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Neurosurgeons have higher than average IQ, and Carson is one of the best. He's smart.

I don't know much about Harvey, but ironically I found this article http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/steve-harvey-success-series-ki...

>Spend time with a person who is very successful in some field or pursuit; it doesn't matter what.

After a few minutes you'll probably think, "Wait, this guy isn't any smarter than me."

After a few more minutes you'll probably think, "Hey, I'm actually smarter than he is."

Success doesn't require a high IQ or some special intangible quality that you don't have. Successful people only become "special" after they succeed; before they put in all that time and effort they were just like everyone else.

Spend time with a few successful people and you will realize you are just as capable of achieving great things.

I disagree with some of this, as above.

There's some of each, some lucky and some skilled. But I think skill plays a bigger role in the variance of similarly situated people. Luck in the sense of where you're born, how privileged your family is, etc play a larger role than luck later in life, I think.

I also consider brains a luck factor as well.
The one in my building does.
Now, I'm not a proponent of leap seconds. But I'm a bit curious to where the 7.389 m comes from?

The earth rotates about 12 km along the equator in 26 s.

Is the error of ~7 m for determining your position north-south wise? East-west it should be about 12 km then I think.
I read that the 2 ports on the left and right are actually slightly different. I don't recall exactly what it was but I think it was something about Thunderbolt 3 because of a lack of sufficient PCI-E lanes for all four ports.
Yes, I agree, we can value our consciousness more than the idea of DNA survival, but the reason it exists in the first place is to protect the DNA. It's just a mechanism to adapt and accommodate the organism to the changing external conditions.
Yes yes, I got that. But (looking at user rahrahrah's post) clearly not everyone did. Thank you, we have now over explained the joke to a level that all humor has been sucked out of the room.
For the sake of argument, in 2011 we'd be talking about TB1.

TB1/mdp is larger than USB-C - in 2011 terms though, it'd be considered small. The mdp port is smaller than regular USB, ethernet and FW800 - all ports available on early 2011 MBPs.

TB1 should carry some power. I don't have my 2011 MBP any more, but I'm near certain that I was able to run a thunderbolt capable seagate external 2.5" hard drive without providing additional power. I also had a Kanex TB-> USB3.0 adapter, and I could swear it was able to power a USB 2.5" external also.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/124485/can-a-thunde...
Not sure where you're getting that from. certainly not an official source.

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/ar...

->RUSSIA and China have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services.
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> Prosecutor Jim Smith said Beale's crimes made him a "poster child for what is wrong with government."

Or it qualifies him for a cabinet position![0] The scientist did it for longer than the SEAL, but it is mostly a difference of degree and not of kind.

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/20/trumps-pick-for-interior...
The Razer Blade weighs 4.6lb, and the XPS 4.4.

Not "eight to ten pounds".
Oh wow, thanks for that info. Really good to know as I am in the market for a high end laptop and the 32gb xps was on my short list. I guess I'll be sticking with the 16gb version unless the kaby lake processors in the new xps 15s solve this issue.
Apparently you need a work permit to participate a Skype conference in Singapore
You mean 1491, by Charles C. Mann? Good starting point for this subject.
What's the speed of the install process for those apps?

How's the update system work?

How quickly can you release them to all platforms?

Can they be easily customized and modified by the user?

Can they be easily shared?

What's the permissions model like? How much can that application access?
This is an experiment I've been wanting to run for a while. If anyone has questions or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
> * Founders assume VCs don't work during the holidays, so they don't try setting up pitch meetings. As a result, VCs don't have any work to do and end up going on vacation. =\

This is interesting. I wonder if founders who ignore this assumption would have better success raising money. At the very least, they'll have more attention from the VC during their meetings.
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Depends. On Windows? Sure, I freaking hate installing software on Windows. On Mac or Linux? Meh, not an issue for me.
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I'm pretty sure it was a typo, Quake 3 didn't have a software renderer, so I wouldn't think they would get a doubling of framerate from that optimization (unless they were artificially lowering res to make things CPU bound), but Quake 2 did, so it could.
A major change was that the Congressional GOP opposed everything Obama tried to do until the last year, a scorched earth tactic to damage Obama regardless of the costs to the country and world. Then, in an effort to appear a little less obstructionist in an election year, they passed some bills.

But even then they set new norms for obstructionism; for example, they refused to vote on a Supreme Court nomination, something unprecedented in U.S. history, and refused to do anything about the sequester, again an unprecedented act. I'm pretty sure they refused to provide aid to Flint for their water crisis and or to provide funding for the Zika virus.

