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Strange Goings On, What a World We Live in – 3
Well I do hope you will be able to print photos over bluetooth or at least USB (since android already can work as usb host IIRC?).

If it can't, then yes, I'm back to being skeptical.
Debian: A plea to worry about what matters,
Looks great, except the fading of the main part of the screen when the footnote displays. Gets annoying fast.
This seems much more plausible to me than the microwave thruster previously reported all over the internet. I think it's a clever application of relativity and motion. It feels crazy to say this, but it seems to be on a solid theoretical footing.
Now I've got that "Final Countdown" song stuck in my head. :(
Generally, I think the value of programming at an early age is that you have the time and context to develop an earnest interest in programming. You're doing it for fun. And then when you proceed to take courses on it, you're genuinely excited to learn, and you're not just struggling for a passing grade.

Most of this is just the broken nature of schooling.
It's all anyone seems to write about these days, which I assume is because it garners the clicks. I don't mean that women are actually running things, but rather that the topic of women is pretty much a constant theme in startup journalism these days, for better or worse.

What's Matasano's policy on hiring lesbian Alaskan Muslims?
What is L.O.B?
Structuring tests in Go
DEC field engineer? That's handy, my waffle maker is broken. ;)
Hey joshstrange, SnapJet's top has a corner registration feature and you can tell the app what model your phone is to adjust the position/size.
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Ah, seems like I've mixed up the reactionless drives - I thought it was also part of the tests at Eagleworks.
Line Of Business?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/jj65907...
I'd agree except for this bit:"ndeed, a practical implementation of a UMM can already be accomplished by using memelements such as memristors, memcapacitors or meminductors, although the concept can be implemented with any system with memory, whether passive or active. For instance, in this work we have proposed a simple topologically-specific architecture that, if realized in hardware, can solve the subset-sum problem in just one step with a linear number of memprocessors"
That seems to be pretty suspicious to me.
I am from India and on H1B visa in United States. I still don't understand why there is more hustling in recent years about women participation ? Be it playing games, developing games, women in tech or women in NFL or women in ______ ( fill in blank here).

I studied engineering in India from one of the premier university and 30 % of my class were girls. Toppers of the class for all 4 years were girls. I know at least 50-80 girls from India and China in my linkedin contacts who are actively engaged int tech.

Keeping aside social problems faced by women in India for a bit ( and excluding poor people) , still there is very high participation from girls / women in India.
Throughout my education of 1st to 12th grade there were more girls than more boys in my class.

So my question is ----

1. Why is US only facing this problem of women in ..... ?

2. Is this some political gimmick being played for 2016 preparation ( and I ask with all seriousness without affiliation to any party )

I have always considered people in US are more vocal about their rights, responsibilities and more aware of problems in general. Lately though, I see lots of thought policing happening, view manipulation going on at large.

My last and most important question is ,

3. Since you folks are now actively advertising and creating social conditions for women's participation in tech are you not depriving them of their freedom to choose whichever path women in US prefer ? In an ideal scenario, women would have tech as one of choice for career and not necessarily manipulative information representing tech is only best choice career.
I wrote Scott Aaronson about this and he showed me where he already addressed this on his blog:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2053#comment-269770

Note the response from one of the authors of this paper:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2053#comment-270906

And Scott's response to that:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2053#comment-271488
There are plenty of formalisms that can solve all of NP in polynomial time. Problem is, they are all theoretical and there is no compelling reason to believe any of them can be actually constructed given the laws of physics.
I'm sorry people copied your work. I've been there, and I know how frustrating it can be. But you should probably just get over it. This is the reality of the tech world. Good ideas that are easy to copy will be copied.

I'm not above a few snarky remarks when it happens, but I think there's very little to gain (and potentially something to lose) from trying to get your customers or the Internet at large upset about it. People that copy often don't really understand the nuance of how things work anyway, so the copy is often worse than the original. Just keep making better products.
with replaceState, you get the best of both worlds - bookmarkable slides and no history foo.
Qt started long before C++11, as I'm sure you know, and lambdas weren't available for the 10 years prior. The big advantage of the MOC from my perspective is the signals and slots. Sure, most of the buttons are just a callback. But there are times when something in the UI needs to change based on another piece of the UI. With signals and slots, neither object needs to know about each other, the function creating them connects the signals. So you can connect(togglableMenuItem, enabled(), uiObject, setEnabled()); and with one line of (pseudo-ish) code, when you toggle to menu item, the object will be enabled and greyed out, as appropriate.

