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What is hard is getting people to admit they're wrong. It's so very easy to see that there's rotten stuff in US society, but nobody wants to face it, that's it. The data is clear, european social democracies are better socially developed than the US is(and I don't mean it like I think have it all figured out and they're awesome, just that they've been able to do some sensible stuff, shit that should be just common sense not the saint graal for fucks sake), they have absurdly lower crime and misery rates, are better educated, this is a fact. IMHO it's not the matter of being "easy/hard", it's the matter of "political will", if there were will, it would be easy, since there is not, it becomes "impossible".
This article describes the process in significantly more detail: http://www.staradvertiser.com/2017/01/18/business/facebooks-...

The wikipedia article on quiet title is also clarifying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_title

So is this article on quiet title: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/who-can-claim-propert...

If I understand it right, the issue here is situations like the following. You've got a parcel of land which was 1/2 owned by brother A and 1/2 owned by brother B (due to, e.g., inheritance). Brother A occupied the parcel for 20+ years and eventually sold it to someone else. At this point, according to Hawaii's adverse posession law, brother A owns it but owes compensation to brother B. Now many years later, brother A or his descendents sold to Zuckerberg (or some similar chain of title), and brother B's descendents may not even know they had some right to the land.

There's a theoretical possibility that some descendent of brother B may show up and claim the land.

These quiet title lawsuits are a way for Zuckerberg to pre-emptively settle all such issues. It's also apparently a very common and accepted way to handle such issues in Hawaii.

This is basically just a horrible legal hack around the fact that Hawaii (like many places) has a totally broken title registration system. Without this hack it might be difficult/impossible for a land owner to know with any certainty that they actually own the land they just purchased.

If someone knows more about this, or if my understanding is incorrect, please correct me. I know little beyond what I learned via google.
The justification is that we're in an artificial and unsustainable situation at present. Just 8 generations ago, over 90% of the labor force was farming. We're at 1% now. We came up with some incredible engineering practices to achieve this but we lost sight of sustainability in the process. It's the most fundamental good in the economy after water and before shelter. It's reasonable that more than 1 in 100 people should be involved in producing food.
I don't think I understand your point.

You can use e.g. Nat in Idris to avoid the underflow possibility. A language shouldn't allow silent overflow, and to the extent that Rust encourages a style where you fiddle with overflowing integers this is a problem with Rust, though I don't believe Rust does encourage that style - it provides locks, and if you were writing a custom one for some reason you wouldn't naturally fiddle with an int, you'd use an affine type or some such.
About the irrationality of e=2.718... (1840)
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That sounds about right. For me, I fell into a weird scenario where I was still in school right during the peak of the late 90's "dot com bubble" era, when anybody could get a job as a programmer if they could turn a computer on. So I quit school and went to work. And after keeping that first job 4 and a half years, I never had any trouble with a job after that, even without having a bachelor's degree.

Strangely though, I've accumulated 3 associate degrees (general education, computer programming, and high performance computing) over the years as well. Somehow, with all that, nobody ever mentions that I never finished my bachelors degree.

Not sure if it's possible to replicate that career path these days or not. I may just be the product of a specific era of history.
Honestly, Hacker News is too general to base your opinion of the "Rust community" on, try #rust-beginners on irc.mozilla.org or users.rust-lang.org and I think you'll find one of the most welcoming communities on the internet.
I recommend reading "cracking the pm interview"

Then try to find a job either in product management or in a related field e.g. development, consulting, marketing, customer success (not QA or documentation)...

source: I'm a manager of PM (product management)
Since you used the phrase "Alternative Facts", can you point to where people have looked at an objectively verified fact, and then knowingly lied about it being something else?
He has never claimed any such thing. He is a bit of a civic nationalist, at the absolute most.
Of course that works but why isn't the protocol robust enough to do this automatically?
That's much of a topology thing...our brain may be a CPU, but we have neurons throughout much of our body, processing extremely low level sensory inputs into richer information that brains can process at a higher level.

