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Funny how every comment here is "I'm more creative when I'm happy!!!!!11", and their creative output is probably just some phone app or a poorly written poem that only your partner liked.

The article is talking about deep creativity. Things that changed the world forever, that are still loved hundreds of years later.

No one will remember your two creative lines of code within a couple of months. Stop comparing yourself with real creative geniuses.
> Everybody's trading nowadays.

Primarily the artifact of sustained positive returns recently and short-term memory. There used to be a saying: When your cab driver start giving you stock tips, it is time to bail out of market. When every Tom, Dick and Harry think they can beat the market, time to take a break.

> How about just investing :-)

This is the right way to go for majority of your portfolio. Follow simple, tried and test strategies - buy Index funds/ETFs for majority of your portfolio. Bogleheads Wiki https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page is a good starting point.

If you really interested in individual stock/investment picking, have a very small portion of your portfolio as play money for such endeavors.

> I wonder if you could use something like Zipline/Quantopian to screen huge amounts of consolidated balance sheets for markers of undervaluation. You could reject 1000s of companies and focus your “manual” vetting on the few that remain.

I primarily use similar methodology. Automated filtering of stocks to find a few that I want to review further. It is not scalable. Majority of time is spent on developing strategy for filtering and selecting the stocks for review. I most probably manually review 15-20 stocks a year (Reading SEC filings for the company and competitors, industry news, trade articles, analyzing financial statements, etc) and invest in 3-6 stocks a year at most.
We are back in Europe to the average level of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s in terms of deaths with far fewer attacks, after a reduction in the 2000s though http://www.datagraver.com/case/people-killed-by-terrorism-pe...
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Again, small consolation for workers getting the short end of the stick (e.g. the 13-year old doing 12 hour shifts with no breaks on a fume-laden factory that made your phone). Sure, you have smartphones and the internet and a greater variety of food items. Did this really improve livelihood though?
This is the first startup in a while I've been excited to spend money on. It looks great, and it looks like it already has a very mature feature set. The one thing I didn't see was the pricing on the delivery options. Is that live yet? Or is that a future feature?
> Is driving Indian farmers to suicide and suing small farmers who accidentally grow your crop because the wind blew progress?

This has been debunked. [1]

> Where is the great progress in getting the same bland, flavourless, overly-sweet two or three varieties of rice, corn, and potatoes in every friggen store?

Monsanto isn't a sole player, why wouldn't our competitive market provide us with several varieties?

> Is destroying thousands of years of man-driven biodiversity progress?

Man destroyed billions of years of biodiversity from plant to animal species, no one bats an eye, given human tradition of playing around with plants, and everyone loses their mind. Man is currently with its inefficient agriculture potentially causing 85%+ of species extinction events. [2]

Making plants more resistant and nutritious should be a top priority.

Only problem with Monsanto is their ridiculously bad PR. The company is practically the devil in the public eyes, for no particular reason.

[1]: http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/14...

[2]: https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/html/red%20list%2020...
You're right that monocultures are a dangerous way of producing food, but I almost never see that criticism made in forums for non-technical audiences. The popular discourse is absolutely focused on GMOs-as-carcinogen.

Also, I've never entirely understood all the venom directed specifically toward Monsanto. There are a handful of other companies doing basically the same thing. Where's the hate for Cargill?
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You can take a look at Couchbase Mobile for native client offline+sync capabilities, too. PouchDB integrates with Couchbase Sync Gateway, so the combo is versatile.
> ethical stances should not be expressed

Who is stopping you from saying anything? You expressed it and I said I'm glad you did. Again, please stop being so defensive for no reason, it's not conducive to any discussion.

> Businesses with user counts that dwarf customer counts generally are exploitative and bad for the consumer. They are incented to harvest information that results in privacy violations.

Not really, again you say "exploitative and bad" but this is according to you. It's up to the actual consumer to consider this for themselves, which is why there's no valid way to make a statement as how to how this generally works or that users should always be fewer than customers. You can look at open-source companies that produce software used by thousands but sponsored by a few customers as just 1 of many counter examples.
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Communism is an economic system with flaws and virtues you can discuss and argue about. Nazism is about race supremacy and totalitarianism. So yes, thankfully you can't say "Communism is bad" with the same impunity as you can say "Nazism is bad".
It's extremely dissonant if the two notes are only a semitone apart, but if you substitute an E an octave up, you get an interval (11 semitones in equal temperament or a 15/8 interval in just intonation) that appears in a major7 chord.
That... exceeded expectations actually.
You can say the same thing about our computers: they are very inefficient at tasks they were not designed to do. Actually they are very inefficient even at tasks they were designed to do, but since they do them very fast, we've been ignoring it (at least until Moore's law started to slow down). Just think about all layers of abstraction present in current computing platforms, and how much computation really happens when you type 2+2 in a Python console.