If it costs them nothing politically - and what were the consequences of their obstructionism mentioned above? - they will do it. The Democrats, who do little to confront and extract costs from the GOP, are effectively complicit IMHO.

EDIT: Some edits
I'm trying to start something that you described. Check it out TheCoopApp.com and let me know what you think.
This did happen. Previously, "Recommended" was primarily your subscriptions and you got notifications when someone you follow posted. Now recommendations are mostly channels you are not subscribed to, and you need to "double subscribe" by pushing the bell icon on the side of the subscription button to get those notifications.

H3h3 did a pretty good summary:
https://youtu.be/YMOLmbgAmsY

Also this year they started quietly "demonetizing" videos that had bad words/topics or were not advertiser friendly, so some YouTubers pivoted to inane child content. I am pretty sure these demonetizing videos get particularly burried by the Algo.
Unfortunately not, but if you think of it as using the command pattern in a queue-ish way to get a similar behavior as the command queue of "The Sims", you have the basic architecture, and from there it's just a matter of coding.

The thing about React-like frameworks that makes it very nice is that you can keep the command queue in a separate place and have a root rendering function like this:

1. Set the view state to a copy of the actual state

2. Update the view state according to each queued command in turn

3. Render the view state including a status bubble showing that some changes are not saved yet

And separately from the rendering, you have a worker that tries (and retries) to perform the queued commands. When a command is successfully performed, it's removed from the queue and its effect on the state is saved in the actual state.

Since I can't find anything on Google when searching for "react command queue" it would be cool to write a blog post with a simple example, but I don't know when I'd have time, so I encourage anyone who's implemented a similar thing to go ahead.
I live in LA. Two times I was amidst a famous YouTube celebrity and had no idea.

Their cover was blown the same way each time, by children probably between 9 and 13.

It looked like a celebrity run in from an episode of I Love Lucy.

I really try to stay current in order to stay relevant, but both those times really illustrated the futility of such a pursuit:

1. There's YouTube celebrities.

2. They are just as legitimate as any other celebrity.

3. Children don't seem to distinguish or rank celebrities based on their medium.

4. YouTube is much closer to pop music; there's some mass appeal that has nothing to do with how clever or sophisticated it is.
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Can anyone suggest a good textbook for Radio, Antenna theory, Ham radio in general?

I'm quite interested in learning these but most books I've come across either seem too basic, or too advanced. I am a math major so mathematics isn't a problem for me if it is supported with enough text. Thanks!
If you restrict the speed of propagation of interactions (of massless waves), you nearly automatically get STR ... like in sine-Gordon model - speed of massive kinks becomes limited, and kinks are being contracted to zero while approaching this limit.
You can't. You propose it in a philosophical or mystical way - as completely unfounded speculation, not as science.
My impression is that it is because the electorate of both parties is likely to support it and it doesn't clash with donor's preferences.
I found Meetup to be the same way for me. So I'm starting something that allows you to limit how many people can join and have the option to create plans without needing a Meetup Group. Check it out TheCoopApp.com and let me know what you think.
Carefully? Possibly in some non-automatic fashion?
Anonymity and decentralization are two different things, you can have one and not the other. For example, Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies has decentralization (mining) but only weak anonymity (all transactions are public). The decentralization is most of the cost, but adding anonymity (like zcash) adds even more cost with larger transactions.
I disagree. It's great syntax for controllers - place where you should read request data. Services is another story , but you will always have place where you read initial request data.
We use OpenTSDB with HBase with good success. Writing over 2m events/s in some clusters.

We're also working on something with Apache Phoenix over HBase to store TS so that we can query the data in more flexible ways.
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Unless you're running a very unusual OS setup, any native app by default has read and write access to all of your files without asking.

I feel pretty comfortable assuming that www.randomwebapp.com isn't reading and uploading my ~/.ssh and ~/.gpg, otherwise I'd be terrified of using the web at all.
The battery life on the 14 inch model is 6+ hours of streaming video out of the box which isn't bad at all I think. The real question is how well it holds up over time. Also, it is one of the few laptops available with the new 10X0 video cards. I'm honestly probably going to hold out for the newer XPS 15s with kaby lake and the 1060 cards, which are supposedly out in January sometime.
Scientists find six additional radio bursts in space
> The Participatory Anthropic Principle states not only that the Universe had to develop humanity (or some other intelligent, information-gathering life form) but that we are necessary to it’s existence, as it takes an intelligent observer to collapse the Universe’s waves and probabilities from superposition into relatively concrete reality.

