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You have simply misunderstood if you think he

> cites a consensus in personal belief in atheism and agnostics [sic] among philosophers [...] as a good reason for philosophy not accepting the existence of God

because that isn't what he's doing at all.

The interviewer asks him what he thinks about David Chalmers's lament that philosophy isn't converging to agreement on the truth on big questions like the existence of God. (Note: Chalmers's actual paper on the subject, which you can find by chasing a couple of links from the OP here, puts the existence of God in its list of big questions but concedes later on that on that particular question there is convergence. So the interviewer has misrepresented him a bit.)

He responds by saying he doesn't agree: that philosophy is converging to agreement on the truth on the big questions the interviewer asks him about.

Of course he doesn't go into why he thinks the positions he says philosophers are converging to are correct. The arguments on any of them could fill many books, and have in fact done so. The interviewer asked him a short question about philosophy converging to the truth; he gave a short answer to that question.

[EDITED to add:] After writing that, I notice that FabHK's reply points out the same thing. I'm leaving this here in case the extra detail I give is helpful.
U2F is a legacy feature. New sites should deploy WebAuthn and existing sites should migrate, the Firefox pref override is for those remaining legacy sites. It basically bodges their WebAuthn implementation to offer a passable imitation of U2F.

I don't know if a Neo can replace the secret key that makes FIDO (and thus U2F/WebAuthn) work but doing so seems pointless. If bad guys tampered with it, they presumably neutered this feature; whereas if not it's fine out of the box. Certainly Yubico's cheaper FIDO2-only product offers no way to regenerate the secret.

Nobody today deploys WebAuthn to replace passwords, only as a second factor so it doesn't really undermine Troy's point, though perhaps our other countermeasures (long complicated passwords for every site, changed frequently) are less necessary if you have a good second factor like this.
It is also practically true.

I remember a couple of passwords for services I frequently have to log into without access to a password manager. I can make choices about the security requirements for different services, and the security of the passwords I use for them. I can make choices about how to store them. I use a command-line program that stores passwords in individual textfiles, encrypts them with gpg and manages them with git. I could also choose to write them into a notebook with a cypher I can do in my head.

These are all choices I get to make because passwords are text, and nothing else.
> Parenthood can be planned - it isn't some random catastrophe that befalls you for which you need an insurance safety net.

While you're obviously right that one can plan to become pregnant, that doesn't make unplanned pregnancies a non-issue. So, that safety net is beneficial.
Being an egocentric jerk makes you no less credible, it just makes you unpleasant.
> it was “maximizing every last bit of energy you have in order to produce.”

This sounds really dystopian, a mindset like this genuinely frightens me.
I'd never heard of Ionic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WiI9QrS5s&feature=youtu.be) I see it uses Angular.. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9udsg4/why_ang...
Amazon RDS is literally just a hosted offering of an off-the-shelf database server (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server). There isn't really anything there to "unbundle".

Amazon Aurora does appear to be a somewhat unique offering, but it appears to be tightly coupled to their infrastructure; I doubt that it could be unbundled without major rearchitecture.
No, sorry, conversation with principals. Many years ago.
I think that's because MongoDB makes far more claims around performance around big data than CouchDB does. CouchDB has always focused a lot more on features like having a built in REST-like API, replication, Fauxton, fault-tolerance, etc. There was also a lull where CouchDB wasn't seeing very much development, but that's changed since before the arrival of version 2.0. I wish CouchDB would see a little more popularity than it has, as I've found it(along with PouchDB) to be handy in a lot of projects.
I understand that, but I am asking if the implementation ends up becoming the only implementation of a specification, is there a meaningful difference between the two? I would expect Mono to use more of .NET Core (or if not, curious why not hence my last question), and .NET framework is no longer an implementation of current and future .NET standard specifications (hence the part I quoted).
A more relevant AWS service is WorkDocs: https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/
RoboCap: An automated horse race handicapper
As a kid, the LM383 had particular appeal: it was the highest-power amp chip available that ran off a 'safe' voltage. I didn't need to do any mains wiring.
You shred someone's effort to produce a PD volume. Yet you don't offer a single constructive criticism or point to any of these glaring and obvious issues from which they may learn. Not even a hint. That to me is smug and arrogant.

I'm no typographer or publisher, but the book appears correctly and neatly formatted, without error. That puts it in a better state than probably 75% of the commercial ebooks I have paid for. From professional publishers.

