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The Veterans Administration's health system - one of the largest in the world - runs on Mumps, as does Epic Systems which powers a large percentage of the medical practice/hospital systems in the U.S. TD/Ameritrade runs some systems on M as do many banks. I have heard that ATM systems have used it in the past, though not sure if they still do.
26 pages? That's just ridiculous.
Who else studied with their book called "Computer Architecture" and what are your thoughts on it ?

I enjoyed that it was a simpler read then a lot of the circuits-type of books that are part of a EE/CE curriculum, but I always felt there was this lack of "hard science"/physics in the book.

And perhaps it was just not a topic they felt fit with the vision of what this book is suppose to be, and it likely came to be a better decision to abstract that part away for readability.
Facebook just has a big problem, a morality problem that started with "They “trust me”, Dumb f*cks", it seems they never got over that problem and now it is biting their collective ass
It's not really adjusted for inflation, though. It's adjusted for what percentage of the world's GDP at the time it constituted. That's a metric that favors older companies because there was a much smaller number of companies at the time.
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>Regulations should have sprouted in Obama years

If people voluntarily want to give away their data, who are we to stop them from doing it?.

I don't use facebook, because I value my privacy more than I value "being connected" or whatever facebook is using to convince people these days, but if my neighbor is happy giving away is data, that's fine, it's his data.
I got the impression the article author had put those together.
> If they aren't gathering data on users and selling ads then how are they generating revenue?

Maybe they take donations, maybe you run your own instance and pay for the hosting. Not having shareholders that expect profits and growth probably takes a lot of the pressure off, too. All they have to do is not have burdensome costs or break even.
Same in Switzerland. If they don't want you working for someone else, they have to keep paying you.

The only "non-compete" clauses that are even theoretically binding apply to stealing clients andn customers and the like so generally only apply to sales people.

This doesn't stop companies trying to include ridiculous non-compete clauses in employment contracts. It's sort of a silly pretence - both sides know it's not binding so the employer makes it sound as harsh as possible but the employee signs anyway.

At the end of your employment (whether fired or you walk), if they really want you to not complete, they have to offer you money - generally fully salary for the desired period of time regardless of what your contract states.
some of this is the hostility immigrants feel from republicans and republican voters. as such, the gop and it's constituents contribute to (or perhaps even principally cause) this.

the premise that all/most immigrants "are liberals" (by apparent virtue of their immigrant-ness) is almost hilariously a stereotypical position to hold. i wonder what a gop explanation for why that is true would look like.
They tried to build the whole ecosystem around light field photography themselves. To do that, they would need to raise Magic Leap levels of capital, which they decided not to do.
When you get a job offer and do not have a current job you are automatically signing everything under duress. You don't get to eat unless you sign that, therefore you signed it.

Such arguments tend to hold weight in court.
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Telegram collects your messages just the same by default (and inevitably collects them if you want a group), it just doesn't monetize the data in the open. Yet.
just an excuse to beta test their new army of mailmen who give better CPA-tracking to their ads team.
So 2.14% (30 million / 1.4 billion) of the males are potentially sexually(?) frustrated as monogamy is not an easy option for them, how is this relevant to the discussion exactly?
parks, stores and apartments ... and ubiquitous surveillance?
Depends how it goes. Facebook is testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside of them?

People are increasingly afraid of tech companies, not in love with them. We’re all pretty dependent on them, but that also breeds fear and loathing. It doesn’t help that so many companies are full of the same, weird, Stepford Wife tone of “We love you, we want what’s best for you, and that just so happens to align with our own perverse incentives. We’re changing the world.”

I get the sense that the older guard of the media is also taking this opportunity to stoke fear and resentment of their newer competitors. They’ve been good at that kind of thing for a couple of hundred years longer than tech as a concept existed. I’m concerned that things like encryption and secure messaging, self-driving tech and more will be cynically attacked too.
> without any particular interests in lingerie

That is what you think.
To me at least, it doesn't matter if it's enforceable or not. I don't want to go through the hassle of fighting it in court, dealing with lawyers, when I could avoid it by going elsewhere. Obviously I'm lucky to be able to do that, and if I was under pressure for a new job it would be a different story.
Lyme disease is curable, at least in early stages. Encephalitis is the nasty one you're probably thinking about.

