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Even though I'm much better at expressing myself with writing than through speaking, I get some anxiety about bothering people or keeping their attention that makes it difficult to "work through" a problem remotely. When I know exactly what I'm doing and just need to communicate it, everything's great. When there's an issue that two or more people need to look at and discuss at the same time, it gets much more difficult. I'd be the perfect remote worker for a company without tight deadlines where there are never any "fires" that need to be put out. But there aren't very many of those.
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That seems reasonable. The social good of AirBnB is lowering the barrier to increase property utilization.

Classifying people into commercial and "sometimes" renters makes sense. If you want your business to be bigger, comply with more regulations.
> So does contraception, yet we don't consider people using it mentally ill.

Boy, you got that backwards. Abstinence is what "goes against our very nature as living beings". Contraception allows us to engage in sexual activity without the consequences of unwanted pregnancy or STDs.
"Mental illness" gives us all a safe little place to store the horror.
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GitHub has never made money.

Microsoft buys GitHub and says we're going to let them operate independently as they see fit.

Where do you see the profit motive?
Psilocybin has been showing remarkable results at treating Cluster Headaches, you might be interested in reading the relevant literature if you haven't already.
I think you got down-voted because you misrepresented what Telsa is actually doing, which is a difficult arbitrage between:

- known preventable deaths from, say, not staying in the lane aggressively enough;

- possible surprises and subsequent deaths.

There is an ethical conundrum (that is quite different from the trolley problem) between a known fix and an unknown possibility. If both are clearly establish and you dismiss the former to have a simplistic take, yes, you would be down-voted because you are making the debate less informed.

Without falling to solutionism, in that case, the remaining issue seems rather isolated to a handful of areas that look like lanes and could be either painted properly, or that Telsa cars could train to avoid. The later fix would have to be sent rapidly and could have surprising consequences -- although it seems decreasingly likely.

That learning pattern (resolving unintended surprises as they happen decreasingly often) is common in software. This explains why this community prefers (to an extend) Telsa to other manufacturers. Others have preferred the surprise-free and PR-friendly option of not saving the dozens of thousand of lives dying on the road at the moment. There are ethical backgrounds to non-interventionism.

As the victim of car violence, I happen to think that their position is unethical. I’m actually at what is considered an extreme position, of being in favour of Telsa (and Waymo) taking more risk than necessary and temporarily increasing the number of accidents on the road because they have a far better track record of learning from those accidents (and the subsequent press coverage) and that would lower the overall number of deaths faster.

As it happens, they don’t need to: even with less than half of accidents from their counterparts, they still get spectacular learning rate.
> If you are building a webpage (a web document) its probably the goal of the user to go there and read some information and move on...

I'm surprised with how vehemently I disagree with what you're suggesting. A big chunk of my web development experience was in content marketing, specifically in the top 5 most contested ad keyword space.

This is where 1) the most money is being spent on online content, 2) performance most matters, and 3) more time on site directly translates to more conversions.

People browsing the web for legal matters, car purchases and rehab aren't looking for small bits of information and to move on, they're looking for information and reassurance to help them make major decisions. Many of these users will spend hours on your site reading.

AMP is bad, like directly-harmful bad, for all of these businesses. So is Google's direction towards only giving you their top recommended result.
There was a time when there were no people of Italian descent in positions of success in America. How is it that largely impoverished Italian migrants where able to achieve parity in American society on a level with other groups?

What about people of Asian descent? How have they been able to succeed when at one point in American history they were scorned and shunned?

It's all about culture.
Who thinks of these names anyways?
For me, it highlights just how many suicides there are, and it also brings up how easy it is to commit suicide in a quick, (relatively) painless manner in the USA.
I mostly agree, but with b) IMO the problem was that you worked in an environment that was already not concerned with the standard. I'm not sure if it's OK by the standard for a user to define types named e.g. int32_t that don't comply to the standard restrictions.

sizeof (double) can be guaranteed to be 8 if __STDC_IEC_559__ is defined, so checking that is an additional hurdle if you want to use memcpy for punning. That said, I think it can be assumed that you're writing non-portable code for a specific set of platforms already if you are punning floats to integers, because the representation is implementation dependent in the first place. Probably you also know the environments in which it will be compiled as well, so the example is a bit contrived.

