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Hedging on the Case Against Hedge Funds
Dealing with one file is no problem. A regular rename on the command line or gui file manager of choice works well. The difficulties come when trying to work with multiple files, and why you'd resort to the command line. Amusingly, the rename on Windows just works.

UNIX makes it difficult because of the wildcard expansion. You can start writing some script, but there are gotchas galore such as correct escaping, IFS, shell portability, dry runs, interactivity, error handling and the list goes on. Having something that works as well as the simple Windows command is hard work, and before you know it end up publishing a github repository!
You are correct, I should have prefaced my statement with, "I think" or "I like to believe." I happen to believe cynicism is a seductive methodology, while sometimes useful. I don't care for FB's hegemony either, FWIW.
This is only true if he can't get a personal line of credit or family loan at around the same interest rate as his student loans. Otherwise, it's better to pay off the debt.

Best case: he doesn't get laid off

Worst case: he gets laid off and puts the debt back on the LoC
I'd say that when the inevitable criminal probe is done, we'll have a better answer to that particular 'question'.
Aren't incubators, cooperatives and co-working spaces closer to what it is being described here?

As in, the idea is to provide favorable working conditions for people / teams that are making money from their own efforts and who pay for that environment (in cash, membership dues, stock, whatever). The institution itself is in the business of giving the teams within it the best possible working conditions given available resources. However, the catch is that the income of the teams doesn't come from the institution, but rather the other way around.
Usually you find the cannabis before you find the lost Mayan city. Kid's got it all wrong.
I'm enjoying this too much :)

Let us say "the sky is blue". With formalism, you'd argue that blue is a state, and the sky is a thing, and they have a relationship.

I'd argue that language does not actually assign strict identities/state. There isn't some platonic "blue" or "heap". Rather "sky" is a word highly correlated with a set of observations, as is "blue". When we combine the words into the sentence above, we end up with a sequence that results in a useful outcome from our perspective, so we say it.

The original link shows how people really try to assign boundaries, as if one "thing" really "is blue" and another isn't. And then it becomes self contradictory, and people invent yet more explanations. I just question the base assumption that we need to assign logic/boundaries/formalism to language.
>If a company took this to the logical extreme - making the employees the consumers of the product/service - then it would cease to be "work", and would instead be a "hobby/internship/volunteer/education/experience".

I think there are a few places where you can fight for this experience. One at a (extremely well-funded) University lab where you are paid a Software Engineer salary to work on computational research problems. Two at a (extremely lenient) company where you are allowed the freedom. like 50% time to take classes on company-time and company-dime and/or pursue your own open source projects that tickles personal intellectual interest, not the company's production needs.

I will however add, being at a place that does offer a 20% time and tuition credit to take your own independent class of choosing, attend journal club/internal machine-learning and algorithm group classes or pursue a open-source project. It is very very hard to take the initiative because it's much easier just to cruise and do 80% of the work in the 100% allotted time. Especially after the first year of novelty of given the opportunity.

So regardless of wherever your workplace, I think whether a person really pushes their own intellectual boundaries is more the person's aptitude to apply themselves than their work environment/culture.
Talk is cheap. Most people won't actually do all that much to back up their big feels. I have a good sob story. I doubt you would do more for me than pat me on the head.

Mind you, I don't actually want pity. What I really want is respect for my competence and assistance in becoming successful in my own right. But I run into a lot of people who spend a lot of time on their high horse about wanting the world to be a better place. In most cases, these are the people who have treated me the worst -- who neither will give me genuine respect as a competent human being and a hand up nor so called compassion and a hand out.

I think if you really think that bad thoughts are a form of violence and you want this to be a nicer world, then arguing with people here and criticising them is a kind of violence as well, plus a form of hypocrisy. What are you doing to actually make the world a better place?
How about looking at the value produced by each staff member? Then pay according to that value. In my experience managers are over-valued and technical staff under-valued. If managers (of all levels) are more than 5% of the head count, then you have a bigger problem than coming up with a new org chart.
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https://blog.twitter.com/2016/the-release-of-pants-10

> Today, Twitter is excited to announce participation in the first major release of the Pants open source project: 1.0.0, an open source build tool for monorepo-style source repositories.

They (for the most part) had two repos as of 11/2014. They certainly were moving towards one. Here's a public thread mentioning the two repos: science (mostly jobs, shared code) and birdcage (mostly services). https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pants-devel/60Vzkole...
They're subnautical vehicles. They're beneath that.
Right? I feel like there's no way to get a good legitimate discussion on any article w/o a community like HN or reddit that cares about their arbitrary karma system.
It's a little more complicated than:
"""It's funny because the whole discussion only exists because there is no division operator in "matrix math"."""

