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I thought I’d share my side project, which I am trying to turn into a business: https://www.contabulo.com

I started working on it after become frustrated with Trello (admittedly I was trying to use it for things it was never intended to do). It’s geared heavily toward knowledge management, though I think it’s flexible enough it could probably serve in a variety of use cases. I have a long list of ideas for additional features and possible “card content” (beyond checklists). Some rough edges in the interface at this point, but quite usable (yea, this is a one-man project).

Some example boards (with read-only access):

- Wiki: https://app.contabulo.com/boards/b7dcea21-e1a3-4fa2-ab14-441...

- Planning: https://app.contabulo.com/boards/a5e413d1-8fe3-4b42-a8f1-b4f...

- Job board: https://app.contabulo.com/boards/5c0eb6f0-7eb6-411b-918c-d7c...
The problem is that the VC community and finance folk believe that they can maintain bringing enough of the masses to buy into these crypto-assets that they will gain "legitimacy" in that enough people will have a vested interest in them maintaining a certain value; all holders then of course will want to perpetuate its adoption until all of society is legitimizing its "present value."
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Literally the whole industry doesn't care two bits about "100% ANSI C compliance", which I'd guess isn't even possible on a pure Harvard architecture like AVR or PIC.
To make a camera-based solution practical, it seems like one would neeed a specialized camera, for modest resolution, but very high frame rate. Without enough frame-rate, you can't capture high frequencies. Even if speech could be discerned from a spectrum that rolls off at 300hz, well under the peak energy of a typical human's speech, you would still need many hundreds of frames per second.
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Both my sons and their father likely all qualify for an ASD label, though none of them has been officially diagnosed. My sons are vastly more socially savvy than their father, largely due to having been raised better.

I know a lot about the topic of autism and related issues. I get tired of seeing social difficulties chalked up to a label of some disability or other. It takes a couple of decades to properly raise a human and prepare them for their role in society. A large part of social skills are learned behavior. This is why we have the term socialization.

Furthermore, different approaches are normal in different contexts. Someone who is not autistic and has no difficulty understanding and navigating social things can have trouble when placed in a new situation, including but not limited to a different culture.

Accusations of being autistic as an explanation for abrasive behavior are almost never sympathetic. They are almost never an attempt to understand why someone is coming across poorly and find a way to better interact with them. They boil down to a suggestion of incompetence and a dismissal of the person's position, as well as any legitimate anger or frustration they may be feeling.

There are cultures, including the American military, where being very blunt is the norm. As others have noted here, when people accuse someone of being rude, it very often means they don't like being disagreed with and are just looking for an excuse to be offended and level accusations. It isn't actually possible to find a way around that. People who are going to hurl accusations and focus on your style of communication as a way to try to avoid dealing with the substance are not acting in good faith. There is no means to be both polite and effective with such people. They will not like being disagreed with and will hate you for that piece of it no matter how you present it.

It seems you are trying to be an advocate for yourself and others with the same diagnosis. This is not the way to go about it. It comes across as simply insulting Linus Torvalds as an excuse to not take his position seriously while at the same time slandering the entire IT profession with a tired and untrue stereotype that everyone in IT has terrible social skills and they are all just aspie.

You keep saying that you have an ASD diagnosis, you don't see the points other people are making and then concluding they must be in the wrong. Let me respectfully suggest that you are missing some contextual cues. Meaning of words does not occur in a vacuum. Context matters.

There are ways to be a representative of your demographic and an advocate for others like you. This is about the worst possible way to try to do that.

Best.
In a pump and dump scheme, usually an actor owned the instrument that was being "pumped". In the 2008 crisis, there were a large number of groups that was benefiting from the situation. A guy on Wall Street didn't own the houses that were being bought, nor was he directly lending the money for them.
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how does clearing cache regularly help?
>I think the society and culture needs to work a bit harder to promote the idea of a girl as a professor, scientist, hacker, math wiz etc

I keep being reminded of Phillip greenspun's quip:

"A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of landing a $35,000/year post-doc job?"
Technically, New Zealand's a "country", but to call it a "new country" is pushing it. It's a cultural appendage to the U.K. and the U.S. West Coast, with a bit of Hong Kong thrown in. It's the unitary state that never joined Australia in 1901, being listed in the Australian Constitution as one of its 7 candidate states. It would have joined the Australian Federation if refrigerated shipping hadn't have been invented a year before, meaning they could ship their meat products to London instead of relying on a guaranteed open market at Sydney. Meat and other primary production is NZ's main industry, what with the banks and most other large corps being owned by their larger Australian counterparts. The only other industry in NZ of note is "Human Arrivals", which not only includes Tourism and International Education but also Immigration (despite being on the country's capital rather than current account). Of course, New Zealanders refer to Australia as "the 52nd state", so calling Australia a "new country" is also pushing it.
I disagree with the other comments. If you interviewed 30 times and are an expert in the field, you probably made up for the variants at this point.

