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I don't have sources, but I've read before, repeatedly, of this being noted.

I believe there may even be some economic, sociological, psychological, anthropological studies to this effect.

As I recall, one argument is that a lack of resources requires greater cooperation.

Or, people without portable, fungible wealth, are required to trade and cooperate with those in their immediate vicinity.

However, I feel all this misses the heart of the matter: Human connection.

One way in which the "modern" world often feels increasingly sterile.

Though that human connection works both ways: Great kindness, and great exploitation. Though the latter may be limited both by geographic reach and the ability of local society to simply "cut you out" should your transgressions exceed the pain of doing so.

Personally, in the "middle class" here in the U.S., I have struggled for that connection. I've found it with select friends I've made over the years, but not with neighbors. A few neighbors respond kindly, but many are indifferent and a few outright hostile.
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The topics and the community are both a filter and forcing a requirement. From my own observation I would wager that a majority here are in that top 10% .

People are not just randomly assigned to reading and commenting on Hacker News. It's an intellectual community that would naturally attract those who have such skills.
Interesting interview with Viktor Belenko, not terribly deep but worthy of your time: http://www.videofact.com/english/defectors2_4en.html
A post-industrial state is one which was dominantly industrial, and has moved on to some other primary basis for its economy, usually because it is engaged in international trade and its comparative advantage is no longer in manufacturing but some other area.

Usually, this shift in comparative advantage is reflected in industrial work moving overseas to competitors whose comparative advantage is in that kind of work.

So, the two sentences you quote as a supposed contradiction actually support each other, rather than contradicting each other.
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The other approach is to use time limited builds, like Google does with many alpha and beta versions in their Android toolchain. After the timeout, force the users to update or fully lock it down. With a nice message why it is happening, of course.

Crackers will bypass any kind of protection or change anyway.
I skimmed the article, I only saw mention of MRSA. Is that the "super bug" they talk about? This is for the most part why I won't step foot in a hospital unless I am literally on my death bed. The last research I read about MRSA (years ago) was it was hard to study because lab rats could not be easily infected with it unless it was directly injected into their blood stream. This shows just how nasty hospitals are. Nobody gets MRSA unless they are in the hospital.
Condolences, it's rough when someone close is taken suddenly. Can't brace yourself for something you can't see coming.

Part of the problem is the sheer volume of such cases -- where did the infection come from? Why did it get worse so fast? Was it bacterial, viral, fungal? The diversity of microbial life on earth is so vast, and the rate of evolution so quick, that any one center is going to be hard pressed to keep up just cataloging new strains, let alone figuring out what sequence of drugs to try.

This is why it is a national tragedy (at least in the US) that we don't put more emphasis on funding the CDC. Other countries do better or worse, and particularly some states like Minnesota do a lot more. But I can reasonably guarantee that the possibility of humanity being devastated by an easily transmitted bacterial or viral vector is greater than anything a YF-22A is likely to ward off. A centralized repository and clearinghouse can do so much more than any one center, even the richest hospitals, because it can (in principle) see everything at every center. Just needs enough funding and oversight to get the job done.

I recognize that nothing can bring your MIL back, but perhaps if the CDC were given a bit more respect (instead of being a political football to defund abortion and legalize Confederate flags, as at the present), you might have some answers and the next person in that situation might pull through. No guarantees in life, but it seems like a higher expected return on investment than many government priorities. JMHO.

Sorry for your loss, and the open questions around it.
The Evans and Sutherland graphics rendering pipeline has been doing this for almost two generations. Dr. Sutherland's clipping divider depends on it. https://www.google.com/patents/US3639736
And not enough money in general...
Again, you are only exposing group bias. Doctorates are largely predicated on test scores - they are a filter on who can access a defense committee - of course those with doctorates will have higher prior test scores; those with high test score were intentionally picked as doctoral candidates, in part, because of their test score(s).
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One more data-point: I've purposefully worked on a thin client. I had an employer that gave us access to powerful machines but not laptop, so I bought a cheap, under-powered laptop and did almost everything on the servers. My experience was that at first it was great and I appreciated the habits the constraints encouraged. Then I took a job where I was given a beefy laptop and immediately noticed a whole bunch of pain points that I had just been living with that disappeared entirely. The good habits from having a low-powered machine can transfer onto a high-powered machine, but there is are a whole lot of little irritations that completely go away when you have more computing power locally available.
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#2 You may want to provide more specifics on what you can offer and things you've built to help answer your question. This post to me just looks like a way to get a link on HN.
Actually, his example was very relevant in this regard. Chess has a limited set of rules, once learned all that remains is practicing and letting it to sink in ...for those who are slow at that. To develop poetry is not about the rules themselves as it is about the subjective appreciation of your readership. That skill is not that technical and may take years to hone it right.
What a weird combination. I understood Matternet's strategy while using drones for the good of humanity delivering HIV testing in faraway places. Partnering with Mercedes Benz to deliver "things to places" seems like it is competing with Amazon. Does Mercedes have or want a large African footprint? Do non-Amazon stores have enough of a desire to have speedy drone delivery of packages that this makes sense from a business standpoint? Is this news the product of a large MB investment that needs attention and proof of traction?
Didn't see any answer on how to "raise a genius". The presumption is that we want more geniuses and that Ph.D.s are precious resources to society. Is there also a tacit belief here in the Great Man theory of history?

