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This is the fat-tree connection diagram for one of the cabinets of a CM-5. It was posted on a wall at one of the national labs in the US which had the pleasure of working with a CM-5 around the time War Games was in theatres. People still gushed about how nice that machine was to program 10-15 years later. SiCortex[1] tried to do something similar with their computers, unfortunately they failed and with them the last interesting connector architecture and the last interesting "supercomputer". even cray does linux now...

http://i.imgur.com/jHtf4QB.jpg

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiCortex
I generally avoid MSFT stuff, but honestly you can't beat their documentation. https://www.asp.net/learn
The FOIA was effective in 1967; it became a bigger thing in by the late 70s.
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You'd pretty much be spending money with no hope of even getting your issues discussed. And possibly having to pay the legal fees of your boss for the hassle.
You can't support these workers grinding themselves to the bone? What are you talking about?

There's no slavery here. I've been there. Unlike the people making your shoes in Bangladesh, everyone making your games is there because they love it. These are talented individuals who could easily go work in other industries.

People in the industry want better conditions, and more power to them. But this is not slave labor and no one is stuck in the game industry.

What you're saying is tantamount to not buying a painter's painting because he worked too hard on it. Trust me... the people you think you care about want you to buy the games.
> Am I applying to the wrong jobs?

I believe you're applying to the right jobs, it's probably just that the interviewers are trying to do what they think is the "popular" way of going about technical interviews.

Best way to handle this IMO - ask yourself: Are you ok with putting up with this in order to get the job? If so, study study study. Buy the recommended books (there are tons of HN threads on this topic) and study! However, if you decide that you're not going to be the monkey boy for anyone, only go so far as displaying that you know the fundamentals of sound programming (e.g., binary search, linked lists, all basic data structures, etc). None of the crazy/wacky/never-used stuff.

A lot of modern interviewing isn't about finding talented programmers, it's about finding those who know how to follow their (albeit implicit) rules. You study, we give you the job, you don't, we won't.

Edit: change "the" to "your" in last sentence
I'm glad I read this comment straight after I read the article because you've convinced me not to eliminate special cases in this particular manner.

I'm sure special case elimination is useful and sometimes necessary for clarity, but only if not done at the expensive of said clarity.

I would be open to seeing some examples that make clearer sense, though. A video I found much more convincing was Embracing Algorithms[1] from Apple's WWDC 2018. I just watched it last week, and I found the ways it broke down and deobfuscated rather simple problems into easier solutions that describe the problem and solution more concisely to be superior to what was in the article.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/223/
Google didn't reimplement Java from scratch for Android. They adopted Apache Harmony which was the first open source Java implementation - so blame IBM for copying method signatures. Sun refused to bless Harmony as an official Java (or rather, refused to provide the TCK required to certify Harmony) - so you can understand why signatures and packages were identical: because Harmony was always meant to be fully compatible with Java.

Don't let any animus towards Google blind you to the real harm this will ruling will cause if it stands: say goodbye to any S3-compatible APIs, and good luck to WINE and Proton and say hello to lock-in and higher switching costs.
0. Take care of your physical and mental health.

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14. Take care of your family.
We should fix the legal system to be more effective and more fair. Forced arbitration doesn't do that--it just makes it (more) unfair in different ways.
I regularly see "entitled" used as a slur against those seen as assuming privileges they should not have or do not deserve. I've seen it attached to the Covington teenagers more than once.

With that in mind, I think the word may have a general-purpose use to describe people grabbing for things the speaker things they should not have.
Reuters is still pretty decent.
I don't know if we can absolutely claim that the limited viewport was the deciding factor in the 11th game, but it did seem to me that the Alphastar agent's blink stalker micro was somewhat compromised in that game compared to the seemingly superhuman blink micro in previous games.
Sleep is fascinating to study. So much to discover.

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You are right, these questions are generally a terribly signal towards your capabilities or intelligence. They require a disproportionate amount of effort on your part. Now that we got the complaining out of the way, if you are interested in getting jobs in this industry, I'd recommend practicing implementations of these standard questions in your favorite language and just saving them somewhere to review occasionally. There's a pattern to most of the questions and they usually tend to fall on figuring out an algorithmic trick or using a special data structure. It's ridiculous how many things are solvable in an efficient manner with a hash table...in a contrived interview question that is ;)
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Wish you luck.

I totally understand that not all places on the Earth are conducive to entrepreneurial ambitions. Some places are downright hostile. I wish we had some mechanism to help those from such places.
I'd phrase this a little differently.