Also, there are a lot more problems a brain solves better than computers. Software NNs slowly learn to solve more and more of those, primarily by better copying how brain does it.

So, in summary, vNA might not be a "bad" general computational model, but it surely is very inefficient compared to human brain, when it comes to "computing" vast majority of tasks.
The multiple aspects of the power of celebrity endorsement.

It works so well, which makes one wonder how gullible human beings are, in a general sense. The thought is depressing.
Buying a new car is a nightmare. You start with a baseline model and think that's not too bad, tick some reasonable boxes and whoops, your car is now twice as expensive. Usually buying something is a pleasant experience but when it comes to cars? Hell no.

If they just offered one model that has everything and you pick the color, pay a monthly fee and they'd take care of the maintenance, insurance and whatnot.
This is for a brand new two bedroom in a doorman building with a pool, movie theater, gym, sauna, rooftop terrace, etc.

You can't own anything at all at that price in SF or Vancouver. Maybe a shitbox in NYC.
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What sort of performance hit does that incur?
Never trust stories about how to make money in the stock markets, unless said stories are told entirely in the past tense.

If someone really does have a successful trading strategy, the only way it makes economic sense to publish it is if they believe they can make more money by publishing it now (i.e. selling books, pageviews, whatever) than by using it to trade. Either that, or the algorithm is being described in sufficiently general terms that you're not actually given enough information to use it effectively.
CDS and debt are not really inefficient markets. Some bonds are less liquid than others but there is currently a rapid conversion to electronic trading going on. CDS is also a very mature market. Not saying that those markets don't contain signal but they are not very inefficient.
These issues are orthogonal to GMO's.

Monopolies should be handled like any other: by anti-trust authorities. Banning a specific type of technology is a poor substitute.

Bananas are a monoculture due to the way they are propagated: they've been this way for over a century (and a single blight is currently wiping out the Cavendish variety that is ubiquitous in the USA).

What you are asking for is to make a system of polyculture profitable: this is a worthwhile endeavor but an entirely different challenge than fighting the use of gene splicing techniques.
>killing more people than anything ever before it besides old age.

Wow talk about hyperbole. Well I guess that's true if you discount malaria, bubonic plague, typhus, AIDS, dozens other diseases, religion, nationalism, fascism, european colonialism...
Yeah, I am not denying that it's perceived by many people as a real problem. I am just saying that it actually isn't. Which also means that these effects aren't actually easy to understand. It's easy to be mistaken about them. That's the problem.

Not accepting this misleading framing is an important step in addressing the wishes of the population for totalitarianism.
Been done tons of times. Some of them make quite a bit of money, others not. The real game-changer is if you're effective at separating out the real signal from the noise (and the noise floor is high in these sorts of feeds).
The headline has been changed. When I posted my original comment, the headline was the original headline: "This Is What Musical Notes Actually Look Like"
as a Stanford alum, I can tell you that undergrads don't teach classes at Stanford. At most she was a TA or was allowed to give a lecture. Outstanding grads are sometimes given the opportunity to teach whole undergrad courses, but only during summer. More rarely, students may give lectures (uncredited) while their professor is present in the class room. I'd love to see a link to a Stanford course page if that's not the case.
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Salary is only roughly half the cost of employing someone, so while a 25% salary reduction for 25% fewer hours is fair for you, the employer is not seeing a 25% cost reduction. They're not saving 25% on payroll taxes, benefits, workers comp, PTO, training time and management overhead. In fact, more people working fewer hours increases most of these costs.
Pretty much all ARM boards will run big endian, although not sure Linux has armeb distros much (NetBSD works).
Would you argue the most significant part is that big tablet in the middle or the combination of the wheels, steering, axles, interior upholstery, steel frame, aluminum body panels, battery, etc?

Apple hasn't manufactured anything larger than can be easily Fedex'd. It seems like calling the Tesla an iPhone on wheels misses nearly all of the significant details.
I wouldn't underestimate them with their war chest and supply chain expertise, and don't forget their roots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSj6kvv7_Sg
write your own, they arent terribly difficult to code, and you will have more control over your finances, fraud scrubbing and the likes. plus you save a ton in fees as you grow.
It is. And the move towards autonomous cars is part of the reason why there will be more passengers relative to drivers on the road. But it's not the only factor, or the only way to improve the passenger experience.

For example, I'd gladly forget about Lyft and Uber and use a new ride service if their drivers all had cars that offered me a better experience than what a Toyota Camry provides today.

Also, in-car entertainment has become hugely popular for family cars like mini/sport-utility vans.

