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Ya I didn't mean it literally. Thank you for reading!
Syd Mead, the Artist Who Illustrates the Future
He also answers to nobody. If you want to escape the constraint of the work environment, you have to found your own company or go freelance.
Hey that is another interesting point, thanks:

>"the schedule of technical interest payments they will have to pay one way or the other if they are still in business."
If you meant to say that the limits should be revised, may I suggest using wording that actually carries that meaning? I find it hard to see an argument about revising limits in the statement: "limiting medallions creates market inefficiencies which is no good to anyone"
"Rhoads defended the procedure, calling the officers’ actions “on point.” It’s not standard to conduct investigations beforehand because that delays the apprehension of suspects, he told me."

That is dereliction of a police officer's duty. The entire purpose of a police force is to investigate potential crimes, and then, if it is determined that a crime has occurred, to arrest those involved. This man, a shift commander, is literally saying that their policy is to shoot first and ask questions later. He should, at a minimum, be fired. Additionally, if he has actually structured his department in a way that has officers arresting people without prior investigation, he and all others carrying out this policy should be criminally prosecuted for false imprisonment.
Company A made a chocolate fountain for the "public" to see. People enjoyed it. Company B thought this is a great opportunity to make cakes out of it. Because the fountain is "public" they made this as the source of their cake business. Company A complained to take down the fountain and....

Well you know the rest of the story. :)
"Rich" is accurate. Fairfax County is #2 in the US for median household income.

"White" not so much. It's about 63% white, which is similar to the nation as a whole.

"Suburban" for sure.

So I'd say two out of three on that one.
He's not talking about police officers' weapons.

People in Germany usually don't carry weapons.
Economically, even if Sandra Bland didn't die and served a few days in jail, this whole situation seems like such an mindless waste of resources. Sure, maybe she should have used her turn signal, but how does it her serve her municipality well at all well by jailing someone like this? The expenses of police and judicial resources on each side must be enormous.
Planes, trains, and automobiles up close from afar with Nikon’s 83× zoom
fastmail.fm is where people disillusioned with GMail traditionally go.
I'm getting "plugin not found", but I was able to load up http://www.pdc.arizona.edu:1935/enr2_hummingbird/enr2_hummin... in VLC no problem
And highly restricted. People are not allowed to carry, concealed or not, unless they are on their their way to and from hunting, for example. At home they have to be locked up in a safe. And so on.
How is it relevant? The question is whether Darren Wilson was justified in using lethal force. The standards for the use of lethal force by police do not, to my knowledge, contain any mention of previous criminal activity by the suspect.

The typical standard in the US is that lethal force is only justified when the person represents an immediate danger to others. I personally think it should go a bit farther than this and also explicitly state that lethal force must be the last resort, i.e. that the person must not only present a danger to others, but that lethal force must be the only way to stop it. Either way, the fact that Michael Brown had just stolen stuff doesn't come into it.
Regulation like this would be absurd considering anyone can legally publish their salary publicly. Salaries are not public because employees want them not to be public.

I don't want lawmakers or trade unions undermining my right to privacy under some manipulative power-play guise of "fairness". We are all free to make our salaries public, if we think it is in our best interest to do so, let's talk about and focus on that and not be so naive as to believe regulations will magically solve a cultural issue.
A number of things... The first thing is that Neo is not a coprocessor, it is a fully independent many core processor. To quickly go over the basics:

1. Neo has a 64 bit core, and conforms the IEEE 754-2008 Floating Point standard... Epiphany is 32 bit, and is not fully IEEE compliant (along with only being capable of single precision FP).

2. The existing Epiphany chips cap out at 32KB of local memory per core (with the Epiphany IV having a total of 2MB of on chip memory), while the planned Neo chip will have 128KB of local memory per core (32MB of on chip memory).

