having participated in a firing offense?
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I think that's basically right. The worst crashes are usually frontal, and your entire body is evenly supported, rather than hanging on a seat belt or something.

Rear-facing seats are definitely not illegal in cars. Tesla has them as an option for a third row in the Model S. I think they would be legal in airplanes too, and the main reason they don't see more use is just that people are often uncomfortable not facing the direction they're going.
From the memo:

Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the
workplace differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far from the whole story.

Because he thinks the focus on cultural context ignores some aspects of the problem and leads to bad decisions? I mean, I disagree with his conclusions, but I don't think he is trying to be deliberately misleading.