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Apple open-sourced ALAC and made it royalty-free in 2011, it's no longer a proprietary format.
I think it was meant in the sense that the "criticality" could involve just a few neurons or many, but if for example we could learn how to detect it, that detector would need to work regardless of the scale of the event. In CV there's a well known algorithm called Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, which does basically this.
Ask HN: Is everyone working at Google / Facebook really smart?
I am wondering what is it like to work at google or facebook. I am assuming people at facebook are more productive than people at google based on progress made in last few years.

I have read multiple times that people working at these companies are really really smart people. Is everyone really smart and productive or are few people carrying the weight for the most.

I worked at one of the large search engine company before and I can attest that not everyone is smart. There was large variance when it came to contributions. Few people were real rockstars and many, if not all, were just there for paycheck. They showed up everyday, ate free breakfast/lunch, did minimum to keep the job and went home.

I am wondering what is it like to work at google or facebook ?

I have almost 9 years of experience by now and looking for major career jump but wondering if it would be worth joining tech dinosaurs. Bureaucracy and process oriented companies are last I want to consider. However, I am also looking for $180k or more salary range company ( ideally $200k or more total comp ). Are there any startups that pay compensation in this range ?
The camp bought food wholesale in bulk at a discount over small restaurants in the next town over. Figure the camp spends 1/3 or 1/4 the amount you do at the supermarket for the same if not higher quality product. We would make a turkey dinner once for every session. Who doesn't love turkey dinner with all the fixings, even in July? Take the every day snack, for example, there doesn't need much choice. I'd make homemade chocolate chip cookies and zucchini bread. But, we would also buy a box of Italian ices or a box of peanut butter in single serve cups and serve them with celery sticks.

Children don't have immune systems that are as developed as adults so bacteria contamination is much more serious. It is important that children are served the most 'desirable' food. I don't understand why it is ok to even think about serving the crap food to children? You are suggesting we give the old food that has lost its flavor and more likely has developed undesirable flavor to children. It's like you have this idea that we can just serve kids whatever.

I'm just saying that I had an experience where an institution served really good simple healthy balanced food to children within a constrained budget. It's doable. I know how to do it.
My jaw kind of hit the floor after reading Google Security Research's issue 222; very glad someone has built a simplified PoC. With any luck this will get some kind of response out of MS.
Bean counting is less effective if you don't know what a bean is.
Healthy food is more expensive both in time required for prep and materials. That is why affluent people seemingly buy healthier food. When you grow up poor, or live poor you don't have as much time or mental energy to properly diet.
i have to admit i'm quite jealous of the u.s. constitution as it is very restrictive and works by the assumption that the state has no rights except those explicitely granted therein. really a beautiful document.

though there are some stupid loopholes it heavily depends on the people to defend it. but meanwhile, everybody is whining, brainwashed, focussing on the 2nd amendmend. unable to see its purpose.

other shit is more important, i guess. like what the gas price is and if silicon valley is eating money.

sheep have just lost their way.
Naturally occurring trans fats (vaccenic acid and conjugated linoleic acid) occur in trace amounts in animal products. They also have been shown to possibly be beneficial for LDL and triglycerides, while hydrogenated oil is harmful.
I imagine that wouldn't be a problem for a sensibly designed car. It takes a lot less power to run a lightbulb than to move a car, so a battery too depleted to drive on would still have plenty of juice for small loads.

I have a relatively inexpensive radio control model Piper Cub made of foam. The control surfaces work even when the battery is too dead to drive the motor, for the obvious reason. I don't suppose it's beyond the likes of Tesla to put that technology in a car.
Many times I've had to Control-Z a process (suspend it) and then kill it, because Control-C did not propagate correctly. And even then, the kill usually required a "kill -9".

