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when the actual problem you are solving is uninteresting, you can at least come up with complex configuration puzzles and bugs to entertain yourself
The corporation has no feelings. Please don't anthropomorphize. Did you mean the people who run the organization like Pichai or Alphabets leadership (Page)?

Why would it terrify them?
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I was going to disagree but...

> It also doesn't help that CSS's basic premise is flawed, and the fake narrative behind CSS's origin and role is insulting to any thinking person: that instead of typed markup attributes for some reason it's better to use an ever-growing bunch of ad-hoc micro syntax with poor checking and typing, and then postulating an arbitrary "semantic HTML" ideal after-the-fact. HTML is as syntactic as it gets; as it should, it being a standard in information presentation.

On reflection I agree. I understand this approach when it's only document styling (here's a ruleset for h1, h2 etc kept separate from the HTML) but as soon as you start adding (multiple) classes... well yeah.

I fell into the yawning crevice that's semantic CSS, where "These class names give the HTML meaning". That and semantic HTML zealotry took up too much of my teenage years when I could've been making stuff, and have left me suspicious of any tech idea proclaimed with religious overtones.
How is relating my experiences adjacent to the subject of the article, as someone who has in fact released two rather large open source projects (one with a fair amount of ongoing traction) toxic?

Just because it documented experiences that were negative?

The responses so far:

- It's your fault for doing it (true, but unhelpful).

- Maybe you should care (I released the original work, I cared enough)

- Even talking about adjacent experiences is inappropriate and and you should stop. (yours)
I am surprised that there are so few hacker comments here. The story sends me the goosebumps and its a keeper -- Grinnell College in Iowa where the Silicon Valley revolution really began, what really made landing on the moon possible, and this Robert Noyce quote in Wiki:

In his last interview, Noyce was asked what he would do if he were "emperor" of the United States. He said that he would, among other things, "…make sure we are preparing our next generation to flourish in a high-tech age. And that means education of the lowest and the poorest, as well as at the graduate school level."
Because Speck is said to be more performant than AES.This is discussed in the mail.
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That's exactly what I said - that was the only infraction.

What part of my comment are you disagreeing with??

Copyright infringement is not theft.
I guess it depends on the demographics.

But one thing that annoys me is that people don’t usually realize how much faster and clearer voice conversation can be.

After 4 or 5 rapid text exchanges I usually send “can I call you?”
This is one of the most horrifying stories I've read in a long time.

I have a great deal of trouble even understanding what has gone so catastrophically wrong to even have this practice be a thing. Due process MUST be honored. No excuses are acceptable that "convictions are to hard, we NEED this".

Law enforcement and policing with this kind of discretion, ceases to be policing, protection of, or service to society. I will back the men and women who truly try to execute their duty with due respect and honor to those they are protecting, but institutional mechanisms like this only undermine and weaken the trust the public can have in the government.

I'll come out and say it. I'll accept a drug dealer on every corner before I'll accept the legality and morality of confiscation of assets without due process or with shortcutted due process. Our country survived just fine before the explosion in law enforcement's capability to waltz over civil rights, and it can survive without it now. If you can't get the job done with typical investigative techniques that don't include stomping on or cleverly redefining the scope of the 4th Amendment, then maybe, just maybe you're doing it wrong.

Depriving a citizen of life, liberty, and the fruits of their pursuit of happiness is SUPPOSED to be a long, ardorous task.

Vigilia pretium libertatis est.
> Can remote-first be a winning strategy for SV startups?

Yes, although then it's hard to say whether the startup is still "SV" or not, assuming most of the company lives elsewhere.

> Do investors like YC and VCs encourage it or discourage it?

Don't optimize your company for raising money. Optimize it for not needing to raise money, i.e. being cash-flow positive. If you're successful at the latter, investors won't care whether you're remote or not.
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What makes you think the "golf carts" are level 4? Level 4 implies you don't need a driver, but I don't believe they were ever tested without drivers on public roads.
>imagine a scenario in which the useful applications all involved degree 5 or higher polynomials. Would we have progressed much?

You can always approximate a polynomial around a point with a lower-degree polynomial. They will only diverge farther out. As a result whenever physics produces a high-degree polynomial we can inspect certain behaviors in a lower degree. This doesn't help with every case, but it does enough for the situation that many questions become answerable.
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This is one of the most encouraging posts I have read for a long time. Shame there is no way I can vote it to the top.
I think this is a good point.

