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I agree with all of this.

But I've seen people who came from nothing rise to the occasion and turn things around. And if we'd screened them out, the world would be worse off for it. The perspective they bring demonstrates the true, non-politicized idea of diversity.

And so that's what I fear happens if the industry picks this bootcamp thing and runs with it; that we'll end up with a very homogeneous group of developers. People from middle income families where education was held in wide regard and who had parents encourage them to explore things on their own.

Yea, as a teacher, I really enjoy it when everyone in my class wants to learn and is highly motivated. But I also enjoy getting them there. :)

Refunds? I really don't know. But this is why traditional schools can compete - they have the resources for tutoring, remediation, and open enrollment.

Of course, if all the motivated people skip that and do bootcamps because it's a "guaranteed" path to a job, well....
>Opting out of social media as a kid/teen is basically like eating your lunch in the bathroom every day, or worse.

I see this example get brought up a lot. Is it really that common? I swore it was only me.

>You haven't been part of that so it's probably hard to understand how fundamental social media is to the lives of large groups of kids.

The problem as I see it is people's strange desire to be popular/center of others' attention instead of being themselves. I blame this mostly on physical bullying. Don't fit in? --> Bullied. Nobody wants to be bullied.

I've never noticed this problem in kids who aren't hooked up to their TV for five hours a day and spend most of their free time on personal hobbies instead of keeping up with the latest trends. This doesn't seem to be a problem among introverts that are fortunate enough to not be bullied in school.

Although in a largely extroverted world, I can see this being a problem for many people. They care too much about what others think about them.
> first two are B and R, the third has to go between them

Yes, exactly, and that is directly to the right of B. I assume that dwarfs can always "fit in" between the others.

Actually, the rule "directly to the right of the rightmost blue one" would be enough if not the possibility that the first one can be R and then second one doesn't know where to stand and can take the place to the right wearing blue hat himself, which would fuck up the whole algorithm. Hence "to the left of the leftmost red one" part.

And it still a little bothers me that, strictly speaking, separation will never happen, as the last dwarf will stand just on the right place, but will never know himself if he wears red or blue hat (others will know though).
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Communicating with your friends online via insult isn't bullying. Bullying is about the power dynamic and about making another person feel weak or appear weak to their peers.

Forcing someone to withdraw from using social media when the rest of their peers are using it is on its own a form of bullying, especially when the person who withdraws is then categorically left out of normal social engagements because of that non-participation.

You can get away from it a little bit because being 30 something, you can maintain relationships without social media. I'm in the same boat at the same age.

My brother who is 10 years younger ends up doing a large majority of his communication with his social group through social media. He couldn't stop using it and maintain relationships, not because he's unable to, but because his peers wouldn't be able to easily communicate with him.
“This gave us the iBook and iMac machines (consumer), and the Powerbook and Mac Pro machines (professional)”

Small nitpick: the Mac Pro series didn’t exist until Apple switched over from PowerPC processors to Intel in 2006. What you meant were the PowerBook and Power Mac machines.
Rocket Internet are the biggest ones, but there's a lot following this strategy.

Fabrice Grinda, a prolific entrepreneur/angel coined the term "International Idea Arbitrage" years ago.

See: http://www.fabricegrinda.com/entrepreneurship/international-...
> Maybe you don't care what happens to the next N generations, but I do

It's not about not caring - it's about not knowing what will and will not be relevant. As I've said before - people have been talking about population explosion since forever - we should be starving from 80s. All these people consistently ignore progress in their predictions.

You don't know what the dominant method for food production will be in 20 years or what will be the dominant energy source - as someone linked above the things I'm talking about are already starting. How can you predict what will be relevant in 100 years ? We should deal with problems coming in 10-20 years - we don't have the tools to deal with the longer term than that.
Because of policy, as I stated. They can't negotiate a better deal because the labor pool they are competing with is global. So they are now valued less and feel it is unfair.

I'm not here preaching socialism. I'm just saying a near term effect of rampant globalization is people are going to be displaced and feel they are being exploited. I think this is where unrest comes from.
Google is doing this.
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Let's apply Bayesian reasoning. :P

P(skill): Let's choose a prior that someone can smell parkinson's as one in a million, or 10^-6. (Not very well argued, I admit.)

P(data): This exact data's random occurrence probability is 1/2538.

P(data|skill): The probability of the result, taking account that she has the skill, is 1 (this assumes she never errs).

So we get

P(skill|data) = P(data|skill) x P(skill) / P(data)

P(skill) = 1 x 10^-6 / (1/2538) = 0.002538

Or 0.25 percent probability, based on this test, that she has the skill. Which is low.

