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> I think the overall sentiment was along the lines of "No, but it might",

This is business though. Lots of stupid side products and features are launched to compete with ideas that might take over. If it doesn't, fine but if it does become popular you aren't 5 years behind and dead in the water.
Well there's two opposite ways that have historically been tried to avoid unionisation - you can make sure employees are all happy enough not to want it, or make sure they're too scared of losing their jobs should they support it.
Definitely. We have a lot of different alliances around Montana.

http://www.montanalandtrusts.org/memberdirectory/
Yeah I don't understand how the board of Twitter continues to allow this.
They dont share data well. I cannot select "Edit with SnapSeed" and have it roll back into google photos without getting a second copy of my picture. Would love to see that kind of integration - but they dont even have that.
> It is extremely difficult to smear a neo-nazi misogynist more than he already does by his own words.

I think Assange is a self-serving hypocrite, but calling him that seems pretty extreme.
Many of those voters also don't want to pay higher sales, value-added, or income taxes. The money to operate governments has to come from somewhere.
We built a commercially viable product with the 2nd generation Kinect that calculates cubic dimensions of packages for the Transportation/Logistics industry. As others have already stated, the sensor capabilities at the price point offered are unbeatable.

For context: our device is capable of measuring the dimensions to a 5mm accuracy on cuboidal (box-shaped) objects sized between 60mm and 1200mm (approx 2.4" to 48")

The device has passed certification by some pretty rigid government bodies in North America that spent a significant amount of time evaluating it to ensure it measures correctly ALL the time.

Of course we always knew this day would come eventually, but it kinda sucks that it had to be today though. Time to buy up those surplus refurbs I suppose..
NASA ADS (link is ugly and is at the arxiv page) lists three citations.

Of those, 1608.02882 (and also 1608.07136v1 which is not listed there) are a straight attempt at rebuttal, by the same author, the other two I didn't read yet.

As far as I understand, which is not much, that attempt was found not well founded.

At this point I can only suggest somehow searching for discussions that appeared back then in 2016. I don't think there was any formal (as in a published article) rebuttal of this rebuttal, only a summary in Gorkavyi's blog, which is in Russian and too complex for me to translate[1]

I'd wait for more papers from the original authors, in the hope that they would generate more discussion. One has to take the academia's inertia into account - someone who wrote a couple of dozen papers on dark stuff is understandably reluctant to even mention and thus acknowledge a competing hypothesis.

1. https://don-beaver.livejournal.com/176937.html
China's biggest problem in doing this is not technological, but based on the fact the party doesn't believe in rule of law, so their are nonmechanisms to enforce regulation beyond official fiat and periodic crackdowns, neither of which are sustainable in the long term.

They have crackdowned before, many times actually, but without real continuous enforcement of rules, factory owners are caught in a horrible prisoners dilemma given how hyper competitive production is (if your competitor cheats and you don't, you'll be out of business quickly). In this case, political reform is directly related to the environment.
Why does the Grand Canyon have such a huge pocket of CO? It's over 1200ppbv. Is there currently a forest fire there? The air quality there looks as bad as over Staten Island or some Chinese cities.
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I really enjoyed this post. I feel the same way, I do love coding and working on software projects doesn't feel like work to me. I spent my high school years and college years(and I graduated years after I should have from taking two years off after freshmen year) working fast food and grocery stores. I know what work feels like.

However, I don't and won't spend every waking hour I have doing one thing. This life has so much to offer and experience, I do not have a drive to spend 80 hours, nights and weekends like that. However, if the project calls for it every once in a while, fine, it's not a big deal until the company comes to expect that.
Agreed. I'll also try to not post from my phone.
> This is something else entirely that will be talked about years later.

I don't think he's nearly famous enough for anything he says to be talked about years later. He'll most likely be forgotten, there are plenty of other pitchmen in the Valley to take his role.
A professor in my college also did exactly this: https://lacal.epfl.ch/112bit_prime

They used about 200ps3 to find some prime number (cryptography related)
Some good points. But "See reflection TS", really? That lands only in C++20. This article is from 2016.
Maybe I'm new, but I've not had problems with `venv/bin/pip install` either.
Yeah that one is a little weird. C++11 included std::array to solve that problem (among others), but he doesn't use it and then complains about it anyway.
Great! Changed from https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/....
> I ran 50+ miles a week. I pushed myself to excel. To excel within the boundaries of the time and life-balance I had set for myself.

Part of excelling at your job is learning new stuff - something that I am absolutely certain you do all the time, even if you only do it during work hours. Maybe this week you are starting a new project and need to learn Vue.