So personally I think he deserves thanks, not insults.
For context:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/remarkable-story-of-maths-ge...

https://www.drjudithorloff.com/Free-Articles/Is-Your-Brain-N...

http://www.rifters.com/real/articles/Science_No-Brain.pdf

Another Story:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
That's an interesting question. I'm not sure this is a satisfactory answer, but I think what we do isn't really enabled by superior intellect as much as it is by a focus on good process and introspection.

In other words it comes down to good management -- this is just my pet theory, but as a ruminating introvert, when I did live and work in the US I felt that I witnessed a lot of extroverts get promoted into positions of authority because they were popular, and proceed to make poor decisions.
"Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals but by microbes that blanket the earth."

From: https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/vitamin-b12/

I eat food that is fortified with B12 and sometimes I take supplements. Blood work came back positive - not B12 deficient.
> I was merely suggesting that if a candidate has domain expertise and it is well known, that they may not subjected to the same leetcode hoop jumping as the bulk.

To put in bluntly, if you are such a candidate you are expected to know your algorithms cold and be expected to field your domain specific questions. So if you're a well-known compiler designer you would still need to know how to wield algorithms/datastructures for parts of the interview loop and then get into detail about compilers in the domain-specific parts of the loop.

That being said, it totally depends on the position you're interviewing for. If you're interviewing for Director/VP role in an engineering ladder, then some of the interview will need to be repurposed to getting signals about leadership and impact. That doesn't mean that you don't code at all though, it just means that the focus/weightage will be moved towards other dimensions (in addition to evaluating your system design and coding skills).
Lian-Li is one of very few case ODMs that still make sensible looking cases. They supplied all of our (System76) cases until Thelio, and there's a bit of inspiration from them in the design.
I think it's more a pity that .net core 3.x still can't run ALL the things.

i.e. if .net core would run anything that could've run on .net framework/mono whatever by just retargeting to .net core 3.x and even dlls from .net 4.7 could be run on core 3.x than nobody would complain and people would love it since, it would reduce the pain of that many runtimes.
I forgot about COINTELPRO. Thanks for reminding me. That is still going on today, so useful to know.

I do find it interesting how people find reasons to believe a lie, the lie being that the post 9/11 spying wasn't on the domestic population just to make sure there was no dissent. With a population that believes the lie then things are kind of doomed. A dark age happens. People find justifications to believe it ain't so. In a unipolar world this becomes a lot more interesting. In previous times there was an 'other' out there, the people in Germany could tune into propaganda from the West, this propaganda could be true facts and it would undermine the regime, Nazi or Stasi if too many people were in on it. In a unipolar world there isn't this possibility.

There is also a trust problem between government and people. In former times gentlemen didn't read each other's mail. Acceptance of otherwise is a betrayal of trust. You have to have good reason to snoop. What was the good reason and what was the excuse in the post 9/11 world? Fear.
I do mainly desktop dev but reading that Core is now the platform with rapid improvements I wonder if it's possible to write WPF or UWP apps with .NET Core or Standard.

Does anyone know?
"[Applicants] shouldn’t be discounted because [they don't] have one exceptional skill, nor should [they] be propped up because this lack of one exceptional skill misleads us into thinking [they are] succeeding only through [their] own effort like some sort of [academic] Horatio Alger character. It’s bad for [applicants], it’s very bad for [applicants] of color who never get the same breaks, and it’s just bad for [education]. Period."

https://www.draysbay.com/2018/8/13/17678388/tampa-bay-ray-jo...

P.S. Headline should read, "Colleges Say They Want Students with Character..."
> They don't - they completely ignore how men die at work at ten times the rate of women, put in more hours, take more competitive roles, and generally tend to make more sacrifices in pursuit of well-paying jobs and careers.

Instead of becoming frustrated with feminists for not defending mens' rights, why don't we get together and start to demand safer work environments, shorter workdays, less competitive roles, and fewer sacrifices?

We all would benefit from this. It serves the feminist agenda by creating work environments where more women can contribute, and it serves the masculine agenda by creating safer, less demanding work environments for men so that we can spend more time not working. I fail to see how this is a bad thing.
Nice piece.
Definitely not like Phi, which is basically a SIMD computational system (linear algebra box?) plus interesting memory configuration, at least in KNL. The SpiNNaker chips have no hardware floating point.
Another approach to automated generation of test cases is through a process of turning traces into tests. Valid uses of code already exist. These are in the application itself and for a library you can find published code that makes use of it.

