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thank you! I believe in open source and I'm not concentrated on the money. We are working on a mobile app for creating/read texts with a very simple interface and real-time delivery content, like in messengers - https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3045439/47013080-b...
Hope it will fly)
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The whole hemisphere theory is bshit. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/16/left-r...

You can find a lot of articles online.

I don't know why people keep talking abt it.
This is just a sensationalist snippet from the long read from the New Yorker that was on hacker news yesterday. The engineer responsible was fired from Google for forming his own company and eventually went to Uber which was the cause of the massive lawsuit between the two, he's now close to unemployable. Since that incident 4 years ago it's pretty clear a lot has changed -but one thing that hasn't changed is Google's constant misrepresentation of their safety record.
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You don't think that to have a conversation about maybe doing something blatantly evil, instead of dismissing it out of hand, reflects poorly on someone's character even if the conclusion of that conversation is not to do the evil thing?
But I don't understand, why are the run times so incredibly high? 15 seconds to looks through 18k records? Should be <10ms (ignoring network latency), or what am I missing?
It's funny, last weekend I went on a research spree learning about SPPs and plasmonic metamaterials after stumbling upon them while studying acoustic metamaterials with a negative diffraction index.

Here is some further reading on Wikipedia if you're interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmonic_metamaterial#Microsc...
Jesus christ get some chill. sometimes it works, there's no perfect paradigm.
Something like Sesame Street might be good. My problem with YouTube is it creates feedback loops where if you like something you seek out more of it, but with a near infinite range of topics. Throw an underdeveloped mind in there who is using basic stimulus to work out what is good and bad and who knows what will happen.

Wouldn't surprise me if that feedback loop was damaging even for many adults, but at least they are responsible and already have some grasp of how the world should work.
> Probably the most language agnostic algorithm

Are you sure about this point? I'd like to see a purely functional implementation of this, e.g. in Haskell without monoids. I believe it's significantly harder than a C implementation (which is indeed a few lines)
In my mind, the relevant distinction is that a conference is broader than the "hand-curated list". If you had a conference and only 12 people showed up, I'd still be willing to consider it a conference. But when I ask some friends if they want to meet up after work and talk shop over beers, I'm not organizing a conference.

To be clear: literally speaking, "conference" is basically a useless word: it just means folks getting together and talking. Practically speaking, if we're going to use "conference" to mean any time multiple people talk to each other, the word stops being useful for communication, because when it's used it doesn't convey any information.
Clock speed and core count are factors.

But your actual performance is really more along the lines of clock speed times instructions per cycle. For example, a 5.0 GHz CPU that only achieves 1 instruction per cycle only does half the work of a 2.0 GHz CPU that achieves 5 instructions per cycle.

Some factors that deeply influence achievable IPC include at least (1) the cache sizes and layout, number of load/store pipes, prefetching relevance and timeliness, and overall memory system design, (2) the kinds, number, and capabilities of the execution units and the quality of the scheduler for these units, and (3) the front-end's ability to correctly predict branches, speed of recovery from mispredicts, and general ability to keep feeding the back-end of the machine.

Beyond that you really need to multiply in the amount of actual work done per instruction. A factor here is the instruction set and the ability of the compiler to utilize it to effectively. For instance, a "single" vector instruction may do an amount of computation similar to 4, 8, 16, or even 32 conventional instructions. Code that uses these instructions may get a massive speedup on CPUs that have enough execution resources to execute many or all "lanes" of the instruction in parallel...
> https://betterwebtype.com/assets/images/rhythm/078@2x.jpg

the text on the bottom, "better", hurts me physically. just looking at it literally gives me nausea.
Simple straight to the point instructions - I like this post.
K-means is not an algorithm, it's a heuristic for an Np-hard problem.
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This reminds of Genesis 12:24, specially

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.

9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Clearly, the complexity of modern-ish CPUs does push up instructions/cycle — and thus single-threaded performance. That said, I did an awful lot on machines running at hundreds, rather than thousands, of MIPS (and quite a bit at single digits...). If the “big core” superscalar designs hadn’t happened, it’s not at all clear to me that the world would be a worse place. Perhaps we’d have more transputer-like designs, for instance (which I admit bring their own complexity — but could at least be rather more transparent than the current mess of speculation and complex cache hierarchies.)
I'm not sure that's a good tip, presumably if you get lung cancer they can still detect if you are or have been a casual smoker for a non-trivial amount of time. In addition, you might put 'No' on signup and be accepted, but a lot of due diligence (uncovering your real history) is done at the time of claim i.e. they contact any past doctors and all surrounding hospitals for medical reports related to your past. Admittedly there is a lot more leeway for insurance companies in Asia to pursue their denials any way they see fit since we don't have a first world grasp of privacy or anything remotely like GDPR.
"There is nothing actionable in the news; next to no utility. News is simply a time sink that depress your spirit."

