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Imagine someone asking "Could APIs revolutionize healthcare?"

Well, yes, they certainly could, even though that's an extremely vague question from someone who might not even understand what they're asking.

If you're interested in hearing about blockchain's potential from a business and society perspective, there's a bunch of material, but for example the latest Andreesen-Horowitz podcast episode was about "why crypto tokens matter".

Also this recent interview with someone deeply knowledgable about the supply chain world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla42bY7k90
>>> Oracle has a perfect record on being on the "wrong side" proving my point above

This might just be a huge list of coincidences :D
I think that's been an economic reality in the USA for a few years now, though also including natural gas in the tech doing the replacing. The recent EPA document that was intended to support coal and nuclear covered this:

“The draft report finds that since 2002, ‘most baseload power plant retirements have been the victims of overcapacity and relatively high operating cost but often reflect the advanced age of the retiring plants.’

“Overcapacity is a major cause of the turmoil in electricity markets. The report explains that because the growth in electricity demand has flattened since 2008, it is harder for ‘less competitive plants’ to survive. …

“And it doesn’t make sense to keep an uneconomic plant running when you know it’s going to keep losing money.

“In the case of nuclear power, the study notes that vast majority of the plant closure announcements blame plant retirement on ‘unfavorable market conditions.’ And the ‘most unfavorable condition is that the marginal cost of generation for many nuclear plants is higher than the cost of most other generators in the market.’

“Similarly, coal is also hurt by its high marginal cost: ‘[Coal] plants that have retired are old and inefficient units that were not recovering their operations and fuel costs, much less capital cost recovery.'”

That may be starting with the oldest, dirtiest and least efficient powerplants but it's only going to get worse for them as time goes on.
Why does that spoil it. It's clearly not true. Most people are just starting to get life figured out at 35. Most 35-year-olds haven't accomplished all that much yet.
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> But my understanding from having interviewed people that worked there is that it's so convoluted to avoid GC pauses that you might as well be using C++.

I've done a very minimal amount of this... the gist is that you avoid GC pauses by avoiding allocation. This translates into reusing objects using pools, etc.... and the assorted complexities that come from having to explicitly manage object lifecycles. In critical applications you often want to avoid dynamic memory in C/C++, so it may not be all that different.
Tax law is quite complex. Even for taxes based on profits, it is non-trivial to tie patterns of revenue and expense to particular tax jurisdictions (much less particular geographical locations).

This is particularly true in the age of e-commerce - did the revenue occur where the purchaser clicked an icon, where a server received the buy message, where a server recorded/confirmed the transaction, where a bank sent/received currency, where a warehouse dispatched an item (what if it's a digital item), where the item was received, all of the above, some of the above depending on ever shifting tax law in multiple jurisdictions? There are more and different questions related to expenses. For example, should it have some relationship to where employees are located?

Armies of people work every day to prevent upsetting some tax jurisdiction while minimizing tax expense. It's a sisyphean task. Compared to Amazon's revenues, $250m is a rounding error, so they have very good accountants working for them.
Wow, that's a pretty cool easter egg! I copied the "image" and pasted into Sublime, and there you go: actual code!

Very cool little detail, color me impressed!
The 12" iPad Pro is Apple's most amazing device. Ridiculously smooth to operate. So fast. And a great screen and speaker.

I'm using it much more than I've used any other iPad, probably more so than a laptop.

If it had proper XCode and a good SSH terminal, it would replace my MacBook Pro.

As it stands, it seems Apple is trying to keep the Macs their actual pro development platform.
Deliberate sarcasm?
You just went on the attack against an Uber employee without disclosing that you work for Microsoft in your previous comment. You literally just committed the sin you're accusing someone else of.

Worse, Uber doesn't have that policy. Microsoft does. Uber doesn't have to obey Microsoft's arbitrary made up rules. You're just looking for an excuse to hurt somebody, while ironically, and with total lack of self awareness accusing them of being ethically challenged.

And maybe you've forgotten what Microsoft did to get where it is today. Because in the 90s it was just as ethically challenged as Uber is now.
How Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) Helping Internet of Things (IoT) Grow?
It's the Hollywood version of the events.
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Well, I put my number on my CV then uploaded that CV to CV-Library.

Later I removed my number but I think my profile is being shared and I still get few calls a day.

When a recruiter calls, I tell them to send me an e-mail instead but they are almost never happy with this and they try to make me talk right now.

Very pushy behaviour in general.
That didn't happen with R5RS, why would it happen now?

