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A/C at my place of work is like some kind of Stanford-esque psychological experiment.

Not sure about the gender split, but the A/C is definitely an endless source of disagreement. Maybe it's worse when there are multiple controls units because that means the temp setting is up for debate, which ultimately means compromise.

And then there are the days during winter when the heating is on and the A/C is used to control the temp - because the radiators all have thermostatic valves that tend to be adjusted by the people who sit next to them... i.e. a different group of people that sit nearest the A/C control units.

The madness never ends - the office temp goes up and down, energy is wasted, people have 'heated' discussions about whether the A/C should be on.

Not only that, but if one person sets their A/C control to heat mode, the cooling for the entire building goes off.

If I could design a building temp control system that maximises psychological stress then I think the system we have is more or less what I would come up with.
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Looking good!

Using Stephen Fry’s picture is a nice touch :)
A friend of mine launched http://orp1.com/, but I haven't had any hands on experience with it.

I've also been burnt by the Almond+ router (it's only as open as Cortina Systems will let it be) and my current ADSL router won't let me do full bridge mode to something running OpenWRT.

Fun offtopic fact: My copper phone line is so bad I can only use specific Broadcom based modems if I want >5Mbit download speeds. These generally don't work well with OpenWRT, because Broadcom.
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Walking too and from work in DC, the tables are turned. As a man, I'm sweating through a shirt under a couple layers of wool while women have been able to adjust their wardrobes to the weather and look decidedly less miserable. We will need a culture change in to relax dress codes for men in the summer months in DC, but it seems like a natural trend given that environmental concerns, workplace satisfaction, etc., should all be nudging us to slightly warmer office temperatures and relaxed dress codes for men.
Because it requires almost no capital to do so. You can start a company with a single laptop. You don't need a bank loan, you don't need investors (at least for certain business models).

If you could magically will into existence a coffee shop for free, I'm certain the number of people starting coffee shop businesses would skyrocket. You'd just need to come up with a unique twist to differentiate your shop.
I did something similar using the same libraries and all using a Raspberrypi and DVB-T dongle [1].

Then I configured the tcp server, rtl_tcp to forward the packets to my workstation. This allowed me to put the Pi in a location more suited to receive transmissions, i.e. not next to RF emitting servers and power supplies. Then, using Gqrx with remote server, I analysed the results.

[1] https://www.joechin.com/raspberry-pi-and-sdr-getting-started...
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Awesome that you're using Roost! Founder of Roost here, feel free to reach out if you ever have questions on our side of things.
Matthieu, co-founder of Synflow here. Maybe I could help? Don't hesitate to send me an email!
It seems like you would need some sort of formal equivalence checking if that is the flow. Is there such a thing for Chisel?
Interestingly enough, I don't think the main issue here is about men vs. women, but rather about thin vs. thick. It just so happens that men tend to be thicker on average, so they are more comfortable in lower ambient temperatures.

The thermostat at my office is controlled by the head honcho, who is a big man with quite a few extra pounds. Him and a similarly big-bellied coworker are the only ones comfortable at the lowest setting. Everyone else freezes their asses off. We are in Austin, TX, where it gets 100 F during summer, and I want to be able to wear short-sleeved polos but I can't, even though our dress code is business casual.

The article is correct in the sense that women on average have it more difficult because of body composition (more water weight = harder to retain body heat), but men with low body fat also tend to have issues.
Same here. Late 2013? Exact same problems, somewhat mitigated in Yosemite (fewer complete crashes) but still the occasional garbled screen or inability to switch to dGPU.

Weirdest problem: can't start up the MacBook (physically) cold without garbled video. Have to start it up, let it warm up a bit and get the juju flowing, then hard reboot.
They should just put one arrow to the left and the other to the right of the name.
Thanks, glad you noticed :)
And the functional programmers of the world collectively sigh...
Well, one thing about JavaScript is that it's a very flexible language in itself without any additions. It's similar to something like Scheme. And good Schemers can accomplish a lot of cool stuff with the proverbial Notepad. I'd rather hire someone with no clue about Gulp or npm but who understands all of JavaScript and knows how to do stuff in the simplest possible way, than someone who's mastered all of these tools and can't do anything without a framework. Forgive my bluntness. I disagree with the premise that sophistication requires complexity. I prefer to see it the other way around. Maybe I'm growing older. When I see a complex build tool replaced with three lines of bash, that makes me happy. And when I notice someone has given a bit of thought to making a simple solution based on fundamental needs instead of installing all kinds of stuff, like the commenter who mentioned downloading 200 MB of code just to initialize a project...
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Shell and make are pervasive. If you're not comfortable with them, you will glean great value from becoming so.