It would be great if consistent interruption could be solved once and for all. In many cases, the presence of sub-processes is essentially an "implementation detail" of the program you're trying to interrupt but you just don't know if the Control-C will work or if the shell will just sit there and hang. And many people are not aware of what shells can do either so they try even more extreme things like closing entire terminal windows to cope.
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PG's point is so obvious it is almost tautological. Of course we should get rid of negative causes + negative effects, while keeping the positive. That applies to literally anything (gambling, friendship, work, etc). Maybe people are interpreting this w/ the most controversy because PG has a history of controversial statements (remember his article on immigration which caused an uproar on HN?).

A more interesting argument that PG could have made is that it is theoretically possible to have inherent wealth inequality in the system without negative results. At this point, I see very few believe that it is even possible.
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Hi I'm the author of Ametora.

From everything I have researched, Edwin appears to have fudged their timeline quite a bit, claiming to do a lot of things years before there's any proof that any Japanese makers were doing it. I wrote something here about trying to reconstruct the exact timeline: http://www.heddels.com/2015/10/who-made-japans-first-jeans/

They may have imported some (low quality) selvedge denim in the 1960s because a lot of denim was still selvedge (at least on one side of the cuff), but no one made the slubby, selvedge denim Japan is famous for in any sort of serious quantity until the late-1980s. No Japanese companies made jeans-grade denim at all until 1973.
> This is not a consumer product.

That's a manufactured excuse for a fundamentally bad product api and pricing structure. When dropbox is more useful than AWS, amazon has screwed the pooch (which they do pretty often). Segmenting users by arbitrary circuitous logic into "consumers" (can't find a good use for it) and "enterprise" (can find a good use for it) isn't constructive. Both classes should avoid it, because it's not even an inexpensive choice, for what you get.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#Dynamic_range

>> 4K resolution is close to what the eye can see.

Depends on the distance to the display (whose resolution is independent on where the viewer is).
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>Higher quality content generally requires much more expensive production costs, and it's far from clear that the revenue side of the equation will support these costs at anything more than hobby-level scale.

True, but high-quality content also serves to build reputation. Positive reputation can still drive revenue, even in this day and age. If major publications haven't failed on that front, then they've failed on others, such as presentation. Excellent products have to achieve and maintain excellence in all areas, and any chink in the armor is reason for people not to regularly use a product. I don't know of a single major publication that's checked all the boxes.

>I love Nautilus, as I imagine a lot of HN readers do. But how is it doing as a business?

That's a good question. I don't know, but I really hope it's doing well.
Thanks for that.

I'll give you an example of where it hits hard - Event Emitters. Some of the largest EE libs in the NodeJS ecosystem still munge the arguments object to pass args to listeners. I've sent PRs to some of them, but the deopt caused by the arguments munging seems to slow down the whole function and everything it calls, which can be quite significant (like an entire render loop).

ES6 solves this problem nicely but it will be a long time before we can deploy it natively. Thankfully, Babel handles it correctly and uses a proper for loop. So the need to fix this is less urgent than ever.
I understand all that. In the end, I've experienced no benefit from these tools.

The example about new[]/delete; is a good one. That is important only if the element has a ctor/dtor. Yet the tools flag simple scalar arrays as well - pointlessly adding to the noise.
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This whole thing is about taxes and yet neither side is honest enough to acknowledge that fact. No one will begrudge PG, Zuckerberg or any of the other high earners continuing to amass considerable wealth so long as they're paying significantly more taxes than they are now.

When that happens, even though there are very rich people, there's also a healthy middle class and the social support systems (safety nets, education, etc) for poor people to reach the middle class. But what we have now is rich people hiding behind capital gains tax rates to actually pay less than people who earn significantly less that they do. And PG, as someone who earns his living primarily through investing, is no doubt taking advantage of this situation.

When PG says "don't address income inequality directly," it's the equivalent of saying "don't raise my taxes" since raising taxes on the wealthy is the method for addressing income inequality directly. IMHO, the reason he's gotten so much flack is that there is a very large proportion of the population that believes that we need to close the loopholes that the uber-wealthy use to avoid paying the right amount of taxes and increase the top marginal tax brackets to above 50%. And yet he wants to talk about addressing income inequality directly as if his critics want to keep people from earning that much in the first place.

