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Some jobs require a certain expectation of having to bypass normal access/entry procedures. For instance locksmiths, tow-truck operators and even computer technicians are expected to quickly and efficiently 'get in' without being unencumbered.

I used to do TV technician things at music/sports events and studios where you always needed the pass and there was always security including bouncers. Being a contractor I didn't have fall-back documentation with something like 'BBC' written in big letters on the top.

However I would need access first to get in and then get the proper pass.

Mobiles weren't a guaranteed thing then so I could not just have someone meet me at the gate. So the first challenge always would be having to get past security. When I had the access all areas skills (including back stage) something like getting into Coldplay would have been a snip.

Nowadays I am back of the queue paying to get in, having to wear the right dress code etc. but for a long time I just didn't have any expectations of that. I just breezed past, no payment required, no fake ID or badge, just a smile, P+Q's, plausible story and a little bit of white, male privilege.

Now I did sometimes use my 'craft' to go to things of my own choosing - local gigs and festivals. I did find that there was one thing that you have to get right when you are in... Sometimes a bouncer will follow you and then when you blag to you mates that you got in with a feeble story they will boot you out. Offers to pay will not be accepted, you then are barred and having no mates for that evening, having to go home early.

If you are male then one way to 'social engineer without deception' straight into nightclubs where there is a strict door policy (e.g. dress code, long queue, bouncers) is to be with four highly attractive ladies. Easy, no blagging needed.
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Is this just an example? Because if I wanted to rotate a vector, I'd do it with vectors, not trig. Which requires multiplication and addition, right? What am I missing.
Never thought I'd see a reference to the /sipps/ meme on HN, yet here we are.

Personally, I think the 30 year old boomer meme is rooted more in the fact that internet culture moves so fast these days that anything even a few years old is considered dated. Combine that with the definite cultural differences between Millennials and Gen Z, and the boomer meme makes sense.
Very nice of you to say. Thanks for your interest, and best of luck :)
What I mean by 'intuitive' is that if I show notepad.exe to my mother, she can easily open up the program, start editing text, save, and quit. The cognitive load to assimilate first hand is very low. On vim, to even get started with anything in the first place, you have to learn about 'modes'. You also have to learn about special commands about the most basic things like saving or exiting. This has nothing to do with typewriters that my mother never used.
Likely you're just located somewhere far from the server in Virginia, USA. If you watch the conference talk just a few minutes in I show a gif of the latency from Seattle to a server in California. Most interactions you can't tell at all.
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I can see why the title specifically says Chinese, but really it feels like it shouldn't need to mention the country of origin. It's equivalent to referring to SpaceX's launches as "private American attempts".

This isn't (or at least should not be) China vs USA, these are two private companies competing. It does feel like there's a narrative to make it feel like the space race where you had two nation states competing, but it's really not like that at all. The American people should feel little extra connection to SpaceX than they do to Landscape, after all, the people of America will not benefit SpaceX successes in the same way they would if NASA were to succeed.

Personally I don't appreciate nationalism and I think there's a huge element to this in the way many of us think about the world, which is reflected in our reporting of events.
Typical electric rental scootere? Like 150, with a simple rack you can stack them like cordwood.
I'll note that like many of the comments on HN and elsewhere that comment on what something is like in the US that the true answer depends on where you are within the US. With the issue it is going to vary tremendously based on which store you are in. I believe in my state at least you also have to leave the store before any law is broken, although such laws are set at the state level and so there may be exceptions.
I can't suggest brilliant.org highly enough.
Ask it this way: if Google could find a revenue model with users paying for search with no ads, would they turn off ads? Yes, probably. If Google could turn off search and still make as much money just showing ads? No.

(The vast majority of Google's ad revenue comes.from search advertising.)

Google is a search company that depends critically on ads to exist. It also has an advertising company component to it, but the core value is search.

Otherwise, you'd have to conclude that duckduckgo is also an advertising company. Neither of those statements is correct.

This sound bite quip about Google tries to reduce a large and complex business to one word, which doesn't serve accuracy or truth.
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Consider another possibility: people in the US are more afraid of losing their jobs than people in Europe.

People on the other side of the order are often one missed or shorted paycheck away from a cascade of late fees, reactivation fees, and overdraft fees with no way out. Even filing for bankruptcy costs time, energy, and money.

I doubt people in places with functional social safety nets worry about what will happen if they have one bad day where they can't fake a chipper attitude.
Yeah, I'm convinced now, too
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>But the ads that go to the top should be the most valuable, not necessarily go to the buyer with the deepest pockets.

It is my understanding that similar to Google, the first couple of links might be ads, but the rest are organic.

