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It's because that's just how things always work.

Have you ever played one of those strategy games with a tech tree? Research A and it lets you research B, C, and D; research C and D and it lets you research E; etc?

That's based on the way discoveries in the real world build on eachother. And in the real world, the research tree seems to be "lumpy".

Think "agricultural revolution", "industrial revolution", etc. Something new comes available, and everyone rushes to pick off all the new low-hanging fruit. Eventually the easiest gains are all taken, and people lose interest and move to other things. And as people keep picking away more slowly at the more difficult/involved things, eventually someone will find something that -- probably combined with some completely different existing knowledge -- opens up another new field. And it repeats.

Right now we're in the "low-hanging fruit" phase of (1) computers that are powerful enough to run neural networks, combined with (2) feedback algorithms that allow networks with lots of layers to learn effectively. Sooner or later the gains will get a bit tougher as we understand the field better, and then research will slow even further as many researchers find something else new and shiny -- and with better returns -- to focus on.
>Does anyone here use any lisp for Web Development?

Saw this recently:

http://www.adamtornhill.com/articles/lispweb.htm

It might be useful, even though is from 2008, if it focuses on fundamentals.

Saved it for later reading, since I'm not learning Lisp currently, though had read a part of the Practical Common Lisp book earlier. (Had liked what I read of it.)
Or you can buy a lot of placebo drugs under the name "homeopathy".
> I can totally see the big "enterprise" type IT departments using Oracle/Weblogic stack going for it at least in the "paid POC" type mode to get things rolling.

As someone who works at an "enterprise" - the default is AWS. They have the consulting network, the certifications, and the list of other big companies already using them. Their biggest challenger is Azure, because Microsoft are already in the enterprise, and have good stories to tell around helping you cloudify your Office deployment model, Exchange, etc etc etc. At that point "hosting VMs" is an easy upsell for them.
Under (pure) Capitalism, there isn't public spending for private individuals. Not to mention government influenced pricing... single payer is pretty far away from laissez-faire and capitalism.
I keep all my distractions on devices other than my work machine, out of my reach. Mindlessly slipping into a browser is many times more easier than standing up and going for a "leisure place".
What part of that comment could you possibly have agreed with?

Are you accepting the premise that "the Muslim world" turns its back on extremism? Why? How familiar are you with the Muslim world? Who are the people most impacted by radical Islamic terrorism? Here's a hint: it's not non-Muslims! Islam accounts for a quarter of the world's population, and there are tens of thousands of Islamic scholars expressing a continuous spectrum of opinions about the role of Islam in politics, all of which then have to pass through the same lens of geopolitics --- that Egypt has national interests that align imperfectly with those of Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, &c --- that every other school of thought must. How could you possibly accept such a simplistic premise as "the Muslim world ignores extremism"?

Do you find compelling the idea that Turkey should accommodate ISIS refugees without international subsidy simply because those refugees tend to be Muslim? Ignore for a second that Syrian refugees are not in fact all Muslims and stipulate instead that they are: what does a single shared cultural characteristic really tell us about Turkey's obligations to citizens of other countries? Put it this way: care to guess what the dominant religion of Latin America is? Is it therefore the case that the United States is obligated to accommodate every Latino immigrant?

I'm having a hard time locating a single coherent point in the inflammatory comment you just "certainly agreed to". I don't mean "point I agree with"; I mean "point that exhibits any internal consistency".

Can you help me understand what you found persuasive about it?
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Oops, you're right! I think I had in mind something like "guaranteed throughput" but "consistent low latency" is definitely a better way to put it.
If anyone is using windows and wants to go through PCL, I believe the lisp box linked to is way out of date. I've generated a portable zips that are more up to date:

https://github.com/jasom/lispstick-automate/releases/downloa...

https://github.com/jasom/lispstick-automate/releases/downloa...
A computerized version, with online play, would be excellent. The weakness I see is that the presence of a terrain is assumed (i.e. the board) when, I think, it needs to be determined first. This seems crucial, following the social, historical, premises of the theory behind the game, because such determination is already a move in the war that is to ensue.
> The giant piles of dirty data are that way because for thirty years no one has considered them worth cleaning up. How will they create such astounding amounts of unexpected value?

It was left that way because we didn't have the tools to process it. Imagine the amount of unprocessed video data that we can now annotate pretty accurately. What's the value of that data now?
In India (where I'm from) we generally live with our parents (even after marriage) unless of course we have to go to another city for higher education or job. Even then, our 'permanent address' remains our parents' address. Things are changing rapidly here though, mostly in big cities where they live separately from their parents as they get the freedom to do whatever they want and also because it's the new "in-thing".
This xkcd comic is based in poor data, probably. Rats and domestic mice don't appear on it. Cats and dogs should appear also (and be in a big group). I would take it with a pinch of salt.
> regularly practicing different ways of inducing bouts of mindfulness (how? I wish I knew)

Talk to a shrink. Having paid for it does wonders for your ability to focus the conversation on your goals.
Someone in the know at the time claimed to me that IBMs plan was to keep the hardware and customers, and mitigate anti-trust concerns by spinning off the software to Red Hat.

