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1) Innovation is not necessarily a primary goal in itself (at least, not if you're a business).

2) What you're struggling with is the distinction between technical problems and adaptive challenges [1]. Purely solving technical problems (what you call, "innovation"), will not get you anywhere if you don't pay attention to adaptive challenges. You might simply just be deluding yourself to work hard on "hard problems" that don't really matter for the course of your company and your success.

[1] I actually wrote a blog post exactly about this common misconception on Medium just this week: https://medium.com/@melvinmt/so-you-want-to-work-hard-and-ch...
More and more apps require this. It's ridiculous for even code scoring to require total access to a GitHub account.
Is rust actually used in the embedded world, anywhere? All sorts of languages have been made to run on micro controllers, from Pascal to Scheme.
thus implying that the parent post made the same mistake when judging Medium, which nawitus (IMHO rightfully) thinks is a flawed comparison. No "Whoosh".
The first tutorial does teach you a lot :-)
Can anyone from China list what U.S. news apps are available? I would love to know who sold out.
Playing trap moves is not that rare and it shows that you expect the opponent not to know a complicated variation.
Not everybody takes that approach. We developed HopsFS by re-implementing the metadata layer for HDFS as a distributed scale-out layer (paper being presented in Usenix FAST next month - https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast17/technical-sessions). As a researcher, this was not a good idea, as it has taken us many years. Time-to-market for our paper was extremely slow, but the upshot is that we have a production system. The big risk for us was that our work would not be seen as relevant when we were finished, and it has been a high risk research angle to take.
Yeah but it's not that hard either if you have the resources. Now we see, though, that the cost of doing it has so far exceeded the return.
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Two things:

1) The two 9p professionals you mentioned achieved 9p status before the new promotion system you linked to. The new standards are much more stringent (though still based on lifetime achievement).

2) The standards differ by country. All the major countries now give out 9p ranks sparingly, but I think China especially may be quite difficult.
> hope the gnome people will no longer need to construct GUI with C in the second decade of twenty-first century.

It may 'compile' to C, but we've had Vala for quite a while now. Honestly, my biggest complaints are the syntax is so close to C# that I always find myself trying to do stupid things like `using System.Collections.Generic;` instead of Gee, etc. Oh, and it would be REALLY NICE if the compiler had support for custom attributes without needing to patch the compiler itself (even just for storing metadata would be hugely beneficial, but I don't see any reason why there can't be a plugin api for the codegen side of things either).

Rust is great and all, but every time I play with it I just don't see how it would work well with the complex inheritance tree that is a widget toolkit (meanwhile GObject works just fine, even if it's a little verbose at the C-level).
I don't know if "tongue in cheek" is the right word, but I'm not exactly being philosophically earnest. There are a lot of assumptions involved in any discussion of these kinds of things, and I've come to see a kind of inevitably foolishness in pondering this kind of stuff. I don't mean that in a derogatory way.

That said, I definitely can relate to the gravity of existential yearnings.
Apple clearly isn't going to, although at least they have a very pro-encryption stance that we already know China isn't keen on.

Google already bowed years ago. They tried to stay out of China on principle with search didn't they? But in the end the market was just too big and they entered it.

It's easy to take a principled stance against North Korea (where users don't get a choice) or a smaller country that's pretty big like even Iran if they wanted to.

China is just too big for people to resist. At a certain point you're not going to grow much unless you go to China.
for some reason I thought there would be more story.
After seeing how hard my dog plays - she will literally ran at the other dog and get knocked down and roll around on the ground, I think she'd be happy to get knocked by a few bags every day if it meant she could hang out with me all day long. Even more so if she had more purpose than just chasing a ball for me or carrying the mail into the house. (tip - put the junk mail on the outside to absorb slobber)
To be a millionaire after 10 years you need to save $100K/year - which means you need at least $150K post taxes (assuming you are without children and super frugal) - so ~$200K-$250K salary.

Not impossible - but definitely far from common for MS employees unless I'm hopelessly misinformed.
I heard that this was a hard problem for Basecamp to solve with Turbolinks 5 as well. I'm sure a post on a good solution wouldn't hurt.
You can easily access external symbols in C without including a header. The external refs in an object file are the accurate info about what is referenced.
you said there "is no space". How can there be nothing if there is ___. Is "no space" not something that can "be"? I mean, you said there "is" no space, you said it yourself!