I just did a search for a movie I like - To the right is an infobox with a blurb from Wikipedia + links to rotten tomatoes and IMDB. Under it is an amazon ad to buy a copy.

The top 5 links are IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, a definition of the word, and a trailer.

Seems pretty unobtrusive and on point to me. If I wanted to buy a blu-ray of the movie I'd probably click that ad.
I can't agree more. That's just plain sexism to take action on a thought that women don't like to see boobies.

To think that women (or men for that matter) can't understand that the WoS display is just that - a WoS display? That's just insulting condescension.
That's why it doesn't encode free orientation.
Duck duck go made more than zero from you...
Although long forum threads only really work if someone regularly updates the first entry with newest infos.
> Does this assume the earth is a sphere?

Of course, speaking about Earth is just for the mental image.

> Can you keep the elegance of this coordinate encoding with convenient transformation operations and define somewhere a mapping from the quaternarion encoding of position into a non-homogenous oblate spheroid encoding like WGS84 ...?

I don't understand the question.
I no longer use Uber or Lyft because I’ve had more rides with drivers who I would consider to be a “dangerous driver” than those I consider safe.

Many times the driver is in too big a rush to get their next fare, and they drive erratically and over the speed limit whilst using their phone. I even had a driver whose breath smelt like he’d been drinking. I just don’t feel safe, and I don’t think these companies regulate or check how safe their drivers are driving. I wonder whether there could be something in their driver app that monitors the speed or safety of the driver when they have a passenger in the car. I know that some insurance companies have apps like these.
>Almost looks like he’s accusing Eric of claiming Google wants to be as unscrupulous in the way they operate as possible without being caught

Eric has said in public it is official Google policy to walk right up to the "creepy" line, so the accusation is not unwarranted given that google operates worldwide, and not every country has the same views on privacy as Americans.

https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-googles-policy-...
Works for getting the click-rate up on news-articles up too
My background is also CS and I'd recommend wholeheartedly "The personal MBA"[0].
It organizes the fundamentals of business in a clear and concise fashion that will be easy to understand and hard to forget.
The book is not in depth of course but rather a comprehensive overview.

protip: skip the first self-promotional chapter, I was so put off by its poor taste that it made me delay reading the book by a few months. The rest is great though!

As others have mentioned, startup school[1] is also a goldmine. In my opinion it's less thorough on fundamentals and more focused on key lessons and understandings that only come with handling a successful startup. Many authors cover the same topics but the startup school presenters are actually authoritative on them, kudos!

The lean startup[2] is also a must, offering solid advice on how not to waste time, which equals runway, as a founder.

Another good one is Never Split the Difference[3], which teaches you a few tricks to fend for yourself while raising money in the world of VCs which, may I remind you, negotiate for a living.

0: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9512985-the-personal-mba
1: https://www.startupschool.org/
2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startu...
3: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the...
Well, I don't feel safe with lots of cars around me, I'd rather have fewer cars and more scooters.
On phone, replace chrome by bromite.
As I understand it, they want to have a display of what the internet looks like without filtering to demonstrate the value of filtering, but also pre-filter it of any content that you would need to filter.
There might be solutions to those points, but as a person who has sought to use alternate transportation for over thirty years, I’ll say that every g-ddamned one of those points is valid. At the extreme, I posit that anyone arguing that a single-track vehicle is fine on icy roads[0] falls into the category of “true believer” that is blind to the practical considerations of others.

[0] studs just mean you fall down less frequently. Oh, but fall you will after a non-trivial distance.
What about hotels with restaurants in them? Where shall the regulation start and stop?
You sound like you'd be fun at parties.
"Digital Restrictions Management" for Digital Right Management" is an effective and mature satire. "winblows" and "micro$oft" are not.
Except people who are more tech-illiterate don't do it, and we're the minority here. It shouldn't be normal.
That, or bar placement too high on the neck, or involuntary neck straining (chin goes up, back of neck goes forward), or maybe just too much weight. It's a compound exercise where a lot can go wrong.
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My particular cure (2 herniated discs with associated deep pain/sciatica) was to resume running again after a 40 year stoppage (HS cross country). Worked great. I do about 15-20 miles a week at an average 8:30 mile pace and the back pain is now very manageable.

I've been careful not to push too hard, as I do not want to trade one debilitating injury for another (knees, shins, etc). Highly recommended but surely not for everyone, just those so inclined (I have a lot of excess energy to burn!). A nice side effect is that the exertion is also a mood improver!

Don't underestimate vigorous activity (with sensible limits).
They use phase detecting photodiodes and thermal effects to measure and tune a miniaturized ring gyro (single turn) to measure rotation in a MEMS device. Their ratiometric compensation makes it much better than you might expect, but not (as is implied by the article above) better than larger gyros.

