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Location: Currently Santa Barbara, CA

Remote: Don't care

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Docker, C++, Elm/Haskell, MySQL

Résumé/CV: https://lambda.mu/data/anonymizedResume.pdf

Email: max@lambda.mu

New college grad, have experience working with both services and some front-end stuff. Not picky about location. Happy to do an internship or work at a junior level.

I also have a heavy background in (bio)chemistry & genomics (specifically onco) if that's something you're interested in.
> The “analysis-by-synthesis” view of SICP — where you build a larger system out of smaller, simple parts — became irrelevant. Nowadays, we do programming by poking.

I imagine many of us do programming by poking. But the skill set referred to here is essential if you're going to build (create/construct) a complex system or architecture.

To say the skill set is irrelevant is to say we as an industry are doing things more or less right. But when I look around, I see that we're making a huge mess of things everywhere or are at least sorely inefficient when it comes to building and growing systems. That is to say, I believe (I know) that we could be doing much much better than we are now -- and I believe the skill set being dismissed here is a large key to doing better. So I'm sad to see it dismissed like this.
It's less than self-evident that the main purpose of education is or should be providing training to do jobs at taxpayer or personal expense.
> But with this belief more money being spent (consumption) makes for a stronger economy, for everyone, including those of us who are not in need of welfare.

So what's your counter to the 'broken windows' objection? It's pertinent in this case because we're talking not about broken windows but broken (addicted, depressed, isolated) people.
Consider me extremely interested.
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Growth of income and welfare in the U.S, 1979-2011
I don't think that the only thing keeping civilization together is the fact that a certain population is impelled to work by starvation.

If the prices of things are being kept artificially low, due to the duress of the employees producing it, then the market will fix the problem. We might see a short term rise in certain commodities. But, unfettered, this just induces more efficiencies, such as automation, into the system. Efficiencies produced by upper middle class engineers, who would now, thanks to UBI, have the same earning power as their upper middle class parents did.

UBI isn't wage inflation for many reasons, such as the actual value of money isn't equal to people with different incomes. It isn't going to become more expensive to live, because people don't go out and buy twice as many groceries when the have twice as much money - the money is used for different priorities.
40% of Reddit threads with 1000+ comments involve photos of kittens, including all 22% that don't mention Nazis. That means 18% of Reddit threads involve both kittens and Nazis.
As far as I know, the "Bin Laden" nickname was because "everyone knew that they (he) existed, but nobody knew where they (he) was (were) / nobody had sen them (him)".
Do you think that the air travel industry's roots in the military is a significant factor? I would guess so but I have no experience to back it up, just curious. (I'm asking this on the assumption that the US air travel industry has significant military roots, which I think is true but could be wrong?)
It's not as surprising as you'd think. The basic problem is energy density and availability.

Human beings don't directly photosynthesize for clear reasons. Solar power isn't available constantly and is too diffuse to power us in real-time. Instead, we eat plants (or animals, which is just another layer of indirection) that have photosynthesized over time and stored up that energy - we then convert that energy so we can metabolize it as needed.

The same thing is happening with petroleum. It's denser and more flexible than the sun. These are real constraints that have led us to use these sources of energy and prioritize them. They're not insurmountable - I think as prices fall we'll see more research into storage, I believe panel efficiency is going up - but the path of least resistance is a powerful force.
Where did you get that the probability of a thousand word comment not containing the fried rice is 0.22?
I think the issue is that Android is becoming like windows is/was. By this I mean that there is lots of built in bloat. For instance Rogers (my carrier) automatically installs an NHL app, a ringtone app and other seemingly useless addons. Further, Android API's tend to change quickly and the standards aren't as strong as they are around the iOS ecosystem[0].

If google stops allowing manufacturers and carriers to customize the device and handles upgrades we'll see the same stats as iOS has with regards to market reach of the latest os version. Further, if they clean up the API's and develop better standards its less likely that apps will crash phones or cause significant lag or issues when running on old devices with a new os

0. I say this as an android dev who only wrote a little iOS with swift.
Yeah. I have an engineering degree but never really thought much about orbital mechanics.

My first try at KSP I just overbuilt a rocket and aimed it directly at the mun. I missed. Quickload. Back on target, sudden realization that I need about 6000 dV to slow down in time. Watch a Scott Manley video -> instant understanding.

It's definitely one of those things that once you understand it, it's mind boggling how often space is depicted incorrectly.
Ask HN: Would people be interested in iOS/Android Facebook blocker?
I got asked about functionality like this, and I wonder if there'd be more people interested in getting of their FB addiction for iOS/Android.
$100s are terribly useful. A majority of work I do with contractors I have to do in $100s because of check scams and because of credit card fees. Cash allows the transaction to happen without fear of fraud nor without losing 3-6% in cc fees.