The message here is, well if you don't get a Ph.D., make a lot of money. If you don't make a lot of money, get a patent. If you don't get a patent, at least get published. There are other things that we also want to be able to cultivate other than those I bet.

When a group of geniuses could build a nuclear weapon to take out a whole country, I believe the interest in genius started to spark. Before then, what was the icon of a a genius (I'm thinking before Einstein became iconic)?

The article is interesting, what were the lessons though?

There are other measures of value to society other than STEM publications, income, patents, and Ph.D.s It's often the outliers that don't even fit the Gaussian that are more interesting to me. (Feynman said he scored 120 something on an IQ test.)
Currently, one of them mostly acts as a server, and I work with network shares and symlinks.

But that's how I work, I won't force it on anyone else.
I think 'balkanized' is good word to describe some health-care systems in Europe.

However I think there is a basic difference in approach. Hospitals in europe are usually uber clean, everything is desinfected and there is a small army of cleaners. My impression from US is that McDonnald was cleaner than hospital.

Second difference is post-operation treatment. People in weakened state are left in hospital for a few days for monitoring. With broken immune system (after chemotherapy) you get into strict hermetic isolation. In US leukemia patients go to hotel after treatments.
Bear in mind that in the US, our lovely republican party literally made it illegal to research where the superbugs are being bred.

In the US, the problem is mostly pig and cattle feedlots that rely on antibiotics to keep the animals from being sickened but he crowding. Naturally, there is no proof that superbugs are coming out of the feedlots, because the feedlot owners do not allow any sort of sample collection by scientists.

Now comes the GOP with the "ag-gag" laws, which don't just ban sneaking into these feedlots with cameras. They also ban the smuggling of manure samples from the feedlots.

This is the GOP's war on science: they literally criminalize it.
You need to stop thinking inside the box, my friend. My new company Delivr will equip all of our delivery drives with stilts so they can step right over backyards, houses, etc. We're also testing out a new paramotor that will allow them to literally leap over property in their way.
"The number one cause of outages in production systems at almost every company is bad deployments" [refering to code deployments]

When I read post mortems from companies posted or linked here (e.g. Google, Facebook, ...) it does not seem that outages result from code deployments.

From my experience of 10 years of CTO/VPE I've only seen some outages resulting from deployments (mostly because test data sets were too small and processing in production took much longer resulting in slow responses and then outage).

The majority of outages linked and experienced are either from growing load, introducing new technologies (databases, deployments but the outage was not from code and usually developers could not help) or rolling out configuration changes.

What would be your main reason for outages?
SHA3 should be assumed to be psuedorandom under its inputs. If this can be shown to not be the case, SHA3 would be considered broken.

There is no reason once you have collected a sufficient amount of entropy (~128 bits), to continue to collect it from the device. You would want to also mix in other entropy sources as well, to prevent an attack along the lines of the Dual EC DRBG kerfuffle.
I'm not sure if it's all about talent either. Many of those weak, older players started when they were older, or weren't exposed to a lot of chess (or chess training) when they were young, while the "talented" kids often did start young and got training or at least were surrounded by many other chess-playing kids. I think that makes a big difference.

It seems that there's a critical age when one's mind is better able to assimilate and make sense of the patterns in chess, and to memorize moves and positions. Chess requires a lot of pattern recognition and memorization, and if one does not train those early enough, it may be too late.

It would be a very interesting study to find out how many of those old, weak players actually did have a lot of exposure to and training in chess when they were young.. my bet is not a lot.

Also, I wouldn't expect to find a lot of highly achieving chess players who started playing chess later in life (let's say past their teens), no matter how brilliant and talented they are in other fields, or how well they perform on IQ tests or SATs. They'll probably be beaten by much younger players, no matter how much time and effort they put in to chess.

