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I read the introduction to this and thoroughly disagree with it on multiple points. I'm someone who used to be obese but I've been in excellent shape (six pack etc) for more than eight years now.

For a start, you should not be aiming to "lose weight". You should be aiming to maintain weight, and that weight might be lower than what you currently maintain. A diet is not a short term thing that is hard. If you think about it like that then when you finish "losing weight" you'll just go back to your normal mode of eating too much. This is what most people do. What you actually want to do is change your lifestyle forever.

Changing your lifestyle forever cannot actually include counting calories. You are not going to do that for the rest of your life. Counting calories should be merely an educational exercise. Before long you should just know how much to eat. If you're the kind of person who can't drive a route you've already driven with GPS a second time without GPS then you won't have much luck. Learn to be that person.

The biggest lifestyle change you can make is cooking everything you eat yourself and do not snack at all. Learn to be hungry and look forward to your next meal. I observe fat people all the time and they don't necessarily eat huge meals, they just eat constantly throughout the day.

A hacker's diet should be one that is incredibly easy to follow. I eat two meals a day. I weigh out starchy ingredients because I know how much I need. I do not place calorific items into my mouth between meals. Never ever.
if you ask directions from someone no one will put you in jail. if you're yelling sexual or harassing shit to someone who's walking by you then it's a problem. Where is the grey area?
Where I live this is done based on race and it's not even a scandal, it's government policy.
> There is an assumption among folks in the tech community that there is no competition between providers serving different markets--i.e. what Verizon does in Maryland cannot affect what Comcast does in Delaware.

Grass-is-greener effect is real. While there may be no competition to spur changes, other things might such as PR and loyalty when facing potential future competition (i.e. in a more competitive future or just by people moving). If the marketing efforts are any measure, customer retention during a move is a big target.

We should realize that they compete for mindshare locally and regionally and there are overlaps, even if they don't affect decisions as significantly as direct competition would.
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Exactly. None need look further than the story of american superconductor. American superconductor made wind turbine control systems. They partnered with a Chinese company called sinovel who made the turbines. Eventually some Chinese engineer stole the company's software and gave it to the company. The Chinese company canceled the contract with american superconductor and then used the stolen IP to continue business as usual. American superconductor was nearly bankrupted in the process.

Free trade only works if you have fair trade, otherwise it is every man for themselves. Trump knows that trade with China is rigged so there is no point in having free trade with them. Most people who complain about Trump playing hardball with China are very uninformed about the reality of the situation. China is getting ready to gut the US economy from the inside out. China will make sure it never has a trade deficit with the USA. They will buy some of our stuff but only if they have a trade surplus.
What does having the law have to do with race? Regardless of race, cat-calling is sexual harassment and should be treated as such.
Modern day Slater. Good for them.

The overall situation annoys me, but congratulations to the person.
Now let's get this down to earth. You're walking outside, it's dark, you get catcalled by a passerby. What's next? Do you pull out your phone and call the police? Try and take a picture of the person catcalling you? Where's your evidence? By the time you're done reaching for your pocket, that other person is long gone. That is to say, we now have a new law which is incredibly difficult to enforce, so what's the point exactly?

Why don't we tackle problematic social phenomena through education instead?
Presumably somewhere between those two polar opposite examples.
Yah I'd be interested to know this as well
Exactly. I always get confused when people say they have trouble understanding the line. It's really pretty easy to not harras other people.
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So it’s okay to catcall if you are not white?

(Not commenting on my opinion of the law itself...)
In Frankfurt (Germany) some random, well-dressed woman approached my wife on the street (when I was just next to her, maybe I should stand even more close to her haha), took her hand, and told her that she is beautiful and she'd like to get her a drink. My wife laughed and jokingly told her that it was too late, while showing her ring. Meanwhile I was grinning like a child. She said she was sorry to bother us, and walked away.

I wonder how we would react if the person were a man, and weren't that presentable.

It's very, very hard to say when it becomes offending/harassment. There being clear cases like the linked video in the article, doesn't change this.

I'm not saying that that guy in the video should get away with it just because we keep bike-shedding about where the line is, but it is something we need to think about as well.
>Is any contact that the target decides is unwelcome harassment? If you greet someone and smile, and they interpret your greeting or your smile as sinister, does this law make you a criminal?