Given RHs compulsive open sourcing of aquisitions it's one of the great tragedies of the software industry that IBM got cold feet over the concerns that Sun were facing violations of anti-bribery laws.
I did get that they were placeholders :)

I just wanted to note that the scale was way off. You said "I wouldn't expect a the 2012 rust prerelease to .." followed by "but it can probably do 2013", so it was clear you had an expectation of what the dates would be approximately like.

And for many compilers, this is true -- you can use really old compilers to compile the new one. But not everyone is aware of how tumultuous Rust's history is, so I thought it interesting to note.

I should have worded it better I guess.
conversion kits did exist for the fuel change. It was mostly about putting in harder valve seats. The lead was a useful lubricant for the valves.

My idea is that the small block Chevy engine is ubiquitous in the hot rodding world, and it is often combined with a Turbo350 transmission. This combo (or one roughly the same shape) has now been built by GM over 100,000,000 times. They hit that milestone in 2011! http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/...

So we take the Remy250 motor, used to propel the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid (I own one), the Remy is small, about the size of the torque converter in the Turbo350 transmission. That leaves the shape of the engine as a shape to fill with lithium batteries, and the rest of the transmission case can hold the inverter. There is enough room, I have measured.

You may only get 50-100 miles, but it could be a drop-in replacement. Since all the mess is self contained in one blob, it is a matter of yanking the old stuff out and shoving the new stuff in. Basic hot rodding, being done since the automobile was invented.

If it could retail for $20,000 to $25,000 the aftermarket industry would eat it up. I am a SEMA member for 12 years, so I know.

Any VC want to fund this idea? I have most of the pieces pulled together, just need to pay for some engineering time.
Humans produce good enough depth data.
I am personally very defensive about eating animal products, which is funny since I used to be vegan. With current developments it seems like the endgame will be that only extremely rich people will be able to afford meat and other animal products.

I find it dishonest to compare animal product eating to very unhealthy things such as smoking and alcohol, with standard SJW angles of 'toxic masculinity' thrown in and what not. The myth of 'low fat = healthy, fat=bad', pushed for decades starting with Ancel Keys, is slowly disintegrating, and suddenly there's another convenient bogeyman to keep animal products stuck with negative image - climate change.

My life has become so much better since I've turned from vegan to a keto diet based on animal products. I don't eat more meat than a regular person, but most of my calories are animal and milk fats - butter, heavy cream etc. This made all my health issues, some of them pretty severe and incurable autoimmune issues, pretty much disappear.

That's why I would hate to see animal products banned/highly taxed as result of vegan zealots' lobbying, hidden behind the guise of 'helping the planet'.
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who is the person on staff that is into racebikes? I see you have used a lot of superbike parts as demo parts.
For user behavior: bots, clickfraud/clickjacking, bored teenagers, competitors who are sussing out your product, people who got confused by your user interface, users who have Javascript disabled and so never trigger your clicktracking, users who are on really old browsers who don't have Javascript to begin with.

And then there's bugs in your data pipeline: browser (particularly IE) bugs, logging bugs, didn't understand your distributed databases's conflict resolution policy bugs, failed attempts at cleaning all the previous categories, incorrect assumptions about the "shape" of your data, self-DOS attacks (no joke - Google almost brought down itself by having an img with an empty src tag, which forces the browser to make a duplicate request on every page) which result in extra duplicate requests, incorrectly filtering requests so you count /favicon.ico as a pageview, etc.
Again, you have stated no evidence whatsoever to support your desire to violently censor the spread of an idea.

I am simply asking how you come to this intensely held belief?
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One of the problems with text-based programming is that it scales rather too well. I've had to deal with C functions which were 1000 lines long. You simply can't abuse a visual language like that. As you approach the Deutsch Limit, the complexity of what you've drawn becomes immediately apparent and you have to think about ways of reducing it, by structuring your code better, e.g. splitting up complex functions into two or more simpler ones.
I hate this. Remember they did it to Michael Faraday in 1813, deriding him as not a real scientist as he was about to play a part in advancing one of the greatest challenges of mankind (unification).
How about Brașov, România?
What does it mean? I'd say the ability to perceive depth is pretty useful.
That's true, however, the bigger issue with beef is the methods used to raise cattle in tropical countries. Farming cattle involves clear-cutting large swaths of forest to create fields that have 2-3 years of use for cattle before the soil is completely degraded. Then new land must be cleared. Cattle methane is another huge problem. Neither of those issues are factored in to the "feed conversion ratio".
San Francisco's well known holdout: Edwin Klockars, Blacksmithing.[1]

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/DanouArmzHn
> First of all, this is for statistics based papers, not just "technical papers".

