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Even at its most basic, an arbitrary developer filing a bug report is potentially less costly to handle than a customer experiencing a failure...it can be ignored and maybe the developer submits a patch.

On a longer timeline, hiring developers experienced in the technology from the open source community saves on the cost of training them for a proprietary code base.

Ideally, the open source community develops new features, identifies and patchs bugs, writes tests and libraries, etc. adding value realized by the company's paying customers. In the meantime the company still can devote staff to its business priorities and ignore those of the larger community: e.g. no `map` in go-lang and no `react new myapp` at the CLI for React.

To put it another way, why would a business open source code for anything other than business reasons?
I hope 'Agile', as a product, with the capital A, that sells lots of worthless pulp fiction "how to" books, with dogmatic consultants propagating useless practices they neither understand nor can follow, well I hope that is dead. It was and is a cancer on the industry as a whole.

I however hope 'agile' as a spirit of talking to your users, breaking down tasks into bite size deliverables, testing, and making sure things move in a generally agreeable direction, well, I hope that persists and flourishes.
I started a DFT code in Julia two years ago but didn't get too far. I always felt that I have to think how to make the code fast in Julia (types/vectorization), whereas I just know it will be fast in Fortran. So I always end up writing modern Fortran C-binded to Python. Was it just me not paying enough time to get used to Julia or was/is it a real problem?
We are talking about universities here, presumably, since the title is "college sex-assault trials belong in court". So, dismissing them as an "exception" is neither helpful nor relevant.

I have no idea about how fair the system is out of college. My point was about how unfair it is _in_ college.
I agree with you for the most part. I'd just like to point out, since I also consider my family lower-middle class, that most lower-middle class families have no money whatsoever for college.

Most of us in that situation took loans. And if we did OK, we paid them off. No big deal, just another minor obstacle.
Because of: https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/640
So let me get this straight: your solution to labor's subservience to capital is for all the millions of working poor to get jobs as security guards while earning degrees in theoretical physics?

I get what you're trying to say, but you're proposing an individual solution (that cannot scale) to a systematic problem.
This is kind of the point. The fatalities-per-gunshot ratio is quite irrelevant. What matters is the number of injuries or fatalities.

If hypothetically giving out automatic weapons caused there to be more gunshots because every time there was a gun battle many more shots were fired, but it reduced the total number of shooting victims because now dealers are much more wary about starting a gun battle, then you could make the argument for giving out automatic weapons. Because what matters is the actual harm.

But if all it did was increase the number of gunshots by a lot and the number of injuries by a little then it's clearly a bad thing. Because what matters is still the actual harm.
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Why should I be interested in this - given there are many free high quality implementations for Scheme like Racket, Gambit etc?
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That couldn't be farther from the truth, unfortunately. If they were trying to maximize profits, they would focus on providing reasonable ways for everyone on the planet to give them money.

Instead, what production companies try to optimize is the funding used to create the content in the first place. They sell the rights as many times as they can, in as many different markets as they can, in order to finance the production. They are then required to enforce region restrictions to live up to the foreign distribution contracts they signed.

The fact that this ultimately results in lower profits hasn't yet occurred to these idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H creative geniuses. It brings in more cash up front, which appears to be all they care about.
stupidity is typically correlated with low ability. If hardware insured that ability is high, then we wouldn't get a lot of stupidity from emergent consciousness
I don't think that's true. The Lumia design language is actually the Nokia N8/N9 design language (look at pictures of either of them and this is immediately evident), and that was designed in-house by a team lead by Axel Meyer.

(Also, Frog Design is based in Palo Alto, and their web site doesn't list a Helsinki office.)
> I don't see it as a sum zero game...

Of course it is, you've taken her off the market thus that other guy that wants to date her must lose. People are a limited resource, there's only one of her, when resources are limited the game is always zero sum.
Japanese "construction companies" were rounding up homeless people at subway stations and sending them to Fuku cleanup. They got paid around $80/day from which their room and board fees are deducted. I recall articles and photos that they didn't even have protected footwear, and had to wrap their shoes in plastic bags.

