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This is definitely true. I recently made the transition from full time Engineer to Engineering Manager, and there's a lot more stress involved. It stems from a few different things:

* In most cases, the Manager acts as the communication layer between different departments. They abstract all that stuff away so developers can write code without being interrupted by various people. They then have to communicate that information back down to their team when needed (and in the right way)

* As a developer, you have a deadline, but missing it is often just a "Well, we didn't have the time" or "We tried, but just couldn't quite get there". As a Manager, it's your responsibility to explain why something was late, how it can be remedied in the future, and answering the inevitable "Well when will it be done then?". You're responsible for the overall project, including deadlines.

* Meetings. Not only are there a lot more meetings, they're often made for the schedule of other departments who don't have "the zone" in the same way that developers do. I still write code in my day-to-day, but a 60% reduction in programming time ends up being an 80% reduction in output because you get interrupted, side tracked, and generally don't have time to "ramp up" for >2 hours at a time.

There are many more reasons, but the stress level in the Management role, in my opinion, is a bit higher.
Again, I promise you I understand the physics as well or better than you. So start by presuming that any disagreement we have is from miscommunication, not me being an idiot, and go easy on the all caps.

The misunderstanding you're now addressing arose because it doesn't make sense for you to say "this remains true EVEN AFTER he has received Alice's bits" if you're describing a situation where Alice is always making up the data. (Why would Bob ever look at it if it's always made up? It has nothing to do with the rest of the problem.)

With your clarification, I know understand what you mean by determining "whether or not Alice has measured her photon or not... EVEN AFTER he has received Alice's bits". But this doesn't change my previous comments on the common definition of "state".
Wow. On an iPhone it's incredibly distracting.
If it's not working, then it needs needs to figure out why people aren't engaged. Otherwise, the natural progression is for people to move on to an alternative.
It's also good to note that in any tournament setup, the players would be in a best of 3 or best of 5. That means there's some meta-gaming going on as well. (Will the player go Muta 2 times in a row? or won't they? What did they do in the past?)
Firstly, really great initiative. Looking forward to this. However, arent these two objectives contradictory

"The focus will be on creating a "stable" and easy-to-use operating system"

and

"Our goal is to base our work on the latest upstream versions available"

instead of using more tested and reviewed versions. Unstable drivers are a very common issue making the linux experience hard.
Lots of people do things for free if they feel like they are getting something out of it. Pay is an incentive, but it is not black and white.
From the FAQ (http://boostedboards.com/faq/):

>BRAKING DOWNHILL ON A FULL BATTERY WILL CAUSE BOARD SHUTDOWN since the regen will overcharge the battery. To prevent this from happening, the remote will warn you by beeping, and you’ll lose your braking power. Safely come to a stop before this happens, and ride on flats or uphill to drain the battery.

This seems like a pretty big design flaw.
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Maybe the next employer doesn't have a full time lawyer or doesn't think it's worth the hassle. Or they don't want to hire someone who is going to have to quit in a month because they decide the contract is enforceable.

For what it's worth, I have seen it play out in the exact opposite way. I was working at a company that took great pride in having the best engineering talent and also happened to have a very good (very expensive) in-house counsel. We hired a crop of engineers away from another company and subsequently got a nastygram from the previous company about hiring the guys. If anything, it convinced the management that they made the right decision to hire the guys, and they put the in-house counsel to work shredding the previous company's legal arguments. It was pretty fun to watch.
Agreed.

But Wikinews isn't some just started website. It launched in 2004.

The idea that everyone needs to keep working on it until it's successful is becoming a joke.

It's been a decade. It hasn't worked.

People should feel free to develop an alternative. Wikinews has no right to a monopoly on an idea.
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"Only a giant, international, online community could make this happen." Oh, yeah? It's already being done by an AI. That's what Google News does.

Machines should think. People should work.
not that this negates the finding of the article, but i think it is important to highlight that: "This work was supported by the Dairy Research Institute, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Egg Nutrition Center."
thanks for the self promoted informercial, but you may want to keep positioning as a companion to a sous vide machine, not as better than.
yours is a very different product that does not produce the same output as a sous vide solution.

ex: trying cooking a hard boiled egg to specific consistency, or a delicate piece of fish to the same consistency and internal temperature (with no searing) in the pantelligent. hell, even in the steak example, you cant get sear to sear pink when the high heat is coming from the searing edge.

wake me up the the pan can tell the stove to manage/adjust the heat automatically.
You basically nailed the problem: the generally-accepted status quo is based on flimsy evidence. Our metabolism is complicated and it will likely take decades before we fully understand it, not to mention that different people process calories differently.