The culture today systematically lacks respect for seniority.

You don't give non-standardized technical screenings to candidates with a demonstrable track record. What are you trying to do by screening people? Are you saying that the applicant is potentially fraudulent?

Why isn't their technical screening standardized? What is it testing for? Is there confirmation by an independent body the screening represents the responsibilities of the role?

Some more factors:

- If it's a startup and you have 10 years of experience, you'd have more experience than most founders. Outshining the master is super-unemployable, unless they're willing to split equity and let you in as a co-founder. Then they're serious. Otherwise, you're just another programmer to them.

- The person interviewing you doesn't want to hire the person who replaces them. Then they'd be stuck job hunting like you. Unless they're retiring in the near future, being too good is probably going to get you a sham technical screening, or some excuse that flunks you early on.

- There is a reporting bias. Due to survivor guilt, you don't see people chiming in every time they get their time wasted.
Agreed, but I don't think it changes the bulk of what he's talking about.
We wrote a lot more about what we did to ensure then end user experience was good in https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46366.html

You're right that it's still early for companies that don't have the same resources of a company like Google, but products are slowly starting to emerge to make it more turnkey, so I have high hopes that this will be the norm for new companies in a few years.
IIRC, he originally wrote Linux to be 386 specific and essientially to get hands on experience with all of the special features.

He was already one of the best minds of x86 who hadn't seen real internals of another chip, hence why Transmeta hired him in the first place.
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There are many investors blissfully aware that this is going on, they've put their money in only once they believed they could make gains from the Pyramid-Ponzi schemes - meanwhile creating talking points to derive legitimacy or create confusion and cognitive dissonance (at least long enough for them to exit the scheme).
Indeed. For one there was the 386BSD lawsuit, for another there was HURD. Torvalds himself has stated that if HURD had been usable at the time, he would not have bothered working on Linux.

Honestly, back when Linux started getting momentum, RMS' GNU/Linux argument had merit. Most of the stuff people where running on top of Linux, never mind using to develop Linux, came from the GNU project.
> these big companies operate what amounts to mini-surveillance states and face little to no scrutiny about it

Cynically, the reason for this is that their mini-surveillance states are contributors to a larger, more literal surveillance state; their would-be regulator is benefitting from this part of their behavior.

Some (Yahoo, Verizon, possibly Amazon) look to be actively complicit. But even 'resisters' like Apple are better for surveillance than a decline in online communication or a move to decentralized, E2EE approaches. And in the apocalyptic case, it's useful to encourage reliance on a primary communication channel that can be disabled on demand. The 'kill switch' power is another one that can be borrowed by the actual state.

I agree that rethinking this power distribution is an important move, but it's worth at least retaining an awareness of the cynical narrative: that regulation efforts against tech giants won't touch the areas where these companies are government proxies.
Security does not scale linearly; blockchains are way in the "diminishing returns" territory of real-life security.
I hope we'll see more advanced type features added to languages. I find it very annoying when I can't be expressive enough and have to resort to comments and runtime errors. It's a very fine line to walk though. TypeScript is the language that I think is best at walking that line currently.
Because if you are using a language designed around one execution model, but you need another execution model, defining a graph is one of the better ways to do it, even if it is annoying. You're basically writing a compiler that takes your problem and converts it into another representation that will actually be run.

In the maximally abstract sense, Python isn't necessarily the best choice for this, but as the closest manifestation to the correct way to do this that I know of is probably Haskell, that seems unlikely to beat out Python any time soon. There's certainly a lot of worse languages.

Ultimately, you'll want a language that has the necessary primitives built in natively, but it doesn't sound like we're to that level of maturity in the field yet.
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> Web searches are a pretty low-frequency, low-importance action for me.

