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(Almost) Everybody's civil clocks are actually based around Universal Time, UT, which is a continuation of GMT for the modern era.

Universal Time assumes the Earth is basically a ball spinning at a nice smooth constant speed, which is wrong, and so we have to bodge things in practice which we do by having a bunch of different Universal Times managing the bodge in steps.

So, UT1 is basically we measure where some very distant quasars are in the sky, rather than the Sun - and, since we're assuming that something so far away is essentially fixed to our reference point, and we're spinning, you can use this to work out what the time is very accurately.

But when you measure UT1 it's a bit spiky, because, as mentioned earlier, the planet is not actually a ball, and it isn't actually spinning at a nice constant speed. Earth Rotation is uneven and varies over time.

Making cuckoo clocks that measure distant quasars would be a monumental pain in the arse, so we don't do that. Instead we made another Universal Time, the Co-ordinated Universal Time or UTC, which works like this:

1. Figure out what UT1 is, right now at the start of your co-ordinated system of time, UTC. But then for seconds passing use Atomic clocks and make an allowance for the fact that if you're further from the middle of the planet (e.g. up a hill rather than by the coast) time will pass differently for you. This measurement (of the atomic clocks, which ignores Earth Rotation entirely) is called TAI (International Atomic Time)

2. Continuously re-measure UT1 (the IERS does this work) and if it seems as though UTC and UT1 are going to be different by, like, a second soon, then either add or remove a second in UTC to put them closer together typically at midnight on New Years when everybody is too busy/ drunk to care. These are "leap seconds". So at any time UTC = TAI + n where "n" is some integer the IERS gets to increment or decrement as necessary.

We could just get rid of Universal Time, and switch to basing civil time on TAI, no more leap seconds, the IERS would exist only to help with astronomy - but nostalgia seems to have won for now, and so we're stuck with this complicated scheme.
in my experience, pay and benefits are good, but autonomy is non-existent. all decisions are dictated from the top and none of my ideas ever got tried
Albums aren't dead. Luckily, I can stream those too.

It's just more convenient. "Hey Siri, play the latest album by X" still works. Thank God.
Good. Now also the different races. Also the different religions. Etc.

Just kidding...

Why not turn it around, let them prove the best were not hired based on these variables. For example, if a comoany has all white males in the board, start and investigation if they could also have hired a non white-male. Just putting 'a' woman in is not going to solve the deeper problem. In fact that would just be cosmetically covering up the deeper problem.
also if I were a woman, I'd liked to be hired for my skills, not my vagina...
I found it very interesting, we only hear about the successes of working less, and self steering teams. Ryan explains why this both didn't work for his company, and made company results drop.

This is the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJcTdA55aWA
Copyright law is to incentivize creating these works so that more stuff can get into the public domain.

You've drank too much kool-aid. Copyright law is to incentivize investments in creative works, not the creation itself. Most people that profit off of creative works have not created anything of value themselves.
Cargo is awesome too. Cargo reminds me of Mix (from the Elixir ecosystem). The one thing that Mix has on Cargo is that it is super simple and straight forward to extend Mix. Cargo may be the same way but from what I've seen it seems more complicated.
Causing a crash is an excellent vector for a denial-of-service attack.
Labels get their money regardless of where you buy it from if they have a stake in the album/band.
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An educational crisis would be "all books disappeared". The failure of people to educate themselves is a cultural crisis.
I had no idea the Iranians do that, definitely an interesting idea.
This is really cool.

There should be some teleportation methods for your avatar to move around bigger rooms / find designated areas quicker

Also, a minimap HUD showing where all the people are at in the circle
Your pay by weight pricing sounds fair, but in practise it would be pointless if fair. The vast majority of weight of a plane is not the passengers, and certainly not the variance of weight amongst the passengers.

A 777-300ER is 170,000kg empty. Divide that equally by 350 passengers and you get 485kg per passenger. We'll compare a 75 vs 100kg passenger which brings the totals to 560 and 585kg. ie a 33% passenger weight increase only makes a 4% total weight change. Note that these are best case numbers and using real world ones is a heavier weight to allocate, and even more trivial weight change per passenger.
Then think only in UTC! Global Infrastructure has been using this single timezone for over 40 years.

Also, once you know the easy-to-remember-or-lookup offsets of the locations you interact with you can even translate in your head to save others the effort.
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That’s a stupid idea.

Not only will all references to times in movies etc stop making sense. It will not even help to solve any of the perceived problems, like scheduling calls. You might be able to specify the time without a time zone, but you still have to look up if that time is within their daytime.

