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Thanks for taking the time to try and explain. Given I mentioned 4 languages with different reasons also puts some onus on the reader to have an aptitude for comprehension as well. How can 4 languages be fanboyism? I will, however, bear this in mind, although, it does come across as a little pretentious or guarded on the downvoter's side.
If you're going to count finance & consultancies, you might as well count big tech, too. It is entirely unreasonable how many silicon valley non-programmers (and a few programmers) have gotten here via both of those channels.

Moreover, I have directly heard from more than a handful of people out here that they only went to business school because they had no idea what they wanted to do when they left their investment bank / consulting firm, so it seemed the best idea at the time.

Honestly, I think upper management for large corps is far more rarified air than the others. There is not only an extremely restricted population, but a lot of these leaders are selected via a revolving door. The average CxO only spends something like 3yrs at any given company, then gets hired by a different one -- rinse and repeat. You can consider only two pipelines for this role: 1) folks who successfully managed and grew smaller companies and are hired into those roles from outside, or 2) folks who spent a whole career at the company.
Lots of smarter people than myself recommend not having reactivity in your router. IronRouter has that in spades. The logic is that it's harder to debug your router if you have reactivity.

FlowRouter is better in that regard because it's 'dumb'.

I find it easier to reason about my code/state by having a dumb router and letting my templates decide what to render.
Not only that (well, ignoring traditional Chinese characters versus simplified --where someone versed in traditional can make out simplified, but those versed in simplified normally have a harder time reading traditional characters) but everyone learns the Beijing dialect in school --it's, after all, the official language.
Plausible deniability. "It's not us spying/blocking/hacking, it's Baidu."
They would have wound up in the hands of rich collectors, where they'd probably be a lot safer than they are in Baghdad right now, a few hundred km from an army which would happily destroy all pre-Islamic artefacts.

Especially this one, which is a story with other gods in it! Can't get much more unislamic than that...

So yeah, as long as ISIS or any of its successors never takes Baghdad it's safe. I'd rather it were in some rich dude's house though.
Same here. I quickly switched to FTP once my school got PC's with shared internet access. Anything that could fit on a floppy could reasonably quickly be FTP'ed up to the 30 MB I got from my ISP even on 56k.
From what I recall, there was a big price increase for asthma inhalers when they switched from CFCs to other propellants. That being said, I thought the new propellants were going to go generic after a few years.

Has that not happened yet? Or did people / insurance companies adapt to the higher prices so that the new generics can charge more than the old ones?
Chris Coyne (co-founder of keybase.io) seems to send them to new members. Unless he was on here, which is possible, I have no reason to suspect I received special treatment. It actually is fairly smart because you can grow your base by an order of magnitude and if you have set the culture of the people you invite, the site will blossom that way. I sent you an email to ask if you want an invite. If you get back to me I will send you one.
My layperson's opinion is that it is.

The paper reports data indicative of transient liquid salt* water flowing on current day Mars (as in, in the past year), answering the "mystery" of the apparent daily sand flows in pictures previously seen.

That's sort of huge, because wow at confirming liquid water there pretty much right now, but it's also a bit of a hollow thing to reveal, as it's just solid confirmation of something strongly suspected for many months.

* Exactly _what_ salt is not super clear, I think? Mg-perchlorate and Mg-çhlorate are mentioned, but the exact mineralogy isn't able to be stated from the current results.
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> "Basically, the VOC made current evil multinational corps (e.g. the oil companies, monsanto, blackwater, etc) look like cute cuddly charities."

DeBeers[1] and the United Fruit Company (Chiquita)[2] would be much more comparable to a modern day VOC and also still exist. Both just seem to be better at staying off the radar since the advent of the Internet compared to Monsanto and the others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquita_Brands_International
The thing I was always wondering about brain simulations is how to determine what level of detail is enough. What if neurons evolved to take advantage of some funny quantum phenomena that we may not even know about yet, and without this the simulation won't work? For this reason I would think that getting a simple brain simulation to work would at least help enumerate the physics most involved in their function.

Now maybe there is some extra physics that comes into play at scale (like some quantum-computery effect with human-size brains that induces conciousness) but maybe this would be detectable as small discrepancies in the small simulations (especially as they progress in size to e.g. mice).
It's unfortunate how many CS graduates I talk to who haven't heard about this pretty simple concept. It's the kind of thing you get once you hear it and it's important to be aware of. Fortunately, many CS graduate do learn this as well.
There's an addon for Firefox that does the job for you. It's depressing for people like us, but if you still want to get an accurate count, the name is simply "Open Tab Count". Proceed with caution... :|
I'm going to improve the demo page.. So it's more informative about what you can do with react-metaform. I'll post an update once I did it :)
It's mostly a theoretical tool: it's an incredibly simple programming language, which makes it easy to design and evaluate language features in isolation. That's a powerful property!