My guess is that Apple will create an in-car infotainment system that makes current systems look like phone web browsers from 2005.
Who are the "On-demand advice from our nutrition-focused personal chefs" and how as a user would I gain access to this advice?
It doesn't fall flat, it just (potentially) shows a net benefit for most. You've also narrowed the debate to a purely materialistic benefit (.i.e. more things cheaper) while taking a broader view of the whole class of people at a time.

An individual does not have the luxury of evaluating the "good of the many" when they are unemployed by innovation. Equally horrid from the individual's perspective is discovering the skills they've spent a life time accruing are suddenly worthless and make them unhireable.

White-collar workers have only just started feeling this pressure of good jobs disappearing only leaving more menial and lower-paid jobs.

To ignore that some people are harmed by innovation is as silly as pretending that all innovation is a positive.

It's also important to note that you can't just credit changes in living standard to technological innovation. Soft innovations in things like politics and philosophy are AT LEAST as important as technological innovation.
Of course. If I hire a human servant, I will expect him to understand me even when I'm not very precise in my commands, and perform the action I wanted precisely. In fact, the best servant is the one who does what you want before you have to ask him, right?

That's exactly what I expect from computers in the future.
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There shouldn't be any criteria other than your own.

Human beings evolved to make sense of chaos through stories, judging others is a way to create a story for them, stereotypes are stories over groups of people. It's not wrong, it's how we're wired.

In the receiving end of a judgment, it's a fools errand to hope everyone thinks of you in the way you want them to, thinking that way is probably one of the hallmarks of narcissism.

On the giving end of judgments, I think there's an overwhelming sense of guilt for not judging everyone positively, in the hopes to be an unattainable goal of "goodness" that's part of our culture because of liberalism which itself grew out of Christianity.

As a culture, we've metastasized into these behaviors, nowadays everybody is worried of being perceived "positively" because of narcissism and perceiving others as "good" because of guilt of having the wrong feelings.
> Things I see recommended here but which I personally wouldn't do

Seconded. Advice on learning tech and science tends to contain a large amount of survivorship bias. A lot of people in these fields had some unusual, unstated quirk in their background that led them to do stuff like read K&R front-to-back while all of their friends were watching TV. It worked out great for them, but it's bad bet to hope it will work for a large percentage of kids.
They're not losing 25% productivity either unless you're incorrectly assuming output is linear to butt-hours.
Ballmer was only wrong about which Apple alternative ended up capturing a majority of the market.

It doesn't matter a lot to Apple as they have captured a large portion of the segment of the market that is willing and able to spend more, but Android has more of the total market.
His videos are so great! I'm watching his "Introduction - p5.js" video [0] and I'm crying with laughter. His style of teaching is truly inspirational.

[0] https://youtu.be/8j0UDiN7my4?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9...
Evidence suggests the Russians hacked the DNC emails.
stripe also has a history or turning peoples processing off randomly, categorizing businesses incorrectly and generally not being agreeable or showing the ability to be worked with at times. in fact, on my personal card, almost every time ive used stripe it was declined or scrubbed in some way... sure makes your life easier, but you leave a lot of $$$ on the table.
> you are being judged 100% of the time

This hits close to home. I've been living in America for ~3.5 years now and my wife and I were just talking about this the other day. In our home country (Brazil), people are a lot more genuinely interested in other people. Here, it is very clear to us that people judge whether we're worth their time and attention, and that judgment is clearly based on achievement and how important/great/awesome our lives are.

We are extreme introverts, not "people people" at all, but we've learned to appreciate our own people a lot more than when we were living back there. We used to be annoyed at most Brazilians' extroversion and warmth, but now we appreciate it because it is a very genuine sentiment of just wanting to know new people, no matter who they are or where they come from.
From a research POV ... the study focussed on exactly three cherrypicked, successful artists. It's a very small sample from a very different time and culture than today. Can a conclusion with relevance to today be drawn?

If the goal was to give anecdotal hope or inspiration to the average "sad" person today, then this is interesting. :-)
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I use gocardless in the UK. Highly recommended.
Did Ballmer and Coligan really believe what they said?

I believe that Ballmer believed it. Because MSFT in response to this new iPhone was...to let WinMobile, which was already starting to look long in the tooth before iPhone, sit and languish for a few more years. It wasn't until iOS had well and truly kicked their ass that MSFT decided to freshen up WinMo. By then it was too late.

