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I agree that new projects should, in general, be targeting Python 3.x by default. In this specific case though, it looks like the Bohrium library being used by Veros for parallelization has some issues with Python 3 so that may be what’s keeping this project on Python 2 (at least for now).
> I've noticed this in the work environment lately. It's palpable. People are afraid of saying the wrong thing.

But how was that different than 10-20 years ago? It seemed back then, people were just as afraid of saying wrong things, especially when the boss was around. Perhaps what has changed is that there are more wrong things to say, but that might be correlated with the fact that our society (from an American perspective) has gotten less homogenous.

20 years ago, calling people "gay" or "faggy" or "homo" wasn't a big deal because homosexuals weren't recognized as human beings. Now they are, and it is not strange to have bosses/colleagues who are openly gay -- but it sure would be if an anti-homosexuality culture was allowed for good times sake.

I know you're not arguing for the right to yell hostile slurs. But, ignoring the point that anti-gay slurs weren't seen as particularly offensive, just pointing out that being ostracized for being different was plenty pervasive back then, but it didn't feel that way if you weren't in a disenfranchised group.
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> An incredibly hard worker, even when it’s not so fun. There is a ton of work to do, and a lot of it downright sucks.

First off, it's really nice that you're being so candid about the realities of the position. Well done.

That said, I wonder if you'd attract a higher caliber of applicants by hiring people to write software that eliminates the suck, as opposed to just trudging through it?
There’s Faculty of 1000 for this, though my impression is that it has gotten less active and opinionated lately.
The third party branding can also be positive depending on your own brand trust.

Made numerous payments to shoddy businesses in SE asia the last month, but since most offer PayPal as payment provider I feel confident entering my CC number.
>Apple has been doing this to the corners of laptops and iMacs for years, but this type of rounding didn’t penetrate iOS until version 7. This shape has classically been difficult to achieve, because it wasn’t available in 2D design editors, though that’s starting to change.

(My emphasis)

However, bizarrely, it has been available in full 3D in parametric mechanical CAD for at least 20 years thanks to the advanced 3D blending functionality in the underlying modeling kernels: Parasolid, ACIS, ShapeManager etc.

Meanwhile, the 2D sketching environment in those programs has lagged w.r.t. curvature continuous fillets.

Witness this Solidworks 2012 tutorial on GrabCAD by Leandro Fernandes[0].

Because of the relative weakness of the 2D sketcher compared to 3D with respect to filleting, Leandro does (roughly) the following strange hack:

1. creates the profile of the wheel rim in the 2D sketcher

2. rotates the profile to form the 3D rim

3. fillets the profile in 3D

4. merges all the faces into one face

5. intersects the filleted 3D profile with a section plane to get back into 2D

[0] https://grabcad.com/tutorials/tutorial-how-to-model-a-bbs-lm...
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I very much doubt that Google's other businesses "cost hundreds of billions [of] investment to create". Google also has more than 100+ billion in the bank so they could easily sustain their operations and scale back if that SPOF ever happened. Additionally, they would focus on maximizing their other revenue steams such as Android, Google Cloud Platform, Nest, Waymo, Verily Life Sciences, DeepMind, GV, CapitalG.

>What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models?

Any other business in which the majority of their profits are dependent on a single revenue stream. It's only the true conglomerates, like Samsung, that could easily react to a SPOF because of how their diversified portfolio of businesses are and non reliant on one core business for their annual revenue.
Yeah I had consciousness in mind.
It’s designed for a case because it’s an additional revenue source.

The sales reps can push for warranty or a case. Either way a win-win for Apple shareholders.
Cultivating hobbies is sort of work at first. Perhaps you can find a hobby that you really enjoy, and then find a job that lets you work a minimal number of hours (say 35 hours a week), that covers expenses, and lets you focus on doing stuff you enjoy.

Cultivating a real hobby will be more fulfilling for you than reddit, you'll be happier.
Since no one has mentioned it yet, and it respectably isn't mentioned in the article, the author of this is the creator of the cycle.js (cycle.js.org).

It is a really cool way of looking at DOM state as a flow of: <interface> -> user interaction -> application reaction -> <interface>

The general idea being that the state of an application can be represented by a timeline of events throughout the lifetime of an application. Since it is entirely time and event driven/stateless, it gives way to some pretty cool "time travel" concepts.