:D

But more seriously, why should my reasoning, my set theory/classical probability idea, be required for a nothing reality? It's just a tool I'm using here on hacker news to make a line of reasoning, to communicate about the possibility this sort of nothingness. I have the luxury of such a tool apparently existing, here in this universe of somethingness. But why should that have any bearing on a possible nothing universe?
I think in 200-1000 years we'll have a completely different baseline of the feeling and capability to remember something. So I imagine of the trillions of humans to eventually be born, someone's going to stumble across all of these terrible posts I've made and have a laugh.
At what point do you have two products, one is a subscription to a magazine of fiction and the other a key to tell you how to map the fiction into real events.
Here I sit broken hearted....
> It's past the event horizon for human understanding.

AlphaGo creators could "rewind" the whole program state to that move and inspect the tree search probabilities according to the board states it looks through to find a list of board states that generate a cumulative highest probability of wining by doing a move in that exact odd spot.

My guess would be that while humans tend to put stones with a single, double, or sometimes triple "reason", or in AI words, "high probability of local effectiveness in upcoming several turns", AlphaGo, with his ability to see further, can see past the local effectiveness into more global effectiveness and higher probability of winning further down the road.

In other words, those tenuki moves might actually be past the event horizon of human understanding, but only if inspected by looking at them and thinking ourselves. If we use AlphaGo itself, it should be possible to find out the reason for every single tenuki it will ever do.
That's because there's a bunch of examples of companies that have deployed massive services with a dozen or so engineers. Craigslist, Snapchat, Wikipedia (until recently) to name a few.
I agree about the futility of trying to answer this question---that is what the entire article is about after all. But I am a practicing statistician so I feel the need to "well actually" sometimes when I see stuff like this. I can't help it.
> and help you feel less imprisoned than cubicles imo.

That's not help. I don't feel imprisoned in a cubicle. I like walls, the taller the better.

I'm currently in a short-wall cubicle farm where we have enough space to not to all get sick, and even there the cross-talk from multiple conversations can be completely distracting.

While management/facilities ignorance can definitely make open plan offices worse, I think they're still not for everyone. Some people seem to not mind being distracted, other people are really sensitive to it.
Gmail warns if they believe “Your Account May Have Been Targeted by State-Sponsored Actors”[1] in a prompt[2]. I saw this first hand on a friend's machine in Hong Kong.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023036659045774495...
[2] https://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/google-warnin...
I think this is interesting because I actually am fascinated by a great writer like Simmons, who is one of the last honest sportswriters. I'm curious about his other tastes because I view him as an authentic cultural critic. But I do wonder if I'm in the minority or you are with that opinion! Good comment.
Nickel and Cobalt play big roles in Tesla's batteries as well.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/01/breakdown-raw-materials-tesla...
> "Don't let people pay for things because poor people might not be able to afford it" is offensive to "poor" people.

It's important to distinguish what kind of "things" you're talking about, though. There's a pretty big moral difference between not being able to afford consumer goods and not being able to find an appropriate place to perform basic bodily functions.
Then the post should advocate building publicly-funded toilets. All I see is the suggestion that we shift this cost off to someone else. Maybe the "great lengths" implies paying for some good or service in order to use a business's toilet, but that would undermine the premise.
I'm glad this article mentions improving the compulsory classes, in my experience the compulsory classes were the worst because people couldn't not take them if they sucked.

I'm still bitter about the bullshit requirements my uni thrust on me. The patronizing "we know better than you" schtick gets old real fast.
Well that's excellent! I just coincidentally started using librsvg from some Rust code, to rasterize some SVGs. Being relatively unfamiliar with Rust, it was still kind of straightforward to get that working. Pretty impressed overall, though I still find it quite an intellectually challenging language to write.
Medium set out to solve the impossible. They want to reward writers who have an impact. But impact is actually hard to measure, maybe even impossible. You need to have some metric to calculate impact. Likes and views can't have too much weight in the equation, because they can be gamed. Furthermore, page views are heavily influenced by Medium's recommendation engine.

I, as a nobody, won't be read. So I need to gather followers. I do so in the traditional way of commenting, liking, recommending, doing all kinds of community stuff. But again, this can be gamed. This is not impact, but merely hours put into the social game.

Ultimately, Medium might introduce something like Amazon's KDP Select Global Fund that pays money to writers based on some metric, but I doubt that it will be much better than what've got. Why? Human nature.

The current media landscape is refined to perfection already, in a way. "Modern" articles push our buttons, we are like junkies waiting for their next fix of information (I guess every HN reader can relate to this – I certainly can). That's what we really want. We read what tingles our senses, preselected by a relatively stupid algorithm and social proof.

How on earth would you construct a better algorithm that truly measures impact on our lives?
Ask HN: Would picking my brother as a cofounder be a bad idea?
My brother and I would like to start a venture together. What are some signs that we might be a good fit to work together without any major issues before it might be too late?
What are some cases where picking your brother (or any sibling) would be a bad idea?
> That's a good thing. If you restrict Python a little, it's much easier to compile.