I largely agree with the statement, but as naive it might sound I still consider being aware and forming an opinion of what is happening in the world and my country as a civic duty, as unpleasant as it is.
It's hardly rocket science - the cost of driving/being driven has gone down, so usage has gone up.

I think real issue here is that road usage is mispriced. Singapore does it well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Road_Pricing.

A tax on just ride hailing is mad. They are cheaper than owning your own vehicle, in part, due to real efficiencies in terms of maintenance and depreciation. Why on earth would anyone want to incentivise individual car ownership?
Jira has a field for time spent on a ticket, and can produce reports about it pretty quickly. There are also plugins available to let developers use various timers with it, or even integrate with timesheet tools like Harvest.

I’ve worked in a company that qualifies development time as capex. They can’t just treat all developer butt-in-seat hours as capex. They have to allocate it to specific projects.

Using the issue tracker for that can streamline the process and saves the developer having to know which bucket to bill time against for each ticket, because the project manager or whoever can take responsibility for tagging each ticket with the appropriate accounting bucket.

And time spent on maintenance or meetings or peripheral tasks like interviewing candidates or configuring Jira goes into its own buckets that can’t be capitalized. Using the issue tracker to track capitalizable time makes that delineation easy to enforce. If it’s not in the issue tracker, it’s not capitalizable.
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IntelliJ is missing tooling for staging which I am missing. Imho the Eclipse tooling (EGit) is much better in that regard. I never had trouble mixing Eclipse and command line workflows whereas IntelliJ forces me more often to resort to the command line.

As the sibling said, learning the command line first (and the model of Git) is mandatory, especially if you come from a CVS and SVN background. I came from Perforce and had a pretty hard time with Git until I invested two days with a good tutorial and much experimenting with two local and one remote repository.

EDIT: spelling
It has a lot of drawbacks, that make it easily noticeable that something is not right. (Browser autocompletion not working for example.) Though it's an interesting concept.
Anti weed people made a lot of noise when CO and WA legalized retail sales 4 years ago, as if it would cause mass chaos, but really nothing much has changed in those states. Law enforcement have much bigger problems to deal with like a fentanyl epidemic, and Seattle's rapidly growing homeless population and property crime problem.
> Besides, all webapps are rebuilt in a 3-5 year cycle anyway so it really doesn't matter.

And I thought places I worked at tended to be terrible :/
B-trees are really beautiful. I also like the Aho-Corasick algorithm as used by fgrep. I actually started to reinvent this algorithm myself before finding out it was already done. It's essentially a way to add links to a trie such that you can find all occurrences of multiple substrings within a larger string with one pass through the larger string.
They can deny entry for pretty much any reason.

You are correct that the US border policy with Canada doesn't make any sense.
Yes and alpha beta pruning. Your link mentions that.
Yes, though I think their enterprise efforts are truly different offerings, and Kubernetes probably surprised them a bit there.
There is a link between sugar intake and diabetes.

Some people also suggest Alzheimer is a 3rd form of diabetes. I read a study that nasal applied insulin actually helps Alzheimer.

So, no slamming of sugar, just some preliminary evidence that may want to ask yourself if you really need to drink a liter or 2 liters of coke per day.
Hope that's obvious. If you are going in for something related to smoking always talk to your doctor. I'm talking about simple stuff where they give you large forms on what you have. They form end up at insurance companies and your rates would reflect that.
If the server hasn't ordered preferences then wouldn't you be trusting that every client is updated enough to understand what "highest" means?
The key issue is supervision. YouTube Kids also has very enriching content. My hyper intelligent kid was able to direct himself to all kinds of educational content — way better than being forced to watch whatever crap was on TV like when we were growing up watching He-Man and Skeletor and GI Joe which was some real f’d up shit if you think about it. Like, they had swords and guns and shot people and it was “harmless fun”.
That’s a good point! Twitter’s tracking is almost perfect with their link shortener. I wonder if/when adblockers will take care of that as well (resolve the link once then cache it).
On news being not actionable, this is what Douglas Adams had to say

