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> Chris Jankowski • 2 hours ago

> The author says that sex "imposes a huge cost on a species, and that cost is called “males.”"
Well, if the males are such a cost to a species, then why nature does not respond by heavily skewing the sex ratio of the offspring towards females. Males produce sperm which is cheap compared with the cost of producing eggs. A male could fertilize eggs of many - tens or hundreds of females. So the ratio could be 1 to 10 or even 1 to 100. But I do not know of a species that would do this.

> Some marsupials - possums and kangaroos create some skew, but is is slight and in response to environmental conditions or is more sequencing oriented depending on the age of the breeding female.
'Facebook is one of the places where you actually meet most people of dissenting views to yours.'

I think Facebook has a strong motivation to tailor the newsfeed algorithm to keep you longer on Facebook, see more ads, generate more clicks and revenue etc, so there might be a case to be made in order to engage you more, the algorithm should show you more content you like or tend to agree with than ones you would not want to engage with (remember Facebook doesn't have a dislike button), so I think its not really a great place to meet most people of dissenting views to yours, I would actually speculate that its probably the other way around, Facebook is one fo the places where you meet most people sharing the same views as yours.

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I agree on the flip phone, but not on the desk phone. It looks very last century, matte plastic or shiny plastic.
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It certainly seems like a basic/simple topic but it is hard to see what other branches you could have covered except maybe laser diodes. Would you put those in a separate category or they could be considered as a flashlight with a very narrow beam?
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Oh c'mon. Do you really believe Facebook is stacked with Republicans? Don't you remember the controversy over Facebook censoring conservative views? If anything, the company was pro-Clinton
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I'm seeing very dangerous rhetoric from the media right now. Namely, that Trump's "surprise" win was because ... get ready for this ... "white" people. Unless I'm mistaken, there are more whites in this country than any other type.

I was so honored to see our nation have a black president. I was so honored when he suffered no violence. I'm talking about being absolutely proud of my country here.

I am not going to apologize for being "black" or "white" or any color and I don't expect others to either.
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I 'm a CTO for your iPhone/iPad project -
Unlike other developer, I'm project manager and a developer, so i can ensure that your application project is doable, stays on track and stays within scope.

My latest project include Fluke Connect, TenStat, podtrack.io. You can learn more about me at http://www.mobdesignapps.fr, but here is a snippet:

Through years of experience working for others (Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Real Networks, Dogfish Software), I learned from the best what it takes to create a quality app. Over the years, I have learned that you need good technical skills as well as good design skills, good communication skills, good organization and an eye for detail. All those are skilled that I honed over the last 15 years as I have worked in the software industry in different roles: iPhone/iPad developer, User Experience Designer and Program Manager.

If you work with me, I'll bring all that experience to your project to ensure that your idea comes to life.

Other who have worked with me have appreciated my ability to distill complex problem to manageable concept, my pragmatism, my eye for detail and my critical thinking.

On a personal side, you can talk to me about rock climbing, technology, podcasting, location independent lifestyle and we'll probably be talking for a while.
Not to take away from scouts, but I feel like this study could apply to any group that a child decides to stick with and learn from. Sports teach resilience and the like, as well does joining a music group. My club soccer team during high school was unbeaten for most seasons and ended up state champions, but most of us didn't hangout afterwards or even like each other.
There's an argument to be made that there might be some benefit in government spending a little less time impacting people's lives.

But also, spending that time cleaning up old laws sounds an awful lot like "doing something useful that will actually impact people's lives".
Damn! I'm seeing everywhere that many people "handed" this election to Trump. The man won it himself. Hillary is basically the worst case of homosapiens (always wrong side of history, supporter of bill cheater (i'm with bill etc)).
Stating the current year is not an argument.
And an oddly polite discussion in the comments, how strange!
facebook engineers optimize for ad revenue, not factual accuracy. this needs to be fixed. like pg said in the article, no idea how. education is important but there's simply too much information out there and it's hard to filter the important from the insignificant, not to mention truth from falsehood. there's a need for tech that could assist those tasks with minimal barrier to entry. problem is there's no market for this... yet.
I'm wondering if you worked for me, but with hindsight I realise this is a common problem. We underpriced ourselves by orders of magnitude for years.
I think you're asking the right questions.

I would assume that your class targeted Lisp because SICP uses it. While that is a great resource, it is light on details when it comes to the end game: runtime. If you are developing a language today and you aren't considering runtime, then you are just writing macros.