This is a misunderstanding of what quantum waveform collapse is. It requires an "observation", but not an intelligent observer. For example, in the Schrodinger's Cat thought experiment, the Geiger Counter is a perfectly valid observer.
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> If we're doing fair comparisons, the gift to a single family that allowed them to buy the iron roof could have dewormed 200-1000 child

It's worth noting, though, that deworming 200-1000 children doesn't mean deworming 200-100 children who have worms. It means administering deworming medication to 200-1000 children, a few of whom will benefit (because they had worms) and the majority will have no effect (because they didn't). IIRC, programs like Deworm the World don't target infected children, because figuring out who to treat is more expensive than just treating everyone, if you're in an area with a high infection rate.

Overall, it might still be more effective than GiveDirectly, but it's not as simple as "this would directly benefit 200-1000 children rather than one family". (I'm not saying that's what you were saying, but that's how I would interpret it if I weren't familiar with the programs.)
Fakirs have known this for a long time, e.g. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_of_nails
The article is wrong. See the other comment about High Water Mark. Long-term the fund only takes the profit on the total return.
1.) At my company, the board meets quarterly and I don't think I have ever personally seen them at the office. (The board meetings are at the office). Our company is approximately 30 employees. The only way this should affect your decision is if you are foregoing salary in exchange for equity and the strategic vision is of huge importance to you.

2.) No. I would probably be more likely to take the job.

It's important to be friends with people who have different views than you. I think I would prefer working in an atmosphere where diverse views exist rather than living in a bubble.
Good. I've never seen one - they may have chimes so the person has to count chimes.
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It will be an error, the {something} will be gone by the time the second .format runs.

It might help to realize the f-string is just syntactic sugar for a .format() call.
I wonder what the other experiments were that were performed that came to such wildly different figures.
The Great Firewall won't crumble because lots of Chinese nationals make lots and lots of money off of it. For every billion dollar company in the US there's an opportunity for a billion dollar Chinese version.
Specifically, it's going to be business discovering that transaction ledgers in Merkle trees are excellent and being sold that as "Blockchain(tm) Technology".

(If someone at work asks you about Blockchain(tm), tell them "oh yes, bits of Blockchain(tm) are excellent, we've been using it even before Bitcoin existed!" i.e., you use git.)
Those are pretty wildly different topics

For "radio" I'd recommend reading on Analog and Digital Signal Processing. Antenna theory is an entirely separate field which you'd want to reference specifically. Ham is more of of the culture/context surrounding ham radio, and for that I'd recommend one of the ARRL exam study books from http://www.arrl.org/shop/What-s-New though for the easier tests these are pretty light on technicals and are more about policy and good radio operator behavior
I've worked a lot with this pattern in Python (Flask), Java and Scala. I have found it a little inconvenient beyond the simple hello world app when dealing with Flask, but I haven't encountered this problem with Java/Scala. To date, I've worked on probably 4-5 separate applications using this pattern and it's worked quite well. I have also used Spring 4 on the JVM, which ... feels more flexible, but also has a lot of cognitive overhead, and so I'm not crazy about it. I believe Spring Boot follows closely after Jersey, most likely as a result of the pattern's popularity.

In my experience, it is pretty straightforward to build your resources (as Jersey calls them) into various classes without any issue, even for applications with many API endpoints.

As for metrics, security and routing, most of these are canonically managed using annotations in Java. In Spring, application context XML configurations are used, but they are very big and not close to their actual implementations, which makes them get out of control quickly (and inconvenient when they aren't out of control). It feels like losing either way.

I'm a big fan of Coda Hale's work on Dropwizard, which uses metrics, security and routing through annotations, and it works very well for large scale production applications. I use these techniques at scale at Bazaarvoice with great success.

To be fair, I won't go so far as to claim the pattern is imperfect. It's just the best pattern I've used for web services to date, even at scale.

I would love for you to expound more on your own experiences in more detail!

edit: clarification on where I've used the pattern
Suing reviewers for libel seems like a losing proposition. Schemes like this rely on the remedy for bad reviews being cheap and easy. Libel suits are neither.
The congressional GOP's approval rating is (or was) at record lows. It wasn't about pleasing their electorate.
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:ino kj <Esc>

'kj' is the ideal key combination for changing out of insert mode. Keep your fingers on their home row. Try it and you'll never go back. (Some people like 'jj' or 'jk' and they're fine people, too.)
Lightning was better-ish, but we also knew USB-C was on the horizon. I don't think that one is defensible.
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An interesting puzzle: how can evolution produce an organism like an ant where the vast majority of its exemplars are sterile? And the answer is: ants are not organisms, ant colonies are organisms. They just happen to be made of parts that are not physically connected to each other.

