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The dev who showed up at 9:05AM was probably also working on a production issue the night before.

While manager slept.
This looks great, but unfortunately like most Apple-related things, this will probably be limited to Fortune 500 companies for the next 1-2 years then silently killed.
Sad. Can't wait for self-driving tech to take over.
The war against God is not the primary source of his 'Evil'. His choice to get revenge on God by corrupting man and getting man cast out of paradise is probably his canonical 'evil' act.
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>It already is, but based on the availability and popularity of buses, it's not likely.

I guess it depends where. Here in London buses are everywhere.

It's an interesting take on who's responsibility it is to provide transport. My personal view (neither more not less valid than yours) is that it should be the job of the local authorities to provide transport (council or state). It will help companies of all sizes to grow rather than leaving the responsibility on a few big corporations, and it would give access to transport to every employee, not just googlers. That's only possible if the tax system is well thought and functioning, including taxing said big corporations.
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Cool. So where's the value here? How are you making money? Didn't understand that from the first 2 or 3 paragraphs. Seems like you have a lot of GitHub stars, but how about revenue?
Too late to make an edit, but I am still experiencing the issue on the Windows version and FF58

https://screenshots.firefox.com/5GyCe8xjvqM7XVYj/www.faceboo...
I'd say even over paper mail.
Not turning on standard mitigation techniques because of binary size is one of the strangest reasons I've heard. And then still programming in an unsafe language, quite self-confident for a "humble programmer".

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...
It has already taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.
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Ironically, the new document is now more honest, if not more open.
There has been a big question about the place of convex relaxations for solving learning problems, and this responds to that question.

That is, you have a learning problem with some fit criterion that is non-convex. Maybe you choose a different objective function, or different parameterization of the problem, so that it is convex. Then you can use a convex solver to find the guaranteed optimum of the "wrong" problem. Using convex relaxations has been a trend for perhaps 20 years - it avoids a whole bunch of nagging "what if my solution is just a local max" questions.

Or, you can use older techniques, like expectation-maximization, or in general, alternating minimization, that are adapted for these kinds of learning problems. Learning problems often have observed variables, and hidden variables, and if you knew the hidden variables, the optimization problem would be easier. These algorithms work on such problems. But, they don't find the global maximum. So you have found a possibly-good solution to the "right" problem.

Lately, some very interesting results have shown that, under some conditions, there are probabilistic guarantees that the second approach will find the global optimum [e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2156]. Since the second approach often scales much better, people are naturally interested.
Nobody runs a SaaS for Mattermost?
Man, I have missed Steve Yegge's posts and style so much. Can't believe that it's been 13 years that he's been locked up in Google.

I always kinda assumed that Google were paying him to write his essays for internal consumption only — not just making him stop blogging completely. Hopefully this means that we'll be hearing more from him in the future.

I'm still thankful for him getting me (and thousands of others) pumped up for the Common Lisp renascence of the mid-2000s, and I keep on hoping the world will cotton to its advantages (or — even better — develop something better yet). No dice so far, though.
Perf benchmark is here: https://github.com/solkimicreb/react-easy-state#performance
You can compare it with vanilla React, Redux and MobX. It is between Redux and MobX, but honestly all of them are pretty performant.

Complexity wise it is much simpler than Redux in my opinion, but its like apple to oranges. It is closer to MobX in philosophy and it is simpler, in exchange of narrower platform support.

Ultimately, just give it a try and judge for yourself (: https://github.com/solkimicreb/react-easy-state#installation. It takes away 10 minutes of your life at worst case.
I was hoping someone would mention it!
While it is a good book as well (and Kent Beck has many of them!) I tend to describe his book as 1st generation TDD. It certainly was a great breakthrough in 2002 but it misses some very good thoughts that only came later (and to give credit: probably only thanks to his book).
So, GOOS for me is the 2nd generation of TDD. Especially part II is invaluable to give as a reading and thinking exercise for my new devs.
What software doesn't have bugs? This was discovered and it was patched in a timely fashion.
Wait, they are saying that "website administrators" get to write their "core values" statement?

OK, I guess we know how much that "core values" statement matters.
I have been in touch with Tim Berners-Lee and his Solid project since late 2016. Since then, I've run across many people who work at W3C and in the protocol space, and it's inspired me to open up and publish protocols derived from our platform (eg https://github.com/Qbix/auth)

But I believe that, in the end of the day, mass adoption can only be done when there is a popular platform. Whether it's closed source like Facebook or Twitter, or open source like Qbix, it needs to be actually used. That's how, for instance, oAuth came to be so widely adopted, and many others.