Intuitively, I would have expected the calculation to yield a much higher number. The prior was very low though.

So I think the grandparent post has some merit. It can be argued that the claim is so extraordinary (the prior) that even twelve "coin tosses" guessed right in a row is more likely.
Does anyone know of a "VR Basics for Programmers" that walks through some terminology and the problem space?
TBH this isn't surprising or creepy. This could be a great chance to try out counting more dynamic crowds, for instance, so not all applications are inherently creepy.

Who has oversight for this kind of thing? It's crazy we can't get a straight answer about this kind of thing.
It makes bullying harder for people who want to ignore it to do so.

When I was in elementary school, I was mercilessly bullied and terrorized by a group of 4 kids, probably from 3rd to 5th grade. I was singled out for whatever reason and anyone who associated with me would get a taste as well. The parents were total trash who in one case was encouraging the child's behavior, but they were active in the PTA. So the school ignored it.

One time on my way out the door, I was tackled and bashed in the head with a metal lunchbox. The teacher standing there turned around. The kid got in trouble because my mom and a family friend witnessed the thing.

The retaliation for that was in the lunchroom a week later. The lunch monitor (aunt of one of my bullies) watched as my lunchbox and lunch was smashed and kicked. Then when I pushed a kid, the whistle blew and I was forced to stand in a stress position with a hotdog in my jeans pocket off to the side. (There were little alcoves where tables were folded when the lunchroom was converted to a gym.)

Fortunately, a teacher who had taken an interest in me and was a really amazing guy, happened by and stopped it immediately. The administration STILL wouldn't take action against the lunch aide or bully's. So I ate lunch in that teacher's classroom (he was a science/music teacher) for the rest of the year. That teacher made a really big difference in my life, and I learned later that he got a lot of grief for trying to do the right thing.

With "cyber bullying" the evidence is right there, and it's easy to share in public. It's difficult for bureaucrats to pretend that nothing happened.
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Didn't it read dismissive about that to you?
Yes, I mean that. It's so tricky because you do get a percentage of folks that are not realistic about the expectations or requirements. But you handle demand the way other open enrollment places do - with waiting lists.
"Distribution" is a neutral term that refers to how quantities are spread out in a population. E.g. you can talk about age, weight, or height distribution in a population.
Yeah I agree, I think the issue is that "really value" is ambiguous and implies that there's only one thing which we can optimize for at a time. I don't think that's true, but I don't think it's a logical fallacy either, just a bad assumption.
good finding
He has 24/7 instant access to very high quality opsec though, it doesn't matter that he's old. If he's too old to know any better he doesn't belong anywhere near classified material.
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I don't believe that will work since the input.value will become an empty string before you can do your replacement.
Age, height, even weight (for the most part) are qualities of humans that cannot be controlled. Wealth is qualitatively different than these attributes.

Edit: no one would ever talk about the distribution of "ability at basketball" for example.
What makes this result meaningless? The probability of her guessing all 12 correctly at random is: 0.0002 (i.e., approximately 0.5^12). So, it is far more statistically significant than many published results.
Part of the problem is the rampant NIMBYism in that area, which isn't really the fault of people doing startups. Still, though, it really adds to that area being expensive.
Why not just buy AMZN and not work there?
One of the more perverse things I learned back in the day was exactly this. I even saw the school counselor and we worked on actively ignoring taunts. It didn't work.

Later I realized it wasn't about a reaction, it was tribal posturing to others. It was about showing they were "in" and I was "out."
I quit a few months ago.

Sigh. :/

edit:

on the other hand with stock increases they won't give any raises. So guess it depends if you want a big chunk of money every so often or more money every payday.
Probably cocaine.
While it is nice to see the haskell community put some effort into this area, is it really necessary to blow the user's current vim settings away and make them start from scratch with your setup?

Why not make this a standardish plugin that pulls everything in and can be added to an existing vim config. Work with non-haskell languages two so I wouldn't want to swap back and forth between a haskell config and a non haskell config.
Would you write something about how your selection process is?
As someone who lives in Baltimore, the riots reminded me why I'm less afraid of the police than of my neighbors. Police flying overhead to capture publicly visible events didn't try to throw a chair through the window of the restaurant I was eating at with my family, or vandalize the drug store by my house, or break the door of my favorite fro-yo place.

