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"Right now, our teams are working across the store to identify areas
where we can phase out gender-based signage to help strike a better
balance. For example, in the kids’ Bedding area, signs will no longer
feature suggestions for boys or girls, just kids. In the Toys aisles,
we’ll also remove reference to gender, including the use of pink, blue,
yellow or green paper on the back walls of our shelves."
The thing I don't get about Erlang and BEAM is the idea that having lots of little processes means that your program will scale brilliantly to run in parallel.

Programming Erlang (authored by the creator of Erlang) says without any qualification at all that "Concurrent programs are made from small independent processes. Because of this, we can easily scale the system by increasing the number of processes and adding more CPUs."

When I read that I was expecting it to be followed by "ha ha... not really because of algorithmic sequential dependencies and Amdah's Law of course!" but it isn't!

You can have an infinite number of processes but if the dataflow graph they form doesn't have any parallelism then Erlang and BEAM aren't likely to be able to work any magic to make them so. Even if it did have parallelism it is only going to have so much and you certainly won't be able to arbitrarily scale it beyond that by increasing the number of processes.

What's more the typical advice about mutable shared state in Erlang is to encapsulate it safely in an process - which seems to be a recipe for further serialisation to me and so a crazy thing to promote!
Beating up pharma seems to be easy sport but consider this.

Have you ever had serious case of bronchitis, or a high fever, or needed any kind of surgery?

Guess what? No anesthesia (yes it's a drug not just a machine), no antibiotics, very likely no you.

Now take a look at the recent articles on the UK's much hyped NHS and how they are laggards in cancer survival because they do not take advantage of pharma innovations.

Know anyone anyone with hypertension or diabetes? Ask them whether they were well controlled and side effect free on the first drug they were prescribed . That's the big reason there are a lot of "me too" drugs that sell. (and while you're asking see if they fully compiled with their doctor's diet and exercise advice)

One size does not fit all.
Just a link to the K&R C book on Amazon.
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The statement is also true if he hasn't seen any games. It's just an anecdote about his experience, that's fine.
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thats exactly my first thoughts. Seems a bold claim to travel so far, with such a seemingly small potential battery space
Negative and positive claims are not artificial or equivalent, one is making a claim about positive existence, the other is making claims about lack of existence.

Of course we can manufacture the universal quantifier insofar as it's a mapping of the existential quantifier. That is to say, proving something is "not nonexistent" is not a statement that requires the universal quantifier, it's a claim that has simply mapped the equivalency of the existential quantifier, using the universal one.

This is still only a statement about positive knowledge.
I think the Fed's easy money policy of low-interest rates prop institutional investors to park money with VCs for higher returns --- the combination of low-interest rates & lots of money in the valley enable SVB to capitalize on start-ups, unlike other banks. Curious to know if it was the same during the dot-com bubble
I was exactly like this, until one Christmas I was giving the book The Lean Startup and decided building web applications was more fun and practical.
Or a sign that you should try something else. Not everyone can succeed at everything. Obviously it is best to recognize that as early as possible in the endeavor.
So, where is the Arthur C. Clarke matrix for startup product ideas?
Finland has an area of 130k mi². The US has an area of 3.7 million mi². As such, it would cost an order of magnitude more, and then some, to provide equivalent service, just based on raw numbers. When you actually look at population density maps of the US, however, and realize just how sparsely populated most of the area between the West Coast and the Mississippi River is, the picture is probably much worse.

Look, I'm not disagreeing with you that broadband access should be a universal thing. I emphatically agree that it should, which I'd have hoped one might have inferred from my comment, given, you know, that I said exactly that. But should, by itself, won't make a damned thing happen. Someone still has to pay for it, and I don't see the entrenched mobile (or wired) carriers in the flyover parts of the US jumping up and down with checkbooks in hand.

The US, whether for cynical, bureaucratic, pragmatic, or other reasons, doesn't have a legal regime mandating that kind of coverage. I wish to hell it did. But calling BS on reality, as time-honored of an internet tradition as that may be, is a pretty lousy place from which to start changing it...
The point of erlang isn't beating micro benchmarks. Everyone and his dog knows that other techs have better performance.

The ease of scaling across machines, fault tolerance and low latency variation are more typical selling points. Besides that, god prevent erlang to become just-another-JVM-language, I embrace competition.
> Now take a look at the recent articles on the UK's much hyped NHS and how they are laggards in cancer survival because they do not take advantage of pharma innovations.

That's definitely not the reason why the NHS has poor cancer outcomes.

Those very expensive new cancer meds add a month or so of low quality life (and are used within the NHS).