A recent paper [1] covers this subject and demonstrates in R achieving better code coverage than hand written tests and does so for a large portion of published libraries.

I think this is a very interesting direction for automated test case generation. If you look at snapshot testing [2] it reminds me very much of that.

[1] http://janvitek.org/pubs/issta18.pdf
[2] https://blog.kentcdodds.com/effective-snapshot-testing-e0d1a...
> I was getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, because the "thinkers" recognized the value that I brought to the table. They appreciated...

I think this is the key idea there. It's good that you found a situation where you're both appreciated, and compensated for it. It's too easy for engineers to be devalued as replaceable cogs in the pipeline of things that need to happen to bring in revenue.
i'm leaning toward a belief in an outcome where we eventually prove strong determinism false, simply because of the probabalistic underpinnings of the universe. in that scenario, compatibalism would be an acceptance of a weak determinism based on the likeliness of probabalistic outcomes (particularly at larger scales), rather than an absolute certainty.
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Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers
OAuth and OpenID explained with real life examples
> In politics, rational thought often favors the majority over the minority. Almost everyone ends up as the unfavored minority for a few issues.

Seems like that argues against simple majoritarianism being rational.

> Rational thought is also incredibly subjective. A Marxist's reason is wildly different from a capitalist's, and there is no objective or rational way to say who is correct. It boils down to morality.

If it's subjective it means it's either not rational or depends on undecidable questions. Undecidability is part of reality, but can be accounted for.
That was quite literally the goal from the beginning. Make a computer that one would feel ashamed to hide in a cabinet.
"there really isn't anything a leftist government can do about that other than bring everyone down to the same level of suffering"

So be it. It seems more fair to me than some ad hoc chauvinism.

In any case, I don't think the suffering is really required. What is, in your opinion, the lifestyle that is possible to be supported by resources we have for 7 billion people?
This is not true. With numerical models one can quantify the level of error one introduces and introduce a rigorous error analysis around the method.
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MBA's are trained to wring every ounce of productivity from employees by working them more than 40 hours (because working late is a badge of honor!) while letting them know that, yet again, there are no raises coming and they need to take one for the team and we all need to tighten our belts and blah blah.

And yet, American workers still hold fast to the dream that if they just work harder, they'll be more successful.

That dream doesn't exist. The nightmare that does is that workers are continuing to work for less and less each year.
Feel free to visit oscar career page.
But if that's the case why not consider Google search under cloud reveneue and call it a day?
You're missing a range of Apple smart home products - and so is everyone else, because they don't exist.

Apple could have killed it in this space. The development costs would have been relatively low, and there was a wide-open goal with the possibility of much-improved security and privacy, high quality industrial design, AI, and yet more links to Apple devices, as well as providing a home network foundation for future products such as health monitoring devices.

Instead Apple handed the market over to 3rd parties and... not much of interest happened with HomeKit.
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Or try this recent article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lilyjones/2018/07/19/teacher-po...

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"Don't you feel that there are a lot of products out there that are not designed well?"

I do, but I feel the same way about engineering. Curse of high expectations.
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Sorry for the late reply. Yeah, when AOL bought Huffington Post the guys from Engadget left to make "This is my next podcast" and then "The Verge".

I miss my Palm Pre, Oreo effect and all.
Is it terrible that I am highly tempted to use this as an API, forcing the value in via headless chrome then printing the page to a PDF and using OCR & regular expressions to extract a sorted list? I'm pretty sure that's an O(1) (ish, not really) which I always heard was the best kind.
Mad how? PDF is a notoriously bad format to extract data from, but great for visually representing the data to humans. XML is human unfriendly but good for structuring data so that software can read it. Embedding the machine readable XML representation of the data in the PDF ensures that both representations of the data are available always.
We just added a section to our 'learn more' page to address this important question:

>Millow is not a social network. There is no feed, and no advertising. We designed Millow to be used no more than a few minutes each week. We eventually hope to sustain our business by helping you make reservations at local restaurants and businesses, and making a sliver of revenue from such transactions. This is in support of our goal to stay independent as a company, so we can continue to provide this product for perpetuity, and maintain our focus on our mission of helping you stay connected to your inner circle.
They include all their SaaS offering in their Cloud revenue I believe.
Industrial Design is the discipline within the design field that deals with the physical design of products/hardware. It's not a genre of design itself.
The end? No.