The same thing turns out to be true of humans. A single human in isolation cannot reproduce. Even a single breeding pair in the wild will (almost certainly) not be able to reproduce. The minimal reproductive unit for homo sapiens is a village or a tribe. So you too are not really an orgnism but an organ, a component of a larger reproducing system that, just like an ant colony, is made of parts that are not physically connected to each other.
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I've been in at least one (Hilton Tower DC) that does that, never occurred to me how useful that would be for the blind!
yes, we have tried to contact some of them, since we've been communicating with customers about their visa applications, the main reason they gave us for stopping halfway is they don't trust us, they have big concerns their privacy will be compromised
Another point (accentuated by the article) is that Smith and Ford are both considered archetypes of "free market capitalism"

They are being used here as symbols of the idea. We are talking about capitalism, not about Smith or Ford.

Unfortunately this turns into its own feedback loop. Simple intros to Smith talk about free markets, so people associate the name to the idea.
I believe that, when most people say "string interpolation", they mean "first class string interpolation syntax", as opposed to the use of function invocation. I don't have citations, but I hope this perspective helps in some way.
What a clusterfuck...
Hi Derrick, I gave my personal answer and lichess gives this answer: "Chess variants introduce variations of or new mechanics in regular Chess that gives it a unique, compelling, or sophisticated gameplay. Are you ready to think outside the box?"

https://en.lichess.org/variant
Shit dude. And here I am in a college in Bangalore which doesn't provide me with WiFi. Sad life I live.
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That's still a big jump back in usability.
The XPS 15 has the same CPU as the MacBook 15" and gets much worse battery life in the high-resolution configuration (and less battery life even with just a 1080p display). It's also not much cheaper.
It's the MacBook Escape and the Macbook Pro.
Embarrassed to admit I read the whole post, but missed the satire tag. Truth is often stranger than satire. Sorry for the mistake.
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To state the Weak Anthropic Principle in a form that feels (at least to me) less like philosophical woo: "Universes that cannot be inhabited by intelligent observers are never observed, because there cannot be anyone there to do the observing".
Offline first basically means that if you send a message while your network is temporarily down, it's just queued and resent immediately once the link is up again, like your email outbox.

Since network links are always flaky, it just makes sense to do it this way. Since they are also always relatively slow, it makes sense to cache data locally in order to give a faster experience.

Not doing things offline-first in an app basically means that you are introducing synchronous requests everywhere: reading a support reply from yesterday is a synchronous request that fails "gracefully" if your 3G happens to be down, etc.

Telegram's web app is pretty nice. The app code is cached offline with a service worker and updated whenever possible, so it loads instantly. The most recent messages from your contacts are saved in the client as well. I appreciate all that stuff as a user, and the more stuff works offline the better, because it also means it's faster and more reliable.

For more info:

http://alistapart.com/article/offline-first

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/offline_apps
I lend a lot on Kiva, in part because it's more fun, and in part because I dumped a lot of money in there prior to getting into EA, but the evidence of effectiveness for microfinance seems much more limited/tenuous than Give Directly, Deworm the World, or AMF.

For what it's worth, though, One Acre Fund (one of the Kiva field partners) is a recommended charity on The Life You Can Save (another EA charity evaluator)[0]. Since discovering that, I've been focusing my loans towards that specific partner. They currently have a lot of loans which are nearing expiration, if you're interested: https://www.kiva.org/lend?partner=202&sortBy=expiringSoon

[0] https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/Where-to-Donate/One-Acre-F...
Your summary is totally correct.

But, it must be noted that CR has a history of inventing ad hoc tests, and basing overall product ratings on the ratings in a single-point test. There have been errors in the past, with the rollover test of the Suzuki Samurai, and some infant car seat tests. See their wiki page. Their audio equipment reviews (don't know if they still do them) have been useless. Often their reviews may be useful for a general consumer, but not for a specialist.

(I'm a former subscriber, but don't buy enough of that kind of stuff to make it worthwhile to still subscribe.)
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Doesn't seem like a problem. The fake outrage about it is laughable. This is no different than any other kind of personal interview. They want to see evidence that you're a normal ass person, this isn't some sort of action to de-anonymize the internet, spy on your private whatever.
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Not sure what this is "lil finger-shifty maneuver", but you can drag with two fingers. Click down on something you want to drag with one hand, and then start dragging with another hand (finger). While holding first finger down you can continue dragging.
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In event sourcing you need to somehow pass around events, which are
arbitrary data that describe necessary change of the state. Kafka is
a message router/forwarder, with message being an arbitrary data. No go
figure where does that fit.