Your perspective rings to me like "There's plenty of technical literature in Mandarin; learning English just to ...." Not wrong, per se. But profoundly limiting, and to an extent you won't comprehend until you've crossed that knowledge barrier.

Elswhere in this comment stream someone talks about the 'innovation' of incremental builds in the JS build tool landscape... I think you might find that Make discovered, and solved, most of the build-system challenges the language-specific tools will encounter, decades ago.
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Love the Article! Excited for Lesson #2!
Leverage is very appealing - the idea that a single developer working independently can support thousands or millions of users.
It's a little meta. You have to apply the techniques learned to the post itself as you read it.
> I built the epoll, TLS, SSH, webserver and client as "IO layers"

I think you should just finish the job and implement the entire OS in assembly. ;-)

I'm kidding. To me, assembly programming has always seemed like a true art form. You're forced to think about everything, and if you can successfully fit all the pieces together properly, it's beautiful. Also, not many can hack it through assembly, so there's a huge selection bias too.
What do you think of that model vs exclusively leveraging HW people?

Sounds good.

Cheap fab I am not sure whether the costs make sense. Depends on the project I guess. I don't have a lot of experience with those manufacturing processes.
I used to agree but I'm actually coming around. The distinction between having a pilot inside the craft and not is very discrete (not drone vs. drone) whereas the degree of autonomy is a continuous spectrum.

How many craft can one operator control remotely at the same time before they each become individual drones?
> mt_rand() performs worse than CSPRNGs, funny enough

Because the Mersenne twister is outdated technology, which
is bad and slow. Use pcg instead.

> If /dev/urandom drains entropy, that's a bug that your OS should fix.

Defying logic? Without a HW source for noise that's impossible. Even if people are arguing being practical to drop security, you should not be convinced.
I didn't see tests which would confirm this theory.

> Yeah, there is no pgc_random() function in PHP though

Writing that binding would cost a php-c dev 20 minutes. But they should not.
The problem is the bike shedding to replace that in the stdlib for rand(). Better, faster? But...
I was asking because it seems like the logical next step, yes?
Nice paper. Thanks for it.
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You didn't start out asking for "much more intellectual and practical rigor than many seem to possess." You started out with a broad assertion that there was no possibility of anything existing in this "incentive space" for a straight, white man to do anything but kick minorities to the curb and languish on unearned privilege. I firmly believe that something like "Ashy" is undeniable explanatory of the incentives around it for someone aggressively invested in maintaining their own privilege.

As charming as it is to see you sprint down the field with those goalposts in tow if you honestly thought your first reply warranted intellectualism instead of bro-pandering you're deluding yourself. Do yourself a favor and plug "diverse teams perform better" to educate yourself on a variety of studies across science, finance, and engineering coming to this conclusion. Don't act like "how do I convince my shithead friend" should be met with reams of dry papers instead of introductory pop-culture pablum to get the 101-grade materials across.
Most services which use phone numbers for authentication helpfully offer to call you and read out the code using text-to-speech if they can't text you, including Google accounts. This is often exploited by attackers.
I think the author got it wrong with the last sentence. The restaurant would be full with people that believe the complexity of said turd is proof of the craftsmanship of that developer and hence he is an Expert(TM). It doesn't matter that the turd adds ZERO to the project (in fact it makes it worse since turd is turd) they all need to feel they belong somewhere and in this case the majestic turd brought them together. Hence the turd is good. This should be a question when you go to an interview for a company: "Do you like turd here? Do you worship the dark lord turd?" If the answer is yes then you definitely don't want to work there.

Edit: The submission doesn't have a trailing slash and I mistakenly submitted the same post whose URL did have it. Why not check for something like this when submitting? Mods need to have some work I suppose.
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That's not really true since the majority of pre-fork ffmpeg developers agreed to fork to libav.