You can do this with callback objects, but it's kind of clunky if the pieces of the UI that need to communicate are far apart in the widget hierarchy. The worst is if you need to notify a component inside a widget (or several levels down); then you have to pass the object all the way down. Or you can go with something like Java's observer pattern, which from my experience is a whole lot of annoying boiler-plate which the MOC avoids.

You only need to run headers of QObjects through MOC, although that is most of them if you are using Qt, obviously. I tend to prefer qmake over make, as you don't have to deal with non-GNU make on Solaris, AIX, etc., although that is less of a feature these days. (QMake on Windows is not too fun, but I try to avoid using Windows in the first place.) It is also really easy to add pieces of Qt without needing to remember what libraries you need to add. Need OpenGL? "QT += gl" (or something like that) Want the optimized version on all platforms? "QT += release"
If you look at the features section of the GitGub project, it says it is based on dateutil and actually added features on top of it.
Hasn't that meme died yet? Well, I for one won't help keep it alive by pointing to the recently discovered talk video found here:....
> Using Chrome on Linux also might have something to do with it...

The switch to NaCl/WebRTC instead of the NPAPI plugin is what made Hangouts on Linux actually starting working for me.
I have no idea what that line means, but I am for some reason now thoroughly creeped out.
Yup. There is nothing there in terms of hardware that can't be simulated on a regular computer in polynomial time.
Looking at the alleged copying, I note a few issues, one is that by the essential nature of the business, these pages must appear similar in some fashion. "Who needs to sign" is fairly generic and an essential question related to the core business, both of which you are in.

I can see a world where both of these designs were raised in a vacuum and came to similar conclusions.
True, still a ton of cleanup, old silverlight video/content/systems to clean up. I bet content costs are a little higher as well with many formats having to be pushed to the edges rather than one VC-1 format.

I wonder why haven't they moved all systems/browsers to it if their html5 player side and content is up to speed? I usually watch in Safari because I work in Chrome/Firefox for dev typically.
By the scope and polish, it's obvious many hundreds of hours of work have been invested in this library. It's at least as comprehensive as Bootstrap or Foundation, and only a casual review is needed to see that it's a lot easier to use then either. And yet all the comments are about the CSS transform in the header, or a knee jerk snipe about the name of the framework itself.
Yes. Back-office support software.
Let me guess. You didn't even read the article and simply did ctrl+f h1-B, which didn't give you any results, because it's a typo.
How We Made It During Our First Two Years Without Relying on Investors
There's growing evidence that fear is hugely counterproductive. That's because the relentless stress is causes turns out to be an inhibitor of economic growth, rather than an accelerant. If the economy is, in fact, being run on fear then it's safe to say that it's seriously underperforming vis-a-vis an economy in which people generally felt happy and secure.

https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-hard-data-on-being-a-nice-boss
Cool, but no links to source code?
New IFTTT Channel Tracks GitHub, Rubygems and NPMJS
It took python about 15 years before it took off in popularity.
You could say they just learnt from the Hipchat announcement and remebered to address the issue head-on which makes it seem like they really care. But in the end the problem is exactly the same and your company will now have access to whatever you write including private chats. Personally that means I'll ensure to avoid private chat on Slack and use external tools again on top of everything I already use which is clearly annoying.
can I use Bluetooth to beam the picture into SnapJet instead of scanning it in?. Coz, the when scanned, the brightness depends on how bright my screen is, proximity sensor off, smudges on screen, misaligned phone, possible screen interruptions like incoming SMS, notifications, statusbar, etc.
BT is clean and since u are targeting smartphones, its hard to find a phone without BT
Even inside Facebook Flux isn't used everywhere; Yes, for heavier modelling, sure. But for most common cases you're very fine with using only js objects.
To me it looks like they have exponential growth in the number of connections between the memory elements. This would account for having exponential storage while still not violating any physical principles (also, it would not be nearly as useful as they imply).
I've read and commented on many of these posts (the latest one far too frequently! :-) ). Excellent stuff.
How Go Shaped Splice Engineering Culture (Go Birthday Bash Series)
What are you trying to say? I should shut up, because nobody cares about my opinion or something else?
One of the bad things about current plate designs that is not addressed by this is readability from an OCR perspective.

