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Apple is a Contributor. They have given a patent grant on their contributions. If they didn't contribute something to Swift and they sue Swift other contributors for making a patent violation or their non-contributions, then all patent grants for Apple disappear and other contributors can sue Apple for anything that Swift uses that was patented.

IANAL.
It’s also interesting how a democratic Rome voted for becoming an oligarchy.
I was told that the mafia in the US lost a lot of business with the rise of credit cards but I can't find a source for that. Some researchers say that people turn to payday loans not only because they don't have access to bank loans but because the charging structure for payday loans is transparent and up-front:

"But most of the RiteCheck customers I interviewed had done the math and found that it was less expensive to use RiteCheck than to use a bank. In their experience, required minimum balances and fees for everything from ATM usage to account maintenance were going up."

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/community-development/public...

PS I'm not sure I'd call the payday lenders savoury myself, though they be less unsavoury than loan sharks.
No country is without it's issues. Not excusing what's going on though.

With that out of the way, what substantive arguments can you make that leads you to think this is anything like the fall of Rome?
Members of the Coast Guard are not allowed to quit. They are under UCMJ rules.

EDIT: For those that don't know the Coast Guard is not part of the Department of Defense. They are under DHS and are not getting paid and are not allowed to quit.
I think you can be sure this is not his first attempt at a file system.

Documentation does look really good. I’ll hang in to this.
I listened to a podcast where a guest was talking about this - maybe NYTimes Daily? They said that because the tickets are so expensive there'll be a huge amount of private jets flying in to the area, and suggested that refusing to handle those would put enormous pressure on Trump.
Ask HN: I created a paper notification service?
I read papers a lot, however, I always wanted a notification service which tells me which papers I am interested will perform well (lot's of citation) in the future. Hence, I created this service as one of my final project. However, my current filtering method is simply a keyword fuzzy matching, I wonder if there's any better query method for content filtering?

I was hopping to match "CNN" to convolution neural network related topics, "RNN" to recurrent neural network, I tried word embeddings however their performance isn't well.

Paper notification service : https://www.notify.institute/
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Competitive, yes, certainly. But is it competitive in the same way?

I’m other words, do “cracking the coding interview” style questions play as big a role?

EDIT: I figured, why not do a quick web search. I found this link:

http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2014/01/getting-job-at-google...

Just one POV, but it does confirm that PhD graduates do have to go through the same kind of coding exercises (at google) as anyone else. It is worth noting that this is the case if you're applying for SWE positions, where a PhD might not really confer that much of an advantage. Again, I'm not sure if this would be the case if you were, say, getting hired as an AI researcher for a lab.

So, this link sheds some light, thought I still don't know about research positions specifically.
Some banks are setting up low interest loan programs only for federal employees. They are low interest and are focused on amounts of 2-3 time your paycheck.

Granted the rate things are going that might not be enough.
ATC is going to be as important economically and for public safety as police and military. You literally cannot fly commercial flights without ATC. They issue the flight plans, provide the routing, provide clearances for every taxi movement on the ground and every landing and takeoff for every commercial flight in the country.

So what I mean is that whatever argument is made to make it illegal for police to strike (assuming it is), the same argument applies to ATC.
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It is illegal for them to strike. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7311
We can find out if apple is serious about keeping it open by asking them to turn over those patents to an entity like RPX
The military is entirely separate from this discussion.
What's legal is what 5 people on the Supreme Court say is legal.
They use optical measurement, are reasonable in pricing. Outputs are UART, PWM and analoge.

They have pins with 2.54mm spacing if that helps you.
What if they can't quit because of the wage-slave capitalist culture brought about by the US government?
How is this relevant to this century? The concept of the Noble Lie has been around at least since Plato. Lying to someone isn't treating them as an object, it's actually confirming their subjectivity.
The Coast Guard are under DHS and not the DOD. They are working without pay and are not allowed to quit.
The usual justification is that Federal workers get more benefits (pensions!!) then other workers and so they give up their right to strike in return.
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Purpose is subjective.