If anything, USSR had a more organized and humane (funnily enough) response to Chernobyl.
Walmart must be considered a small corporation then. Good to know.
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I have seen many TSP solvers that enumerate known incorrect solutions. For example, a TSP solution will have no intersecting paths, but many solvers will generate and check solutions with intersecting paths all day long.
Cisco prices from 2013

SP-SW-LMIX0CH0 SP BASE Chez Scheme Dev Env for Wind, Per Unit $65.00
SP-SW-LMIX0CHL SP BASE Chez Scheme Dev Env for Linux, Per 10 $325.00
SP-SW-LMIX0CHW SP BASE Chez Scheme Dev Env for Wwind, Per 10 $325.00
SP-SW-LMIX0CH1 SP BASE Chez Scheme Dev Env for Apple Mac,Per 10 $325.00
SP-SW-LMIX0CHA SP BASE Chez Scheme Developm $65.00
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I'm also curious about what the problem is. If the goal is a simple API client that has iOS/Android/Desktop compatibility, then Cordova seems a reasonable choice. Would the above commenter have preferred 4+ separate projects instead?
Withings has consistently built really functional, beautiful products. From the outside it seems like an innovative, well run company. Hopefully this will continue to stay the same with Nokia.
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Sure, let them eat cake.

>It can make it seem like sinking time and effort to make meaningful changes is just futile because of how many things are messed up. And that kind of mindset saps happiness in a hurry.
Oh, definitely. I don't believe in the religion myself. I have heard that cop-out before though: "but we're only talking about the successful white males". I think the term for the argument technique / fallacy is motte-and-bailey (you might be aware but for the benefit of anyone reading):

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...
Being smart makes it much easier to get some opportunities.
I'm pretty sure there are more distinguished engineers and other senior engineering roles paying $750/year in total comp at Google/Microsoft/Apple etc. than there are neurosurgeons.

Not to mention tens of thousands of average developers that got lucky with stock options and became millionaires where a doctor of same age is still slaving away as a resident with 24-hour shifts and abysmal pay ($50-$60k year for surgical residents, according to google).

The market (not society) is treating us developers pretty well.
Proprietary app, so it's a no-go.
I think you are ok in this case, but see if you can get a free consultation with a lawyer that deals with trademarks.

If you had a domain like macbookprocase I would be a bit more worried.
This was my weekend project. Pretty straightforward, uses clojure + amazon SES + amazon SimpleDB to send links to MLB's public condensed videos, every day at 7:00 AM EST. Hope this is useful for somebody!
Downvoted since clearly hyperbole with 15 years timeframe.
yet that is ALWAYS how it seems to be taken

This is a clue that perhaps your terminology is loaded, inflammatory, and should be changed.

I find that there's very little value in reasoning about race as a collective, since it's usually just a (overly) reductive variable for socioeconomic status, upbringing, or environment. If you mean those things, say those things. Attaching a racial modifier to a term and then expecting members of that race to not feel described or targeted by it makes no sense.

(And that goes double when that term is used, often, as an attack, not in the thoughtful way you describe, but that is a rant for another time.)
> You're exhibiting the AI effect

At first I had no idea what you're referring to, but then I realised the confused stemmed from my typo. I meant to ask whether it was a significant advancement, not an advanced net/AI.

I know self driving cars are a "thing" already, but only in very limited and constrained circumstances. Last time I checked, Google's can only drive on roads where they've meticulously already mapped out everything from the height of the curb to the exact location of the traffic lights. That's not to discount their work, but it's still in the very early stages of the self driving dream of having a car that can drive you anywhere while you watch a movie.
Comments seem to have gone off on a tangent about multiplication.

What stands out for me is the irony, that ultimately the purpose of AI is not to be especially good at multiplication but rather to replicate the tenuous, fragile and indefinable properties of Human Intelligence that can only come about through some process more sophisticated than logical binary determinism.
It's a known state of mind. Heck, did you ever watch The Jungle Book (1967)?

Now I'm the king of the swingers, whoa/The jungle VIP/I've reached the top and had to stop/And that's what botherin' me
The seller doesn't realize they are losing because they are not correctly calculating their costs. With art and music and things like pizza delivery / Uber churn maintains the market as the unaccounted for costs(debt, depreciation etc) finally catch up to the current participants removing them.
SFAIK, a "patch" to the icing problem has been deployed. I suspect it'll be like that - undiagnosed defects emerge, get patched, repeat, lather, rinse. Somebody once called this "like simluated annealing" to me ( I lack the materials chops to say if that's true or not ).

The problem with this is that it's very hard to communicate the realities of this to "end users". They may have Luddite streaks to start with and may be looking for an excuse to ... defect from the relationship with the machines for very real reasons that have nothing to do with the actual operational virtues of the machines.

You can't really tell them that they are wrong, either.
The fact that you and I both know the icing story is evidence that this is unusual.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll

First hand experience with Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge

I heard it first phrased (and probably before the above) that the accuracy of a newspaper article is inversely proportional to how close you are to the subject.
---Disobey authority. Say “fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” and change jobs.