Very much agree that unions are the easiest and standard way to do type punning. There's so many misconceptions about this somehow being unclear in the standard. Sure, it does reflect poorly on the quality of the standard that Linux contributors don't understand it and that Linus Torvalds actively ignores it, but if you know what you're looking for it's often not that hard to find a definite answer.
Still, in your quote the emphasis was on the deed, not the person. "You are doing this wrong" <-- the deed

"we're fucked" <-- feared consequence

"You are fucking us up!" <-- your actions are harming the group.

Not "you are a fuck" and no shunning from the group.

I don't care for the tone, and all the dark patterns could be there too in the meeting, but your single quote on its own is not evidence of dysfunction.
Cynically Maxine Waters seemed to be engaged in sociopathic manipulation tactics instead of actually trying to solve anything. It looks like a shakedown. Either they give contributions to shut her up or she gets to try to score points by beating on a boogeyman.

Last I heard the AAAs in the tech were leading the pack in minority hiring of all stripes by sector. If it was mostly company culture to blame one would expect most black workers to be concentrated in small businesses or self owned and operated. Not saying that is a solution for discrimination by any means; self starting isn't easy especially when lacking opportunities but that it is a hint as probably pipeline sourced.
My understanding is that the GP was commenting about the author's biases not those of Microsoft. Those are two entirely different perspectives. It doesn't apply here that Microsoft gets a deduction.
It quickly became obvious that they were the most annoying and pointless UI feature since Clippy.
They flunked the Turing test.

In a serious vein, they were more of an annoyance than help.

Similar to the Paper Clip from Microsoft. (Sorry, don't remember the name)
In Poland where I happen to live there are almost no black people at all, I'd guesstimate it's much less than 0,1% of the whole population but we have similar problem with women in tech.

There is only one solution in my opinion - ignore the problem at all, because there is no "problem".

If you're a good candidate no one here will question your beliefs, skin colour or sex.

Focusing on the issue on the other hand creates bunch of other, in my opinion more serious threats - I've been recruiting for a medium* Polish startup a few years ago and one day our CEO decided there is not enough "diversity" so HRs started recruiting women left and right.

Long story short, for 8 out of 10 positions we'd have two or three resumes from very strong male candidates and tens of resumes from much less experienced females. Within 3 years we hired so many women the men became the minority, about 6 months after that the place went bankrupt and everyone ended up jobless.

*medium in this world means up to 40 folks

TL;DR every sane company hires the best workforce they could afford. If there are not enough people of colour it's usually problem with these people, not the employer.
sure, but practically probably not, because you would need a domain and a easy way to update it + a cert + thats assuming you are not behind some sort of a NAT and have your own IP.
I enjoyed his show, he was a good narrator and storyteller, and he had an interesting perspective of the world.

However, it is important to remember that traveling around the world in planes is not a very ecological activity. So traveling as a way of living is better left to a few people.
Industry wide, you are right but top companies do not have to lower their standards, just invest more in finding qualified candidates. You will end up with an industry where the top players have diverse campuses, and small shops are made up of whichever ethnic group is locally available.
On average they do better than whites financially. So basically on average their quality of life is better.
> Microsoft is likely stuck ~10 years go, where Windows XP was at its peak

I feel that they were like this during the Windows 8 era.

But I like to believe they had their wake-up call (the failure of Windows RT, of Windows Phone, the rise of macOS and iOS) to a point where they were ready to try something radical, and what we're seeing now is the result of those efforts.
I think all gateways are nodes, but a node can at least disable the gateway.
IIRC it is enforced AirBnB side, so you can't rent too many days through them without providing the documentation needed to gain an exception.

But this doesn't stop you using other services. While non have the same inertia and awareness amongst the public as AirBnB there are several so it is easy to get around the limit by using several providers who don't talk to each other.
not sure whether you are being flippant, but i seriously think about this sometimes. while there is great suffering in the human world, the animal world is even more brutal. at the same time, i can't begin to imagine what an insect's experience of the world is like. you can certainly observe wounded insects experiencing what looks like pain, but do they truly "suffer" in the sense that a human does?
IMHO the thing to get excited about is the potential for a somewhat ubiquitous UI to get my stuff done; not the NPL. Hopefully NPL will continue to improve and be leveraged more in the UI. But right now, the prospect of ditching the seemingly infinite number of GUIs I have to deal with between the web and mobile apps for tasks/bots in the messaging platform of my choice is what's peeked my interest.
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Yahoo went mobile very early (like 2000s with WAP and all that), saw little adoption and as a result didn't prioritize it; also, for at least until I left in 2011, 'mobile' was a central org that assisted properties, which was a giant pain to work with. Messenger mobile was there, but as an SMS gateway, not an app.
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Anyone using it for commercial games? I am really interested to use it for interactive 3D applications in Engineering.
You might like to think that, but its not an honest representation of the majority of suicides. Most people who kill themselves do it, not for circumstantial reasons, but physiological ones like clinical depression.
Google is a front company like Amazon, facebook, Microsoft and Palantir... More
Front companies in the US intelligence industry :