Matrices in general (insert caveats on size here) form a ring, but not a division ring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_ring). This means that not all (square) matrices will have a multiplicative inverse. This is why we often restrict to things like GL(n), the group of non-singular square matrices of size n.

Furthermore when you say "scalars", they have multiplicative inverses because they're elements of a field (and sometimes the inverse might be a pain like if you're in a number field or something).

This isn't even getting into the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore–Penrose_pseudoinverse) or linear operators or so on, but I'll let someone else shout about algebra.
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Your opinions on employees cannot be truer. Keeping employees in the dark, even when the founders know what's coming is just terrible
> But from what I hear from my friends, new college graduates, with no experience are having a tougher time getting jobs than how it used to be 2 years ago.

Not sure how it was two years ago, but nowadays between college grads, bootcamp grads, and self-taught there's a lot of people applying for "entry level" jobs and I am guessing it's harder for companies to pick out of all of them.
Looks like spam to me. Once you get 500 karma, you will be able to flag bad stories. If enough users flag it, the story is killed. Here is one karma point for you.
"It's surprising to me that no one starts a company solely for creating an amazing place to work. "

An interesting dynamic of startups. You try to build a great place to work at, [0] and in building that startup you screw it up by building a bigger company. [1]

[0] "Managing Software Engineers" ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar...

[1] "ArsDigita: From Start-Up to Bust-Up" ~ http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
And if it is constructed entirely from wood that floats?
Think of Europeans, mathematically the idea that Europeans will ever retire doesn't make sense. It'd require 80% or 90% income tax, maybe even more, because there aren't enough kids to split the burden on.

Even in the US this is true, except to a less extreme extent. The systems the current seniors have put in place make sure few of the current workers will retire.

So why do they deserve it ? They voted in governments that fucked us, so why wouldn't we get to fuck them ?
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Immutable will only work for https, at least in FireFox. Last line:

> Immutable in Firefox is only honored on https:// transactions.
It may be anything, but I think it's a little strange how they shot this down so fast without any evidence. Makes me wonder if this is a desperate attempt to deter looters.
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Before they get into a big flame-fest, maybe someone should go and, you know, check it out.
This article is very confusing to me. If we are concluding that startups are laying off due to funding squeeze, how is that San Francisco actually saw a decrease in lay offs ? SF is where most of the startups are based. Also, it says that layoffs totaled roughly 3000 in 4 months. Which comes down to 750 a month. Compare this to what the article said later that 32,000 jobs were lost per month during the recession. Finally, I couldn't figure how many jobs were added in this period, to get a context of the layoff percentage. Seems a little alarmist
Here's the problem with Atlas:
--While a US bank account is key; there are major KYC issues here.
--For $500 you get
1. a corporation
2. a bank account
3. a Stripe merchant account.

Since you might pay $500 for a corporation alone; this is a good bundle.

--You get "access" to PwC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) and Orrick, a local law firm.

If you have the telephone number of these two entities you already have "access." What "access" otherwise means isn't clear. If PwC are going to provide bespoke accounting and start-up legal service at a rate discounted through Stripe, you're not getting much of a bargain.

I'd be more confident if they laid out exactly what accounting and legal services Atlas is going to broker. After all, for start-ups none of this stuff is rocket science--it's all forms and software. But other than tax preparation, do you also get PwC's consulting services? And if so, how much? And will these services be discounted too? Who is the partner in charge? What are the lines of communication among start-up=>Atlas=>PwC? PwC will surely represent start-up's competitors--will they agree to Chinese Wall their services?

Finally, I won't address ethical issues here (attorneys referral service, conflicts of interest, etc.) because it seems that these haven't gotten Atlas' attention. There will be push-back, which they may or may not be able to resist.
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Mark Zuckerberg didn't write this. Facebook does this thing where they make it seem like it has one voice speaking for them - which is Mark. What is happening is multiple people in Facebook's PR department wrote this. I would even argue the title is misleading. We're feeding into the frenzy that Mark is writing this on behalf of Facebook. We should say it like it is. "Facebook released a statement"
I'd love to hear Chomsky's reaction to this stuff (or someone in his camp on the Chomsky vs. Norvig debate [0]).

My understanding is that Chomsky was against statistical approaches to AI, as being scientifically un-useful - eventual dead ends, which would reach a certain accuracy, and plateau - as opposed to the purer logic/grammar approaches, which reductionistically/generatively decompose things into constituent parts, in some interpretable way, which is hence more scientifically valuable, and composable - easier to build on.