I'd say "they do what they do because they are motivated by other peoples expectations".
At least men's razors are still non-political /s
Just because it can send MIDI messages does not make it a "MIDI controller". In fact, you can use it entirely without sending MIDI messages at all (with its control voltage interface). You're drawing a long bow.

It's not just about the build quality. It's about the interface. It's a very elegant and thoughtfully designed sequencer and there's nothing else quite like it.

The Rolex comparison is ridiculous, because Rolex watches don't even keep good time. They're overpriced jewellery. The Cirklon is not even expensive for what it is.
If that holds. Intel will sue AMD into the ground. "The 8086 API and instruction set, is an original, curated taxonomy of classes, methods, and interfaces, organized by authors"
The CFPB tried to make a rule preventing forced arbitration in financial services agreements. You will be unsurprised to hear that Republicans in Congress struck that rule down.
I think this is like a checklist for people to follow on their on volition. There cannot be a single recipe for success that applies to everyone. Hence the "Independent Thought" point in the post.
Also, the NSX is a Honda in most markets, as was the TSX, and both were more exciting than the average Acura.
Why don't more employees from Google and Facebook start successful companies? They seem to exhibit all of these traits.
EU ruled that APIs are not copyrightable because they are too abstract. It's really bizarre, US courts didn't yet come to the same logical conclusion.
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Yes, you're right. The original act of designing the interface is creative expression.

But that isn't actually the point. The question is whether the the person creating something compatible with it has scope to exercise creative expression.

It's like the difference between reproducing Van Gogh's chair and stating the fact it that it is yellow. The fact that it is yellow isn't copyrightable, even though the original painting is.
Yeah I agree, why? Must not be that bad if they keep taking these miserable jobs. They can literally do anything else but they choose to stay.
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Dang, $150 for a pack of samples from one instrument? As in, 88 WAV files? Is that the usual price for this kind of thing?
I've read a few dystopias centered around technology corporations inserting themselves into the majority of communication and media access.

No thanks.

I was pretty sincere though. Just remove the newsfeed. That's the battleground for your attention and by far the most toxic part of the product.
There are many rights you can't waive. For instance, you can't sell yourself into slavery--everyone except for hardcore libertarians is fine with that one.

And you can't waive your right to remain silent permanently. You can reassert that right at any time.
APIs aren't functions, they are interfaces. No matter how original they are or how much you pile them together, they aren't supposed to be copyrightable because they are too abstract.
Did you read the full article, including the para "At YC, we’ve often noticed a problem with founders that have spent a lot of time working at Google or Facebook."?
> There are, on occasion, factual errors in a story. When it happens they issue a correction.

That's a very charitable way of seeing things when you know a lot of these organizations are politically oriented.
IMHO, it’s also some of the least interesting dev work you can do. A few people might get lucky and work on physics engines, but for everyone else it is basically a gigantic UI project with a ton of control flow and throwaway code.
It's ironic to argue the definitions of post-truth, but no. Fake news refers to stories that are fabricated, and usually calibrated to be attention-grabbing, masquerading as news. That is a separate phenomenon from bias, and much worse.

Bias is a problem that can interfere with the output of people who think they are doing good-faith journalism. But anyone with a blog can write what other people will mistake for news, and if they're good, can make it go viral. No relationship with the truth, not even an attempted one, is involved.

Conservative slant headline: Hero CCW Bystander Stops Mass Shooting.

Liberal slant headline: Mass Shooting Underscores the Need for Gun Control Now.

Fake news headline: New Proof That Lizard Men Hired Crisis Actors in Plot to Take Your Guns.
Special cases are a sign you have a business problem that is worth solving.
Apple has allowed Microsoft Office quite a few exemptions that are not normally handed out.
Not just that, even different editions By the same publisher must have different ISBNs. It is even recommended that every electronic format of the same book should have a different ISBN (though I see many publishers not doing that).
I'm fairly against arbitration and I'm fairly certain it's much more limited here in Canada.

In this particular story, what strikes me is the amounts being discussed. 1 million dollars isn't chump change to anyone. If we have to have arbitration, there should be a hard legal limit on how much they can arbitrate when a physical person is involved. Also it should be limited to financial matters, forcing any other matter (discrimination etc) to be settled privately seems... wrong.
The schedule doesn't change. The quantity traded does, but I mentioned that:

> When Oracle imposes a fee on phone sales of value F, the price and quantity-traded of phones adjust. The new quantity traded Q_f is lower than Q_e, and the new price P_f is higher than P_e.
> and they are always on the lookout for facts to back up those narratives

Confirmation bias is fake news. Because you only pick up the details that fit your narrative, shutting down everything else.