There are at least four flavors [like subatomic particles]....

1) The non-Corporation - with only a room, desk and incorporation papers - maybe one or a few employees playing golf. Just a front and cut-out.

2) The Corporation that does favors when asked for the Company or other intelligence agencies.

3) The medium to full-size firm or Company that is dedicated to working for intelligence and what they do other is only for cover.

4) The Corporation that has some persons within working for intelligence, while others have no idea and are not.

Amazon- Jeff Bezos ( Background : Grand father was program manager to Darpa, and he worked on nuclear atomic bomb.) CIA contract $600M and front of CIA cover up propaganda machine with the Washington post acquisition ($200). Amazon web services is connected to the NSA severs. He is only a front man like the guy from J.P Morgan. In short, Amazon is the US government...
A.P.I. Distributors, Inc. (A Houston firm involving famous spooks Richard Secord, Thomas Clines, Ted Shackley): Johathan Kwitny, The Crimes Of Patriots
Actus Technology: Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
Aero Associates (suspected, involved in illegal CIA foreign weapon sales): : Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
AID (Agency for International Development - shared facilities with NIA): Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
Air America: Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
Air Asia: Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
American Committee for Liberation (of Cuba): Victor Marchetti/John D. Marks, The CIA and The Cult of Intelligence
American Committee on a United Europe: Jim Hougan, Spooks
American Council of Churches (established by Howard Hunt)
Facebook, lifelog Darpa project transferred to Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg(CIA cover up front of agent like Jeff bezos) and other CIA assets like Parker.facebook is the United States government... Same thing for Twitter.
GOOGLE, Darpa Project, NSA contract, defense contract - Eric Schmidt (defense advisors board) and Larry /Brin used the oil of the pentagon to travel (Private Jet)
How do I contact Apple regarding the screen coating issue? When I try to call them, the bot just tells me my warranty coverage has expired.
25% of transgender students were physically attacked for being transgender. One in six left school because of mistreatment and one in twelve were kicked out of the house. Jumping from those facts to the conclusion that they are just doing it to feel "valued" is bizarre. You might just as well say they're in it for the money, since they are three times more likely to be unemployed and twice as likely to be in poverty. https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS...

Lots more detail at http://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports if you're actually interested.
Not comparing googles actions to murder specifically, that's simply you not being able to see the forest for the trees. The only reason they wrote the article is to make it seem like what they did was a proactive moral choice when in reality it was a retroactive action to frame their realization that in supplying AI for the DoD murder bots they would be part of the evil empire. I mean it's literally twisty mustache tier lack of scruples.

They didn't fess up because they realize that the outcome of their actions woudl be bad, they fess up because YOU realize that the outcome of their actions would be bad.
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That was Steve Ballmer, and he was talking about how using libraries licensed under the GPL affects the software built on it. His words were very poorly chosen[1] but his sentiment is actually one that a lot of people in open source seemingly agree with - we have the LGPL and many other licenses because people don't agree that the way one dependency is licensed should affect the whole application.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
Who uses Yahoo still? Genuinely curious. I thought it was dead.
For me, these AI solutions always feel like I'm talking to a very stupid person who has no idea what's doing but has a booklet in possession that may or may not have the information that I'm looking for. Just give me that booklet and I will figure it out,geeez... What a frustration to deal with these smart machines.

With Siri or Google Assistant, you soon figure out few things that this very low intelligence person can do(like telling the weather or setting an alarm) and stick with it.

This is also why I'm excited about iOS12 with all these Siri shortcuts, instead of pretending that we are talking to a smart being let's have a concrete list of things that can do.

On the other hand I do believe that these voice interfaces have some potential, just the technology is not there yet.

Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17265683
I agree completely.