Source: had Lyme twice, caught early, fully cured after a run of antibiotics.
The fact that Donald Trump is the President of the United States should be evidence enough that democracy is in serious danger.
> Yet Facebook is not painted as a victim here,

They failed to disclose the issue (which they knew about for quite some time) and in fact continued to profit form the relationship with CA. I don't seen a reasonable expectation that they should be considered a victim.
I actually appreciate the instantly visible branding; Netflix shows are among the few guaranteed to have proper subtitles.
> Both sides of the aisle are in the Russian pockets, but only Trumps' admin gets the focus.

This is 100% bullshit. Trump's apparent relationship with Russia goes lightyears beyond whatever made-up conservative fever-dream about Obama or Clinton is floating around out there.
> As a UI font, this is pretty great.

I disagree. With high-resolution displays becoming the norm, I'm questioning why so much of the industry is still stuck on sans-serif fonts for UI, and worse, regressing from humanist sanses to neo-grotesk fonts, which are the worst (seriously, if you have to use a sans, use something like Myriad or Noto Sans... which Apple and Google used to use before they jumped on the neo-grotesk bandwagon).

The only reason to not use a serif font is because at low resolutions, the serifs blur into a mess, but low resolutions aren't an issue anymore. And on top of that, hinting is a thing. Serif fonts have objectively better readability, and subjectively they're much prettier than anything else.

I've been using Noto Serif as my main UI font on pretty much everything for a couple of years now, and it's absolutely perfect. I'll never go back to a sans for UI.
I think this is the result of the Bitium acquisition.
Are you saying the tweets in the article are not genuine or the article is untrue? It would probably be better if you engaged with the content of the story rather than virtue signal.
Did Mr Z piss off somebody who's behind major media outlets?, surprised to see liberal media going after a company that is mostly left wing.
I would also generally agree with this.

I had a client once who worked for a company for a few years, then did not for a few years, and then did again for three decades. The company terminated this person. The company found out this person had had a side business for more than a decade in the same industry. My client had signed an IP assignment during the first tenure, which lapsed at termination, and then never signed a new one.

The company tried to take all of my client's IP. They failed for lack of execution.

(I did not represent this client on the IP/non-compete/employment stuff; I did NDAs/licensing for the side business. But I have first-hand knowledge of this.)
have you considered using a string and have them sort lexographically? To insert, you have to create a new string that sorts between the two, which this library proposes an algorithm for: https://github.com/fasiha/mudderjs
If they were serious about denouncing him, why not put up an opposing candidate?
Previously, you could only see employee DMs if you turned on Compliance Exports, at which point you could download all of them going forward. Now it sounds like everything you've ever written could be downloaded at any time without notice.

So, all of those communications you had with co-workers based on the promise they would be private until you were notified future ones wouldn't be anymore? Now it's ALL available to your employer.

Surprise!

(This is presumably due to GDPR)
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The disclosure of prior agreements is to YOUR benefit as the employee / contractor. A lot of employers treat this as sort of a nod nod, wink wink situation, where they know you have prior conflicting agreements and would rather not hear about them -- b/c proving knowledge of the prior restriction is an element of tortious interference, by which a former employer can go after the next one for the employee's violation of the old restrictive covenants. As the employee, by disclosing the prior restrictions, you may insulate yourself to some extent against claims by your new employer if there's a 3-way dispute. Yes, restrictive covenants are heavily abused and I wish we didn't use them so widely. But if you're asked to sign one, there are normal areas to negotiate -- but refusing to sign at all will prevent you from advancing very far in the proprietary software industry.
You don't get it: this is enterprise software. People would login (and only have access) with their enteprise accounts, not their personal ones.
RSK (RootStock) relies on side chains. Side chains still have unresolved issues before they can be used for real.
Planned utopian communities have a track record of devolving into anything but their original goals. This feels like a cross between the movie "The Circle" and the Toyota company city in Japan.
Credit below these images goes to Netflix and Dalton Maag (one of the most famous typeface design studios, https://www.daltonmaag.com/)
I think if he was against the sale he would have said that.
'Christianity as default is gone': the rise of a non-Christian Europe
Account created just as post is made... not exactly something to trust...
It can be used to prosecute you if they so desire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
... and monitoring of all things people do... and then using it against them... and people will be grateful for that
I'd be great for retention of they could make the leases conditional on continued employment at Facebook. /s

> Google will build 5,000 homes on its property under an agreement brokered with Mountain View in December. Call it Alphabet City as a nod to Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent. The company said it was still figuring out its future as a landlord, and declined further comment.

