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The moment I started reading the first paragraph the thought in my head went like, "he is pointing to Online Masters By Georgia Tech..it's definitely OMSCS he is now ranting about". Voila. He was indeed. I have a rigorous bachelor's degree in CS. Thee are many many topics which were never covered in that Undergrad course which are done in the Masters. Yeah it's maybe not useful if you are making a quickfire app for the play store but there are tons of work and research areas and jobs around for which you need the aademic rigor of having studied an MS atleast. Can we have this debate to rest? You are doing well with a BS, good for you! Education is expensive in the US? Dont do it!

Now OMSCS is riling up a few heads here and there which it will. At 7000 USD its a fantastic way for a working professional like me to advance my knowledge. You think these kind of MS courses devalue the degree? These courses are not THAT easy to do and this is 2018, there are fresh disruptive ideas in very field , why not Graduate school ? Hey with enough of these courses you will not need the evil H1B sith lords eating up the jobs here right? Its a Win Win. The market will then decide whos the more worthy MS student they wish to hire.
Great project! I'm working on one that's somewhat related, it's basically cross-platform AirDrop (though only for laptops). Seems like mine could really benefit from a method of getting files to phones like this, and yours could benefit from not needing a wireless network like Flying Carpet. http://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet
In the book Sapiens the author argues that life was perhaps better before the invention of agriculture, with relative comfort and less time spent on subsistence.
You just have a narrow definition of 'platonic'. :)
The issue is not that he wanted better software, it's that he appeared willing to compromise safety to get it faster in order to beat his competitors to market, as is clear from the remainder of that quote:

"To get to that better software faster we should deploy the first 1000 cars asap. I don't understand why we are not doing that. Part of our team seems to be afraid to ship."

And from another email:

"the team is not moving fast enough due to a combination of risk aversion and lack of urgency"
To be fair, you have to keep in mind that deploying 1000 cars would quickly make self-driving cars safer than humans. Yes, you lose some life in the interim, but you accelerate the creation and adoption of something that saves much more life in the long run.

But that is human experimentation, something we as a culture generally agree is abhorrent.
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What poor timing, oh well he had a great life and great accomplishments during his prime.

> saddled with more than $5 billion in debt

Wow, I haven't yet followed the story of Toys R Us but that is a huge amount of debt. I can't imagine what severe mismanagement happened at the company to allow this. Must have had some ex-government workers managing finances (/s)...

> Since Lazarus stepped down as chief executive officer in 1994

Ah, so it was well after he left. It's sad to see your creation falter but it wasn't his baby anymore. Many great companies end up failing after their original founders leave. I'd be curious to read more about how they messed it up so badly.
I'd encourage folks here to check out ZeroNet (https://zeronet.io). It's a cool little project I've been following for the past couple years that's attempting to decentralize the Internet. It's not very popular but surprisingly it has 11.5k stars on GitHub (https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet).
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Ah, thanks for the reference. :)
Yeah I love coming home from my hard as fuck underpaid job to turn on the TV and see idiots kicking a ball for $100 million dollars.

Something is definitely wrong.
Because it’s zero.
Two words: leveraged buyout. I'm not sure what purpose they serve other than to create debt.

Working at a company that was acquired by a smaller fish with a $4 billion loan, it made things painful when cuts were constantly made to pay interest on debt.
Somehow, the situation benefited the shareholders that signed off on the deal.
this... it's less than 24 months

for every big, international, well run company this is basically like saying it's next year...

when i worked on marketing for target... they kicked off planning for their 2-day sale 18 months in advance... not sure it was smart, but they did it...
My point is not that children would jump in front of cars. It’s that they would run toward the curb with a heading and velocity that would dictate a collision, then stop just before entering the street. They would do it for the main reason that children do things - because it would be hilarious to watch self-driving cars leave a patch on the road and jerk their passengers back with seatbelt pretensioners. If you don’t actually set foot in the street, you’re not breaking the law.

Changing the average travel speed from 45 kph (the city-wide speed limit in New York) to 10 kph would be a disaster.
Silk Road would still be operating if they'd had adequate OPSEC. Same for other dark markets that police have busted. Operators made stupid mistakes.
It is all impulse with zero long term goals in America.

This is infrastructure is poor in some places, some areas have failing infrastructure (such as flint MI)

These types of projects require an elected official to see beyond their term limits. Something few of them can do.
Well, your example clearly involves theft of private property, so why shouldn't they go to jail? It's worse enough that the police can sieze cash arbitrarily. If it was legal to do so for the officers' own use, how is policing different from racketeering then?
So more “vacation”, but dead at 40. Sounds like a great trade.
To me, these are the key points:

<more detail excluded here> This idea did not die, but it didn’t make it into the standard computing fads of that day, or even today. The dominant fad was to let the CPU run wild and try to protect with semaphores, etc. (These have the problem of system lockup, etc., but this weak style still is dominant.)

