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Aside from simply diversifying their portfolio are there any prominant deep state theories as to why Saudi Arabia would want to prop up tech? For example, one such theory could be that Apple is being funded by Saudi Arabia to specifically build addictive technologies so the American public is enmeshed in confusing contradictory media sources rendering the US public largely ineffective and allowing them a secret backdoor to collect data on the American public.
IMO, breaking an established API with no reliable way to work around it is very bad. I have been bitten by this, and only now understand why. I will probably switch to Firefox.
there's no conflict there (not that it's too relevant, but his ancestry is quite clear)... I guess there will always be people who like creating conflicts :)
There are plenty of reasons for the upgrade: https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/09/26/react-v16.0.html
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If it helps, consider that you are the descendant of the original "grey goo" which since pervaded the surface of an entire planet. The inheritor of a billion years of techniques in construction, alliance, deception, and warfare. A uniquely coordinated swarm of assimilating nanotechnology, poised to leap into the cosmos.

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I don't get the reasoning to be against it. If your goal is "global liberation", taking money from oppressive regimes its a pretty darn fast way to do it. You make the oppressors pay for the future liberation. We should applaud if thats whats happening.
We should standardize on something, at least so we have a model everyone can go off of.
> I didn't get into it until the 14400 baud modems came out

You almost certainly mean 14400 bps.
FWIW everyone keeps saying React 16 is worth it solely for the speed boost. It incorporates their Fibers work, which has been a long time coming.
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What a hilariously convoluted plan!

Here's an easier one- oil is running out so the Kingdom needs to diversify. Tech provides investment and job opportunities.
It's similar, although distinct. By building on a common foundation of Google networking dataplane bits, Jake's team (and peer teams) get easier integration with Google's other networking infrastructure for features like DoS protection, encryption, etc. The core bits underlying Andromeda 2.1 are related to those used for Espresso (https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/making-google-cl... — HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14037830).
That benchmark needs more context because were I to guess i'd say they're using stream rendering[0][1] in React 16

I also agree with one of the comments in reply who linked to "How to win in web framework benchmarks"[2]

Unlike, say, benchmarks for performing hash functions on graphics cards or frame rates on certain hardware the units of work being tested on web benchmarks very rarely reflect the units of work used in your own systems

In performance and security critical components we write benchmark-*.{ts,js} tests and track performance of real-world components.

At the moment in the mocha world there is no good way to keep a history of results, so we tend to copy+paste them as code comments (noticed this in a lot of projects) - but it wouldn't be difficult to write a storage backend here in sqlite or similar and store it in the same way coverage reports are

If you're doing comparisons on modules you use - you can include them as devDependancies. This also forces you to abstract away your dependancies which is often a good thing.

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom-server.html#rendertonodes...

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/6420

[2] https://medium.com/@localvoid/how-to-win-in-web-framework-be...
There is a seriously interesting question here about the information content of the theorem and whether it is equivalent to the Shannon limit on compressing the 'code' needed to run the computation. I bet someone published on this years ago but I haven't seen it phrased in quite the way you have it in point 2.
And how do we make countries high up on that list go down?

Economic isolationism surely isn't the answer - seeing as North Korea is #1 on that list. Notice that the countries lowest on your list of badness have the closest ties to Western countries (with the exception of Antarctica). Saudi Arabia becoming more closely tied economically to Western countries is an opportunity to lessen its "badness" on your scale. Recent developments, like allowing women to drive and encouraging more women to work are still ridiculously backwards by the standards of the Western world, but represent steps in the right direction
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Extremely thought provoking. One bit I didn't understand was his description of a sequence of UNIX programs communicating using pipes as being concurrent?
OK, we'll add 'files' to the title above.
More concretely, the tech industry does good if and only if people reading this (and others like them) do good, including by advocating for good to their peers, employers, etc. There is nothing inherently good about the industry, or about you and me.

