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Uken is looking for talented developers to help us build amazing mobile games. In particular, we have positions available for:

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About Uken
We are one of the largest independent game studios in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across mobile and Facebook.
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It's not just the H1Bs that are the problem. The bigger issue is the insane wait for Green cards for Indians and Chinese.

How can they compete effectively in the labour market with that damocles sword hanging over their heads?

I have no hope regarding a real reform in that direction. Too many moneyed interests want to keep the mess going.
tldr: 2037-2080 for "brainlike computers". sounds like a reasonable estimate to me. but who would say that is "nowhere near"? A few decades compared to billions of years of evolution to create life here on earth? a few decades compared to millions of years to go from monkeys to humanity? compared to thousands of years to go from prehistory to contemplating this question? a date that many of us will live to see? IMO this means we are on the verge.
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Cities are neighborhood places where people walk to work and carry groceries home 4 nights a week. It works great for retirees who ditch their cars entirely.

I live near the National Zoo in DC. We have a local Iranian grocer right off Metro with a local organic chain right next door. There is no parking there. Segregate any "venue" with parking vs. the alternatives. I also hit a nearby Whole Foods for some items but they need giant underground parking lots for their business models.

The notion that "everyone" is living on Taco Bell and delivery pizza is pure nonsense. Our DC ethiopian and hispanic communities blossoming a short walk away eat really well. They have nice markets where I sometimes buy jicama to pickle. Some C++ template fu nerds also cook up a healthy storm. Recipes and idioms apply everywhere.
In defense of “thoughts and prayers”
>"If you want your science to be about the real world and not about some hypothetical scenarios that don't exist you have no choice but to do the transposition."

How can saying false things make your science "about the the real world"? The only thing I can think of is that by "real world" you are referring to using the publication of massive amounts of incorrect/questionable information as a metric for success. Yes, that is indeed the sham going on.

>"There is a reason humans naturally and instinctively do it when they talk about experiments. This is how you describe things in real world human language."

I have no problem talking about data without transposing the conditional, if you do that is some issue with your training.

>"Sure there are debates about priors."

The error you advocate (of transposing the conditional) has nothing to do with priors.
The military budget is $600B. There are 1.2M active and 0.8M reserve servicemen.

Like any old organization, they have legacy costs: healthcare and pensions for former and retired servicemen are phenomenal.
What is the machine in the photo?
Ought to build the circuits rather than simulate.
I like this kind of development also. But I don't think it is for everyone (the person has to keep thinking on the problem for long time).

A good talk about It, from the creator of clojure:

https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc
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Not that I think the central conclusion is wrong, but after skimming the article it's very odd that relative number of affected people is not brought up ('population' isn't even mentioned in the piece). The Houston metro has twice the population of Puerto Rico. I don't know an easy way to estimate those effected in Florida, and probably the sum total of human suffering is greater in Puerto Rico thanks to the island's vulnerability, the state of infrastructure, and the strength of the storm. Obviously there's no real way to measure these up but it seems an obvious line of questioning in trying to explain the disparity.
We aren't propagating at intervals currently. However, it's something that could be done; batch samples could be set aside for that purpose alone, also, one control sample could be divided and tested every 5 years. It's an interesting question: if I culture my cells after 20 years, then preserve them for 20 more, is the viability higher than 40 years of preservation alone?

Thanks for the question.
What's "independent"? If someone doesn't work for government, it doesn't mean he is "independent" - everybody has their opinions and biases and peer networks and so on. If somebody does work for the government, they are certainly not "independent" in any sensible meaning of the word.

How would you ensure that "independent editorial control" would not oppress unpopular opinions? Institute yet another independent curator of curators? And then the third one and fourth one? Why not just leave the people alone and instead of having a dozen curatorial organizations just let them themselves choose what they want to read and listen to? You think they are not able of figuring it by themselves?

> This is how most publicly funded news outlets work in liberal democracies, such as the BBC.

Most of those outlets are very biased and open only to particular set of opinions. Including, of course, BBC. While they manage to occasionally produce high-quality content, they certainly nowhere near providing an adequate representation of the spectrum of opinion existing in the society. Fortunately, in most liberal democracies state-run media does not enjoy the monopoly on information, thus this bias is easily corrected by a gamut of other media outlets. However, since private media is capable of representing the whole gamut of opinions anyway, and to produce high-quality content too, and there is no discernable advantage in public media in that regard, what's the point of having it at all?
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I think people have less time and energy to cook than they did in the past. Commutes are longer. Kids are in more after-school activities. More people are taking work home with them. Something has to give.

Other factors could be the disappearance of home ec classes, the growth in some companies offering a lot of free food as a work perk, or mandatory meal plans in colleges (have those always been a thing? Or are they new?).
I don't think it's any women choice to be a prostitute.