At the same time, practical functional languages are often surprisingly limited extensions of an underlying lambda calculus, perhaps with types. In fact, Caramel is more or less what an untyped Haskell or purely functional subset of Scheme would look like with fewer parentheses and macros.
My friends and I often use Teamspeak when gaming and general socializing. It's very much like sitting down in a room and being able to talk to everyone.

I wonder if there is a professional market for this? Something like a Slack for audio.
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It sounds like you're advocating a community pool of resources to benefit members, which is exactly what government social programs are.
Do you believe mice ask themselves "why do I exist?" or whether it is better "to be, or not to be"?

I am genuinely interested in your perspective.

I adore my dog. He shows a wide range of what I believe to be genuine emotions. But I do not think he is self-aware, and by self-aware I mean able to contemplate his own existence (and therefor lack of existence). For that matter, I don't think he ever contemplates the lack of my existence (despite feeling it when I am not around, so I am told).
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That may be true, to some degree, but _not_ going to school makes it even less likely to get good jobs (not sure "elite" jobs is what everyone should be after).

It's not like blue collar graduates/bosses who started businesses are going to decide, you know what, I'll give all my key jobs to those guys and gals who didn't bother going to school. I'm going to go ahead and hire all those underachievers I used to know back in highschool.
What is the basis for your suspicion? At what point would you start cautioning people that their questions and comments aren't a good fit for HN, and they should look elsewhere for answers?

That is, we know that HN accounts are banned for posting too many low quality links. We know that StackOverflow has banned this user's account for having low quality questions, which means that SO considers this practice to be enough of a nuisance to ban its practice. I see no reason to believe the same couldn't hold here.

We can also review this user's history, and see about one low quality question every two to three days. One of them was on how to "cd into a directory". (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10278804 .) I don't even see point of this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10021045 in an HN context.

Those are far below the water cooler level 'What is the best "X"?' questions.

We can review the 65 available "ask" questions and see this user is the only one with two submissions.

We also see that detaro already cautioned this user that "HN isn't the best place to ask for this kind of advice better find a community specialized in the environment you want to use and look there + ask specific questions on Stack Overflow." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990406 . As you can see from the user's comment earlier ("Forced to post here on Hackernews"), the user hasn't understood detaro's comment at all.

All of these are signs that this user's practices are already a nuisance, and the user isn't trying to be aware of HN norms.
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Harvard is quite public with the fact that they reserve 30% year for "legacies". They don't even bother with the veneer of meritocracy. Just keeping the unwashed peasants away, you know

The Economist has had a couple of articles on how social mobility in the US is waay lower than it used to be and is now lower than in many European countries...
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As you can see clearly from the 5 previous answers, the reason why is obvious.
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I've recently noticed "Google wireless" at various Starbucks, which has a click-through accepting Google's usual "we own you" ToS, and also an even creepier "Facebook wireless" at a couple of coffee shops. Any idea how much data they're harvesting if I don't use a VPN?
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No, you're correct, it was the time released version of guifenesin.

The problem was, all the current time-release products were not FDA approved. You can't just create a time-released version and keep your fingers crossed, you need a clinical trial to actually show how it is time released. You wouldn't want a time-released version to release 24 hours of drug in 5 minutes!
Yikes. I would use a VPN, preferably one configured to use UDP over port 53.
Which in turn reminds me of the Beale papers - which were almost certainly a hoax describing a nonexistent treasure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
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Yes, quite true, but in this thread, a bunch of people who know nothing at all about neuroscience and cognitive science - worse, who don't believe anyone anywhere knows anything about those subjects - are going to pontificate on why having a bunch of trained experts study the brain was always a terrible idea.
The book's Amazon blurb defines elite jobs as "top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms" which are "the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs."
First off, I'm super happy that you're having a great experience in the cloud: given where we are in the overall adoption cycle for public cloud tech any win for cloud is a win for all of us.

>"given the switching costs"
Perhaps that's the crux of the question right there; what if it was trivially easy? What if you couldn't tell beyond a different (lower) bill? Wouldn't it be awesome to run on several providers, load balance between them, and up your availability game to be redundant across providers? This is an area of real focus for my team, let me know if it's something of interest!
Well every CEO's job is that, so it's not really proving anything.
>I read a lot of reports that people who met W Bush were surprised by how intelligent/sharp he was.

