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> It seems odd to criticize an insurance business for giving lower pricing to people who are less likely to use the insurance.

It looks naive to assume that, together with the infrastructure costs and the running costs for this system this for-profit business wants to make less money.

What would the selling discussion have looked like? "Hey I have a system here that will make the most credit worthy clients pay less. Interested?"
Personally, I tend to consider that to be a wildly successful outcome for an OSS project fork. The project community continues to exist, conflicts get resolved (hopefully amicably), users benefit, developers benefit. Everyone wins!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka SICP), available here https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Uses Scheme (which is a dialect of Lisp) as its teaching language. This book was used at MIT for their introductory programming course. It provides a fairly deep dive into the fundamentals of functional programming.
Ever heard some of the LBJ tapes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU
I use to ship. Then I fucked up something and had to overstay 2 hours to fix it. Now I'm a perfectionist.

It's became a virtuous cycle. I realize what any new typo or single error may do and I become more and more of a perfectionist.
no it is not :) you can move around in the company.
The next installment of XCOM is going to be sweet!
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-for...

http://www.nmcd-journal.com/article/S0939-4753(08)00088-4/ab...

etc..
Ruby Survey
My problem with emergence is that it makes you think in one conceptual direction, and not the other.

To explain, emergence as stated in the parent is a name for how a bunch of molecules could interact to make something you might call a football. This is a phenomenon at the "higher" everyday physical level emerging from the phenomena of the "lower" chemical level.

What I think this story misses is the importance of the "even higher" phenomena which resulted in a football being created, those of the human cultural level which caused the football to be manufactured and, for example, placed on some grass, or a desk, to be studied.

This isn't a purely sociological or philosophical point either, when you're looking at brain macro-activity for example, it's only partially explicable by referencing the micro-activity of, say, individual neurons, to get a better understanding you need to refer to activity outside of the brain that caused certain individual neurons to be acting like that. These higher level phenomena can be simple things like the movement in the neck that caused a change in stimulation, and also more wooly concepts like cultures which provide certain aesthetics or behaviours.

Emergence is important, but I feel its too often considered as a standalone phenomenon, rather than as one side of an irreducible causal cycle.
I've never had the job of doing research on Help Desk products, but I've used Atlassian Service Desk as an agent, dev support, and as a customer and it was decent experience all around. Of course, it's most useful when you're using Jira.
[Disclosure: I work at Google but don't work on anything related to the crawler]

All this anger aside, I'm actually pretty impressed with the world we live in and proud of my company. Think about how far we've come that merely crawling and indexing the vastness of the internet is so mundane now. Now we should expect the whole internet to be downloaded and executed. That's got to be a great security and integrity problem. Surely someone had tried to break out of the sandbox. Can that be abused to affect SEO of other sites. The easy answer is "spin up a new VM for each page" but that would slow the indexing process down by orders of magnitude.
Make and share more content in 2017.
The plan already in motion is to post a beautiful satellite image wallpaper every day at http://landsat365.org. These are optimized for the 2880x1800 MacBook Pro Retina screens.

This is the first time I have had a webserver to admin as I please, so I am learning more unix sysadmin skills and more about web tech. My background is in the Earth Sciences but I am looking to beef up my internet knowledge outside of computer science and data processing.
While the diagrams in this post were extremely cool, the fact that there wasn't at least one prominent shot of a single cup highlighting these features was a missed opportunity. Describing all the design details is one thing, but I don't have a Solo Cup next to me to see what the article is trying so hard to describe.
Now imagine the code arose originally by random chance, happened to be self replicating and evolved over billions of generations to include mechanisms that both allow it to viable after small changes and allow those small changes to have large effects (due to selective pressure since diversity from mutations is advantageous to a point, especially in single celled organisms).

As an example, Some bacterial genomes are circular, code in both directions and have overlapping coding regions, and occasionally trade genetic material between species because why wouldn't they?

I've worked applying machine learning and statistics to genetics and I generally think it's pretty hilarious that many self declared rationalists think we need to worry about AI safety but declare scepticism of genetic engineering anti-scientific.
Everyone's a beginner at something. It's interesting.
`Make computers easier to use by making computers secure`

These things do not seem related at all.
I definitely "feel" the Limbo influence, but I've not worked with Oberon-2 (only the original Oberon, and only a bit), so I didn't pick up on it. I do "feel" the C influence as well, though.
Definitions of class boundaries vary slightly depending on who you're talking to, but in general, "upper class" means you do not have to work for a living, plus you are plugged into the social network of upper-class people.