A true neutral viewpoint would share all aspects of the story from the get go.
You could just play indie games.

Maybe people are working themselves super-hard to make indie games, but it's self-directed and totally by individual choice. Tons of great indie games out there.
IANAL but wouldn’t a win for Google achieve the result of amending the law? Everyone will reference Google vs Oracle when challenged. Of course if Google looses then the longer process of amending the law could ensue but that sounds like an uphill battle.
So if I write a small API that for all intents and purposes is identical to one that Oracle owns, but I write it in a different language, is that still infringing on their copyright? It seems that would have to be the case in order for a pro-Oracle ruling to make sense. If not, then everyone has a good reason to stop using Java.
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This. I used to think "fake news" was far-right baloney, but I've come to lose all faith in the journalistic integrity of the New York Times and WaPo. This recent piece for the NYT was a bizarrely flattering story about an anti-gay, anti-Semitic hate group is a good example. They have a narrative to push and will push it with any available facts and information.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/us/black-hebrew-israelite...
It's certainly a downside for society, because there are people who otherwise would have purchased android phones that can't afford them because of the oracle tax.
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> I'm a bit confused about why Congress made appellate jurisdiction with CAFC work they way it does with patent cases.

Economy of justice; otherwise, an appeal of a mixed case would often actually be two separate appeals to separate circuits, each of which would often make some legal decision and remand to the trial court, which would potentially have to wait for both appellate decisions before proceeding, especially if either required a new trial, since those new trials would have overlapping witnesses, etc.
It defaults to some weird combination like "OR but show ANDs first." Very often when I search for one term it will show X results. When I add a second term it shows Y results, where Y>>X. That's logically impossible with AND.
But when it counts, such as during micro-heavy battles, it's much faster and more precise than a human.
Fun observation on the possible reason why they chose Protoss from the publicity standpoint:

Zerg — Too icky for some in the general public

Terran — Too human-like. Might clearly trigger the imagery of human-robot wars.
It means you have two extra special cases: 1) list is empty; 2) left edge is the right edge (I.e. length is 1)
Then wait till Unix rightsholders enforce the copyright on Linux API. This ruling will destroy software engineering in the United States.
Funny you should mention updates. The problem is when the developer wants to keep adding features and release a paid upgrade to make that possible. If you bought through the app store, you're going to have to buy the new version all over again, because there's no way for the developer to offer an upgrade discount.

As for sandboxing, yes it does prevent unscrupulous apps from doing shady things, but it also prevents apps from doing their jobs. The MacOS image viewer that I use is a great app called Xee3. I made the mistake of buying it through the app store instead of through the developer's website. So now when I open an image and hit pagedown to browse to the next image in the directory, I have to click through a popup granting it access to read the directory, which is the app's way of working around the sandbox restrictions. So the app store version is strictly worse.
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I mean, that's straightforwardly not true.

It's a sports term. In sports, when you win, you win fair and square.

Also, you might have a 'home court advantage' if you're playing at home.

I don't see why Nobel prizes would be any different. There are always more people who deserve a prize than receive it.

So yes, you can have both.
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Got an easy problem to solve? Let's make it difficult to reason about and hard to maintain. But no if statements!
It's not something you have to do every day. For Office I check for updates every couple of months. It makes little difference to be a bit behind the latest release.
It would be interesting to know which is worse, but it should be pointed out that being stuck without shelter or water in the bush during these conditions will mean you'll die in a matter of hours.
Exactly. The charge is not "false news"; it's "fake news". Filtered, processed, manufactured, spun, all while generally keeping things technically correct -- the best kind of correct.
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I try to blur the line between pedantry and shitposting.
If I take a book and change the names of all the characters, I will still get sued. Renaming APIs and making a derived work is not in any way certain to prevent lawsuits like this one.

All SQL derives from IBM. Can they sue everyone on the planet? What about the guys who made B or C, can they sue everyone? Where does the insanity stop?
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Google would only be able to sell new versions of Android, mainly starting with 10. They can't revoke the Apache license on Android through version 9.

On top of that, Android 7 already switched to OpenJDK. It no longer uses Harmony as a result in addition to their custom rewrites. So even if Oracle wins, Android hasn't been in violation of any API copyright they have for about two years now.
The term is used figuratively, not literally.