Here is an overview of what I mean:
https://vimeo.com/252105786

Protocols like Scuttlebutt or ActivityPub can be bolted on after the actual infrastructure is there.
One serious thing one can get from the article is "By writing their own framework, a developer can truly separate themselves from their competition (...) I wonder how many people/companies actually just use this a business strategy.
> I thought violating anti-competitive laws required one party to cross-subsidize, use advantages in one field/area to drive out competition in another

No. See Article 102 TFEU [1]. Abuse of a dominant market position in order to distort or avoid competition can take many forms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_102_of_the_Treaty_on_t...
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According to https://plus.google.com/+jwildeboer/posts/jj6a9JUaovP Google was deploying a retpoline-based mitigation in production in September. Seems likely that existed _before_ any thought of microcode fixes. I wonder if, based on working with Skylake and newer chips only at the time, Intel thought the microcode version was going to be a performance alternative to retpoline instead of it being the other way around.
Perhaps you’re missing that this is an EU fine for past behavior, so the timelines work perfectly?

The exclusivity agreement expired in 2016. The fine is for that period. Since exclusivity ended, Apple has been trying to buy baseband chips from other suppliers without paying Qualcomm’s allegedly non-FRAND patent terms.
Corporate, government, academic enterprise customers don't buy 2nd hand hardware. They should focus there. Trying to battle in the consumer GPU market would be much harder IMO.
> I don't know if there's an easy way to share keys in a decentralized way

Blockchain. Namecoin, in particular.
"We put a splitter on the internet so that we can keep our own copy in locations A, B, C, and coming soon, D. We use an automated selector-based filter to find nodes of interest in realtime, as well as tools for querying the enormous amount of data we keep in the storage facilities at said locations."

That would count as both open and honest. What could the implications possibly be? Congress isn't going to investigate them based on those statements, and if you try to enter those locations you'd get denied entry just like you would today.

So what exactly is this "nature" that prevents the NSA from publishing the paragraph I wrote above?
> which meant some clients may not honor the private status of theses posts.

Does this mean they may have accidentally published a message intended as private, to the public?

If so, I don’t think I can imagine a more efficient way to rob me of any confidence I ever had in Mastodon…
I fully agree.

However, that still leaves an open problem. To the best of my knowledge there is no good way to measure "tractability," i.e., how much structure a problem has in comparison to other problems.

For example, I don't think there is a good way to measure how much more tractable -- i.e., how much more structure there is in -- the problem of classifying dog/cat photos versus the problem of classifying dog/cat/wolf photos versus the problem of classifying fruit/vegetable photos.

The various measures of "structure" that we have today (Shannon entropy, algorithmic information content, etc.) fall short for measuring the kind of hierarchical structure (multiple levels of function composition) that is prevalent in high-dimensional problems of interest.

Any research that might lead to a good way of measuring "hierarchical structure" (for lack of a better term) seems important to me.
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We made this exact product for Minted. The Market is not big enough to sustain it as it's own service.
It's well-known people favor short-term gain over long-term, so I suspect many people will turn the throttling off.
Your comment shows why some more open-ness would be great for everyone. Working in secret means nobody will know of the genuine successes, only the allegedly problematic aspects which leak out.

It might not be simple, but I am sure that it would be possible to remove classified details from certain “wins” (whether counterterror, counterproliferation, or other) and let the public know what their tax dollars are going toward.
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I picked up Warbreaker early last year when a copy was on sale. I had never heard of Sanderson before, but I've been hooked since. I then read the Reckoners series followed by the Stormlight Archives. I'm currently reading Elantris.

I find his single universe building and the "rules of the Cosmere" draw me in more and more to his work. With the first couple of novels I didn't realize this was even going on; but as individual books they still were great standalone. As I became aware of the ties between the books I've just been more drawn in. These are some of the only fiction books where I find myself wanting to go back and re-read so that I might pick up on things I missed the first time through.
I second this recommendation. This article reminded me of the Venture Deals section where they break down the different kinds of capitalization and payouts in different scenarios. While the examples are written for founders, it’s also useful for any employee with shares trying to figure out their value. Most importantly for employees joining a company to get the info to make the decision whether to join. Or for employees thinking about how to treat their options or limited shares.