So did I. They were virtually all from ideological supporters. I don't remember an opponent ever saying it.

> The media looks for gaffes for ratings, but gaffs have no bearing on intelligence.

Most gaffes actually went unreported. He made them nearly constantly if he wasn't following a script. At some point his handlers cottoned on to this and after that you very rarely saw him speak in public without a script.

And yes, it demonstrates a very real lack of intelligence. Bush was not a smart man.
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Would a little fun autobiography from folks on my team give the context/backfill required for us to make sense while being a little assertive?

Thanks for the book link, ordered up!
disclaimer: I work for GCP

Would connecting to our network locally scratch the itch? https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/
I used to think remote work was the key then I worked on a distributed team for 18 months and I found I hated it. I like working with my coworkers.
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I'm getting downvoted, so let me explain. The test can not distinguish between him and student B and anyone above student Bs level. If you raised the ceiling this would solve the problem.

Though you should note, SAT prep has a negligible effect on scores. Intelligence, sadly, is mostly the result of genetics and non-shared environment, with an emphases on genetics. Our inability to admit this would be hilarious if its results weren't so tragic.

Raising the ceiling would also help with the Ivy-league's insane penchant for passing on some of the most able students. Scott Aaronson had perfect SAT scores at 15 - this was back when the SAT was much harder. In his words:

I admit that my views on this matter might be colored by my strange (though as I’ve learned, not at all unique) experience, of getting rejected from almost every “top” college in the United States, and then, ten years later, getting recruited for faculty jobs by the very same institutions that had rejected me as a teenager [...] I was a narrow, linear, A-to-B thinker who lacked depth and emotional intelligence: the exact opposite of what Harvard and Princeton were looking for in every way.

With a higher ceiling, sufficiently high scores are impressive enough on their own. I don't care about those institutions, it's Princeton and Harvard's loss. And Cornell's gain! But it's an insane way to do admissions and it has a real cost on kids. I have nightmares about promising programmers and mathematicians being forced to practice piano instead of doing what they love.
Not to mention the supplements industry threw a giant tantrum to avoid regulation, and here's the fruits of their labors:

The authorities said they had conducted tests on top-selling store brands of
herbal supplements at four national retailers — GNC, Target, Walgreens and
Walmart — and found that four out of five of the products did not contain
any of the herbs on their labels. The tests showed that pills labeled
medicinal herbs often contained little more than cheap fillers like powdered
rice, asparagus and houseplants, and in some cases substances that could be
dangerous to those with allergies.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/new-york-attorney-g...
The negotiation process worked successfully. OP didn't want to work for less than $X, and he isn't!
"In fact it sounds pretty major, similiar to the halting problem."

I think it's identical to the halting problem. The issue is that, for irrational numbers, there is never a point at which you can stop and say "okay, we know it is irrational now".

In fact, if we had an algorithm that could always tell us whether a sequence converged to a rational number, we could solve the Halting Problem:

For any Turing Machine you wish to check for halting-ness, produce a sequence S by successively appending a full encoding (any will do) of the Turing Machine state at every step to the decimal expansion of the previous value in S. Apply your algorithm to S. If S is irrational, then we know it never halts. If S is rational, then we know it halts or repeats after a finite number of digits - so we can simply run it until it does one or the other (this may take arbitrarily long, and an arbitrarily large amount of storage, but finitely in both cases).
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Everyone who wasn't born into the small elite is affected by the system, including me. It's not a competition to see who suffers the most.

Edit: also, the elite themselves are punished by the way things work. The number of truly elite jobs is small and the competition is very strong. For every kid whose parents bought his/her way through the system there were a number of others whose parents tried, but failed, to do the same thing.
Yes. The idea the wealthy got together and formed a big conspiracy to shut everyone else out is a bit on the paranoid side. It's not that you can't get a prestigious job without the right kind of background, it's that you don't have an advantage other people have. And, as you say, there aren't enough top jobs to go around.