I'd feel very weird carrying bricks of 20s from the bank.
The surprising way Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan could make it to the White House
This may be a first-world bias here, but would it be reasonable to expect that US midwives are generally better trained than their Bangladeshi peers, given the US's expanded access to educational resources and licensing oversight? Again I recognize a first-world bias here, but my reactionary rationalization process to justify this phenomenon is that in the US you have much easier access to a midwife of at least moderate training/expertise, whereas Bangladeshi midwives may have much wilder variations in level of expertise.

Would your dad be able to share his thoughts on this?
No, to optimize for larger screens you simply acknowledge that it's the user's machine, not yours, and do nothing. The user will make their own choices. If they want to open multiple windows so they can read multiple columns of text, they will do that. If they want to make the text bigger, they will do that. If they like it the way it is, they'll leave it alone. Not your problem to solve.
In other words, he's being a scientist, and adjusting his conclusions to suit the available evidence.

Which, to people not familiar with the scientific method, is shocking.
Who knows the real story here, but I can imagine once your stock options vest, financial prudence and personal sanity don't really point to doing the next big ramp-up at Tesla.

You're heavily recruitable for large swaths of stock at any number of startups, presumably with a status bump on top, or you could just take your well earned millions and chill for a bit.

Whoever is running the Model 3 delivery program is going to be living at the office for the next 36 months, by contrast.
I think he doesn't necessarily imply anything about being high or low in the chain. But about beauty and understanding.

SICP is one example, but I bet it's even possible to be happy coding GUIs or any other rather mundane things if one does it with an elegant toolset. For example, Oz comes to mind.

Some modern tools are not pleasing to use, often because architectures are a mess. Things move forward too quickly.
The problem is that most programmers today aren't apart of either of those groups but apart of a third, totally separate group: programmers who pick and prod and then glue lines of code together.
I'd be paranoid carrying that much money a kilometer from my home let alone another country.
That streaming DRM only works if you give up control of the hardware you own.
> ...I actually prefer the solutions explored in Larry Nivin's main fictional universe.

Was he advocating that? I thought it was just a setup for plot points explored in Ringworld.
Portuguese, maybe especially Brazilian Portuguese, has a good number of made-up words that can be created by simply adding certain suffixes to common words. They might not be in the dictionary; that'd grow its number of words exponentially I assume. But they're widely used and understood. In this case, "-ada" is basically added to words when something is used indiscriminately, normally by hitting something or someone, or throwing it.

Whacking someone with a wooden stick ("pau") is a "paulada". Kicking a ball ("bola") on someone is a "bolada". Poking someone with a pin ("alfinete") is a "alfinetada".

Therefore, using a pen ("caneta") indiscriminately becomes a "canetada".

The same word would be used if you threw the pen at someone's head, so there's that.
They are certainly over worked and probably sleep deprived. I'd love it if they staffed more people...
Also, I believe he has bought a number of privately held business, which are almost always waaaaay cheaper (on a P/E basis for example) than publicly traded companies.
Hey, maybe it's just worthwhile talking about Nazis? World War II was one of the most catastrophic failures in the history of the world, and the rise of Nazism was an enormous subcategory of failure. These events defined the shape of the century; they demonstrated the horrific extremes to which humanity can descend, and they're absolutely worth appreciating so that we can forestall their reappearance again.

Moreover, it's not like the Nazis just went away; they continued to exist, and the ideologies that produced them not only still exist but are once again becoming a powerful political force.

So fuck yeah, everyone, talk about Nazis. It's one of the most important things you can talk about. (But read Hannah Arendt first.)
Eyes on the Street: How Does Foot Traffic Correlate to 311 Reports in NYC?
PawSpots – Map of pet friendly places in city
Master spec-repo rate limiting post‑mortem
In this thread: people who have literally no idea what they're talking about spouting off.

I hope it isn't this bad when I read things about other fields.
I wish those down voting would provide a response, though I suppose this is the nature of political conversations.

You can disagree with the conservatives position on this. But to pretend it was an economic motive is disingenuous.
The opposing viewpoint might be the known risks of the epidural directly to the baby.

* Epidurals may cause your blood pressure to suddenly drop. For this reason your blood pressure will be routinely checked to help ensure an adequate blood flow to your baby. If there is a sudden drop in blood pressure, you may need to be treated with IV fluids, medications, and oxygen.

* Other studies suggest that a baby might experience respiratory depression, fetal malpositioning, and an increase in fetal heart rate variability, thus increasing the need for forceps, vacuum, cesarean deliveries and episiotomies.
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I took 6.002x when MITx was first launched. I don't know how similar it is to 6.002, but if it's still available, I highly recommend it.
On 11.x random routinely unblocks before the userland is even started, so from an application standpoint random really never blocks.
> optical interconnects

This leads on to less heat which means you can stack the layers more. 3D chips. Cram more cores in, layer memory into the mix.
> Describe a scenario when deleting a file, but 'df' not showing the space being freed.