Luckily, it's very easy to detect when your diet is having a negative impact on your health and you have time to make changes before heart disease or type 2 diabetes strikes. There's no excuse for not keeping track of your weight and not getting regular blood work to look for risk factors. When these risk factors emerge, very simple changes like eating more vegetables and spending more time walking can be enough to reverse them. Easier said than done of course, but we do have reliable science that shows this.
You need to talk to a lawyer who specializes in Texas employment law ASAP. Do not sign anything that you do not fully understand the implications of, even if your reading of the non-compete agreement and Texas's Covenants Not to Compete Act makes you think the agreement is completely unenforceable.

While you're talking to the lawyer, don't forget to ask if the non-compete agreement is still in effect in the event you're "involuntarily separated" (sacked, with or without cause) from the company. The answer may greatly influence your decision.

Finally, as is mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, do not sign anything because random HR person says whatever you're signing is never really enforced. HR does not work for you, and "but so-and-so in HR said..." is not a strong defense against your signature on a contract. If the non-compete is never enforced, then the company should have no problem with you not signing it.
Interfering with a contract is a tort. If my company hires you, and you have a non-compete, the previous employer can sue my company. It doesn't matter if the contract is legal or not, my company will have to pony up to defend the lawsuit. http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/wrongful-or-to...
The problem with a Turing-complete configuration format is that pretty much the only thing you can do with it is preserve it verbatim, or execute it to see what config it produces. You can't, for example, write a tool to safely update a config file to work with a new version of the software, or to apply some specific update across a bunch of machines, or to catalogue the configurations each machine has.
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Good point. It's important to properly highlight the focused window on desktop so that it's clear where keyboard input goes, and in the screenshots it doesn't look like they do that. I hope the final product fixes that.
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Not the OP, but similar situations. My coping strategy involved vitamins - a generous dosage of B-complex, and a mandatory eating and sleeping regimen. Survived potential burnout myself, and won concessions for team recovery. I've done this a few times now, difficult, but still works.
It's also missing a lot of important functionality if you are trying to implement anything other than the basic case.

A perfect example would be the difference between GCE networking and AWS VPC. GCE networks support routes with priorities and if you insert multiple routes into the routing table with equal priorities it does what you would expect, equal cost multi-pathing.

This makes it really easy to implement proper scalable NAT for private instances, which is just pure pain in AWS VPC.

There are many more examples of this and AWS is not the only culprit, both GCE and Azure have either missing features or mis-features that make me want to flip a desk sometimes.
I'm not sure, but I think it would be more accurate to say they decided not to endorse a government panel's study (perhaps contrary to the default custom).

Which is actually the correct course of action: the government should neither endorse or denounce scientific studies.

Rather, it should be up to real estate investors, insurance companies, homeowners, etc. to decide the level of risk they face from rising water and whether or not they want to take that risk.

And they should not all be required to go by the "official" North Carolina projections. That is just silly. They should be allowed to use their own, independent judgement.
My phone automatically fixes words, I was referring to PHP and sendmail.
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Oddly enough there was the first f1 news item about transport for a long time, this week. The team who were at the bottom of the leaderboard last year, and therefore had the lowest budget and highest debt, were trying to attend this weekend's season finale. They had the cargo at the airport, but not the funding. The funding came a few hours later and the plane had gone. That was how they knew they couldn't attend this weekend.
'North India', 'Nepal' and the like are reasonably clear locations based on modern states but China and Tibet's relationship to it is less clear in what you say, both for its current status (let's not forget most of historic Tibet is not in the Tibetan Autonomous Region) and history of shifting borders and smaller states.
> The above shows the US East region in Ashburn, Virginia. It has five availability zones, and these are protected areas that are isolated from each other by a couple of kilometers ...
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That is just pointless. Remember the Leistungsschutzrecht where german newspapers got a law passed which forced Google to pay royalties for Google News excerpts?

Google just delisted them entirely, the newspapers saw a massive traffic drop and decided to allow Google to use their excerpts for free.

In case this gets through, Google will simply close shop in the EU, wait for the population to cry up, and after the EP/EC have realized their mistake, come back again.
Addendum: I also note that Pakistan, Peru and Nepal report very low suicide rates versus world averages. Usual questions about what "report" means, but one would probably think they would discuss this apparent problem with their theory.
How is this still a question? Responsive. Next question.
I would think the courts would recognize a difference between advertising to the end user for the purpose of purchase/consumption, and advertising to 3rd parties as part of a compatibility protocol.

The UA string is not visible to the consumer, and wouldn't affect the number of people who download and install the browser.

Its only purpose is to ensure compatibility with the server after the browser has already been installed.

