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> His opinion was not "well researched".

I never claimed it was "well" researched, just that he was citing honest, peer-reviewed studies. [Insert rational, mature critique of Damore's citations.]

> Damore was fired for stating without ambiguity that not only should Google drop diversity initiatives, but that some current Google engineers are innately less talented than others based solely on their gender.

Damore:

"I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions."

"Note, I’m not saying that all men differ from women in the following ways or that these differences are 'just.' I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership. Many of these differences are small and there’s significant overlap between men and women, so you can’t say anything about an individual given these population level distributions."

Are either of these the quotes you are thinking of?
To play devils advocate here, because I agree those old videos were stupid, I think the point was survival in the case of indirect hits. If a building is bombed nearby and you're not close, hiding under whatever is similar to protecting yourself from an earthquake .. that is any debris that could fall from the shock.
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Do we really use capital letters for an alarm?
What can one actually gain access to with such an attack? And what if you have a firewall that only allows specific programs/services through? It would have to use the browser, but how, through an add-on that the user would have to install? Seems pretty complicated for a random machine, more likely to target government/company computers... I don't see why everyone is forced to install the updates.
Seems like one could use the wasted digit of signed numbers to stor options rather than have asymmetric range (two's complement) or positive/negative zero... IE have a [ed:bit string] that indicates none/some?
I also keep an old refrigerator in my house to climb into.
>The thing is that we need a fairly careful balance between salt and fluid in our bodies

True, but we ingest all sorts of substances in amounts that we don't need. The rest is usually excreted unless having a store of it is useful (like with fat).
While you’re correct, the main assurance that Apple users have is how bad a PR move it would be for them to monetize data.

Every time they boast about privacy features, they increase the penalty for them doing something egregious with user data.
Original author already said it wasn’t automated, but just recently I did find gitmoji which does exactly that. :-)

https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji
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> At least an API. If that's what customers really want, at least now there is chance somebody will provide it.

But I don't want "an API"? I want a non-proprietary API! I wouldn't bother with locking myself into some proprietary startup crap of questionably reliability, then I can just as well scrape the web interface of my bank, that's also a proprietary API of sorts, and I at least don't have to pay yet another party and risk them abusing or leaking my data and myself being unable to figure out who is responsible for failures in the service.

> Because the banks themselves are completely uninterested in providing API access to you and somebody with a legal team has to shoulder the liability for providing it.

... which is exactly why they should be legally obligated to, instead of some idiotic "you have to allow third parties to access your customers' data" laws?!
Spent 2 years in South Lake Union and just moved to Texas about six months ago. Bezos does own a large part of Seattle, he has evicted low wage undesirables, junkies, and for the most part cars. It's a cultureless void of amazon dormitories packed with 20 something white, indian, and chinese dudes. It's expensive as fuck and has a great business propoganda museum on the waterfront.

They have a stand that gives away blemishless perfectly ripe bananas daily but good luck finding a half decent place to eat open past 7 on a weeknight let alone a dive bar that hosts interesting bands on a small stage.

Clean and perfect! Ready to work! Thank you master for selling me the future I always dreamed of! May I die happy in service of your almighty brand!
I never understood the importance of lines of code for projects such as this one.

Couldn't you technically just concatenate everything into 1 line and call in "X software in 1 line of code"?

Isn't it a better benchmark to have better code structure even if the project is composed of more lines of code or more files for that matter.
My parents (in their early 70s) will not even entertain the idea of eating out if they're busy. If they come home at 10pm, they'll still find a way to cook something rather than order something from outside.

It's just something they don't think of.
I absolutely agree with this. There should have just been a 'Program Files' folder and if a conflicting program was already installed, the architecture could be appended to the name of the newer install's directory (C:\Program Files\Foo, C:\Program Files\Foo (x64)).
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Other plants don't operate at 100% capacity either due to variable demand, the cost of spinning them up and down, river water being too warm for cooling, cost of fuels, being displaced by renewables etc.

Sure, nighttime imposes a hard cap on the capacity factor of solar, but solar is not the only renewable power source. Natural gas plants may have a much higher theoretical limit, but in practice they are limited by more expensive fuel.
They didn't have issues with Meltdown or Spectre though.
If I'm a regular person, what is a scenario where an actor as powerful as a state or Apple would actually try and breach my privacy? Would Apple want my credit card? Or would it try to blackmail me with my private photos get a couple of hundred dollars?
> Curious: why didn't you disclose to the employer up-front?

a) I didn't know as I was 22 and this was my first time getting a job after everything happened, so I was ignorant of the process. The subject never came up during interviews or offer signing.

b) NYC has laws/rules (?) that don't let employers ask about criminal records before giving an offer. To me these laws are useless as I'd rather be rejected up front than accept an offer and then have to leave...

