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> When you choose the clearly better developer over the other, you're often choosing the one who had better resources growing up, not just natural ability.

Ahh, but natural ability is just as much of a privilege as having a fortunate upbringing! Both are essentially unchosen, born-with things; you can't choose your inborn talents, and you can't choose your parent's resources.

Really, what you're scoffing at is learned skill and saying that born-with skill is better, for whatever reason.

But meritocracy[1] just means "only results matter". It doesn't matter if you worked your ass off for 30 years in acquiring skills that bring results, against all odds (whether genetic or externally imposed). Or if you were just born with it and hardly had to put in any effort.

[1] Whether that is a reality or not; doesn't matter for the sake of the argument.
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I can't quite figure out what you are getting it. It sounded like you were suggesting OP consider freelancing. But then you suggest his/her bonus could be much higher.

How would one earn a very high bonus while not being judged or scored by any employer?
You say "but much of the software industry would be unsustainable on that footing." That's what you call a tautology: It's very difficult to charge a unit license for open source software. Sure, but is taht relevant anymore?

Android is the most widely used OS on the planet, and it became so faster than anyone expected. What advantage do closed-source vendors actually derive from a fetish for secrecy? Do their customers believe they've got some secret advantage? Does anyone believe Windows has some secret sauce in it that makes it better than other OSs?

Much of the software industry today sustains itself on indirect revenue. Even Microsoft admits it must pivot to ecosystem revenue and away from unit licensing revenue.
Did some searching and here it is (I think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of3m8_LvUWs
I'm having a difficult time imagining anything "cheap" about a complex sensor diagnostic system integrated into a defense aerospace platform with big daddy ACAT 1D program status whose acquisition strategy revolved around cost reduction.
You are very hardworking, talented, and special. You have risen above your station. God only knows what a person of your caliber would have achieved if you had had a more fortunate background.

I hope that this message massaged your ego to a satisfactory degree.
If by "PG made his point poorly" you mean "PG didn't communicate in a way that was misunderstanding-proof", I can agree with you. Inequality is an emotionally-charged subject that is prone to misunderstanding. I think PG underestimated how thoroughly the intellectual basis of his argument would be missed once he uttered the words "I've been helping to increase economic inequality."

Most of the critiques of PG accuse him of not caring about poor people. And yet his essay specifically attacks poverty and lack of social mobility:

> Let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process. That's much more likely to work than attacking wealth in the hope that you will thereby fix poverty.
I'm surprised Delaware is even anywhere near the top. Notwithstanding corporate law, the number of cases handled annually by the listed states are at least one, perhaps two orders of magnitude higher than Delaware. New York and California, for example, have nearly 80 times as many lawyers as Delaware (https://lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com/original-resear...). Also consider the target audience. Corporate law litigants are more likely to have access to private databases. Criminal law precedent should be a focus here, and most every other state in the union is going to have more criminal law precedent than Delaware.

[edit: acknowledging DE is in the hopper.]
perf is 2x mithril and 1x inferno at high mutations and "only" 0.5x inferno at low mutations. "only" because domvm gets 70/s vs inferno's 135/s on my i5 cpu on dbmonster at 1% mutation.

however, domvm views support isolated redraw and even granular node-level patching. so you can optimize much faster if needed

see here: http://mathieuancelin.github.io/js-repaint-perfs/

no routing yet, but some plans are brewing...wip :)
Yep this is exactly it I believe. I come from a very middle class background. My dad is mechanic and my mom is a teacher. If I wanted to move up in the world this is the best route. I had neither the business connections nor the ability to afford an Ivy League school. That being said, I was lucky enough to go to a state school and for my parents to support me for about 6 months while I got my company making revenue. So your 2 conditions seem to hold true.
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With a human computer, no less! Just one comment worth, though. No disruption. Guidelines didn't have a rule against it either. Hopefully in the clear. ;)
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Yep. The more you learn, the more you realised how little you knew. It's pretty bad actually. Not sure how to get out of it.
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I think that's what google is saying, but HMRC is saying that google was misinterpreting the rules and/or evading tax.

From what I can see, it's down to the interpretation of the rules, and google's interpretation was, perhaps, somewhat creative.

Either way, it makes sense for them to pay up. They could challenge HMRC, but even if they won the UK government could just change the law so they're going to have to pay the tax no matter what.

This is a win for the working people in the UK who don't have the option of devising an elaborate tax shield. Now google is finally paying their fair share of taxes.
>> This is getting downvoted because it is a shallow and selfish outlook on life

Another way to read it is: coming to America for opportunity and upward mobility..