The problem is at the diagnosis end.
It was gimmicky for me until it showed him walking with his mom. My grandmother used to love going for walks but now gets too tired too fast. I'm not saying I'd buy one of these just for that use case, but that's the moment that made me see realistic applications. Could work well with a "granny grocery cart", extending the time a person can stay independent as they age without being as cumbersome as a wheelchair.
It's probably not really more about getting every item in 64 bits than about memory use. That allows one to index each item without doing further bit twiddling: you can simply declare the data as

unsigned int64_t *datapoints;

Because of that, I think I would have combined two 5-valued fields (need 3 bits each) rating and user area into a single 25-valued one (fits in 5 bits), and stored the others as proper bit fields. That gains you the single bit you need to put each item in a 64 bit value, and only complicates accessing two of the fields.
Looking at his comment history, it's very likely he was being sarcastic
I think this is the most important/accurate analysis in this comment thread.

Vancouver had a large AAA game industry for a decade or so. It was very much driven by exits -- all the small/medium studios got bought by Microsoft/EA/etc. The fever is over and AAA has all but collapsed in BC (and possibly the world -- I think there's been a big shift to indie games).

I wonder if the lack of exits is a Canadian vs US culture thing? Is there data that shows fewer exits per capita? Are we Canadians more likely to settle for less? There's not that many huge Canadian tech companies, and I can think of a couple that failed due to hubris (RIM, Nortel).
There's another problem besides poor signal-to-noise, the information in pop-(history, psychology, economics, etc.) books often is simply wrong or deceptive. Even scholarly books can misinform you or give you a very biased perspective; with millions (tens of millions?) of PhD's in the world, you can find a book that will say almost anything you like.

Thankfully, the experts in each field effectively review the books for you. An there are more widely-respected, serious scholarly works of true genius than you can read in your lifetime. The signal-to-noise generally is very high, misinformation is low, and writing by the very best is often very engaging.

In other words, if all you read is the very best humanity has to offer, you still won't live long enough to read more than a fraction of it. So why waste your time on anything else?
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I would argue that the typical Japanese consumer walks much more than in the US. Thus, I imagine users would augment their current walking routines. Getting around in a large metropolitan area is the problem, but how you do it can vary. walk+bike, walk+train, cooltoy+walk+train, etc.
Why nobody mentioned Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp book? It 's got almost zero "noise" and full of signals .)
Ask HN: How do you start a bank?
Theoretically, if one wanted to, how would one start a bank?

Also, are there any conceivable reasons for a startup to be a bank startup?
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Kinda, just with (a bit) less eating people :-)
How does this mean that he doesn't use it for the thing this thread is addressing ? O_o
There are definitely opportunities but salaries are not anywhere near what you can expect from the Valley. For some reason tech employers get away with low wages despite the very high local cost of living.
And likewise you can't prove a positive. In fact, you can't prove anything with statistics, and science is not about proof. Mathematics is about proof. Science is doubt. All theories are forever on probation -- or until they are falsified by new experiments.
I like the idea of adding it to the bottom of a walker. Would give more stability for the elderly.
Aside from the high cost of living in Vancouver, another problem is that Canadians are extremely inward-focused in their efforts to hire individuals from both startups to larger companies.

From my own experience this past year: California-born and raised, I was in the market over the last 6 months, looking for software engineering jobs and applied to dozens and dozens of jobs in Vancouver, ranging from tiny startups to large companies. Not only did I receive hardly any callbacks, the ones that did politely mentioned that they were looking for Canadians first, then they'll look outside (then never got back to me). When applying to startups / larger companies in the Bay Area, I was interviewing, writing code challenges, etc., constantly as well as courted for positions.

On the flip side, for Canadians across their own country, Vancouver does seem like the "hip" place to be. I have tech friends in Toronto, Montreal, and smaller cities and the lot of them are considering heading westward, and understandably so. When I visited Vancouver (Gastown, etc.), it seemed very exciting and full of the startup life. My own couple friends showed me their own startups and it felt very "Silicon Valley"-esque.

I should also point out that one of my friends did offer me a position at his company, but the pay was incredibly low (while rent would remain very high), which I believe to be a symptom of most places outside of California (or maybe America, not sure).
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Stating it as "thousands of patient images a day" is misleading. It would be the same as saying you inspected "thousands of parts each day". As the radiologist further down notes, CT scans contains many slices.

While computers don't get tired, they also have a really hard time solving stuff like annotation tasks automatically. One thing is getting a good enough general performance, another is to never make critical errors. I see a huge potential for ML approaches in health care, but primarily as an aid for the health care professionals and not as a full replacement.
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I'll take an initial stab at this.

