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Great article I agree with everything you say. A few items I would add to your Wishlist.
Different graphical viewpoints, a Logical not strictly WYSIWYG, to see relations between components, easy to use calculations and functions. Excel like grid layout with constraints and auto layout for different screens, but better than Excel at dealing with text and graphics and blocks larger than cells ie mix Excel Word Powerpoint Photoshop ,constraint solver into a single app. Seamless PostgreSQL db interface, eg right click a cell or node and link to a PostgreSQL input or query function.
I don’t understand why languages are so orientated to primitive files when we have amazing and much more useful databases and as you allude to they have virtually zero GUI capability, even Apple‘s supposedly new language Swift just rehashes the same primitive abstractions, that basically just provide temp data containers, little functions and simple control of flow. With Little regard for more advanced abstractions such as relational database, let alone a GUI.
> because that's the in thing right now for developer blogs.

Which is bizarre. The comments section of tech blogs are a great place to discuss and ask questions, and the support for comments on Medium is abismal, looks like they deliberately made it suck.
> "I want to iterate through the leaves of a binary tree and compute its standard deviation"

Assuming this is a recurring problem, I'd just use two libraries - a binary tree and a floating point one (I cut my teeth on the Apple II+, so I could count on FP routines already in place in the ROM. If a tree library is not available, writing a tree walker is not a particularly difficult task.

Libraries, subroutines and macros were a huge helper then.

> I need an intermediary register, do I have one available?

If we are talking 6502, the answer is "no". You had page zero, which was almost as good as having 256 8-bit registers.
>A new snooze feature also lets you temporarily remove emails from your inbox until a certain time, so you can avoid certain email threads until you’re ready to reply.

How is this a feature worth developing? Is leaving the email unread until you want to read it too difficult? I can't think of a single use case for this.
Maybe it was a decision to not have to run and maintain unnecessary shit when they have enough to deal with with their primary products when third parties have already invented that wheel.
Thanks for the thoughtful and honest response. I'll check the book out.
First, that's completely the wrong framing. Maybe checkr doesn't "care enough" about the people who have been punished, but it's not like the company exists out of spite. It exists to serve the legitimate business interests of people who are scared of the impact that a person with a prior record of doing bad things may have on their business, if hired. (Including: our customers are in enterprise/gov/edu and require us to commit to background checks on everyone we hire).

Secondly:

I don't understand all the hatred here. Who, exactly, is this going to prevent from getting a job? People who were honest in their application when asked about prior convictions/etc, or people who lied?

Why should businesses be forced to hire people who lie about past misdeeds? There's a perfectly reasonable way for people who have done bad things, and been "PUNISHED BY THE COURT SYSTEM") to handle it: you tell the employer "x years ago I was convicted of X bad thing. I was guilty, but I learned from the experience and changed. Here are three character references who have known me both before and after, and I'm happy to tell you more about this if you want to know".

If you are honest in your application, a background check will only corroborate your truthfulness. And if you're not, why should we as a society object to someone taking that into account when considering whether to trust you?
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It's a smart business move to get investors on-board who are also investors in the company's potential clients. The obvious benefit being that they can push/suggest that management use your product, the less obvious benefit is they are less likely to start a competing business.
Reddit gave me the opportunity to try the new layout, and I lasted exactly 1 minute before reverting. The log in page was broken. I could see where to sign up for a new account, but could not see area to log in for existing users.

The problem appeared to be one of resizing the old log in page correctly for the new layout. Regardless, not my issue as a stupid user to have to debug log in pages for a major website.

If this sort of basic thing is missing in the redesign, they have big problems ahead.
Quite OT, but these phenomena always reminds me of how wrong (popular understanding of) Einstein actually is. Whereas gravity according to that understanding warps the fabric of space itself, these pictures prove that gravity actually only appears to warp space.

I.e. our intuitive, euclidean concept of space is actually the most correct, albeit an abstract, inferred phenomenon.
> resemble solving the towers of Hanoi puzzle

That's the relaxing part.
They could be doing /charity work/. That time could also be spent in training designed to rehabilitate and promote re-integration when the correctional institution is done with the convict.

A moral and just society should be promoting the maximum freedom which does not negatively impact others (this is a balancing act, as restricting freedom IS a negative impact) as well as the maximum connected social value of individuals within the whole of society. Retribution and punishments are petty and short sighted; they fail to calculate the cost on any front aside from a limited emotional scope. Recompense is different; in that the interests of reforming an offender and bettering society overall might align in that it can repair the rift between the individual and the whole as well as attempting to bring more good than bad to the relationship.
A quarter of a million' UK students now using sugar daddies, according to app
Steeped in a workaholic culture that more than once had her
sleeping on the office couch, she was afraid of missing her
school-age daughter’s childhood.