How to do it is complicated. If people like the Saudis offer money, consider the consequences. Consider your power to say 'no' to the influence they may wish to wield and how much you are legitimizing them by association.

As an example, Chinese censors now influence Hollywood. The Chinese government threatens to deny their market to those who don't cooperate, and so Americans and the world see films that are effectively censored, to a degree, by the Chinese government. For example, in the 1990s Disney made the film Kundun, about the Dalai Lama. China penalized Disney heavily in the domestic market.

In October 1998, [Disney head Michael] Mr. Eisner met Zhu Rongji, who had just been named prime minister, at China’s leadership compound in Beijing. Mr. Eisner apologized for “Kundun,” calling it a “stupid mistake,” according to a transcript of the meeting.

“This film was a form of insult to our friends, but other than journalists, very few people in the world ever saw it,” Mr. Eisner said during the meeting. (“Kundun” bombed, taking in just $5.7 million against a production budget of about $30 million.)

Mr. Eisner said the company had learned a lesson.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/business/international/ch...

Seen many films critical of China lately?
Isn't this why monero exists? By using ring signatures to guarantee fungibility of spendable outputs by making them untraceable?

Also, you don't need to resort to property torts, when there are crimes of stealing and fraud and statutory remedies like restitution available.
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I think it's naive to think that taking money from oppressive regimes has no other effect than depleting their cash reserves. Google and Facebook seem to have no qualms about acquiescing to Chinese censorship demands. I think it's folly to think Saudi money won't or doesn't have at least some nefarious influence somewhere. It's worth at least taking a look.
The amount of money sloshing around in our industry is insane right now. You might be surprised at how close you could come on current comp (unless you're in rest-and-vest at a very high-flier, in which case you need to look at how to replace what your comp will be in 2-3 years when the [typically] largest chunk has fully vested).

It doesn't hurt to look.
I believe he means that the downstream programs can do some of their work before the upstream programs have finished doing all of theirs.
Nope. Its no urban legend. Recent findings now suggest there are free tissue bacteria species previously unknown about in humans. So the numbers of bacterial cells to human is only going up with understanding not down.
will they also be removing U.S. propaganda bots, or just foreign ones?
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If god was so great (or at least smarter than humans) most of it would work a lot better than it does!
Awesome! Was creating an instance today and saw the welcome addition. Had to do a double take.
For what it's worth, I don't trust the process of corrupt organizations "cleaning house" in general. The housecleaning could easily be of people with insufficient loyalty.
Because money does not stink.
I think that the idea that there is a "correct" and "incorrect" side is a cognitive trap. If we try to break free of this trap, even for the things where there seems so clearly to be a correct side, we can better understand and talk to each other.
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> By accepting these investments, tech companies get to revel in the branding glory of global good while taking billions from a government that stands against many of those goals

It seems to me that all (or at least almost all) of the companies cited in the article are now (as of Nov 2017) public companies, how are they supposed to not accept investments? On the one hand I understand the criticism because many of those investments came before those companies went public (e.g. the one, cited in the article, that Twitter took in 2011) but what would be the proposed action now? The article seemed to me a bit simplistic.
Interesting. Immediately reminds me of him talking about how we can be stuck in our current way of thinking, and that I need to challenge my own viewpoint.
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This article mentions two things as if they are unrelated. That the cellular environment is crowded is exactly why you need transport proteins and vesicles. All the really fast proteins are mostly going nowhere, they're just wobbling on the spot bumping into everything crammed next to them. Sandwiched most of the time between membranes they cant diffuse through freely. Its like angry jelly not hot soup.
Could be that, or the doctor trusting the machine to do the job, the availability at the hospital, etc.
I just left a corporate job in London at a Fortune 25 company that paid 78,800 GBP a year and moved to a different country with a smaller / lesser pay. I did it because I wasn't happy with the corporate life.