I’ll add that for a few companies, when I asked the necessary questions then hiring manager or founder either couldn’t or wouldn’t answer. So, like another commenter’s advice, I valued the shares at zero. This meant sometimes I didn’t join, but sometimes I did. Almost always my zero valuation was accurate, but once I got a pleasant surprise.
You may be able to fix this issue by overriding the DPI scaling for this application to System in its program properties dialog.
Some of the previous non-existent bugs:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Sep/106
https://www.rarlab.com/vuln_zip_spoofing_4.20.html
To be honest, rsync sounds like a big win in that group..sheesh.

Good work all around.
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at this time all iphones sold in the EU have intel modems.
The US used to have fairly strong antitrust enforcement.

Here is an excerpt from [0].

"To get a flavor of how thoroughly the federal government managed competition throughout the economy in the 1960s, consider the case of Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. United States, in which the Supreme Court blocked a merger that would have given a single distributor a mere 2 percent share of the national shoe market."

[0] http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...
I think the preferred phrase is actually "I can neither confirm nor deny that."

My very first startup hired an ex-NSA sysadmin, and no joke, he was very good at deflecting jokey questions from a snarky 20 year-old me. He pointed out that "No comment" sounds slightly more like a denial to people, but "I can neither confirm nor deny that" seems more neutral and non-committal.
...how well do we use our freedom to choose the illusions we create? -Timbuk 3

Oscar Wilde says:
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Does the soul change?

It is a vast organization with vast bureaucratic momentum and organizational inertia. Can leadership change those? Not even a little. Intel can't change. Emerson can't change. And they have huger and more existential force pushing for change against a smaller mass.

Is the soul any different today than yesterday?
Nope.

In ten years you can ask again, and the answer might be maybe.

So the question behind the question is "what is the real soul of the NSA?". Look at their deeds. Words and actions over time tell truth. Look at the trend of their deeds over time.
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Sucks for them, WeChat will gladly take anyone else; kinda surprised other chats more popular in the west like Whatsapp haven't gone more the WeChat direction. Might be cultural though.
I left my big fat paying job after....

- reported a females colleagues non sexual harassment

- started to be harassed myself by my direct coworker who insisted I use css lint in the strictest mode. When I disagreed with what lint was saying in the strictest mode he sold to management that I don’t know how to code or do my job. From then on I struggled to change their minds even when linking to things like using negative margins is valid.
This may be the most extreme version of the principle-agent problem.

Without leaking or sharing at least some information, it's impossible for the public to hold them accountable. This seems like a fundamental impossibility; not just a matter of the 'wrong' people being privy to the same secrets. For one reason, there's no way we can know if our representatives are even privy to all the information to which they're entitled.

Hell, even with a lot of information being leaked it still seems basically impossible to hold them accountable!
Cole hardware in San Francisco currently works only over text. You can text all kinds of questions with reasonable reply times. You can’t pay for anything or have it shipped, they’re brick and mortar only.
> It's well-known people favor short-term gain over long-term

By who? I'd never turn throttling off personally.
I really feel that reddit and hn echo chambers are so vastly different from regular users who probably don’t care .
Relevant videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgyTzqDJhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMALm1VthGY
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I think it's a little unfair to just decide what "worse" is. Every older generation loves to say they like the old ways better. Seems hypocritical as they watch tv while playing on their iPad.
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I'm reading what Nelson wrote in the 60's right now, and I'm dumbfounded by the guy's genius.

But if I were reading his stuff in the 60's, I'd probably consider it frivolous nonsense and get on with my day.

Today's Ted Nelsons are probably working in obscurity for the same reasons.
This seems so 2011. I get a 15-pack of my favorite beer for $15.99 at my local store. It's a little more expensive at Pubix, though ($17.99).
Sounds sane, at least they are adjusting their pages to reflect their situation, unlike so many despotic nations that lie through their teeth on daily basis.

Also, am I only one in the tech community that doesn't have a problem with the NSA? I mean if they can hack me then let them, that'd be fun to analyze post-mortem.

I'd be extremely happy if I had organization as powerful as NSA dedicated to protecting my safety while trying to mess with my privacy. You Americans need to get some perspective, no offense.
Copenhagen is exceptionally well designed IMHO, from both the biking side and the public transport side. Not all the cities are that way, and some just don't have enough room for such amenities - consider many cities in Italy with much narrower roads and many slopes, as an example.
The HPSCI and SSCI do seem like reasonable checks. Ron Wyden especially has a good track record of calling out things he sees as problematic.
...did you actually pay for it? You'd be part of a select group then :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/PaidForWinRAR/
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agreed.

