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> Half of the unicode characters on this page don't render properly for me.

That's an issue with the fonts used by your system/browser. It's taken a few decades to reach the point where Unicode is becoming fairly universal. It might take another decade or two for fonts to catch up.

> Can someone tell me what purpose this serves

Letting humans enter and read text on computers. Letting devs write code in their native tongue.

> other than providing new and creative ways to obfuscate malicious Perl scripts (as if that wasn't already easy enough)

That's important too. Someone needs to figure out best practices for avoiding the problems that are inevitably going to come. And they are inevitable; many newer languages support Unicode in source code.

> Why do I need 91 different ways to type the number two?

Are you suggesting programming languages stick to just the world's most popular numeral systems? That would cut it down to 30:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit#Numerals_in_mo...

But why stop there? What's so magical about having 30 instead of 91?

I mean, I assume you're not seriously suggesting there be only one way, English or the highway, to the rest of the world?
This is a sad day. Paul Allen certainly had many achievements, but one of his endeavors that I truly admire is the founding and funding of the Allen Institute [0], especially after I had the pleasure of attending Christof Koch's lecture at the American Academy of Neurology annual conference two years ago [1].

Thank you for everything. You are truly an inspiration. RIP.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Institute

[1] - https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/about/te...
I can't help but feel like this is a fundamental definition problem. Science is not actually distinct from consensus forming. Science does not work with raw facts, it forms models based off human observations which are themselves a kind of consensus.

Bayesian research is just more honest about what's already the case.
Wow, that was pretty unexpected and sad news. I hope Stratolaunch soars soon.
MbS is no Putin.

What I still can't figure out is why the hell the Saudis went to all the trouble of flying in an entire team, and then smuggling the body out, when they could have just as easily had some "rogue agent" (presumably there are multiple agents of Saudi intelligence already in Turkey) gun him down on the street. I mean, that's what Putin would've done...has done...numerous times. All I can figure is that MbS honestly though they'd get away with it; that they could "disappear" Khashoggi and no one would ask questions or care, much less that there would be CCTV (and possibly more) evidence showing that something was up.

It's also hard not to see all of this in the light of the recent "failure" of the Saudi Aramco IPO. By all accounts, that was an instance of King Salman letting MbS do his thing, only to reign him in at the last minute and "remind him who is king". One wonders of Salman let MbS try and pull off this crazy, made-for-Hollywood cloak-and-dagger stunt, knowing how it would all go down, in order to take MbS down a peg.

If I had to guess: the 15 "rogue" agents that carried out the Khashoggi assassination are close supporters of MbS within the government and, once this report comes out, if they don't lose their heads (literally...this is KSA after all...), at the very least the outcome will leave MbS with 15 fewer supporters within the government.
The reason I'm not citing anything is because there's nothing to cite. The (mis)representation in this case is crystal clear: "I want to fly to city B."
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I wonder how much they paid to acquire that Instagram @palm account (unless someone who works for them registered it early... Let alone the palm.com domain)
For sure it's a black bar time.

Edit: and it's up.
I think the fair comparison is something like above a certain level nhtsa wants to say they are all good with little to distinguish them, but there are numeric differences. Like rating a moving from 1 to 5 stars. There is little discernable difference between a 4.8 and 4.9, but you could say "rated better than that 4.8 movie". I think tesla was the top on some numeric scale and nhtsa doesn't want to talk about small differences.
While that statement isn't necessarily true, I would argue that most men do act inappropriately towards women. The problem is most men don't see what they are doing as wrong. What they consider flirting is often harassment. So most men aren't rapists, most men most likely do act inappropriately towards women.
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(I work at Google, on Chrome)

I know both people from both the MSE team and the Project Stream team.
Project Stream doesn't use MSE (it uses WebRTC) and the code in Chrome to detect live streams and optimizing them has been around long time, (see, for example, this change from almost 4 years ago: https://codereview.chromium.org/692323002) and they've steadily added better support for live streams over the years. It's not "game-streaming tech in a web browser". It's just a few simple heuristics to function better for low-latency streams. You can read the code for yourself if you'd like:

https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/media/renderers/video_r...
> It's akin to promoting someone based on their personal loyalty to the manager rather than their ability to do the job.