I wonder what the <more detail excluded here> is?

More main stream is that big data systems used * versions* instead of overwriting, and “atomic transactions” to avoid race conditions.

So: both OOP and functional computation can be completely compatible (and should be!). There is no reason to munge state in objects, and there is no reason to invent “monads” in FP. We just have to realize that “computers are simulators” and figure out what to simulate.
> Would attaching a heat sink to my shed cool it below the ambient temperature?

To which the answer is obviously no.

Except it's "yes" if you define "ambient temperature" as the temperature inside the shed on a sunny day, and if you put the radiating fins of the heatsink in the cooler outside air, which is the equivalent of what the paper does! You can criticize that this is a poor definition of ambient, but it is the one they use.

No configuration of heat sink + device will decrease the temperature unless we put some "work" into the system. That "work" will be electrical energy of some sort The source is irrelevant. It must be external to the system and it must have a cooling effect. We absolutely need some sort of peltier device (or other refrigeration technology). There is no way around it!

So when I take a shower and then and then see water condensing on the inside of my single pane bathroom window on a cold night, it means there's got to be a hidden Peltier cooler in there somewhere? Or in a more exact comparison, if I have an outdoor greenhouse on a cold but sunny day, and I see water condensing on the inside of the glazing, there's got to be a refrigerator making it happen? No, there just needs to be a temperature differential, and the heat sink acts like a cold window.

At 25C and 100% humidity air can hold about 0.02ml of water. Meaning for every one liter of water you need 50,000 liters of air.

By contrast, this is an appropriate criticism! Yeah, to collect a liter (1 kg) of water at 25C and 50% humidity, you'd need to extract all the water from 100,000 liters of air. And since you aren't going to get all the water out, you it probably needs to process several times that amount. Is this absurd? It probably depends on how much water you need. An Olympic Swimming Pool is 50m x 25m x 2m, so that amount air would give you something between 1 and 25 liters of water depending on your efficiency of extraction.

How do you get this much air over your collector? It looks like a medium bathroom fan (70 cubic feet per minute) seems to move a little over 100,000 liters per hour, so it could move this amount of air in a day. Alternatively, if you wanted to do it without power, you'd probably get more than this amount of air flow with a gentle breeze. Whether it's worth it would depend on how thirsty you are in that desert and what your other options are, but it's still a neat technique!
For me it's weightlifting, specifically strength training (not bodybuilding) which includes mobility exercises and certain types of exercises that strengthen the muscles that are underworked when sitting for long periods. On example is the serratus anterior. Having a serratus that doesn't work properly leads to numerous shoulder-related problems and back pain. It's all sort of connected.

Stretching is only half the battle. One must stretch the correct muscles (the ones that are too tight, like the pecs and scalenes) and strengthen the ones that are loose and weak (like the rhomboids, serratus and others).

If pursuing weightlifting, which I highly highly recommend, I recommend a real trainer (not most half-baked ones you see in gyms), and spending a lot of time specifically nerding out on exercise physiology, even physical therapy. There are some very good YouTube channels - one of my favorite is Calisthenics Movement.

One simply cannot work in an office or at a computer workstation and expect not to have the body pains of a coal miner by the time you hit your 40's without balancing out muscular strength and joint mobility that you lose by doing this.

Much of strength training, a lot of people are surprised to know, involve neurological connections created simply using muscles in movement patterns that are new. It's very similar to the way you learn proprioception (standing on a skateboard, surfboard, or a subway car without holding onto anything). In the same way, muscles get stronger simply because more fibers are recruited, due to repetitive motions. In the early stages, this is much and perhaps most of the 'gains' in strength.

It's getting late and I've fallen into a rabbit hole. In short, do weight training or SOME sort of mobility work (yoga, pilates, whatever) if you work at a computer for a living. These random HN messages can save you thousands of dollars of future medical bills / PT bills and incalculable discomfort.
This is not surprising, but sad.
Years ago, i was dragged (i was the only engineer in the local office) into a whitehouse (or maybe it was state department, i can't remember) sponsored working group on online sex trafficking.

The non-profits dedicated to fighting this, while seemingly well-intentioned, were completely and totally unwilling to see any other perspective or try to find shared ground. It was scorched earth approach or nothing. Literally to the tune of "we should be burning down craigslist entirely, and yahoo, google, microsoft, etc should be required to be scanning your search history and reporting you to the police if they suspect you might be sex trafficking".