But we don't have to look at top jobs to see this dynamic at play. Good looking people of both sexes get better jobs than the rest of us, as do people with more energy.
There is, but it would need to be a charity, because by definition your customers don't have much money to spend on your service.
What would observe differently about your dog if he were self-aware? Self-awareness wouldn't automatically let dogs speak their minds or write philosophical treatises on existence. When a dog is just sitting still, I have no idea if they're being self-reflective or not.
I don't think I understand the reasoning behind the ADT. Isn't a 'type' just a set of predicates applied to arguments at compile time and/or at runtime? Why not just define a Caramel convention where you specify typed functions using a fancy argument list, in this case, a list of lists of predicate functions? Untyped functions would take a different shape of argument.
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No, they want their kids to stay in the elite. Because elites, by definition, are small, they need to keep out everyone else. The goalposts are there just so that there is an illusion you or I can get in. And, on rare occasion we might - you'd better be super pretty/handsome so you can marry in.

Another way to become part of the elite is through entrepreneurial success. I am surprised noone brought it up, given it is HN.

Having said all that, why would one obsess about joining the elites. I am perfectly fine being (upper) middle class.
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Development on ironrouter stagnated a long time ago. It has almost 300 open issues and the last commit was in June. FlowRouter by Meteorhacks/Kadira (one of the most active community members) was released about 3 months ago as a very slimmed down router. It's been quickly adopted, is well maintained and works excellently with alternate front-end like React.
Same. Are they still using it, or is it largely replaced by Python? It's been more than a decade since I wrote my last mel script (or used Maya, for that matter.)
Nothing is broken with my rendering or system. This is a fresh Windows 10 on a normal 1900x1200 24" monitor.

The font used is a fancy font with thinner strokes and then using a font-weight of 200 makes it that much smaller, making it illegible. There's no reason to make body text so skinny and it's often better to stick with normal system fonts.

Headlines and occasional larger text can have more styling. This is just a failure of design/UX on this site.
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Where are you picking this up from? The official Google announcement [1] only talks about Google using RailTel's fiber network?

1 - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/bringing-the-internet...
There is nothing weird about it, it's incentives: parents are always going to be more interested in their specific children than in the more generalized problem of maximizing the value of the company they work for. Particularly in the world of high-end banking, which is extremely competitive to get into but, at the end of the day, not particularly challenging for a reasonably smart person, we should expect rampant nepotism.

And so we find it.
It's really great to see a company's engineers given the time and resources to do some fun tech project like this. Sometimes it seems like unless a project is about directly increasing revenue, its incredibly difficult to get buy-in from management. These projects are great for culture.
My wife had a great job at a family controlled, small drug company named King Pharmaceuticals. They were based in Bristol, TN, and had fewer than 1000 employees. King developed, owned the patents on, and sold the epipen.

Of course, what happened next is exactly what you'd expect. Pfizer made a bid for a hostile takeover and the shareholders approved it. What was the first order of business on day 0? Exactly what you'd expect: lay off 90% of the King employees and more than double the price of epipens. Why? Because they could.

I have deep appreciation for pharmaceutical research, but it's folly to imagine any of it's ultimately driven by anything but profits. The exception may be the fewer-every-year small pharmas.

Btw, after Pfizer laid her off, my wife went to work for Salix, another small-but-successful pharma based in Raleigh that specializes in GI drugs. Guess what happened after barely over a year? Valeant bought Salix and laid off 90% of the workforce. Valeant is far worse than Pfizer, too. Their entire business proposition is finding "under-performing" drugs, buying the companies, then cutting costs and doing a better job marketing them. It's working so far, but has cost a lot of good folks their jobs/careers.
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Amazing concept and the potential here is monumental and positive.

Upon first impression when visiting the homepage..

The site layout is crowded with text and elements. I would suggest adding more space between some of the elements, and also making the candidate evaluations not take up 100% of their container's width, adding some space on top and to the right and left would make it easier to differentiate between different objects.

Okay, that was enough criticism of the VISUAL aspect of the site, I know this is much more substantive and aesthetic quality is not the priority so I will end it here.

I think perhaps a navigation bar for candidate regions/states/countries would make it easier for constituents to find their candidates.

Awesome website this is high quality stuff.
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His ASVAB scores put him in the top 5%, and his IQ is supposed to be in the high 130s. I've always thought it ironic he's more intelligent than the vast majority of people who think he's stupid.

It's probably human nature to think someone who doesn't agree with your politics is stupid.
> Use a tool like Webpack or Grunt or Browserify - IDEs haven't caught up to javascript development...yet.

WebStorm is certainly close. It doesn't have much of the ES7 strawman stuff, but I wouldn't expect it to. However, it works great with NPM modules, import/export syntax, destructuring, generators, etc etc.
people are jerks, they justify it by saying its business. Have I had an option for medicine provider I would go with the one thats not abusive to its employees.

but i grow all my medicine out of the ground.
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