Nah, it's way worse. Promoting based on trust can be good, trust is a very important commodity (and hard to come by). In contrast to sexual availability or whatever.
What's missing is a Bezos level character on the other side of this debate laying out a vision where drone strikes and mass surveillance are not the only option for defense.
Really sad to hear this. He was one of the early financial supporters of Scaled Composites in their successful bid for the X-Prize, as well as a great supporter of the Allen Telescope Array for both astrophysics and SETI applications. Always had respect for Paul Allen.
Incredibly sad day. The Allen Institute for Brain Science, for one example, is a gem of potential for humanity.
I'm still most productive in Ruby on Rails, I learned it after previously using Go, PHP, and Python (Django and Flask) for web development. Far and away Rails allows me to be more productive, and it's still being actively developed. I've used Node.js and some other frameworks since, but personal projects always come back to Rails.

It's up to you, what I will say, is Rails is (in my opinion) the easiest to get started with and easiest to maintain.
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A friend of mine lost his partner like that. It was a complication caused by the medication he was prescribed to treat the lymphoma.
We're talking about Google here. It's not remotely hard to believe that Google would screw things up for people to try to get them to use more Google things.
That's not even remotely true. Loads of women think that it only happens to them that it's something they are doing. Other women reporting and coming forward was as much for other victims to know they aren't alone as it was for men to wake up to what's happening.
This is true, but it uses an unfortunate industry term that is more pejorative sounding than it actually is.

When people in the industry talk about 'dumb money' they aren't talking about how informed or intelligent the order flow is. They are talking about how likely the order relates to market structure.

An individual investor who has looked at their portfolio and decided that the best move for their investment horizon is to move a big component out of equities and into bonds is still 'dumb money'. Even though that might be the most intelligent option.

A bot that has a terribly performing algorithm that takes market structure into account is not dumb money though.
There is zero evidence that stimulating the connectome would be sufficient to produce an AGI. Let me know when someone simulates the equivalent of a mouse brain. Until we see some tangible results it's all idle speculation and blind faith. Certainly not worth worrying about.
I presume it happens both ways with both far left and right organisations. I mean that's the nature of espionage, right?
I'd be careful about assumptions. Just because it only takes one abusive man to make every woman in an office miserable doesn't mean that the problem is always so easy to confine. Consider how that person got hired or promoted. Consider which men might have known about this behavior but done/said nothing to fix it. Perhaps more salient to this particular discussion, consider how social mores in the entrepreneurial community, where power relations are generally not as formalized as they are in a workplace, might stop or permit such behavior.
> If you are running java instead of a c program the proc stacktrace shows you just the virtual machine state.

No, this is a _kernel_ backtrace: what is happening in kernelspace on behalf of your process. If the work is being done in userspace (that is, in state R; the thread isn't in a syscall or page fault handler), you'll see essentially nothing here. I just tried it on a userspace busylooper and got this:

[<0000000000000000>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x57/0xb0
[<0000000000000000>] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0x20/0x30
[<0000000000000000>] 0xfffffffffffffff

Java, Python, C++ nothings all look pretty similar.

If you want a userspace stack trace, you need a different tool. If you're using an interpreted (or perhaps JITted) language, yes, you probably want something language-specific.

Also note the current stack trace is a per-thread concept, not a per-process one. If you're looking at a multithreaded program, you want to target the thread(s) of interest with "/proc/<PID>/task/<TID>/stack".
bmw should theoretically be able to make good electric vehicles, but jaguar and porsche aren't making evs at scale. The new ipace will be a 20k car, the porsche was about 20k/year, and audi's etron something will not be available except for special order. I think they are being dragged into making evs, but there is a shortage of batteries at least at the current time.

Of course these companies can make great cars, but it goes against their expertise in gasoline drive trains, and their dealers will be significantly impacted by less maintenance on evs.
Project managers having an engineering background is definitely beneficial, but should also be in their past. They should not be actively coding on the project. It's not a split role of managing and developing.
This is something that seriously needs to be clamped down on. It is outright fraud, plain and simple. And since it's being done with the intention of disenfranchising people, it is extremely evil.
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Is this worrisome for the future of twilio? Now it sounds like they are entering yet another low margin commoditized business. What could be the synergies with the existing business areas?
Much too early. RIP Paul Allen.
> "race is just one factor that's considered and can only help a student's chances of getting admitted."