Face it, by refusing to be opinionated they ensured Scheme will remain a toy.
Ibm's db2 is still popular among financial companies.
Articles like this come up periodically. The big drag is that you are stuck doing development over ssh for the most part, which is why professional developers don’t really do this.

If your workload is more focused around “productivity” apps, you can use email, office, etc on an iPad mostly just fine, but text selection/manipulation becomes a problem.
Yeah it's a little hilarious how people just keep giving Facebook more and more data to experiment with.
Congrats! Cryo-EM is the tool that basically gave birth to integrative structural biology. Our understanding of how viruses attach to healthy cells, or how blastocysts differentiate into stem cells is all contingent upon our ability to observe these processes in vivo. And as we push ever further down into the atomic scale, using better electron detectors and more intelligent Bayesian estimations, many hidden mysteries of cell functioning will soon be revealed.

For example, seeing the structure and attack vector of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes severe malaria has led to the design for an inhibitor.

The cryo-EM structure of the Plasmodium falciparum 20S proteasome and its use in the fight against malaria.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27286897

Hexahydroquinolines are antimalarial candidates with potent blood-stage and transmission-blocking activity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-017-0007-4
for SSH problem solution is mosh + blink
I don't know about pre-defined, but i3 lets you define layouts with specifications for how windows should get "swallowed" into each tile, so it should be doable to set something up.
When it was announced is somewhat irrelevant. Developers are saying Web Extensions still isn't able to support the needed functionality. That needed to be addressed before shutting down the older APIs. That is where I feel developers have been left hanging... given a "shutdown" date when the replacement isn't even ready yet.
Not a perfect solution, but sure. "You're the weakest link - goodbye!" <everyone else flinches and reviews infosec>
The levelized cost of solar is already less that the fuel and maintenance cost of coal, for many locations. However that’s the levelized cost, which means that it has to be used when the sun is out in order for solar to be competitive.

It’s why the DOE is ignoring the findings of their own baseload reliability study to try to impose coal and nuclear subsidies:

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/how-does-baseload-power-rule...

The weird and arbitrary “90 days of fuel onsite” requirement says nothing about reliability, but it is a way to define what coal+nuclear can do (though I wonder if coal plants keep 90 days onsite these days...)
Its time to stop 'pretending'. You don't own Bitcoin. Now can we stick together?
Nzyme collecting 802.11 management frames from the air, sends them to Graylog
From the top of the USDS website:
An official website of the Executive Office of the President
>> With React, you functionally describe how the UI looks in every possible state.

I've made games with react and I have no idea what that means.
Small caveat: the Trump administration is looking into using a national security law from decades ago to prop up coal plants (the law provides subsidies to generators who can keep 90 days of fuel on hand). If this policy were to go into effect, it would raise rates consumers pay, very likely speeding the adoption of rooftop solar in those markets.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-09-29/perry...
I have a question for interviewers:

how much, if any, white boarding do you have the interviewee do for a front end junior position? And what are you looking for - memorization of common problems/solutions? ability to think through problem? something else?

As someone who has pretty poor memorization and does poor on tests in general - this portion of interviewing gives me the most anxiety.
Like with Python, Javascript, etc Perl has got a huge and collaborative eco-system (CPAN is the godfather (in terms of age) of npm / pip / et al). It's also terse enough that writing scripts doesn't become a bigger job than it needs to be. The language also offers better type safety than Javascript and most sysadmins are already proficient in Perl because, until recently, it used to be the goto scripting language for servers (these days it seems to be more Python) so Perl makes some sense for enterprise systems.

There are big drawbacks for using Perl though. It's appallingly bad for writing OO code (objects in Perl are really just hashes / maps) so larger code bases or complex code can quickly become a pain to maintain. While it has one of the better approaches for comparing data of different types (imo), Perl still has more than it's fair share of hidden traps.

Ultimately though, it's a better language than many give it credit for even if it is considered old fashioned these days. So if languages like Python and Javascript are to be considered then I think Perl deserves a mention as well.

As for implementations, the standard Perl interpreter can be linked to which makes it very easy to embed into other programs.
Anyone that's dealt with S3 in any capacity should be aware of this, it's literally one of the first encoding problems to come up when dealing with signing requests.

@dang can you please add (2010) to the title?
That reminded me of another example of this I remember seeing in the headlines; I'm not sure if this [1] is the one I'm recalling, but basically this is a similar situation for a different structure in the brain that was discovered in 1881 and then forgotten/ignored and omitted from medical texts for about a century.