Isn't that more or less what RPython does? https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture.html I mean, I know that starting with a full-fledged(?) Py27 codebase rules out _actually_ using RPython for the stated goals of Grumpy, but I think the two projects agree in principle and differ about the definition of "restricted" :-)
> Indian Government has provided us no way to exchange currency or deposit it in our account if we are outside India. Modi declared our hard earned money as black money, and labelled us as criminals.

This is a blatant lie. RBI allows you (a.k.a NRIs only) to deposit this money till 31st of March 2017 in it's branches. Modi never declared your hard earned money as black money or labelled you criminals. I'm now beginning to wonder why you have significant amount of Indian currency in the US. What use is it for you there? RBI has strict rules about how much INR you can take outside India (Rs. 25000 per person). This rule was made to ensure that if/when you return to India you have enough INR for lodging/transportation/flight expenses etc. You don't need INR to transact outside India anyways so this whole thing of having a "significant amount of Indian currency in US" is suspicious to me.

> My father in India runs a cash and carry wholesale businesses. His typical customer is a street vendor in some remote village. When they come to my father's to buy inventory, they pay in cash because that is the only way for them to accept and make payments in villages. Most of them don't even have a bank account. When Modi announced demonetization, his business dropped to almost zero. Two months since, it still hasn't recovered much. His business is seasonal (woolen products), most of it is in winter months only. Demonetization has turned this whole year into a major loss for him and it has literally crashed their Industry, which is resulting in layoffs.

I would have believed this story if it wasn't prefixed with your excuse to not be able to deposit your INR stash just because you are an NRI. This whole thing sounds really fishy to me.

> Modi ji gave immunity to Politicians, so Political parties can deposit unlimited amount of cash tax free. I thought demonetization was a scheme, but it turns out it is a major scam.

No he did not. Mayawati and her brother are already under investigation for a deposit of 104 crores into their party bank accounts. AIADMK chief secretary was arrested for laundering black money. More such political arrests have happened (including some BJP workers and party members who were showing off to the entire World that they were clean but were actually hoarding black money).

This argument is also not convincing. I'm sorry but I'm beginning to doubt your story. Especially when you mentioned that you are an NRI and have significant amount of INR in the US. It just doesn't add up. RBI notifications prohibit you to carry so much INR outside India and this rule existed for many years. How much INR do you have with you?
The same feature has been in GNU Backgammon (and other programs, I guess) for a long time. Also, it allows you to request you or the AI get good or bad dice rolls, which is an interesting training option.
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Got talking to a dude on the phone (random call about something totally non-technical). Turned out he was an embedded systems engineer in the Nuclear industry. Uses Forth for everything. He strongly encouraged me to use it for any embedded hobby project.
You only need to do the math and look at the huge exponent to figure out that this is indeed the case.
Why are other publications (the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are mentioned) doing to keep Chinese authorities happy?

This should be a badge of honor for any news source.

The NY Times doesn't publish anything about China that they don't publish about many other countries. Certainly coverage of the U.S. and U.K. is much more challenging to those authorities.
You want to find your tribe – the types of people like you that you can imagine working with for the rest of your career. Within that, you want to find a small group of people whom you trust, and whose opinions you really respect.

This is a common belief that is worth challenging.

I think we overvalue our "tribe", and often allow false intuition about who our tribe is mislead us into limiting opportunities for personal and professional growth.

I started thinking this a couple dozen years ago, when I was first getting involved in security and being repelled by the cliques of insiders who passed around secret security knowledge. Anyone familiar with the underground of the time knows how this worked with exploit scripts and warez, but I think fewer people realize that it's also the way that the defenders worked as well: there were secret security lists, like Core, whose members got to learn about exploits long before normal people did.

But then Bugtraq happened, and along with it the modern full-disclosure movement, and if you're a vulnerability researcher you'd be embarrassed to have put your chips down on things like the secret Core list.

The same pattern repeats over and over in our industry. The IETF, for instance, has historically functioned like a giant web of cliques. Almost anything the IETF came up with from '95 to '10 is hamstrung by IETF group dynamics and its autonomic responses to outsider opinion. If you wonder why our addresses are still 32 bits wide and our traffic is still unencrypted, that's worth considering.

My convictions about this got even firmer after I learned to hire, at a company I started called Matasano. Like every other company, we started out hiring from within our tribe. But we worked in software security, and our tribe got expensive faster than we could pay them (good for them!). We did a couple of things that resulted, ultimately, in us discarding resumes and most of interviewing altogether, and managed to drastically grow our team --- to the point where I'm pretty confident we had simply and permanently solved our hiring problem --- by looking past our "tribe".