The supplemental derivations and discussions/figures for this paper are available (in pdf) from the Caltech Library.

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/88626/3/41566_2018_266_M...

http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180807-12540532.... - permalink

Or the entire article ois available from Springer:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0266-5
exactly.

I think this is an idea that should be explored.

on a side note, I was thinking about a way to prevent bots from ruining it by marking everything as bad or good etc.

have user ID's on the plugin and as a user I can approve people I know and only accept the votings they make rather than the entire community, this enforces the level of trust that I already have of the users (ideally I know them) and it would allow me to ignore potential bots or people who attempt to sabotage the goal.

throwing ideas around... but I am liking the sound of this... getting a good group of people together to play devils advocate and improve upon this might be worth something and even change the way traditional user-interaction over the internet and in general happens.
https://youtu.be/NWgwUKfR8Xg?t=1m48s
> If Google could turn off search and still make as much money just showing ads? No.

You're not serious right? Google doesn't run a search engine for the fun of it, they're a for-profit company, if they can pull out an extra margin without search they would do that immediately. The core value is absolutely not search, search is an acquisition channel to bring in customers to click on ads. No one is paying them for searches.

You're right that DDG is an advertising company as well, who also have search as their primary (only?) acquistion channel. However their customer base is specifically looking for alternatives to google and one of the core value propositions of that is to have privacy and minimal user tracking.
How is this better than having the same information saved as an email draft?
But scooters are only useful in good weather, I don’t think anyone would ride a scooter in winter in Chicago or New York. So I don’t really think they have a future of completely replacing cars throughout the year
What's really shocking is that I've never once had an acceptable experience with a recruiter that has reached out to me. I've taken over 40 interviews this year in a variety of fields.

I've had a much better experience and indeed received offers when applying to an ad or application posted on Indeed, Linkedin, Angel.co or the company website.
I've used it for a few professional freelance projects back when I was just starting out during high school/university. The projects typically involved communicating with an Arduino running some physical hardware and displaying some info on a screen/doing very simple control flow (an interactive installation in a conference).

It's great for that kind of a simple thing, but starts to fall apart when you need to do more advanced user interaction - you have to build a lot of stuff from scratch, or at least you had to back then. Also I feel that a lot of the primitives have been optimized for ease of learning rather than what's best for professional code.

It would still be my go-to tool for similar Arduino based projects that just need a quick simple good-looking interface.
For the all the shit Google taking lately, we should give them a big shoutout when their own cloud pages and other product pages rank way down in their own Google search ranking.
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Since the GDPR came in, the amount of recruitment spam has dropped dramatically for me
The robot that crawls the web doesn‘t have anything to do with whether you are being tracked.
Or, you could simply pay everyone a stipend and then drug them into barely functional stupors for 10 hours a day.

Same result.

The missed point in "someone spending time on a meaningless job promotes social stability" is that you're forcing (via money and requiring same for sustenance) an individual to spend most of their life in a meaningless way in order to survive.

Is it a solution to resolving social unrest? Yes.

But let's not kid ourselves about what's actually being done.

* To say nothing of the argument that by artificially depressing wages you make your economy dependent on manual labor, limiting re-investment in automation, thereby eventually dooming yourself when other countries have cheaper labor / cost-effective automation
I agree it’s more likely this. And although service is better in the US, it does make me feel crappy because I know the only reason it’s better is because they so desperately need the tips.
Will commence working on a doc to explain some design choices, and what some non-obvious code fragments do; will update here when I commit.
There's no subtyping being done currently.
The 'match type' construct matches the type of an expression at compile time.
I should also add that some design choices may be reviewed before the first release.
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"skin colour filter"?

I still remember the day I found a colouring-in puzzle in a book with one of the colours labeled "flesh" and asking my Dad which crayon to use. None of them were the colour of my skin. Eye-opening day.

I suppose the good news is that I could use my porno selfies (if I had any) to DOS the display.
It solves everything for 18-35 year olds without kids in a city in California, as long as you do not get into or cause an accident.

When you get hurt or hurt someone through your actions, you’ll have the problem is of dealing with injury or liability without insurance.

If you live in a place that is not California and has wind, rain, snow, etc, you have a solution that works some days. I bike about 8-10 miles to work, but end up doing it about 40% of the time, because life.
missing the "in hardware" part?

target may be a simple microcontroller or fpga that lacks multiplication.
Perhaps https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/composi... ?
I work at a big stadium with pretty good security but I'll be honest. If I saw you running for the door that I just opened with my tag, and you were wearing some sort of workman outfit, I wouldn't think twice about holding it open for you.

