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>I think what triggered the problem with lootboxes is that the monetary value of the items is immediately obvious and you can trade those items without any friction over the internet at any moment. For many games an item is just equivalent to some amount of money. It's not a good, it's casino tokens that you can exchange for real money at the counter. Selling cards, especially before the internet, was way more complicated and most 12yo at the time probably wouldn't bother unless they were extremely lucky and managed to acquire a very expensive card "charlie and the chocolate factory" style. Cards have pretty limited liquidity, unlike digital goods that can be traded quickly and safely across continents in an instant.

If this were really what they wanted to target then they should have applied the law to loot boxes with tradable items. I don't play most of the games, but at least in Overwatch the random items are completely locked to your account. You get the ability to use whatever skins, voice lines, etc. you find in the box and there is absolutely no secondary market or anything else to do with them.
That actually doesn’t make a difference because the replies to his answers are basically absurd. Nobody should go through this.
>But no, we didn't actually know that until Snowden told us, and it was not (and still is not) actually common knowledge that digital communications are not generally private.

This is simply, demonstrably false. Snowden's a bad example of what you're talking about. In fact, it's a good example of the opposite: people who didn't bother to pay attention to widely-available information suddenly acting like what they've just learned is completely new.

It wasn't just a "relatively small and knowledgeable contingent" that knew about the government's mass surveillance program. The New York Times broke the story on the Bush Administration surveillance program in 2005 (which forced Bush and Gonzales to publicly acknowledge the program's existence for the first time that December), and it and many other publications followed up on those stories for years. It was a major, widely-reported topic of discussion all throughout Bush's second term, with the discussion following the predictable party lines.

Snowden may have given us more detail about what was going on, but the public was already well aware of the government mass surveillance program long before he blew the whistle.
How does dynamic dispatch work in WebAssembly?
Seen this piece before, still funny to me.

> Thought: I guess that's what happens when AI bots discover recreational drugs.

That's why engineers should be interviewed by engineers.
It sounds to me less like a problem with the technology but more with your habits and self discipline.

If Slack is interrupting you then why not just close it? And don't open it until you actually need it.

Another alternative will only distract you in the same way, surely.
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Sure but also thanks to a few patents having expired, especially that one about hyper threading[1].

edit:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3728692A/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3771138

[1] Should have said simultaneous multithreading (SMT) instead of hyper threading which is specific to Intel.
Was working for un, eu, many "big" national companies. Most rewarding? Just finished touch ordering food display (kind like mcDonalds) for a friend. Node, html, works on win and linux. Had many obstacles on the way, solved all for free. Sure I earned a beer. Priceless.
There's no money to be paid if you like what you're working on. :-)
Finally pulling the trigger and starting my own business (https://weardulo.com).

We launched 6 months ago after 1 year in product development and I've been enjoying every bit of it. All the disciplince and sacrifices that it takes, gives me the feeling that finally my ambitions are being mapped by my actions of actually doing and building.

Every small success and every obstacle is welcomed and maximised.
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Can you post a link to one of these? The first Quora answer I find says, "First interview was on the phone with a recruiter. The questions were typical recruiter screening. Nothing hard or detailed. Questions about background and feeling out my interest."

I definitely believe there's a recruiter screening process - I would just be surprised if it's the same screening process they give to new college grads, with the same slate of questions. (Even if you're going to give them technical questions, at least give them harder technical questions!) I obviously have no real information having not interviewed for a director-level position, I'm just stating that these questions seem like the same slate I got as a college grad.
I actually had to implement decision trees this semester for my Data Mining & Machine Learning class. Albeit we couldn't use any libraries and had to implement everything from scratch (aside from being able to read in the data with pandas).

The main problem with decision trees is that they will overfit to the maximum extent possible, which is why pruning [0] and depth limitation [1] are used to reduce overfitting and improve the decision tree's ability to generalize onto the test set. On the data set provided for my assignment, the ranking of performance was: (traditional algorithm) < (traditional with depth limit) < (traditional with pruning).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruning_(decision_trees)

[1]: Basically the maximum depth of the tree is limited to some height. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.tre... (see `max_depth`).
Have you tried disabling alerts, setting your status to "away" and managing that source of distraction?
Actually purchasable online AND in the UK this time, so I've bought some. First Spectacles weren't available here at all.
Yep literally just lane keep with a much longer warning time than other higher end cars. Shows the power of marketing.
90 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6275149
thank you for Miranda
madamelic is saying that the described interview process would select against qualified candidates because some of the items on the answer sheet are flat-out wrong.