As I say to people this is like the Catholic/Protestant split, both sides think they are the one-true-ffmpeg but both have valid claims. Doesn't change the fact it's a disastrous situation and both projects are not in particularly good states.
A follow up question: How many developers want to work in a startup that another developer started?
UAV stands for unmanned aerial vehicle. Drone has never referred exclusively to autonomous vehicles.
Excellent work as usual in practical, formal methods by INRIA. Much of the formal work in academia amount to just screwing around or redoing the same stuff. INRIA is awesome because their work is often useful to the rest of us: robust languages, compilers, parsers, protocols, static analysis tools, WCET estimation, easier-to-use provers... list goes on.

INRIA and especially Xavier Leroy's people rock! That simple. :)
I wonder how well the GC could handle the constant generation of new collections.
Thanks I'm glad you like it. I will take you up on that and get you on email.

As you can tell we are adding an intelligence layer above notification providers. That will certainly help reduce the friction in on-boarding for co's like roost. Much like Segment.io did for analytics companies.

Having a closer integration with you guys would be a great benefit.
It's not a straw man because he's not creating a villain to argue against it. He's explaining the origins of a very common historical myth still taught in schools. Whether or not those origins were originally perpetrated using straw man arguments is irrelevant.
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I think a refusal to accept any generalities is also unproductive. To make a mathematical analogy, the first few eigenvectors can capture most of the information about a data set.
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> You've basically elevated these items to the top of the list, above all other attributes, and declared them more important to all customers.

No I didn't. I'm just saying that these things are also important to customers. Churning out tons of broken features on top of a constantly crashing/unavailable system is not a winning formula for success in many markets.

It might work to some degree for free consumer-facing apps (like Twitter), but for many other sectors reliability and data integrity are very important factors (like any B2B product).
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I find mesos fairly simple to administer. `service mesos-slave restart` / `service mesos-master restart` is often enough, though it has the standard complexities of running ZK. That said, when your org gets to a certain size, you almost always end up with a couple of ZK clusters hanging around for some service or whatnot.

The logs are _very_ good, and most unintuitive behaviour will often trigger a decent explanation in the logs.

That said, kube is a lot more integrated; you prob will spend more time setting up stuff like Mesos DNS or Bamboo (that's my plug).
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Hi *,

I have taken in interest in the bay area as of late do to a change in personal circumstances. I am actually a brit, so this would be a migration for me.

I have worked in security for 10 years +, and my focal areas at the moment are sdn / nfv. I am currently a senior architect one of the big three telco vendors.

What sort of salary would you expect to get? I ask this as the real estate prices look like they might be a showstopper (most 3 beds are between 700k to one million!). I have a wife and two kids in tow.
Edit: this is true, it is Bland's car turning right onto the thoroughfare as the officer drives away from his first stop. It doesn't appear that she comes to a full stop or that she is using her blinker when she turns. This is probably what caused the officer to actually pursue Bland so quickly after finishing his prior stop.

This doesn't explain or justify any of the rest of the incident though.
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>> [Church Asylum] surprisingly survived (in a much changed form) into the 17th century.

Longer than that. There was a case this year in Denver where an illegal alien was given sanctuary in a church to prevent his deportation. After nine months, a deal was worked out and he was allowed to leave without fear of deportation.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26803443/man-facing-deport...

And of course the other big Asylum story is the recent case where a criminal was given "sanctuary" in San Francisco where he proceeded to randomly murder a tourist taking a stroll. Maybe there was reason that the practice was formally dropped in Europe centuries ago...

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It will be an asset. The most successful team in my company is built out of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and mathematicians.
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Make can be good but can also be quite tedious/verbose to get started. I actually prefer using the npm scripts and using the binary files in `./node_modules/.bin/{ webpack, babel, etc }`

Takes no time at all and there is no interface that can break like in gulp or grunt
As a part time working musician, living in a university town, I know a lot of people on the lower rungs of both ladders. A common thread that I've noticed is that these people are compelled to pursue their fields, out of a devotion to their subject matter that would seem to frustrate a Homo Economicus analysis of their behavior.

The drug dealer analogy would be more fitting if dealers were paid in drugs. ;-)
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Reading the page then the comments, even as a senior developer who only touches JavaScript when necessary; I don't see much unification in the JavaScript world today compared to 12 to 15 years ago.

React seems to be a theme, if I want to develop a modern (is Web 2.0 still the term) single-page site (is that still a phrase?) using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript...what environment exists that is cohesive and complete as either Eclipse for Java or Visual Studio for .NET?