Suitcase word seems to be a nicer name for polysemy - the ability of word to be packed with meanings - which is often surprisingly unproblematic in ordinary speech and writing. Essentially contested concept, on the other hand, takes this polysemy as a starting point but adds another quality - that all those employing a particular usage of the word seem to think that it has a single, correct meaning/usage. Namely theirs. This parallax effect makes the contestation constitutive (essential) to the concept.
>wondering how/if my games are solving real user problems or whether they are only providing distractions.

Keeping ourselves entertained on this planet is a very real user problem. It has been a core part of all human cultures for millennia. As we become more productive at producing all the essentials for survival, entertainment will take an ever growing share of our economies.

Entertainment is the one industry that I'm sure will still exist in a 100 years and employing people. I would be very surprised if it were not at least 50% of our economies at that point.
That's not up to Sophos to know though. Companies are required to comply with the regulations, at the penalty of incredibly stiff penalties. And the cost of paying manual attention to every match would be debilitating. It is much more advantageous for them to automate it and be safe rather than sorry. Their policy of asking for more information on an initial positive match is reasonable.

If you want to blame anyone, blame the U.S. agencies who implemented these restrictions. Sophos is just obeying the law.
When I was looking for a job in Vancouver the average salary for an intermediate developer was around 70-75k Canadian. Senior devs can go from 85-100k and even higher for American companies with teams in Vancouver. Salesforce has 100k jobs. But a startup in Vancouver doesn't have the cash to pay top salaries unlike a startup in Silicon Valley.
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Can you meaningfully do things like ecommerce over HamWAN, given the restriction against using encryption on amateur radio bands?

Losing that capability would severely limit the internet for most folks...
I'm not sure why this isn't one of the top comments. The wheel size is a nonstarter.
Found out about "attention deconcentration" in The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver[1] which was posted earlier by Thevet[2].

The article linked in this submission is by Igor Kusakov. It "attempts to describe specific mental techniques that are related to resolving very complex tasks in software engineering" and "also proposes to treat software engineering itself as research on human thinking because software is meant to simulate thinking."

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-disappearan...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10027307
> Well, trying to subscribe bounces over to a different subscription page that asks to fill out a name and university, but to leave the university blank if it does not apply. But trying to submit that form fails with a validation error that university field cannot be blank.

That's my bad - thanks for reporting this bug, and I'm sorry for the hassle. I've just pushed a fix.
Because US tax law specifically says you're subject to it for up to 10 years after renouncing your US citizenship. That's not merely intent to violate the "spirit" of the law; that's violating the letter of the law.
Set up some forwarding rules in Cloudflare to always to go the HTTPS and of course the cert.

Please do not do that. That doesn't solve the problem at all if the origin server is still serving the content over HTTP. You're just lying to visitors by making them think it's secure when it's really not.

Magento is like any other PHP app.. there's Apache (or some other webserver) in front of it.. so just setup Apache properly.
So your workplace doesn't use email, source control, instant message, group chat, or any other kind of electronic text communication?

But in a way that just emphasizes why "[hug]" would be awkward and borderline inappropriate in a work setting. How often do coworkers physically hug at work?

I'm not saying it would always be wrong to use "[hug]" (or even physically hug somebody at work), but I'd expect it to be far less common than in some other settings.
The thought process with export controls is that bad actors may be able to discover vulnerabilities more easily by having unrestricted access to defensive technologies.
"it requires knowing the range of each value that you're storing in the struct (and not just the number of bits)."

Many high-level languages require programmers to specify what you want to store ('an integer between -6 and 43, inclusive'), not how ('6 bits'). That typically makes it possible for the compiler to do just that. For example, Pascal has the 'packed' keyword (http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/packed.html)
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Consider the following individual when you think about this question:

http://www.wwltv.com/videos/news/health/2015/07/28/trauma-su...

Norman McSwain was one man but through his work developing PHTLS (Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support) and introducing modern EMS practices to numerous countries around the globe he truly did save countless lives. He has been credited for doing more to reduce the homicide in New Orleans than any mayor or police commissioner because he taught the trauma surgeons that increased survival from penetrating wounds and was an incredibly skilled surgeon himself. His work with the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee helped reduce battlefield fatality rates to historic lows.

The statistics don't take into account the kind of doctor you choose to be. If you choose to join a posh private practice and treat little old ladies who "just don't feel quite right" you may not save a lot of lives. But if you choose to be on the front lines, for instance one of the last doctors out of Charity hospital after Katrina, and spread knowledge far and wide you may just save more than "ninety lives".