Analogy would be if we were evaluating a blood-pressure drug, but our BP-measurement cuff was miss-calibrated and all readings were -10 from reality.
We sure are. You can do some too, simply by looking at the account histories of the commenters you feel might be astroturfing.

Overwhelmingly the true hypothesis is the null one: people just disagree. The assumption that no one could possibly hold opinion X in good faith, so therefore they must be shilling, is imaginary. Such accusations in the threads are toxic, so we don't allow it unless there's some indication of more than imagination at work. This has been HN policy for years now and I've posted a ton about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
> which means Veterans can schedule a mental health appointment on their phone.

It all comes down to this. Well done. It's so easy to get stuck in the weeds and forget the real goal.
What bothers me is that Tesla has this data. Their cars are instrumented out the wazoo and uploading everything to the mothership. It would be trivial for them to discount cars that encountered AEB events, didn't use Autosteer etc from the dataset. The fact that even with that data they still feed us BS statistics about stuff like autopilot highway miles vs overall miles really worries me
Kino from Stargate?
No docs, Google never gives away its killer features - and this specifically is something that makes them stand out from any other email provider. No standard content or markup, either: Just terabytes of emails - given enough data, the patterns crop up by themselves, one would think.

Source: wild speculation.
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Yeah but F, o, r and d are pretty random.
It's certainly been in a few books I've ready which weren't published recently. I think this was just dug up (for clicks) because of the Syria situation.
Yep. There's a book that does a good job outlining the main problems in the healthcare industry: "Catastrophic Care" by David Goldhill.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/034580273X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_-...

The big issue, as you mention, is health insurance companies themselves. They aren't actual insurance companies—they are payers, like others in this thread have called out. Real insurance exists when unlikely but disastrous events occur, like a house fire or a car accident.

Payers act more like surrogates—they bargain and make purchasing decisions on behalf of users like us. This is the fundamental problem in healthcare because surrogates cannot make financial decisions as well as a free market can.

Goldhill’s proposal for changing the industry is to eliminate the role of surrogates and replace it with a version of a health savings account that everybody would be required to contribute into and carry indefinitely, and require everybody to have a very high deductible catastrophic insurance plan. For example, all healthcare payments under $30k would be paid for directly by the patient and come out of the savings account. When something truly big and expensive occurs in a patient’s health (e.g., a cancer diagnosis) is when catastrophic health insurance would kick in and cover it.

This would allow for patients to make active decisions about which type of care to choose, and would force providers to become more competitive to earn the business of actual customers.
Quite expected too. Server markets tend to buy rarely, conservatively and in late volumes at a time.

It will take a few new data centres to nudge it.
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So far I haven't had any problems with mine, purchased 4 months ago... knocks on wood
No it's not religion. It's statistical knowledge, in a way that people seem to struggle to grasp. (And there are thorns! What use it is put to is another issue.)

If you look at all sports you'll find the same thing. We call the common factor physical fitness, or athleticism, or let's say "AQ". It's exactly the same idea. AQ predicts running speed, although not nearly as well as getting the kids out on the track. Ditto weightlifting. People know this: the kids in the chess club won't agree to arm-wrestle the kids on the track team, because despite having no direct information of their biceps strength, they can guess based on overall impressions. This strategy for keeping their lunch money is scientifically valid. And their profiling of the jocks is a safe distance from being morally repugnant.
Many manufacturers only sell small cars as a way to get average fleet emissions numbers within complaince. If they can do that with bigger more profitable vehicles instead, this makes sense.
"Cognitive dissonance". As in, the thing would have been accepted as "widely known" much sooner, had it not been shouted down for being inconvenient.

The phase you're describing is just the people who were making the point the whole time trying to get across that the outrage du jour is something they've been persistently talking about for years.
Its called savings.
For me the real shock of Snowden's revelations was just how poorly run these programmes were. Lax security, no oversight. Pretty much carte blanche for all involved because ... hur durr ... national security.

James Bond gets to do whatever he wants because he's "one guy" doing blackops on a fairly exceptional basis. When you've a whole swarm of James Bond wannabes you need to reel em in and have oversight.
Do you think the phillips hue bulbs which go down to 2000 K would be about as effective, or would that rxtra 150 make the difference?

The Hue seem much better reviewed in terms of their controls.
> The shrinkage in use of farmland could be that marginal farmland is falling away due to soil exhaustion and economic effects.

Well if you want to disagree with all expert assessments, then feel free.

> That sounds like the path towards arcologies.