What I'm saying is, all of "this" must of came from something. And that "something" is what people refer to as God, the Higher Power, the "Ultimate".
I was just told support made them reactivate the account, log in, provide their actual address and country of residence (even more personal information that they had declined to provide the first time), and then asked them to get back to them. Hopefully this results in deletion, I'll follow up in a bit.
Is this really true? I understand diehard fans going to tailgate parties, but don't the vast majority watch the event at a bar or at home?
Not to mention that low interest loans are sort of predatory in this context, despite being lower than market rate interest rates. I understand that they have a profit a motive, but it doesn't make them the "good guys" in this scenario. There really are no good guys during a government shutdown.
Going to the Moon is a completely different endeavor than making an AI better at a game that it's already quite good at. This is a red herring.

If you had bet against AIs reaching parity with top human players in any previous game, whether it be Checkers, Chess, Go, etc., you'd have lost. I see no reason why StarCraft II should be any different.

We can reconvene in the comments here a year from now and see where AlphaStar is then.
If you got to any bank website at least the ones I bank with, there is a flashing notice on the front page, if I were a federal worker who needs assistance due to shut down. I am sure, certain workers have easy ways than others but to say that at least some banks have not stepped up is incorrect.
I've got the same one.
Not had an issue with the warmth - but bulk is ridiculous (although I quite like it).
Try pulling in the waist cords, it's a bit flappy and open otherwise.
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Oops, you're right. I hope it happens.
Newer signal buttons have an LED indicator that shows they've been pressed, which is a nice touch. Saves having to reach around someone to make sure they pressed the button already.
Indeed, though I think I recall seeing "ground stoppage" on the FAA site when this news first broke.

https://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
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Nobody actually cares about the $5.7 billion dollars, it's chump change for the government. This is all about appearance. The Democrats will lose face if they sign off on a budget which allows him to build his wall, and Trump will lose face if he fails to start building it (presumably in time for the next election).

(It's also notable that neither party, politically, has a good reason to end it. Trump will have a hard time holding onto even his strongest supporters come reelection if he can't start the wall, the most tangible and physical representation of his promises to his base, and the longer the shutdown persists, the better Democrats will do in Congress next election, the shutdown is a political godsend.)
I've seen too many people say, "Oh, government workers should all know this stuff happens all the time, and if they don't have months or years of savings in the bank then it's just their fault".

It's really sad that instead of being compassionate, too many are focusing on what "should" be instead of what is the reality for many people. Like you point out, the reality is that most people don't have savings. They should in theory; but life rarely lines up with should.

I too feel terrible for people being hurt by these comparatively wealthy politicians playing games with their livelihood.
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Why can't the ATC adopt a funding model like the USPS so they don't have this problem in the future relying on appropriations. Can they basically charge airlines and other traffic for their services to fund the operations. I'm mostly curious if this is actually realistic.
Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world; it would be a mess whether it's Super Bowl weekend or not.
FWIW - house Democrats have voted against paying workers three times (so far). Most recently yesterday
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/house-gop...

OK - heres a left biased source: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/425858-house-rejects-gop-...
I think you are probably right, but I think it will end because the admin will declare a border emergency to try and get funding. The senate will then pass a clean bill and the emergency bill will get stuck in the courts. Right now this is only going on because of the admin wanting to save face.
So they're claiming (values) and &optional but in C?
If you store laptop in Faraday cage, why not include HDDs with the data too? Laptop also has HDD (and BIOS etc.), either it all works or all is fried
The comments here are rather bleak, but for me, this is fantastic.

My family is all on WhatsApp, but my friends and colleagues are on Messenger and SMS.

Previously, I would only ever use Messenger, checking SMS and WhatsApp once a month at best.

A while ago, SMS got integrated to Messenger, I started staying in touch with people who only use SMS.

Now that they're adding WhatsApp, I literally don't know a single person I can't reach from Messenger/Gmail.

I love it, and I hope things go smoothly.
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Do unpaid workers have cause to sue their employers for back pay with interest? What about damages?
For people reading along: $50/yr gets you 25 GB; $30/yr gets you 2 GB. I'd guess 2 GB would work just fine for most people.

OTOH, my relatively new gmail account has >4 GB in it. Other accounts have 0.8 and >3 GB; none of these were used for file storage (FUSE) or anything like that.

https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/
Yes, it does seem to be gambling indeed. Legislation should catch up with this kind of tech and clearly label some of its aspects as gambling and therefore not suitable for children and teens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...

That was very cool. I know Reagan presidency is often romanticised, especially by, ugh, libertarians, but he had a pair of balls.
Allowing the machine to have a far-more informed view of the game than a human seems like these tests are not realistic battles. The human should have the same information about the game as the machine. I would certainly hope a machine with more information than the human could beat a human. Perhaps I am not understanding the situation?
How do seat belts and air bags and crumple zones work?