But now we're seeing these very successful blended approaches, where you've got a grammatical search, which is reductionist, and produces an interpretable factoring of the sentence - but its guided by a massive (comparatively uninterpretable) neural net.

It's like AlphaGo - which is still doing search, in a very structured, rule based, reductionist way - but leveraging the more black-box statistical neural network to make the search actually efficient, and qualitatively more useful. Is this an emerging paradigm?

I used to have a lot of sympathy for the Compsky argument, and thought Norvig et al. [the machine learning community] could be accused of talking up a more prosaic 'applied ML' agenda into being more scientifically worthwhile than it actually was.

But I think systems like this are evidence that gradual, incremental, improvement of working statistical systems, can eventually yield more powerful reductionist/logical systems overall.
I'd love to hear an opposing perspective from someone in the Chomsky camp, in the context of systems like this.
(Which I am hopefully not strawmanning here.)

[0]Norvig's article: http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
I don't really fault anyone for being opposed to things they don't like in their neighborhood.

The problem is systems that gives property owners a veto over other people's property.
Chutzpah goes very far. Ask for what you want, and explain why you deserve to get it -- then offer to demonstrate your fitness. It's an excellent approach!
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I don't know if this is a nation-wide phenomenon, but I've observed in Austin over the past 10 years a growing trend towards having tip jars at establishments which don't have servers of any kind. I'm still not sure how I feel about it.
I hacked one of these to power the nightlight in my kid's bedroom (https://github.com/ecaron/hue-website-nightlights). The downside is that the button barely lasts for 1000 presses = 90 days (all kids like pushing buttons). And it is heart breaking because its just a AAA battery that they decided to solder in place...

I'm excited that this button launched. But $20 is too much for something without a swappable battery. I'll either keep intercepting the ARP packets from the $5 unit or buy https://www.particle.io/button.
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This is a great gateway drug to learning & using AWS; smart move by Amazon.
This pain is one of the most potent things that keeps people from trying to pull off fraud more often.
Yup, but they decided to weld the contacts of the board to the battery. I'm guessing that they calculated it was cheaper (or more business savvy) to get users to replace the button every X months/years than to make the button in such a way that the battery is user replaceable and also indicates charge level.
For people that want something much smaller (dependency-wise), I can recommend letsencrypt.sh which – together with cron – achieves the same goal: https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh
The entire premise of that article is laughably naive. There's a huge difference between accents and adding unnecessary filler words as you speak. There's an even bigger difference between using an app to try and actualize certain virtues and imposing those virtues on other people. It's extraordinary that the author has the gall to make this connection. Perhaps she'd also want to censor self-help literature since those might impose virtues that she doesn't support?
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Probably not.

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32829/has-a-fift...

> Very few Maya constellations have been identified, and even in these cases we do not know how many and which stars exactly composed each constellation. It is thus impossible to check whether there is any correspondence between the stars and the location of Maya cities. In general, since we know of several environmental facts that influenced the location of Maya settlements, the idea correlating them with stars is utterly unlikely.

> In this case, the rectilinear nature of the feature and the secondary vegetation growing back within it are clear signs of a relic milpa. I’d guess its been fallow for 10-15 years. This is obvious to anyone that has spent any time at all in the Maya lowlands.
Chutzpah must be followed up with hustle or people will quickly figure out you're just full of hot air.
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That's just a seasonal effect.
> There is always capital available for businesses with strong fundamentals who are solving real needs.

just remember, sometimes that capital comes from customers, not investors.
How do people detect errors? I run 5 beanstalk environments right now and they randomly fail and i'm not really sure if it's my fault or if beanstalk isn't reliable in certain configurations or what.
Spoiler alert: they don't. Wrote a slightly longer rebuttal on Medium: https://medium.com/@sonyaellenmann/cmon-this-is-oversimplify...
Can you tell what other resources you've used to learn, what practices were helpful in studying grammar, what was not helpful in your study of grammar?
If you're going to analyze the situation this way you have to take into account the risk of the credit not being available when you need it. Credit can disappear at any time and rates change. What if your parents lose their job at the same time and can no longer lend you the money? What if the credit card you were planning to use doubles its rate?