Web searches are a very high-frequency, high-importance action for me--I do dozens of searches every day--and Google Search, whether for text, images, videos, or physical addresses, is so much more superior to any other search engine in thoroughness and organization, that there is, quite simply, no question about it.
Apple would only be a red herring if the article in question was talking in any way about Apple! It’s not, it’s subtitle specifies it’s referring to Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

In fact, Apple is mentioned only once in the article, in a sentence saying “Apple is to be admired for making things people want to buy”.

Pedantry about RTFA aside, I generally agree with your points, Apple has chosen a business model that makes it relatively unlikely to receive serious anti-trust scrutiny!
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At least in Spain #1 could be a problem because you have to pay social security for people.

If know about companies hiring founders as contractors or as part-time workers to comply (the later case is quite unethical but... people do it).
A great explanation, except for the last paragraph. I'd have upvoted it otherwise.

Right now, it's the other party which has shut down government, because it does not want to pass a funding bill without addressing illegal aliens first.
Nope, it doesn't mean that. There is one point you seem to miss: relative to Bitcoin, the transaction fee is nonexistent. Yeah, it's high when converted to dollars, but still, the promise is fulfilled.
Does anyone try to get accurate bounding boxes (rotation, correct angle) with these object detection models? Or does the greatly harden the problem?
There's lots of people who call out bullshit. But people usually don't listen or respect them unless they have power - which Linus has. There are plenty of other professionals who have been complaining lately.
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Couple of things, tangentially contradictory.

1. We need more women in STEM because there is both an industry shortage and because it provides a potential avenue to a good career.

2. We should look for equal opportunity rather than equal outcome.

3. We see greater STEM participation in China, Russia, India, etc., despite barriers, so it's apparent there are other cultural factors influencing decisions and those need addressing in order to make STEM more appealing to women in the first place.
I think the initial intention of creating a "good" search engine was there and a great social benefit, but after that it kinda went to hell.
Why is it a problem if men and women aren't doing the exact same thing on average (i.e. professions distributed 50/50 by sex)?
Yes. I was going to add that the lines in the original image are more likely due to the discontinuity between the top, bottom, left, right edges. The other comment wasn’t mine, but is right that an aperture in the back focal plane of a lens would cut out image information at higher resolution.
> the kind of crude, unsubstantiated, vitriolic one-liner always voted down on here, hate/poison in place of thought.

Dramatic much? Even an apologist for Mencken such as yourself should be able to see the value in having a debate about his views on race. Not sure why you're getting so personally offended and uppity about this. Nor am I sure why you pre-fix all of your responses by accusing the parent of not having read anything, based on nothing but your general intuition.
The value of the token comes from the value and purpose of the protocol the token is used for. For example, Etherium's value itself is backed by the ability to run "smart contracts" on the Etherium platform itself. Most of the classic (hash) coins are pretty much fiat currency, the value coming from the ability to speculate, trade, and spend, like with any real-world currency. Et cetera.
He might have been reading those words like that for years... I know I mispronounce many words, I just don't know which ones :-)
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Primarily... but then it's a MacBook for secondary uses.

You can't run minikube on a dumb terminal while off at a conference.
And you have people trying to lobby for war, so certain stocks will perform better or worse; adding into the mix the ability to make money off of predicting future failure of a company/organization incentivizes bad behaviour even further.
The intrusive r is particularly baffling, as it's not a natural position for your mouth in the places it occurs. It's like the omitted r's in non-rhotic accents got lost and needed a place to go.
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If working for SAP helps with keeping your integrity, you should stick with them forever.
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During the last shutdown, the executive branch deliberately tried to make it as painful as possible, whether or not it actually needed to be, as a political ploy. I recall in another instance it spent resources to block access to something which people could have just walked across.

I'm sincerely curious if the executive branch this time is pulling the same sort of shenanigans.
It's not Intel's issue, it's a design flaw per se, affecting _all_ CPUs that use predictive branch execution that has effects on the processor cache, which are pretty much all processors produced in this millenium.

That said, there _might_ be a solution to this problem in a way that predictive branch execution does not need to be removed completely from future architecture, which would be a thing we don't really want to loose, even if it increases safety. During that time, it makes sense to disable it, but not by default. The only implication is that older systems must be patched, which is every admin's responsibility.
You could think of a gun as just a malicious piece of mechanical engineering. You could think of the software in the article as a malicious piece of software engineering.

My point still stands.
You can generalize from firearms and target shooting up to something that applies to software and surveillance dragnets. Sure, you might just want to target your ads more accurately but the same software can be turned right around and (ab)used as a surveillance dragnet.