Some legitimate (read: non-state spying, such as permitless parking) License Plate Recognition (LPR) software/hardware uses need more legible plate numbers/state info. It would be nice if these included a QR code containing state and number info.
It's different in practice because languages have built-in "opinions" (often codified by syntax, or the standard library, or other ways) that heavily influence their ecosystem.

Functional javascript, or python, is not awesome because the default datastructures are mutable, and the ecosystem of libraries are written in an OOP style using mutable data structures. There is some small value in writing the code you control in as FP a way as possible, but you aren't going to have a ton of success in that unless you are willing to rewrite your dependencies to also be more functional.

ReactJS may be a killer app that can influence javascript's "opinions" at the ecosystem scale, but that is going to take more time. I've been using ReactJS since it came out as tech lead on small teams, and it was not without challenges to get an OOP trained team to use React well, and to avoid the OO parts of React.

Edit: In theory, yes, if you could somehow statically enforce that your C code (and dependencies, including the OS) have no side effects, then some hypothetical compiler could combine your imperative C statements into functional expressions, though I don't know what advantage that would give you. Maybe I have misunderstood your post.
That's the fun thing: contrary to public opinion, they aren't legally a government entity. But contrary to their marketing materials, they aren't truly independent either.

They get a huge amount of money from the government (the post office claims this isn't a subsidy since they provide services for the money), and they need Congress to approve efforts to raise prices, lower costs, change service, etc.

Years ago I tried to keep track of the various distinctions between different non-government organizations (e.g., the Federal Reserve is one form of a government corporation, while Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a different form) until I realized that the distinctions almost never mattered. How important is it that the Federal Reserve issues stock, given that the stock can't be sold and provides no voting rights? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac weren't backed by the full faith and credit of the government, but got bailouts anyway (largely because they followed Congress' bidding as far as policy was concerned). The post office has been losing billions for years, and it doesn't take much to realize most people expect it to get a government bailout that would never be offered to UPS or FedEx.
Given the software engineering tools available in 1976 (and again in 1994), can you offer a defensible reason he should've been more enthusiastic?
Scale back a bit, and have a look at Lua! If you've got C chops, you can learn to put Lua anywhere .. its another way to look at the same problem, albeit in a similarly compact fashion...
That makes a lot of sense to me; Rust is a much more ambitious and interesting - from a programming language point of view - project than Go. I think that it as a language would appeal much more to the prototypical "language geek" (or at least the impression that I have of such people, including myself).

That's not to slam Rust for being "over-complex"/"ivory tower", or slam Go for being "simplistic". But Rust tries to solve such a hard problem - be expressive without any unnecessary overhead, retain memory safety - that it seems to naturally lead to a design and language that appeals to people that are interested in programming languages "for their own sake". Meanwhile Go tries to be sufficiently expressive and then get out of your way to solve whatever problem in whatever domain that you're trying to solve.
The Exponential Information Overhead can't be simulated in poly time.
That's on the order of the cost to buid new Intel fab.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricati...
Ask HN: Do you still use Emails?
Yeah, and culture would be free.
No I think he means in the wider society. And I don't necessarily agree.

That said a lot of us has grown up in places were women were (and are) given advantages at every point from kindergarden until they finish school. When I was younger it used to annoy me. Not so much anymore but it might explain his views.

Edit: enlighten me, what did I do to deserve downvotes so I can avoid doing it again?
Site should show a "Fork me on Github" Ribbon, otherwise you can find the source code here: https://github.com/wardbekker/search
>You mean other than Notch, or anyone in ...

Heh, good comment about Notch, and the others you mention too.
For those who don't know, from the Wikipedia article about Notch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson :

"He is planning to stop working on this game after a recent deal with Microsoft to sell Minecraft for 2.5 billion dollars."

A huge outlier, of course, but the potential exists.
Legitimately, what would you propose instead if you were running Slack, or a company like Slack?