You can't get to a solution without accepting it. You can't stop people dying by describing that fact as toxic.

No it's not a, or the solution, you can't ignore I though.
As far as I can tell, in Seattle, jaywalking is enforced with $60 fines for about a month every five years or so. Between fining episodes, rumors maintain obedience.
we will all soon be reminded of the importance of borders.
Wouldn’t owning one violate the migratory bird act?
Thanks for the summary. Very interesting.
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>especially in a place like New York.

Staff shortages causing this are at Washington Center, which is not located in NYC.

"Staffing ZDC"

https://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp
> I gather that in most cases they're explicitly prevented from striking, but I think there's a good chance that it's too unpopular to actually punish them

Yeah, I know.
Seriously, I'd imagine most of the people impacted who need the loans don't necessarily have the income to cover an extra loan payment when this is over.
Safety-critical services like police, military, and yes, air traffic control, are not allowed to go on strike.

Everyone who's working without pay is also not allowed to strike. Everyone else who is not getting paid are not expected to work during the shut down.
It's the same way for families who live in border communities. Only the problem doesn't immediately evaporate when the government reopens. Federal workers will likely be backpaid, but a victim of illegal immigrant-perpetrated murders or sexual assualt can never be repaid.
"Let governments develop the software, and keep companies away from our data."

Except that government is really just another company, much bigger and often less accountable, plus it can make its own rules.

There is nothing fundamentally different between a government and a powerful company. They both suffer from the same problems, and succumb to the same evils. If this weren't the case, then we wouldn't need unions for government workers. Governments also don't have competition driving them to increase efficiency or improve their service to "customers".

If the government were in charge, the Internet would probably still look BBS's from the early 80s.

There is definitely a role for government to help create and agree on International standards, and to create regulations to protect people, but pretending that handing this stuff over to them would not be a total train wreck in one way or another is naive, in my opinion.
As a non US citizen, I don’t understand what’s that shutdown even about, seems like absurd thing to do. Is it all because of Trump or he is not the only one to blame? I remember there was some shutdown when Obama was there too? Or am I mistaken?

Edit: downvoted for asking a question?
A key difference is that software is already covered by copyright. Identical copies violate copyright for software. For a mechanical device, identical copies generally don't violate copyright (trademarks, text, etc aside).

Mechanical devices need patents for the design, as a competitor can easily re-implement an absolutely identical design. It's often clear by inspection how it's made. A different device that accomplishes the same task in a slightly different way doesn't infringe on the patent.

Software already has protection against identical copies through copyright. The key difference is that software patents go farther; they claim to cover the concept. Any implementation of the concept violates the patent. Re-implementing software to accomplish the same mathematical concept in a different way still violates the patent.
Ask HN: How to organize productive meetings
I'm looking to build a tool that will help you organize a productive meeting with coworkers - find a slot that works for all. I'm envisioning that this would be a part of our app as well as possibility in a Slack bot. I'd also like to include features that make a meeting more productive - eg. compulsory agenda, meeting rating system, etc...

How do you make your meetings productive today?

Some helpers:

- Productive meetings are not a problem for you - if so: how large is your company, what is your secret?

- How do you figure out when your coworkers have time for a meeting? Do you ever use Googles "find me a time slot" or something else just to save time finding a timeslot?

- Do you have problems finding a room in which to meet?

- What are key things that you need to have a productive meeting?

- Did you ever try using any of the scheduling solutions (like Slack meeting bots)? Which? What do you think about them?

- Did you ever try using any phone apps? Which? What do you think about them?
>...a separate phone for work that is fairly clean of other apps would be the SoP for most serious journalists.

I would think having no phone would be far better than a separate phone. For example, pinging is a way that any adversary can use to determine your precise location.
We see all sorts of weirdness with time, like delayed choice experiments: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-eraser-de...

The entire concept of time starts to break down in spots, like within a black hole: https://phys.org/news/2015-09-law-implies-thermodynamic-blac...

It also breaks down when you start talking about pre-Big Bang cosmology. It's not clear there is such a thing as a "beginning" outside of the universe.
Because American communities were built around religion with the church being the social congregation area. The average sentiment is that people don't really want to go to church but do so to maintain certain social relationships and keep up appearances. It is far more prevalent in smaller communities.
But By common logic Apple’s only motivation is to sell more phones...
Or storing the key in localstorage?
Depending on the cancellation terms, the airlines or the fliers, and it probably trickles down to the businesses or individuals when they have to make alternative travel arrangements.
Hey scoopr! Thanks a lot for trying it out.