I remember that point being a main part of the debate a few months back, how exactly do you draw the limit? It's different for each women, some of them will enjoy a stranger smiling at them, some others will immediately call it harassment.

Also do you need witnesses? A police officier to witness the harassment? Or just the word of the plaintiff?

I'm at work and I can't dive into the legislation right now, but I doubt they managed to precisely define what constitutes harassment. The secretary for gender equality has been... disappointing, to say the least.
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Is that criminal harassment now in France?

No. Laws do not work that way.
I use my personal PIN number for that one.
It’s extremely unfortunate that we’re having to take the painful tariff route, and while Trump is not stately in his handling of the situation, it’ll be a valuable lesson to China if the US can push their overleverged economy into recession with escalating tariffs (as it’s clear they’ll continue their advancement through the theft of Western technology).
There are certain settings where this is more appropriate: bars, clubs, social events. The streets - less so. No one will sue you if you politely start a conversation with a woman in a bar, that's not what this is about.
Thank you very much for this. I never realized that a) I had no idea how this most fundamental level of math works and b) that it all fits so neatly together.
> without accidentally harassing anyone (that I know of)

Wasn't this always the biggest problem: People not knowing. I also didn't get any problems and I'm close to your age - but I listened to a lot of stories from my wife in which people were doing things that may be considered offensive or even harassment, and without knowing.
> It's the smallest number you can't count to

Funny. If explaining infinity to a kid had been my problem, I'd have tried hard to avoid calling infinity a number.
While I use mainly Firefox. It also is the main product of a for profit company.
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Why would that have necessarily been worse them?
There's a classic marketing book written a few decades ago called Positioning that is about just this topic.

https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/00...

It's a short read and well worth the time. I wish I'd read it before I'd built one of my products. If I had I wouldn't have wasted the development time.

The core message is that you shouldn't compete against an established market leader head on. It outlines a number of different approaches you can take.
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Did you watch the video in the article?

If there's no evidence there won't be a fine.
> These kind of laws makes approaching people with a sexual interest to perhaps be considered as sexual harassment. That's why I have stopped approaching women, it's not worth the risk.

If you've been approaching complete strangers in the street with sexual interest, there's no "perhaps" about it. That's sexual harassment and always has been.
That is something I hit uppon recently, when I tried to find a binary representation that could concievably represent all real numbers, given enough bits of data. I don't think I've ever seen such a practical application of countability and cardinality. Really interesting where this stuff manifests in the real world.
What makes you say that? It would obviously have to seem offensive to the judge, not just to the purported victim. Same as for the other adjectives, like "intimidating", "sexual" etc. I don't see why "offensive" is any more inherently subjective than those.
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You’ll notice they only have white people on their ads « Fixer du regard, c’est harceler » (=« Fixate/looking into the eyes for more than 7 seconds is harassing »).

I don’t think this law will be enforced against « racailles » (=gang members). I think only white people will get fined. « Racailles » get away with drug dealing and beating up Asians, who would think they’d get —finally— be fined with harassment. Nap, won’t happen.
If working on the same ones, then after a few days, yes. By then you should have explored some debugging techniques, options for solution, etc., and either can't figure out how to replicate or debug it or have found a tricky bug and 1-3 ideas for a solution, but all the potential solutions seem bad. That's when you can say you're blocked, ask the team for ideas on how else to replicate/debug, or try to get consensus for the least-worst hacky fix that you've come up with, or any other ideas based on what you've found. We all spin our wheels or get stuck sometimes, so of course we understand, and that's exactly what it's for. But you have to give that context and say where you're stuck.
Its just a google map, I dont believe its dynamically updated from users, and doing that would be trivial anyway.
If you look at the wiki page, symbian only came with later versions of the communicator
Relevant, from The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Not to an extent that would satisfy you if you are looking to play harasser's advocate. Any concrete case is for the courts to decide.

But, roughly: If you would greet anyone in the same situation (man, woman, child, beautiful or ugly, old or young), then you can greet the person. France has not outlawed greeting your colleagues in the office.

On the other hand, if you would not greet everyone in the same situation, you are a harasser. You do not greet random people in the Paris métro. Thus, if you greet an attractive woman in the Paris métro... well, I don't know if you are technically a harasser under this law, but just don't do it. It's not hard, you know how to do it with other people.

