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They meant Dorval, that's a suburb of Montreal.

Meh:

In an earlier episode Wittgenstein and Eccles, his friend from Machester, were planning to catch a train from Manchester to Liverpool. However, having missed the train, Wittgenstein suggested hiring an entire train to bring them to their destination. The plan was eventually dropped, but he still opted for a costly solution, namely hiring a taxi.

There are several tax schemes available and depending on your situation (who pays your bills, employees, etc) you might be eligible for "УСН - упрощенная система налогообложения" (simplified tax system). You'll pay 6% from your income + 15% from your profit. Here's an article you might find interesting (in Russian of course): https://www.moedelo.org/club/article-knowledge/individualnyj...

> Russia with a 13% flat tax

That's a common misconception. Yes, personal tax rate is 13%, but your employer will have to pay for health insurance (5.1), social services (2.9), and pension fund (22). Overall, you get closer to 43% flat tax rate.

The big difference is - you never see these moneys in the first place. Your paycheck is a net pay, all deducts are applied by the accounting department and only 13% rate is widely advertised as one the lowest in the world.

It's better than the alternative, but still far from perfect. Unemployment benefit is supposed to provide you a safe net should your employment lapsed - so no one really expects that you would maintain the same quality of living. If push comes to shove you can and will cut all the excess (entertainment, dinning out, traveling), leaving with just bare necessities.

Now, with the parental leave, when your expenses rise (diapers, formulas, cloths, ...) you're expected to make do on the same barebone salary replacement. I've experienced this myself quite recently: I had a choice to take parental leave and get a huge pay cut, or just burn through all accumulated vacation time and get back to work early.

Currently, Service Canada web site says that "maximum yearly insurable earnings amount is $53,100" - which cuts your income 3-4 fold you choose to stay at home. I think many high-earners (read: more that 53k) would rather choose to have more deductions throughout the year, but have 70-80-100% matched.

Don't bother. Movie is pretty bland by itself, only novelty of interactivity saves it. But if you ever player Detroit Become Human before, even interactivity is pretty weak here.

But neither AsciiString. It has a as_str method, but it's still a kludge.

This example was basically a suggestion to throw0u1t: if they want to cut in the middle of the utf-sequence for whatever reason, they can [edit:] do it without extra crates.

What I don't understand is why slices are indexed in bytes and not in objects. If String has an ability to check that we're cutting in the middle of the character sequence, why doesn't it provide an ability to take 3 fully formed characters.

Why not this?

  fn main() {
      let a = "ab早".as_bytes();
      let a = &a[..3];
      println!("Hello, world!");
  }

You can also "lease" or "rent" data. Or provide service to run arbitrary analytics on data that stays in-house.

Sounds like fun :) I can join the existing team, or send out an invite.

I'm located in Vancouver, Canada, have many years of C++/Python experience and been studying ML/DL as a hobby.

Because that affects willingness for others to come and work in the country. If country relies on foreigners to bring in required skill sets, it better not to allienate the very same people.

Application. It has to be a cloud service, so you have access to it from home, from work, from transit on the phone.

Try inoreader.com. I think it came closest to what GR was.

Meh, I have exactly the same problem with Nexus 6p. I need one USB-C/USB-A cable for data transfer, another USB-C/USB-C for fast charging from the power brick that came with the phone, but back again to USB-C/USB-A to charge from the car. And don't get me started about the lack of good car charges that that support USB 3.1 PD.

It seem some friction to be inevitable when new physical connector is introduced.

> She cannot connect her phone to her computer to charge without a dongle.

Is it still a valid point once USB-C to Lightning Cable is out?

http://www.apple.com/us/shop/product/MK0X2AM/A/usb-c-to-ligh...

If you need non-standard channel configuration, you'd better use OpenEXR. From the wiki:

It is notable for supporting multiple channels of potentially different pixel sizes, including 64-, 32- and 16-bit floating point values, as well as various compression techniques which include lossless and lossy compression algorithms.

They have removed parenthesis from the URL:

http://cyber.bgu.ac.il/advanced-cyber/system/files/SPEAKEaR....

You can always start with something like codingame.com to practice.

- Who powers whom is an interesting issue. <...> It's complicated.

Yeah... I have a battery bank from Anker with two plugs: USB-A and USB-C. If I connect my Nexus 6p with USB-C/USB-C cable, everything is good, phone gets power. But if the only cable I have at the moment is USB-A/USB-C, then phone starts to charge the battery bank.

Both t0 and t1 loads are atomic, meaning you'll always get the whole object. But there's no synchronization between them and another thread can preempt the execution and change value of %ptr right after the first load.

"Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there".

> I also realized I'm dumb, you can't really mash raw carrots.