The philosophy is this:

If you know how something begins, and you know the exact times at which anything happens to it, then you can assume its state at any given period in time.
I'm glad he got his books updated with the RISC-V editions before this
Where do you live? I've never had a bad experience with Kaiser in northern CA. Both of my children cost me $250 total for their entire pre-natal care and birth, all preventative care is free of co-pays, any time I call for an appointment there are multiple slots that day or in the next 3, prescriptions are filled in the in-clinic pharmacy or mailed to you if you prefer, consultancy can happen by phone, e-mail or in person... it seems way better than any other insurance I've had.
Many of the ad serving SDKs slurp up all this data anyways and send it down using a request body, query string, or something that isn't the "Referer" HTTP header. I'm not sure how ad verification providers get this data, but if anything it's just going to mean less information leaking out from systems like DFP to the smaller ad tech firms. But firms like Google will still be able to figure out what path you were on.
I'm not a huge Clinton fan but how is a claim of supporting a position in the same category as something that can (within reason) be counted and measured? How do you know she is "pretending"?
Does this mean good things for RISC-V?
Out of curiosity, where do you see the future of ads going as free ad-driven services, such as Facebook, start to approach market saturation?

Increasing revenue further would mean that product would need to increase ads, or somehow increase ad efficiency, but either case seems likely to deteriorate the user experience which could end up counter productive for all involved, at least in the long run.

I'm certainly oversimplifying things, but it seems like ad driven models have a very clear ceiling. Or is the endgame to simply to continue increasing costs to advertisers?
The thing that makes them "not that different" is how they both make jokes of their official platforms by their actual decisions.
Apple does not have friends in the government thanks to the whole thing a year or two ago about unlocking an iPhone.

The DOJ’s current thoughts on antitrust seem to be “anything that might lower prices is good“. Apple certainly didn’t have a big chunk of the e-book market but it still got in trouble anyway.

The phone companies HAVE to put up with Apple because the phones sell too well. They tried hardball years ago and it didn’t work. Then they tried promoting competitors and it didn’t work. I think android being big was a foregone conclusion, but the promotion of things like the Droid didn’t push Apple to a marginal player like they wanted.

Frankly I think the current administration would be happy to put up a fight against Apple just put up a fight against Apple. I don’t think they should be allowed to become a phone company anyway, although I’m sure that wouldn’t be the real reason for the suit.

Realistically I think the shareholders would slaughter them due to the risk that the cash cow that is the iPhone would be injured in any way.
I think you are reading way too much into it.
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I have tried to read Foucault and could barely understand what he was trying to say. May be most students are quiet because they don't know what to refute :-)
I quit eBay (and failed to get back to a comparable experience, unfortunately) the day (years ago) that they stopped allowing people to sell and specify payment options that didn't have the extra Paypal fee. Forcing everyone to use Paypal and pay the fee was obviously corrupt.
It was once a good magazine. Today I remember their 'Wired ... Tired' section. Having watched the online edition thrash about for the past few years, becoming increasingly 'Tired' ... best wishes.
> The regressive left is the SJW that tells the Norwegians they can't use their own letters because Nazi decided to co-op their culture back in the day [1].

Ehhhh. I'm of Indian descent, and I am perfectly comfortable with the modern inability to use the swastika in international contexts, where you don't have a culture where people expect the pre-Nazi meaning of the swastika. "They banned an up-arrow" just ... doesn't seem like something worth getting upset about? Presumably if the logo accidentally looked like a penis, they'd change that too, but that's hardly a sign of identity politics or anything.

> You have individuals like Gazi [2] running around saying that white people need to pay reparations even though most white people in the country descend from immigrants that arrived after the civil war therefore they never owned slaves.

I have no idea who this person is, or how genuine they are. Every political viewpoint has extremists and trolls and uninformed folks (I don't know if this person fits in one of these categories, but I certainly don't know that they don't), and many of those people are on YouTube. A much better case for reparations, which includes arguments about why white people who arrived in the US after slavery still benefited unfairly from organized oppression of black people, can be found in, say, Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

> it's an arrest-able offense to hand out the Constitution, the very document that defines that we are all equal in the sight of the law, to students on Constitution Day by a student of the college [3]

As far as I can tell from the reporting, these students were protesting a "free speech zone" policy on campus, right? I'm certainly not about to endorse "free speech zones," but it seems pretty clear that the motivation for the arrest was not that they were handing out Constitutions, they simply chose to hand out Constitutions because they knew they'd get favorable news headlines like this.

> I absolutely abhor the continued press for ignorance about the very historical facts at hand in which the white man, and only the white man, was to blame or profited from slavery [4].