Literally the only people who would profit are those tasked with maintaining time-related functions in operating systems... who would lose their jobs.
There are pre-paid "credit" cards in Japan (and I imagine other places as well). You can even get a Visa card. While they do have a special number range, you can usually use them in the same place you can use any other card. I can go down the convenience store and purchase one and then use the card online. The most that they can track me is to find the time and location of the convenience store I bought it at (as long as I pay cash).

The only problem is that the total you can spend: ~$50 on the ones I've found, so not terribly useful. But it's at least proof of concept that they could do it if they wanted to.

Japan is mostly (for the moment, anyway) a cash based society, so these kinds of things work. Payment cards are becoming more and more popular, where you load money on to them and then you can use them in stores. Most of them don't require that you register with them, but of course they all recommend it (and you can't take money off of a card without it being registered, presumably to reduce theft of the cards).

I quite like the system, since I like privacy. Also much better than a debit card since I don't have to give access to my primary bank account to have a convenient payment system.
Wasn't referring specifically to you.. but to the gist of the article and the post previous to yours I believe. On the ansi escape sequences to find matches, etc...yes, I get what your tool does but having to tokenize against ansi escape codes and other ad-hoc env artifacts is something I'm glad to leave to authors that enjoy it...not that it is terribly difficult unless you decide to reinvent the wheel and optimize everything.
Takedown notices on Youtube are not handled under DCMA. DCMA has protections against false accusations.
At first I thought the headline meant they were factoring or finding the roots of 14th degree polynomials, which would have been quite impressive.

But no, the page just says they were calculating the answer for a particular value of x, using "the method of fan fa, today called Horner's method". A simple process, for example:

To compute 3x^2 + 12x + 12, start with 3, multiply by x, add 12, multiply the result by x, and add 12 again.
YouTube partners can upload a collection of files they claim rights on, and a YouTube bot will check any newly published video against anything in that database.

It's all automated. They don't verify if the claimant actually has the rights, this is left to the "dispute" process.

Sometimes multiple companies upload the same files. Sometimes the algorithm has false positives because the section of audio used is too short.
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You're ignorant for making up a narrative the commenter never put forth.

Also, I think it's odd that you consider regional median and average wages to be exploitive.
I feel like there are a lot of good alternatives to C. What we did on our team was get our C compiling under g++, and then refactor as C++14. Now string copies are trivial and safe. I'm sure it would have been even safer to switch to Rust or something, but no one in my company has any experience with that, while there were a few C++ gurus.
Because Asians are good at math, duh.
One of the things I find interesting about ancient Chinese math is how computational it was (in modern terminology we would say they were only interested in computable numbers); AFAIUI the ancient Chinese were vaguely aware of numbers that could not be computed exactly (i.e. irrationals) but mostly cared about being able to compute approximations up to whatever precision was required for a given task. So while Western mathematicians were struggling in vain to find a way to double a cube using a compass and straightedge or to derive a quintic formula, the Chinese mathematicians were satisfied with an algorithm that found useful approximations. There is a profound difference in philosophy, as evidenced by the title of this entire thread: the Chinese were "solving" 14th degree polynomials, but only in the sense of having an algorithm for doing so (as opposed to having a formula like the quadratic formula; in fact there is no such formula for degree 14 polynomials, or for any polynomials beyond the quartic).
Robotics is a bit harder than board games.
NYC and Boston are #2 + 3 for VC funding.

Seattle's a tiny fraction of either and not growing in that area.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/03/the-extreme-geographic-...

Obviously, that's only one measure of a tech scene, but I don't think Seattle's that large.
Having just watched the movie Upgrade I had something very different (and scarier) in my head...
Reverse way for France

Summer time is equivalent of UTC+2
Winter time is equivalent of UTC+1
I find the pricing on this page very confusing. When buying a new license it asks how many connections I need and then multiplies that number by 10 and says that is the number of connections. That raises the question on what is a connection?
The liquid is simply acting as a lubricant. So, it takes a very small amount to make a large difference. Really it's less soggy than simply damp.
Swatch Internet Time feels to me like a prime example of adding another standard for no reason whatsoever, other than to attach a brand to a timezone for promotion of course. I don't know why people keep bringing it up.
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Yes, it was an explicit adaptation, as documented in the sources themselves.
A colleague's cousin (they're Arabs from Tunisia) went to Sweden for a couple months for some school thing. He was getting so much attention there from women that he stayed there for PhD. He did not get that kind of attention in Tunisia.
It'd be better to be able to by stock in an artist, and continue to let them live and create, while profiting yourself off those dividends.
Can’t nvidia and the papers authors sue you or claim a takedown / charge licensing or something ?!? How is it legal for people to take cutting edge tech from universities for free and use it for their own software/profit?
I am not going to quite the entire article, and it makes a strong case that his mind is an incredible asset.