You do not "make dirty noises, comments and whistle" at men in the street. Please don't do that to women either? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/30/uproar-in-fran...
When it comes to pricing I'd never rely on what people are saying. They may not like the price, but the only thing that counts is the actual, potentially reluctant vote with their wallet.
>that I know of

That's the key to your comment. You cannot ever know for certain if your conduct offends someone. Some people get offended if you look at them the "wrong" way. I don't think you should be fined for accidentally offending someone.
[2] At 3:43 and 5:12 you can see the reflections at different levels of roughness. The rougher the surface, the more diffuse it will appear.
>Air conditioners actually create value though,

Cryptocurrency mining creates literally value.
I head stories of women being harassed daily on the same route to and from work. It's probably being done by the same guys. If the police really wanted to, of course they could stop this..just like sexual harassment in the workplace barely ever happens anymore.
That’s why we have courts and flexibility in legal systems.

I’d argue that it’s impossible to build an objective description of what actions constitute harassment. Most interactions are going to clearly fall on one side or the other. The ones that don’t, we’ll figure out.
I was a bit ho hum at

> is able to generate a wireless NTSC video signal

But then I read

> is able to generate a broadcast TV signals

and I read it again.

Are you telling me this will actually produce a RF signal that could be picked up by a 80s era portable television?

That is indeed amazing and I actually wouldn't have thought it possible with a digital device.

EDIT - Having just watched that video I can say that is truly amazing. That has made me so happy.
No the biggest problem is men actively harrasing women because they can easily get away with it. Ask any woman you know about their experiences some time.
How many VC's want to see that question answered in the pitch deck?
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It's a slippery slope... One could argue that catcalling is also not herassment then. After all it's just a way to tell women that you find them pretty, right? Isn't a greet and a smile something similiar, although less obvious?
Within half a phase. And not to nitpick, but the important part isn't that it's 0V, it's that it's 0A which isn't the same point when dealing with inductive loads.
Would you care to elaborate what those risks are? The internet is rather bigger than the WiFi network you connect to.
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moderate != calorie counting. I said we have a failure to moderate what we eat, not we have a failure to calorie count. Nor did I say it's the only way to lose weight.

You can too.

Since I'm at 12% body fat, no, I probably couldn't, and I shouldn't
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17675777 on this page.
the persons who were the last to rely on the old thing of jobs and thus prosperity will always be the ones who were screwd by this new technological advancement.

That's not a law of nature; society could bail them out, much like we've done for arguably much less deserving classes.
Never knew that so many developers go to such extremes w.r.t minimalism.

The site you've linked has great videos in the background and I like the animated logo, that really helps in making it interesting.

Personally, I still prefer those sites I've linked, because I know that they are harder to make than those minimalistic/no-css sites. I think it depends if it's a backend dev or a full stack web dev with a focus on UI/UX. In the latter case, it's a good way to show off what you're capable of. With those minimalistic designs (some of them also have bad UX) I don't really know if they're able to create modern, responsive and more complex websites.
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Yeah, I updated my comment before seeing yours, and it now touches that subject as well. She is usually sure that the offending person doesn't know what they are doing.
I grew up in the UK and we just called them "pants". Pants are far superior to boxer shorts but totally unfashionable for some reason. Now people wear "boxer briefs" which are like more fashionable pants that look a bit like boxers.
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hi,

I was wondering if any of you have successfully copied* already existing product and created its better version and, as a result, ended up with a successful startup.

* I am talking about the situation when you are using some tool and thinking to yourself: 'well, it's working, but there are at least 10 things that can be improved, maybe I will create the better version of it?'
The difference between "infinite" and "all possible" seems to be really unintuitive. The example I got to is that there are infinite even numbers, but not all natural numbers are even.

This also maniests itself when people talk about infinite universes. "If there are infinite universes, there has to be one in which X". Not necessarialy. Maybe only even universes exist and universes in which X is the case might all be odd universes.
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There are certain aspects of light which the rendering equation doesn't model, so it's insufficient for true realism (the Limitations sections of the Wikipedia page is a good summary). It's pretty damn close, though.

I feel that the "ray tracing" vs. "path tracing" question is nit-picking for a very specialized audience at best. Most people simply understand ray tracing as being about tracing rays through geometry in some way (so both ray casting and path tracing are a form of using ray tracing). How you combine this tracing to give you pixel values is a higher-level question. If you look at ray-tracing frameworks / APIs like Optix or DXR, it's clear that this combination of tracing is left up to the programmer (for good reasons). What's important for the API to expose is the primitive operation of tracing a single ray, after all.
When I first saw the video by Charles Lohr (a certified genius IMO) I had to spend several minutes trying to get my head around what he had done.