I don't find the 'I seek wealth' shallow or selfish, rather the true feelings of most Americans. We worship money and status in this country too often.

Outrage at this - is encouraging, but not from the SV crowd - they seem quite interested chasing massive wealth themselves.
Webvan had $178.5 million of revenue in 2000, selling in only a few markets, and it had semi-coherent plans for growing its revenue quite a lot farther by penetrating existing markets more deeply and adding new ones.

Trouble was, Webvan's way of doing business bled cash at a horrific rate. The bigger it got, the more money it lost. Investors got tired of throwing more cash into the company because the cash-bleed problem couldn't be fixed.

I don't think Webvan is the last company ever to suffer from such problems -- or to be unable to save itself if/when investors go on strike.
In the undergrad university scene that is being discussed I'm having a hard time visualising what "direct networking" would look like.

However, I can confidently say there's a big difference in the bond formed between two people chugging beer bongs together vs asking someone in a lecture if they'd like to have lunch.

I also think the party scene would be difficult to replicate in terms of the sheer size of your potential network (I make no assertation about the objective quality of that network, but the article suggests it's not what be predisposed to think).

Anecdotally, I've got lifelong friends from both camps; but the people I lean on now in my professional development are the people I partied (hard) with at university.
Haha. I knew this was coming. You're putting white and asian in one group and blacks and latinos in another group. What should these groups be called, so we don't have to spell it out each time this distinction is made?
I leveraged the Flux architecture powered by the
immensely popular Redux library. For a cleaner
integration with Angular 2’s injector and TypeScript’s
type system, I wrote a class-based wrapper around Redux
that exposes state changes using RxJS observables.
Consumers can subscribe to these observables and use the
Store class to dispatch state-changing actions.

This reads like a Markov chain generated from a pool of top voted Hacker News Javascript submissions.
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a) perhaps "feature engineering" was not the right 2-gram. I was looking for the (cultural) difference in approaches. Logic programming starts with background knowledge, predicate logic, and hand-written rules on what is valid and what isn't. Deep learning is trying to learn this bottom-up. When DL finds a rule or fact it did so from data, not by using any pre-defined rules or facts.

b) if we apply hierarchical clustering, it would probably be a subset.

Anyway, this was more or less tongue-in-cheek. And yes, you could go on and on. I should have added "The Logicians", "The Game Theorists" and the NLP'ers solving object detection problems with visual bag-of-words. Also forgot to take a jab at business intelligence/operations research.

As for being wedded to a favorite technique, I think that is largely a problem for beginners (and PhD. students with a supervisor who can only think from within a certain framework). I myself may try SVM, but I rank it pretty low as an alternative.
Oh gosh, I have my deceased founding fathers mixed up.
But that's moving from the bottom to the top. How about from the bottom to the middle? What percentage never leave their quartile?
Creative accounting which follows the law to the letter. They're not doing anything illegal (you'd imagine at least - I doubt it would be an easy task to decipher exactly what they're doing to determine legality) but certainly immoral.
Really cool app, I signed up for a demo. Some sort of continuous recording move would also be nice, where you could go back say 1 minute and document transient bugs.
>>It is not straightforward at all. Most homeless people suffer from a mental illness.

>Unsurprisingly unemployment and homelessness and being told that it's all your fault causes mental illness, especially when combined with attempts to self medicate with drugs or alcohol.

Achievement unlocked: Trivialized mental illness.

Being homeless is certainly stressful on the psyche, but not every crazy homeless person started as a sane homeless person. Some people just cannot function as independent adults. One person I know managed to score Section 8 housing, and she trashed the apartment and threatened the landlord and ended up on the street. Until her condition deteriorated enough for the police to call a 5150 on her.

But she doesn't consider herself crazy. Just stressed out. Modern liberation theory means the institutions consider her to be an adult, so if she says she doesn't want to stay in an asylum, then there's no way for us non-super-rich people to stop her from leaving psychiatric care and ruining her life.

There is no firm boundary between crazy and sane, and even being delusional doesn't prevent one from being a productive member of society. We just don't have enough appropriate services for all the crazy people in this country.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGY6DqB1HX8
PaaS at a loss maybe
would someone be able to give me link to documentation that describes how to deploy a todomvc type app using lambda and serverless. I'd love to give this a go
While there is again of truth in what you say, I think your arguments are flawed. I think there are plenty of accomplished musicians who would play guitar hero, nothing insulting in that. Plenty of people, you young and old saw your "I believe..."
There is a huge difference between paying solitaire and Kerby space... Kerby has a bit of learning curve and time investment, solitaire and minesweeper take just minutes.
Yes some old people are set in their ways. But you hire and older person because of their experience. Not because they want to try new things
"I think Bryan Cantrill is referring to both STM and M:N in the context of high performance applications (aka, the norm for him, since he's a kernel engineer). In that sense, both of them do have problems."