This is true for a very small percentage of the population.
​The age of humanism is ending
These stores sell either FLAC or some other lossless format:

- http://qobuz.com

- http://bleep.com

- http://boomkat.com

- http://hardwax.com

- http://junodownload.com

If all these fail, I usually try to get a used CD from Amazon or Discogs, wait a week for the packet and rip the music to my collection. Sometimes digital downloads can be almost double the price what you need to pay for a CD, but maybe that's what you pay for not needing to wait.
Bayesian probability. I see a lot of popular reporting that talks very naively about probability and relative risk.
Is breakfast actually bad for you?
Sample bias: I feel that so many subtleties are lost because people don't generally realize that their observations/anecdotes/experiences are biased.

If I see a steak on my plate, I can't conclude that there is no world hunger.
If I see a snowball, I can't conclude that there is no global warming.
If I've never experienced racial bias against me, I can't conclude that it does not happen to other people.

Edit: for clarity.
This reminds me quite a bit of the awesome Kuru Kuru Kururin game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_Kuru_Kururin

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvUZXT_43k
I am wondering what kind of solutions an evolutionary algorithm would come up with.
> it is entirely an at-will engagement

Yes but one side has significantly more leverage, bargaining power and resources to skew the contract in their favor than the other.

We don't think a large multinational and a 1-person shop have the same bargain power and access to markets, nor do we generally consider the US and Lichtenstein to have equal powers. Yet when it comes to employment, it's bizarre than some consider an individual with maybe $10,000 in the bank is somehow on equal footing with a company with over $10,000,000,000 in the bank.
I think this post is a perfect example of bias in the open source community. Who the hell wants to put up with people like ESR who use ridiculous lists like this to determine if you've been actually been discriminated against or not?

Obviously ESR is not a socially normal person. Most people can see that from his history and I don't want to beat him up for that because I don't think it's his fault: He just came that way. This post is still utter trash though and an example of the sort of attitude that pushes women and minorities out of the community.
Wait, I don't get it: what is the diagram on page 6 supposed to show? How is it jammed exactly?
Cutting out 95% of sugar is easy. Cutting out 100% is really fkin hard and not worth it in my opinion.
Moreover, the submitted article itself makes it clear that when it says "LISP’s only data-structuring mechanism is something called a cons, which consists of two pointers" it is talking about Lisp 1.0. It also acknowledges that LISP is called Lisp now, too,
automatic static and dynamic analysis and simulation
[...] in genetic modification

That's going to be tough to do in humans. Mutations in the complement component 4 gene dramatically increase the risk of developing schizophrenia. The only way to test for that is to simulate a human growing from a fertilized egg, through childhood, into adolescence, to early adulthood, which is typically when schizophrenia manifests. You'll need to run a few thousand of these simulations, to have a sufficiently powered clinical trial.

And, of course, these simulations would have to equivalent to real humans, otherwise it'd be pointless.
hacking is the new terrorism... just another excuse for doing whatever you want... (proof of wrong-doing not required)
Problem is that we might only get one try to get the edits right in a person. And we don't have much ability to 'debug' our modifications, either.
Just for fun,

guard $ (a % k)^2 + (b % n)^2 + (d % xi)^2 +
(e % pi)^2 + (et % mu)^2 + (i % s)^2 == 6

can be written as

guard $ (6 ==) $
sum $ map (^2) $
zipWith (%)
[a ,b ,d ,e ,et,i ]
[k ,n ,xi,pi,mu,s ]
> That's a high school freshman geometry problem.

Looks like we found another person who doesn't know how to do it :) look it up! In pre-college geometry this isn't something you prove, it's something you postulate and take for granted.
Vagueness makes it easier to discuss things in terms of abstract principles, whereas direct accusations establish an adversarial frame that often results in conflict. If one hopes to prevail through reason rather than force it behooves one to focus on principles rather than personalities.
Cool, thanks for the pointers :)
So I'm coming at this with more of a background in academia than open source culture. So these are to some degree outsider comments:

If your culture makes it hard for people to enter, then demanding that people prove they belong to it before they can comment on their difficulties is an immunization strategy.

Demanding strong evidence for the difficult to measure impact of social habits of the in-group on outsiders is a good way to eliminate debate.

What he is saying is reasonable for dealing with discrimination within the scene (and particularly point 5 is very important). It is useless when talking about the place of the scene within wider society. Why are girls less likely to develop interests in computers? I doubt that this has anything to do with actual sexist judgements within the scene. But I do believe that it has a lot to do with the overall social norms of the scene being aligned with male gender roles. Ideally we just get rid of gender roles, but we are far from that. In the meantime we need practical solutions.