3. Epiphany is limited to using it's 4 eLink (based on ARM's AXI interface) connectors to access the outside world, and would typically be connected to either other Epiphany chips or to its host processor. Each eLink port only supports 1.6GB/s bidirectional traffic, giving a total of 6.4GB/s of aggregate chip bandwidth. For Neo, we have developed a new 96GB/s (bidirectional, 48GB/s each way) interface with either 3 or 4 interfaces per chip, giving an aggregate chip-to-chip bandwidth of 288-384GB/s.

4. Neo can directly address DRAM attached to it, instead of having to go through a host processor.

5. Neo is a Quad issue VLIW core (capable of a 64 bit ALU op, 1 64 bit FPU op/2 32 bit FPU ops, and 2 load/store ops every cycle) compared to Epiphany's standard superscalar core (Capable of 1 32 bit ALU op, 1 32 bit FPU op, and 1 load/store op per cycle).

All of this adds up to actually being a commercially viable (for industry, not hobbyists) processor. Above all, memory bandwidth has been what kills Epiphany and completely prevents it from reaching their advertised performance.
> My friend is a paid customer of Google Apps. In part of the process he called called Google Apps, and they immediately disabled his Apps account but -- but they couldn't or wouldn't do anything else including helping him escalate to the right people

I would be calling sales and support until I got someone who could do something. I would call any number related to Google - including for services not even related to gmail.

> Meanwhile the scammer is making threats to his family and pretending to be him send out emergency BTC loan requests and resetting bank passwords.

But if his account is disabled how is the scammer sending out emails?

> He could be SWAT'd at any moment.

That is very unlikely and if it did it would have to churn through the legal system first.

> a trivial 5 minute look at the account and seeing the ransom artist texting him

That is a sticky situation - many would argue that Google shouldn't read another user's email. And that's probably why support is an issue.
You are welcome.

I totally agree I screwed the pooch and having 20 years of experience didn't save me. Ironically I had made sure we were giving back to the community but missed some opportunities that would have saved us time and money. Oh well, this year we will add the code to the modules we use. It is on our to do so we remove unnecessary dependencies we added.
I disagree with both GP and the immigration laws affecting these people, but the term "illegals" to describe them strikes me as an innocuous shorthand for "people of illegal immigration status." It carries no implicit judgment of the people or the laws; it just states the relationship of the former to the latter.

This trend of casual libel against others, claiming intent and meaning that you can't possibly know, is worrying.
Haskell web servers have been faster than nginx on single and multi-core micro-benchmarks for years. Not implausible at all that someone using assembler could do better still.
Traditional anthropological ingroups and outgroups are defined by "random" characteristics: ethnicity, language, religion, dress, etc.

Many previous well-known essays and studies have pointed out that the primary difference between Blue and Red is that they perceive ethics (not just ingroup traditions/taboos/etc. and folkways) differently.

In the modern day, if not the past, we can tolerate outgroups that have different taboos (eating shellfish), have different mandatory standards of politeness (bowing, formal versus informal address to seniors and strangers), etc.

In the modern day we have narrowed down the set of things where it is acceptable to take the high moral ground on differences.

It's no longer ok to hate (or even disapprove) on the basis of differences in ethnicity, language, religion, etc.

But there are still other morals; for most Reds it's acceptable to disapprove various things that have become unacceptable to disapprove to Blues, and both parties regard the other side as immoral on those points.

I fault the current article for not taking into account those past essays and studies.
In general 54-bit signed ints are enough for games. Floats are more common for math.
So fact is Chauvinistic? Are you kidding? I am not even a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Chauvinistic? Unbelievably stupid!
Technical debt is more manageable when the core business data is accesible and in sort of usable state. Otherwise a lot of time is lost on improving the state of the data. Time that could be used to create features people will pay for. That's the only constant I've ever recognized in failing startups
Show HN: Cirqus.xyz anonymous channel chat (react+parse)
OGG audio recording in Chrome
Tackling the Awkward Squad: Interaction with the world in Haskell (2010) [pdf]
The solution in the US is supposed
to be US democracy.

