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But that's a customer landing page, not "investors" page
I'm not sure there is such a service. You can download the raw data on 23andme, it's just a bunch of SNPs though. I'm not sure there's much known about them other than what's already flagged by their service.
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Bubblin is iPad first and also offline-first; though it will work just about on any browser or device. No signup is required to read.

Good or bad, all feedback and recommendation is welcome. :-)
> A (standard) unit vector...

I know this as "an element of the standard basis," B = {e_1, e_2, ...), where e_1 = (1,0,0,...), e_2 = (0,1,0,0,...). You could view it as inauspicious that the treatment doesn't begin with abstract vector spaces, but there is always Axler.

For what it's worth, I find it inauspicious that after taking three (pure-math oriented) Linear Algebra courses I never saw least squares nor the SVD. I'm looking forward to taking a look at Prof Boyd's book.
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Thank you.

I've been in Poland only in 2000's but while watching these photos I could not believe that this is what Poland looked in 80s. Looks like some kind of village in middle of nowhere in 60's. The pictures were clearly selected to portray it as somewhat poor and non-western. The question is tho: Why?
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Sure, the article makes a good point on land use, but two things bother me here: 1) I think that people who favor organic food tend to eat less meat or are vegetarians or vegans. Don;t forget that a predominantly meat diet uses an order of magnitude more energy and water compared to vegetarian. 2) I think people should have the personal freedom to decide on organic vs. non-organic and on whether they eat meat. However, I dislike the huge US government subsidies for meat production: people should pay the real production costs for meat (I eat meat sometimes, full disclosure).
That's another thing I observed teaching calculus: a lot of students who have problems, are having their difficulties with the algebra they supposedly know, and not so much with the "new" material. In theory, we expect students to already be fluent in this sort of algebraic manipulation; in reality, we recognize that a calculus class provides our students an opportunity to improve at this.

I'm not sure I have any suggestion other than lots of practice. And know that you're not alone, this is a completely natural difficulty.
I find it interesting how many smear pieces against Musk have suddenly surfaced ever since he announced he wanted to take Telsa private again.
I remember reading his biography and the author admits they intended it to be a hit piece in the first chapter.
I don't play video games on PC, and neither do most 'normal' users. Most people use PC for browsing the web, writing email, and creating documents. Many people do play games on PC, but not most.

Vote with your dollars. What do you care about most? PC Video games, or having an operating system that respects your freedom and privacy? Critical mass starts with you too, if you want PC Video games that run on free operating systems, us those systems and the vendors will follow.
I've almost gone the other way; I first discovered Slackware in the late 90s, but now I no longer feel the drive to do much "computer stuff" at home and would prefer something that just boots up with a browser that I can play games on. So I run Windows.

I even gave up resistance and got a "smart" television. It's actually not bad. Ironically there's a tiny Linux distribution in there somewhere, underneath LG WebOS.
Boiled frog fallacy. They won't be able to get away with it now, but as time goes on they'll start adding it as a voluntary option for a small discount, eventually ceasing to offer service otherwise.

Auto insurance is already well into the process of doing the same thing with regard to diagnostics data being transmitted back home from Snapshot devices/driver's aids.
Alright, I must've missed that somehow, thanks!
I think it is good practice to avoid reflection as a library author. Rarely done right and even then, often source of issues (see here).
Seems to me that's the sensible way to distribute an application. The user probably has a more recent compiler in their .Net runtime, and it enables machine-specific optimisation, right? I'm assuming it's the same compiler either way.

It's interesting that they've blended the models traditionally used by the JVM and by Unix.

Java: ship the IR, have the user's JIT generate machine-code at the last minute

UNIX: ship C source, have the user compile it as part of the installation process

.Net: ship the IR and either include machine-code too, or have the user compile it to machine-code, either JIT or caching 'pre-JIT' at install-time (Paint.NET does this)

I suppose the 'pre-JIT' approach precludes profile-guided optimisation though, unless the IR is annotated with profiling data.
I would be amazed if it were sustainable for even that long. My recollection is that it's a couple of weeks before productivity ends up back where it would be if you were just working reasonable hours. And then you rapidly descend into less and less productive states. (There used to be a great presentation with linked research about this here [1], but their website seems shaky.)

I think it's an especially bad idea at high levels of the company, because of the long feedback loops. If a line worker makes a mistake, they will hopefully catch that within hours. If they make a bunch, somebody's going to come talk to them in short order. If an executive makes a mistake, it can be months or years before the problem is obvious. But the more tired I am, the more my focus shifts short-term and the less I notice subtleties and small mistakes. increased error rates and long feedback loops are a very bad combination.