“I discovered how important family was,” she said. So she
quit.

That sounds entirely understandable. Most of the driven, workaholic types I've known over the course of my lifetime have been men.

But I don't think we should outlaw, or even demonize workaholic cultures like the one described.
Its bit buggy, I was able to enter negative salary.
also needs some display consistencies like only USD amounts are displayed with a $ and others with currency ISO3
Drops certainly have equivalents in other music, but I don't think those are good comparisons.

I don't think the defining feature of drops is their catchiness, but the slowly building tension and sudden release.
You should look at Pimsleur if you just want to be conversational in Mandarin.

But regarding the writing system, that's where the interesting stuff is IMO, it's a system where words are linked to more to meaning than sound (unlike most other writen languages), which meant it could be used as the writing system for many various regions all around what is now modern China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.
by UPX do you mean https://github.com/upx/upx
> There's no reason that the inmates should word for free.

If someone is fined, they had to work for that money. So we're taking the fruits of their labor from them.

And they're in prison in the first place, so they're being denied their livelihood.

It's almost like we're trying to punish people for crimes they commit!
Same. My other annoyance about every single one of these threads are people making comments about how unsafe it is when you can tell they've never even driven a car equipped with it.
There are Teslas in many countries around the world, and autopilot is marketed as a feature in those as well.

About the US train network, it's good for freight but passenger trains are slow.
great tool however the font size is really small and hard too read
Journalism is in the toilet, so journalists end up being one-man bands. Local Gannett paper had everyone using CRTs--in 2014!!!
>Patients (including myself) can't otherwise access research on their own conditions.

This is one of the best arguments for true open access. Rare disease research is often more likely to be hidden behind a paywall because of the limited number of niche journals that will publish this research.
This may be a bit meta.

Everything I've read about Trump's infrastructure initiative leads me to believe it is planned as a largely unfunded mandate cum strong outsourcing and privatization initiative.

The Federal government isn't going to pay for much of anything. They're telling states to "get it done" and pushing strongly for privatization of public resources as a means of paying for this.

(Think Illinois' Skyway, other toll roads that never met their schedules for shutting down payments to investors and going public, Chicago's public parking garages and parking meters, and many examples farther afield.)

While public projects aren't perfect, this inserts (even more of) a profit motive into overall management, and in practice often ends up providing "less for more". Rather than some supposedly more efficient management, such privatization initiatives seem more often to merely introduce another middle-man -- one having unprecedented control and no competition.

There's a lot of money sloshing around the investment world, looking for "tangible assets" with strong and highly predictable and controllable rates of return. Hedge funds are moving into real estate and rentals. Sovereign wealth funds have wanted a piece of Chicago's infrastructure-based revenue streams. Canadian and other housing prices exploding with foreign investment.

As for "rushing things along", we have a prime example of this and perhaps forerunner of this Federal initiative, with FoxConn in Wisconsin. Things already seem to be going significantly wrong:

http://beltmag.com/blighted-by-foxconn/

So, I don't really see this initiative as an honest effort to improve efficiencies while maintaining current regulation -- regulation that, for its sometimes faults, was usually put into place for good reason and is better than the alternative it replaced.

I see it as an initiative to expedite the enrichment of large private interests who have the current administration's ear -- as well as those of many state and some local governments. (Local is sometimes harder, because you're dealing with people who will directly have to live with the consequences. Once they realize that the people who are on board are selling the rest out.)
Theoretically, Time travel IS possible if you can go fast enough, then you can travel into the future. (Going into the past is impossible).

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/13/time-travel-possib...
I use Stylus to much the same effect, modifying, or occasionally wholesale replacing, site CSS.

That can be used in conjunction with uMatrix to discard the site's own CSS.
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I hear this argument a lot in the EE community. Yet, the cheapest 8051 part in single quantities on DigiKey: $0.43. Cheapest ARM Cortex-M0 part on DigiKey: $0.47. I'll take the ease of development and features on ARM for $0.05. You can develop without proprietary development environments. I do my development with a basic gcc+make setup.

Of course you can pick up old parts which fell off a truck for cheaper but I'd rather not do that when I depend on these parts for many years to come.
This is nonsensical. What kind of autopilots do you think airplane pilots and boat captains use? That's where the name comes from, and if people think otherwise maybe they shouldn't take their cues from science fiction.