Finally and most importantly: The idea that the open source community is so meritocratic as to be immune to biases that have repeatedly been shown to exist, for example in academic mathematics, is ignorant at best. Wilfully so at worst. It shows an anti-scientific mindset on this particular question that belies the "show me the evidence" rhetoric.
4? I think it is quite possible that Trump will not make the whole term. He may be impeached, or pull a Nixon and resign himself.
Thank goodness we are only talking about felt and percieved stigma, imagine if this guy was talking about rape, police violence or some other atrocity. Basically it’s a Gaslighing 101 list of how best not to ever see discrimination and pretend it is everyone else’s problem.
Ah! But should it be written like that?
Hi, I have milder asperger's, and I've been highly successful by most objective measures (great job in finance, make more money than both my parents combined, trophy wife, etc.)

If I could go back and start over without the disease, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Even if it meant sacrificing all that success and being a fry-cook all my life.
In our most recent hiring activity, We asked that the candidates solve an adapted simple Kata from codewars.com and asked them to choose the language that they were most comfortable.

By seeing the quality of the work that they did and the test cases that they wrote up we had a much better idea as to how they work and what they would produce.

This common Kata experience between the candates gave us much more specific questions that we could ask about the problem, the solutions, their challenges, and their triumphs.

Also agree with asking what they do in their spare time... if they tinker... good, side projects... good.
Breaking the 3DS [32c3]
Colin Powell just prior to the first Iraq war, getting up in front of the UN

I think you mean second, don't you? What's commonly referred to as the First Iraq War would be following the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
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The gogs and gitea websites feature the same basic content on the front page. Is it also open source? Im curious and dont mean to stir up shit.
In a way, VCs cease to be interesting when they are publicly traded. When you invest directly into a fund, the partners are promising to take your original capital and invest it in companies to dramatically increase its value. When you invest in a publicly-traded company, you are purchasing someone else's claim on the original invested capital, with whatever increase or decrease in value it has had since investment. The only way to get in on the original value creation is to participate in the IPO of the VC fund, which would still only be available to large firms and the extremely wealthy, just as it is for normal IPOs. So VCs operating publicly traded funds would not at all democratize the wealth generation.

Think of it this way. If you could get an allocation in the Medallion Fund, or, say, Sequoia's fund, you are very likely to make above market returns. But if they hold an open auction for entry into their funds, no one who participates gets above market returns on a risk-adjusted basis. "Access" is what is actually giving you the above market returns, not the activities of the fund itself.
Seattle's record apartment boom is ready to explode
GOLD RISING AGAIN AND EXPECTED TO
There was a month or two of being bloated, then things went back to before.

My hunch is my gut had to adjust, or maybe the bacteria in it. I think problems people have is with the transition between eating habits, not the final situation.
I read the comment as implying that Adobe killed flash by releasing it as a steaming pile of insecure resource-hogging shit, rather than as a secure, efficient plugin.

If Flash didn't kill your battery and expose you to new security vulnerabilities every few weeks, it likely would have continued to this day.
There were a number of emails that alluded to "let's say no more and discus important stuff on other more secure channels". If I'm not mistaken. They were savvy enough not to put anything damming down in writing.

That's one of the reasons they were motivated to use private email. Because they were fully aware it was one FOIA away from being a public forum. But at the same time, all of the important stuff was via other channels. There was hardly any direct work stuff at all in those emails. Mostly just her foundation and campaign conversations.
"Finally and most importantly: The idea that the open source community is so meritocratic as to be immune to biases that have repeatedly been shown to exist, for example in academic mathematics, is ignorant at best. Wilfully so at worst. It shows an anti-scientific mindset on this particular question that belies the "show me the evidence" rhetoric.”

YES VERY MUCH THIS!
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This is a great post. I'm not sure that I consider ESR to be a "tribal elder", but I imagine I'll be linking to this article at some point in the coming year.

I hadn't previously read his article on "kafkatrapping" (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122), but it rings eerily true to how it feels to be the target of a manipulation attempt.
According to this analyst, revenue from PC games passed that of consoles this year.

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/pc-games-have-surpassed-...
Relevant Less Wrong post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
You may also be interested in LanguageTool, which catches many potential problems in several languages. It's the best Free Software style and grammar checker I've seen:

https://languagetool.org/
Did not know anybody uses Lotus notes in 2016
that is just an incredible amount of art and creativity for a single year. well done!
Hey, it happens. I believe the solution is being able to separate the signal from the noise and to go full perfectionist on the parts that really matter.

Usually it's not the color of the logo though.
Some of those externalities could be predicted by deep learning (the crash of the housing market for example)
I'm not immediately convinced by your no-op example because I can conceive of situations that needs a little extra time to be passed between actions, such as in the case of sorting elements whose value isn't easily determinable and is best estimated n clock ticks after the previous action.