"Honestly, I think your comments about M:N and STM are more revealing of your ignorance rather that Cantrill's."

Probably was. Idk who he is or what he does. I'm aware there were fads to claim the two could solve every problem under the Sun in their category. I'm one of those few that ignore fads to focus on any lessons we can learn from certain tech or research. He made a blanket assertion against at least three technologies in one article with no context. Anyone reading might think the techs don't work well in any context. So, I briefly called that.

As evidence, I gave an example of STM that worked. In OS's, it had mixed results unless hardware accelerated and one typically had to protect I/O stuff with locks due to irreversibility. Far as M:N, only found OS use for it in security kernels (eg GEMSOS) to help supress covert, timing channels. Didn't expect him to know that use-case, though, since the cloud products are usually full of covert channels. And then there's MirageOS on unikernel end using type- and memory-safety for robust, network applications already showing fewer 0-days than alternatives did.

So, all three already have real-world, beneficial use. Quite the opposite of his claim that leads one to believe that never happens.

"Sweepingly calling his stance "full of crap" says a thing or two."

In other comments, I did present data and specific examples to reject his claims about UNIX being a usable foundation for this sort of thing among others. His approach to such things was to ignore all counter evidence and/or leave the discussion. Eventually, a new article shows him making an adverti... err, a bunch of claims, some backed up and some assertions, about all kinds of tech in an anti-unikernel rant.

Strange that you're fine with him ignoring his critic's counterpoints... with references... to his major claims but have trouble with how I handle minor, tangential ones. Says a thing or two indeed.
This was in a highly distressed market, and 3%/month was the most steep the fall got
I guess the countless number of a veteran civilians with PTSD didn't get your precious dad's memo.
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It's relatively easy to quantify pay discrimination against various groups

Is it?

Would you then argue that since Asians in the US have a higher median income than whites, the difference is due to discrimination? If not, then what is the cause?
And, as a shareholder, what would you think of a CEO who didn't hire a tax accountant to make sure you paid as little tax as possible?

It's not like shareholders don't have to pay taxes on capital gains and dividends.
I feel like part of the cultural fascination with flying saucers is that we intuitively feel like it should be possible for someone with advanced technology to levitate without expending power.

We are starting to get there, with quantum locking, which can levitate a type-II superconductor relative to a supporting magnetic field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_pinning

I wonder if it would be physically possible to utilize the Earth's extremely weak magnetic field to support any meaningful mass?
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> It can spontaneously change shape, form and function in dramatic ways if a single memory bit gets corrupted.

> That's very, very different than physical objects.

True... spontaneous changes to the structure of physical objects are quite a bit more likely. One of software's greatest features is that it's not subject to the physical wear that physical tools experience.
Maybe a few outliers, but not all or even most.
Yes, it's an option we've discussed. It obviously depends on liquidity in the market at the time and the size of the decrease. It's worth remembering that housing has only crashed like this twice in 100 years, and that a lot of investors made a lot of money in the last downturn, if they were smart.

A good analogy may be CarMax, who shifted their mix in the recession towards distressed cars and ultimately kept revenue/profits reasonably consistent. Of note: This was at the same time car companies like GM and Ford were seriously at risk of bankruptcy.
here's a good overview by Dr J Allen Hynenk with a better reproduction ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn4strYhWok
I'm curious, why would your caste matter in the US?
True, but with redux and angular, now you have two things where state could live.
Giving out unsolicited advice based on wiser-than-thou preaching is a tried-and-true way of projecting relative status.
I comment on the things I know about. Strange indeed.
A well-selected list of interesting 3D print files/projects is a nice thing, but IMHO hiding it behind a "random" button removes 95% of the value it might have.
Wasn't this the whole situation with Dual_EC_DRBG? As far as I understand (which may not be that far when it comes to cryptography, admittedly), the NSA has already been caught intentionally weakening cryptographic standards via its influence over the NIST and by paying RSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

RSA makes Dual_EC_DRBG the default CSPRNG in BSAFE. In 2013, Reuters reports this is a result of a secret $10 million deal with NSA.

According to the New York Times story, the NSA spends $250 million per year to insert backdoors in software and hardware as part of the Bullrun program.
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Interesting observation. Anything that creates an emotional bond & takes down walls is going to build long lasting relationships among people. So partying is one of them. Especially if you are at a top school where most of your peers will end up at important places. You want those strong relationships since we all know business is people.