Would you prefer to run a company that maintains a retainer for quality legal counsel in every nation (and potentially every state/province) where a user purchases your software? Would you want to welcome lawsuits from any user, regardless of if they pay you as little as $6/month?
Nice seing some D coverage on HN again.

It's a language that deserves to be re-evaluated.
Was waiting for someone to say this. Checkout the examples - duplication is for functional usage only.
Util methods are written to work well with JS internals like Array methods (eg. map).
I should probably make this point more clear in the docs... Thanks!
I would buy one without the "screen scanner" because I'm an otherwise knowledgeable user and scanning the display sounds clunky and stupid.
I disagree- most of my savings come from the ability to
a) shut off when we leave the house. You can program a thermostat to your work schedule and weekend schedule, but ours varies by enough that I would never be diligent enough to keep up with it(and I shouldnt have to be)
b) take in consideration the external temperature and the properties of my house to know when to start cooling it down.
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That's the big unanswered question, I like the idea but scanning seems dated and prone to issues (especially since I have a larger phone that wouldn't fit in those corner guards). Ideally I could get a BT/BLE-only model for cheaper but they won't be offering that. Best case it can scan or use the optional app to do BT/BLE transfer.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate.
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Funny. My legal system did not allow class action lawsuits to begin with. Has very little impact :)
I think the "high profile people" are not afraid of the robotic entity being nativity good or evil rather the affect the AI device has on humanity being detrimental to overall human advancement. For example, look at how smart phones have caused people to only be able to recall a handful of phone numbers.
That's true. It might be that under some theoretical assumptions their model could actually solve an instance of an NP-hard problem, but it could also be that the physical realization doesn't scale.

They report solutions for a few small cases of subset sum, I would be more interested to see it run on something with say a few thousand variables.

(After all similar claims have been made about other analog systems, like soap bubbles, etc.)
Here's a relatively recent post from the LRUG mailing list with a bunch of jobs in it:

https://gist.github.com/stevenwilkin/76cdb6a1680c18192c2d

Another from the same guy from a while back outlining the market in general:

https://gist.github.com/stevenwilkin/ad97636243757b03c25b

Average rate has been around £400/day the last year or so though if you can tell your ass from your elbow it's not difficult to charge more.
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Well, for most situations here, it's because City/State police are underfunded and understaffed and cannot meet the needs of a small city like a University in a timely manor. The law enforcement officers for a University typically train the same as city police and abide by the same/similar governing regulations.

For a campus that may have 30,000-50,000 people on it at any given time, you do need to be able to have quick responses when an incident does occur. The campus police at my local university actually do more than a typical police department might -- sending out txt messages to all students when there is an incident or threat, update details frequently, Help Call Boxes in the parking lot for at night, etc. They even handle situations when a student pulls the alarm during finals week (something that an outside police department would not be able to rapidly respond to and would get annoyed with quickly).

Some universities even have their own fire departments. Most have medical staff on duty for students as well. Some even have dentists and optometrists, etc. They really are "small cities".
Ok but my phone won't be able to fit flush with the scanner as the corner guards you have in your video/pictures would cause it to be 1/4" or so off the scanning surface. How do you account for that? Also I feel like phone cases are going to play hell with this.
Ah, most noticably, it'd be an interesting alternative for BSD/MIT (and Apache?) proyects including the *BSD family of OSs.
I think the most important feature is that it be difficult to decode algorithmically :-)
My understanding was that "reasonability" is more complicated than this, and that expectation of privacy is a factor, but an equally important one is the balancing of the government's interest (and the legitimacy of that interest). A search might still be unreasonable even if its subject has no reasonable expectation of privacy, right?
why not just use NFC or bluetooth?

seems like a lot of additional engineering/hardware for worse quality. even the minor hassle of a cable connection would be worth it, no one is going to carry this thing around, it's gonna be on some desk somewhere where a dock or cable would easily be no problem.
As your cousin post notes, Devlin isn't ignoring "machine checked" proofs.

The question of whether machines can write proofs that can be "human checked" is the far more interesting question to a mathematician. Otherwise, they'd be software engineers (which Devlin hints at in this essay).
Nothing's indispensible, particularly on the Internet. So why complain? Just go and find another environment. If you can't, build one.

I used to complain about Delicious and after a while I stopped complaining and decided to use another service. As simple as that.
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