Challenge authority, but don't be an ass about it. Simply try to help them understand that you are doing them a favor by challenging them. Perhaps say, "Do you mind if I weigh in on that?" If they aren't interested in your opinion still follow up with "I understand you've thought about this, but I've also given this a lot of thought and I also have a lot of experience around this and I've seen it be a problem before."
"Peer behind the curtain" goes both ways.

I like to think I'm much happier knowing how wonderfully magnificent the universe is, rather than staring at the ceiling.
I assume it's against a bunch of dodgy software from a source which is perceived as being less eyeballed than a distribution's repository.
Wealth is just the measurement of total value, and value is completely relative and conjured up by our own minds. We have an entire industry (marketing/advertising) which dedicates itself to give value to garbage. People don't compare their value to a static number, but to other people's value, thus 90%+ of people will in some way feel as they don't have enough value and will spend their lives trying to obtain it.
When I did mathematics, I used to think that I work in very esotheric field of secant varieties[1]. Funny how I now see it pop up everywhere. Anyway, here's some geometric interpretation of his approach:

In space of all matrices, the set of rank one matrices is called a Segre variety[2]. Segre variety is cut out by 2x2 minors of a generic matrix, which is what the author's post is all about. What he's effectively trying to do is given a plane (which is the set of possible matrices having some given values), finding a point in the intersection of the Segre variety and that plane. The way he does it is by intersecting that plane one by one with large varieties cut out by a single minor, and noting that all points in the intersection must lie in a hyperplane not already containing the plane of possible matrices. This reduces the dimension of the plane of possible matrices, as they must lie in both the original plane and the constraint hyperplane. After enough steps we're left with a single point. The clever thing here is finding a good order of intersections, so that at each step we can find that hyperplane.

Now, rank k matrices form a k-th secant variety to the Segre variety, and they are cut out by k x k minors, and so for their part 2, I expect using larger minors.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secant_variety
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segre_embedding
Would love to have you elaborate on that more.

What problem domains will Elixir add substantial power for? What use cases do you think it will be a game changer for? Would you consider the difference in the future between Elixir and JS in terms of productivity/power the difference in the 90s between Lisp/Python and Java/C?
So probably something similar to eldos cbfs/dokan backed by a filesystem cache db so the crud operations do not need to hit the backend?
While your point is true, I'm not sure it is relevant to measuring intelligence. The human has two advantages in this situation: First off, all humans have agency: they can take action to do things. If you want the comparison to be remotely fair you need to compare a program that has agency to see the same stimuli as the human would and have access to the same range of actions. Not a particularly difficult programming task.

If you put an untrained system and an average person in the crashing plane situation, the average person is probably going to do better, but it's because your average person /has/ some training in what to do in this situation. They've been exposed to enough culture to know that the joystick is the main way of controlling the plane and that planes moving towards the ground at steep angles are likely to be bad, and probably know generally what action to take that might help the situation.

Fair comparisons would be say, an untrained program vs a baby, or a system trained with some general knowledge of vehicle control vs an average person. I'm not really sure that humans win out in either of those comparisons.
Not that guy, but that's a ridiculously bloated set of requirements.
> while open source is relatively unambiguous

In my experience both terms are ambiguous. Many people seem to believe that "open source" simply means the source is available for examination. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3205771
I am dropping them like a brick. I wrote a very detailed post on how to add the dkim to your DNS on digital ocean for mandrill that everyone likes. I got it all setup for my domain, but I just do not have the volume to justify a paid plan at this point.
Your whole argument is a strawman. "I didn't grow up a millionaire" doesn't mean that your life would have been the same had you been black, all else equal.

Take a step back and don't be so defensive: "white privilege" isn't a personal attack. It's only meant to raise awareness, awareness that you clearly need, based on your post.
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Imagine you had a scale, onto which you put a weight labeled "100kg". You know it weights 100kg because it says so right there. The scale however, only registers 85kg. You take it off, you put it back on, the scale always says the same thing. You try different scales, they say 85kg, but you keep going because it's 100kg and you're going to find a scale that's accurate! Eventually you find a scale that says what you want.

This straw man illustrates that at some point, it isn't the tool, but the process that's flawed. Even if your tool is accurate, if you don't believe it, you can't get at the truth, and if you work hard enough you can find a broken tool to tell you what you want.