Publish those 100 lines of code to GitHub. Just like that you've demonstrated that:

* You are willing to learn new things.

* You know how to use a little Vue.

* You know how to use a little Git.

Make it clear that it's a learning project - call it "Learning Vue," "Learning C#," "Learning Node" etc. When a hiring manager looks at your profile they will see dozens of technologies that you have at least some experience with.

Edit: if they turn around and demand side projects; you would be completely correct to ask about how many office hours they allocate to side projects. Interviews are a two-way process and the more you stick your neck out, the more you get noticed.
Living in the small town of Newton NC, my car broke down and I took it into the exclusive dealership and shop I got it from - the only place I know - but It wouldn’t budge after I got there. Completely motionless.

I asked the guy to fix it and he exclaimed “oh, sorry can’t help you there - all of these cars are dead. We can’t work on any of these! It will tend to just stay!”

Just then, another car of the exact same model and color drove out of the lot, right by us!

I said “what! That’s the same freaking car! Same color and body style and everything!”

And he said, well you can find another person to try to work on it, but that body tends to stay in motion, this one... not so much...

Clearly I don’t know enough Newtonian mechanics!
Where does the H2 come from? Electrolysis? Fossil fuels?
Yes, but not an encoder, and that's the piece preventing it from being used to its potential. It's also nice when you no longer have to reverse-engineer the decoder. FFmpeg is one of my favorite things on earth, but minor differences between its implementations of closed-source codecs unfortunately prevent it from being a viable alternative in high-end post-production in many situations. ProRes encoding in FFmpeg for instance, although it certainly "works" as far as one can tell, still usually fails a few tests during the QC processes the bigger media companies use, and that generally means you can't use it, full-stop.
Ya, temporary and unsustainable. This probably isn't the start of something transformative.
It's incredibly difficult to talk about this specific post in a constructive way without wallowing in the mud.

The content makes child-like arguments[0] and contradictory statements[1] to the point where it feels like an unstable foundation to have a conversation. It's like trying to have a debate where neither side agrees with the foundational logic of the other sides arguments.

[0] - "None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power"

[1] - "Perhaps because they felt peer pressure to join the #MeToo bandwagon, perhaps because they felt slighted for other reasons. I won’t speculate on their motives."
Yes, and scale eats directly into that rate. The Big Box Stores are paying pennies per swipe.
So, basically poking your competitors software with a stick, being an effort to understand its inner workings, is reverse-engineering. When prohibited by EULA it becomes a breach of contract.

It does seem overly broad, this line of reasoning left unchecked would imply no third-party replacement parts for any device, because you need to understand the working to make a part...

On the other hand if I am creating some new technology, inhave now gained a very effective tool to fight the copy-cats. At least the ones who couldn’t setup a shell company for this exact purpose.
I have the same question. Using it a lot, there were little quirks that made it feel like it had very low level access to my Mac. Sometimes it would move the mouse on my screen outside the SH window, but synced up with the other person's mouse (on their 2nd monitor not shared). Especially noticeable with dual screens or when moving the SH window. Kind of hard to explain in words.
Totally adding it to https://github.com/stared/science-based-games-list, in mathematics / geometry.
I think this can be best described as "sinking the boat just to kill the captain."

In the interest of being the devil's advocate: if he is telling the truth, this looks very bad for several of the women that accused him of sexual harassment, and tried to inflate his cheating on his wife into something much worse.

I mean, this sounds a lot like how some women accuse guys of rape just to cause harm to them, instead of a rape actually having occurred. Such actions are harmful to women, harmful to society as a whole, and actively work against the ideals of feminism and make it harder for feminists to have a meaningful dialog with both men and women alike.

If his version of events is even remotely true, merely saying "two wrongs don't make a right" isn't even scratching the surface, and indicates a very large problem in the tech industry community.

I have no clue if they are true, or how true they are, but I believe that because he disregarded his lawyer's advice and made a statement, there is at least a little bit of truth here.
I just downloaded the latest version in case they take it down at some point. Appeared to work fine in Sierra with latest Photoshop CC. Also displays in retina, which I’m pretty sure it didn’t when I tried it when they first made it free, so I guess there has been an update.
Facebook can only buy those who want to be bought. Facebook could've been bought out (and many said they should have - which in hindsight would've been a horrific move).