[1] http://www.lostgarden.com/2008/09/rules-of-productivity-pres...
Grafana recently announced Loki: https://grafana.com/blog/2018/12/12/loki-prometheus-inspired...
Where’s the love for Lax?
It might've indeed been photographer's intent, though I have to wonder if it's true in the case of the photos of urban environment―which look quite jarring juxtaposed to traditional elements.

It's notable how the USSR never really dumped traditional folk culture: folk tales were featured extensively in children's books, and folklore-based art was prominent. (This might've had something to do with how the government had to raise everyone's support and morale during wartime, afaik even dropping the intense opposition to religion.)

And, from what I know, mainland and especially Central European countries tend to hold tighter to their traditional culture compared to both the US and Russia (the latter having wandered around in search of its identity all through the past three centuries).
This entire article is an advertisement for a specific product. I remember when planted articles had to subtly nudge the readers towards a belief that implied they should buy a product, but apparently that's not a necessary form of subterfuge anymore.
If you care about anything that runs on a computer, linear algebra is one of the best maths.
This is big news.

I've used similar proprietary libraries before, and virtual operations can be really powerful
(editor here) Table was corrected last night, and the text was edited per the comment above and a few keen eyes internally who also caught the confusing sentence.
This is also true for many unsuccessful people.
Clearly we run in different circles. In my experience keys need to be generated regularly and rotated on a predetermined schedule. Immutable systems are kind of the antithesis of that.
It's essentially capitalist Stakhanovism.
> Unite! At least converge to 2 big streams: Pro-Users (the ppl making jokes about shellscripts) and People (your mom)

I couldn't disagree more. As a community, developers and Linux developers in particular need to stop believing in the divide between the Glourious Developer Master Race and Ignorant Users What Think Their CD Tray Is A Cup Holder.

Linux Desktop has been pandering to this imagined notion of an "average user" for decades and it still sucks.

Here's what needs to be done: make the system simple (not easy) enough that it can be reasoned about, something that someone can look at and comprehend and build a model of its functioning so they can conform how it functions to their needs without reading C source code and 40 different text-based file formats and out of date man pages. Stop being a Rube Goldberg machine of interconnected disparate components.
That’s what bonds are.

Which helps with this analysis as risk and time value of money etc reduce the value of a future pile of money. Buying into a stack pile of money you get tomorrow is worth far more than that same pile at some potential point in the future.
I didn't pick the current title - it was set by a mod. And yes, PyQt still takes time. And yes, you could do packaging & deployment yourself. But it will take weeks or months, depending on how many platforms you target. Why reinvent the wheel?
Having grown up near Amish country in the US, these pictures make Poland look like home. Fashion is different from the people I grew up around, but it certainly doesn't look like the "communist nightmare" that I was always warned that it was--it looks like it could've been right near me.
More like: Google One => One => Google => product canceled
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Sketch heavily uses macOS specific APIs for drawing, hardware acceleration, widgets, etc - I'd imagine Windows version would be a nearly complete rewrite with much higher subsequent development costs.
Accenture. Why am I not surprised?
To be honest it was in the league of amazon and Microsoft. Not that bad.

And could this might just be a tax avoidance move?
You could take your reasoning to physical security, and say that banks shouldn't be expected to protect customers' safe deposit boxes, because a bank robber could open a huge short position in the bank, rob them, and profit from the loss of customer trust.
I think he uses Calculus by Soo T. Tan. Although you can probably match his video's to most calculus books as they mostly follow the same order.
Their SEC statement was unclear about that. It didn’t call out which unit was doing the layoffs. Merely that they were “US based management employees”, whatever that means. I’d assumed these were largely from Oath, but that could definitely be a bad assumption.
But for "normal user" things, the LibreOffice suite works just fine.

A “normal user” thing is to need to occasionally load a work document at home.
Well, it is part of a series called 'Strange Brews'.[1] So it is not entirely unexpected that they would play up the story when the point of it is to introduce you to that particular beer.

[1] - http://www.bbc.com/travel/columns/strange-brews
Then why do they hold onto it instead of destroying any record after transmission?

Because it's an asset, and they are there to make money. Not because they are doing it out of the goodness of their own heart.

You can't take back information.
"One" - sure sign of a branding failure.
Don't forget that a predominantly meat diet uses an order of magnitude more energy and water compared to vegetarian.