So perhaps there is some truth to the idea that torture can extract true information from people, but if the whole process operates like the above straw man, it totally invalidates the use of the tool.
But also two of the places in the world that pays developers best. I bet developers in Oklahoma City are paid much less than in SF or NYC in average. So the main point stands.
That last two examples both talk about the same thing, which is that it's illegal for a religious organization to explicitly comment on public policy matters.

Of course, it doesn't at ALL stop them from organizing and spreading their perspectives – it's an open secret that gay sex is still technically illegal in Singapore because of the conservative Christians lobbying for it to remain.

It just forces the religious groups to be more subtle about their agendas, which I think is about as good as it gets, really.
I thought it was pretty hilarious. I wonder if I need to refine my definition of "universal".
Unfortunately so many top achievers are working exclusively in internet advertising, simply because the economy is not so fair and in the US at least its extremely easy to fall into economic insecurity.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" - said by Jeffrey Hammerbacher in 2011 is still incredibly poignant today.
Seeing as it's just an environment variable for your shell, look for a way to set global environment variables.
The summary on Wikipedia says: "The SCRAM was started when the EPS-5 button (also known as the AZ-5 button) of the reactor emergency protection system was pressed: this engaged the drive mechanism on all control rods to fully insert them, including the manual control rods that had been incautiously withdrawn earlier."

I don't know if that's true or not, but it seems like it ought to be true from a fail-safe perspective.
Apply HN: Mental Health for Hackers
PROBLEM:

Hacking is done by people. Usually we manage, but hackers get stressed out too.

The mental health system is maintained not by satisfied customers, but by inertia, court order, and being able to bill the government for treating poor people in perpetuity. People who are helped are the exception, rather than the rule.

When Hackers get into the mental health system, or have a “psychotic break” and get arrested, we are treated like the mentally handicapped. The standard approach to mental health sometimes creates a scenario from which we can never recover.

SOLUTION:

Quoting ESR: “Hacking favors scrap-and-rebuild over patch-and-extend. An essential part of hacking is ruthlessly throwing away code that has become overcomplicated or crufty, no matter how much time you have invested in it.”

Most of our ideas about mental health need to be scrapped because they are based on false assumptions. When building a better approach to mental health, I will base it on the actual findings of empirical science, instead of what the drug industry has for sale.

REVENUE:

Most of the company’s revenue will eventually be derived from a patented supplement. The scientist’s original patent expired years ago, so the formula will be tweaked and re-patented somehow, as is the usual practice for extending the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry’s old drugs.

A New Drug Application (NDA) will be filed with the US FDA. This will allow the supplement to be manufactured as a gel-cap. FDA approval will be sought for the little claim of "improves memory". When the product gets into the market as a non-prescription OTC supplement, people will discover that it is good for much more than improving memory.

Books and seminars are also revenue sources.

TEAM: Me + 2 Friends. Older friend was an angry mess, now is a successful relationship coach. The other was a ‘hopeless self-medicator’. I figured out solutions for her & she just started new job.
But the story of why people have jobs they hate - if they have jobs at all - may need a villain . You can't ignore narrative reasoning, no matter how flawed it is.
Both liberals and conservatives will eagerly switch off their brains when their pet interest is threatened. For conservatives it is their brand of culture, for liberals it is their brand of state. The puppet show is getting boring. As far as the identity politics, I can't think of a group more paranoid about government abuse in the US than white male birch society types.
That's not even close to true. Take food for example, you're simply wrong because the issue with food isn't production, it's transportation and distribution of the food to the places that need it that is and always has been the issue. It doesn't matter if we produce extra food here, the resources required to deliver it to where it's needed are massive and impractical; that's why we don't do it, it isn't because of a zero-sum neoliberal worldview; it's because no one wants to pay for it.

> "fuck you got mine" in the biggest christian nation on earth.

I fail to see what Christian's have anything to do with the matter. And we aren't a Christian nation, we're a secular nation with a lot of Christians, huge difference.
> Something MOP related

Postmodern[0] defines simple wrapper objects so that you can access databases rows as objects. The same goes for the Elephant persistent database[1]. Cells[2] define metaobjects for classes with dataflow dependencies where slots can be automatically updated in a reactive fashion.

:AROUND methods and the like are used quite often. In fact, the default way of defining a "constructor" function for your class is to specialize "initialize-instance" with an :after qualifier, so that you can fill slots that could not be initialized with the arguments to "make-instance" or the default initargs.

[0] http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/

[1] https://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/

[2] https://common-lisp.net/project/cells/