The blog post is not really long, and in the fourth paragraph, I wrote:

> [...] We used books and R primarily for examples in this book, but bookdown is not only for books or R. Most features introduced in this book also apply to other types of publications: journal papers, reports, dissertations, course handouts, study notes, and even novels. You do not have to use R, either. Other choices of computing languages include Python, C, C++, SQL, Bash, Stan, JavaScript, and so on, although R is best supported. You can also leave out computing, for example, to write a novel.

Perhaps one thing I didn't make clear enough is that (you are right that) R (optionally RStudio) should be downloaded to use bookdown locally, but your document or book does not have to be related to R or statistics at all. However, I do agree that people who don't use R probably won't care about downloading R in the first place to use bookdown, so even if bookdown is sort of "general-purpose", the actual major audience is likely to be those doing statistics and data analysis using R.

That said, Sections 5.5 and 6.2 of the bookdown book have shown how to use bookdown on Github and Travis CI: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ That way, you don't have to install R locally. All you need to do is to commit changes to Github, and the book can be built automatically on Travis and published to Github pages. The author has to find someone to help him/her set up these services, though.
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Terrible for what purpose? Humans seem pretty good at throwing things to each other and catching them.
I'm very bad at coming up with a good numeric estimate of linear size. As a fencer, I could never tell you how many inches between me and my opponent, how long his or my arms are, how tall he is, etc. I could definitely tell you which parts of our bodies are within reach of each other's arm extension, fleche, lunge, etc.
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I think what we're seeing is an explosion of new approaches to computerized problem solving made possible by huge amounts of data and enormous computing resources. A lot of what has become possible in the last couple of decades is indeed new, but the apparent rapid advance is really just a matter of applying the brute force of a massively upgraded ability to process huge quantities of data in parallel, and this has led us to make erroneous assumptions about future progress in these areas.

Basically, these are new solutions to new problems, and we're rapidly seeing the easy 80% of this new generation of "AI" happen and it seems magical. But soon enough we'll hit the wall where further progress becomes harder and harder and brute force approaches are no longer sufficient to achieve interesting results.
Here's an example of a map like that [0] I made a while ago for an online game. Each room, uniquely identified by an arbitrary item (bagel, lantern, longsword, loaf of bread, etc), is drawn separately with lines in each of the four cardinal indicating where those exits end up. Some are indicated as one-way passages, while others are bent to indicate some sort of spatial relationship when it's reasonable to show (though the entire maze has no coherent planar form). Rooms are in rough order of distance from the end of the maze, which starts at "RED" (through the one-way passage from "FT") and ends at "BREAD" with the east exit back to "FT".

Of course, this is a cleaned up version once I had discovered all the connections; while mapping, each passage would be drawns as a straight one-way connection until bi-directional relationships were discovered.

The chart on the bottom shows the same maze in the form of an adjacency matrix, showing which rooms are connected to which, and by which direction. Again, the rooms are banded by number of steps from the exit. Note that pairs of rooms with bi-directional connections can be discovered by noticing filled cells whose positions are symmetrical about the diagonal of the chart.

The 3 x 3 square in the upper corner is a sort of simple compass I came up with for navigating the maze; it tells you which way to go based on the "shape" (i.e. which directions have exists) of the room. Even though not all room shapes are unique, if you follow those directions you are guaranteed to get out relatively quickly.

0: http://imgur.com/a/2SE8A
That's all well and good, just saying the topic is about systematically building habits, not dealing with life adversity generally. I agree that one shouldn't blame others and take self responsibility, but again, crossing the line into self-guilting and blame can be very harmful, and I wouldn't recommend it to most anyone.
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> and whatever one's thoughts are on Donald Trump

I wonder why it's always necessary when mentioning Trump (anywhere not just HN) to say something like that which sounds like an apology.
That reminds me of a more 'out there' energy storage mechanism I've looked at a couple times: Hyperloop

If you've got a large Hyperloop network with hundreds or thousands of ~40,000 kg vehicles shooting through it at 700 mph, each of those is 400 kWh of stored energy.

Of course, it'd be crazy hard to actually use because demand for travel on the network isn't gonna be constant, but it's an entertaining thought.
I've been looking into traveling & working remotely, as I've transitioned into a mobile role...just need internet + phone to get work done, but now looking into logistics/feasibility of sustaining the remote work-life balance.
What sort of restrictions have you ran into?
how was the site usability wise for you? Looking through the code I thought it would be irritating or difficult to search?