The fact that your source is from VICE, which is regularly accused (possibly correctly!) of being left-biased, doesn't do much to convince me that these facts are being hidden on the left. Certainly I've never heard anyone on the left make a reasoned argument that only white men were to blame or ever profited from any slavery in history.
Are the design openings still around somewhere?
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are there any places that charge for births???? That sounds ridiculous and insane to me.

In the U.S., if you have decent insurance, you'll still end up paying a couple thousand or more after insurance payouts. And that's just for the birth and short (1-2 days) hospital stay. Any complications and you're potentially paying much, much more. Especially NICU, it's not unusual to pay hundreds of dollars per day of NICU care after insurance, and non-insured costs can easily end up in the tens or hundreds of thousands, and in rare situations in the millions.
I'm assuming because he financially benefits from this one.
I believe there is self-selection in the professorship as to who teaches what, and this explains this student's experience.

Feminism has (relatively) direct political and behavioral consequences, and so the professors who teach it will tend to skew towards people who want those policies and behaviors implemented.

By contrast, what is the agenda of someone who teaches Methods and Problems of Philosophical Thought? Probably that field self-selects for people who don't want, or believe they can, change the world too much in any particular way. Rather, if you asked them why they got into the subject, they would probably say it's inherently interesting, or that they like reading and argument, or have some kind of vague idea about changing the world that lacks much salient political or behavioral implication (e.g., "opening people's minds"). Thus, they will encourage debate and want to make sure the students learn all the ideas correctly (the ideas being what they find beautiful) moreso than actually accept the ideas. After all, who cares if one of your philosophy students goes on to law school thinking it's not impossible he's a brain in a vat?

It would be interesting if the philosophy professors had to swap out who taught what. But this is unlikely because of the division of labor and time required to teach and do research---each would feel frustrated.

In my own field, transportation engineering, many professors often started out like the first type of professor and wound up like the second. They go into the field thinking they're going to help improve transit or get people to stop driving less or design highways better. But after a while they realize the decisions they impact are (i) extremely context-dependent (e.g., bus rapid transit vs light rail), (ii) made by bureaucrats not the public (e.g., diverging diamond interchanges) or (iii) made politically/randomly without any pretense of optimization whatsoever (e.g., Trump's infrastructure plan seems to have been designed partly by an investor, Wilbur Ross, with no prior interest in roads). At that point the professors become more interested than they were in furthering knowledge for its own sake, which is all that's left over to do and is also what will get you tenure. This leads to something of a balancing act when they teach, whereby the professors want to teach the students the big ideas without discouraging their enthusiasm.
> to pay premium for less dense living

What is stopping you from doing that in any one of: Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Vancouver, ...
A scenario I have used it a lot was in debugging cooperating processes in UNIX, a couple of years ago.

When some condition took place, the problematic process would break into the debugger, while the others would be parked waiting for me to attach to them.
R. Crumb's Illustrated Genesis is a great way to start. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb/dp/0.... It's much easier to understand some of the customs with drawings. Only a small part of Genesis is supernatural, the rest is an epic human story.

For the rest of the bible, pick one with modern language. Although the antiquated language of the King James Version feels more serious, it's easy to misunderstand.
There was a genuine tragedy[0] just over a month ago in NYC from such an unchecked child who "had a history of playing with the burners and turning them on." The family of the firestarter all escaped but placed others at heightened risk of death by leaving their doors open as they fled.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/29/new-york-city-mayor-1...
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I mean, if someone already owns a home in Portland, and can use their vote to maintain the kind of lifestyle they want, why wouldn’t they? Altruism towards a potential future resident? Unlikely.
Since atYevP often comments on these posts here on HN, I thought I will use this opportunity to ask few questions about two of their products. And I am also asking because such questions usually get sidestepped elsewhere or maybe it just seems so :-)

Hi Yev,

1. Months ago when CrashPlan shut its doors to individual customers you (and a founder) had mentioned you guys are planning on (possibly) changing the data deletion and version/data retention policy of BackBlaze to something less outrageous. Any update on that?

2. Also, there have been mentions of letting users use the BackBlaze backup app (or some other app by BackBlaze) where they can set the destination/sink to a B2 account, set rules regarding what to backup, frequency, retention, pruning etc. Users will pay for what they use - essentially fixing many of the "point 1" complaints (mentioned above). Any updates on this either? (And no other integrated apps so far just don't cut it)

3. Adding a proper restore interface to the standard backup app - with proper pause and resume of course, and with option of saving to a location specified by the user (you can actually just copy CrashPlan on this :P); and not just limiting users to the browser restore interface or shipping the hard disk.