Learning to play chess well seems to be somewhat similar to becoming fluent in a foreign language, which children also usually excel in compared to adults.
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I presume seeing somebody very close dying from an unintended consequence of such an attempted eradication would change your perspective.
So instead of engaging or debating with the ideas presented in the piece, you immediately dig into the author's personal life as a way of disagreeing with it? The article is specifically about the middle class having two careers, with an explicit description of this being a "middle class phenomenon".

Perhaps that's just the era we live in--where ideas no longer are relevant without the context of the person delivering the idea--where human beings are unable to research or insert themselves into mental constructs due to their lack of 'perspective', that is, their lack of having a specific and acceptable background and history. Interesting that this is the exact frustration so many people express about political correctness, where arguments, ideas, and contributions are invalidated purely based on background, decisions, or other environmental factors.
Imo the reason why there is less access to capital is the same why there are less fast growing europe wide companies. Game dynamics of slower/limited upsides.
the idea is that more resources are needed to nurture top talent, instead of these smart people being neglected. Cognitive capital is like any resource, and it should not go to waste.
"We soon realized that ants took unexpected short-cuts. To solve this we switched to a drone based delivery model, cutting out the middle-man. In our second-generation organic-learning model we also switched to bees. We call this algorithm, buzzfeed."
> must have some gift

Or what?

The rest of us are dumb?

It could have been a good teacher, who found a way to make it make sense, or some other series of positive reinforcement that shaped them and prepared them, to be thinking about mathematics clearly. It doesn't have to be the luck of the draw.

I don't want anyone to give up, thinking they just didn't get the gift, so they should be content with playing with the ball. If you don't get mathematics, you might just haven't had the right circumstances to get it yet.
I'm not sure how I fell about this. Part of me wants to think it's terrible, but I want to stay objective.
Well, I'm certainly not buying it from here. $21 for a case of Coke?

When they're on sale I can find cans of La Croix Grapefruit 12oz for about $4/8pk ($0.50/can). And I just bought Coke 12oz cans on sale for $2.25/12pk ($0.1875/can).
Apart from signalling that you have too much money and don't give a crap about the environment, why would anyone drinking just water buy bottled water every day instead of a Camelbak or Nalgene or Bobble bottle once a decade, and then drink tap water? Or even a Bkr if you're very fashion conscious? Is US water quality really that bad?

Edit: and if you need sparkling water, why not get a Sodastream or equivalent?
I see. You're right, I don't know Chinese and I didn't realize she was claiming that the people in that photo were her team.
The author has some very good points, but I think he's trying to find a simple explanation to a complicated problem. Of course there's no single reason for this scale difference. If anything, Europeans appreciate cultural differences more than people from the US.

What I think plays a big role is aggression. Startup founders in the US would do whatever it takes to succeed. Sometimes this leads to hard work (80+ hour weeks), other times to unfair play (Uber licensing and traditional taxis come to mind). Generally, in the US there's a "win by all means necessary" attitude, while Europeans prefer their work-life balance and don't "break the rules" too much. All this is based on personal experience and I have no data to back it up.

That said, I see the same difference between northern and southern European nations. Southern ones are more carefree and want to relax. They even have words and concepts around this (think the Spanish siesta). It's part of culture which translates to work behavior.

I think this difference in founders and employees might contribute more to the scale of startups than what the article talks about. I see value in both approaches.
I knew of only two SET students when I was in school. Student A you'd never guess was in the program. She went to a small college with only regional recognition, and she currently works as an accountant for a small business. Student B was another childhood friend of mine. Total geek who got me interested in programming when we were 13. He went to MIT for a semester when he was 17, and he returned home suicidal. He graduated from a community college and works at a Texas Roadhouse.

I wouldn't claim to know if either are happy.
Have you considered the possibility that they're right?

Technical people tend to have a lot of Golden Hammer syndrome in their thinking, and don't always see the big picture. As a designer, you think UX, so you see UX as the most valuable aspect, and probably exaggerate its importance in your mind.

Developers see architecture. I'm sure if you asked them about their concerns rather than telling them yours, they'd talk about this or that broken thing that's causing or will cause problems, and how vital it is to fix that, and how nobody listens to them.

Talk to the business people. Ask what concerns them, rather than telling them what concerns you. They'll talk about features that could sell more product, bugs that customers complain about, etc. They'll be very upset about resources being wasted on things that don't provide value to customers.