Don't measure your life by the size of your paycheck. Think about what you want to do and just take a leap of faith. If you choose to stay on, then invest some time and learn a few more programming languages and get some domain specific knowledge. If you don't have a specialization then that could be your start.
> And their money is just as good for hiring programmers and renting servers as anyone else's.

maybe you didn't mean it this way, but i was struck by the nonchalance of this statement, as if being able to spend money justifies taking the investment. and i presume that's exactly why the article was written, to question that kind of stance.

now i love tech, and will defend our ability to progress and advance and make new things where there were none. and sometimes that requires compromise, like taking money from flawed people and institutions (as we all are). but none of us gets a free pass from morality, not even in business. these need to be considered, weighed and balanced decisions.

just because we codify our morality in law and abdicate enforcement to police doesn't mean that we shouldn't hold each other acccountable as well. in fact, holding each other accountable is crucial to ensuring a fair and just society. sometimes we must sacrifice a bit today to make sure we have justice tomorrow. a functioning society requires that we keep each others' avarice in check.
Oh, that could certainly be a conservative list. It depends on the requirements of the software. Drop any item on that list and you are either losing capabilities or have more software to implement yourself. And it is certainly tempting to reimplement things like Cobra, Viper, sqlx, prometheus end point, and everyone knows we should all implement our own crypto, but overall it ends up costing you time, and probably usability since your time is limited.
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Maybe I never experienced it, because if I want to force exact match results I simply place the error message within double quotes.

Come on!!! This is not my first rodeo. I’ve been on the InterNet (yes, with a capital N) since 1993 and I use double quote searching all the time, except that in cases like these one gets zero results back.
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You surely can, but it could be very difficult.

Publishing research without any affiliation could be difficult because of various reasons beyond your control. Having an advisor or a team can significantly boost your publication quality. Think in terms of how quickly you can validate your ideas, get proper feedback while preparing the publication, and get proper visibility for your work.

Keep in mind that several large tech-companies (e.g., Google, Facebook, Yahoo, IBM, Xerox, etc.) look for research engineers, or software engineers that work with research teams. You could start looking for such jobs and collaborate with teams/team members that publish their work at top journals/conferences. Such teams tend to be highly selective, but that is definitely something different from taking competitive exams. You'll probably have to create a strong portfolio to indicate that you can "independently" conduct research (e.g., showcasing some novel ideas on your website, sharing implementations on GitHub, listing your contributions to open-source projects, etc.).

Another option is to look for any research associate positions with labs/professors.
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Yes. Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=616143
Problem with journals is not technological, but a coordination one (same as with p-value).

If every scientist "defects" to open-access journal - everyone is better of. But if only a handful do that they will lose impact factor and will take a hit to their career.

Addition: This is commonly known as Nash Equilibrium[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium
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This blog post is confusing, and I'm having trouble figuring out what they're talking about in the Cloud SQL documentation. What are these regional disks? Why should I care about them as a customer?

Their mention of replication makes it sound like they are behaving similarly to RDS' Aurora instances ie. they store data using something like Google Cloud Storage, and replicas all read from the same storage location instead of doing "real" logical replication, and data modifications are handled using copy-on-write.

If anyone can explain, I'd really appreciate it.
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In other words: They are not a physical size measurement.

The definition of physical units is precisely that they are relative to only one unambiguous standard which relates it to all other dimensions of the universe. Distances, for example, are related to time. As such, one meter, as a unit of distance, is the distance that light in a vacuum travels in 1/299792458th of a second. A unit that does not have such a fixed relation to time is not a unit of distance by definition. So, unless increasing the font size in your browser also slows down time, the em is not a unit of physical size.

There are many more perfectly fine ways to specify how to derive a physical size relative to a given situation, but that does not make that specification a physical size itself.
The OP's point still stands. There were no interstates or highways in the horse-and-buggy era.
Yes, as a gamedev and as someone who has tried to do a lot of fanciness regarding human visual perception, I would love to have the ability to specify "use the absolute smallest, device-sized pixel value."

