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>I suspect a mastermind group of like-minded strangers that meet on a weekly basis would be more effective (and cheaper!).

Lean In Circles[1] are a good example of this mechanism. I haven't looked too deeply into them, but I briefly participated at my school (they're all-inclusive, but focused on women in tech) and it was a very positive experience. They may have some useful data for you on how to effectively practice this idea.

[1]: https://leanincircles.org/
Both employment and returns on capital are a happy side effects of solving human problems and directing scarce resources to their highest and best use, the only human-aligned goals of an economy. Hunter-gatherers operated various economies for millennia with very little capital and almost no capital returns. But the definition that you supply is the one that is in operation, and will be almost impossible to dislodge. I'm not arguing that immiseration brought on by automation is unlikely, merely that it is not inevitable.
In my mind, some sort of graphical user interface that would allow you to query data and have the log system return results that are easily parsed. At the very least, have some sort of API that allows you to do this. The /query endpoint exists, but doesn't seem to return anything that's really fundamentally useful from a large-scale perspective.
> Playing Devil's Advocate: if this is the case, why did it take until the last week of his tenure as President for him to do this?

Because the petition on which action was taken was filed by Manning in November, and the review that goes into making the determination takes nonzero staff and Presidential time, and wasn't the sole thing the White House was doing.
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The roles of statistician and data scientist are not substitutes but more like complements. This guy definitely is a data scientist. Here's some ways to tell:

- Works on non-mission-critical components, e.g. he's not doing statistics for the when the wing will fall off your airplane, but he can help you figure out business problems more open to interpretation, e.g. subject line open rates.

- His publishing tools favor flair over convention, e.g. Ctrl+f for "latex" has zero results, but he does have D3, C3, Bokeh, surprisingly no tableau.

- Not sure he even references a single classical statistics package. The vast majority of people publishing in social sciences or "old school" life sciences are using Minitab, JMP, R, or SAS (correct me if I'm wrong, please, it's an outsider's perspective).

This skillset is not inherently "cutting edge!"- or deceptively "all talk, no walk". They really are completely different roles, that use some of the same tools and formulas and jargon. To cut to the heart of it: When a company builds a plane and says "I wonder how unlikely it would be for the wing to fall off?" that creates the demand for a statistician. When a company is trying to out-compete others, or maximize profit/charitable-effectiveness, often in a service or a field that is heavily influenced with human psychology, that creates the potential for a data scientist to add value.
At the same time, it still sounds like you're making a huge ton of money. More than most of us.
> Clojure vectors are nice for the performance they give.

What difference does it make when representing code?
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Obama has done very little (anything?) to support whistleblowers or an open and transparent government in the eight years he has been President. It's hard not to be skeptical of such an uncharacteristic move days before he's set to leave office.
No one company has to.

Much of their features come out from requests of existing customers; they know that ~someone~ cares about it, because someone who is already giving them money has asked for it. As they add those, other people will also use it, as needed. They expand the feature set for anyone evaluating them, as well as help lock in existing customers.
I would not be surprised if he does not honor that as the incoming president will likely be even harsher on an Assange trial then an Obama presidency would be.
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The US hasn't asked him to be extradited, so that seems moot.
Government stonewalling then, the government wasn't exactly forthcoming. Reuters had been fighting for information for quite some time.
That's a valid point, that it could potentially be more expensive than it's worth. In other words, it is possible to spend too much on trying to make your employees happier.

I wasn't trying to argue that the optimal amount to spend on employee turnover is infinite, but I do think most companies dedicate less than the rational/optimal amount of effort on it.
I guess I'm in the minority, but not only does this behavior not bother me, for me it's a feature.

Most of the time, if I'm trying to draw outside the boundary, then it's because I've got the wrong layer selected. So it saves me from drawing on the wrong layer and then having to deal with trying to get the changes moved to the correct layer.

In cases where the above doesn't hold (i.e., I actually want to draw inside the smaller layer), then it's easy enough to expand the layer's size.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
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That's a valid interpretation, but it's based on assumptions. Personally I didn't even notice the use of "they" vs "he" or "she" since it's not really relevant to the discussion. In fact, OP has clarified that he/she used "they" only because they were unsure if gender changes apply retroactively since at the time of the leaks, manning identified as a "he"
I agree. It will make it seriously difficult for anyone to discuss with a US diplomat in confidence given that the guy will log it in his little secure system and that the transcript will be on the web within 5 years. Not really worth risking your life.