If you want to sell your ideas about UX, you don't need to convince them you're right - you need to convince them that they are right, and UX is how to solve the problems they care about.
It always amazes me how people talk about theater snacks like they're mandatory or something. How about just......don't buy them?
Nice. Reminds me of using the "stty -a" and "stty <some_param>" commands many times on Unix terminals, back in the day, for some of those settings you list, also for things like CR/LF translation (ocrnl, onlcr, ...), raw, sane, ...
What's the process for this? Is this something like the DMCA safe-harbor provision?

Isn't it something like?

Facebook cries to Google.
Google notifies Developer.
Developer contests trademark infrigement.
Google notifies Facebook of contestation.

Google at this point provided the venue for dispute (so complied with the safe-harbor "doctrine"), now Facebook can escalate to proper courts.
How, why? Especially if they're not trading their own stock.
Can't you just use another e-mail app, like for example K-9 Mail, with it?
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>I think a lot of times lay-people can mistake "broken rules" that accidentally work for "talent" and it is frustrating.

Couldn't agree more. To quote Picasso:

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child"

Children break all the rules when painting and it literally took him his life's work to understand how to effectively formalise the lack of formalism. And thus there are millions/billions of children in the history of art, but there was only one Picasso...
Yeah, in many places, it's pretty bad.
Restaurants have to be mad about this.
What's required now is just to scale out! It seems at the workplace they already have a critical mass, so it's just a matter of time. First the user-base, then the revenue.
There are hundreds if not thousands of diseases that cause vastly more harm to humans than Zika, but the absurd level of fear-mongering and media sensationalism about Zika is really off the charts.

We can be sure that once the pharma companies receive their corrupt tax payer dollars, the Zika story will evaporate from the airwaves, much like H1N1, Sars, Swine, etc.
I think about it all the time as well and I am thankful for these types of videos [1].

What I think about most, is how awesome it is to be alive right now. Where this video (and others like it) tell me about the universe and what discoveries have been found.

At the end of this video, I am always wondering that if the Universe is as big as they claim. There must be discoveries waiting to be found that we can't even comprehend!

Sometimes I find myself wishing we had probes that could be much faster than they are now. Instead of taking decades to go to the edges of our solar system, it takes months.

Maybe within 50 years, by the end of my lifetime. We'll start to see images from Alpha Centauri and beyond. That I am hoping for!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoW8Tf7hTGA
Good news. Now they should switch to tap water and it'll also be a win for the environment.

(To anticipate answers: Yes, I know, in the US water often contains large amounts of chlorine and doesn't taste that good. And in poorer countries tap water is often undrinkable. But there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable, which is true for large parts of europe at least.)
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> My goal is to be one of the most influential video game designers of this century.

Shouldn't your goal be to make great games? Otherwise, aren't you striving for a goal defined by other people? For goals like yours, politics and personality can matter as much as the work itself.

If you are enjoying the journey you are on, then go for it (and I hope you are spending as much time on your social network as you are on games). Otherwise, I'd urge you to consider the opportunity costs of a narrow, intense focus.
>A stable six-figure job is failure.

If you look at the study, only a quarter of the gifted students made it to the 95% income percentile.

Being a Genius doesn't make you rich or happy or give you a satisfaction. It makes it more likely you'll have a PhD & produce academic papers.
Fastest growing source of CMS billings over the past 10 years and one of the top 20 causes of death overall. In the US, it seems that nosocomial cases are rising faster than expected (larger proportion of the total) which is especially worrying.

As far as the "old" crowd -- who gets sick most often?! It certainly isn't strapping young men and women, not in any hospital I've ever been in outside of a war zone.
I think I was a bit loose in the wording in order to try to get the phrasing as compact as I could. The exponential function is continuous proportional growth - the limit of adding a part of a vector to itself proportional to the current vector and the "step size" as you take the step size to zero. (Real numbers are just the one-dimensional special case of vectors here).

Anyway, my point is that Euler's identity generalizes to any number that encapsulates "sideways" in Euclidean geometry. Any quaternion "x" that is a unit of rotation will satisfy "e^pi*x = -1". You can't get that easily from the power series understanding.
> Those weren't my studies. Those were my hobbies.

Then your case does not contradict the OC's view that "Gifted children are "gifted" with a laser focus on the unusual things that they find fun - math, music, what-have-you."
Expiration has an additional positive effect in that it prevents use of the buggy builds and is also relatively easy to implement, especially when the prerelease build can phone home.
It's quite bad, but consumer water filtration devices are cheap and plentiful. I personally use a water filter at home and work, and carry a decent quality bottle everywhere with me, so I'm not sure why others don't go that route. I have to assume it's just another example of rampant American consumerism.
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