If humans voluntary adopt this, then I don't see the problem.

If people want to get a cheap large house in Texas, they can just go ahead and do that.

> Take Los Angeles, California

California is hardly the typical case. Just because you experience this locally doesn't change global statistics.

> Sure, but that's just part of the same problem: as population and wealth rises, the wish to have personal rapid transit also rises, which leads to either:

Yes. But using ethanol never made a lot of sense in the US. It purely because of politics. We are not fundamentally energy restricted, you could easily substitute ethanol for methanol for example. Gas is actually demand constraint in the US right now.

Again, we do not have a lack of energy or land supply. My example about ethanol was more to prove that we have more then enough farm land.

I don't understand what your issue with this accepting this is.

> At the grandparent level, my family were farmers. The land they did all of that on is now sold off for houses.

Again, you continue to assert completely 100% false statistics. The waste majority of land is not covered by houses. In fact there are people who are trying to recreate the North American Step because there is so much empty land.

> You speak of increasing productivity for our existing farmland, but all increasing curves flatten out eventually. There are no exponential curves in ecologies, only S-curves that haven't started to flatten out yet. (Or, collapsing curves!)

Productivity will continue to go up. We have new technology such as GMO that can make a major difference. The reality is that most of the worlds farm land is not farmed with anywhere close that efficiency. Would could have massive amount of food production growth if we had more adoption of current technology.

I really don't understand any of your arguments. We have lots of access land. We have so much land we can use part of it for ethanol and another huge part for meat. If there were any real constraint on food production, those things would change. Its the same in other countries, Britain used to be intensively farmed and now they are talking about establishing a prehistoric forest across the whole for northern Britain because they DON'T NEED LAND TO FARM. Its the same in many countries. That is a simple fact, however much you want to invent stories about your grand parents farm. WE ARE NOT CONSTRAINT IN THE AVAILABILITY OF FARM LAND!

Even if land was the issue, we could still do very efficient factory farming where land is not a constraint at all.
> Did we continue to stay in support of them knowing this or did we later condemn them for their use of chemical weapons?

The US fought its own war against Iraq just three years after the time period this article focuses on. I'm pretty sure they were pretty roundly condemned by that point.
This is what I want to see. Intel finally waking up and working hard again and maybe trying to compete on price. Without proper competition the market just goes stagnant.

The most interesting thing is that Intel used to be able to crush their opponents by being one step ahead on node size improvements, but that's hit a wall and it has given everyone else a chance to catch up.
I can’t say I love the idea of turning my home into a surveillance state.
Is there a way to restrict it to be only an internal search?
How 16 lines of code helped me be more relaxed
It's important to note that stock markets provide some shielding from inflation in countries experiencing hyperinflation. If you look at places like Argentina, or Venezuela, you'll see that those with the means to do so use the stock market to shield value or even extract it (i.e., evade capital controls) via ADRs traded locally and on the NYSE. I don't know if Zimbabwe had companies listed on the NYSE, so I don't know if this scheme was used there.

The government always allows this for a simple reason: most of the people doing this are its friends and family.
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1080s don't have the "tensor cores" of V100, or NVLink, so they will not get anywhere near the same performance on this benchmark.
I read a similar screen a few years ago (some guy with a math PhD, also applying for a director position at GOOG). I'll try to find the blog post. Even if the screens are different, I'm not sure they're that different.
I believe it deserves as much respect as the systemd maintainers treat their users with.

1. Hosed system down. All systemctl commands fail with "Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted". Only option was to reinstall it from scratch, like a Windows machine

2. Does something wrong. So many random weird bugs like "failed to start reboot.service" ffs. Answer is always "upgrade systemd" which is a problem when you're running CentOS.

3. Totalitarian maintainer. Pwnies award for lamest vendor response 2017 covers my complaints there.

Edit: just a point I wish to add. The idea that systemd embodies is the right direction, but the architecture and implementation sucks as do the maintainers.
I think you misunderstand. I'm talking about writing something like `ScopedThreadpool<'static>`, which means any external data referenced by the threadpool must have a static lifetime (or rather, it means the ScopedThreadpool cannot reference anything on the stack, because that would prevent you from e.g. returning it to your caller or passing it to another thread). The ScopedThreadpool itself can be created and destroyed whenever.
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Old code is institutional knowledge
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The user will care when gnome-shell crashes and takes out their entire session, or when their cursor is lagging/skipping.