And I personally found the first book (wizard) decent, but the sequels were pretty meh (imho). And even with the first, I found the climax pretty meh too (and saw it coming a mile away).
Exactly I spent many years with a windows desk top as my pc developing for Solaris and before that Primos (an ITS derived os) and for Unisys A Series mainframes.
> The purpose there was to demonstrate the lure of evil,
> how it can seduce you with simultaneous appeals to
> reason, emotion, and pride.

Yes, you raised a very good point; and I agree. This internal struggle reminds me of the balancing role of ego over the conflict between id and super-ego in Freud's theory.

But the reason why I feel Satan is a little against western tradition is that -- I might understand it in a wrong way -- Satan is supposed to be everything that is opposite to God, who is the perfection and absolute virtue. In other words, Satan is utterly and absolutely bad...In this sense, Satan is different than Iago, as Iago is human after all...For instance, this absolute evilness of demon could somewhat be observed in this poem by Pushkin,

By gates of Eden, Angel, gentle,
Shone with his softly drooped head,
And Demon, gloomy and resentful
Over the hellish crevasse flapped.

The spirit of qualm and negation
Looked at another one – of good,
And fire of the forced elation
First time he vaguely understood.

“I’ve seen you,” he enunciated, –
“And not in vain you’ve sent me light:
Not all in heaven I have hated,
Not all in world I have despised.”

Notice the "first time" and "negation" stated above...

But Milton's characterization of Satan with a certain heroic and empathetic element shows that there is still some benign side for him, which if that is opposite to a corresponding aspect of God, then what God would be?
I've heard there's an app for that in the US, you drive with it for a week or two and then they adjust your premiums according to how you drive. That would be a more fair system. We're not discussing that though, we're discussing the current system vs one where insurance companies can't discriminate on the basis of gender - clearly that advantages men unfairly and disadvantages women unfairly. Yeah the system is still unfair the way it is, but this change would make it more so.

Women graduate from college more often, but college is not what it once was - I'm a college dropout and I'm sure I earn more than most graduates (plus I don't have the debt.) Women still earn less than men. Your claim that they earn more is just false.
There are two estimates you need to consider. The official estimate and the 'secret' estimate that investors really think you should beat. Although most people focus on the first one, it's only the second one that really counts.

Point is there are tons of factors and it is way too simplistic to say beating earnings = price increase on that day.

Absolutely agree.
Are they gonna fix the horrible battery life since 11? What about the crashing lock screen?

Not interested in any features untill those are sorted. In fact, I’d like less, thank you. The iMessage app has become an abomination of mistakenly hit clutter.
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I think you need to buy some quieter sandpaper
Could you elaborate on "salmon endpoint"?
This is of course a matter of taste, but I really dislike this approach to magic/alchemy that Sanderson has. He's explained it before in an illuminating article [1] about his classification of magic systems in "Soft" (less explained, more arbitrary) vs "Hard" (more logical, there are clear/mechanical rules), and how he prefers the latter. I respect this, but I dislike it. To me, magic isn't rational or logical, and overexplanation ruins it. I prefer Tolkien's subtle approach that magic is unexplained, part of the song that made the world -- and in fact, to some of his characters "magic" is a puzzling word.

"Like a videogame" is an apt description of Sanderson's approach, and not my thing. Even Jack Vance's magic system of memorizing spells, used in his Dying Earth stories and said to have inspired the Dungeons & Dragons RPG system, is more mysterious and mystical than Sanderson's. Which is the way it should be!

[1] https://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/
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I wouldn't put Ted Nelson on the same page like the other ones. The other three actually build stuff that is now everywhere. Ted never got anywhere is now bitching all the time on how much better his ideas were than what we actually got.
Hardly a disaster ok open office isn't as good as Office but its a perfectly workable solution.
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IMO improve in the small things. In many cases, developers take on large projects but have little opportunity to see the small things.

Pick a very small but important part to improve in. The most effective training I did for myself was to practice pressing shift, semicolons, and brackets accurately.

Wherever you have the most trouble with, narrow it down as small as possible. Practice writing tests. Practice your algorithms, or working with a very specific part of the stack. Things like Rx can be quite a lot to grasp.

It's not enough to know something once. You should be achieving fluency in all the little parts.
>> Pick the one that works for you, but don’t become a fucking missionary or tie your personality to your brand of choice.

I find that people naturally tend to want others to be like them.

It doesn't matter whether its politics, religion, OS, camera brand, camera sensor size, programming language, diet fad or whatnot.

Maybe it makes them feel better about the choices they made?
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Well, it's more an "avoid random shut-downs" thing than a battery life thing.

In some instances throttling can lessen battery life. A faster processor might use less power to do a given bit of work than a slow one because of race-to-sleep.