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Why is this “ironic”?

Romer thinks the reputation of his whole field is at stake if they don’t agree to some common norms about the purpose being to seek the truth, and he’s therefore calling out economists who he thinks don’t abide by the norms he prefers.

Of course it’s “politics”, in the same way it’s “politics” when an experimental physicist calls out string theory for being unfalsifiable.
You may in fact be right, but nowhere, in any of this planning for the electrical car phenomenon of the future, do you find anyone thinking about this, and making sure that happens for the reason of supporting this plan.

Instead, you find all the talk is about the magical environmental benefits of this plan (which i expect are actually pretty slim in and by itself), without any implementation details of how california will prepare for it to happen. They talk instead of how they are going to force automakers to do the "right thing", with no self-introspection that "holy shit we may need to do some work too".
Yes. Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/uncovering-echelon-the-top-..., which points to this.
Public transit is cheaper for low income earners than driving and disproportionately used by them. Improving public transit is a much better solution.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
Back when I was a kid, Enemy of the State was not a documentary.

No, but The Conversation might have been.
Agree with OP's argument or not, but practically the entire post is spent answering that question directly.
Or give up on Windows and use a real OS.

But seriously, mirror your production environment for local development and testing. This is all comically easy with VMs, you just need to alter your workflow.
Sorry, I don't want to be an "ally for women", that to me sounds like needless victimisation. What I do support is focusing on technology and being excellent to each other.

Politics are boring. I don't care how many women are on computing. Why would I? I don't. If they want to collaborate and join, they should be welcome but not given special treatment.
I often wonder how helpful messaging like this is. Although it's probably true that large-scale change is necessary, I suspect that there are a lot of potential allies out there that this kind of post turns away.

Specifically, I think that if you tell a random man in computing that he needs to "help build a movement" (point #2 from the OP) to be considered an ally to women, then there's a decent chance he'll just say "welp I guess I'm not an ally" and close the tab.

I've seen similar arguments both ways within LGBT+ groups. Is someone an ally if they verbally support your cause, vote for supportive politicians, etc--but don't organize rallies with you?
HN is a perfect example. It tries very hard, and in some ways it succeeds. And yet the attention half-life for a given conversation is measured in hours and long replies often simply aren't read, let alone upvoted. While a sufficient number of people who downvote for disapproval results in stilted, shallow, uninteresting conversations more often than not.

And HN is ahead of the game compared to, say, reddit or, guh, facebook.
Let's say I want to sell you shirt. You pre-order the shirt, then I decide that it's import that the same shirt has an additional pocket on the front. At that point, is it a bait-and-switch scam?

Like Sanddancer says, it's just feature-creep that scuttled the project, not a malicious misrepresentation of the product.
I've never looked into treasury notes. Am I right in interpreting this graph as showing how much you would make holding treasury notes over a one year period? So roughly between . 05 and .4 percent? Point being that it's not necessarily that easy to make money holding $400k for a year?

If so, I agree with that---hence my point that it would be easier to work.
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I enjoyed the article. I think the general sentiment here is that one needs to take the good with the bad.

I also think that the ongoing changes have made for a different web that is less important on the mobile devices. In watching some videos about mobile we get that people are excited about new ways of interacting with computers, perhaps with the camera, perhaps with the microphone, or perhaps with the GPS... Sometimes the web just does not feature in those trends.

The web has changed a lot since Obama first won the Presidency. His site with donations, the network effect directing traffic to his campaign site and so on... Now there are these "Streams" on mobile, I'm not sure how those could be shared with a community that was sometimes anonymous and decentralized, like you say...

Now it's like people want to drink bottled water of a certain brand instead of sharing the water in the lake (web). It doesn't seem to scale. And companies and governments are just too forceful to avoid competition and so on to allow for a thousand flowers to bloom like it may have been possible in the past.
Rental cars have their own weird tax structure. Lots of areas tax rental cars and hotels because out-of-towners bear the burden. Rental cars in the UK were startlingly cheap when I was there, like 1/3 the price I would expect in the US. And you could rent one with a stick.
The answer to why the web sucks in 2015 was given by DJ Shadow in 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VG53RIJ50

The irony is that before I could listen to that 45 second track I had to watch an ad, underlining the point.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which say:

Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."