[1] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/november/mystery-brain-im...
Text selection on iPad has been royal pain since iOS 6 (if I’m remembering correctly), and Apple has done absolutely nothing to remedy the situation since. You tap hold once to select a word, then you drag this tiny blue dot as it glitches out and jumps to a random spot on the screen every time you move your finger. It’s insanity, and I can’t believe Apple went another year without fixing it in iOS 11.
The only difference (from my perspective of course) is comp sci arrogance is directed towards our field and associated methodologies, principles, etc. Doctors direct their arrogance towards themselves.
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On the other hand, would we have Python, Linux, Perl, or Wikipedia without those people? They had the vision and they made it happen. Sure many other people could have done it. But those people did do it.

It's much easier to be a contributor, than a founder/leader. The founders/leaders deserve more credit.
The use of the word "rare" seems to be a reliable indicator that people have been exposed to anti-renewable propaganda.

Rare-earth elements are not rare.

"Despite their name, rare-earth elements are – with the exception of the radioactive promethium – relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element

And, further, many batteries and renewable power sources don't even use any Rare-earths.

As to your question, there's lots going on in storage, it wouldn't suprise me if 1/5th of the stories on a renewable tech blog were about progress and breakthroughts in various types of storage.
Does Uber not spring for insurance for all drivers when they’re actively transporting now?
Once again the autistic, asocial programmer clise gets autoconfirmed.
While I can easily find the GS scales, do any of you know how typical USDS or 18f positions map to the GS? Would a senior developer be a GS10 or GS15? GS15 would be competitive with DC software salaries (all benefits included). GS10, not so much.
What If Platforms Like Facebook Are Too Big to Regulate?
This is the second nobel price in five years going to protein structure prediction. Pretty exciting stuff!
Using Python Flask framework to quickly create a REST based file server
They are flaunting how they flouted, though...
> Unions existed to protect workers who were unskilled and interchangeable

I think that's pretty offensive to a lot of tradespeople. If you think plumbers, carpenters, or electricians are unskilled, try doing what they do. Unions protected both skilled and unskilled workers. Whether they continue to do so, or whether they can serve in that role for information workers, is quite an interesting question, but skilled vs. unskilled is not at the crux of it.
Skip intro, jump right in the technical chapters, it really goes into necessary details as an introductory book.
Such cars could also probably be used as voter IDs, no?

And there wouldn't be any issue of "restricting certain people from voting" because the federal government would have to provide everyone with one anyway. It could also lead to safer and more verifiable voting on voting machines (even though I still believe nothing beats pen and paper at this).
It's also the same thing with the git commit tree. You see commit IDs change when you rebase because of the parent pointers.
fta:
In 1816, an Italian anatomist reported finding lymphatic vessels on the surface of the brain, but for two centuries, it was forgotten. Until very recently, researchers in the modern era found no evidence of a lymphatic system in the brain, leaving some puzzled about how the brain drains waste, and others to conclude that brain is an exceptional organ. Then in 2015, two studies of mice found evidence of the brain’s lymphatic system in the dura. Coincidentally, that year, Dr. Reich saw a presentation by Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Virginia and an author of one the mouse studies.
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Here is our situation : Company registered in US (Delaware C Corp) has a Bank Account in USA.

What we want to achieve : Collect payments (credit card/debit card/wallets) from Indian customers to start with.

Looking for payment gateways who can support our usecase.
Macro economics aside - the demand for renewables and EV in China is outsized due to how polluted it's become:

https://youtu.be/2nFZaSbkf0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwOBRH56Ic0
what's a clise
Or Aaron Swartz who had to die for the very same thing.
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You can poke the i3 API to resize windows, but for arbitrary resolutions you need floating windows and that defeats the point of i3.
I haven't found anything off-the-shelf that helps. I manage a project with > 50k repositories in a GitHub organization. For the past few years I've been developing software that helps with my [particular goals](https://github.com/gitenberg-dev/gitberg), but I'm afraid there isn't much there that may help you.
While I agree with your statement in general, I take issue with your italicizing of "ethical treatment of animals, and ecological sustainability" as either revolutionary or socialist. These are political issues but do not intrinsically belong on a left/right scale.

Animal treatment is about drawing boundaries on what's considered humane vs. inhumane. Animal activists define that boundary so that it mandates humane treatment not just for humans but also for animals. Ethical stance, yes. Political, yes. Socialist/revolutionary, no.