Anyway, the company was a CRM start up and their excuse was that their investors wanted everyone in the company to be clean because we handle customer data or whatever, so I doubt I would've gotten the job even if I had been up front. But, I love where I work now so it's all good.
But how high is the cost of generating the energy _plus_ the cost of storing it?
And does the wind always have the same strength or do you need to build additional wind farms for times when the wind is weaker?
>Conjures vague, smudgy figures and vistas passable as abstract thought but ridiculous in realization

I want a better neural GPU!
Yeah street food in much of the developing world is incredibly affordable.

I remember getting incredible Banh Mis in Vietnam for 15-20k dong (less than $1).
I think it should be at least heavily taxed and wouldn't be very much opposed to it not actually passing down.
Interestingly, Ubuntu requires 25 GB.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequire...

So consumer-oriented distros don't seem to be nearly so much lighter than Windows. With the caveat that Ubuntu probably comes preloaded with more apps like Libre Office.
Cool, now I don't need to remember the arcane incantation to download a file with Powershell.

Do you think we'll see things like the good old "curl <some url> | bash" for Windows now? They still have no package manager worth using.
The Apricot Qi came with a remote for booting.

http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=995
getting your feet wet

andrew ng's machine learning course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

to get up to date on convnet architecture

Fei-Fei Li and Karpathy's cs231n: https://cs231n.github.io/

if you want to go deep

geoff hinton's neural networks for machine learning coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks
> Ahu Yildirmaz, an economist who helps lead the research arm of the payroll-processing company ADP, said her firm’s data showed more people switching jobs, and getting bigger bumps in pay for doing so.

So... if I work for a company who uses ADP for payroll, ADP is tracking if/when I change jobs and how much my salary is over time?

I wonder what else they're doing with my private information.
My wife's company unknowingly hired someone with a criminal record(he used his brother identity to get the job). He attempted to rape another employee and killed the person who stopped him. The company paid rather large settlement to the victims of these crimes. Incidents like this reinforce the notion that it isn't worth the risk to hire people with a criminal record.
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What kind of drama is there? Seems like a weird place for there to be drama about anything.
That makes a lot of sense. What a shitty way to start a day.
We excrete a lot of salt already, kidneys do hard work. Ingesting salt water would quickly overwhelm their capability to shed the salt. Incidentally, this kind of over-concentration+some kernel to start crystallization around can cause kidneystones.
Not at all. Your point was that if it is difficult to tell whether a particular organism was of terrestrial or martian origin, it must be so similar to Earth organisms as to be unworthy of study. If so, why bother studying more than one terrestrial organism?
Their platform is back online now too: https://blog.kraken.com/post/1449/
I think you get to set that number on your own or let the market dictate your friend price. Cats with a billie usually have a pretty full roster though. Do you juggle or something? Just a really good listener? Have a rare blood type?
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Aaron, 5 years later
You might like http://www.includeos.org/
Hasn't that been popular as iwr <some url> | iex for a while?
I don't understand the thought process behind cheaping out as much as possible on a terrible PC, then paying for many hours of work from a tech to try to get a pathetic machine to be usable. The correct course of action is to return the faulty machine and buy a better one, rather than throwing away the money on a tech who can really only do so much with such inferior hardware.

It also boggles my mind how, still to this day, it's so hard to get a lower cost desktop or laptop that ships with an SSD, despite the fact that SSDs offer up such a performance improvement that many people consider them mandatory. The average consumer will have a much better experience with a computer that ships with a 128 GB SSD than a 1 TB HDD, yet every manufacturer is offering plenty of the latter (at 5400 rpm no less) and none of the former at sane price points. The two components even have similar costs now. In this era of streaming everything, the average person really isn't using much hard drive space. I know that my non-technical family members certainly aren't.

I just got my mom a $450 refurbished 2012 Dell workstation for common desktop use (mostly email and word processing). She loves it. It's night-and-day faster than the machine it replaced. And the single biggest performance improvement in it comes from, you guessed it, the SSD. A $450 five-year-old used workstation is trouncing any modern desktop in the sub-$1,000 range in practical performance. I would've gotten her a new one, but couldn't find anything in the price range that has an SSD, and the kinds of computers that do ship with SSDs also tend to have unnecessarily upgraded (and costly) processors and graphics cards, which are only useful for gaming.