Side note: It's "piqued" my interest... http://www.dictionary.com/e/pique-peak-peek/
This is a great answer, thank you.
Yeah, it's the military model. A lot of the stuff they make you do in basic is to train you to follow orders without question. So that when something critical depends on you following orders without question, you do it.
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wasn't that quote about gpl's virality rather than about linux?
> Though a woman, she talks the masculinized talk

You may or may not say "systems man" about a woman (depending on the language etc.), but I don't see that the sex of the _speaker_ has anything to do with it.
First of all, in the technical field you can not lower standards by much. A person either has a degree or necessary experience or they don't. The fact that they are underrepresented is because the talent isn't there.

Now, OP's statement, no matter how much justified it is logically is propagating a nasty stigma associated with black workers -- that they are here to meet a quota or are less intelligent and experienced.
I live in London and a couple of years ago several of my neighbours had their flats on Airbnb, then my upstairs neighbour got married, moved out and had his flat on Airbnb, that was a massive burden on us as we suddenly went from one quiet neighbour from never knowing who was going to be living there to lots and lots of noise and weekend afterparties, luckily our council took action but only after my next door neighbour also complained. Then I was priced out of where I had been living for 6 years, and it drove me mental seeing all those flats near me advertised as whole flats on Airbnb and realising I’d have to move further out.

I have pledged to never stay in an Airbnb, ever and tell my friends they shouldn’t rent a whole place either.
That's a valid concern. But seems to be something better handled by local ordinances and not the sort of thing a national government shoulf need to drop the hammer down on... In my opinion.
You don't need a certificate and a domain to run a gateway. For a public gateway, sure, that's desirable (though not strictly required), but for a private gateway (that most nodes are probably running anyway) you really don't need any of that. At home I can just go to http://localhost:[someport]/ipfs/[somehash]. With browser plugins you can also translate ipfs.io gateway URLs to your local gateway.
Still not as fast and probably Objective-C got a speed boost as well. Objective-C is a very simple language and types are quite explicit. In Swift you have implied types like:

let result = jsonList.map { Class(from: $0) }.filter { $0.isSelected }.map { T(from: $0 }

Or worse:

let myDict = ["key": 1, "key2": 0.2, "key3": "something"]

It has to figure out it's not an int, not a number but an Any dict. Complexity to figure out the real type can quickly ramp up.
Microsoft is the heart of corporate America, it's a facepalm to imagine that any dollar they spend isn't in their own long term interest to make money. It would be illegal for them not to. You can apply that to any large corporation but the problem is by definition how Microsoft makes money.

How does Microsoft make money? They make money by renting from a platform which is monopolistic and enforced. What do they do to maintain this? They deliberately force people onto their platform by abusing their market position, and try to crush any opposition by any possible tactic, including dubious legal cases designed just to bankrupt their opposition. What else do they do? EEE, and also just blatant unnecessary reinvention /ripping off and lock-in when they get the chance.

They didn't abandon some of the visible tactics and start paying open source because they had a moral revelation, it's a company with the same business model it's not possible. Those tactics were just inneffective and co-opting, more subtle EEE has to be the game plan.

Why does that make me angrier than equally evil Facebook/Apple? Well if I was a farmer driving around one of those trucks with source code preventing me from fixing it I'd be pretty personally furious. But I'm not, I'm a developer and those guys are the ones trying to make everyone drive the coding equivalent. But it's worse, because coding isn't just my livelihood, it's a lot of how I think and express my thoughts. They're not messing with my job they're trying to restrict the way I think, so their shareholders can make a buck.

"Microsoft is running Github for charity" have a word with yourself.
The audio interfaces are so bad I resort to one-word answers to every question, to get me to a human as fast as possible.

"Hi, in a few words, what can I help you with today?"

> "billing"

"It sounds like you have a question about your bill. I can help you with that! If you can give a few words to describe the reason you are calling, I can help you with your bill."

> "billing"

"OK, let me get you to a representative who can help!"

... instead of spending 10 minutes wrangling with the vapid AI, I can actually move on with my day after speaking to a human. Was this the future we envisioned in the 90s? I think not. Some systems let you spam 0 (zero) and it transfers to a human, but more and more are requiring you to interface with the system in some way, even if disabled or impaired.
Or just straight up lying about what's written on the dumbbells? Or juicing the strongman. Actually, I think your analogy works better.
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