If companies really care about innovation, they can focus on that instead of flipping their companies.
It reduces efficiency and you are screwed (out of business) if you do it but your competitor doesn't.
Wow. I'm pretty sure the idea of public rights of way as a legal right of access across private property predates the entire US. That's a hell of a thing for the government to try and eradicate for the benefit of private landowners.
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> they seem mostly resigned to following trends

The speaker thing was Amazon creating a trend (or fad if you really see it that way).
It doesn't make it useful either.
Saying "whats up" to the down voters who work at Twitter or Square. Sorry about your RSUs!
I'm curious what that actually means in real download numbers now. Remember in iOS 11, iOS games were split out into a seperate top chart, which I imagine means waaaaaaaaaaay less downloads are now needed to break the App Store's top 200 ranking for all other app types. Worth bearing in mind if using this as evidence of momentum.
I wonder if whatever is left of Netscape can sue Microsoft now over JScript...
I think money can be a more significant persuader than you are letting on, especially after months of startup stress pile up on a decision maker.
Of course we do. >1 billion people shouldn't have their lives dictated by a proprietary, opaque Skinner's box with no regard for privacy or rights.
This decision does not lie well with me.

Of course, the competitor agreed not to reverse engineer the software - under the definition "attempting to produce a copy", they definitely did reverse engineer.

But does that mean that re-implementing the same interface is reverse-engineering? That would be scary and terrible for competition.

No software with a reverse-engineering clause could have a clone. Does Windows have one? If yes, Wine developers could not compare if a game works under Wine correctly.

What about APIs? Is it forbidden for US citizens to create NVIDIA CUDA clones now? If someone found a way to reproduce some Photoshop image filter, is it forbidden to compare the resuls? MS Word-produced files?

I really don't like where this is going. Thankfully, reverse engineering cannot be forbidden in the EU (unless I'm wrong).

EDIT: I guess my main gripe is that if the owners of proprietary "standards" which achieved monopoly can effectively forbid any alternatives, cementing the monopolies.
I would probably map Ctrl+C to Ctrl+Alt+c and Ctrl+V to Ctrl+Alt+v, if I was using rxvt.
Haven't a bunch of people failed to establish themselves as that particular middleman?

(pretty much because anyone good at doing the cleaning can just cut out the middleman)
I identify pretty strongly with this. I am good at what I do, but it's not my passion or my life. It's what I do so that I can have a life.
I have quite fond memories of awk, but some of these claims might be a bit on the [citation needed] side.

"Easier to use" - maybe so, on the particular subset of problems that awk was designed for. However, the ease of use upside is limited - awk constructs map pretty much 1:1 onto Python/Perl constructs that are not particularly complicated. Conversely, there is a vast set of problems that are still straightforward to solve in Python/Perl and would be rather awkward in awk.

"much faster" - the comparisons I've seen (and done) usually had awk and perl5 roughly at parity.

"code density ratio 10:1" - I call BS on that one. Sure, with the benefit of hindsight, it's sometimes possible to vastly simplify a script, but that has little to do with the languages involved. There is no awk solution that cannot be expressed in about 2x the lines of Python code (and that 2x is mostly because idiomatic awk puts conditions and code on one line, while Python puts them on two lines).
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Since it was originally addressed to me and you claim it is an honest question:

Mostly not in work settings or work related settings, and much more carefully than in the past when dating norms hinged on the assumption that men were providers and women were destined to become homemakers. You have to consider how this impacts both your career and hers, not just yours alone.

To give an example that I hope elucidates something: A senior programmer at the company I worked for asked for a date under circumstances that did not constitute bad behavior insofar as being against company rules, nor would be a problem for his career. But it basically slammed doors shut in my face and made it less likely I could get a job in the department he worked in. He was an otherwise attractive man that I might have happily got involved with, but his monstrous disregard for how this impacted my career prospects was a deal breaker for me.

I hope sex becomes a less touchy topic over time, but I don't imagine it will ever stop being an issue.
That's really interesting! What's the energy source that drives this reaction? (Where does the energy that becomes the additional chemical potential energy in the peroxide come from? Is it from oxidizing the plant sugars?)
> I don’t have employees, I don’t cut checks for investment. None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power.

This is an incredibly disgusting and miss-guided view of sexual harassment.
Wasn't nintendo making money on the Wii pretty much the entire time?
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"It is when we are discussing the limits of sustainability and growth"

We aren't anywhere near the "limits of sustainability and growth".

"It might be free in the sense that nobody owns the sun. It's not free in the sense that we have a limitless supply of it."