(Oh, and the used workstation has a Core i7 in it too, so it's not exactly a slouch along any dimension except for 3D graphics performance.)
Unemployment numbers, as with most official government numbers, are based on a combination of surveys and self-performed actions, such as filing for unemployment, the latter of which essentially amounts to self-reporting [1]. These results are then aggregated into six metrics, U-1 through U-6 [2], of which U-3 has been designated the official and widely-quoted unemployment rate.

The main value of U-3 isn't that it's a particularly insightful reflection on job health, but rather that it's easy to measure, its definition is consistent, and captures a particular subset of the population that has demonstrated overt desire to participate in government programs that ostensibly help them on the path towards employment. This self-selects for workers exceeding a particular desperation ratio, while not counting people who may think that they'd prefer to work, but haven't taken a government-defined sequence of steps towards doing so.

Seasonally-adjusted U-3 is low right now, around 4.1%, so in macro terms the pool of people who have taken overt steps towards getting a job while still not having a job is shrinking. This means there's fewer candidates for a particular position, and on average, less of a chance that any particular candidate is qualified for any particular position. You could argue that this means there's a labor shortage.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm [2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
While true, you end up reading code with your variables more often than you write your variables so I tend to optimize for readability over ease of typing.
So either this was a security breach, a human mistake or a psyops/test on a small isolated American population.

In the first case, we'll probably only be told about it if they actually make an arrest and the system is patched.

The second is an interesting case, we'll come back to.

The final one: it was intentional and used to track what happened on the islands, and to also watch that information propagate back to the mainland. I feel like all of America has forgotten about PRISM/the NSA. With their immense data collection architectures and ties to large tech companies, they could easily filter the keywords and images they want, and get measurements of how quickly this information propagates and how people react.

Even more freaky, they can use language processing to even get numbers about what people might be feeling! I think we've all forgotten about this and it should be a chilling affect.

In the final case, we will, of course, never know. Anyone who suggests it will be called a conspiracy theorist (even though there is evidence the US government has preformed operations like this in the past, e.g. COINTELPRO) and the official line will be either reason 1 or 2 .. possibly with a patsy to arrest if need be. The truth will be declassified in 30~40 years so some people will be able to say "I told you so," but long beyond the time period anyone will actually care.
> Yes, Apple's security is strong with respect to outside threats, but at the cost of putting absolute blind trust in Apple.

You say "blind", I say "evidence-based". Apple has been putting their money where their mouth is. If they stop, I'll re-evaluate.
I find everything not made by humans to be completely random. Given unlimited space and eternal time everything is possible.
There's a difference between someone guilty of murder and other physical violence such as aggravated rape and other felonies like larceny, burgling, fraud, etc., where there is a good chance at rehabilitation, esp., if the crime was fueled by drug addiction.
While reading the article on the back of my mind I'm thinking that 99% of founders that read & follow those advices will still fail. But why? Why is the failure rate for startups so high?

and why is the failure rate for starting a bootstrapped revenue generating business much lower?
Yes.

That said, it's novelty and working within set restrictions that makes it impressive.

Not the line count of the code, but the fact that it works within the set restrictions of making an n64 software renderer (novelty) with that line count of code. (also a novelty)

It's not important at all, it's novel. We have had hacky, and even gimped for quick hacks n64 emulation (compare Project 64 to say, Dolphin) since the late 90's-early 00's, but we haven't had a 512 line object software renderer. A novelty for those who like novel programming exercises!
So they lost 5% of performance, then applied FDO, a generic optimization technique, and gained back about that 5%. In other words, they could be ~5% ahead without the bug (at least 2%, if you consider there are some helpful interactions between FDO and retpoline mitigations).
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Your crap humor could use work.
Those are ChromeBooks, not Windows laptops.

Also, I'd never heard of WIMBoot. Being a Microsoft employee doesn't make me a Windows expert. I don't work on Windows and don't own any systems that WIMBoot targets.
Looking at WIMBoot, it doesn't seem relevant for the case discussed here, either, since this client clearly didn't have the small space usage WIMBoot enables.
Likely true, but it also depends on how you define it. The OPHI (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative) has been tracking what they call "multidimensional poverty", which is a holistic view of poverty over health, education, and living standards, and is far more insightful than the X dollars a day metrics. They have found the poverty rate (and destitute rate) in India is very high and is comparable to that of Sub Saharan Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/14/poverty-india-...

This doesn't prove the Economist's claim per se, but it indicates to me that it's not absurd.