Also I wouldn't say the browser is actually impersonating another browser. If it was trying to impersonate, the UA string would need to match the other browser exactly and it doesn't attempt to do that. The string is still uniquely identifiable as an IE11 UA.
Why not simply let the factory do it for you? I foresee a market for prepared sous vide meats that are sealed well enough to store for weeks or even months on the shelf. Goodbye salmonella. From what I've read, this is how restaurants are already doing it.
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There's enough evidence that plastics leak harmful chemicals into our food that I don't want to eat anything that's been sitting in a plastic bag in warm water for hours on end. No thanks.
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“Security” is not something you can relegate to an IDS. Security must be embedded in each program from the start.
I know some one who works on these big product launches ad he commented that hiring a transport 747 to do a UK-USA run was actually relatively cheap
My perfect Sous Vide machine would be a Mellow[0] with an API.
I want to throw some eggs (or other breakfast items) in the Mellow at night, it flips to a refrigerate option, and then hooks up with my alarm (physical or on phone) to make sure the eggs start cooking a few minutes before I wake up, so they're perfect when I roll out of bed. Then I'll empty the machine, throw dinner in, and it'll automatically be ready by the time I get home. Even if it means throwing the steak in the pan for 5 mins, I'm ok with that.

I almost bought one, but no API makes these way less awesome.

[0] http://cookmellow.com/meet-mellow/
Err... Money???

Most people will (rightfully) settle for money. Because people need love, and to demonstrate love you need to show that you care, that you're willing to give something up in a hard situation. And the only thing a company cares for is money. So, I want said company to give me money. More money than the 'manager'. Because I can do their job just as badly as they are doing it, but they can't do mine at all.

I don't want your stupid titles and shit - those are cheap. Cash is what will hurt you. Pay up if you care!

And when people realise they have to pay you or lose you, then you get respect. Priceless!!!
You mean a super cookie?

Not only would this violate tracking laws in some areas, but who would ever want to use such a thing?
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Where can I buy one? I'll start digging in my backyard ;)
Is 90% efficiency really feasible for electrical -> mechanical -> electrical?
the problem is that those companies took investor money and the purpose of them is to in the very mininum, turn a profit. Most startups don't focus enough on making money from the start and go out of business.

Looking at most of the startups in my local area, I can almost immediately tell which ones will be out of business.

hoping for a buyout isn't a business model.
Look how they buried me for even mentioning it.
I look forward to Elon Musk's proposal for unconventional energy storage, because he wouldn't dare call it anything other than Eccentricity.
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>not a swipe at you at all

no problem! :)
They haven't put out any updates since May, it seems. Do we have any idea if they're still going to manage to ship in "early 2015"?
If your team can't pick a single style and stick with, it is exceedingly unlikely that whitespace will be your biggest source of problems.
File servers should really have Looooots of ram. after all its cheap cache (compared to a fusion io card) Our file servers have 384 gigs of ram. The next gen will probably have much more.
Might have in the past, I have yet to see any rendering glitches from it.

Now, some of the about:config options that were proposed as alternate workarounds definitely caused very weird rendering glitches, but this one seems mostly side-effect free.
Fish is absolutely great with Pantelligent; in fact, salmon is probably my #1 favorite.

Eggs (not specifically hard boiled -- huh?) are really excellent too. Low temperature scrambled eggs, omelettes, higher temperature fried eggs. It's a pan -- really versatile.
"We also think these breakouts aren’t necessarily a good way to judge accelerators."

Is Y Combinator a bit arrogant to say that the success of its startups is a bad a metric for evaluating their success? If it is a bad metric, what's a good metric?
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At this point, I don't think it's fair to imply that btrfs is lagging behind ZFS. Yes, there are quite a few things that ZFS does better than btrfs, but btrfs isn't following in ZFS's footsteps and has some killer features that ZFS will never have, like on-the-fly changing between RAID modes and resizing arrays in either direction.
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> Ask them if they are proposing to pay your full salary for that 4 year period!

Plus more for the four year experience gap (if you can't really do anything else related to your old job).
I really like the idea of summarizing various source in infobitt. But I think it still suffers from some points outlined in "News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier" [0].

E.G. not living in the states, half of the "top news" section is pretty irrelevant to me and the relevancy of the others seems to be based on the personal interests of the tech sawy contributors. I'm sure this gets better once more people are using it. But i guess having some noise is unavoidable.

The nice thing about this crowd approach might or might not be, that only provable facts are quoted and fewer false accusations are made. Thats mostly the reason why I stopped following news after the Utøya massacre in 2011 and later quitted my job at a news site.