A first step is freedom of the press
so that citizens can become informed.

A second step is for problems to be
exposed in the press as in the OP.

A third step is for citizens in the
area with such problems to inform
their elected officials that the police
need better supervision to solve the problems.

Fourth, with enough concern from voting
citizens, the political supervision
of the police needs to tell the police
chief, etc. to clean up their act.

If problems continue, then the mayor,
etc. needs to get the Chief of Police
a new job, say, cleaning the sidewalks
with a toothbrush -- "Get'm nice and
clean, now, y'hear. Good to see you
doing well at the work you are best
suited for.".

With more concern, lawyers, including
the local prosecutors, can bring legal
cases against the police. As in
Baltimore now, a few serious legal
cases against the police can
calm down the whole police force like a few
million pills of Valium.

Net, via our democracy, the power,
essentially all of the power, really
overwhelming power, is fully in the
hands of the voting citizens. All
citizens have to do is find a
sympathetic candidate and pull a lever
in a voting booth.

With any kind of serious activity
by voting citizens, police arrogance
can disappear like a snowball
in a hot July in Vegas.

The police need to be worried now:
Somewhere in the US is a billionaire
who believes in the US Constitution
and is ready to spend a little money
to set up police sting operations,
have hidden cameras recording everything,
make a really big public story about the
abuses, have teams of lawyers
filling the court dockets with every
legal case they can come up with,
and then organizing some political
activity to get the politicians on
board.

The story for the police? Simple:
Clean up your act on your own or the voters,
politicians, and lawyers will do it
for you.

Too much of the police have talked to
themselves too much and talked themselves
into believing a lot of nonsense reasons
why they should treat the citizens like
dirt. Well, that treatment and those
reasons won't cut it, not for even a minute,
once the sunlight shines on the situation --
instead, voters, politicians, and lawyers
have the power, overwhelming power,
and will stop the nonsense.
Chisel doesn't require co simulation, as it is actually RTL in itself... it describes actual logic (registers and gates) instead of the functionality of the chip (as MyHDL does). Chisel being actually RTL makes it much easier for actual hardware engineers to use, but still allows for very powerful paramaterization that cuts down on total number of lines that have to be written. I would even say that it being embedded within Scala helps software engineers who have basic knowledge of hardware be able to be much more productive than if they were trying to write in Verilog.

Getting into my opinion here: High level synthesis has never been (and I doubt for a long time) able to beat an experienced RTL engineer because of that fact that a software description (such as MyHDL, Clash, SystemC, etc) of a piece of logic will never map perfectly to hardware. Chisel doesn't have this problem, as you are just describing (or "constructing") the logic itself. No "translation" process happens, and thus you don't have any problem actually simulating at the same RTL level as Verilog.
Nonsense. They are not exploited.
Thanks, I really appreciate your responses.

What's to stop you passing a struct or object with the two monadic functions attached, or ignore the function requirement (for the case of state) and pass the struct with the state and result in it? The benefit being that you can package up more than just one value in that (immutable) structure along with the 'specialness'. I don't see why that is less typesafe.
> But in the real-world, the shopkeeper would have to ask you to leave.

Craigslist sent them notice and IP blocked them.
Saying that you're afraid by optimization-induced failures and then saying that you will feed some LLVM bytecode to the optimizer seems contradictory to me...
This Worldwide Trend Will Forever Alter the Way We Retire
You are right. The quote was about ViaWeb, the previous startup of pg. He copied a lot of the details of the ViaWeb implementation in Arc.
Better still: publishing wages does no go if you can accurately measure performance - it could even be harmful if skills in negotiating wages are a skills that contribute to good performance in your field.
can't say enough good things about fastmail
It's both.

Nobody's forcing you to do it. Anyone who decides to take up such a mantle is going to face obstacles, and the journey will be unique for each person. Some will have it easier than others.