Ecological sustainability is about whether you take a short-term vs. long-term view on profiting off nature and survival as a species. If you believe this is a "socialist" position to take, you have been successfully brainwashed by U.S. party propaganda that has coopted a legitimate issue and transformed it into partisan identity politics.
Having owned a couple, I’m no longer interested in the iPad form-factor until the devices are even thinner and are physically flexible.

A big rigid piece of glass that you have to baby does not sufficiently meld into the world so that you can use it unceremoniously without thinking about it. There’s still a conscious “I’m going to go on the iPad now”.

Call me when we can have 10 of them on the same desk, interchangeable, and sling them around like office supplies. The iPad is physically still in its awkward phase and we will be laughing at today’s form-factor in years to come.
Do you trust your CO alarm to Amazon or did you call the fire brigade just to be sure?

Joking aside, I agree the products will improve but I feel Airthings have gone a long way to prove the reliability of their product and a future where we trust “something from amazon” isn’t all that wacky as we already live in it.
Counter-Counter I suppose:

Regardless of the cost of living, death does very strange things to people and can flip an entire history of a relationship on its head. It happened with my family where a relatively calm and expected death ended up estranging members of the family because of what the deceased had written in the will.

I really am not looking forward to my parents' passing, as I live (and probably will still be) living abroad, though I am executor of their estate. Inheritance always brings out bad blood.
RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core application processor
now they attempt to void your warrenty by plugging in a cable, and they know because they are always remotely monitoring the car, and whats more lots of people agressively defend behaviour like that.

We are witnessing the end of ownership for anybody that isnt hyperich.
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Funny..

The market only exists because of the rule of law, we just argue about the detail.
Example of Uber using Craigslist to find drivers for UberEATS
Does the America's support engineer role have timezone restrictions?
Four factors that could influence the growth of IoT
The only problem I foresee is that Berkeley will quickly run out of parking spaces.
By CS do you mean being a practitioner or being a researcher?

As for practitioner, I think you could jump right into a "data science" kind of role. Python is particularly good for that. Maybe also something with embedded systems.

I am not so sure how to switch fields for research. I was discouraged from doing that back in the day.

For background, I got a PhD in theoretical physics at Cornell in 1998. I did a postdoc for 1 year in Dresden, Germany. In school I did as much as I could in Java. I quit physics, went home and bought a farm close to Ithaca (my wife grew up 40 miles away.) She teaches kids to ride horses and since then I have done programming at Cornell, companies in the Ithaca area, remote, as a consultant, etc. I became the black sheep of my research group and I have gone through phases of intense soul-searching from time to time, but I am still here.
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For some reason, your question immediately reminded me of this: http://p.migdal.pl/2015/12/14/sci-to-data-sci.html

My guess is that a postdoc would be seen by prospective employers as a clear declaration of intent to stay in academia. But if that is what you want, you should use those few (hopefully!) years to build up a research portfolio which will get you a permanent position. Starting from scratch on something which you have no previous experience with is not the way to do that. I doubt anybody sensible would be willing to let you try on their dime.

If you do not intend to stay in academia, it is time to start revising down the value you assign to certificates of whatever. You are more likely to be asked for an interesting GitHub repo. But if you insist, there is a plethora of things like

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/certification-overv...

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.ge...

https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification
Yep that certain does a decent job. I’ve been measuring for around 18 months now, my surprise finding is that only in the last few months has it gone up over 150 for the first time. I’d encourage you to do both if possible.
Can anyone briefly summarize the points of debate and optimization? I'm not familiar with the competing kit, and the primary goals.
You know, we would all like faster synthesize and P&R cycles, but when people complain about the tooling being shit, that's not what they're complaining about. (Mostly)
China Demonstrates Quantum Encryption by Hosting a Video Call
OK. Now I'm very curious about the move to Guacamole. Citrix ICA is the fastest remote desktop protocol around. Even a very seasoned VMware engineer I work with will only deploy Citrix for VDI that requires low latency and quick response times, as he admits that VMware's Blast protocol is not battle proven. So you are saying that Guacamole delivers better performance than Citrix. I guess I will have to try it for myself.
This is not prediction, it's structure determination. Though there is a lot of computation
and modelling involved, it's much more like X-ray crystallography and NMR than ab initio structure prediction. It's based on actual, measured data, not on computation alone.

It is very impressive that they managed to get the resolution of the method into a range comparable to the other conventional methods.