There's no question that the Alphabet/Google company town should be called Alphaville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)
Or the FLOSS alternative Google created to specifically solve the whole "International Audience" problem. [0]

The slight curve on the lower-t of Netflix Sans actually bothers me because it's the only curve of its kind. The "straight exit strokes" and "flat horizontal terminals" makes it inconsistent. Why not use that curve for the starting verticals of the lower-b, lower-d, or lower-h? [1]

[0] https://www.google.com/get/noto/

[1] https://vgy.me/kJ2plQ.png
Copyright law apples, not the first page legal looking text. They can make any claims they want to on the first page, but that has no legal standing in court. This quiz almost undoubtedly fall under fair use.

Of course if you need legal advice you need to consult a lawyer.
java.util.concurrent certainly has more buttons and levers you can fiddle with. I could probably burn at least a week trying to grok the whole thing.
Counter example: Chrome.
I find that ridiculous. Is there a reason why it's that way?
Seems like an odd thing for them to do. For me it came off as netflix either changing the branding or wanting to show off the font in a creative way.
I also used not to care, because I used to think that "I don't put that much information on it".
But it always said data, but not which data, now I know it buys data from other to cross it, don't know which data they buy and don't know what kind of information they are able to get when they do this.
This is what we are only now understanding that they are doing and what is possible to do with this.
And of course, Facebook say the least minimum necessary to keep profiting with no problems. Hence I don't see how we can expect people to really know what Facebook does.
How does this compare to auth0 (https://auth0.com/). Is this a direct competitor?
I disagree, it looks like AGPL actually works for users' benefits, prohibiting usage by corporations that require various lock-ins or secretive spying to make money on users. It also works for developers' benefits by not destroying a potential business model of selling your software to corporations, but still remaining free for anyone to use and try it out.

Personally, I've been looking for a license that somehow prohibits usage by large corporations, but still doesn't cause problems for anyone else.
In that case, why not use an open-source font like Noto? No licensing fees and no need to spend money hiring a type designer.
I agree (:
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I feels ya. If they were truly contrite, they'd forfeit their ill-gotten wealth.

That said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War

"Using archival footage, United States Cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the then eighty-five-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from his birth during the First World War remembering the time American troops returned from Europe, to working as a World War II Whiz Kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to serving as Secretary of Defense for presidents Kennedy and Johnson (including his involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War)."

I will always hate McNamara and what he's done. But I respect his mea culpa and attempts to prevent future such mistakes.
My assumption was that the design firm wanted to make sure the font held up well when used dynamically in complex media, using well known photography available to Netflix, not that they were proposing logo changes for those properties.
> What do you think?

When my last company got bought, they tried to throw that in for existing employees, but it was a 3 year time period. I refused. They said my job depended on signing. I know I could pursue a number of legal arguments as to why that wasn't valid, but I went with my own standard advice to not work with bullies, and I quit.
That's my impression too. There are lots of existing laws and court precedence around regaining stolen company secrets; more than enough to fill the need.
China's radical plan to limit the populations of Beijing and Shanghai
But that's already possible without bitcoin ever getting involved. Not to mention that (I'd wager) 95% of transactions online are single-currency.

I guess I'm just not seeing the benefit to the end user here. Bitcoin is cool and all, but so far it hasn't actually solved anyone's problems (and isn't it incredibly slow to process a transaction these days?)
I thought it was a great book because it proposed sensible benchmarking strategies and applied them thoroughly. That seems like a good way to determine things like how much better 8-way set associative caching is than 2-way.

It's a long time since I read it, but from my memory that's the kind of thing the book is about. I'm not sure how you'd determine those kinds of things in a more "hard science"/physics fashion.
>How do you overcome marketing that is engineered to exploit the psychological vulnerabilities you are not even aware of?

I don't know that you can. I think we live in a great period of time to be a con man.
Well, I guess, sometimes you need to break the rules. But you are right.
Was hoping to get some feedback on this, I'll try to contact you via the website.
That is democracy working as intended. We have just realized that democracy and widespread, instant communication are incompatible.
No, they were regular GoPros frame-synced and spun around to act as even more cameras.

You can, in fact, do this with a single regular camera (with a wide-field lense) if you're patient enough and have a multi-axis motorized (and encodered) mount.
I build and sell a hardware security dongle that runs 100% open-source software and generates its keys using an on-board HWRNG.

https://sc4.us/hsm/

I'm actively seeking help in porting a wallet app to the hardware. I am willing to pay to get this done.
You're saying that having Google manage the identities will not provide Google with all the data and perhaps even make them trackable by Google?
What makes you think so?