Is there already an API one can fiddle around with? I think there is a huge potential in being able to use that data and hopefully feed stuff back. In my opinion, the problem with journalism today is not journalism itself but the distribution of content and the lack of choice how to consume it.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rol...
Military is known for using aerospace-level glues such as Loctite to quickly close bleeding wounds of soldiers (~5 seconds). Is this something similar or a completely different idea?
These days? Have they ever published a neutral, trying-to-be-objective piece on anything?
As someone with a fair amount of experience on an electric board (ZBoard type), I like that Boosted puts the battery packs and electronics at either end of the board. Other boards have the battery pack in the middle and it gets in the way of clearing obstacles.

Also, hand controller works nicely for me so I see no obvious advantage to having my weight distribution impact the board's motion.
Rather than bespoke, hopefully commodity. We've already switched to commodity networking hardware, and will never go back where possible. (Currently big edge routers still need to be from proprietary vendors, I believe.)
Profits? The distribution of returns on investments is not flat.
This article fails to take forking into account, which I feel largely nullifies its point. I'm not saying that reinventing the wheel is always bad, but to leave out forking is to construct a pretty weak straw man.
Your portfolio may be small but it seems to be tasteful and well executed. Keep at it. I'm afraid I don't have anything practical to offer you, just a general advice of trying to expand your contact circle, for example getting in touch with people online, making design contributions to open source projects, writing a few blog articles, publishing more work samples. Also on the first day of each month HN has a post where people can advertise that they're looking for work (full time or freelance).
What determines the depth of the whole?

I mean, since E = mgh, you can get the same energy storage capacity with a less deep hole if you use a heavier weight. And you can get a heavier weight either by using more expensive material (why use a cheap one? it's not like it's going to wear or anything), or a larger hole.

I'm not sure what determines the cost of digging a whole, but I suspect depth matters more than area.

Also, does the shaft has to be vertical? You could dig it with a sharp slope, and put your weight on rails. That would make the shaft longer for the same depth, but it would probably be easier to build and maintain.
I've heard some people complain that F1 and similar sports are a waste of money, but something to keep in mind about these events is their engineering all trickle down into modern day cars. Through the rules enacted, engineers must develop new ways to create fast, powerful cars. The new techniques and inventions all trickle down into the average consumer vehicles. I think it's wonderful that our sports are defining our future.
> such as HiDPI support.

That is by no means an accurate statement. GTK's HiDPI support involves an integer scaling factor for the whole desktop, and that's it.

Qt/KDE on the other hand allows you to simply specify the size and dpi of your display and everything will scale accurately, aided by the fact that KDE uses SVG icons.
So how many joules can it contain?

I mean, technically I can get a super cap the size of jam jar to kick out 1 kw, just not for very long.

A watt is a unit of how much energy is expended in a second, not how much energy is stored. There is a reason why hydrostations in wales use lakes to store energy, because you need a lot of mass at great height to be of any use.
I was a big Xen guy back in the day.

The big takeaway from Hamilton's talk was actually something that dawned on me when they released the c3/m3/i2 instances which is what they have done with SR-IOV.

The software stack that implements the AWS VPC fast path must be running on the NIC itself. This is a big deal.
Being able to implement the require isolation/tunneling/encapsulation logic and routing in the NIC is a huge performance boost and drastically simplifies the hypervisor. Well, the software portion of the hypervisor atleast.

If you listened closely to the talk he laid out the differences in latency impact of each layer in the networking stack, from the fibre (nanoseconds) up to the software stack at some number of milliseconds, several orders of magnitude worse than anything else in the stack.

The reason why the quoted latency is so large is how para-virtualized networking is implemented. In order for it to be (bandwith) performant it needs to use large ring buffers with many segments. This is very throughput optimised and latency suffers a ton as a result.

By moving all of the queuing to the NIC you get a bunch of benefits, namely the dom0 (basically the host in Xen terminology) is no longer involved in pushing packets and you are not incuring the cost of the Linux networking stack 2x. In the paravirt model the skbs are transferred across the circular buffer into the host OS where they are injected into a virtual interface, thus traversing the full net stack again.

In the SR-IOV model the address space of the virtual NIC is mapped into the guest OS using Intel's IO-MMU extensions and the guest is then able to communicate directly with the NIC, thus 100% bare metal performance.

If SR-IOV was the only improvement it would be impressive, however it's the consequence of it's existence which makes the biggest difference. If the guest is talking directly to the NIC, then all of the encap/decap is HW accelerated too and in theory this means the full networking stack is end-to-end in HW.
> Multiple applications are switching to it from GTK.

Which ones? Not disputing you, I don't keep up with Linux desktop these days.
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