Palm? Eh, maybe Coligan believed it. Then again, Palm was well aware of the Newton because, well, Palm kicked Newton's ass. But Palm knew that Apple could make a mobile device (even if it were pricey). Could adding phone radios and a dialer be that much of a barrier to entry? I mean, Palm obviously figured out how to do it.
I'm a Haskell fan, so I'll bite: what do you use to program your FPGAs? VHDL or Verilog? Or do you have some other higher level language? I have not found VHDL or Verilog easy to use at all.
The solution to the problem is not preventing people from communicating securely.
> But now, the XYZ Candy Company building also has become a Pokémon Gym. Players from miles around aggregate to that location because the name and logo are depicted in the app as a Pokémon Gym location. At what point does this mean the app is using the copyrighted design in violation of the copyright registration?

All the pictures used are taken from public property iirc. Wouldn't the copyright for the picture taken and the copyright of the building be two separate things, the former belonging to the taker and licensed to the company? If not, is Google Maps compelled to censor their street views of copyrighted architecture?
It still sounds like its an interesting thing to consider though. It sounds like what you're saying is that for it to be equitable for companies, it might have to be a 25% hour reduction for a 35-40% pay cut. But that is probably a lot less appealing to most programmers
This also begs the question, why don't companies hire more part-time programmers? In my experience it's literally an order of magnitude easier to find a quality full time gig than a part time gig. As many of us enjoy working on side projects and don't want to work 40 hours a week for somebody else, why is nearly every hiring post for full-time?
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The original thread dismissed a switch to Windows from Mac on basis of serious issues with Windows these days. Especially built-in surveillance and intentionally pissing off own user-base. Linux was never considered because, as of 2016, it's still a shitty desktop in all kinds of ways they just avoid fixing or are unable to:

http://linuxfonts.narod.ru/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.de...

Whereas Mac and Windows 7 are both great desktops that constantly polished stuff that users found to be a problem, steadily improved security, perform well, and have power-user features. Nowhere near customization or security I can with much effort get out of a Linux box. Yet, Windows (esp Windows Embedded) plus their admin tools show I wouldn't even need it if Linux had similar advantages. So, Linux is crap far as UX is concerned and that's intentional by many of its supporters or developers where UX is intrinsic to Mac and Windows platforms. Amiga, too, as MorphOS illustrates with way less resources than Linux desktops are getting. BeOS derivatives to a degree as the extremely-strapped Haiku is illustrating & its predecessor BeOS illustrated.

So, the baseline was Windows/Mac usability & ecosystem plus specific issues I mentioned in security & corporate character for recent Windows. Your next comment razor focused on open/closed source issue. My reply showed it didn't matter much since QA process and qualified reviews are what really count. Showed with evidence that OSS superiority for security was a myth since you brought that up next. Far as my concern, the lack of integrity of Microsoft or Apple means at least the TCB of system needs to be easy to inspect and enhance. Much of Mac is closed but I thought Darwin core was open and it supported many open-source, secure apps. Stronger position than Windows in this aspect.

So, we have two, usable desktops with one being more open and UNIX-like than the other. Makes little sense too switch away from the better one unless serious changes happen at Microsoft, Apple, or both. Also, one can always leverage secure virtualization or physical separation to get benefits of main OS for untrusted stuff with trusted stuff on FOSS OS. That one could be Linux but quality of most sucks. So, it would have to be one of most stable & reliable ones. I'd lean toward FreeBSD or OpenBSD with simplified, software stack for that, though.
This is an interesting article. I find it a bit curious though that Niantic hasn't solved these problems for itself, given that they already had Ingress before developing Pokémon Go. Of course, Ingress is miniscule in comparison; I wonder if Google's legal team even bothered to take a look.
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>it can be irritating to suddenly have 50 people show up at a national landmark because it has now become part of a video game

Do you know really need to know why someone is in a public space so we can cast aspersions?
I am skeptical about this for two reasons: my government seems inclined to antagonize Russia (placing missiles on the Russian border seems overly aggressive to me), and the NYT has a history of helping my government drum up support for wars.

That said, it will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
Depends on your use case. I believe the Banana Pi Pro is supported by Debian Jessie with the stock kernel if you can do without video and audio out and a handful of other features you're unlikely to need in a headless server. See http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort - Banana Pi /Pro is A20, Jessie ships Linux 3.16. (Audio and unaccelerated graphics are supported by newer mainline kernels, in theory at least.)
Sounds interesting, and I kinda want to read the book. But... this also sounds a little bit rehashed, as it seems to cover similar ground to what Geoffrey Moore covered in Crossing the Chasm[1], or what Everett Rogers discussed in Diffusion of Innovations.[2]

Nonetheless, I think I'll buy this book and read it, just to see if there's any kernel of novel insight there. After all, for an innovator / entrepreneur, this is one of the most crucial issues out there.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Ma...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rog...
You don't have to be an "X" developer. Developers can know more than one language, and knowing functional programming can definitely be a competitive advantage, even if you don't typically use functional languages.
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