Actually when I saw it I thought it might be useful for a project of mine where I will need to hire people to do accessibility testing, but I suppose that is about the only edge case I can think of that makes a disability job board useful. (note that by accessibility testing I would also like to test dyslexic usage, color blindness, and other disabilities rather than just blindness [ which in my experience is the disability most often tested for and then calling it a day])
I went from a 2015 MBP13 to a 2016 MBP15 TB. It is shorter, especially if you have the brightness cranked up. If you cut the screen down to 1/3-1/2 brightness I'd say it is close. I have a pretty variable power usage though. I've also been running a couple VMs lately that have been eating power. I use chrome most of the time so that eats power as well.

All told I can probably get 5-7 hours out of it depending on the day. The need to plug it in and out frequently really makes me miss the magsafe jack. Whoever made that call should get fired.

Think there is a market for high end laptops for developers that are maybe 30% more expensive than a macbook? Looking at System76 and Dell they are all bricks. The Razer Blade Pro is probably the closest thing. Even that is huge and heavy.
I know of a guy that sells some windows libs and has a turnover of about 1 million per year. He runs this alone and also has some 3 months of holiday per year.
> That seems to sum up this review. The macbook pro is a successor to the air, not the old macbook pro.

I could see that argument for the MBP13 but not 15. You should clarify your remarks if that's what you meant because it looks like you're trolling otherwise.
This is the book Cassie & Craig recommend in the interview: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Forgetting-Name-Thing-Sees/dp/... Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition

Do you know if there's a French version of this? For a gift. I couldn't find in my web search.
A little harsh. Presuming his children don't want to carry on the business (if, indeed he has any) then he's left with two choices:

1). Sell the building and business together. Given the location, the sale would inevitably be to a party that has zero interest in the bell making business and they'd dispose of the business (or just shut it down) as soon as they received the deeds for the building.

2). Split the sale in to building and business. Doing it this way at least gives Alan Hughes some control over who the business goes to (and enables the sale price for said business to be within range of a potential buyer in the same line of work/industry).
Thanks! Lots of great reading here. The React piece looks interesting, but would definitely like to hear more about Clack. My biggest hangup is around infrastructure. I wouldn't mind terribly re-inventing the wheel a bit in terms of client-side and business logic (if I can use lisp), but dealing with a FastCGI deploy makes me cringe a bit. Maybe it's just bad memories from a site I took over that was on shared hosting.
> Right now we're in the "low-hanging fruit" phase of (1) computers that are powerful enough to run neural networks, combined with (2) feedback algorithms that allow networks with lots of layers to learn effectively.

I'm not so sure about that. Places like Deepmind are not satisfied with simply having AI that does straight forward pattern matching problems (Though that's very important). They are moving into more complex problems like transfer learning, reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning for more complex, real world problems solving. They also seem to be making good progress on this as well.
I've often imagined WWII's "best" air force. The worst, somehow, I didn't consider.
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It reminded me the feature creep scene in HBO's Pentagon Wars, which is eerily similar to what can happen in the software world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
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Typo in the title of the article linked : It's not Chome, it's Chrome.
> "The biggest problem in spreading lisp nowadays is the fragmentation of the documentation."

Is it though? I think the biggest problem is employment prospects -- it's just not used enough in industry. I have used a lisp professionally, and I am of the opinion that that opportunity was a one-time thing career-wise for me. these days, I can't justify spending time on anything but Java or C++ in terms of my career trajectory. would like to hear others' thoughts though.
There is an excellent book "the power of habit" that delves into this very topic. Its a quick read.
Couple of life-hacks to help you along:

- Pay for things. I'm been paying $400/month for fitness classes and rest assured I never missed one. Haven't even been late.

- Develop a single meta-habit: check your checklist. I have a morning checklist of things that I need to check off before I feel my morning is complete and my day is off to a good start. I don't forget my vitamins anymore.

- Talk things through with someone who listens. As you're talking out loud you will get a better perspective and ideas on how to make new habits stick will pop out of nowhere.
If you go back up this thread you'll find the claim that location increases productivity. If we accept that, and if we accept that people are willing to pay more for higher productivity, well, presto, we've explained why US wages should be higher.
Because PDF is for printing purposes. There could be many many problem if you copy and paste from PDF (white spaces being eaten, ligatures, curly quotes, en/em-dashes, ...; almost as bad as Word, except that PDF is beautiful). So don't copy from PDF, but from HTML instead. HTML is much more faithful in terms of preserving characters.