A lot of the extreme poverty in India is concentrated in the northeast and in rural populations, so it's not always super visible to visitors outside the segregated slums of cities.
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Serious question: where would one seek shelter if that notification were true?
They aren't just concatenating though. The code is clean and understandable with short comments explaining a few things.

> Isn't it a better benchmark to have better code structure even if the project is composed of more lines of code or more files for that matter.

It isn't about benchmarks, it's about understanding a concept enough to cut junk out and providing clear concise code that does as expected.
> Selling customer data would violate nearly everything about what Apple cares about and believes in.

Not quite. It would violate everything Apple says they care about. But there's actually reason to suspect that Apple might change this policy. Once upon a time Apple said they cared about building computers that Just Worked, that were the most reliable and easiest to use in the industry, that had the most advanced hardware. That is no longer true. Apple's hardware is way behind the state of the art. Their applications are a horrible mess. Their OSs crash regularly. Security failures are common. Of course, they didn't get up one day and announce that they were abandoning their prior commitment to quality bwahahaha, they just did it. Quietly. Gradually. Probably unintentionally. So worrying about where Apple might go in the future is not just paranoia. Apple has jumped the shark before, they could do it again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/dallas-emergency-siren...
I think that far exceeds "a little effort", however. And there's the problem of access. I might be able to mine graphite, but where am I going to get a graphite mine?

I enjoy the How to Make Everything channel on Youtube for this reason. Here's what's probably their most popular video, the $1500 Sandwich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
Fiber lasts for decades. It does not go obsolete. If you want something faster or better change the electronics on each end.

If you are worried about the governed not keeping up, let the government put in the fiber and have somebody else light it.
A decent amount of that space ends up being on-disk swap for the RAM, for what it's worth. And note that, on that same page, Xubuntu and Lubuntu are offered up as alternatives for less performant computers. They only require 5 GB of space. Windows doesn't have a light version like that.
The american prison system is such insanity
Do you mean anomie? I know a few Kropotkin fans who are fairly certain that they want anarchy.
You originally said that the claim "total fossil fuel generation has stopped growing" was bullshit. Those numbers show it's not bullshit.

Renewables have been rising. See the same table I linked before. Maybe you'd prefer if all that declining coal generation had been replaced by non-combustion sources instead of mostly gas. So would I, but global solar manufacturing capacity in particular has grown so rapidly and recently that it wasn't even theoretically feasible until just a few years ago.

Gas plants are cheap to build and currently have low fuel costs too. But even at today's low fuel costs, most of their operating expenses come from fuel. As renewable and storage construction costs continue to decline, their very low marginal costs provide ample opportunity to steal more share from gas, even if gas prices stay low. It's already happening in California.

http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-puente-gas-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/a-new-era...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/battery-storage...
True. Optimistically, the current "shortage" might result in getting chronically unemployed people back into the job market. People who long ago gave up on finding a job.

That said, we should introduce some job training for these folks since their skulls are likely severely out of date.
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My biggest problem is deferring and when I don't do that, I railroad or say 'fuck this, I'm doing it anyway'. None of which is useful or productive.

But for me it boils down to an inferiority problem. What has helped is recognizing that feeling of 'something about this isn't right' and instead of either pushing it down (because I don't want to look stupid) or immediately saying 'hey that's shit but I can't tell you why' I take some time to really think about where that feeling is coming from.

Then, if I find the problem quickly enough, I specifically talk about and explore that, trying to be extremely careful to not use any 'blame' language. Because laying blame is unhelpful and makes people defensive. What I want out of these interactions is the best solution, not to be right.

If I don't find the reason for the feeling quickly enough I try to keep my mouth shut. Just because I've got a feeling that something isn't adding up, doesn't mean it's true.
Have you considered using the tools the net afford to help remedy this? I'm going on the assumption here that the country that you have a criminal record in is the one where it is easiest to dig that up and hold it against you. But as long as crimes committed have some real world factor there should be absolutely no reason to hire someone with such a record to do remote work. Which might just give you an edge.

I love your initiative by the way, if there is any way that I can help promote it please let me know.
Wow I saw this page first without realising it's him. I remember being blown away by his research, and the fact that they're in separate areas (symbolic execution and exokernels). It seemed like he'd stopped publishing a few years ago - do you know why?
Discontinued support for certain Apple devices from 2013 and older [Pokémon GO]
The more underground you are, the better. Shield from those gamma photons!

If that ain't an option, jumping into the ocean doesn't seem like such a terrible idea.