Past threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125340

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072866
>a personal crisis that I've now recovered from.

I'm sorry, but I don't think you have. You're browsing reddit all day and seem unmotivated.

You need to speak to a therapist and consider medication. This is not a troll post, I promise - I'm stuck in the same hole as you right now. A breakdown last year that's given me a real sense of depersonalization.
1 - Estimated Prime Users - http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-subscribers-tota...

2 - Estimated Church Goers -
https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-s...

3 - US Population -- http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/
But why? Do lawmakers think that waiters set policy? I hope that this is a joke, because 6 months in jail/$1000 is truly insane.
I'm with you here. I was having an argument with someone about how Amazon has already conquered the target-upsell-intelligence space, and just as he was saying that, I saw numerous ads for something I already bought - same pictures, different sellers. How many of this lens do they think I need? This is a great example of something being an obvious correlation in "computer science land" often doesn't really bump the numbers as it might.
> You get a result from a call to `foo(bar)`. You have to _do something_ with that result. One common thing you'd need to do is to call another function: _baz(foo(bar))_. But then you're just hiding the assignment inside a baz function call (the result of _foo(bar)_ will be available as a variable/constant inside of _baz_).

Unless the OP is arguing for call-by-name evaluation, which when you take his words literally, sounds like exactly what he's arguing for.
Is he not the author of the famous book - Computer Architecture : A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy Patterson?
What they have demonstrated, completely uniquely, is their ability to repeatedly enter brand-new markets and completely dominate them. That’s why the market estimates their growth potential somewhere between impressive and infinite.
After hours means close to nothing. Check again tomorrow.

Operating income decreased 2% to $4.1 billion, compared with operating income of $4.2 billion in 2016.

Net income was $3.0 billion, or $6.15 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.4 billion, or $4.90 per diluted share, in 2016.

The probably need to get to somewhere around $50B net income to justify their valuation so they've still a way to go. Their revenue probably also needs an x10 factor. So back of the envelope says they need to keep growing at a 30% clip per year over 10 years. That's without taking into account the present value of that.
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> but then again, we didn't create cults around dev methodologies...

You sure about that? I certainly recall plenty of holy wars over object oriented programming.
Hodl? Or Fodl?
What American cities are your ant farms? New York? This seems like hyperbole to me. I think there is a happy medium between anti build NIMBYs of, say, San Francisco, and a so-called ant farm.
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This guy is one of my heroes, I could not be happier. Go him. The H&P book on computer architecture is a book that changed my life. He is like Knuth except that I understand what he says. The Knuth stuff, I get it, it's profound, but I never got it. It was too hard. H&P, they laid it out in ways that I could understand. I'm not stupid but I'm not that smart, I really loved that book, it was written in a way that not so smart people get it.

If there was a way I could say "go you", yeah, I want to do that. He's a great guy, has done great work, go him.

And all that said, I bet this is not a "go him" job, I bet he makes a difference, maybe a huge one, maybe not so huge, but I bet he makes a difference. Let's come back in 5 years, I bet he will have made stuff better.
If everyone acts that way that'll be a good way to end up like California.
This is an interesting anecdote picking on one professor, but I can say as a current student, Columbia does an outstanding job of admitting students from a diverse background through the School of General Studies. I'm a student here now, and I've made friends with several of the ex-military folks who make up most of the population of the School of General Studies.

Just earlier tonight, I was chatting with a 35 year old former marine from Mississippi who just completed his undergrad at Columbia and is running the Columbia Republican Club (CUCR). Columbia has always given them the opportunity to have speakers (Charles Murray, Mike Cernovich, Dinesh D'Souza spoke last year, Scaramucci and Jordan Peterson are on deck this semester). Security is always made available to them, and protestors, while permitted, are not allowed to prevent the guest from speaking (unlike Middlebury or Berkley). The events that I've attended are civil and the audience generally acts according to what you would expect from an academic institution.
> If I try to screw around with you in any way, PayPal will happily reverse the transaction.

And they will also happily reverse the transaction if you don't.
I don't think people are choosing to pay a premium in favor of lower density. Incumbent land holders using local zoning laws to prevent density to maintain their wealth.

Also using the phrase overpopulated ant farms isn't useful or accurate.
MixPanel has been harvesting passwords (by mistake)
> But unfortunately in technical terms, it's not fit for this purpose.

Is there a cryptocurrency that is? A linear scaling factor like larger block sizes or faster block times doesn't count.