I came across this, seems to occur when disk is almost full. Is there any probable reason why this happens?
So there's no correlation in skill between the people that put hours of their own time into honing their craft, and those that don't?
Most people don't know or care which version of android they have, and it's clear that it's not impacting android's domination of apple in terms of market share.
I've given birth twice, and I can tell you that my body manages the pain in ways that do not feel the slightest bit different. Your wife is very lucky.
a16z puts this as "Founding CEOs are better at finding product cycles, while professional CEOs are better at maximizing product cycles."

http://a16z.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/

The story plays out over and over again in the tech industry. Larry & Sergey were great innovators but terrible managers; if you ask Googlers who were there in 2000-2001, Larry made some very basic management gaffes that almost destroyed the company. Eric Schmidt's genius was in being able to maximize the value of the Search product cycle while still giving the founders enough latitude to champion innovative new products like GMail, Maps, Android, Chrome, and YouTube. And then he turned the reigns back over to Larry when the Search product cycle was just about maximized, because the industry was facing a period of unusual uncertainty that required the ability to spot new product cycles.

With Cisco, the visionary founders were forced out by VCs, and as a result, the company has had to buy innovation by spinning off startups, letting them innovate, and then folding them in through an acquisition process.

Microsoft remained undisputed king of the PC industry for decades under Bill Gates, but as soon as he left, innovation basically stopped. Ballmer managed to dramatically increase revenues and has built something like 6-8 billion-dollar businesses, but there were no new product cycles under him.
Policy questions are different than making fun of someone's handicap or insinuating that a woman must be having her period. This is Kindergarten-level ethics here.
It's not a recent thing either. Before nazis it was the pharaohs.
Honestly I can't imagine this being possible. They must use an extremely broad definition of medical error.
In the UK de facto we only go up to £20 (about $29)

The £50 note exists, but is seldom accepted because it's so rarely seen that the average person wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the genuine article and a parody £50 note, never mind a competently produced counterfeit. Pretty clear that British idiosyncrasy is driven by individuals not wanting to deal with large denomination bills rather than state malfeasance though.
It doesn't, is the point that the folks who came up with SICP are trying to make.
Is it really surprising that burning millions of years of conveniently stored, geologically formed chemical energy is easier than harvesting solar power using complex semiconductor tech? We've been burning things for energy for hundreds of thousands of years. We've had semiconductors for less than a century.
Bernoulli trials assume events are independent. That is likely not a good assumption in this case.
It makes it much easier to collect metrics on what people have read.
Steel in china is produced by SOEs, by definition an SOE is not capitalistic it is communist. If a communist entity wants to export subsidized steel at or below cost why should the US stop them? buy all their steel and then laugh when you sell back luxury cars to them made from that cheap steel they gave you. Germany seems do be doing this well buying cheap cheap household goods and commodities and selling back high end goods the chinese can not reliably produce
What Does Simplicity in UX Design Look Like?
Now let's see if the 1000 CHF note is still here to stay (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/16/1000-swiss-...). I assume that the 1000 CHF note is only sort of useful, because you can't launder it nearly as easily. With a 500 Euro note, you can spread them around and deposit them in many countries. With a pile of 1000 CHF notes, someone is going to notice.
Is preventing the media from talking to researchers repressing science? I'd say yes, even if papers are available to read. You've been provided plenty of evidence of this happening.

Some more cited here: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/when-science-goes-silent/

People are down voting you because they disagree with you that the government should deny access to publicly funded scientists.
Most people are more familiar with the standard argument of 'nuh-uh' when things change.
Correction, can no longer edit: 2 and 4 hundredths of a percent, not tenths, oops.

To be fair, some of the risk factors are a lot higher, for example say with a risk of 20%, a 100% increase brings the risk up to 40%, which is not something to dismiss, while still not being the scary-sounding 100%.
Maybe. Most of the presentation is beyond my knowledge level. But the 10nm & 7nm design is showing using a III-V FinFET. As far as I know, no one has that working yet. And as far as I can tell, this doesn't talk much about lithography. Multi patterning is reportedly going to be problem at 10nm and lower and EUV isn't ready yet either.
Maybe I'm just evil, but my first thought on seeing the title was: "MyBasket - All your eggs in one place".
A lot easier to chip away at savings if they're under the mattress losing value rather than in a savings account earning above-inflation interest
Can pretty well confirm this isn't true; 97 for PSX etc was a fresh rewrite in C++.
A large component of this is also emergency services; if a midwife delivery has complications, an ambulance is only a quick call away.