If this is their best argument, they'll fail miserably. You're not considered in a vacuum. Your resume is considered relative to the others that have applied. If most other applicants receive +10 bonus points and you don't -- that hurts you. It's not rocket science.

> Yet Mortara argued Monday the lawsuit is not a broader attack on affirmative action, saying Harvard has simply gone too far in its "zeal" to consider race. "Diversity and its benefits are not on trial here.

I don't see how they can argue this with a straight face. It's all the same thing just called by different names.
> By that logic even searching for tickets without purchasing them could be argued as "fraud." Since even putting something in the destination field is, according to your argument, a material representation of intent.

If you search for tickets with no intent to purchase, it's plausibly an element of fraud, but it's not fraud. The additional elements (reliance and detriment) aren't met yet. Once the purchase is complete and the rest of the events occur (i.e. intentionally abandoning travel), then all the remaining elements are fulfilled and a plausible fraud claim can commence.
My understanding is that many Asian Americans are turned away from AA programs because they aren't "traditionally" disenfranchised minorities.
And, apparently, women are in a position to change that if they want to.

https://www.businessinsider.com/infographic-women-control-th...
Multiple entries in that article link to the same book which came out within the past two weeks saying that the myth "that Asian-Americans need higher test scores than non-Asian-Americans to get into a highly selective college" is debunked.

Has anyone actually read the book? Is the topic settled?
To be clear, it hasn't been stated that it was only two weeks after he learned the disease returned. That's when it was publicly acknowledged by Allen. He only said that it was recent that he learned about the recurrence. That could mean it was several months ago and Allen may have chosen for personal reasons to keep that information private.
I'd prefer to see a bit more of a break up at the low-end of the scale.

> "18 experienced unwanted sexual overtures or sexual badgering"

Badgering is beyond the pale, "unwanted sexual overtures" are unwelcome but I don't see how they are ever going away; if men don't make a first sexual overture there aren't going to be a lot of men who end up having sex. Some of those overtures are going to be unwanted, but the men basically have to try to find out.

Things like Tinder where you can filter for "interested only" are pretty much a new phenomenon and havn't really had time to influence the culture of anyone aged over 30.

Anyway, I'd like to know how persistent these "unwanted sexual overture" is before it is reported in the survey as harassment. Minor point in a larger picture.
Whatever your views on affirmative action, this logic is hard to follow:

Harvard's legal team denied any discrimination in its opening statement at Boston's federal courthouse, saying race is just one factor that's considered and can only help a student's chances of getting admitted.

For institutions that have a limited number of slots available, it's impossible to say race can only help an applicant. I'm not making a value judgement here, just balancing a math equation. If we determine as a society that taking action to correct our structural biases is warranted, then own it. Not just the plus, but also the minus.
> Months ago, senior Facebook executives briefly debated banning all political ads, which produce less than 5 percent of the company’s revenue, sources said. The company rejected that because product managers were loath to leave advertising dollars on the table...

Gotta remember what's most important. /s
I don't have as detailed an answer as several of the other commenters here, but as someone in the job market at the moment I see a decent amount of Rails work floating around.

Another framework that seems to have been burgeoning in enthusiasm lately is Phoenix, built in Elixir which is a Ruby like syntax. The neat thing there is that it introduces a ton of interesting OTP concepts borrowed from Erlang (both Erlang and Elixir compile down to bytecode for the same virtual machine, the beam).
"Recently" can mean anything from now or months. It could be he only went public much later when the full details and scope of the disease came out - no use fearmongering at the first sign of trouble when the doctors haven't had time to assess prognosis.
Seems like it'd make sense to go into your doctor at some point when you're perfectly healthy and let them measure a bunch of baseline values to put in your medical file.
Do we know who is engaging in this behavior? I'd like to know who they are so we can make sure they don't try to do something similar again.
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Surgical safety checklists were shown to lower 30-day post-operative mortality by 22%:

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You'd imagine something as basic as checklists would be implemented as standard procedure in modern medicine -- yet this study was in 2013, not 1963. Most likely the majority of surgeons are still dragging their feet on this. It's a very conservative field with lots of big egos.
Your third question should be inverted: if you do care that it's not the new hotness, run away. I think you meant something like "Is it okay that it's not the new hotness?"
I heard stories of engineers using decades-old, unsupported and vulnerable stacks with the assumption that since it was already approved by the FDA they will have an easier time getting in though than if they tried to update their product.
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I see a sound byte from SiFive. Would have been nice if they had reached out to Shakti for their comment as well.
An interesting part of this project, other than improving the already excellent LuaJIT is the Studio[1] tooling (made with Pharo smalltalk[2] and nix[3]) that has been built around debugging JIT performance issues.