If I name something warp drive, are you then entitled to believe that you will now be able to travel faster than light? Will you blame me for naming the product incorrectly if you travel at a speed less than c?
I wonder what is the charging power with this? Can the car sustain its battery infinitely if you drive over electrified highways only?
I don’t think my intent was so literal as you portray it. Obviously you are right. I was meaning it as exemplified in PT videos, minimal cognitive load so it’s a pleasure to watch.
The eye link to magnetic field navigation has been known for years; the mechanism has not been.
Rewrite all the external links before displaying them to something like: /redir?url=http://... (using a filter or by manually creating a plugin on your Wiki software) then on your /redir endpoint you can redirect to the proper URL if it changes.
The journalist doesn't only write an article, he also structures and plans how the story is going to be presented because that's also part of the job. Hiring another person in-between the article and the journalist is like hiring an extra person to only hammer a nail when there is a construction worker to do that job already.

They develop the underlying technology to let journalists do what they want without needing to hire more employees.
learn to recharge whenever you want and you can. take powernaps, or go for a walk or a shower
I'd be interested to hear how you came to that conclusion, as these pictures show the complete opposite to me. In a vacuum, light takes the shortest distance between two points. That light is bent by gravity shows that gravity is changing what it means to be the "shortest distance". That is, space itself is being warped by the presence of mass.
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I'm pretty okay with Visual Studio using significantly more memory than it does now, if it meant it would stop thrashing the disk constantly and locking up the text editor. My dev machines have between 16 and 32 GB of RAM, and even the wimpiest laptop I've used in the past five years had 8GB. But anytime it gets close to 2GB of memory used, it starts turning into "Microsoft Visual Studio (is not responding)"
This is true , but I wanted to believe! so wanted to believe Google was making an honest effort for it's customers.
Lots of job interviews don't involve gotcha language questions. So it's worth spending some time filtering companies based on how they interview, if there are some interview styles you don't like.

Also, you may be underselling yourself by focusing too much on specific technical knowledge.

I'm happy to do a resume review (which is often a how-do-you-pitch-yourself review) - been doing a bunch and people seem to find them helpful. Email me at itamar@codewithoutrules.com. May answer with delay, but will answer.
The problem is those punitive actions are not considered from a more enlightened position of causing a net positive to society. A better approach retrains the individual and helps society by enforcing a mutually beneficial result rather than administering some measured form of torture.
Not true. Presenting is part of writing. It's not separate.
Not:

1. That I've found.

2. For unauthenticated sessions.

I hit Reddit via Incognito mode frequently. That goddamned nag shows up every goddamned time.
The most advanced autopilot systems today can navigate and even land the aircraft, but the majority of systems (especially on general aviation aircraft, but even many commercial) are closer to what you describe, and can kill you if you're not paying attention.
No, that actually says it's not included in the Downloaded Info.

It's in the Activity Log, which is omitted from the download. This is not obvious and misleading. In fact someone asked whether they could download their activity and Facebook directed them to the Downloaded Info, which omits it.[1]

As for FOIA, you're missing the point. Of course FB is not subject to such a law. The whole debate right now is whether it should be. If you request an organization's "file" on you, it should be comprehensive and not selectively omit the creepiest stuff.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=6345563...
Sure, but you'll be disconnected for that and you're going to have to reconnect on the far side. That's going to cause some arcing and wear. On the plus side, self driving cars will have something to aim for. Provided there isn't any snow or ice to deal with.
RescueTime on desktop Chrome can be set up to do this. Not sure about mobile support though.
This feature has existed in inbox for a long time. It is useful for things like snoozing an email with flight tickets to a certain date. For certain kinds of emails it automatically gives you the option to snooze the email till the day of the flight or reservation.

You can also snooze to locations. So having the email popup when you get home for example.
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I'm sure I misunderstand your comment, but correct me if I'm wrong.

For instance, if each item has a size of 64B (for N=7), which is the size of a cache line, then whatever the position of the first element into the first cache line, the next item will necessary be located into the next cache line. Did I miss something?
Did you try tinycards by duolingo? It looks very promising.
Even worse, the app loses features of the site that are super super important, like the "duplicates" tab.
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Ask HN: Name some good books on the science of workplace behaviour, team health
soft skills, rapport etc
Not sure what reddit post you're referring to, but the images on Wired make it look like Facebook, not Reddit: https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-redesign/
The next step in the tracking arms-race might involve more difficult solutions, like integrating the tracking scripts into the host site's client-side javascript and the host site's servers, then forwarding to the third party's sites.