One more excerpt. It is not just game winning plays...

> So what does it mean? What it seems to suggest -- at least the part of it that James will discuss -- is that if you give up the baseline to James on a drive in November 2011 and he's playing against you in March 2013, the Heat small forward will remember it. It means that if you tried to change your pick-and-roll coverage in the middle of the fourth quarter of the 2008 playoffs, he'll be ready for you to try it again in 2014, even if you're coaching a different team. It also means that if you had a good game the last time you played against Milwaukee because James got you a few good looks in the first quarter, the next time you play the Bucks you can count on James looking for you early in the game. Because, you know, the memory never forgets.

"I can usually remember plays in situations a couple of years back -- quite a few years back sometimes," James says. "I'm able to calibrate them throughout a game to the situation I'm in, to know who has it going on our team, what position to put him in.
Oh what a time we live in where 'standing up for your basic rights' equals to 'mutiny'
Cryptocurrencies waiting for their Netscape moment
> you want it to be dark earlier

At the cost of having the sun out at 3:30 AM? I'm not sure I like that idea.
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881157
I wouldn't go that far, but they are pretty good. Still can't believe there are places where you can get lamb at a mcdonalds.
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I loved the idea of the yotaphone and bought the second version (using it to write this) but it's actually the worst phone I've ever owned by a wide margin. The hardware quality is not great and it's stuck on a very old version of Android.

The eink display is neat and great for navigation especially, handy for visual notifications on a desk, but otherwise not as useful or as cool as I expected. I kind of regretted buying it.
> People in Europe don't use credit cards offline.

What? Of course we do. If anything, Europeans are less likely to use credit cards online (though that is slowly changing), instead opting for bank transfers or online debit cards.
But do hey switch at the same moment... or one hour apart?
Did you read the article? Please do so before rebutting the assertion.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-gre...
Not upgrading your language every time a stable version is released seems crazy to me.

Eventually you are going to have to upgrade, and if you are 10 years behind it's going to be a huge, painful migration. If you upgrade every six months, each upgrade is easy and barely noticeable.

What you are doing seems to me like deciding not to change the oil in your car. You might save you a bit in the short term, but it could come back to hurt you in a big way.
I said it half-jokingly, trying to continue the train of thought of OP. The current system is quite fine.
Isn't "view" just an alias to invoke vim on read-only mode (i.e. you can still edit the text, do anything else you can do on vim and then save the contents to another file instead of the original file)?
I'd like to add:

4) Don't know how to mock effectively

I've seen three flavours of this one:

- tests that take forever because they don't mock a slow external process that gets called 100s of times in the suite.

- tests that randomly break because someone left a file in /tmp/ or some other lack-of-isolation mystery.

- tests that run like shit off a shiny shovel, because everything is mocked, meaning that nothing is actually tested.
Yes, I didn’t get into coffee till college and sugary stuff was my gateway, but I knew people enjoyed black coffee and made a concerted effort to develop a taste for it, and now I really can detect subtleties in single origin beans similar to what wine enthusiasts experience. Occasionally I have coffee with milk, especially if it’s bad coffee, but my taste buds thinks of that as something else entirely. Find a coffee shop with some helpful but OCD baristas who will take the time with you to give you good samples of pour over or French press or chemex, etc to see if they can win you over to “black” coffee. The benefits in the end outweigh any effort you might have to put in!
>Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce.

Yes, it will remain a metonym.

> I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/for Silicon Valley and yet this is how I feel about it.

All that means is the area has done a good job of branding itself.
I don’t think WSJ “hates Germans”. Probably just poorly researched
They said "A fraction of the cost," and knowing a little bit about how much developers in Russia get payed, that's probably about 30,000$ per year. Hopefully someone else will chime in with how that compares to the cost of living.
What? I do it all the time. I say "I would like a large black coffee", and then I get a large black coffee.
Unmanned 'ghost' ships are coming (2017)
If the regional median and average wages are a result of economic depression and politically poor conditions it's hardly a stretch to call it exploitative.
It most certainly was true in the summer here in NL, EU. The best times were somewhere between 3 and 11 in the morning. The other times, it was simply too hot. But that depends on factors such as the wind as whether you have sea climate or land climate (the third climate is the Mediterranean climate, though I'm unsure Scandinavia has a separate climate).

However whether the better solution is to just wake up earlier or officially shift the time, I do not know. That question is entirely up to what's easier for society to organise.
It's OK, this crowd will disregard your vagina anyway. https://twitter.com/ccchloe/status/1019633671853301762
This sounds like an article of faith.

Do you really want to have faith in a place that is likely ephemeral?