It was frustrating enough that two of the other participants literally walked out.

The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it.
It also neatly coincides with 2021, which is when car manufacturers have to reduce their fleet consumption to 95g CO2/km in the EU; a reduction of about 20-30% that will be very hard to achieve given that they all try to sell more and more SUVs. In China hard quotas for electric cars will be introduced around that time too, I believe.
97-2 in Senate. Probably only sex and drugs have such universal magical power over politicians of all colors.
Company I worked for did M/W/F core hours (5 hours) and the rest from home if need be. Then Tuesdays/Thursdays were work from home.

Unreal. Literally the best feeling ever, no stress at all. The job was hard too but that extra degree of control and self direction made a difference.

People are not rats.
>However, not every government worker seems to be on-board - according to the SMG, 67.1% of government workers have asked to be exempt from the forced lights-out.

They asked to be exempt entirely on their own volition, or their managers "politely" asked them to consider sending in an exemption request? And this isn't a question in earnest because I already know the answer.
It is, explicitly.

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They have more wins than losses. And that's saying something, considering they only take on highly distresses companies.
Slowly and carefully, yes. Assuming that any pedestrian could leap in front of your car in violation of traffic laws - no.

Where I live in California, there are two major streets with crosswalks in regular use, with speed limits of 40 mph or higher (and travel speeds of 50+ mph), within a quarter mile of my home.
Why do people still believe that profit motive = efficient? My employer is plenty profit-driven, but a coworker just spent five days dicking around doing nothing because his computer broke and we’re too incompetent to provide adequate spare resources. Don’t tell me the profit motive makes organizations efficient.
I LOL'ed at your comment but seriously, they lost me months ago. I don't miss it.
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90's kid here. Thank you for reminding me that I got my GameBoy color from Toys R Us.. what a great day that was!

Kids these days will keep on getting toys and video games, but the Amazon experience will never compare to the Toys R Us wonderland.
What kind of emphasis does the program have, as an MS in software engineering vs CS?
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The scope Mueller has is far broader than Ken Starr ever had, he seems to be looking for any crimes by anyone connected to Russia or Trump. Thus the tax evasion and very rare false statement charges.

Mueller isn’t leaking, but those around him certainly are given how much info is coming out about his intentions, indictments, and activities.

My guess is he’ll try to keep digging until he can find something, however minor or unrelated, on Trump. He’ll be looked at as a failure by so many if he doesn’t, so I get the pressure he’s under.

Now if I’m wrong, and he has secret evidence that comes to light and ends Trump, I’ll be his biggest fan. Pence is a bit scary, but like 0% chance of Republicans winning in 2020 if that happens. Seems pretty unlikely at this point though.
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A non-insignificant portion of what GP said is mumbo jumbo. The reason military usage of GPS is more accurate is most significantly due to usage of multiple frequencies (which is now available to civilian too). What you’ve stated indicates you have good sources, so I recommend trusting those and asking questions if there’s gaps rather than trusting random folks commenters (yes, guess this includes me).
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I'm wondering what the point of modern society is if village life was more enjoyable.
"If you want to succeed, pick an idea and work on that for 10 years"
Honestly I don't think there's much to interpret.

My opinion is that you either need to abandon the upcoming demo day goal - or if you feel that you absolutely must be ready for demo day (eg the project is dead for some reason if you don't), find someone to fill in extremely soon that you already have a high degree of trust and knowledge of (you know that you can get along with them, and you know their skillset). That person doesn't necessarily have to become a long-term part of the company, however the accelerator won't be thrilled by a short-term patch either, because it'll imply disruption in the near future anyway. You'll also reasonbly need to give the contributor a small amount of equity. Maybe you get lucky down that route and find a long-term new co-founder.

If you don't already know some people you can potentially talk to about filling in for that role asap, then push off the demo day goal and take aim of a new goal. The sooner these decisions can be made, the better. See if your accelerator will bump you to their next demo day, if possible. If you need a co-founder for the next demo day, then immediately begin looking for one.

My personal opinion would be to abandon the upcoming demo day and shift your horizon, unless everything is going to die if you don't make that. If you're confident your product is truly worth doing (take a bit of time here and now and confirm that for yourself), then it's still worth getting it ready for three or six months from now, instead of a month from now.
> That’s not what a human driver does.

A human should be aware that these pedestrians might enter the roadway. The human should perceive those pedestrians as a risk, and be ready to take action.

> Should a self-driving car assume that every pedestrian standing at a crosswalk could walk into traffic at any moment,

Yes.

> and slow down accordingly?

This doesn't follow. The car don't need to slow down. It does need to be ready to perform an emergency brake.
Well yeah, it's pretty straightforward. Company A borrows $4 billion; it's leveraged against the company they're going to buy; they buy Company B, paying out the shareholders, and B merges into A and keeps the debt.