The articles does cover that as aspect well

“The type of food is often much more important. For example, eating organic beans or organic chicken is much better for the climate than to eat conventionally produced beef,”
I doubt it. Developing and deploying a commercial application for Linux is a nightmare compared to other platforms, largely because Linux isn't a platform and instead you have to target several different distributions and even different versions of those distributions because the concept of a stable and consistent base system is completely alien to the Linux Desktop.
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I'm not an expert, just curious... But aren't these files cached on most users computers?
Then people complain about how expensive and over-engineered infrastructure projects are. Also how are you supposed to know what infra will be relevant in the future and is even worth overbuilding in the first place?
There is still no photoshop substitute though
Yeah, because nothing says "I'm a real computer operating system" like forcing the user to use the weakest GPUs on the market.
Watching inside spacex there seemed to me to be a very tense and cautious relationship between Musk and people who had to interact with him. Apart from any nerves about launching. This article clarifies what I saw.
Looks like an end of the year tax optimization write down extravaganza at Verizon.
What if you murder someone that everybody hates, and who in turn hated everybody?
As much as I hate it, I suspect there is one answer with nearly perfect correlation as to why Pinterest is losing users and their engagement: Instagram.
#3 on that list is all about deterrence. “Police deter crime by increasing the perception that criminals will be caught and punished.”

If criminals believe that the cost/benefit analysis will leave their crimes uninvestigated and unpunished, then yes, they are more likely to commit crimes.
Or having a job. I've only worked at one place that didn't allow delivering packages and they relented a few years ago.
Perhaps I kept my comment too brief. I'm not endorsing Musk's behaviour in the slightest; it's abhorrent. I was speaking solely in reference to the initial comment about the obscene hours these employees seem to do, and conjecturing a reason as to how the employee might justify it to themselves.
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There would be no economic advantage to that kind of behavior. I'm a fan of paid services rather than ad-based services because it switches the focus. The customer is the person that pays, not the advertising company, so the company will have an economic advantage to give a better service to you, not to the ad companies. Something like that would just jeopardise the customer for no particular economic gain, so yeah, I'd trust them.
I'm a power user, and developer, and I certainly do think the Linux Desktop is an utter failure. I cite as evidence how awful Windows has become and how few people, power users included, have switched to Linux because of it.
Thank you.
Memory mapping could be used for other data as well, and I have looked into zarr (even opened an issue for that https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr/issues ).
Memory mapping of contiguous data makes life much easier (for the application as well as OS), chunked data could be supported, but is more bookkeeping.
Ok,here is mine https://github.com/wenerme/bbvm

Writing a VM is very fun and addictive. Especially writing in different language can learn a lot!
I posted this article because I'm really afraid that many young entrepreneurs take Elon Musk (and Steve Jobs, etc.) as role models and get the impression that in order to be successful you have to be an abusive brick.

I've recently read Walter Isaacson's "The Innovators" and there seem to be at least a couple of counterexamples (Robert Noyce for instance). Any other examples of tech leaders who lead their companies in a friendly and open manner and are successful despite (or probably because) of that?
I don’t think slashdot was firs to use crowd sourced rating, but I am not aware of others to have an actual functioning system at a scale of 10s of thousands in that era.

And to be fair, everything2 used the term karma before slashdot. We had the concept of karma, but it was called like modtotal or something innocuous. Nate was working on e2 and we were discussing ideas and I realized the term was way more clear so I did the UPDATE TABLE that day. 98 maybe?
While I'm generally interested in problem-solving, in this case I'm interested in problem-understanding. Yes, the housing policies are notoriously stupid, but there are parameters underwhich they are inconsequential. What are they?

And while San Francisco has put its own delightful spin on it, gentrification is by no means unique to the Bay Area. Neighborhoods shift over time inevitably but sometimes these shifts are sudden and many former and soon to be former residents feel pushed out and left out. What are the parameters for a neighborhood population to turn over without anyone noticing or caring?
> When authors today again consider Titantic to be "unthinkable", what does it mean?

That the thip wath not going to think, same ath in the patht?
Sounds like you've never paid for a subscription to the New York Times! The Ads don't go away. And eventually when you realize they're just another ad-serving, user-tracking, biased, hypocritical corporation and go to cancel the service the same way you signed up (online)... Surprise! You can't. You have to call them up and drudge through an hour of their sales bullshit trying to prevent you from cancelling. NYT is full of dark patterns.
Thank you, yes they give much more flexibility: optimization (JIT), derivatives, checking your calculations afterwards, sending them to a remote server etc. Glad you like that :)
Nerds don't even care about the nerd user experience. If you complain about anything then you should fix it yourself, or you're doing it wrong, or it isn't actually a problem because they've never encountered it.
You can’t get a list of names from Facebook unless each customer individually allows the company to access it. Happy to upload the modal when that happens.
I used to be neutral or slightly positive about Musk but this year really changed my view on him. He's a pathological liar, attention-seeker, vengeful narcissist, obsessed about his public image who's unable to handle criticism.
Point being, their definition is just plain wrong. If that's how the authors describe a unit vector, I don't think this is the book you want to use to learn about SVD.
They were the first but loosing created market to figma and other tools
That's only possible if application hiding is integrated into the OS. Mobile device vendors are unlikely to support such a feature.
I've noticed there are a lot of simulator apps that keep you in one place. I suppose this is because they haven't solved walking in a nice way yet.
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It's a luxury car. For wealthy people to show off.