> It does seem to exhibit the usual custom rendered app issues. I suppose it is constantly redrawing the screen, as it seems to have constant cpu usage even when doing nothing, so not laptop friendly (though perhaps fixable still).

Yes, at least when there is an animation active (we redraw the screen in that case). Most event-based apps, though, would only redraw in response to user input or for a temporary animation - our initial demo is constantly animating at 60hz, so maybe not the best performance demo...

> Some of the widget seem fairly arcane but usable.

Definitely. Still a lot of work needed here. We've had some excellent help from the community getting an initial palette of controls; but still a ways to go!

> One thing that was very alien to me was the build tooling and language/runtime.

This is great feedback. We should include more details in our README about this. The stack is really Esy [1] -> Dune [2] -> OCaml compiler (ocamlopt) [3]. Then C linker for your platform.

> Also how easy would it be to link C/Rust lib, so that revery would only be used as the UI layer for something else.

I haven't tried Rust, but C libs are doable with Reason/OCaml's C FFI [1]. In fact, several of the underlying pieces of technology powering Revery (GLFW, FreeType2, Harfbuzz) are used via this FFI [4].

[1] https://esy.sh/

[2] https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick-start.html

[3] https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/native.html

[4] https://github.com/bryphe/reason-glfw
The powder in ammunition burns, not explodes. A necessary bit of pedantry because something has to ignite it, which is the primer. And a primer needs a sharp blow from a sharpish object (I’ve hammered primers practically flat without them going off).

In summary, ammunition will not go off.
Didn't S3 used to default to public? I know older versions of Elasticsearch didn't need authentication when first setup.
Yes... I really don't understand what all the FUD is about. I don't think most people here have read the actual text. Otherwise we'd have people complaining that Apple is trying to patent things like two stage compilation.
Being able to solve complex problems quickly is a sign of high intelligence, which is basically what these coding interviews are meant to detect.
As usual, the only relevant post is downvoted to submission. Can you all stop downvoting honest and helpful comments? This is one of the most hostile communities on the internet today. The post title is 100% misleading, it is not a large list of Compilers that are free. Which is what I expected. It's all about Ruby... Why was Ruby not in the title? OP should fix the title.
kinda depends on the interest rate... look at it as an insurance for the bank against some of the people defaulting on the loans and it isn't predatory.
Strictly speaking, their pay is delayed - they will be paid for all the work, eventually.
Still, regular employees should not be going through this, though.
Does that really cover everything that goes into a good measure of their code? ;-)
Atlanta is the busiest airport in the country, there will be a lot of angry people if this happens at any time. That's not even mentioning the networks effects of a delay at ATL causing delays at other airports around the country.
Genuine, is it very cool when now there's possibly going to be a generational shortage of ATC people in the near future possibly as a direct result of this?
Most people who lose their faith don't also lose all their motivation.
You're referring to LFS as in LogFS?
Invest in my startup. UBER for ATC. Algorithms for Routing, Smart Contract, BlockChain, Natural Language...

Disruption
Sorry, our documentation isn't very clear. The API is Electron-inspired (as if you had React+Redux+Electron), but it's compiled down to a fast native stack consisting of GLFW/FreeType2/Harfbuzz.
The tradeoff is that conditionals increase the number of paths through the code. It's like Tony Hoare said:

> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

I hit this problem the other day, writing some code to divide a set of items evenly into N subsets. I wrote a bunch of property tests for this, but kept having problems with the way it was handling remainders. I could have made the tests pass by adding a few more conditionals, but instead I tried to solve it using no more than one conditional plus a handful of arithmetic operations.

The reason I constrained myself was that those test failures were a precious resource to help me understand the problem. Adding complexity to the solution could have produced a correct implementation, but I felt it would more likely out-smart my test suite. I would rather work with something that's clearly broken in an obvious way, rather than possibly broken in an unknown way.

Eventually, I came to realise that the requirements I'd come up with were inconsistent!
The answer is "we're not sure, but we'd love to find out".

Giving up and replacing "we'd love to find out" with "well, it's just unexplainable magic!" is not a satisfying option to me.