Lexing, and parsing are not trivial tasks, but powerful tooling already exists for these. Compiling means knowing how to translate your language into something that executes, and I would say "must execute well". I'm in favor of hobbies (fun) and exploration (growth), but if you are "perfecting" steps 1&2 and haven't yet considered step 3, then maybe it is time to support another language community rather than develop something on your own.
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It is a crowdsourced model.

I did check online for other API services [0..2] and GT1 [3] information.

[0] http://www.ean-search.org/

[1] https://www.barcodelookup.com/api

[2] http://eandata.com/

[3] http://www.gs1.org/barcodes/ean-upc
Certainly you don't want to hire people that are rule stricken. At the same time though, if someone signs a legal contract saying they won't do something and does it anyway, isn't that a red flag?
You're right, and in the last ten years or so (after the IRS took notice and started cracking down on abuses) it's become an intentional conservation strategy. The recent legislation to increase the valuation demonstrates this.
There's a long debate to be had about immigration in general. I'd contend, though, that it's in the public interest to look past things like immigration status in certain situations. For example, suppose we're vaccinating against an epidemic. In that case, you definitely don't want anyone to be afraid to come out and get their shot for any reason.

SF doesn't keep illegal immigrants safe from deportation. It says "in these circumstances, we think it's more important that you cooperate with the city than it is for us to try to deport you, so we're going to call a temporary truce".
Yes, but not for the reasons the author thinks.
Incremental builds are antithetical to continuous integration, for the reason that even a minor dependency issue results in a non-reproducible build.
I'd like to see Facebook add an 'Unverified' reaction button. I know people can post rebuttals in comments but making it easier and more visible may help people report factually unsupported stuff.

It could have an question mark icon to emphasize that there are questions remaining around a post.

Facebook might eventually use this to lower visibility of articles that are widely marked as 'Unverified'
This fear is rooted in a continued misunderstanding of the election result by people in tech. Voters didn't vote for Trump because they read some fake news story on Facebook, they voted for him out of economic desperation. They weren't tricked or mislead into it.
That is really quite sad, outside the Mormon run troops, most are very accepting here in the US, that being said it can get pretty fucked up pretty quick conversation wise. Making me think back to singing "Killing the baby seals" & jokes about the handy ole multicolored abortion scoop & coat hanger, but all in good jest usually.

I do imagine having a few openly gay scouts in our troop and good leadership did keep things from skewing far right, its hard to advocate against a race or orientation when you spend hundreds of hours with people of said race or orientation over the course of a year doing constructive things.

We had a great scout here from Hong Kong on exchange, so not all scouting programs outside the US suck! It may just be a bad troop too, the Mormon troops in the US are like a whole different organization policy wise. Very clannish.
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Exploit mitigation may be all that stops a vulnerability being successfully exploited.

Here are some excellent slides on exploit mitigation in general: https://events.yandex.com/events/ruBSD/2013/talks/103/

Of the top of my head there are four approaches to stopping memory vulnerabilities:

1) have no bugs, e.g. formal verification etc

2) use a memory-safe language

3) accept that there can be vulnerabilities, and use exploit mitigation to harden it

4) capability-based addressing as a mitigation (it doesn't solve use-after-free, for example; it relies on software to do that etc)

Of these, (3) is the one you can retrofit to existing C/C++ codebases... a route you are usually forced to travel.

(There may still be other kinds of bugs, e.g. the obvious sql injections etc; I am talking above about memory bugs specifically)
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Exploiting people's fears gets you everywhere.
If social signals are important to you, if your need to fit in is more important than having your own opinion then no amount of "fixing" the algorithm is going to change that.

Removing the algorithm (or at least defaulting it to 'off') so users can see everything, and consequently see whether they hold a majority opinion or not, would go some way to fixing the problem. At the moment someone can be in a tiny minority yet feel like everyone around them feels the same way, giving them a wildly skewed view of the real world.
Hi, thanks! It's just a small experiment for now. But I would like to certainly add more countries, cross-country comparisons, etc.
What countries would you like covered for example? :)
My step 0: see things for what they are and don't apologize for callings bigots bigots.
> we encourage candidates to use all resources on our take home interview test

This sounds great. In my response to another comment I was worried if accepting-but-not-encouraging this kind of behavior would put the interviewees on uneven ground. But if you tell them in advance that basically anything goes, it's fair for all parties.

> The real surprising part is how many take home problems we have received that either do not compile, do not pass the test data we give, or look like the instructions were completely ignored.