It's a special case, sure. But those special cases suddenly enable what was previously impossible.
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No what is your point.

(a) Why does paying $300mio to Twitter results in people getting killed?

(b) Why do you think your government/companies/people would do better?

(c) What you should be proud of if you like free markets is that everybody with money and interest in a company can put their money in that company. In a non-free market like China you are way more limited with foreign investments.

(d) "Free" means everybody can do what they want. If you want to limit what people are doing you are not talking free markets. That's in fact a reasonable argument from the Socialist spectrum. Don't allow people to run around freely, harming themselves and each other. One really has to decide what one likes in that spectrum. Each direction has their own pros and cons.
There is a reason that countries like South Africa would be substantially less high on that list than they used to be 25 years ago, and increasing economic -and political- isolation is definitely one of the reasons it changed.

We see in political science that the definition of nations is somewhat circular - for a country to meaningfully exist, its recognition of a significant number of other countries is almost an essential feature. This is the reason that projects like Sealand fail, and also why revolutions attract so much international meddling.
Not "Not really". It's the majority by far.
Well the table based layout does not work on mobile. The float, flex or grid based layouts do.

So we've come somewhere but there is further to go and maybe we didn't need to go in so many circles.
So do you think that if the US did more business with Saudi’s Arabia this would improve their human rights record?
> Apple's approach with their Retina displays was brilliant

Brilliant? Rather "lazy". They jeopardized the entire screen resolution spectrum introducing non-standard resolutions just to fit their vision, producing a new set of problems on its own.
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Lightning is a great solution but it is still years away from production use. Ethereum is doing something similar but their tech is also scheduled to be ready in 2019. Nothing is available right now.
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This is a great article, if you look at webrtc support once Apple is out of the yellow zone with safari we have across the board support for webrtc in all browsers. Its still not a settled api so its pretty hair raising. My first webrtc startup failed but now I'm working on replacing a legacy flash system with webrtc, in this case with flash being phased out webrtc is the only choice. This article is really well done this is going to help me give something my cto can read and quickly understand so he fully "groks" what my team is doing.
It is collected from owners. Tax collection and tax incidence are separate issues. In economics parlance, where tax "comes from" or "falls on" refers to tax incidence, not tax collection.
Or in a true Socratic way, the less stars they rated for themselves, the more they know about the tech.
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You make good points. Encouraging closer two-way ties might indeed do what you say. It certainly might make your "death to america!" chants a little less enthusiastic if half your country's pension fund was invested there. "Destroy the Great Satan! Except, uh, San Francisco!"

Another factor of course is "How much is this country actively trying to undermine/is a potential enemy of my own?" which probably for most countries we'd think of as "western" puts Russia, and to a lesser extent China, at the top of the list.
Maybe not the best individual but still very likely someone who deserves such a high rating
I was there at the time, the whole IE Vs Netscape thing started long before Java became a threat (though you are right about how Microsoft also fought that war as well). Plus Bill Gates has said in interviews since that he was trying to lock the web into Microsofts ecosystem because he saw the threat very early on about how it could be platform agnostic.

While you can argue that Chrome and AMP serve the same goal, they're approaches are very different. One helps diversify a market place and doesn't lock developers onto its ecosystem nor users into its product via anti competitive practices; while the other seeks to create a "second web" who is controlled by Google by locking companies into their promise of reduced bandwidth and users into their hosts and advertising via leveraging their massive market share in search as an effective sweetener/bribe (use us and be placed before the search results).

You can complain about Chrome all you like but overall have more browsers on the market is better and Chrome doesn't lock people into anything aside brand loyalty. Where as AMP is a very different beast.
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That order is no good. You’d want to check what other people have done in that area before you spend weeks figuring out the details of your idea, let alone produce a decent paper and publish on the arxiv. Not to mention that the arxiv is for preprints, not half-baked ideas.

Step 3 is absolutely correct.
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