Using the DAC he bit bangs a signal at just the right frequency to match NTSC channel 3 which gets picked up as a TV/radio signal by the TV and displays it. Charles ensures the bits that generate the radio signal match the requirements of the NTSC spec.

Then he displays 3d graphics over that NTSC broadcast signal. Then he adds NTSC color.

That is software defined broadcast television. Mind. Blown.

I started collecting old TV's being dumped out the front of houses for hard waste collection after I saw that video, so I could give it a try.

And the esp8266 CPU costs about $4
Oh wow, that is some utter garbage crypto right there.

It's like I asked my uni's cryptography expert to name all the most common mistakes one can make when encrypting data.
How do you know that you didn't cross the line? Perhaps those people just didn't want to pick a fight with you there and then?
The article also includes fines for behavior that is "offensive" -- and you've certainly offended plenty of people in those 34 years, often without ever realizing it. There's a more general problem here as well. What's the difference between porn and art? I mean I'm sure if I show you two things you could probably tell me which is which. But when you try to encode this into law it is incredibly difficult. In more puritanical times various states tried to effect bans on "obscenity" however they struggled to avoid encompassing things that were not "obscene."

This is one of the biggest reasons that restrictions on speech, let alone ones that seem to be so vague, are so very dangerous. They can be used, and abused, to great effect whereas their net positive effect is perhaps harder to gauge. In the US we do not have many laws that are so open to social interpretation, but with those that we do, we already see regular lawsuits well outside the spirit of the law that individuals hope to win by force of legal and persuasive prowess alone. Even if France might have a more mature legal culture, who's to say such things will not change?

This is why I think when looking at laws, we should not see things through the most positive and optimistic lens, but through the most critical and cynical lens. The reason is because that lowest common denominator is shown, time and again, to end up being what the law will be disproportionately used for.
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Knowledge wants to be free. Adam Smith considered IP laws to be an unnecessary evil. The Chinese are just being good capitalists. American Superconductor nearly went bankrupt because they couldn't compete on a level playing field.

https://youtu.be/axXTMUmTOyE
My point is that it needs punctuation in order to make sense?
The question doesn't come up if you just don't walk up to random strangers on the street and make comments.

Sure, sometimes it might work out fine for both parties. In almost all cases it doesn't. If that woman feared retribution due to harassment laws, and she wouldn't have approached your wife, then the world now would be poorer by one anecdote, but at the same time much safer and more welcoming to billions of women. It's not a hard choice at all.
I'm less concerned with the security issues - WiFi you don't control should always be treated as possibly being compromised.

What is a problem is that the networks are password protected and not meant for use by the general public. Airline lounges are providing WiFi for customers who have paid for access (either through the type of ticket or by spending enough to have status to access the lounges). Depending on the location, unauthorized access to the networks can either be categorized as theft of service or unauthorized access to a network.

A "security engineer" who is promoting illegal activity isn't actually concerned with security.
> it makes them easily replaceable

I don't think a developer is ever "easily replacable" (discounting obviously incompetent people which shouldn't have been hired in the first place). As soon as we join a team we start accumulating all kinds of knowledge about the codebase, the domain, the history, company politics, etc. Replacing with a new hire is back to square one. It's expensive, disturbing, and generally undesirable from a company perspective.

Yet you can't blame companies for trying to make each developer "as replacable as possible". There is always an employee churn -- people leaving for all kinds of reasons, some after a short while, some after decades -- and new people being hired. It's in the company's best interest to minimize the cost of this entirely predictable churn.

Actually, I think it's in the best interest of the developer as well. The more replacable we can make ourselves, the easier it is to leave to work on new, exciting projects. The more irreplacable, the more likely we are to be the dude who spent the past ten years maintaining the module written in $OBSOLETE_LANGUAGE_OR_FRAMEWORK because everyone else left and nothing was really documented.

I don't think daily stand-ups is really the tool for making yourself replacable since the information transmitted tends to be very short lived. Good code structure, well maintained tests, rock solid build env, good documentation of purpose, requirements, design considerations ... we never quite arrive at that nirvana but it would be the goal to aim for.