we don't have to go very far back in our history until we find that all the information that reached us was relevant to us and therefore anything that happened, any news, whether it was about something that's actually happened to us, in the next house, or in the next village, within the boundary or within our horizon, it happened in our world and if we reacted to it the world reacted back. It was all relevant to us, so for example, if somebody had a terrible accident we could crowd round and really help. Nowadays, because of the plethora of one-to-many communication we have, if a plane crashes in India we may get terribly anxious about it but our anxiety doesn't have any impact. We're not very well able to distinguish between a terrible emergency that's happened to somebody a world away and something that's happened to someone round the corner. We can't really distinguish between them any more, which is why we get terribly upset by something that has happened to somebody in a soap opera that comes out of Hollywood and maybe less concerned when it's happened to our sister. We've all become twisted and disconnected and it's not surprising that we feel very stressed and alienated in the world because the world impacts on us but we don't impact the world.

From the most brilliant stream of consciousness I have ever read: http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams
Thanks ! That's our next step. Looking for a way to translate it in a collaborative Web interface.
you can do so much more for diabetics and the obese by telling them to little foods high on the insulin index than you can by telling them to avoid "calorie rich" foods that are "hyperpalatable"

the insulin index is a good estimate of how your metabolism will react to a food, much more so than it being "calorie rich" (which calories?) or "hyperpalatable" (to whom?)
I agree. If an algo can demonstrate the huge gain between a clever algorithme and a naive one, it's this one.
>Ontario's new PC government has been quiet on prices, but said it aims to set them at a rate that would be competitive with illicit dispensaries.

Do Canadian government set prices for many goods? Would the same prices apply to giving people pot you grew at home?

Several times it mentions "smoking pot", surely they should be trying to make vaping or other use normative otherwise you're inviting lots of illnesses related to smoking anything.

Does cannabis get cut with other plant matter a lot, are they planning on any enforcement there?
This. So true and extremely well framed.

The only thing I can add: At the beginning of a relationship, everybody is kind. Background checks not just help, they are essential, do them.

Getting into conflicts and power plays with VCs, or just any person at some point, should be expected but there are still huge differences in how people deal in messy situations in terms of morale and ethics. You will find everything between feeling uneasy and facing a nuclear war.
Perhaps you are thinking of cipher selection, and "prefer server ciphers"? Those are separate tunables.

EDIT: Here is a description of protocol selection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Basic... and shows the basic negotiation phase.

(first two bullet points under the first numbered item)
Less harmful than alcohol, without a shadow of a doubt. Zero recorded deaths, in thousands of years of medical use - can :any: other substance say the same?

And yes for many, many people it absolutely improves their quality of life dramatically.

So, I have no idea why you’re taking issue with this statement (unless you work for a pharma co / drug gang, in which case I totally get why you would).
When it comes to Russian->English translation, the technology is most definitely not here.
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Check out Phabricator, which is open source and easy to set up. It’s got a pretty robust issue database and can be set up with kanban boards.
I went through this process myself recently and found it to be pretty challenging to understand the differences between the company types - particularly since my french is still pretty weak. This is a great resource though, wish I knew about it sooner!
Same. I have no idea what I just read. It's probably one of those things that only make sense if you already understand them. cough math topics on Wikipedia cough
Because we can feel smart if we created something that others can't simply understand.
Look for a slower news source in your region. The 24 hour news cycle produces mostly low-quality content, where you want to be more aware of the big things that happen that have more impact.
Raft, because it's designed to be easy to understand.
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This is cool, but it's not very clear to me what is the benefit of using this over autossh.

autossh detects and restarts broken tunnels and uses aliases and tidy config files: https://www.everythingcli.org/ssh-tunnelling-for-fun-and-pro...
Linux OS. Near perfect OS for developers.
Taxation is one of our next features.
How can the director pay itself (salary, dividends) is also on the list.
Since this thread is about frontend, what about angular 1? Everyone who was using angular 1 because it was "backed by Google" got screwed hard on that one.
Just fyi - Youtube Kids sells itself as "curated" content, but you can very quickly find Jake Paul videos which are absolutely 100% not kid-friendly on it.
Don't forget: The current marijuana laws around the world can all be basically pinpointed to a single person: Harry motherfucking Anslinger[0], who was in the position of power within the US for unprecedented 32 years. He got in power 16 years before Trump was born, and ended up being in power until Trump turned 16.

That guy loved to use anecdotes instead of facts, and presented marijuana as a drug that makes you kill people. As an example, he often used a case in which a guy from Florida killed his parents and chopped their bodies, always failing to mention that this person was recommended to go to a mental institution and didn't end up going there because his parents vouched for him.