If a person thinks it's onerous before they've even started because they don't have x, then I doubt they're cut out for entrepreneurship anyhow.

Something that people miss, is that entrepreneurship is not a playing field where score is determined by what one cannot choose, it's an unforgiving mountain we're all trying to scale - there are infinite paths to the summit. What appear to be obvious advantages at the beginning of the journey end up being disadvantages in the middle. What one lacks in money and family connections can be often be balanced with grit and perseverance. Remember what you bring to the table.
> Now I understand the price range for these cheap sticks is just in the order of a few tenths at maximum, but maybe there is a chance anyone has investigated a bit more on the available choices?

Thanks to the popularity of this family of DVB dongles, all the information you need is right here: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/

Also look into the Funcube dongle for a sdr dongle that is designed for ham radio and not just an adapted DVB dongle -- they are pretty much the same thing though. If you can find an E4000 dongle on ebay it's probably worth twice as much as the R820T dongles because it gives you a wider frequency range. I have an R820T dongle and it works just fine though.

One thing to keep in mind is that these dongles only have 8 bit ADCs in them, so no matter how great your signal path, you will top out at ~48db of sensitivity (rough formula is sensitivity in db = 6*bits of ADC). A "real" SDR like the USRP B210 has a 12 bit ADC in it, which means that it will top out at around 72db of sensitivity. Plus, spending the big money means that you will get a radio that takes less shortcuts than a cheaply produced dongle, so you are much more likely to get closer to that theoretical peak. But certainly start with a dongle, and play with it and see how far you get before you "absolutely need" some TX capability or have truly maxed out what you can do with only USB 2.0 and 8 bits of resolution (though there is a guy who was passively tracking aircraft with FM radio stations and two synchronized dongles so what you can do with these is pretty crazy).
Chisel is potentially a revolution in hardware design and I am following it intently but I have not heard of anyone creating an actual chip from a standard fab as of yet. I am trying to make an argument for trying this at my work but I think until we get some more feedback from people in industry it may be too risky of an endeavour. It would be great if you would be willing to share your experiences or know of some papers that would help me build an argument for trying it out.
> the cop was in the right yet cannot prove it and then their life is ruined if the case is automatically decided in the civilian's favor.

Wait, how exactly is the cop's life ruined?
Thanks. Right, perhaps having some pieces of a technology solidified could help with moving on to new features.

For example an API that users pay for would only be updated or relied on when it's debt free.
Iirc you are able to get priority support for resetting a Google password if you pay.
Google Jump is shaping up to be an interesting offering.
"Jump is coming to YouTube soon"
https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/jump/
YouTube is probably already Google's highest grossing platform. I assume that Google will be a dominant player in the paid VR marketplace. I've no doubt that within just a couple of years that the majority of content that I personally buy will be VR.
(Seems like an "embarrassingly serial" problem -- a smarter lua could turn it into a single "set c = 1e9" instruction.)
I think code complexity is often caused by feature complexity. Keep on tacking on new features and the code gets complicated.
When is Penny coming to Canada?
This is not to knock anything or anyone at all but... to posit that "perseverance makes founders succeed" seems to promote some very strong survivor bias.

Or maybe it just sounds sort of perversely tautological to me. Seeing people follow necessary but not sufficient conditions just sounds perilous to me, even as a founder myself.
She's in the catbird seat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catbird_seat
In the USA, outside of California and possibly a few other states, it isn't clear this is legal. Employers may be able to prohibit employees from publishing their salaries, although they can't prohibit employees from discussing compensation with each other.
You say that, but I've received offer letters where I was expected to keep my salary secret. Companies are demonstrably interested in suppressing such information.
Read the story 5 times in a variety of places, and see what didn't change from report to report. :/
I'm still unsure exactly what technical debt is?
Here is the same ad posted somewhere else:

http://www.meimin.us/bencandy.php?fid=27&id=265577&city_id=3

I wonder if the $10 isn't per hour, rather than per day.
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What does a startup absolutely have to do? It isn't creating the most elegantly designed piece of software in the world. It's creating value for the customer.