For some reason, being seen with a new phone seems to have more 'street cred' associated with it than with tablets. Maybe it's just because most people tend to use their phone in public more often than their tablet.
Lol. Hey someone add a facial recognition or NFC feature so I can identify all the people leaving dog poop or trash in my yard. I'm gonna rate the hell out of those guys.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17208293
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The idea is large companies can steal many loaves of bread and get away with it on a technicality because they have the resources to comply with the letter of the law while pissing on its spirit.

Only little people would steal a crust of bread for their supper. The rich generally commit bigger crimes.
Do you disagree about what the actual infraction was here if the story is true?

My comment isn't about trust, it's about what the actual infraction was. Microsoft is made up of 35,000 people. There's no way I trust all of them. Of what company do you actually have trust in every employee?
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I never buy a tablet because none of them are competitive enough. I usually have better specs on the phone in my pocket than tablets I usually see. I never understood why Android tablets did not get more competitive.
This is subjective and as old/unsettled an argument as vim vs emacs or spaces vs tabs - although what you're saying is true for you there are many people who argue the opposite. I must have spent at least a day's worth of hours over the years reading long threads with people debating over which is 'correct', 'safer', 'healthier' etc: dark on light or light on dark. People are different. Having a preference is normal but framing it as assistive tech is too much as there are people out there who feel a strain looking at light text on a dark background.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15142/whic...

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2010/05/20/i-hate-...

https://www.wordpress-web-designer-raleigh.com/2015/04/16/4-...

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/8153/what-are-the-neg...
I wonder why you were downvoted for a simple statement of fact.
I have a Nexus 10 that I guess is around 5 years old, and it has indeed slowly-but-surely gotten slower and slower while the battery has slowly died too. It's now so slow as to be unusable, and can only be used while plugged into the mains, as the battery doesn't hold a charge.
I think there is a issue specific to HN where some high karma users are downvoting everything that points out the over-engineering similar to their own job:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair
> I think in our current world historical evidence is stacked against you.

There's a lot of factors stacked against us. It doesn't matter, we will continue moving towards this goal.
FWIW Fortnite has a PEGI 12+ rating for violence.

It also, I gather, has text chat making it difficult to monitor in a teaching environment and open to problems at home.
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There are now more ML related jobs on stackoverflow than AngularJS.
Fun fact: Jefferson had macaroni and cheese (or something akin to it) served at a state dinner he hosted in 1802: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_and_cheese#American_h...
In my view one of the puzzles of physics is actually its success over the past couple of centuries. That we have such precise and comprehensive models of anything could not have been anticipated.

But this success doesn't guarantee future success or a predictable rate of future progress. Whenever we agree to work on a fundamentally new question, we are never sure whether the answer will arrive in 5 minutes or 5 centuries. Reconciling quantum mechanics and gravity might be a 5 century problem for all we know.

Likewise, we can never claim with assurance that any non-trivial question is un-answerable. When problems get hard, books get written about the boundaries of science.

As I understand things, it took humanity some 1000 years to solve quadratic equations.
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Is username “hackedperson” still here?
I'm experiencing something similar what your friend had been through. Look up my past post history here, if you want to know more why I'm posting this.

Is H person, who you claimed to hack your friend's computer, the student in this article? (http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20131217000846)
Also it's worth remembering that LineageOS can't patch the driver blobs (which are a source of a large number of security issues). As a result, if you don't run it on a maintained platform (e.g. Google Pixel phones), you're still behind in security.
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There is some truth to this. Many jobs in machine learning are all bark and no bite. The company may even have created a machine learning team solely out of hype, and just equivocates machine learning with making d3.js visualizations or maintaining Spark jobs that just tabulate summary statistics.

Yet these jobs will still require you to do outrageous things during the interviews, like deriving the full backpropagation formulas for a 3-layer MLP network, or explain some esoteric issue with vanishing gradients or offer from memory a bunch of time complexity info about the SVM fitting algorithm, etc.

They require exponentially more impressive knowledge about machine learning in the interview than what the job experience will actually offer once you’re hired. Most positions will fundamentally make your skills atrophy.

As a result, a lot of people resort to writing blog posts or courses about their experiences implementing toy models, studying trade-offs between approaches, analyzing publicly available data sets.

In part it’s to help pad a resume and look relevant for getting hired. In part it’s to build or exercise skills that the person’s day job won’t actually enable them to use. And in part to try to get your name out there and associated with a hyped up field.
Please let's kill off Vivado once and for all. Awful, massive, unintuitive proprietary software.

There are open source tools for programming FPGAs, and they are really great too: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/playing-with-picorv32-...