I think it is safe to assume this leak will have seriously affected the US diplomacy.
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This is so terrible use case for blockchain. In a trusted environment blockchain might only introduce complexity and security problems. Hey, but isn't it what consulting is about?
Traditionally in US schools you were taught that applying "they" to a non-plural was outright incorrect—as in, a student would lose points if used that way on homework growing up.

When you don't know the gender, however, it is really convenient to use "they", so albeit the incorrect form, with time it started to take hold. Lately gender politics have acted as a catalyst as some people outright tell you they prefer that you use the "they/them" pronouns. Since a lot of folks are already comfortable using they/them, it works.

A different tactic is to just substitute something else entirely. Books like On Writing encourage young writers to avoid the situation and try to substitute other words rather than use "they" or just default to "he." An example might be using the word "writer". For example the books recommends instead of using "He should learn to use semicolons only when absolutely necessary" use "The writer should learn to use..." instead.

I think the latter method is harder in non-formal threads like this. "The imprisoned already has served 7 years" works, but comes across as really impersonal.
Dumping tons of classified documents in the way that she did is not whistleblowing. I think Obama did the right thing here but not because she was a whistleblower (she's not).
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L1 visas immigration process is almost identical and sometimes (L1a) even better than H1b, so they are definitely the way to do it if you have a chance
Apparently much of the memo talks about how much editing a Times story undergoes, a process that certainly existed 13 years ago. If all these editors didn't catch Blair, what value are they adding?
I think reasonable people can disagree about how selective Snowden was.
Self poisoning is a common method of suicide, especially in women.

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-statistics/us-methods-suicide

I think the CDC is careful to distinguish between suicide and accidental overdose.
So there is reporting from CNN that you would trust? What reporting is that?
Okay THAT is a good reason then. Thanks for the correction.
And then what's "good" in relation to "what's good for humankind", what's "humankind". Same process for the second sentence.

I think in some defintion I could argue either side of the Eternity.
Closer to 50/50. It was obvious to me a year ago he was going to win. Go watch some pre-election videos of literally any news channel talking about the "path to 270". There are some incredible delusions at play. They could not separate their own feelings and desires from the work.
I think having your mind fractured and been forcibly turned into a 'woman' as a deterrent to future whistleblowers is a living hell, that's a lifetime of punishment even when he's out of jail.
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Ok, I guess I misread your comment. I still think it reads like "the last labor transformation went pretty smoothly, and this one will be less significant, so chill". On a human level it did not go smoothly, and most individuals are not very resilient to changes in the economy.
The world is appalled. With the exception of Putin.
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Whether a standard has adoption or not is a perfectly good consideration when deciding whether to implement it.
> I write Rust code every day, and I've seen or written borrowck-induced awkward Rust code maybe twice this month.

Which is exactly what I was describing, why are you continuing to argue against the point?
SBCL does not create binaries per se, but dumps the program image. While it practically is a binary, it's not equal to an executable that a conventional compiler/linker produces.
That's why ASCII was designed with record and field separators. Unfortunately, it's not used (de facto) for delimited files.
Sure! Running a script is under 'Filters' for some reason. To undo a brush, that's under 'Windows' inexplicably. Filters like Feather and Distort are under 'Select'. Keyboard shortcuts are under 'Edit'. The Plugin Browser tool is under 'Help'

My favorite: 'File' has 'Open' above 'Open as Layers', as if you'd more commonly want to destroy all your image layer info when opening an image file. In fact, with 'flatten' there's no need for 'Open' at all?

These things maybe made some sense at some time, who knows. But now, its like a blender went through the menus and scattered features at random.
Specifically, one cannot be pardoned or have a sentence commuted of a crime one has not been convicted of. Snowden has not been convicted nor even tried for any crime. It's impossible for Obama to do anything about his situation.
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Chelsea Manning is a woman, and suffers from gender dysphoria. The Army has made quite a few mistakes in the aftermath of the leak, but "turning him into a 'woman'" is not one of them. If anything, they have no idea how to cope with someone who needs hormone replacement therapy or SRS.
On Linux, if a process is holding those file handles open, the OS doesn't really delete them until the process is killed. You can dig into /proc and pull out the file descriptor address, cat the contents back out, and restore whatever is still running as long as you don't kill the process.

For next time Apache is hosting a phantom root dir. ;) These things happen to all of us. We just have to be prepared.
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This is insane. An owner of a property not subject to rent control should be free to raise rent to any amount. The argument that "Look, you can increase the rent to market rate, but you can’t raise it way above market rate" is completely insane. If I want to charge you $900,000 per second to rent my house, I am free to, and you are free to not rent it then.
There is no POV of "the people". A bunch of individuals comprise the people, and some of those individuals also comprise the government. But "the people" as a group do not have a POV.
The "pandering to the left" comment is in my opinion a bad political assumption.