I can't tell if he's being deliberately disingenuous or if he actually believes that's what people are suggesting, but the net result is a back and forth conversation at two different contextual levels.
The same things that make centralized government problematic - making decisions with widely dispersed impact with few personal consequences - are similar for very large organizations.

In so far as large companies are permitted to exist by the people for the benefit of stakeholders rather than shareholders (i.e. employees and their communities, suppliers, customers, as well as actual shareholders and bondholders), the executive leadership of a corporation is much like a government, and in a large company, it's a distant one, subject to autocratic rule and upward redistribution of the value created by the whole.
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> I’d need more than one drive, preferably not using HFS+, and a maintenance regimen to keep them in working order.

I'm really doubting the need for a maintenance regimen on a drive which is almost entirely unused. Could have spent $50 on a magnetic-disk-drive and saved yourself hours worth of trouble.
"Workers periodically fix the problem - as they did with Charles I, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and Nicholas II and his family. As there are still classes, the workers and the parasite heirs, this problem still exists, but I'm confident the problem will eventually be fixed permanently and the parasites will be eliminated as a class."

This sounds like you're advocating for a literal genocide. Is that really what you mean?
Very, very well put. This is was what I've been thinking while watching this back-and-forth unfold (both this one involving PG and in general over the last few years).

In my mind, whether wealth is zero sum or not is irrelevant. The discussion around income inequality is about the area under the curve. If that area increases again and again and again but the bottom, say, 90% remain in the same state, that's not progress.
The problem with applying this sort of measuring regime against education or medicine vs. a sales team or IT service operation is that the outcomes are difficult to assess, because he assessments are bogus.

A high quality general education should lead to a good outcome on a standardized test, (Say the SAT) right?

The reality is the complexity of the assessment requires preparation. Without understanding SAT test strategy, you won't do well. When I took AP US History, the difference between a 4 and a 5 (the highest score) was understanding how to "stage" essays for the graders.

Instead of worrying about red teaming standardized tests, we should think log and hard about the cultures being created in these environments.
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Nature, over time, destroys what is fragile. If your ancestors have been drinking milk for millennia, then it is probably safe for your body. In similar dosages. Eat what has been field tested by nature, not the latest voodoo food.
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90% of the world's in-shape bodies are concentrated among the top 1% of people who exercise. It's fitness inequality, and I won't stand up for it.
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I was just referring to the article. Apparently the "computer" position was open to the best applicants, regardless of sex or race. You know, the way things are supposed to be.
Probably not for you, but if you were a single parent with two jobs trying to get two kids to the bus each morning, packing a lunch would be a lot more difficult.* Especially to make a lunch healthy.

* to be clear, I am not that person. Just saying.
It's unfortunate that Arq forces you to archive in their proprietary format. That locks you in to the tool.
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Which makes it even more sad. If your best meal is school slop, you have no chance.
> you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality.

I get the impression, reading a lot of the responses to pg's essays on this topic that this is like dividing by zero according to most people's model of the world.
That there are some things Excel does badly does not magically mean other tools provide decent interchange with Excel users.
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I think it's because it goes against the last 45 years of common wisdom about why people get fat. Namely it's all about dietary fat and lack of will power. If you ask your doctor, nutritionist, your mom, or the man on the street they'll tell you this. Try to tell them different and they'll label you as crazy. (Hint hit the vote button now)

If you ask someone that does endocrine research, especially pediatric endocrine research they'll tell you that when you exclude people that are overweight for one of a large number of genetic reasons, the rest are fat because if a diet containing too much added sugars and processed carbs[1]. They'll also tell you normal dietary fat[2] is good for you.