Gnome-shell wayland session still needs a lot of work imo.
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France provided Saddam with a nuclear breeder reactor. That seems to be much more dangerous than intel.
Once I figured out how to mute @here and @channel, I regained sanity.
what's the company name? if its not a big secret since you created a throwaway just to post this reply:)
Periscope developed a Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LHLS) technique that relies on HTTP chunked transfer-encoding to stream video bytes as they are encoded at the origin. This is still subject to TCP packet retransmission overhead, but the time-to-first-byte is reduced significantly and leads to less buffering on the client.

Here's a Periscope post about LHLS: https://medium.com/@periscopecode/introducing-lhls-media-str...

Most systems that serve HLS media use fixed content-length segments, which requires knowledge of the length of a segment before the first byte can be sent over the wire. So, for a 5 second segment you would need to encode the entire 5 seconds before the first byte can be sent; this does not apply when streaming the segments with chunked transfer encoding.

Incidentally, at Mux we also use chunked transfer-encoding to stream video that is encoded on-the-fly with great performance.
But climate change is a gradual process.

Some land is lost in X, and gained in Y. That land in Y will be close to where farming currently happens and with a delay of a couple of years the farmers can extend northwards a little bit.

I can't see how such a slow process could lead to a 'shortfall'.
Alternatively, the time saved allows them to move onto other tasks and accomplish more in a day. Saving 30 seconds on a database query can add up to years of time in a large company. It's not that uncommon for hardware engineers to be issued a company credit card, simply for the time saved vs bugging a manager for a purchase order for a $5.00 digikey order.
> incorrect/inflexible quizzing about tech questions is inappropriate full stop

I don't disagree with this, but (to the best of my memory - this was in 2011), when this initial phone screen was presented to me, it was presented with some amount of "We want to figure out what you're good at so we're having the right people interview you for the right roles." Which is to say, I suspect that him failing out halfway through this screen was because of combativeness / personality, not phone screen performance per se.

> You can't ensure that there will be no hurt feelings ever, but ideally the candidates you fail don't go around talking about how poor your interview process is.

I think I disagree with this though - there are certain people who are going to be predisposed to complaining about things that don't go their way, and you want to make sure you fail them as early as possible. At a company small enough that its strength is the CEO's coding abilities, a curmudgeon with significant raw technical talent can do very well. At a Google-sized company they just can't.
All the problems you present go into the category of sharing state. This is the unique problem presented by concurrent programming, which is no harder than all the other problems in programming. This does not mean that concurrent programming is hard, but that just like all other programming, it has some sharp edges.

The issues related to sharing state can be easily avoided by, for example, using a CSP-style paradigm (channels in Go). In Go, this only leaves behind a deadlock, which are automatically panic, making it incredibly easy to debug.

Overhead of scheduling and effects on optimizers are not related to concurrency/parallelism. The scheduler is affected by many things even under single-threaded execution which is far beyond the scope of normal application developers, and optimizers are largely unaffected by concurrent/parallel programming (although shared structures must internally present memory barriers). The optimizer is also beyond the scope of normal application development.

If you are doing development that requires precise control over optimizations and scheduling (like I do), then all bets are off.

However, with "normal" (i.e. not-processing-8x100Gb/s streams) programming, concurrent programming is a breeze unless you intentionally shoot yourself in the foot.
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At Google there are two layers of the hiring process. Interviewers provide information for the hiring committee. The hiring committee has the resume. They don't need people to read it to them.
Kurento is an excellent open source solution for this use-case. Check out the project here: https://github.com/Kurento/kurento-media-server
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I will have a look at this. Thank you for the suggestion. Last KDE I used was 1.1 a very long time ago :)
The reviewer does indeed say that they haven't used Gnome before, and didn't use Unity.
> I bet with systemd it is even higher, 100:1 or 1000:1, but the few haters are extremely noisy.

People who have positive things to say about systemd have learned long ago to stay away from most discussions about it on places like Hacker News, because they'll just get drive-by-downvoted.

They're still around, and they still like (or at least appreciate) systemd; you just won't see them commenting much on those sorts of threads.
GitLab.com is on Azure https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-t... and in the process of moving to Google. After the move we'll look into Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
Can you turn off your Slack notifications? Gitter and Discord exist, but they're not any less distracting.
There are definite regional differences according to my wife She grew up just a couple miles from Mexico so a vacation in Mexico wasn't a long trip, plus the random Sunday "lets go to the other side of the river for lunch and cheap sugar" trips that are possible when the country is that close. I have never lived close enough to Mexico as to make it the trip a non-event and so I don't have personal experience to report)