The Virtex 7 series has been reverse engineered, but we're not quite in the situation where you can use the open source tools yet: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray
Of the group of people available to vote in the city, homeonwners will have a higher participation than renters that can vote. Becuse the latter need to match their residency with the vote, and even then, they dont know as much of the issue as the local, and even then, they dont have the same interest. (the time horizon of a renter could be 2 years, of a landlord its decades).

Thats why I devised that mental exercise: if you gathered up all the poeple that lived over 1 year in san francisco in the last 10 years, which one do you think is in the majority? pro-supply, con-supply?
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This is likely more about the faddishness of employer choices in front-end frameworks.

Overall, web development & front-end jobs dwarf machine learning jobs on Stack Overflow.
Also see Dune Legacy, which includes source code.
Includes modern conveniences.
More open than the other Dune2 remake projects too.

http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/

For developers: (C++)
http://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/development/source...

clone using git:
git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/dunelegacy/code dunelegacy-code
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I don't like the name of this article. "Quits" is akin to giving up.

It should have been "Google no longer promotes Android tablets" and the larger reason for this is that they have a competing product called Google Chromebook Tablet which will eventually run Android apps natively and with a plethora of features.
Oh definitely. Thinking it about it more it’s clear that part of my comment was I’ll thought out. I was attempting to wonder if mathematics would have developed enough theory behind it in a universe in which low degree polynomials were difficult to solve or in which most applicable problems involved high degree polynomials. I think the answer is yes.
The problem I remember is that your own units have no AI at all. Also, there is no mass select. So if you're fighting against something with long range you have to manually select each unit and tell them to walk 2 steps forward so they can start shooting back, otherwise they will just sit there and eat bullets until they are dead. The game isn't great at notifying you when your units are being shot either.

I remember dropping the game quite hard when Warcraft came out.
"To understand the evolution of macaroni and cheese is to realize that pursuit of the “cheapest protein possible” has been a longstanding quest of the American food system."

UK: The need for the cheapest and quickest calories post War resulted in the Chorleywood Process for making bread [1]. It served its purpose, but we are still recovering.

Africa: groundnut / peanut soup again filling bellies and adding some protein to a thin broth if meat was short [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_soup
It depends largely on the ambient lighting. Dark themes are hard to read on my bright sunlit train journey and bright themes are often too much for a dimly lit room. I switch between both.
See, if only Visa would be running on the blockchain, none of this would happen /s
How are you experiences of other volunteer work?
I don't think this is true at all. Twitter is full of fake accounts.
I believe that's because the vast majority of immigrants, Central American and otherwise, are here because they want to build a better life for themselves and their families. They are by large self selected for above average ambition and work ethic, whether they came by visa or illegally.
That was what I observed too. Never been a big user of the site but I used to stop by from time to time. A year or two ago it was brigaded by fascists and now it's dead. Can't stand it for more than 10 seconds.
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I wanted to try and address the points Brad makes and as well as clear up some of the misunderstandings in his post. Take a look https://medium.com/@dmitrigrabov/react-is-not-the-new-jquery...
I still have the files, on a Zip disk. I still have the old SCSI zip drive in a box somewhere, it might be possible to cobble together some old parts to get it working again, but it's probably easier to just pirate the files at this point.
Are you sure that it wasn't Microsoft, the corporate person? They are a company of 35,000 people and I'm quite sure that they always act in unison.

Also, when some random blogger contacts Microsoft and asks Microsoft to do something about something, then Microsoft better stop what they're doing and listen!

Enjoy your Microsoft-hate-train all. yawn
I've done volunteer teaching and some volunteer civil work and those were fun, mostly. Especially the teaching part. Is your thought, "Perhaps this person just doesn't enjoy volunteer work?"
Moral thought experiment:

Most scientists are attempting to build a public consensus around using gene drives as a public health measure. It might be possible, though, for a single rogue scientist to introduce a self sustaining gene drive that could eliminate malaria, without seeking permission from any people, governments, or organizations.

If you could do it, would you?
My neighborhood was mostly black when I moved here 15 years ago. Nextdoor was definitely the go to place for people moving into the neighborhood and then realizing they were surrounded by suspiciously non-white folks.

For good or bad everyone is now fixated instead on the local homeless encampment after the mayor and ACLU created a situation where those folks can't be dislocated. It's less "how do we help those days unfortunate souls so they aren't in this situation" and more "how did we get rid of these stinky campers bringing down my property value?"
OpenRA has Dune 2000 :-). I think that's a remake of Dune 2, isn't it?

Would be great if it had the original!
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Mass market, yes. But Herzog Zwei for Megadrive was out earlier and was already a RTS. It was not very good (at least my memories of it are not good - playing with a gamepad was a nightmare) but it was already going in that trench.