[1] And booze though it breaks my heart to say so.
[2] As opposed to trans-fats which are terrible.
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And here it is:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/

It's pretty amazing, and a bit sad. They landed perfectly, and then the bad leg collapsed after.
> I don't understand why it is ok to even think about serving the crap food to children? You are suggesting we give the old food that has lost its flavor and more likely has developed undesirable flavor to children.

This isn't what the original poster meant. There are lots of fruits & vegetables that are thrown out because they're not aesthetically pleasing. As the poster said, they're not rotten. A carrot may have some twists and be a little crooked. An apple may look gnarled. A cucumber may have an light green stripe down one side instead of being uniformly dark green.
My disbelief still stands. What is the age range for human beings who can't distinguish between commercials and programs? You don't think kids get irritated when they're shows are interrupted by commercials?

To me this just comes across as an excuse for bad parenting. There were junk food commercials on tv when I was a kid, but I didn't get to have them, because I didn't have money to buy them.
What I like the most about Ikea furniture is that it is of high quality, high enough to survive moving multiple times, while being so cheap.

I tried other self assembled furniture before - the quality was just not there. I did not love them, and threw them away as soon as they became too obviously crooked.

Using the Ikea brand in the title is incorrect if the specific effect described should extend to Walmart furniture, but doesn't.
>... if we lived in such a world, would you still be upset that Mark Zuckerberg had a lot more money than you? Why?

That's a really good question. Theoretically, I would be fine with that kind of world, but I dont think that kind of world has ever existed or will ever exist. It is more realistic to attack the problem on both fronts - maximize social mobility and minimize the influence of wealth on politics, but also recognize that you will never completely succeed. Wealth will always equal opportunity and influence to some extent, so inequality will always be a bad thing to some extent.

For what it's worth, I'm not upset that Zuck has a lot more money than me. I just think that entrepreneurially generated inequality should not be a sacred cow, and I'm speaking as someone who has created a good deal of inequality with entrepreneurship.
This article is idiotic. If you have a problem with tests disincentivizing physical fitness, add a test for physical fitness. What's the problem?

And in medicine the problem is even more extreme, and comes down even more obviously in favor of more, not less, measurement. Here's an example:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119
This is a beautiful story! The past two weeks has been ugly, with all the news about violence against women by refugees, violence against refugees by gangs etc. This story is an example of how an immigrant can grow in a foreign land and how a local can help an immigrant grow.

I wish such stories were more common than the stories we are currently hearing from Europe :(
It's not exactly proprietary since Apple open sourced the ALAC code in 2011.

https://alac.macosforge.org

Also, someone has wrapped it to build with different tool chains.

https://github.com/TimothyGu/alac
If you found this interesting, you might also like this recently posted documentary on how 747s get disassembled, inspected and put back together every few years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921930
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A lot of that is different accounting.

In most US states, schools are nominally independent bodies of government, they carry all of the costs of facilities, pensions, etc. They also need to comply with all sorts of cost enhancing building and labor standards.

So in my city, the school collects $28k/pupil. That includes something like $150M in debt for buildings, salaries, 20% of salaries for pension obligations, 15-20% for employee healthcare, key expenses for the various charter schools, etc.

They also need to deal with compliance issues. Because some redneck place in Mississippi would give poor kids a slice of Bologna and stale bread, there are prescribed calorie and nutrition standards that get audited. So you can't prepare fresh foods.
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Rings true to me: it looks like American teachers' salaries are further below average than in most countries: http://www.olinmontalvo.com/2012/09/ratio-of-teacher-salarie...

There are a few questions worth asking about this, though: Do those numbers include benefits? American teachers may get more of those than overseas teachers. And how skewed is that data by the very rich in America?

This page is also worth a look: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

The US is "below trend" for per-student spending vs GDP, fit linearly. Not by a huge amount, but it might be wrong to go on about how generously American schools are funded.

That does depend on how the money is spent, though. Wages might be higher in places that are more developed, but it's not clear that materials should be more expensive there.
Any sane medical professional will tell you exercise is good for you. This has been proven time and time again, and could be treated almost as an axiom of health research.