Well that's presumptuous, patronizing, and paternal.

Frankly, I find it remarkable that this article paints this woman as some sort of representative for all prostitutes. Funny they didn't write an article about her back when she was pro-legalization. But I suppose that's a less interesting story

This is one person, with one opinion, based on experiences with one, arguably broken, decriminalization regime.

New Zealand sounds like a great place to learn lessons about legalizing prostitution. I think it's a mistake to assume that lesson is that it doesn't work, particularly given the known issues with abolition.
They arent, however the rules of the sea are very simple. More importantly a calculation of probability of collision between two slow moving giant metal objects would be easy.
I think Michael is saying "Just like it would be dumb to increase the size of a factory too quickly, it would be dumb to increase the size of our batches too quickly."
It's a nice project you have, it has saved me a lot of time.
Something like bitcoin may actually result in lower overall energy costs by providing a guaranteed base level of income for new power generation.

Building a new plant is much less risky if there is guaranteed off-peak demand. New plants also tend to me more environmentally friendly.
Please stop posting paywalled crap. Do you want to live in a world of paywalls? I don't.
Thank you, I know what wikinews is. I also know it can't exist without primary sources (and btw can't probably exist if all those become subscription-only).
The discomfort is difficult to describe. I best describe it as a cramp. We believe that the negative pressure is in part to blame, and we have filed IP on a possible solution.
We need to understand that this is an alien concept for them: for the first time in history, there's a way of communicating end-to-end that's mathematically guaranteed (or quasi-guaranteed) to be secure. This is a dead-end. Not only criminals: they can't read anyone's communication, period.

Intelligence methods have to adapt, if they haven't yet.
Mine was a Sinclar QL with a Motorola 68008 and standard 128 MB (extended to 640 MB) and two of those tape drives that support tape cartridges with an endless tape.
Hurricane Maria and its fallout weren't heavily covered. From what I hear from friends down there, power and water are still hard to come by, and the utilities are not providing things like bagged water, which is mandated in WA State after a few hours without water pressure.

If what happened in Puerto Rico happened on the West Coast, but from an earthquake, we would have seen a much larger response and better media coverage. Partly due to utilities here planning, training and funding resources for such an event (with water distribution warehouses sprinkled through Seattle), basics like clean, potable water would be in much better supply.
I find that people doing these claims have seldomly really worked in large Python codebases...

Personally, I find it pretty workable in Python with a big codebase (but you have to respect the rules like having a good test suite -- you change the time from compiling to running your test suite -- which you should have anyways)...

I find that the current Python codebase I'm working on (which has 15 years and around 15k modules -- started back in Python 2.4, currently in Python 2.7 and going to 3.5) pretty good to work in -- there's a whole class of refactoring that you do on typed languages to satisfy the compiler that you don't even need to care about in the Python world (I also work on a reasonably big Java source codebase and refactorings are needed much more because of that).

I must say I'm usually happier on the Python realm, although, we do use some patterns for types such as the adapter protocol quite a bit (so, you ask for a type and expect to get it regardless of needing a compiler to tell you it's correct and I remember very few cases of errors related to having a wrong type -- I definitely had much more null pointer exceptions on java than typing errors on Python) and we do have some utilities to specify an interface and check that another class implements all the needed methods (so, you can do light type checking on Python without a full static checking language and I don't really miss a compiler for doing that type checking...).

I do think about things such immutability, etc, but feel like the 'we're all responsible grown ups' stance of Python easier to work with... i.e.: if I prefix something with '_' you should not access it, the compiler doesn't have to scream that it's private and I don't need to clutter my code -- you do need good/responsible developers though (I see that as an advantage).
I'd love to read this, unfortunately my local library system doesn't have it (yet). I've submitted a request, though
> I don't remember having seen any professional security audit for dnsmasq before.

Mozilla ("Secure Open Source" [0]) funded an audit of dnsmasq [1] by Cure53 [2] about a year and a half ago. The final report [3] (PDF) lists one "medium" and five "low" issues.

It just goes to show that a "successful" audit (i.e., one that doesn't find any major/critical issues) ultimately doesn't prove much of anything at all WRT the overall security of a piece of software.

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Secure_Open_Source/Completed#d...

[2]: https://cure53.de/

[3]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/f/f7/Dnsmasq-report.pdf
One more recommendation is to use the "try before you buy" option [0]. You have 30 days to test.

If it works out for you then buy and assign the license to the install and the time limit will be removed (so no need to reinstall)

[0] http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation
to me it sounds like a typical safe lock - 2 turns left, 3 and half right, ...