This is of course a million miles away from the kind of sorting problems you get in Computer Science 101, but this is my point, the traditional sorting problems happen in a very well defined context, as soon as that changes, you might find any algorithm being optimal. Including Bogosort and, for example, quicksort with some extra no-ops.

I like your point, but for the reason above I still think the No Free Lunch theorem is valuable, else I wouldn't have had this insight in the first place. At least, I consider it an insight, YMMV.
It doesn't have to be like that. There are places like SoMa where we have industrial buildings that city can easily get rid of.
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> The only thing (or things) in science that are not emergent are the laws of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity (as a simplification)

By "relativity" I'm assuming you're referring to SR or GR here. I always thought of relativity as an emergent phenomenon due to the large scales we are working with. What makes you say it is not?
Drop the identity politics and re-read. This is him saying "if you claim prejudice, show me the evidence and that it's not a manipulation for personal gain."
Interesting. I did add a return to that benchmark and it didn't seem to affect the results. I would think your test would be identical to mine in performance characteristics, I wonder if it's just the benchmarking methods leading to the difference. I might just go write my own benchmarking like yours since I don't really know what measurethat.net is doing.

It seems intuitively obvious that map would be less efficient, but who knows what V8 is doing to optimize under the hood.
It's pretty crazy that you're trying to equate this with rape or violence.
I think the point is more limited the voting body causes unequal membership.

Basic worker benefits and protection can happen regardless of the number of voting members...
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A friend of mine applied for Google and Apple job as a data scientist. Luckily, he was accepted in both and passed both Interviews. Trouble is he can't make a choice on where to work. Please help.
I don't know. To me,

sum $ map (^2)

Is pretty clear as a sum of squares is a quite common mathematical idiom. The zipWith part could probably be avoided.

guard $ (6 ==) $
sum $ map (^2)
[(a%k),...]
Monkeys can climb trees, which makes vocalization much less of a handicap. Gibbons are especially noisy, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3cD1Nd302k
Maybe these days. We definitely proved it in my geometry class in 1980/81.
Don't forget iTunes. ALAC is lossless.
They've split and merged before. This is the second time gitea has forked.
Not necessarily. I've heard of are studies which show that high-carb diets without fructose are equally healthy to high-fat diets.
How would you have handled this situation? I think the author handled it extremely well and I'm proud of him for doing so.
Thank you. I can see now that my argument is largely equivalent to beating people over the head with logic, and simply shouting "logic!".

My central point is that clickbait titles beat people over the head with what they were already predisposed to hear, which is bad. But my continued explanation in and of itself is the same insidious tactic.

Thanks for your patience with me, and with all of us.
It would be quite realistic and interesting to have a translation between the Scala subset that Leon project supports (leon.epfl.ch) and ML. A good starting point for this is Stainless, a redesigned version of Leon:
https://github.com/epfl-lara/stainless
You've still provided zero evidence that they would have had interest in nuking anyone.
Non-transitive dice (ie the idea that it's impossible to rank (almost) anything/anyone(!) sensibly)
Monkeys make "unnecessary" sounds all the time. It's not like a group of monkeys just sits there silently and only makes absolutely necessary sounds.

Plus as other commenters have pointed out, speech would let much more useful and detailed communications possible.
>It's not like uber is threatening to disconnect the driver if they don't work, it is entirely an at-will engagement.

What about "dumping"?
>Not if the people with the degenerate version also have another mutation that interacts.

Is this common? An uncommon detrimental variant that is slightly-mitigated by another uncommon detrimental variant, such that the removal of one makes the other worse isn't the type of thing I would expect to come about through natural selection.
Meh. Compilers generate pretty simple code, people have been patching complex binaries and ROMs for ages, with generally good and stable results. I think the genetic code generated by evolution is likely far more complex, convoluted and inter-dependent than any assembly spat out by a compiler, so I think the analogy goes too easy on genetic editing.
In the US at least, it's usually referred to as the Gulf War. While I've never personally heard the "first" Gulf War referred to as the first Iraq War I've heard of the current conflict called the second Gulf War. Is that not the norm?
After suffering from digestive and autoimmune issues since adolescence, and having a very difficult 2015 (in and out of hospitals), I took the bold step of drastically altering my diet. I've been sugar free, grain free, soy free, alcohol free and dairy free (save for soft goat cheese and Greek yogurt) for 1.5 yrs now. It wasn't an easy adjustment to make, but I was at rock bottom. The improvement has been dramatic and life altering.
It's not mandatory there as far as I know, so a lot of times it's not available. Besides, why can't they offer FLAC as well? Typical Apple NIH if you ask me.
> ...it all seems a bit too much hocus pocus.

> ...I've been practicing mediation (Vipassna, which is also minfullness meditation) for around 6 months now. I highly recommend it.

huh. didn't expect that pair of opinions.