If you look at previous opinion polls on Manning (see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/manning-sentence-po...), the opinion seems less to fall on traditional "left / right" lines. If anything, there is some bias towards younger people being more approving of Chelsea Manning compared to older people.

The demographics in the Manning polls actually are very similar to other tangentially related topics in United States polls, eg how people feel about Snowden and how people feel about (edit for clarity) massive government cyber surveillance.

I personally think the decision is more than just pandering, but if Obama is pandering to someone, he is pandering to the youth.
I suspect some of the downvotes are because you use the word "guy". Manning is a woman.
That's a shay position given how wrong a majority of the country has been at various times in history. Forced school desegregation was wildly unpopular in a lot of the country (even the north) but it was the right thing to do, some issues shouldn't be left to the whims of a populace. It also treats the view of the people as a singular entity when it's vastly fractured and multifaceted.
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> The two major reviews I'm aware of, including this one, were conducted internally.

Good point, I wasn't very clear. For what it's worth, I know that they're exactly the same, but I should have pointed that wasn't the main thrust of my point. I was trying more to say "Hiring people to tell you what you want to hear". Probably not the most helpful analogy in retrospect.

I should point out now that I don't disagree with their conclusions either, but was arguing rather that they could have been made more comprehensive by examining the editorial discretion.
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Heh. I have a rule of thumb: any project that starts with the words "this time we're doing it properly" is screwed.
Yes, at least on Unixes, stripping could reduce the sizes of binaries by quite a bit.
Oh yeah, I've had a few projects killed by technical debt.

A lot of these are game mod related. Since hey, even the base game is a black box loaded with the technical dev of a team that could have been gone for decades. And the very tools and patches you're using on top of it were then also by people wanting theings done the 'quick' and 'easy' way over the 'right' way. Usually because said people constructed the tool in question for their project, and had designed it specifically for the environment they were working in rather than anyone else's. So you'll often see such a project completely fall apart because you don't understand all the code you used or how it interacts with the other stuff you used without understanding it.

But a few were actual work projects for clients. These fell apart because the following sequence of events occurred:

1. A coder was hired to work on the system and had a very different coding style to everyone else in the company. They thought they were being 'smart' but had overengineered the project by about a hundredfold.

2. They got sacked without telling anyone else how the project was constructed or why it was built that way. So developer B took over.

3. Developer B tried to 'rewrite' the system completely, but ended up merely creating a hodgepodge of his work and the other developer's work that ended up being rather unstable.

4. More features were requested from the client (which the system wasn't designed for), so three more developers each added them on independently. None of this work was commented, documented anywhere or stored in version control, so they bolted the features extras on, tested just that one part of the system and claimed it worked fine.

5. Project ran into large numbers of bugs, often ones which crashed the system or took down the database for a while. Multiple times a day, whatever developer was free would have to apply patches to whatever random thing stopped working in the last few hours.

6. Everyone ended up complaining that the system didn't work. Or that it should be rewritten. Or that it wasn't what the client 'wanted' at all despite the latter having changed their plans three times this week.

Either way, what should have been simple websites turned into giant unwieldy messes that no one developer understood the full design of. Which sat in endless limbo while developers ran around trying to patch up problems caused by no one having a coherent plan for the whole project.
Krita is an amazing piece of software, and always evolving. Kudos to the whole team.
Wow, 250kW per rack is pretty much unheard-of. The highest density stuff I know of is 40-50kW per rack @ Ebay. They use 480v 3ph PDUs!
Because I don't think it would be a multi-billion $ business. It has to be something more than just a smartphone.
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Manning dumped a whole slew of stuff without any checking or vetting or anything else. Some of the stuff I saw in relationship to Italy, for instance, was just diplomatic personnel airing "what they really thought" about Silvio Berlusconi. These comments are the kind of thing that didn't do anyone any good to have dumped in public.
Excellent anecdote, thanks for sharing.
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Having dialed back to 3 days/week, I believe that "how much time I'm willing to spend working" is a somewhat orthogonal question to "what motivates me during the time when I'm working." Not entirely orthogonal but also very far from the same question.
From a grammatical perspective it should be noted that "they" is plural. It is gender-neutral, but should only be used when referring to multiple people. The correct gender-neutral singular pronoun is "he or she".
To your point, I remember 50cent (the rapper) talking shortly after he made $400 million on his Vitamin water investment.