This comment can similarly be improved by removing "Maybe you should actually read the story". Since it's merely a trope by which forum users take jabs at each other, HN can do without it.
wow cool, these automated news article robots are getting better and better!
Impossible Chemistry: Forcing Normally Inert Noble Gases – To React
> will this create an expectation in Kickstarter backers that they'll always get either the product or their money back, thus creating some sort of reputational debt-slavery for the project creators who genuinely just use up the money and fail?

Hyperbolic imagery aside, the expectation is already there. They can't just walk away from the project with a shrug should it fail: they have a contractual obligation to demonstrate that they did not squander their funds and to provide the best possible outcome to their backers. If they fail to do that, the terms of the agreement allow backers to seek legal action:

> The creator is solely responsible for fulfilling the promises made in their project. If they’re unable to satisfy the terms of this agreement, they may be subject to legal action by backers.

In this case, Matchstick's project creators have assessed that they have enough money to pay everyone back, so they're doing exactly what the terms of the Kickstarter agreement between backers and project owners have obligated them to do: provide the best possible resolution to backers by, in part, returning the money.

Another project may determine that they can't pay everyone back: in that case, they're subject to the requirement that they "demonstrate that they’ve used funds appropriately and made every reasonable effort to complete the project as promised". If they can't do that to the satisfaction of every backer, they're still on the hook. That's why a lot of times, project failures will have a note about providing a refund to anyone who requests one instead of Matchstick's strategy of proactively refunding everyone.
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I'm a heavy Chromecast + Plex user. What do you prefer about the Raspberry Pi setup?
I haven't been a mathematician for decades, and in particular I don't recall the details in the examples I'm about to give. :) But I'd say yes up to a point. In particular, one matches problems to generalized patterns, which in math often has the feel of transforming a problem into another form.

1. If you're going to take a test for school, you can recognize patterns pretty easily. For example, Harvard has a 3-day Qualifying Exam as a PhD requirement, given twice a year. Once, after looking at the exam pages for the first two days, I said "Hmm, there hasn't been a Schwarz Reflection Principle question yet."

The next evening, I got a nice hug from Lisa Mantini. :)

2. If you're doing actual research math, it's of course much harder. For example, the theorem in my thesis was scooped by a few months by Neyman and Mertens. What's more, they did it as a special case of a fixed-point theorem, while I just proved it by brute force.

And now some simpler anecdotes from my undergraduate days.

3. In my E&M course, we were supposed to work out fields for a cylindrical wire with an off-center cylindrical hole. This was a LOT easier in curvilinear coordinates than Euclidean. When I showed that to the professor in his office, he literally stood up and applauded.

4. In an abstract algebra course, there was a typo in the book for one of the exercises as to whether a certain polynomial was reducible. I solved the hard form by transforming the problem into one about a polynomial with matrix variables.

I took that story with me when I went to graduate school. Ron Livne's eyes lit up, and he transformed it again into something about -- well, into something about transformations on the polynomial's complex roots.
If my messages never reach the police because your servers have a meltdown, are you going to be held liable?

This sort of service should be run by the government, not a company that may or may not be here tomorrow.
Those look really cool, I'll have to pick up a set and try them out.
If you're looking for something extremely low risk, you're only going to make a few percent. (I'd be thrilled to learn that I'm wrong on this.) So, may not be worth it if you have other costs or people you have to share the profit with. 3 percent of a million is only 30K.
Great point, John. Can I have a comments section on my site where only you are allowed to comment?
The FDA just approved the world's first 3D-printed medication
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You get the benefits and drawbacks of Google Cloud Platform.

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The surveillance-enabled "freedom" you describe relies on those doing the surveillance to be either nearly incorruptible or thoroughly monitored. And we know that in practice they are neither.
It's unfair to say that these people don't understand the free market. They understand that the free market will not push us out of gasoline cars and into electric cars until oil becomes very expensive.

The goal is to get Californians into electric cars before the gasoline runs out, thus before the free market is willing.

Nobody wants to pay more for their transportation, so at some point someone just has to step in and force the issue.

California's laws don't dictate exactly how producers and consumers find their way off gasoline, they simply state that they must, and so leave it to the free market to find that path.

Standardizing battery packs sounds like a terrible idea, since batteries are likely to change rather quickly in the near future, and this is a time when we want as much competition and innovation (both in technical methods and business methods) as we can muster.
Ask HNs: Realtime apartment listings?
I go to apartments.com and their listing seemed to be off. Is there no site that has real time apartment listings. It seems you have to call them. Are apartments just unwilling to share this data? or is their some other issues?
I've found it to be mostly reliable until, like you said, accessing maybe an index of an array at which point I use type hinting, which seems to work well.