But these are way more expensive and involved for hosts than "put this one script tag on each page".
What made you come to this conclusion?
> It's a geological amount of time to a real-time system, which anything related to controlling a car absolutely will be.

s/will be/should be/ -- defects in design notwithstanding. Note that the latency involved with the sensing equipment (skin conductivity? pressure sensor?) could be large enough to be significant.
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What would happen if they started writing the articles to a blockchain? It would be functionally impossible to remove, right?
It is irrelevant whether you think it is _reasonable_ for people to associate the word ‘autopilot’ with autonomy. Reasonable or not, people do, and that has safety consequences for everyone who shares the road with them.
Oh, sure, there was more than bountiful in the US and Europe. Saying that it was (or is) bountiful in, say, Africa seems to be a stretch.

One could think that GMOs appear to be a US-centered because many developing countries, whose export markets are mostly European (i.e. very anti-GMO) are afraid to plant GMO crops for fear of losing those markets.

I would presume, in absence of some proof of shenanigans, that 108 Nobel winners [0] had a good idea of safety and necessity of GMOs when they wrote this letter.

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nobel-laureates-greenpe...
First and foremost, Tesla itself sells, and still sells, Autopilot as a self-driving system.

Not all trials are criminal trials. Some are civil trials, meaning generally that a tort occurred and one person is suing another to recover damages. That is the most likely trial in this situation.

If the crime is a bug in Autopilot, then an engineer at Tesla might be guilty of any number of crimes. How the driver dies doesn't particularly matter if the bug causes his death. But more likely, Tesla is liable for product defect resulting in the death of one customer and the near-death experiences of at least 3 other drivers.

This isn't a manslaughter case. But it is a product liability case+negligence+libel+invasion of privacy+intentional infliction of emotional distress case when it didn't have to be, and those additional claims will likely destroy Tesla financially. Trial experts have been quoted as saying a verdict in excess of $100 million is likely if Tesla were stupid enough to go to trial (and right now, Musk is definitely being that stupid).
That‘s probably what they thought, too. If you just pick a random bilingual person and let them proofread your learning material you are going to end up with crappy learning materials.

If you want good content, you need good editors, and they are neither cheap, nor easy to find.

The reason why companies try to save money with editors is that they don‘t „scale“ (one dev and a designer can program an interface that can be used for 20.000 different questions, but you need a lot of people to come up with those questions)
In General Aviation at least, there are varying levels of autopilot (depending on how nice the system is you can maintain heading and altitude or fly a pre-programmed course with navigational waypoints), but all of them will fly you right into the side of a mountain or into restricted airspace if you let them. You can't just set it and stop paying attention. It seems that is what people want when they think of "autopilot" for their cars.
We ought to have some kind of DNS alternative that doesn’t allow this sort of thing to happen.
>While it may seem strange for us, a publisher, to post on Medium rather than our own platform, we are here for a simple reason: the community. Medium is where so many of our people are, so much of the product, design and development community, so we wanted to be here too.

https://open.nytimes.com/introducing-the-new-open-blog-23eba...
Please, I have been looking for a descent music player for a while (since my Creative Zen had a hard drive failure). Did you get yours new or used (if so, which brand? how much money? where from?), did you hack it together your self (if so how)?
An ex-Google engineer is scraping YouTube to pop our filter bubbles
I am sorry for your (and our community's) loss. Thank you for sharing this experience and I hope you the best!
I did the following:

* Start the Duolingo tree

* Start Pimsleur French around checkpoint 2 when I realized I couldn't speak at all

* Start taking classes at Alliance Francaise when I started struggling with the grammar, starting at 103

* Spend at least a week in immersion in a Francophone country to solidify the learning

* Start drilling nouns + gender with Anki when I noticed that native speakers kept correcting my gender usage
Modern CPUs are insanely complicated, with thousands of different instructions, countless layers of cruft and bewildering performance variations across architecture generations - what's optimal in one gen can be a worst case scenario two generations down the road. For any modern CPU I'd never attack a problem ASM first and, most probably, never even touch it.

But we are talking about the 6502 inside the NES, running at less than 2 MHz, with one accumulator and two index registers, a couple status flags and an 8-bit stack pointer within a 256-byte stack. It's a simple machine, for simpler problems.

And yet, guys like Paul Lutus were doing real-time 3D wireframes in FORTH, with fast 8-bit scaled trigonometric functions (no floats involved). It was pure badass of a magnitude not heard of since.

My own contribution was a windowing library for the Apple II that did fit in 1024 bytes and ran self-modifying code to display overlapping windows.
So, what the c compiler does.
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You should be able to interact with the redesign directly at https://new.reddit.com. The main complaints I've seen leveled at the redesign are: user profiles becoming more like Facebook profiles, the new chat functionality missing core features, and the newly created "best" ranking becoming the default.