Buckling spring keyboards count, rubber-dome and scissors don't. There's no overarching principle here, if there is, it's how they feel under your fingers.
Honest question - where does one draw the line between what is protected under copyright and what isn't? You mentioned "taxonomies" - what does that mean exactly? Does a single package with one class and one method count? What about two?
There are efforts to build more. search for Scott Weiner if you are in California, and 'yimby' is another keyword.

My personal opinion is that if you want to get approval to build an office building, part of that approval would be talking someone into building a similar number of housing units nearby. I mean, not that they should be owned by the same entity; most of us don't want our housing directly contingent on our employment, but you need to build offices and housing in sync, otherwise you get crazy traffic problems.
Google likely filters out (obvious) credit cards and social security numbers. My theory is that they may suspect another company hired a third-world country click farm to go through and grab large amounts of specific data (or obtaining via other methods, like a rogue extension being used on many "known good" users' G accounts) and are trying to dissuade scraping google for that information. They would much rather you go through the hassle of scraping websites yourself.
The loss to consumers and producers combined is both the oracle tax and the deadweight loss. So the lack of efficiency is measured by the deadweight loss, and the optimal amount of deadweight loss is 0.

But then again, what if phones have a negative externality from a society where no one talks to eachother? The oracle tax might be good for society.
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I'm not sure that it's worth it for most customers to drive their [previously] $500 1080p TV over to a repair shop and pick it back up, even if the repair were free when a new 55" 4K LED TV can be bought for $400...
Two caveats - first, like most things, antibiotic resistance becomes a problem rapidly; second, it turns out crossing the blood-brain barrier reliably is tricky, and not incidentally triggering a severe immune response in destroying whatever you came there to attack is nasty too.

You know, you say that should be a rapid discovery, but "whoops this medication has even stronger effects in a very different domain" is a thing that periodically happens, and because treatment facilities aren't necessarily looking for or even asking the right questions to notice extremely different side effects, you might not see it.

- We realized ketamine had psychiatric benefits from after-the-fact research trying to figure out why some people had better PTSD outcomes than others

- Rogaine was being tested as an ulcer treatment when they noticed its now synonymous effects

- a number of classes of antibiotics have been seeing research publications of "hey I think this might help {depression,bipolar,anxiety,schizoaffective} symptoms" (cycloserine is one I know of offhand) and have all had known possible psychiatric side effects (albeit undesirable ones) on their boxes for decades

- Listerine was originally targeted as a general antiseptic and gonorrhea cure

- dextromethorphan was originally discovered during research for codeine alternatives

- Prozac was discovered from people attempting to improve on observed antidepressant properties in an existing antihistamine (and thus, in turn, turning attention to the entire chain of SSRI and related drug classes)

- MAOIs (the oldest class of antidepressant drugs) were discovered from noticing a tuberculosis drug relieved some depressive patients.

- TCAs (the "less harsh" family of antidepressants compared to MAOIs) were discovered around the same time as MAOIs by spontaneously noticing a synthetic antihistamine relieved depressive symptoms during testing

- One of my favorite serendipitous discoveries is a woman who realized she could smell Parkinson's when her partner developed a weird smell beginning almost a decade before he got a diagnosis, and then noticed all the patients at the support group they attended had the smell too...so she went to some researchers, and now we know there's a dozen or so molecules that are ~uniquely extremely heavily concentrated on the skins and sweat of Parkinson's patients.
There's a cross-license agreement in place there that would certainly cover such case -- even if they were ruled to be implicit.
“Also, learn how to evaluate what people are great at, and put them in those roles. (This is the most important thing I have learned about management, and I haven’t read much about it.)”

Finding and accentuating strengths was a big focus of my previous employer, Rackspace. They used a program based on Strengths Finder [1] to determine your “strengths” and even had them displayed on your corporate ID badge. Their management philosophy was based on putting people in positions based on their strengths.

It seemed a bit hokey at first and it had its problems but it was pretty refreshing compared to the typical corporate environment that espouses working harder to overcome your weaknesses.

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For real life applications, parsing the ”scene” would have impact as it could only convey imperfect information retained. In the game of starcraft the information is perfect when fog of war have been removed this together with unlimited attention (camera viewport) helps action potential and macro planning. No player is ever going to be able to consider precise strategy on the whole map perfectly in their mind. If deepmind wanted to mimic human limitations perfectly they would have to provide imperfect information for AlphaStar, e.g when providing information of locations of objects sample a random variable from a probability distribution which represent the location imperfectly and making that distribution bigger the longer the attention of the A.I wanders from the object both spatialy and temporal. Of course the usefulness of having these limitations is purely to model maximum theoretical human mental capacity and it’s use case could be to help explore strategies that work for actual humans.
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