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/help/type-hinting-in-pycha...
China does have elections and voting on laws. However only a special group is able to participate in those elections. We still do not consider China to be a democracy by any stretch of the imagination. The people who the laws are enforced against weren't able to participate in the election of the representatives who enacted them.

By that same measure it would be undemocratic to enforce French laws on non-French citizens who weren't able to participate in the elections of the representative who enacted them. Whatever chip on your shoulder you have about American companies or the actions of the American government do not change this fact.
I came up with a third -- it seemed fairly obvious after some thought. I do not quite get the 1/2 and 1/4 explanations. (Unfortunately these gif analogies do not do such a great job of clarifying.) So I decided to ask good old "Reality".

N = 1000
SQRT3 = Math.sqrt(3).to_r

def point_on_circle
x = (rand().to_r * 2) - 1
y = Math.sqrt(1 - x**2)
y = -y if rand(2) == 0
return [x,y]
end

tally = 0

N.times do
x1, y1 = point_on_circle
x2, y2 = point_on_circle

d = Math.sqrt( (x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2 )

tally += 1 if d > SQRT3
end

puts "#{tally}/#{N}"

Oddly, it gives an answer close to a third (yeah me!). But... it is always a bit high at approx 36%.
You've just wasted a lot of space describing supply and demand. The same thing applies to any commodity or potential investment vehicle. People buy gold when they think the price will go up, which increases demand and therefore the price. There is nothing special about houses other than the fact that you can live in them.
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That's one constant criticism I disagree with strongly. Google released G+ too early and before it was ready. Some months to listen to criticism and address it would have helped massively. But Google were neither ready to iterate or listen.
The 1/4th answer has a typo.

"The probability of being hit is the probability of being inside the area of fire divided by the total area"

No.

The probability of being hit is the probability of being inside the area of fire.

The probability of being inside the area of fire is the area of fire divided by the entire area.
I don't think it matters. I wasn't asked my SAT score when applying, and in general stuff you did in high school doesn't matter when you're applying to full-time jobs (except a few of the Intel/Westinghouse Talent Search winners had that on their resumes). They did ask my college GPA since I was <5 years out, but apparently a 3.0 is enough.
> But it's also not racism because racism (or sexism) requires both power and privilege

There are plenty of people who are not black but lack power and/or privilege. Are you saying it is not racism if one of those people hates black people?

Heck...by your definition, half the losers that post in /r/coontown are not racist!
The dystopian film of the late 90's I recall being most frequently cited as a glimpse at our future was "GATTACA". While that portrayal may one day come to pass, it doesn't feel like something immediately dangerous.

"Enemy of the State" wasn't a particularly great film at the time it was released, but these days it feels remarkably prescient. We've willingly accepted an eerily similar world to live in, and we have to place an awful lot of trust into those at the helm...
I feel you. I think I have pretty much the same aspirations.

The short answer is find a partner who is great at marketing, so he or she can add momentum to your ideas. It's tricky since they need to share your vision and belief that what you are creating is genuinely worthwhile.

Also - if you want to create something of real quality and value - then it helps to not have to worry about that money thang, at least for a while. So either have money, make money, find investors, or do what Larry and Sergei did - work on your PhD that you can one day commercialize.

If you are worried about making rent and getting food, then it's hard to truly create something of quality unless you have honed your craft and are in the service / agency business. Even then, its hard as heck.

Finally, quality isn't just craftsmanhip but also completeness. A chair can be of utmost quality but it's incomplete without a table. But completeness takes time. Say you wanted to create the perfect AI based mobile personal assistant, a la Siri. Can you truly make it high quality for every single use case? for someone searching restaurants in Austin to someone trying to find the latest NASCAR results? Probably not in a reasonable time frame. So you try and have a lot of discipline to tackle a very small surface area of the problem and then build from there. So in that little niche area, your solution is both quality and complete.

In my limited experience, identifying the niche and having the discipline to stick to it initially and gradually scale up from there is the hardest part of entrepreneurship.

Good luck creating quality. The world sure needs it.
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Michelle Obama, Beyonce and Oprah have dark skin and are women with much more power in any number of spaces than the average Joe the plumber.
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It appears each approach depends on the way random chords are selected. Each approach yields different probabilities of selecting a chord with a certain property.

But my intuition suggests that constructing a proof for all chords should be relatively simple, and indeed 1/3 of them hold the property that they are longer than √3.