Or can you?

http://simplegreensmoothies.com/tips/carrots and http://www.willitblend.com/

Please keep in mind that Amazon is running a variant of content-id and may mistakenly think that your files are infringing someones rights:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4j7wex/any_plex_users... https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4j5fsi/after_s...

> "Android ransomware is a screenblocker (like Absolute Computrace)"

Neither the original title, nor the article have mentions of Computrace.

Is there a way to dynamically reassign GPU between host/VM(s)?

Not everyone can afford several high-end GPUs, so it'd be really nice to use it on host OS up until the moment you run gaming VM, and then switch host to lower/embedded GPU.

I've tried most (if not all) of them on Android and stopped on "reddit is fun" as it's the most pliable for my needs.

Isn't it how Nintendo 3DS autostereoscopic display works? The biggest downside is that view position is fixed and limited to single person, so it's not really viable for TVs or monitors.

Facebook Launches Research Lab, Hires Google Executive to Helm It Called Building 8, the new group will build new hardware based on Facebook software

[https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-NN776_0413fa_J...] Facebook’s new Building 8 research lab will complement the work conducted at the company’s Oculus virtual-reality division. Above, attendees try out Gear VR glasses during the Facebook F8 Developers Conference in San Francisco. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG NEWS

By DEEPA SEETHARAMAN and JACK NICAS Updated April 13, 2016 7:01 p.m. ET 0 COMMENTS

Facebook Inc. created a research lab to develop hardware products and hired a top Google executive to lead the effort, underlining the social-networking company’s broadening technology ambitions.

The new group, called Building 8, will be led by Regina Dugan, a former Pentagon research chief who joined ​ Alphabet Inc.’s Google in 2012. It will create hardware products that “advance our mission of connecting the world,” Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Wednesday. Facebook will invest “hundreds of people and hundreds of millions of dollars into this effort over the next few years,” he said.

Building 8 will help launch a 10-year strategic plan outlined by Mr. Zuckerberg at its annual F8 developer conference this week, including advances in artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and extending Internet access to billions of people around the world, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, said in an interview..

In a statement, Dr. Dugan said: “Building 8 is an opportunity to do what I love most. tech infused with a sense of our humanity. Audacious science delivered at scale in products that feel almost magic. A little badass. And beautiful.”

Dr. Dugan received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and was the first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon research lab known as Darpa, which she helmed from 2009 to 2012. Later, she joined Motorola, then a division of Google, and helped launch Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects, a research lab for ambitious new products.

“I’m excited to have Regina apply DARPA-style breakthrough development at the intersection of science and products to our mission,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “This method is characterized by aggressive, fixed timelines, extensive use of partnerships with universities, small and large businesses, and clear objectives for shipping products at scale.”

Dr. Dugan’s team at Google is effectively the tech giant’s short-term skunk-works lab, with two-year time limits on many of its projects. That differs from X, an Alphabet unit that works on longer-term bets, such as self-driving cars and delivery drones.

As of last year, Dr. Dugan’s lab at Google had about 100 staff and 1,000 nonemployee subject experts working on various projects, including sensor-embedded clothing, modular smartphones and technology that enables mobile devices to effectively “see” in three dimensions. That 3-D-sensing technology, dubbed Project Tango, is being released in some smartphones this year.

Dr. Dugan is the latest high-level defection from Google to Facebook. Last year, Facebook hired Mary Lou Jepsen, a high-profile executive from Google’s advanced-projects lab, to work on Oculus. Her background is in display technology.

Google on Wednesday thanked Dr. Dugan for her work and said it wished her “the very best.”

At Building 8, which is named for the number of letters in Facebook, Dr. Dugan will build new hardware products that mix the physical and digital worlds, the company said. Mr. Schroepfer said Building 8 will help other Facebook teams on longer-term projects, including its artificial-intelligence research lab and its Oculus virtual-reality division, which recently started shipping its first VR headset.

“It’s going to start small but it’s going to grow,” Mr. Schroepfer said. “We are serious about this being a group that will ship products, not just do research.”

Building 8 will develop products similar to the virtual-reality camera that captures 360-degree video that Facebook unveiled this week, he said. Facebook doesn’t plan to sell that camera. Instead, the company released the designs publicly to encourage other companies and developers to build VR cameras and thus make it easier for people to create VR content, which would be a boon to Facebook’s vision for the technology.

“I think that’s a really good example of the sorts of projects we should be doing a whole heck of a lot more,” he said. “There are things we need to do in the world that you can only really do with hardware, and you’ve got to kind of build them yourself—even if it’s just building the reference design for others.”

Write to Deepa Seetharaman at Deepa.Seetharaman@wsj.com and Jack Nicas at jack.nicas@wsj.com

Usually it's other way around: patches are released on the day of the disclosure. Without firm date, companies have little to no incentive to fix the bug sooner (cough Adobe cough).