It's not that I'm not sympathetic to the general idea the ACLU and EFF are pushing here. It was just a reminder of why the public gives the police so much power and benefit of the doubt.
The only way to dissuade a bully is to hurt him. Bullies look for easy victims, and back off when they themselves are made vulnerable to you in some way.
The biggest impact of this change is to fundamentally change the nature of ownership of the means of production.
They do have the user's back. That means not wearing a tin foil hat. In order for a modern browser to work in a halfway decent manner, they need to ensure that things are reasonably up to date, that developers see crash reports so they can discover bugs and security flaws before someone malicious does, and that lists of malicious sites get updated. Not checking for updates, not providing bug reports is the opposite of good software hygiene.
it certainly isn't confined to the US. You simply have to read the right sites to see that that is a world wide phenomenon. What isn't talked about is that a lot of what keeps people from success also affects their local schools, as in they don't participate because they don't have the drive to do it. The same lack of drive to push ahead.
Same reason why we call "sea stars", "starfish", when it's not a fish.

At this point it's just a name. It's a phrase a lot of people recognize and has become a rallying cry liberals. You can't change it anymore.

TL;DR Because marketing.
Sheesh guys, way to take a philosophical mental exercise and sap all the fun out of it!
Pitch mode: I've been working on the telemetry system for that Renovo/Stanford car. It's a fun project, and if anybody out there is interested in working on the back-end data collection and visualization definitely get in touch.
That doesn't stop child support payments; why would it matter here?
Unless you believe something like the Banach-Tarski paradox [0] is possible in our world, there is a relatively constant amount of matter within our reach. (In fact, there is a finite amount of matter that we will ever be able to reach.)

This puts a hard cap on how much "stuff" can exist. Therefore, the pie is fixed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox
There's nothing wrong with pink slime. If you want to eat cheap nutritious beef, it's a good thing. If you're a meat-packer trying to be less wasteful, it's a good thing. If you think the best pretext on which to wage class war is the content of various school lunches, apparently it's golden.

Pink slime is only a marginally-bad thing for cattle ranchers like me. I would benefit if people decided to only eat ribeye, because ribeye is a small portion of the total carcass and that would drive up the price of cattle. Conversely, every beef patty sold that includes 10% pink slime lowers the price of cattle just a little bit.
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He stated that he went through quite a few VAs before selecting one. And the interview process seems to one of the main things that he hated
Your statement only makes sense in a context where both the buyer and seller have roughly equal power. As it is, that has almost never been true when talking about labor. An employer who doesn't have enough employees is still going to be able to compete and make money, just not as much. However, an employee who doesn't get enough work is going to be homeless or starve.
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Ah no actually its totally valid to talk about the distribution of ability at basketball over a population.

Distribution is just a mathematical concept - it doesn't care what type of variable you are looking at.
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Is it that bad?
Nice work.

Any plans for creating notes with cloze deletions? I have been looking for a lightweight implementation of an incremental reading system as described at http://www.supermemo.com/help/read.htm. Part of the system includes converting what you have read into question/answer material.
Reminds me of this anecdote from Fishing with John:

"I heard a story about this woman that was swimming in the ocean, and dolphins started swimming with her, and the dolphins kept poking her in the chest above her breast. She got scared and they took her out of the water, and she had a big bruise right on the top of her breast. They took her to the doctor to examine her, and they did a mammogram, and found that she had cancer right in that spot."

– Jim Jarmusch, 'Fishing with John'

https://youtu.be/uVa8rj1mm7A?t=912
The answer to the first question is the time-value of money. The capitalist has put his capital into the production and is delaying the return on his investment to the future. The employee is being paid now, regardless of when the income from their labor is realized. This is why a good is sold for more than the worker is paid. The worker is not being paid less than their labor is worth.
Oculus' getting started guide: https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/game-engines/late...
Is there necessarily a problem with that? Their internet usage would be presumably heavily monitored and if they actually do those things then prosecute them for it and take their access away for some period of time.

Restricting internet access like you're proposing is presuming their guilt and ruining it for the rest of the inmates.
I forget how much I hate Hacker News sometimes. Thanks for reminding me.

> (although "no motivation" sounds worse than "no opportunity at the time")

18 was ten years ago. I was playing college football, thinking I was going to go pro. I was an idiot, but I got a college degree.

I then went on to have a career in a different field, grew up a little and taught myself to code. I've been working in the industry for three years. I have a long way to go. I spend every evening either a) doing homework for an online course I'm taking from Rice (through Coursera), b) Going through a self-directed course I've made consisting of various text books/academic papers, c) actually writing code.

Seriously, fuck you for acting like the only way to become a respectable or successful developer is the path you picked.
But is the FCC the correct body?
Not to go all anti-objectivist, but I've yet to see a consistent equation where (quantity of work) * (quality of work) = wealth

There's a myth of the hustle that gets perpetrated whenever a feel-good story about a hard working, intelligent person's success gets bandied about.