I understand the point Altman is making here, that you start your career out with a tiny and poorly-defined network, and that it's good to find people you can rely on. I think that too! But I think it's also worth being wary of your immediate personal network, because the universe works pretty hard to keep you connected to those people, even when limiting yourself to those connections isn't really in your best interests.

People are generally pretty awesome once you get to know them. Rather than looking for a couple people to work with for your whole career, I'd urge you to instead look for sets of principles you might share with a much larger number of people, and to think about how you might identify those shared principles, in order to maximize the number of people you'll work with effectively throughout your career.

I'm in contracts hell this week and not articulating things well, but my "be careful about your tribe" thing is one of my bigger, more important beliefs, so I hope I'm somewhere in the vicinity of communicating it.
How you are supposed to have a boring job, if you can't find a job?

In many countries youth unemployment (not occupation, but actual unemployment) is 10%+ sometimes it reaches 50%.

How you can marry, if you have no money to do that, and the law is against you? (with harsh penalties for divorce, but at the same time divorce is easy and encouraged, making marriage inherently overly risky).

How you can have kids, without money even to feed yourself?

I know plenty, plenty, plenty people with 25+ of age, that don't own anything, no car, no house, not even a bike, how these people can even consider having kids? Who will take care of them? Orphanages? The state somehow?
Well it depends what you mean by "TONS" of people, or "great money", but I don't think you're right. Most people on a salary don't make enough money to be considered rich, IMO.
It's interesting because I think that the means of distribution of information is getting revolutionized, and it's needed (e.g. wikipedia, youtube).

However, medium saying "Well, we're pivoting away from click-baity profit-mongering to solving society's problems because we always cared, and it's just a coincidence we were losing money" is hard to swallow.
In the latest Fallout (on survival mode) the ammo has 'weight' so the player has to make decisions about what's worth carrying
Can we please cancel the plans for the new stadium (in SF) and just build the museum there?
China's been 'fact checking' far longer than the internet has existed.
With click.py, this could make amazing command line utilities
You won't get exact compatibility, but a metaclass implementation would give almost all the features. I can't remember what exactly you give up, but I did that once and I lost some introspection friendliness.
That was a very meandering, unfocused article about renewing focus. Granted, the important news about cutting 50 jobs is in the first paragraph, but the rest just seems like an attempt to distract from that fact without saying anything substantive.
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The article is well written, but there's some odd stuff in there, like

"Be that police officers or the descendents of those who hung us from trees with smiles on their faces, I want to limit any interaction with people who seek to harm me or my loved ones."

That's not out of context either. There seems to be some implicit definition that all white people == people who seek to harm me.
Honestly? The only recourse you have here (as you already asked nicely and were denied, for obvious reasons) is to sue. Your suit's path is probably to compel Facebook to reveal the contact info of the person defaming your name and identity; which will then be served with the actual suit.

Worse it'll probably be some punk kid (no money, no real consequences, etc) and you'll be left with nothing but giant legal fees.

If anything this is a clear indication that //allowing// real names online is insanity. The polar opposite of current policy should be in effect.
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I can't recall a single instance of a story or serious comment. Do you have some example stories?
He likes cryptography and once had dinner with Dan Boneh and they decided to start an award for crypto contributions.

I think? that's the whole story.
If I remember correctly, Tesla are supposedly unusually keen on automation. Possibly more so than the economics actually justify, even - or at least, there were some doubts amongst industry experts as to whether the ways in which they automated tasks actually made sense, given the cost and speed of the robots they were using compared to a human.
Let's take the UK as an example. It's a medium-sized country, and no one has significant production there. Let's say the UK keeps passing insane backwards anti-privacy laws and at some point told Apple to drop the encryption from the iPhone.

If Apple told them to pound sand and got banned from the UK, how much sales could they recoup if they kept Irish Apple stores extra well-stocked? If the response to Brazil's VAT is any example, thrifty entrepreneurs will do all the hard work of getting iPhones into the UK for a modest but very profitable overhead. A couple iPhones sold at 25% markup is more than enough to pay for a RyanAir round-trip and a week living in a cheap flat.
I'm sorry to hear it's closed source. Open sourcing it could go a long way to helping get the word out. I'll check it out.
And in addition to that, winning condition is also extremely fuzzy. Looking at the Master games, I couldn't tell why he is wining at all, granted I don't know much about Go.

So if it requires some experience just to recognize a winner, and as far as I know sometimes even professionals can't tell for sure who is wining, it's pretty safe to say Go game is just too complex of a game for humans to come to optimal strategies in any reasonable amount of time.
> maybe some kind of token or card disconnected to your identity to get in.

Perhaps a circular metal disk would work well.
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