We all get the same 24 hours in each day. Norman just used them better than most of us.
No, memory bus transfers happen in word sizes. This is why caches sometimes use critical word first.

However, straddling word boundaries is problematic.
At my level CAD $120k/yr is average salary I've been offered locally, with no options, though after taxes that's $87k/yr and my rent is $24k/yr for a one bed condo so I would have $63k to spend per year. Instead I make remotely USD $160k, which is $210k CAD, and it goes to a consulting corporation that I write off everything I can including rent so pay much less taxes to my incredibly corrupt provincial government. I also have standard options everybody else in SV gets.

Edit: I work for a startup that advertised here in the monthly who's hiring threads.
"What goes on in the mind" is behavior. It can be studied scientifically but one can run into the "private event" problem. That is, what goes on in the mind is a private event only observable to the subject. In many psychological experiments, what goes on in the mind is inferred from observable behavior. This is problematic.

In behavior analysis all behavior is considered the subject matter, including private events. So the answer to your question is: No, I'm not saying that.
> What do you call people who use social justice as an
> excuse to harass and belittle people who have different
> opinions than them?

Strawmen :)
Yes, employers would say Vancouver is such a nice place to live so that's part of the compensation package. So, if you want to mountain bike and snowboard, all in one day, then this is your place. :-)
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Hmm, Egypt by any chance?
Your a new grad from uvic, UBC or SFU. Recruiters from Seattle are contacting you. You interview at Seattle, and get a job offer. The Seattle recruiters tell you the visa process is easy with this TN thing. You have no idea what the job market is like so you go interview in Vancouver.

Your shocked to find out that the pay is literally half in Vancouver. Housing is also half in Seattle, everything is cheaper in Seattle. You really can't tell the difference between the two cities otherwise, and home is 3 hours away. You do the sensible thing and move to Seattle.

2 years later, you work for microsoft or some company down the bay area and start getting your green card. Later on you see that the average income in vancouver is comparable the average income of Reno,NV.

Anyone with half a brain who is from the area will move to Seattle.
I interviewed with PoF and BuildDirect for a data science job. PoF did a 3-against-1 behavioral interview with no whiteboard.

The BD interview was supposed to be a friendly tech phone chat but actually was a grilling by an HR lady that knew nothing about tech.

What I'm trying to say is these companies don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Not sure really what you consider signal versus noise, as it depends a lot of what your interest or experience with a particular subject is. But at any rate:

Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
May I ask what type of job are you doing? Rails? Javascript? Managing vs programming? TIA
Yeah, that and some basic functions are all they use it for. A write up way back indicated they though Mach was a mistake. So, the alternatives were a better microkernel or full monolithic. One unofficial project tried to port it to L4. Not sure what Apple's stance is under Tim Cook, though.
Stuff like this:

http://gizmodo.com/319318/nokias-haptikos-technology-makes-p...
Watched the video you linked. I think it's saying the opposite, i.e. failure or success is more due to marketing and PR than to how great the game is.

Not sure if that's entirely true, but it doesn't seem to support your argument.
Sure about that?

Look at the five year survival rates for innovative treatments. Granted not all of them and not every time, but to generalize to "months" is a gross mis-characterization not borne out by a thorough review of the literature.
Unlike skateboards, the four wheels on this platform make almost a square. There's a chance that it can handle pot holes better, since three wheels will still be enough. But yeah, I share your feelings about edges.
> It is not a question of if but when

You can say that about almost anything, and the world is still full of factory workers.

As a PhD student in medical imaging, you must also know that getting fully automating segmentation methods to work to the standard required in the clinic is really hard. And once you solve it for one clinic you will likely not be able to transfer the trained model to another clinic, because scan parameters, patients and workflow are different.

But when we solve the segmentation task, I think most radiologist will clap their hands and move on.
> Ah I just knew I would see mention of "beta male" strewn somewhere in this shithole thread. You are a moron :)

Hi there, please take a moment to get (or re-get) up to speed with HN's standards for commenting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

It's critical that comments here be civil and substantive, even when someone else's comments aren't, indeed even when they seem like a moron. Otherwise discussions get sucked into the tedious downward spiral that this site exists to try to avoid.

Normally we'd ban a new account that posts comments like that, since we get a lot of them, mostly by serial trolls. But you've already posted a couple of interesting comments, so I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Someone else touched on this below but this article ignores the brain drain problem.

It's true that Vancouver can attract talent from SF/Seattle easier than Toronto, for example, but conversely it also means Vancouver/BC natives are way more likely to jump to SF/Seattle since they are so close.
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Very eloquently put. I would be working in the states if I weren't so worried about my parents' health.
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