He said he ran into some Coca-Cola executives after they purchased the company and he was sort of crowing about all the money they had just made him. I guess two of the executives were like, "Huh, $400 million, not a bad start Curtis. Let us know once you get in the $800 million or even the billion dollar range."

He said it made him a little more humble, but at the same time, he said there's a sort of pissing game when you're at those income levels with people like that.
> If Hillary Clinton had won, the same kinds of people on the other side would be attacking 538 for being too bullish on Trump.

In fact, that very thing did happen in the week leading up to the election, so sure were some that Clinton would win. There was a raft of articles nitpicking the model, particularly the adjustments that it applied to polls and the level of uncertainty that it assumed.
Its not at all hard...

This is the time for doing these things... things like this that have the potential to upset a lot of people you rely on... but he wont be relying on them anytime soon... thats kinda where the "tradition" of pardons, etc at the last few days of term comes from.. there is next to no backlash for the president if hes only in office for a few more days
> supremely hyped up and over sold.

Which results in "hype recoil." There are some interesting use-cases for the technology, but the hype in areas where it is not applicable (e.g. as a liquid currency) severely erode the overall perception. Fanatic belligerence when the flaws are discussed enrich angst toward the technology.

In many ways the issue is not the technology itself; rather the evangelists of it.
Any language claiming to be a fast Lisp should be required to show benchmark comparisons against SBCL and a few commercial Common Lisps.

A native compiler for Clojure would be an interesting project, but completely new languages competing on speed or size are going to have a really tough time beating the existing Common Lisp implementations, not to mention the CL library ecosystem.

Not to say the CL library world is very big compared to Python or Javascript, but it has most of the important bases covered, and it's certainly bigger than a brand new language like Pixie.
If a 'mission that matters' is important enough to spend 3 paragraphs on, but salary only deserves a single dismissive paragraph, then why exactly do we never have enough teachers?

If people really had such a great preference for mission over compensation, then the public sector, and non-profits could be 'selective'. I mean, the public and non-profit sector usually don't even have to do bullshit PR vanity projects (cough Microsoft-Google-Facebook-Amazon-Exxon-GE-BP) to convince people that they are not evil on balance. Still, it's the massively profitable companies that have the luxury of selectivity, not the ones with the best missions.

Like so much in 'management methodology' literature, there is such a willingness in this article to prefer anything (like small ungeneralizeable psychology studies[1]) that confirm clearly absurd magical beliefs (e.g. there are easy cheap scalable alternatives to compensation for retaining employees) that it is impossible to take the advice therein remotely seriously.

[1] that are being misinterpreted, to boot

[edit: added the footnote, grammar]
Sorry, no, your definition is the one that's wrong.[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_website (links to numerous examples of proper usage)
Yeah I don't know what they're up to. I've used them as a useful shorthand example for automation for awhile, but you're right I should perhaps find a new one because they seem to be in some sort of limbo, crunchbase has nothing after their seed funding.

A more concrete if less evocative example is Amazon's warehouse automation. Relatively simple robots with 3 DOF (2D planar movement + a container jack) are wiping out enormous numbers of jobs, both in obvious immediate effects (less fulfillment center jobs) and by decimating conventional retail.

edit: Momentum still has 19 employees on LinkedIn, so they're not completely dead it seems.
> In fact, that very thing did happen in the week leading up to the election, so sure were some that Clinton would win. There was a raft of articles nitpicking the model, particularly the adjustments that it applied to polls and the level of uncertainty that it assumed.

Ugh, yes, like that HuffPo guy attacking Nate Silver. He apologized later, at least.
> I think having your mind fractured and been forcibly turned into a 'woman' as a deterrent to future whistleblowers is a living hell

Manning's gender dysphoria is not a product of punishment for the leaks, it was a condition which existed earlier (and for which the response in the Army environment was part of the source of general alienation that Manning was experiencing at the time of the leaks.)
NY Times is as liberal as Fox is conservative. Fox has conservative commentators, just as NY Times has liberal op-ed. Fox News news coverage has conservative slant, just as NY Times news coverage has liberal slant. Also, I have seen no evidence that Fox News news coverage trafficks in falsehood. Sure, Fox News commentators traffick in falsehood--as do Times commentators; just read Paul Krugman.

I read the Times every day but I have no illusion about its editorial slant; however it is starting to seem to me that many Fox News viewers know more about the Times than the Times readers know about Fox News because Times readers believe everything negative they have heard about Fox News without actually watching it.
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I'm a native English speaker. I tend to use "they", and I would have used it in that sentence.

Not all native English speakers got an American English education.