The reality is that I'm where I am at least as much because of who I was born to as to how much hard work and diligence I've put into my professional career.
No. Neither do I consider myself good. Life and the world in general is far too complex for simple labels like that. I would also add that I believe using good and evil in high level decision making leads to antisocial behaviours such as stereotyping.
And yet you still talk about the "distribution" of those quantities. Which undermines your premise that the use of the word "distribution" implies centralized apportionment of some quantity.

"Wealth distribution" is a descriptive, not a prescriptive concept, just like "height distribution." Here is a system applied to some population; let's measure how some quantity ends up distributed among that population based on the behavior of the system.
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The pie gets bigger, but most people's concrete amount of pie they get generally does not change, while a tiny amount of people end up with the benefits of the expanding pie.
In the context of fairness vs equality I've never read/heard a similar comparison to ability.
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I can't agree more with the points raised in the post.

But input type file... now that's really screwed up at the moment. Ever wanted to style that thing? Good luck, there's pretty much no cross browser CSS support for styling just about any of it. Oh, you can do some stuff in Webkit or Blink, but good luck trying to do the same for Gecko or Trident/Edge powered browsers.

Ah well. The input element is at least easier to style than the select one. That one's so annoying to customise that just about every major site replaces it with a Javascript version.
Perhaps that's the reason why

> data suggests that [cyberbullying's] incidence has declined by as much as ten per cent around the world
yes. email me.
Yes but the expectation is that people around you aren't pumping poisonous fumes into the AC.
I've had the best luck just globally swallowing the submit event and pretending like it doesn't exist, and deciding for myself when to submit based on clicks or keystrokes.
And why not Benjamin Tucker's critique of Marx in "State Socialism and Anarchism", wherein he correctly predicts from first principles that state socialism eventually leads to gulags, about 20-30 years before it actually happened.

http://praxeology.net/BT-SSA.htm
Interesting given the recent link between Parkinsons/Alzheimers and fungal infections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10401344
How many people claim they can smell Parkinson's? How many otherwise truthful, sane people have falsely made this claim? Perhaps a better approach to a prior would take into consideration that she claims that she can smell Parkinson's and her reputation as a truthful, sane person. My prior wouldn't be less that 0.1.
Where do you get efficiency out of their plan? People tend to underestimate the true ownership cost of their cars, and Uber uses that to make them believe they're making a lot more per hour than they actually are.
All decent smart phones from the last 3-4 years run Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Email, SMS, and a web browser just fine.

The Lumia 920 was released in 2012, and has an 8.7 megapixel camera with an f/2.0 Carl Zeiss lens, and supports 1080p video capture. You are not limited by the camera.
I think your point is more pedantry than substance. Yes, wealth is qualitatively different, but referring to it as distributed across a population is still intuitively clear and does not read as an abnormal use of the word.

> So, do you believe wealth is earned by hard work and diligence or that it is distributed by some kind of greater power?

I don't believe either thing absolutely. I believe wealth can be earned by hard work and diligence, but that those things are neither necessary nor sufficient. I believe wealth is often distributed by a greater power in effect if not in literal practice through things like regressive taxation and systematic difference in access quality education that have a disparate (and in my opinion, inequitable) impact on those of lesser means.
Pretty awesome experiment, but I feel like this just falls into the same ol' "lowest bidder to meet the absolute minimum" trap. Is there any thoughts on introducing some notion of quality? It seems to me like "lowest price" is not really what you want, but rather "best quality while staying within budget."
Not so, though. If you read the page about the Tychonic system, you saw that the objection to Copernicus was not "that theory requires stellar parallax, but there is no stellar parallax". It was "If that theory is true, then the fact that there is no stellar parallax implies that the stars are very far away". The Copernicans rightly responded "so what?" But the Tychonians trusted their guts, which told them that that was a priori impossible.

And everything you've said about Newton refers to answering the question of how much stuff is attracted to other stuff, not why it is. He was able to show that the natural motion of everything is circular (unless it's in perfect stasis), and to describe with great precision the form of the circles involved (and how they deform into ellipses), but there's no why anywhere. Newton can't justify the force of gravity varying with the square of distance except by observing that it happens to work in practice. He certainly can't explain why it's not zero -- it could have been zero. (Sure, it's very fair to say he told us why Kepler's laws obtained. But that wasn't the question, the question was "why is stuff attracted to other stuff?")
Yeah, I see your point (and the other replies to my comment).

I certainly don't mean it as a guiding principle on how they should build software, but rather as a way to get them to think about trade-offs and realize that nothing in the real world is perfect. (These students are often fresh out of high school and still in the mindset of "the world doesn't make sense but surely that's just because I'm young, and these older people must know what they're all doing" :)
Even to win the state lottery you have to make the effort to buy a ticket. Are you saying you've done nothing more significant than having good parents?