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Companies are slow-moving. They legally can - but structurally cannot - decide one day that they're not that into you and move to a new state. If they bring in a bad employee, they have to first build up proof that they messed up, explain any mistakes to their customers, and ease other employees' concerns. If you've seen someone hired and fired from a white-collar job, the manager goes a lot of work trying to keep them on.

You might be tempted to compare this to relationships and divorce, but now you're making a totally different comparison. Going on a blind date, introducing them to your family, and marrying someone without any third-party verification are totally different things!

In my experience, it varies... I had one VPN service start to get blocked consistently, so I switched to another, and that's been going smoothly for two years. And I'm sure Netflix can put cookies on my machine and know what's up... I'll be in Japan and then minutes later I'm in the US again with the same computer.

Veritas Genetics offers full-genome sequencing for 1000 USD. I purchased their kit for 200 in a limited-time offer. Unfortunately when I sent it in early February, there is a backlog which is delaying my results until late this summer.

I've been invited to write a Packt book on a topic that I knew very little about; I might have had one repo related to it.

They also found the location of the shipping container, which is impressive

This is ongoing, and Microsoft and Google continued browser experiments with another algorithm (paper titled "Frodo: Take off the ring! Practical, Quantum-Secure Key Exchange from LWE") https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/659 - you can also see a recent video from DEF CON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCdaYAFx7hw

In both cases, they are using a type of lattice-based cryptography known as LWE (learning with errors).

Because Amazon makes many billions more than your Alaskan fish factory. There's no reason that Amazon couldn't improve conditions of their buildings, or allow more bathroom breaks, or notify workers in advance if they have a shift (it's common to dismiss workers when they arrive in the morning, denying them access to any other job). These are such small changes to their bottom line, but would humanize the process a lot more.

Bitcoin transactions are only breakable by quantum computation once you reveal the public key behind an account's fingerprint (for example, by signing a transaction).

So you can avoid quantum attacks by making every transaction split your funds between the recipient and a new address which you control (this is also a good practice to avoid having your payments being tracked).

But, how many of the "executive" 1% are at the level of Chief Accounting Officer or Director of Manufacturing Engineering? Probably less than 370?

The main "rumours" are an analyst in the article suggesting that they should buy it as their initial footprint in cryptocurrency. Clickbait until there is serious reason to believe that Facebook is going there.

Segregation is common in US cities, and not just in the South. A friend in civic tech likes to say, "there is only one map of Chicago". Over time I've found it to be true: whether you're looking at these types of amenities, census data, crimes, health metrics. If you look at mapping apps like Runkeeper, you'll be able to point out U.Chicago as an island of activity within the South Side.

Over time, ideas of how our cities are and ought-to-be get cemented in and polarized. Housing prices reflect that pretty well and businesses listen to that before opening a new location. When economies do grow, instead of gradual betterment of everyone living there, you see a neighborhood flip/gentrify so quickly; look at Bushwick or Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

There's some backstory in his Google Code-In article (Summer of Code for younger students) https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-googl...

> a student from Uruguay who worked with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is the organization behind Sugar, the operating system for the [One Laptop per Child] XO-1 which the Uruguayan government has distributed to public primary schools. The XO-1 was Ezequiel’s first computer.

> Ezequiel’s curiosity in computer science was piqued when a technician came to his school to solve a simple bug that was affecting most XO’s. The technician used the command line which, up to that point, Ezequiel thought was useless. Realizing that the command line offered him a lot of power, Ezequiel began his exploration.

I used a bunch of Esperanto text sources to make a NLP program (figured it would be easier for a newbie to do since the language is so regular). The code corrected some grammatical errors in the Esperanto Wiki; I did a write-up earlier this month: https://medium.com/@mapmeld/esperanto-nlp-part-3-correcting-...

- price has been less variant (moving around between $5600-6000) from mid-to-late October, so maybe catching up to a rising trend

- up and down and back over $7000 - Bitcoin tends to do rapid swings around $1000 milestones, probably due to buyers and sellers setting their next bid for that point

- China rumors and lack of China rumors (though this can be pointed to for any movement)

- upcoming Bitcoin fork causing uncertainty (as mentioned by other commenters)

The article briefly mentions the Voting Rights Act in regards to whether the resesrchers' many simulated maps could be valid maps. The commenter that I'm replying to proposed another system. Both are missing context.

The Chicago example is famous, but the case earlier this year with several districts in North Carolina revolved around race and disenfranchisement (as partisan gerrymandering is common and exceedingly difficult to make unconstitutional). These were created in a partisan way, but with hopes that it would be within the law. In any case replacing North Carolina's districts algorithmically without respect to race would be illegal.