People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.
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"Shipping executives said previous efforts didn’t catch on with operators because either the costs of such technologies were too high or tests didn’t yield the expected fuel savings. But modern, lightweight and relatively cheap rotating sails show more promise, they said."

That seems less revolutionary than evolutionary.
Fantastic! Changing the clocks wrecks people's sleep cycles and indirectly causes accidents. Pick a time and stick to it!
Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic
Personally I´m convinced there´s a "taxonomise everything" gene. Just look at biology.

And while it may ultimately be doomed to partial failure, it´s still a beautiful thing to watch.
lol. Just to recap, my advice was:

- dont do drugs

- educate yourself

- find a support group

- fight for yourself

How is this controversial?

> keep it to yourself

But then who would speak out against fools like you?
No, in general. If anything, here I'm an "exotic" person who has done a "brave" thing (moving to another continent) and therefore I seem to be more "interesting" than I was back home. Time will tell.
That’d make sense given the common ancestry in Bundler :)

Do you have any docs on what you mean by extensibility here? I’m curious!
> I’m very suspicious of people who say they work more than 40 hours per week.

I agree. You may feel productive working longer but that doesn't mean you are. The truth often is that this thing which took you 3 hours to finish late in the evening would have been done in 1 hour the next morning with a clear and rested mind.
Don't forget the fun of HoA's. Those nice standardized apartment blueprints now need 2 tons of architectural foam glued on them to match the mcmansions in the neighboring subdivision, and then the renter's get charged an extra $20 a month so a group of jaded retirees can argue with each other about the grass height surrounding their $500,000 houses

Source: I rent in one of these atrocities.
Are you referring to GDPR? As far as I can tell, the data is allegedly anonymous, so not subject to GDPR. Even if it weren't, Google doesn't exactly have a good track record of respecting privacy or privacy related laws. They've been known to "accidentally" harvest wifi traffic in bulk. They drive spy cars around taking pictures or everything and everyone.
In principle, I feel like "Ignore the language-provided standard libraries and use this little macro I wrote in all your code" is bad advice.

If the standard libs are that bad, the community should really lobby for the inclusion of a "safe" string copy into the C standard. Failing that, use a battle-tested third-party library like bstrlib[0].

[0]http://bstring.sourceforge.net/
It's an important distinction between "our current build process cannot be automated" and "our current build process is needlessly complicated and thus the ROI from automating it is questionable."

You can do a lot of things between bash scripts, PowerShell, etc. Even custom executables.
I grew up in Pittsburgh. During my childhood I remember a lot of black stone buildings. I always assumed there was some kind of dark colored stone that was used to build buildings & churches. It wasn't until I was 12 or so that these buildings started getting cleaned that I realized they were all soot stained.
> Well that they fail and that they take minutes to run isn't a bad thing; what is bad is that broken things end up on master.

You don't understand; they are continually broken on master.

Furthermore, you assume that we only commit to master after reviews etc have been done. This isn't the case. Commits, even intermittent commits, are pushed to master, and reviewed from there.
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You go to bed earlier.

Either way, Spain solves it by having siesta (at the peak). We don't have that in France or Belgium or The Netherlands.

Because when it is very warm, the best thing to do is not waste any energy and the best way to do that is rest/sleep instead of work.
>I saw how the internet changed government almost 20 years ago, and can say that cloud and microservices are now also revolutionary.

Please elaborate. I would be very interested to hear more about this from your perspective. Thanks!
Both are certainly important. A few years ago, received offers from two places. One had employees that were excited about the work, the culture was great, the job had a combination of data science and programming that was right up my alley and we talked in-depth about real problems.

The other office was just depressing. I mean, it was literally kind of dark and bare. They seemed evasive about what day to day work was like -- something about "dashboards." No one seemed happy to be there. It was a satellite to the main office in New York.

When I got the offers, the second job offered $25k more than the first job. I did a little bit of moral handwringing, but... you know, I was getting married the next week, we wanted to buy a house, and an extra $2k a month can make up for a LOT of shitty work environment. I took the second job, got a $5k raise each year, and haven't regretted my decision at all.
Apparently this is a turbo sail and not the same as the Flettner rotor. The Wikipedia article you linked to mentions the same. Ones powered by electricity and one by air? Both seem to take advantage of the Magnus effect though
it would be expensive in terms of hardware, you’d need to shell out for quite a few GPUs or else budget a lot for expensive cloud instances.

plus this is just a very complicated thing, in that it’s gluing together multiple new techniques to do various things.

some of the pieces that went into this work (like GANs) have lots of tutorials online and might be a more manageable, and budget-friendly, place to start. you could do something interesting on Google CoLab with free GPU time.
An AI dance coach-as-a-service would be amazing and have a real impact!