Interestingly enough when UEFA play at the stadium they have better security than the stadium owners. Because they must have total control of every set of eyes watching their football matches. So even we get special badges to wear, and have to be pre-approved.
I have installed Streak in my Gmail specifically for the snippets.

I would type '#no' and would be done.
> “I wan't to be able to tell recruiters that I am not interested”

That’s how they get you
I think gyroscope/accelerometer is deprecated in MacBook started from ~2012. It's called Sudden Motion Sensor or SMS. There is a command called "sudo pmset -g" and if SMS, if is exist, will show "sms: 1" or "sms: 0". Reference: https://www.lifewire.com/manage-mac-sudden-motion-sensor-sms...
My MacBook Retina 2014 do not have any SMS record.
> would you initiate a hostile work environment claim

I most definitely would. And if that didn’t work, I might post to Twitter about it.
In spite of what the author says, this seems a bit rude.
I can't speak for other build systems, but tup [0] provides the option to listen for filechanges via the fuse library.

[0] http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html
<edit substitutes the make comparison link instead of the main page>
Most writeups/HowTos for this problem cover all human skin colours with reasonable degrees of success (given how niave th algorithm is).

The article specifically mentions Hulk and Smurf porn easily defeating the filter.
And talk about literally self selected.
You need to render a few thousand polygons to a 298x196 buffer. Desmume has a software renderer, and it's more than adequate. The trick is being compatible.
There are a number of trade groups that have conferences with short paper requirements and upon acceptance come with a 20 minute presentation. Try some of those first since acceptance bar is relatively low and does not require academic associations.

This will get you good practice, build a resume, get some good networking, and give you a chance to see both great and poor presentations.

For example, most of the subgroups from IEEE fall into this category.
hmmmm.... I wonder if Uber eats can do what AirBnb did to the hotel business by allowing home chefs-after-6pm to take low risk experiments and launch micro Uber only restaurants from their home kitchen or a common kitchen (managed by Uber eats to deal with sanitation challenges).
That's not how this model works. There are three general models of online advertising:

- CPM: you pay per impression (ie how often the ad is seen)

- CPC: cost per click. You only pay when the user clicks.

- CPA: you only pay when the user clicks and does something (eg buys something)

Display advertising (putting ads on third-party websites eg AdSense) is primarily CPM. Search advertising is primarily CPC (or at least this is how Google operates; I assume DDG is similar).

It's important to understand the implications of this.

In a CPC model the system that selects what ads to show you is doing so to maximize revenue. Since they only make revenue when you click a lot of effort is spent in determining the predicted CTR (click through rate) because:

Revenue = # of impressions x pCTR

So it's not just a question of who pays the most for an ad (that's how display advertising works largely) because a $1 CPC with 1% CTR earns more revenue than a $10 CPC with 0.01% CTR.

This is why I have less problem with the CPC search advertising model than pretty much any other model because your interests and the interests of the search engine are largely aligned. You want the results that are most relevant to you and that might be an organic search result or an ad. As long as the ads are clearly display as such, it's fine.

Also with search there is intent. You've searched for something so there's something you want. Who's to say an ad won't be the most relevant result?
As far as I know, that’s the case in the US as well.
protip: jump to minute 31 for the interesting stuff.

The first 30 minutes is about the new release cycle, which is... hm.. quite dry, boring and covered extensively elsewhere.
I made the switch to DDG about 12 months ago for all devices. It has been an entirely positive experience.
Well ackshully, It's getting popular in America to get "Mexican Coke" (which is bottled, not canned so your point can still stand) because it can use cane sugar instead of HFCS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Coke
Complete clickbait title — the airline will offer customer service through it's app, just not over the phone.
Oh look another anonymous question on Quora about a company, answered by the CEO of said company. And it is answered in such a direct way without any marketing for his service at all. \s

These Q&A things on Quora are getting ridiculous. Without all the fluff that thing would condense to one sentence: We make money by context search ads and affiliate commission on !bang searches.

The thing that I thought made Google even better (back in the 200xs) was that Google did no advertising for their service. People just recommended their service because it was so useful and good. DDG can't live up to that standard and so they have to highlight their built-in privacy whenever possible. It's like everything they offer, they rub it in your face. It feels like they don't care about the search problem but only about being so much more privacy-focused than Google.

I can switch to StartPage and have Google + Privacy, with DDG it is just privacy without any good search results.
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I don’t believe in software patents, and Oracle’s litigious history indicates they are a strong proponent for software patents.

I loved working with Java/Spring at one time, but there are too many good alternatives and I choose to vote with my feet.
It is entirely possible to write proofs about untyped code.