Some background https://ballotpedia.org/Majority-minority_districts

Programmers like to come up with mathematical plans like this, but you would likely run into the Voting Rights Act!

Many districts which aren't compact have been created as majority-minority districts, to prevent disenfranchisement of racial minorities. Plans which divide or erase one of these districts get stopped by the Supreme Court all the time. It's a 1960s approach to equality, but you can tell its effectiveness by how the House is much more representative of the US population's diversity than the Senate is.

In situations like this (for example if the women who mentioned having a boyfriend had been more direct "please stop trying to spend time with me") it would cause its own set of problems. An intentional harasser will insist nothing is wrong and keep coming back... at best. Some cause problems at work or become verbally/physically abusive. OP may have awkwardly stumbled into this situation, but his colleague doesn't know how to stop it without everyone getting pissed off. Is it worth HR involvement? Depends on what's been said. But it's not like they would understand each other from one conversation.

This took time for me to understand. I had an acquaintance starting at a company who was interested in my separate traveling job. When I moved to SF she said we should have dinner, we were cool, invited to her birthday. She suggested I find a souvenir for her on my next trip. Months later I gave her a nice scarf and never saw her again. She probably forgot that it was her idea! I asked her to meet up, and she'll agree, but then it never happens. If I say, "hey, why don't you tell me why we didn't meet up? I need to talk this over in person, you need to believe me", that's exactly what a harasser would do. So I've had to let this go. It might be a little uncomfortable, but no one really gains anything from fixing it, except trying to feel like I'm always right.

Not OP, but I have been doing something similar in Airbnbs for three years ( I was interviewed for an article last year: https://qz.com/643181/ ). Sometimes I move between neighborhoods while working on-site in NYC / SF Bay Area, other times I was a traveling consultant, other times I work remotely and choose where I go. Usually I stay 1 month (reaching 2 months at only two places).

It works because I am flexible about renting studio apartments or rooms in Airbnb-dorm-like houses, and I don't have other responsibilities or attachments. Compared to the up-front costs, commitments, and assorted bills connected with an annual lease, I prefer it.

I had a similar experience (apparently these signs are common in Airbnb apartments in Thailand).

At the same time, the apartment front desk staff and doorman were completely aware of my staying there temporarily. I showed up, asked for the keys, the front desk had an envelope, and there were no questions. They must have someone doing that every few weeks, and the signs are someone else's business.

Especially since the GPS signal has the time in it... likely it is to avoid issues with people claiming it is running fast/slow, or changing timezones.

I found it frustrating that famous technologists and thought-leaders had stories and praises for him after he died, which were not seen while he was alive, fighting prosecution, and needing their support. From an archived Wikipedia page, you see few statements of support: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Swartz&oldi... Aaron was private about his difficulties with the case, but it was not at all a secret... I think many people -especially those with influence in the open data space- were aware of it and doing nothing.

I think it got overloaded! Reboot has fixed it.

It's happened a couple of times before, but today I was on a trans-Pacific airplane flight and my laptop had run out of power! agghghgh

Quantum computers do not make NP-hard problems significantly easier to solve than on classical computers.

They're better at prime factorization, but in a way that's well understood (quantum Fourier transform) and possible to simulate on classical computers.

Thanks! You can find my name on GitHub and Google around to find more info / e-mail address

No, not yet. It ought to be comparable to C++ in most cases. The difficult part is extending Fortran to do something that you want / hasn't been shared yet on the web.

I only started looking into it two weeks ago, so setting aside some time here and there on a few weekends, sending emails when it wasn't working. Main challenge was how to go beyond the original tutorial, without getting too deep in the weeds with Fortran

I'm Nick and I'm usually a full-stack JS developer. Fortran is something foundational to languages we use today, and my professors and parents would talk about it, but I didn't even know what it looked like. I noticed recently that Fortran repos on GitHub accept nearly every pull request (https://medium.com/@mapmeld/fortran-culture-on-github-a257dd...).

One day I wondered if there was a Fortran server, did some Googling, and found a tutorial from 8-10 years ago (http://flibs.sourceforge.net/fortran-fastcgi-nginx.html). I started out updating the tutorial, requesting some missing files and missing instructions from the authors (almost every Fortran info on the web assumes that you already know how to compile and run your program). Once I was halfway down the rabbit hole, updating this tutorial, it felt right to keep it going

There's going to be a vote on whether to fund applicants to the DAO smart contract system

Anyone can apply, but they need to initiate it through a smart contract on Ethereum + DAO. Currently there are only two projects, including one by the creator of DAO... so I think it's set up for a windfall for the creators

It's closer to a functional language though--there's a break statement but no return statement