>to send specific packets in a specific sequence on specific ports.

like Gothic Motel model itself it looks like an unnecessary complication. I think we can get pretty much the same effect if typical password (its hash) was sent in a sequence of say 10 packets instead of 1.
Most peoples experiential sense of shopping is now informed by postwar expectations. If more people alive today had experienced price controls and rationing, I suspect their feelings about food would be different. I did not experience rationing, I have only a sense of "food" as a product of supermarkets existing, and their effect on the food supply chain. I was at the tail-end of -grocer as a term of art for people who intermediated food. Watching green- grocers go out of business in parallel with active choices to eat seasonal food it is easy to make a syllogism "supermarkets destroy choice" or "supermarkets make people eat worse" but its nothing like that simple. Its cause/effect/correlation against a number of other things like the role of sugar in diet, carbohydrates, prices of agricultural inputs, mega farming, industrialization..

Yes, we see shops close everywhere. Yes, we see supermarkets concentrate in high income areas. Yes, regulation is a nightmare but deregulation is also a nightmare.

I don't know the answer either. Locavore is expensive.
I live in Florida. Millions were affected here. However, at no point was the entire state out of power, and even if it had been, we have neighboring states that we can travel to relatively easily. In fact, many of us did that to avoid the storm altogether, and only came back when it was gone. Most of us that stayed weren't out of power for more than a week... In fact, most were only out for a few days.

Most people in Puerto Rico didn't have that option, and they couldn't travel anyone via land to somewhere with power.

In short, Puerto Rico is much, much worse.
10% of Houston was affected by flooding. Basically all my friends in PR were affected by this hurricane, despite them being sprinkled about the island. One still has servers that are underwater from said storm, helped him stand up replacements a few days back for those.

More people were affected in PR by this hurricane than those affected in Houston.
Brands have replaced people. There is no "me" or "you" anymore. There are only brands. Humanity is abandoning real life and relationships for an optimized, transactional idea of a better life. Everything from ice cream to art to music and even people are now consumable fuel for social media databases.

These databases, among others, are being cultivated by super intelligent beings. Humanity is being forcefully digitized and data mined in order to advance technology. The end goal is to build strong vehicles to house these beings. These vehicles, or bodies, will be bootstrapped mainly by advances in genetic engineering and machine learning. This is all under the guise of space exploration and human progress.

™
Maybe. But by that logic we shouldn't see much coverage of the mass shooting in Las Vegas since it only affected a few thousand concert goers.
A dynamo... ;)
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Maybe it has something to do with the word Territory as in a U.S. Territory. I still don't know what it is, but it implies that it is not a state, not a city. If Hawaii can be half way around the world and be called a state, why can't we do the same for Puerto Rico?
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Well I wasn't creating Photoshop :) this really was the easiest solution for our needs.
Possibly, but I feel like at the very least if monetary value is attached to an upvote, then upvoting some meme will at least make you think, "Is this meme worth taking away money from the documentary I upvoted yesterday?"

It may devolve into paying for an echo chamber, but I have faith that at least a larger number of people will reconsider their votes if they know that the votes give a share of their pool of contribution.
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Cool idea, though I personally don’t spend a time of time making footprints or symbols. Most of it is spent actually doing the design. When I do create a schematic symbol, I read the entire data sheet, not just the I/O section. Often, the symbol will be drawn multiple ways, depending on how the part is being used and how the support components are connected. As an example, many Linear Technology parts have several symbols for the same part.

Once you have a big, personal library of parts, it’s usually copying one and modifying it slightly. Better yet to reuse as much form the previous designs as possible since the part has been proven in.
And the RAM pack blu-tacked to stop it flexing and crashing as you type in programs from a magazine? ;-)
It's not much of a problem for (v4) IPs, because they almost always consist of 4 numbers separated by a dot, making them immediately distinguishable from decimal numbers. If two-component IPs were common (they are sometimes seen in CIDR notation, but not often), the dot would have been an unfortunate separator choice as well.

For versions with only two components, I would argue that the dot can be confusing already.

Why use a separator that has the potential of confusion when there are several other choices with less potential?
That's not really true.
The first one I owned: 486dx4 100 mhz with 8mb ram, a 14.4 modem, a 600mb hard drive, and windows 3.1 ;-)
Why don't you subscribe? I see a WSJ article on the front page of HN maybe once a week.
I co-authored a paper into IMC discussing stats and network questions with a statistician. We got bounced for being too polemical and teaching-mode instead of classical science. the whole point of the paper, was to try and argue for a more mature outlook into statistical methods applied to network operations!

My motivation to co-write was strongly influenced by being called out for p-jacking. Its remarkably easy to fall from grace. I did. walking back is very hard, when peer review doesn't want to have a polemical discussion.
I don’t think PR wants to be a state yet.
they should have probably used "colony".

>be called a state, why can't we do the same for Puerto Rico?

it isn't a state. As in taxation without representation.
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