Cloud identity doesn't appear to be something that you deploy in your network and that is completely isolated from the Google cloud. Quite the contrary.
You can create your own Mastodon instance that enforces a real name policy.
this. it is easier and more intuitive to have a telegram family group than facebook. The interface is cleaner, the messages are clearer. Your aunts and uncles will (might?) thank you
The “STEM gender-equality paradox” in fairer societies, fewer women enter STEM
Has the New York Times actually published an article about this? Until that happens I think you’re denouncing a phenomenon that doesn’t exist.
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Just checked and seems work, can you please try one more time?
There's loads of scenarios like that. All white jury against a black defendant comes to mind(or all black against white or any other combination you can think of). There's also plenty of research showing that juries are more likely to be sympathetic if you are attractive or someone they can identify with, with unattractive people/people from other social classes getting worse verdicts for the same crime.

That's not to say that judges do not exhibit such biases, but once again - they should be trained specifically against that. There is no such training or expectation on the juries. And yes, of course juries are asked "do you have any bias against this person" but I don't believe for a second that actually works.
Anyone compared this to Azure AD?
It's telling that there are no reasons listed for why it will. It's like there is this belief that cool, innovative tech will succeed solely because it's cool and innovative.

What problem would it solve for me as an end user? It's really not at all clear.
I think he/she gets it. It is possible to run your enterprise without using Google software that forces users to pour even more of their data into Google's grasp.

So I think the OP was saying that it would be desirable for those enterprises to allow employees an alternative, for those who do not wish to share even more with Google.
Thanks. I hope!
The admission standards for master's degree for the same school is usually lower than that for an undergraduate degree. At least in US, Canada, Britain and China itself.
Is this like One Login?
> I think where we disagree is that I don't think of the lower level API as being much of a lock in.

Lock-in here doesn't mean they have no technical means of implementing other graphics backends, it means that implementation is hard.

A lot of common middleware supports Linux just fine. It's graphics that's usually the biggest hurdle. People have expertise to address it, but it's still a tax to pay. And different distros support is a very minor thing in comparison.

If graphics is not the biggest issue, what is then in your opinion?
Awesome work Andrey!
There are a couple "interpretations" of QM in which there is no probability distribution.

One is the "Many Worlds" interpretation. (AKA, the Everett interpretation.) In this QM wave functions never collapse, and the only reason that we perceive there to be probability distributions is that the lack of collapse results in many different apparent worlds. Though in reality, there is really just one very big complicated world, but the difference parts of it stop effecting each other via a property called "decoherence".

Another deterministic interpretation is the Bohm interpretation, in which the particles are push around by a "pilot wave", which is the same wave function that never collapses in the Many Worlds interpretation. Since the "pilot waves" never collapse in the Bohm interpretation, one might wonder, then why you don't also end up with many worlds here too, but it is taken that the reality that we perceive is always determined by the particles that are being pushed around by the pilot waves.

One point of interest is that the Many Worlds interpretation and the Bohm interpretation are experimentally indistinguishable from each other.

Regarding the postulation of a multiverse, this is almost certainly true, if you ask me. It would seem to be the only way to explain the apparent "fine tuning" of the universe. Unless you believe that it was tuned by God, that is. But if that's the case, I have a few nits to pick with some of the choices that he or she made.
The problem is the sensor cost. You are sacrificing pixels for information/depth, meaning you need more pixels for the same result. Most people aren't willing to go back to a 2MP camera when much better image quality cameras are on the market.
Yeah probably with HN traffic, now seems work. Can you please try one more time?
By definition a company can't "build a real community", only the residents can do that. I love the timing of this piece though.
The american version of the card game in question, FGO, follows a similar schedule to the japanese version, but delayed by two years. The japanese players are tossed all kinds of special banners. Having a better sense of what's coming helps curb some knee-jerk spending, but I guess it depends on personality. You can also use another player's character through a support slot, which helps some.
I think you're missing the joke here...
This may surprise some people, but doing stuff like MD5(MD5(password)+salt) was seen as a rather good way of storing passwords back in the day, and probably more secure than 99% of the password storage in 2005.
I keep wondering why is the pricing of this, auth0 etc so high, is this mostly for the employees and smaller groups? I can't see paying $6/mo/user to manage users for a non-enterprise SaaS offering.