After Harry was done with criminalizing marijuana within the US, he started advocating for other countries to do as well, being the US representative in the United Nations Narcotics Commission. Even Thailand ended up criminalizing it, despite marijuana usage being embedded in their culture and history. The fear of the US turning their backs on you was and remained a risky action for smaller countries.

The good news is we're on our way to revert his fuckery within a century. The bad news is that his fuckery lasted a century and got countless people sent to jail.

For those interested in how the current drug laws came to be, I highly recommend you to read Chasing The Scream[1]. It has completely changed my perspective of drug usage and war on drugs and I consider it one of the best nonfiction books I got my hands on so far.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream
Provinces and federal government set taxes on gasoline, cigarrettes and alcohol. The amount they can tax (as much as the consumer will bear) is likely highly researched. They want to tax as much as possible without discouraging reduced consumption, or alternative sourcing.
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The thing about SGI back in the day was that it was more fun to work in TV, movies, geology, weather forecasting, serious computing at a respectable university and so on. I never aspired to work for SGI but knowing how to turn the behemoths on and type a few commands kind of got me working in disciplines that normally required extraordinary levels of study and professional dedication, e.g. meteorology.

I am glad that Open Inventor lives on!

However, IRIS Explorer, remember that one? That was awesome and I wish it existed today. My peak time for playing with IRIS Explorer was when I had my first SGI box, an early purple box Indigo. I think I had the super-deluxe 'Elan' model, but that was still under-powered for Iris Explorer. In latter times when I had a small fleet of Onyxii and O2s at my disposal I didn't have access to IRIS Explorer.

NAG in the UK bought IRIS Explorer and didn't port it to more modern computers. At least this was a better fate than what happened to CosmoWorlds, this was sold to Computer Associates who killed it.

In an odd way I think that the world was better when it cost $100000 to have a decent computer on your desk. You valued your time more.
>The idea of a small group of folks coordinating what is essentially a combination vacation / work trip seems viable, [...], but this isn't a "conference" any more than me going out to brunch with a group of my friends and chatting about DevOps is a conference.

The idea of a "conference" being a very tiny group of handpicked invitation-only friends to discuss a shared intellectual interest has a long history. The Solvay Conferences[1] being a good example. Ernest Solvay curated the physicists to invite and used his wealth to fund the meetings. There was also some rest & relaxation deliberately woven into those meetings.

But yes, this intimate gathering of peers is probably not thought of as a "conference" as much as Apple's WWDC and Microsoft's BUILD conferences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference
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> Your shrill tenor leaves me with the impression that you are shooting from the hip because you are excited about an opportunity to "bash the fasc."

I don't think the parent post is shrill tenor, but it is a bit too ex-cathedra instead of a careful analysis and show-and-explain inference.

> I get the feeling you are suggesting there is anything like parity between the funding on the Left and the Right in the US which is preposterous.

In effect we can say that its cheaper to fool some groups than others. And its cheaper to disseminate certain kinds of messages than others. And similarly it's cheap to continue to push the same bullshit to a voter base that it already loves. (Confirmation bias makes it easy.)

> The post was a very dark satire about how futile it is in this era

Yeah, I got that impression that it is a list of hints to already happened events, yet it was rather out of context and without any surrounding explanation.
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I'm taking issue with that statement because I think the rhetoric around marijuana is misguided. I think it's swung too far to the "there's nothing wrong with marijuana at all" side and that's dangerous. Like alcohol it's important to recognize that it is not harmless. That doesn't mean it should be illegal, just that it should be regulated and reported on accurately.
I had a job working for a large Canadian company several years ago.

Coming in, I was told that the specs were difficult, the tech had to be nailed, and they had already tried and failed.

I took a week getting used to the customer, stack, and team. Digging through what they had? They needed two lines of code. It was the same exact situation.

That was one of the more difficult consulting assignments I had. It took me quite a while to gently get the lead architect on-board. I had to position it so it looked like his idea. If I would have pushed hard, he would have pushed back...perhaps getting rid of me and hiring more of a team player.

I've seen this a lot, in a lot of teams, and I think it has its roots in OO/Platonism, although it happens all over. I think the key things most of these teams are missing is that all structure is derivative. That is, there's not a line of code that's in your app that isn't in there for a reason. You're either really careful about that reason....or you add stuff because it looks good or you might need it someday, you can "imagine" how it might be helpful, the guy sitting next to you said you had to have it, and so on.