The sun puts out about 1.2×10^34 joules each year. The Earth's total energy production is about 5x10^20 joules. In other words, the sun puts out 24,000,000,000,000 times our total energy production from all sources.

"Limitless"? No. Effectively limitless for practical purposes? Yes.

"We're on a finite planet, with finite resources, including energy, and an increasing amount of people."

1) We're not limited to one planet.

2) Population growth has slowed or stopped in many countries. The "Soylent Green" fears of the 1970s turned out to be utterly baseless, and there is no evidence that they will ever come to pass.
Great to see this innovation. Good luck with your venture. I'm very hopeful that we can replace many other industrial toxic processes with clean bio alternatives
>Here's an example implementation for you. If you're using Visual C++, there's a built-in version. They could literally cut-n-paste this one line into <stddef.h> today.

>#define countof(X) (sizeof(X) / sizeof((X)[0]))

Could they? What if X is empty?
> Every act of infidelity, every time I have watched an adult video online,

How watching porn equates to cheat on your wife? Very weird moral compass.
Can we find thoses quality control tests online ? I'm very interested in knowing what's wrong.
Not just months... but years.
Meh, I agree in general and believe in work/life balance but you don’t need a huge side project.

Just take a few scripts written already, write a readme, and an hour a year per script tuning them up and adding tests. Maybe a code golf problem or two.

In short, if you can’t find four hours a year to put into your career, maybe you just aren’t interested. I think of it as page two of my resume.
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Aren't the files too big ?
Sounds interesting - how much water is produced in the process, or is it only synthesizing H2O2? Also, if your catalyst is regenerating from plant sugars, do you lose some of the catalyst when you extract the H2O2, or is some consumed by side reactions?
Yes, but as zephyrfalcon said, that maps onto a series of if statements in python. No 10:1 magic anywhere.
Sounds like you weren't a fit for that company asking you for some code. And that might be a blessing in disguise for you. If you are a decent developer in Austin, you probably have lots of opportunities, so no need working for a company with those kind of requirements.

Just know that as a company in Austin, they have lots of employees to choose from probably too and this is their narrowing approach. No biggie, y'all aren't a fit. Just know that this becomes circular, because many of the types of companies that ask for this also allow you to open source some of your work-hour code which helps that visible resume.

Also, if you are in demand and have leverage, consider trying to work at places that encourage making at least some of your work visible to the world. Many other professions benefit from this. If you don't have leverage, I'm afraid you may be stuck in an endless loop of invisible, hard work you leave behind.
SCAT framework --> what an unfortunate name. The connotations it evokes are not exactly positive ones...
> 1,200 of 33,000 employees amounts to 3.6% of the work force. This level of action, 1 in 25 employees, gives managers an opportunity to release employees that looked good in the interview but did not meet expectations.

That level of "firing" is rather suspect for an "new" company that is supposed to be growing.

> But any company needs to address the inevitable hiring mistakes and I don't see evidence that Tesla is doing any more than that.

If you are making that level of mistake where you have to conduct mass layoffs, then it doesn't bode well for tesla.
> As part of its efforts to develop the WPS, defendant obtained a license to use the “Learning Edition” provided by plaintiff

This is a contract dispute plain and simple. It has nothing to do with California law and everything to do with civil procedure. You have a contract, and you claim and prove damages.

If you want to reverse engineer software, don’t enter into a contract with the maker of that software
But at some point shouldn't someone stop to question how valuable the space really is?

I suppose at least the data is worth a lot towards better voice control efforts.
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True. That's why I issued a challenge. I realize it is a difficult thing I am asking of people.
They would probably be unemployed. Now we have people who are barely employed. They are paid just enough to keep them from banding together and demanding change. If they were unemployed then they'd have a lot more incentive to do something. Now they are trapped trying to keep their heads above water.

Don't think this isn't on purpose. Every last dime is getting squeezed out.
> dynamically typed "scripting" languages that are much faster than PHP and Python (JRuby

?

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
I think Rust solves a lot of these problems.

> Calculating the size of a static array

some_array.len()

> Getting the maximum value of an enum

Rust's enums are strongly-typed (I think that's the right phrase), so this is a non-issue.

> Converting an enum to a string

impl Display for MyEnum (and then call to_string() on it)

> Converting a string to an enum

This could be tricky, since Rust enum variants can contain data. But if none of the variants contain data, it would be easy to make a method that returns a Result<MyEnum, CustomParseError>

> Binary file includes

include_bytes! macro (or the include_str! macro, depending on the exact scenario)

> Switch/case is still stupid

Pretty sure Rust's match is a lot better
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