I'm having a struggle with whether this seems moral or not. B is saddled with a big debt, and employees of company B may suffer as a result of this (anything from losing bonuses or profit sharing opportunities, to losing headcount, or having the very future of the company put into question). The new owners also have to live with this situation, while the old owners skip merrily away with their profits gleaned from the future work that will be done to pay down the loan.

This seems negative, but has to be balanced with the fact that the shareholders of company B are the owners of the company, and it is their decision to do as they wish; if they're offered a certain sum for their shares, it's their choice to take it. It's unfortunate that this comes with blindness to the future impact of that action, but this may be a necessary or at least presently contingent artifact of capitalism.
As a Colombian myself who studied and worked in the US in the past, I can confirm how the focus on money as the principal mean of finding happiness is specially strong in American culture. This distinction I believe, makes it very hard for people in the US when things don't work out the way they wanted.
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You can't assert that they were assisted by a foreign government until the investigation is over either... since the extent was unknown aka maybe not at all.
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Maybe her death wasn't in vain, but it was definitely avoidable. If Uber rushes out half-baked driverless cars, fallout from the incidents they're responsible for will cause serious delays to widespread deployment.

Trading lives to save on R&D time would violate professional codes of ethics in literally any other industry.
https://github.com/d3/d3-queue has 1360 stars and gets 50% as many daily downloads as d3 itself, so I wouldn't be too sure that nobody out there is using d3's async facilities.
How many people, let's say specifically 18-29-year-old in America, keep up on national and/or world news every day? Consider that just about 100M of 236M eligible voters did NOT bother to vote [0][1]; that is 42% of the eligible electorate who either didn't care at all, or figured that Trump and Hillary were the same, or that it didn't matter to their own lives, or that elections are a sham, or that their own district or state would go a certain way no matter what. But from my own experience, the first of those reasons is the most common; anyone I know who doesn't care about political news (even while they may avidly follow sports news or entertainment news or human-interest news about the latest viral YouTube video) responds to me bringing up politics, whether face-to-face or online, with a comment like "Who cares."

[0] Washington Post: About 100 million people couldn’t be bothered to vote this year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/about...

[1] A reported 137,100,229 people voted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
It would be fair to approximate it was near zero per however number of miles they drove, just as it is fair to approximate it is one per three million miles today. Think of it the other way, we know with a high degree of certainty the fatalities are not one per mile, for example.
I would too, but I'd still assume the RNC is truthful over the KGB
Zuckerberg should invest in a competing startup. Something that can cash in on the anti-Facebook mania of the moment. Give users a cut of the ad revenue specifically generated from their pages and let them decide how much they will get paid per ad. If somebody doesn't want any ads on their content, they can demand 5 cents per ad. But everyone could have some skin in the game. Or do something else that will generate a lot of buzz and attract Facebook quitters.

Put some spare $millions into it, pump it to a $2 billion valuation and decide from there.
How do you ride more than an hour one direction to get to any place people work in Chicago? I don't remember even Loop to Evanston being that long.
But one is through mandated censorship, the other is voluntary. YouTube decided to stop serving certain content to better serve it's customers, that is it's perogative as a business. Nothing is preventing a competitor from hosting such content.
Curious to know what do you do for non profits?
I wouln't buy a paid facebook account and I think even if we pay them, they will still use the data to make some extra cash.
That happened to me! At some point my 20+ years friend started accusing me of malevolent behavior because he perceived that there were persistent bugs in the system which I couldn't reproduce. Sarcasms turned into personal attacks and we are no more friends.
Interesting story. What is The Daily Beast's batting average? How often do they make contact with the Truth? Looking at their website, I learned that Joe Biden could beat up Trump because he took on a gangster name "Corn Pop" back in the day. Pretty damning stuff.
Just be a single founder. Much easier.
There's also https://masto.host/
Why is Telegram getting so much better traction over open source alternatives such as Wire?
"The censor was a magistrate in ancient Rome who was responsible for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, and overseeing certain aspects of the government's finances."

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The name of the Roman office was based on "censere" but had a more specific meaning, and it's that which evolved into the English word "censor", due to the "supervising public morality" part of the censors' job. But the meaning shifted in the process. The Roman censors didn't "censor" anything in the modern sense; rather, they judged people for violations of public morality.
The book Russian Roulette says that data was stolen from the DNC by two groups of Russian hackers, who seemed to be acting separately. It says that one group was linked to Russian military intelligence (presumably the GRU) and the other was suspected of being linked to Russian intelligence, 'most likely the SVR'.