Money sitting in an insured account is as safe as anything in the world.
i use eb cli it is the same number of steps or are we doing it wrong?
"Goel plans to use Jill again in a class this fall, but will likely change its name so students have the challenge of guessing which teaching assistant isn’t human." What if it's a trick question and they are ALL NOT HUMAN!?
SwiftKey (Android keyboard) does an amazing job of this. I routinely switch between French and English, and usually by the end of the first word in the other language my autocorrect and suggestions are both in the right language.
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I live in SF and was a little surprised how many SF-based candidates responded to a front-end engineering position I posted on Stack Overflow (the position is remote and my location wasn't part of the post). But I certainly don't know anyone local who is out of work.
I think you are right and I think in the human brain similar sort of hybrid processes happen in order to make sense of the world. In the end strong AI will look very much like a massive hybrid system and a conscious controller that takes and integrates that information into a understood model of the world.
yes, it's fair, because in exchange, she has been paid millions of dollars. you think she's giving any of that back?
It also means they can reasonably assume there aren't 10 year old buttons using an ancient protocol out there to support.
IBM's Watson joins the fight against virii like Zika
I've "worked" on large volunteer-run art projects, and it's a lot like what you're describing. It's like a regular business with a hierarchy and people working various job titles, except that no one gets paid, and we're all just there for the delightful "work culture". We're inspired to bust ass, and we really do work incredibly hard; it's just that we get "paid" in personal fulfillment and camaraderie rather than in money.

Unfortunately we haven't figured out how to turn this stuff into a revenue-generating vehicle that would allow our "staff" to be paid in actual currency.
20X less power consumption for the Photonic Computing device. Photonic ICs could be on the cusp of explosive growth...
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Could not find it in search. Also looks like it is for Amazon Prime members only.

Borderlinx chat person said: "You are welcome. We can ship the item without any issue." but also "Regarding the Amazon prime membership issue please be advised to check further with merchant."

This is the product page:
http://www.amazon.com/AWS-IoT-Button-Limited-Programmable/dp...
Is desoldering an option?
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I use this all the time, its excellent for less technical users. You can download a desktop version and still use it, despite it being shut down.
It's the remotely controlled support vehicle.

Remotey Remoteface?
Acronyms develop more because they're concise and so easier to say and use to those who know what it means.

If Helpy McHelpdesk got into widespread use, it'd probably soon become more referred to as the HMH.
i have a 2009 mac pro.

first upgrade: more ram

second upgrade: ssd

third upgrade: video card and monitor.

it's on track to give me 10 years of use now, if not more (i'll probably succumb to upgrade fever before then). knocking on wood. the ram and ssd were a given, but i was surprised at how much more 2d performance the video card delivered. i really just wanted 4k for the real estate, but the actual speed at which it renders everything jumped dramatically.
So, I am graduating next year and I have no internship experience (wasn't able to get one for this summer for whatever reasons). How doomed am I? Hopefully, by the time I am done, there is still at least one job left :(

Although, I guess finding a job might be easier since I am willing to relocate etc.
It's still handwaving from a twenty-thousand foot view, whereas the devil is in the details.

I don't see how his thesis addresses the very large difference in lifespans for different species, first and foremost.

Secondarily, although he addresses the body's repair mechanisms, I don't see how he puts a new limit on their capacity, unless I overlooked it, or unless he thought things like the Hayflick limit etc. perfectly address that (which it does not completely do).
I would say the fair amount of stress is equal to the amount of joy she must have experienced when her net worth went from $0 to 4.5 billion. The stress she is experiencing now is simply part of the way to 0.
"If learning how to peel an orange with a knife and fork may seem slightly superfluous in Europe"

Who in the hell peels an orange with a fork?
The last 4 steps are just "eb deploy" with the eb cli
> The quest for immortality is the ultimate selfish narcism. The species is already immortal and will do fine without you.

Doing science is the ultimate narcissism. The universe operates according to scientific laws, and will do so just fine whether or not you understand them.
Really? Would her family disown her?

What jobs would she get?
"With 190 billionaires..."
You're right, I think it's definitely not the only thing, but Apple seems to do one main thrust and lots of smaller thrusts. I suspect wearables and the car may be smaller thrusts (which would still be huge expenditures compared to other smaller players), but their AI thrust will be 5-10x the investment of one of the smaller thrusts.
This happened for a short while at an old workplace that had an extremely toxic environment, this didn't improve the environment. People were expected to clock in/out when they arrived as well as for lunch and breaks. Developers were salaried not hourly. I suggest leaving as fast as you can, asking to have tasks add up to 40h a week of work shows a fundamental misunderstanding of development by management.
> No...If you can change all the atoms in your body. U can probably live longer...

Indeed, and if we declare each apparently dead person to have transferred his or her identity to someone born just a few moments before, then no-one will ever die.
Are there books or more developed material on these strategies? I understand the concepts mentioned here but reading some implementation strategies would be helpful.