Sounds horrible. Though I guess that's only a good thing. Seems like the assignment is doing its job in those cases pretty well :)
Why is that bad? Asking purely out of ignorance.
What is the problem there? I'm confused by your comment
Never been to such a night, but apparently it helps if you have a washing machine or dishwasher or stuff like that to bring into the student house.

There are some student-scout groups in some Dutch student cities, maybe Delft has one too.
I really doubt it. They seemed as surprised as anybody.
> Remember that guy who wrote a post about Google's hiring process, where they outsourced the asking of technical questions to untrained call-centre staff.

Hey, I had this experience with Amazon when applying for a software related position based in Europe. For the entry screening I got a call from Indian phone number and a person with Indian accent was clearly going through a list of various quirks an features of a programming language. Wasn't so bad though... the second round with MBA product managers was much worse:)
It's funny how if HRC had won they would be praising FB for spreading the word. Obama was probably the first candidate to really use technology and social media effectively and was also praised for its use. Now that Trump has won FB is bad.

I saw a person on my FB feed the other night say that she knew Trump was going to take away her right to vote now that he won, and her post was like by many. Trump is flawed in many ways, but that is absurd.

Most(all?) of us here know to go and fact things we read, but this is not a new thing. The media has always been this way. The nightly news shaped the public by what stories they told and left out. It's not a FB problem, but a people problem who surround themselves only with groups that confirm their already existing opinions, and stop questioning.
A bigger issue is that there are far too few representatives in the House. With more reps (say 1:50000) there would be room for more diverse views to be heard and represented (and likely additional parties).

As it stands right now, it is impossible for one person to reasonably represent the views of 1M people.

Edit: also Eectoral votes are tied to the number of representatives + senators + DC, so there could be an effect there too.
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If X is your number one priority, then Y - e.g. helping the American people, doing what's right, etc. - is not. What's telling is not that they said right out that they were willing to accept collateral damage - of course they didn't, because it would be political suicide - but that they said nothing at all about it. Didn't acknowledge its existence. By contrast, look at what Sanders said.

“To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him."

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sander...

That explicitly acknowledges an obligation toward the American people - something we never got from the "oppose Obama at all costs" crowd. So yes, there is a difference between today's loyal opposition and 2008's treasonous opposition. I reject your false equivalence.
When male/female determination depends on which chromosome you inherit from a parent, it is hard for a mechanism to arise for the chance to be anything other than 50/50.

A lot of mammal species eliminate excess males using other methods - mainly bloody fights to the death, which also tends to result in the remaining males being the strongest ones.
I think the surprise (as stated by their campaign) was from overcoming voting fraud, not from popularity.
I'd very much appreciate a few representative examples of sloppy journalism from either the LA or NY Times. Can you recommend a couple?
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I'm highly skeptical that it's related in any way (although I'd be very interested in proof that I'm wrong). If it were, it'd be almost impossible to run a health startup in NorCal. Marijuana use is not universal, but I've never worked in a shop without at least a couple of coworkers who were open about using it in their off hours.
Worked for a Finnish company and I concur.

They frequently bring up how they beat the Germans and the Russians in WW2. And how Finnish vodka is the best. And how it sucks that the world's most popular sauna heater is made in Sweden, because Finnish sauna heaters are superior.
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Having a ticket system like this and forcing reviews through the chokepoint of busiest person in the company is pretty stupid, and it's probably putting a lot of pressure on the CTO. If the CTO is under pressure, he will probably be more critical of things than he otherwise would be (even though it makes more work for him).

It's not abnormal to be better at working on tasks with a bit of leeway than on very specific tickets. That said, if you frequently solve problems in a way different from the CTO's preference, moreso than your coworkers, then it's possible that there are some patterns that the CTO prefers that your coworkers have picked up and started using; you might get less hassle if you're doing things in that way, even when that way is objectively worse, because it puts less cognitive load on the CTO.

That said, it's very possible that the company has just gotten into a bad state and everybody's being nasty and over-critical about everybody else. Structuring commits in such a strange and broken way is indicative of other problems, since nobody would make the CTO approve every commit outside of a real emergency situation with tons of broken code being pushed into the critical path. It may just be that the company is going in a downward spiral and you're an arbitrary target for blame for everybody who's feeling the pressure.
Because newspaper endorsement used to have more weight. I am not sure it has ever been measured scientifically but it was at least perceived as having some weight.

Now today, we realize that it has no effect on the average voter.

This is a shocking realization if your are a journalist working for a newspaper. It is a "Emperor's New Clothes" moment. For the rest of us, I would say this has less an impact.
It's all fun and games until someone gets kidnapped.