But PWA websites will most likely kill many native apps. I use the Twitter PWA and it works perfectly fine on Android.
The idea of "text is the universal interface" informed the design of unix and it resulted in text streams. But if I apply it to something entirely different, authentication, I come out at passwords.

And I wouldn't say that text meant ASCII. My understanding is that it meant text is the thing that could be understood and written by both people and computers.
> it is no different than studying for an exam

From subject matter taken from multiple 4 year degree fields. Science, engineering, theory, implementation, data XYZ, project management, sys admin…

Never happens at Uni, because it would be impossible. 99% of folks would fail, like they do in tech interviews.
Which is a good thing right?

What are the goals here? the top level responses I see are using this as an opportunity to talk about why experience is lacking, or as if this is an ironic outcome showing how its all a waste of time to get to the same result of the domesticated housewife.

I think at this point, focusing exclusively on the highest selective evolution of "merit" and skill is the flaw. If we are trying to grow the economic pie and cater to the most people, then hiring/career growth practices based on "the best" at the theoretical best academic or refined practice will have diminishing returns for companies. And this isn't saying that there is no circumstance where women or some other subgroup would be able to conform to the strict merit based regime in proportional numbers as incumbent groups. It is saying that the barking up this tree is flawed to begin with, if you can address a greater market by having a variety of views of the market.

Now that we have participation in the workforce, it would be more productive addressing how goods and resources are appropriated amongst people that help in any way, how incentives are aligned with the growth of the effort.
Nice!

I have two suggestions:

I'm probably too lazy to download and run a JAR but I'd probably run a Maven plugin from the command-line. Try packaging it as a plugin.

I often run into ClassNotFoundException when using an API but not providing an implementation, when using an optional feature that is provided in a separate dependency (Jersey HK2), and when using a feature that has been removed or broken into a separate dependency (JAXB). I believe these scenarios are all fairly common. Will your program help developers resolve those kinds of problems?
It really is a great tool for validate ideas.

Sorry for my grammar above as I was typing on my mobile phone halfway on the bus.
This isn't journalism, it's communication. It's a press release from the university. Both journalism and communication are subsets of "communications."

If this university is anything like the ones I went to, the press releases are written by journalism and communication students to give them some hands-on experience.
that was the primary purpose before, but since .NET Framework will no longer be implementing new .NET Standard versions, it's now more like a way to write something that runs on both .NET Core and on Xamarin platforms
Ask HN: Is there a reference for machine learning algorithms?
Like the full details of every machine algorithm with its mathematics, known applications and stuff like that!
>Lots of people (myself included) prefer to send a tweet to a project/company than sending an email.

This. I'll tweet-complain at a company but I'm not going to mess with opening up a customer service chat or firing off a customer service email where I may or may not get someone based in the United States and might have to wait several minutes with a chat to get someone or a day or more via email.

If a company has a decent customer service plan, they're usually pretty on top of seeing twitter mentions and will reach out. AT&T, Zappos, McDonalds, State Farm, WEMO, Wendy's, Papa John's, Chevy Customer Care and Bumble are just some of the companies I've had positive exchanges with on Twitter when I've had issues.

Companies I've taken useful information from their posts however is considerably smaller: the Red Dwarf account (how I learned about the most recent season).
Optical Gyro Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
It's hard to say without seeing the numbers, but I think you'd be better off finding a newsletter that is tangentially related and swapping links. Maybe a user experience or usability newsletter?
Sorry for the late reply. I don't remember any specific details, but after he returned he was just no longer interesting when he chimed in on the podcast.
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The person salmonfamine was replying to already painted himself (or herself) in a religious light. I see no justification for characterizing salmonfamine's argument as "to paint him in a religious light" -- and since salmonfamine explicitly said "I am not an atheist or an agnostic", it seems you're arguing that one religious person is trying to stigmatize another by labelling them as religious. Not very likely.
This is coming in .NET Core 3. Slated for Q1 2019 AFAIK. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/05/07/net-core-...
But there are unbundled DBs that people run. PostgreSQL, mongo, MySQL and the majority of those are run on the AWS cloud.

There is clearly a distinction here. For example, I don’t know if the word Azure is even mentioned when I go to buy an O365 license.
Alternatively, install any desktop email client that has existed for the past several decades and point it at your email provider of choice.
Careful mon ami, someone might DANCE at you. Them pirouettes is scary.