Don't get me wrong, I drive an EV. They're great. But let's not exaggerate what Tesla is.
analytics.js as served by Google is only cached for two hours.
Never forgive MIT
I think that's a convenient ego-saving scapegoat for the Linux Desktop. Chrome was never pre-installed and people went out of their way to get it because it was a better product.
London's Central Line is automated, however there's still a driver, who presses "go" and opens/closes the doors. More importantly they're also there for if something bad happens or they need to take over.

Is the MTA different?
It's not about copyright or the OSI's lack thereof. It's about abusing language to bring along a mindshare that isn't rightfully yours. The OSI definition of open source is the broadly accepted definition of open source. Using it to describe something which isn't is lying, in the same way that serving someone bacon and eggs when you put "cake" on your menu is lying. Neither the terms "bacon and eggs" nor "cake" has to be copyrighted for this to be true.

Not that I'm acusing the author of DevHub of lying, I'm just clarifying the problem.
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Nothing is ever really cached anymore, meaningfully at least.

We're in an age where websites happily serve up 8mb JavaScript bundles to display their static homepage to a mobile browser that has maybe a couple hundred MB allocated to caching things. Sure, it may be there if you immediately load another page on that site (and the devs aren't using a bundler that serves a different 8mb next time).

But if they leave and come back, they'll get the same full download experience.
I don’t know why people make this claim. I don’t spank my kids, but the idea that spanking doesn’t work seems utterly absurd to me. It’s the classic “positive punishment”.

Is it the best way to get a kid to behave? No, not according to the research. Is it going to turn generally shitty parenting into good parenting? Obviously not. Can it be an effective discipline strategy? Yes.
Not sure what are you trying to prove. Those photos show what's quaint. Big cities and places where things look more western seem less unique or interesting.
> as soon as anyone mentions unions, it's all over

Isn't there a technical solution to this? Something like an outwardly anonymous social network with "proof" of employment from LinkedIn, where you can pledge to unionize once participation reaches critical mass for your workplace. Yes laws are better, but this could be a decent workaround.
Project leadership at a small company/startup is going to be much different than at a larger company and vastly different than at a Fortune 500. The path of a PM is typically to progressively manage more complex and larger projects whether in scope or budget.

A tech lead is a different role than a PM. Tech leads should be mentoring junior devs, guiding overall solution and working with a PM from a technical perspective like being a sounding board for crazy customer ideas.

Your company is small enough to keep dabbling in the project mgmt while coding. You don't need to make any decisions, just see where it goes. You may want to suggest to management that if there are enough devs doing PM tasks spread across X projects, at some point it might help to get a PM to do the PM stuff, then devs can focus more on development.

Having done the PM role, SW Mgr role, and lead engineer role, I found the PM role the most tedious/repetitive and missed coding. The problems being solved by a PM weren't technical and that is what I missed.

It ultimately comes down to what interests you more.
One of the reasons why CBP loves the current administration, their new policies effectively lifted any limits on overtime. For a person with ten years seniority, if they're bored and want some OT, border patrol guys can sit around in a pickup truck listening to the radio clocking those 150% wage hours.

It is not uncommon for a CBP or ICE officer, with OT, to be in the $130k+ salary range now.

And these are in places with relatively low cost of living, compared to a big city, like Ferry County, WA.
Real question: Should opinion editors be judged by the practice of the journal that publishes them?

The NYTimes does admittedly worst than Facebook on that front (the key aspects for me: I can’t see the targeting for their ads before clicking on it, refuse some ads on their website, I can’t access, edit or delete what their partners know about me; I can do all that on Facebook). That makes the claims of that editor seem very disingenuous.

Should we judge him based on that? Or is he a user of NYTimes and a victim of their disputable privacy practice, like he is a user of Facebook and an avowed victim of the Mark & Boz’s decisions?
Denver didn't lose. America did. You know full well they weren't going to build anywhere outside of the US.
No, a lot of it is responsibility.

We have the military to do it, and somebody has to hold off USSR aggression since the countries who should be doing it won't spend the money on their own defense to do it (I used USSR purposely -- we really shouldn't be in Germany anymore as that threat really doesn't exist, at least in the form it did, anymore).

That's part of the issue with NATO. NATO has become a code for saying the US will spend the money to do it.

Korea was to stop the spread of communism in SE Asia, and we're still there to do exactly that -- again, we shouldn't have to be there anymore, but who has the money to spend on defense? We do, so we do it.