Here's my answer, as an outsider, Java dude who only suffers brief interludes with JavaScript...I'd pick jQuery Mobile or DART.

The thing is...whenever these JavaScript tooling articles comes up I don't see those listed. I see names like React, Meteor, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack and maybe 3 dozen more.
Excellent post; very interesting!

How many of these "expensive" bugs are directly due to memory safety? From a quick glance it looks like this entire market is held up purely on that quirk of C/C++. Of course this is nothing compared to the money being poured into compiler and runtime tricks to try to undo those quirks. Which is probably little compared to the amount of money via time lost developing and debugging such an environment.

Overall these prices seem low compared to the capability. Is that because it's easy enough for governments and big corps to just hire teams and dev in house? These prices are well within SMB price range if an unethical company wanted to attack a competitor (though there's probably cheaper ways in). That, plus given that the price to compromise even federal agents (going off known cases where FBI and CIA agents were turned)... my doubt increases that companies can actually keep secrets. I think of this when folks like Nikon refuse to document camera formats under the claim that it's a trade secret they are hiding from competitors.

It is curious though how little these go for, overall. Perhaps because they aren't overly directly profitable (exploitable for cash)? I wonder if there's more money in exploiting server software that you can use almost directly for profit? Perhaps not; it could be easier for the criminals with the infrastructure in place to find and exploit directly as part of operations.
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Actually, this team is responsible for both TFS (major releases 1-2 years, minor releases quarterly) and Visual Studio Online which is a hosted service and releases once every three weeks. Pretty much everyone on the team works on both products because they share a very large percentage of their code.

Source: I'm the guy closest to the camera in the picture. Oh, and we're hiring if anyone is interested.
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Deep learning (or more powerful machine learning techniques generally) will be important for making CRISPR useful.

For instance, we'll need to be able to more accurately predict the result of highly complex interactions that would arise from modifying DNA. We do have the ability to generate tons of data, but we have less ability to analyze it and build predictive models.

Deep learning is the best bet today of being able to do that on huge quantities of data where the subject matter experts really don't know what "high level" features they're looking for. But they know the "result" and want to tell "good result" from "bad result" (or from 10,000 other results). Deep learning is good at (and getting better at) filling in the blanks in between, the high level features.

I've been interested in deep learning for several years, and CRISPR is something that's recently come on my radar that I'm becoming convinced will be similarly impactful. And to be clear about "impactful", I mean we're in 1992 if you compare The Internet to advances in machine learning (which, it is hoped, will somehow lead us to a breakthrough in AGI, or at least a better definition of intelligence). So the technology is here and will continue to advance (probably exponentially) as it's productized, refined, and ultimately commoditized over the next two decades.
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Your first 2 responses fit into this category:

> people who just don't have enough problems in their lives already.
Not sure if I understand this correctly. Does this mean that if Instagram or Twitter terms does not allow scraping of their user's generated content, any developer can just go ahead and do it because the copyright holder of the post is the user?

Since the site does not hold the copyright (and rightly so), the site owner does not have the rights to say what can be done with the data. That belongs to the users that generates it.

In that case, how do we know if all the individual users consent to the scraping? If you scrape 10,000 data, and one user complains, would you be in trouble? And does the user has the right to know who are accessing the data outside of the normal use (since if they don't know, they can't object)?
Forgive my ignorance, but when writing a sufficiently large program, why would looking into the generated assembly be of use to a programmer? Wouldn't this turn into an arbitrarily large amount of instructions to sift through just to measure performance?
Sure. I'm a fan of esoteric hardware and software and no big believer in the market success equalling virtue religious ideology, but I'm also not the one invested in the importance of how well this memory stick performs overclocked in Gamer Game IV: Games.
The points in the article dispel the myth of the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" story. It obviously did not go that way at all (e.g., such as not even being shot in the back of the head).

The earlier events might, or might not, be relevant to the use of deadly force in a court of law, but they are relevant to my point of the narrative, of the story told to the public - the original comment you are relying to.

And yes, garbing at a cop's gun, trying to wrestle it away from him, and then later charging at him like a bull - is justifiable use of deadly force. And the previous events can be used to show the mindset of the individuals.

These things happen quickly, and there is no restart of the game.