Building a network that's reliable is far more than someone you met at a meetup and added them to your LinkedIn. It starts either at school or through some social functions where one can connect on a deeper level than just a title.

Maybe this is why it's so much harder to form meaningful bonds later in life.

Also makes a good case for formal education and a school that has good signaling ;-)
I'd noticed this for a while before I found out what it's actually called. Maybe this will interest you, too. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The Racehorse example isn't the best example of arguing in the alternative, because the first three "alternatives" are fully compatible with one another; you could easily argue that all three were true. The real alternative branch is "my dog doesn't bite, and in the alternative, I don't have a dog".
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Yes, but people don't belong to one group.

I would argue that height, intelligence, general health, economic class, propensity for addictive behaviors, wealth of your parents, children rearing skills of your parents, closeness of extended family, social network of your family, family religion, access to nutrition, country of birth, access to healthcare (I could go on and on) all help/hurt your potential in life.

Saying that "you're [white, male, rich] so you're privileged" is ridiculous when it only one of probably thousands of different factors that can impact your success in life. It's lazy thinking.
And Blackberry users. Blackberry was pretty damn good.
I hear you, but that's a disingenuous argument unless you have a reason to say that income tax is somehow tied together with the bombing raids.
Posts like this give me the sads. Equating disabled users with a browser that has been EOLed? Wow, just wow. Also aside from being the right thing to do, depending on who you are and where you are, it may be the law...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_B....
In real life you can't really hide your age. They can figure it out from your CV or just by looking at you when you come in for an interview. Personally, if they're not going to hire me because I'm not young enough, I'd rather get screened out as early as possible so I don't waste any time pursuing opportunities that aren't there.
I may be making a causal inference based on a correlation. What I had read about the compile time guarantees in Rust indicated that escape analysis was being used to implement them, but I don't know if I read that or assumed.

I hadn't encountered Cyclone, but reading through a paper about it now, and it sounds a lot like reading about how Java uses escape analysis with its generational garbage collection to decide where to allocate objects. In fact in 8 goes a lot farther, and it can eliminate monitors, memory fences, and copy constructors that have no observable side effects.

Of course if Java ever conservatively wrong (retaining a dead allocation), the GC will take care of it later. In a language without a collector you have to be right in both directions.
Basically I agree but there is an additional way one starts to learn about best practices....

Having to maintain/extend a project you've written (poorly) for an indefinite amount of time.

Next time around you are a lot more careful and start searching out best practices. Rinse and repeat.
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Right you are! Double the other figures. :(
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Both of these examples I feel are like the difference between learning as something that increases a person's capacity to do something, and learning as a "sport," to just kind of get some notches on the keyboard.
> Then why the fuck do we keep killing ourselves?

We are slaves to our own genetic sequences to a much larger extent than we usually think.

It's pretty easy to show that the behaviors that lead to people killing each other are driven by mechanisms initially evolved to ensure that our own genetic sequences keep multiplying and spreading out, eliminating competition. And they're pretty dumb mechanisms, running on the lower levels of our brains, so don't expect them to be very selective, or run without failure. Sometimes they hit an internal bug and become runaway destruction loops, which sometimes even turn against the individual itself.

Many things that are typically considered "evil" can be traced back ultimately to these mechanisms that ensure that our own genetic sequences win the race. In a way, "evil" was actually useful, way back in time, in an evolutionary sense. It's just recently that we've acquired new desires and aspirations, which are in conflict with the old, narrow, dumb routines.
I think I wrote my argument rather poorly. Let me try again:

I could buy that Jupiter in our particular Solar System had the effect of clearing asteroids in the Earth's orbit. However, that doesn't automatically mean that Jupiter was essential. What if, say, Jupiter's presence in the early days of the solar system prevented these asteroids from coalescing further, resulting in the presence of the asteroids in the first place? Or what if it didn't matter in the long run anyway?

Okay I just pulled that out of thin air, but what I'm saying is that there's too many unknowns to declare we needed Jupiter for life. The authors cherry-picks arguments that support their cause. Also bear in mind that this book was written in 2003, when we knew less than a dozen extrasolar planets and, IIRC, basically none looked like our Solar System (because the instruments weren't good enough to detect such systems). Even now, I don't think we know enough about planetary systems to confidently say whether Earth-like systems are common or rare.
"Unikernels are entirely undebuggable."

I'm confident this will be addressed eventually. Anyone have a sense of what that will look like? Something like JMX? Something like dumping core, restarting, and analyzing later?