Selling better ads and tracking consumers is just target shooting with some abstraction. You can still ruin lives with the technology if it's used irresponsibly. Any similarity or comparison with the firearms industry is not popular in the software industry for reasons having to do with the beliefs most people in the software industry subscribe to.

The parent comment was denying that software can be used for nefarious purposes because software only does what the developer builds it to do. That is probably why he was down-voted.
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Personally, I've used: https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb

(for implementing an RFC 3161 (crypto timestamp) service.

It's a fork of https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose

(The Civetweb fork exists due to Mongoose license switch from MIT to GPLv2)
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> If I invent a new messenger protocol, how does a cryptocurrency enable me to make money on that protocol better than any other method?

This is my limited understanding:

1) You want to allow users to send and businesses to receive (micro-)payments within your messenger/protocol.

2) You want to allow users donate/vote/gift/award other users/groups/posts with their tokens within your messenger.

3) You want to allow users create custom (chat-)bots which could apply some scripted logic to send/receive tokens; etc.

Inventing a new distributed messenger/protocol with cryptocurrency, you essentially create (and own) a new platform with services operating on "virtual money". Rules of money (tokens) distribution in theory must be guaranteed by your protocol implementation (usually presented via whitepaper).

If potential future users like your idea (whitepaper), they may invest into your new shiny platform via ICO (with other cryptocurrencies) to get some of your initial (limited) tokens. They want to get them while they cost less than they potentially will cost later, if your platform becomes popular. It's assumed that in the case of an open distributed blockchain platform, amount and belonging of tokens won't be able to be painted by you, but guaranteed by algorithms and public network.

We've seen how it works on totally scam projects. And apparently, we'll have a chance to witness how this works out in case of the already popular platform[1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/inside-telegrams-ambitious...
I've been working with my third grader on spelling, and I swear half of what I've been doing is just saying the word as written, rather than as we actually say it. "Prin-Si-Pal, not Prin-Si-Pel, and yes, the S is a C this time..."

The problem is that it hits the schoolkids the worst. The words that go irregular tend to be the ones that are used all the time, which are also the ones they are learning. "Cardiology", now, there's a word that probably only gets slightly changed around the exact pronunciation of the o sounds as you go around the country. But "milk" or "pen" or "crayon"? Good luck, kiddo.
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A textbook example is the AOL search history release [1]. They went to the trouble of wiping user account information but left anonymous (but unique) per-user numeric identifiers. Oops, someone didn't think that one through.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
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> Pony is interesting but very new - there aren't a lot of libraries

The lack of libraries is what drove me away, too. The type system is gorgeous, though. I really hope Pony grows a decent library ecosystem soon, the language itself was very pleasant to use once I got past the initial learning curve.
Why does it matter if the differences are biological, cultural, or both? If women have the option to go into STEM without risking social exclusion(which is arguably the case in most developed countries) yet they choose to do something else, shouldn't that be their choice? Wouldn't these unequal trends naturally result in an environment with equal opportunities among people with different overall desires?
Nice catch, very enlightening read.

He seems to want to simply ignore the historical context in which homosexuals were "conflicted about" or "tortured by" their homosexuality. If society makes one's sexuality the defining aspect of one's personality by railing against it and excluding/tormenting/harming people based upon it, then of course it's going to result in psychological pain for those that are the subject of such treatment. He's completely mixing up cause and effect...
At an academic institute I used to work at they hired a woman whose job was to improve equality for women. One of the specific tasks was finding out why there were fewer women in the institute. She gave a long presentation showing all kinds of statistics and bizarre graphics comparing job adverts to Playstation controllers (which only appeal to men, apparently). The talk concluded with a figure comparing number of women to number of men at each stage in the hiring process. From application, to interview, to hire. The numbers were equal all the way through, with a slight bias towards women, in fact.

Every woman who was at the institute also took advantage of options that were not available to me as a man. There are special grants for women. They can apply for the ones available for me as well.

So really the question for me is why there is such a divide between the science and what people believe. It's simple confirmation bias. If you tell people that they will be at a disadvantage due to a certain characteristic then they will blame every misfortune in their life on that characteristic.

Same goes for the wage gap. We know there is no gap. It's illegal and ridiculous to suggest it exists. But you will always be able to find at least one man who gets paid more than you. As a man I don't think it's becaues of his blue eyes. But women think it's because he's a man, because that's what they already believe.