There's also the situation where a lot of American towns/cities aren't so crowded that you can walk everywhere. And not everywhere in America is there good public transportation.
> easiest way

> solve the hardest

> defensible due to hardness
>He called for a ban on Muslim immigrants

I don't agree with the approach, but do you understand why he said this? The idea was to vet people coming into the country to prevent homegrown terror. It's a real thing, and people are concerned about it. I doubt that it'll work, the problem is more nuanced, but it's not a ridiculous idea.

>said illegal Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists

No, he said that Mexico sends their worst, not that all Mexican immigrants are criminals.

>and suggested that his supporters should assassinate his opponent

Source?
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What's Coming in Go 1.8 [0] lists some upcoming changes in Go 1.8 (scheduled for release on February 1, 2017).

[0] https://blog.tylerchr.com/golang-18-whats-coming/
Do you want to use NLP in a project, or to dig into the state of the art?

The NLTK approach may be dated, but it is easier to approach as an engineer, especially if this is a hobby. It will give you a good introduction to problems in the space.

The math heavy approaches may give better results long-term, but it will be a much longer time commitment, but this is probably more appropriate if you're trying to find a job.

You can also do interesting things with a small dataset and the free plans of APIs like Watson. E.g., I'm working on a search engine for standalone lectures - https://www.findlectures.com.
You ARE being preachy. You're calling people who drive SUVs 'rude about' actually being climate deniers, with zero effort applied to try to understand and empathise with what might motivate these people.

It's so easy to point to other peoples apparently wasteful behaviour from a distance, and much easier than introspection. So the question is reasonable: Have you "deliberately" been on a not-absolutely-necessary long haul flight this year? Because then you don't really have anything to tell families who prefer SUVs.
I'm not sure what you mean by "runtime" here and I'm having a little trouble seeing what you're getting at.
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The answer to the first question is Fisher's Principle [0]:

Suppose male births are less common than female.

A newborn male then has better mating prospects than a newborn female, and therefore can expect to have more offspring.

Therefore parents genetically disposed to produce males tend to have more than average numbers of grandchildren born to them.

Therefore the genes for male-producing tendencies spread, and male births become more common.

As the 1:1 sex ratio is approached, the advantage associated with producing males dies away.

The same reasoning holds if females are substituted for males throughout. Therefore 1:1 is the equilibrium ratio.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
I think it's because the text representation is super close to the AST
Facebook's pro-Clinton bias is why Trump won. Clinton's supporters were completely insulated from reality, and many were celebrating their victory before the election even happened.
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This comment made me think back to my childhood. I've never been in any organized outdoor/military groups, but a phrase I heard a whole lot while growing up was "you have to". Things like doing chores or homework were not presented as "should", but rather "have to". My protests were usually met with "yes, we hear you, but you still have to". Pissed me off to no end back then, but in retrospect has been highly valuable in teaching the same attitude towards problems - they don't just go away on their own.
I am in Europe, and bought mine from a European Amazon, but no SD-card. I still use it, and yeah the camera is definitely quite far behind. I'll probably go for a Xiaomi soon.
I was studying both candidates. Watching him and her online, the numbers (live connections) were crazy high for Trump ... like 70K+ for him. His twitter account had more followers, he had more Facebook likes. It looked like a total landslide to me (not a professional) based on national and public data. The news agencies were all acting like it was impossible. One was giving Trump a 10% chance of winning.
"Program or be programmed" - Rushkoff said it best.

In a world where your Rushkoffs[1] go unread, we are spiraling into some sort of local maxima where social media is realized for what it is, and the problems associated with social media are epidemic.

The crux of the issue lies in the fact that nobody knows what social media is, or indeed cyber. "Cyber" as it stands now is some far off place, in a William Gibson fantasy, but infact operates in the world seemingly un-noticed by the smartphone equipped masses.

As I said; it's not long until people realize they've been played and their eyeball hours and data exhausts are being sold to the highest bidder for hard cash. It makes me wonder why smartphones even cost so much. Surely they should be 'free' given how much data can be gleaned from a smartphone owner?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff
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So free speech and protesting are anti-democratic now? Also, you seem to assume everyone signed up for what some people said on social media or the news. It doesn't work like that.
They sucked up a lot of compsci grads from Missouri State. I'd always wondered what they were like.
My weekends are just as busy as my weeks. I have a wife and two daughters that I do stuff with on weekends, and other family members I like to see. This process seems to presume that I somehow have "free-time" on weekends.
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