Along the way to delivering that value, sometimes a less than perfect solution is chosen (often because of resources--time, money, or lack of human resources) OR the perfect solution is chosen, but the product changes and that solution no longer is perfect.

Technical debt should be managed, but it can't be eliminated... unless you want to give up producing anything new, and just work on polishing your previous work forever.

When will it kill your startup? If it turns out that your product is NOT what your customer actually wants, but the shortcuts (tech debt) you took prevent you from making the necessary adjustments to meet your customers needs.
Many years ago, in the dark days before Wikipedia, I read a similar article about Syd Mead (and his excellent work) that introduced me to the term "futurist." I thought that sounded like a really cool thing to be, and set myself to finding out what it was exactly.

Much Googling later, I realized that no one else knew either. It was just whatever Syd Mead happened to be, which as best I could figure was "sci-fi artist, except too respectable to lump in with those grubby sci-fi nerds."

These days "futurist" seems to have a much more well-known and clearly defined meaning that doesn't really include designing movie backdrops, so Mead has been updated to "visual futurist," which has the same definition as above.
All of Libav's API changes and changes to the command-line tool (other than renaming them) have been merged by FFmpeg, usually very promptly, and by now a lot of the older pre-Libav APIs have been dropped entirely. The fork has not in any way prevented anyone from benefiting from Libav's work.

While the two projects have chosen somewhat different approaches to developing the software, these differences were not what lead to the fork, and neither project particularly resembles pre-fork FFmpeg.
That would certainly be good news! I don't suppose you remember any references to how?
Given example strings:

{a, b, c, d}

The most restrictive regular expression is:

a | b | c | d

The most permissive regular expression is:

*

If the system produces anything in between I cannot predict the output without knowing a set of rules that are more complicated than the regular expression that the system of rules produces. TANSTAAFL.
They ignore it now
Amazon has three books listed about systems by John Gall that look very similar, is there a specific one that you're talking about? or would recommend to start with?

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
The point of this post is that they've already gone down the rabbit hole of concurrent programming, but none of the standard tools for it are provided.

Performance is irrelevant here. Concurrency isn't being used as a performance tool, it's happening as a consequence of the user's actions. The programmer doesn't want it, but they have to deal with it.
Looks interesting, but I was hoping for a bit more of a sociological emphasis/conclusion. If the authors are around, it'd be great to hear what they think.
Customers need things like uptime, minimal bugginess, quick bug fixes, etc.

You've basically elevated these items to the top of the list, above all other attributes, and declared them more important to all customers.

Customers will pay/use a product that delivers value. The items you listed subtract from that value but they may or may not eliminate it. It depends on the product, and how valuable those items are to the customers.

Edit: I'll add an example. Let's say you like video games. There's a particular game that you love to play. Do you love that game because "it's stable, has minimal bugginess, and the developers release patches on time"? Probably not. You love it because of the gameplay/storyline/graphics/whatever. If the game is unstable, that's irritating, and makes it less enjoyable.. but that doesn't change what you love (value) about the game.
Thanks for all the info! And yes what matters most to me is the possibility to receive the largest possible frequency range.. so I will check out that E4000 (you say to look for it on ebay.. means that it's out of production...? Then a new long search for a more recent equivalent or better thing will start! :-\ ;-) ).

Also I was wondering.. is there a trasmitting dongle? Yes I do know already about transmitting licensing and fines :)

With my Tecsun PL 660 I already receive air band and can listen to air traffic or tower, but I am not sure what you meant by 2 synchronized dongles... maybe you meant that one was listening on tower and another one on air traffic control?
Thanks. Indeed, I agree with you regarding how startups are about "creating value for the customer."

But I think at some point, this might become very difficult due to the technical debt when the startup can't deliver more value than it promised.