Also, 1st world homes are significantly sanitized when compared to other homes.
I think checklists can be used in literally almost any scenario. They can prevent basic errors from occurring, and can save time on unnecessary redundancy. I'm not sure what the process would be for a medical procedure but it could be 1. Admit patient 2. Consult about problem 3. Decide effective treatment 4. Perform and run through checklist of that treatment. Each step would have it's own checklist that follows the patient and that can be seen and reviewed by other caregivers.

Checklists have made my life easier. For example, I got in to work today and if I hadn't made a checklist of my daily procedure I might be stuck on HN all day, but just looking over today's tasks I know what my first step and final steps look like so I can begin immediately upon entering the building. If I make a mistake I won't kill anyone, but if my life is in someone's hands I'd very much hope that they are running through a checklist built around the priority of keeping me alive first, and making me healthy second.
150 years ago, slavery was much more economically viable - a lot of industrial-scale farming and mining was still purely manual labor. Machinery replaced most of the jobs once done by slaves.

Likewise, for the past century or more, fossil fuels were the cheapest source of concentrated energy by far. That's about to stop.
I don't know... I'm already pretty well chained to someone else's "pursuit of unattainable growth" in the long term, and I've seen too may currency fluctutions (and retirings!) to want to only own cash.

But I do think it's a reasonable concern that the same laws written to restrict financing of terrorism are equally useful to restrict financing of (say) democratic opposition parties.
"Fried rice" is a standin for nazis/Hitler, so 1-0.78=0.22.
It is amazingly interesting and coincidental that the 'law' seems to hold true, year after year.
Ask HN: Timeline verbal offer to firm offer?
What was size of company, and length of time between verbal offer to firm offer?

Thank you
Probably the safest 'investment' you can make is to put panels on your roof (assuming your utility is supportive, barring that wait for batteries to get cheap/good). Solar stocks are a minefield at the moment (largely thanks to SunEd[1]). There are also things called yield co's which are holding companies for energy projects that largely focus on dividends. They are kinda like REITs. But it is worth mentioning that these are relatively new investment vehicles, and they still share some risk with the parent company[2]

[1] http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sunedison-collapse-201...
[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sunedison-inc-yieldco-idUS...
I'm hesitant to give too much detail for fear of outing myself here, but: In a few, yes (or at least at one point; I'm sure I've dipped in fluency). In others I am less accomplished. I think traditional education has been very successful for me. I'm not going to argue that it's not possible to graduate with a Japanese degree without being able to carry on a conversation -- it is -- but I think a university program is still a very effective way of not only attaining fluency in the language but also some level of erudition as far literature/culture/etc.

I started studying in middle school. I haven't tried the online stuff you're talking about. I'm not sure that they would be just as good.
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I'm sure there are many reasons people claim.

At the end of the day, people want happy feelings and fewer sad feelings.

That's it. Whatever else they claim is born out of the basics. Basic-income is 'the society needs to change for me to have happy feelings and fewer sad feelings'.

That's the bottom line.

And my point is don't waste your life hoping for society to do something for you. Make your life work in whatever environment you're in.

If you're a political entity and can actually push towards implementing basic income - I'd love to hear from you. Otherwise, go live your life :)
If a successful metal band tries to change its name to e.g: "Active Directory of Hell", "SQL Server No More" or something like this, for sure Microsoft lawyers would do something against. Now I think Tom Araya from Slayer should do it against microsoft. It is a trademark from hell.
Show me a savings account in a developed country earning above inflation interest.
Clearly you have never worked at mc.donalds.
Could this be a solution in the EU's problem of bringing jobs and wealth to North Africa? Thereby encouraging immigrants to stay in their homeland?

The Sahara has some of the Sunniest sky's in the world. Maybe its time to spend a few hundred billion and build those solar plants in North Africa.
Hi ashearer, I work with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation and just sent you an email through your demo@ email address. Looking forward to connecting with you.
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More like one person or group spent a lot of effort on convincing their boss that people wanted this.
Audio: Robert K. Knake on (the record) US Cyberpolicy
For those that want to learn that information in a structured way, but don't want to accumulate debt doing it, there are some online resources that are meant to be pretty good. I've heard good things about NAND2Tetris, for example, would be interested to hear if anyone here has given it a go.

http://nand2tetris.org/
Are you actually interested, or looking for a way to extend your disingenuous argument?
Surprised it took them so long to get rid of them.

From an article[0] I found from when the UK decided to stop dealing with 500s

"many British gangsters stored their spoils in the form of €500 notes. While £1m weighs 50kg in £20 notes, the same value weighs only 2.2kg in €500 notes. This has made life easier for a growing number of criminals, since the euro's introduction in 2002. Should you wish, for example, you can swallow €150,000 in €500 notes, or hide €20,000 of them a cigarette packet"

[0]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/goodbye-to-the-no...