Luke Gorrie, one of the main contributes has been live streaming its progress.[4]

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Your problem is that you're treating "men" as a non-distinct group, not people as individuals. Just because most people in power are men, it doesn't follow that "the people on the dominant side of the power dynamic" cannot also be victims. That's just extremely bad logic. Furthermore, including men would result in having more victims/documented cases, which should help resolve the problem sooner (unless of course one's intention isn't to solve the problem of power abuse and sexual harassment, but instead to "turn the tables on men" or something similarly sexist).
Labor participation rate is low because of long term demographic trends. Also the labor wages have been stagnant for last 30 years (adjusted for inflation). overall the benefits of increased productivity from automation has only gone to the upper decile of income. to make ends meet people are just working longer hours.

Also, there has been a fair bit of gaming of how the unemployment numbers are reported so some of those stats dont really represent what they intended to originally. if interested, John Williams of shadowstats does a good job of compiling numbers old style.
I think it's more toward bad examples, which is most of the examples that I come across so I can see why you think that. But, this guy was good at sales, had an investor with money already in, had two customers sold on the platform, was already doing business in the space. He was a good example of a non-technical cofounder, he wasn't just saying he would do all the sales/marketing/finance like all non-technical co-founders always say they'll do, he was actually doing all of it already. His only problem was humility.
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The difference between the "hot" example and the "fat" example is not just switching some group labels around! The "hot" example is complimenting the recipient's appearance and expressing (presumably pleasant) surprise at their presence. The "fat" example is insulting the recipient and explicitly advising them against being there.

We can imagine examples of weird and uncomfortable compliments that are in some way related to the demographics of the recipient - like someone attempting to flirt by telling a French man "Your voice is way too sexy for you to be a founder" or a well-built black man "You look way too athletic to be a founder". These seem about as socially inept as the "way too hot" example and strike me as reasonable analogues. But the examples in the post I replied to higher in this chain are nothing like this.
It's not directly related, if I have the same question but change ruby and rails with php and laravel. What's your answer?
I saw many early stage startups build their MVP using laravel.
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Roads have speed limits. Social media can have link limits.

Sure, you might be able to exceed your limit by posting to something that is patently or opinionatedly false. But how would you enforce it if a person can simply say "oops sorry I thought you knew it was a joke" or "I agree with its opinion"?

Analogy: if a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?

If you only violate a speed limit when you're caught and the police write a ticket, how would you get caught on social media?
Happened to an uncle of mine at a similar age (a little younger). He had a few months at most from the first symptom. Really tragic
I think that is an arguable point and at least we don't know what their profits are, but we'll know better after q3 earnings are out. If they are making the claimed 25-30% margin on current model 3's, making 50k of them a quarter at avg price of 60k, 50k60k.25, that's a car profit $750 million/quarter. That will pay down their debt at a rate 3 billion a year. I think this is why they said after q3 they will start being a real company, with q3 and q4 at the current rate they could be profitable and actually pay off debt. If all else fails they could sell more stock right now, but that only goes so far. I think they will make a significant profit by q4, and probably a good profit in q3.
To challenge a state Supreme Court decision, you'd file for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court under 28 U.S. 1257. However, there must be an issue of federal law (federal constitution, statute, or regulation). If there is not one, or the only federal issues would not change the outcome, the Supreme Court lacks the power to hear the case, because state supreme courts have the last word on issues of state law.

Here, the case is primarily about West Virginia law (impeachment under WV law, who can enforce the Code of Judicial Conduct). There is a federal due process issue, but it can't change the outcome--the WV Supreme Court found the impeachment illegal under WV law, so it doesn't really matter whether it's also illegal under federal due process law. In that case, the state-law decision is called an "adequate independent ground," and the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction (i.e. authority) to hear the case.
For what it's worth, i noticed the same bug-on-windshield difference between the 80s and now in France. So, whatever it is, it crossed the Atlantic ocean.
> They are talking about how likely the order relates to market structure.

What do you mean by "market structure?"