And different species have very different neural topologies: I've heard it described that Octopoda act more like an eight-member swarm intelligences than an intelligent eight-armed creature. Because their neural density is much more diffuse in their arms, they do so much more processing there, and the central brain acts more like a coordination unit than anything.
If they would just fix gerrymandering which I imagine both sides agree with fixing. People probably wouldn't need to worry about trump.
I think @nero is a piece of work as well but we have to agree that it is not OK to use violence like this.

I'm more sympathetic towards an armed uprising (indeed I say desertion and treason as we define them ought to be decriminalized) even if I don't like it. Throwing a shoe at someone or throwing poop at someone's face is not only stupid but a display of lack of strength. The weak usually throws the first punch.
interesting looking automatic carrot harvester:
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I find it interesting that Clojure (and LISPs in general) have enjoyed an upsurge of attention since this 20th anniversary post. Maybe we're in the mania phase?

As an anecdote, I've now been on both language spectrums. In large C++ projects I can absolutely attest to the "Needs many people" claim. Now that I've worked in Clojure on projects of equal importance, it's mind-bending how much I can accomplish alone.
Your assumption seems to be that I'm talking about languages with manual memory management. I'm not; I'm talking about garbage-collected languages, where you get memory safety automatically, regardless of ownership rules. In fact, C++ has some of the same problems that Rust has when it comes to multiple ownership.
This a nice list of interview questions. How does one actually go about getting the experience to answer these with expertise?
> In this debate, we should look to cities in other countries. As I understand it, Paris/ Vancouver/ London/ Tokyo etc have never been subject to the "rule" that young couples move to the suburbs once they are ready to raise families.

A small family home in Vancouver proper will run you 750k+. The median individual income is $27,600 in Canada. When you do the math you realize 95% of the population simply can't afford to live in big cities unless they rent, which makes it harder to buy a home in the future.
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Doctor Strange is, but unfortunately at least in my town it's only showing in 2D at the cheap ($1) theaters now. I was blown away by the appropriate use of 3D and visuals in 3D IMAX for that movie. I saw Rogue One in 2D and then IMAX 3D and hated it in 3D.

Article about it: http://www.thisisinsider.com/doctor-strange-how-you-should-s...

When new movies come out, google "should I see it in 3D $moviename" type articles. Unfortunately it's January now; not many good movies coming out.
That's definitely not a good reason to not do it.
Rust's difficulty relative to OCaml might be irreducible if we consider the difficulty added by not providing a pervasive GC, which is part of Rust's design goal and not part of OCaml's.
Caffeine withdrawal, out of the many types, is my least favorite to experience.

Nicotine withdrawal (non-tobacco) is nearly unnoticeable, while nicbacco withdrawal can be a little annoying. Although, while I smoked for years, I never smoked more than a pack or two pipes full a week, so perhaps it scales.

Neither compares to the full on pounding headaches, teeth grinding, and occasional auditory hallucinations that can accompany cold turkey, n pots a day caffeine withdrawal.

I rate caffeine easily on par with opiates in terms of the length and discomfort of their withdrawal.
Uh, don't you know that money is evil and being rich is (like, uh, basically) a crime? REPENT CAPITALIST SCUM /s
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This man could be a folk hero if he continues down this path. It's fascinating that people think Shkreli is a villain, when all he did was put an actual face on how a broken facet of healthcare works in the United States.
They also launched extremely cheap in South America, but they basically have no content, so they can't compete with Netflix here.
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property value is much higher in cities than burbs due to supply/demand
Thanks for the insight, especially about the junior position at LinkedIn. I am an engineer who has run a start up previously in recruiting space and looking for product roles at LinkedIn. Is there a way i can reach out with few questions?
This looks very cool. I'll take it for a spin soon.
Op I believe means panic button full stop , pull over. As others have pointed out that's not possible in many places. Now those living the self driving car is easy dream will just say we have to make the roads safe for self driving cars, how many of you have lived through major highway construction in a city? And the political infighting and the eminent domain squabbles? I did in st. Louis, it took 5 years to agree on a half assed plan to add 1 lane each way to highway 40.

Or are you just gonna strap an extra lane onto the Brooklyn bridge cause self driving cars have to have it?

Also as the article pointed out human vision can see further than lidar esp in rain so what is a "comfortable speed for an entity with lidar vision is likely to get rear ended by an entity with human vision.
Yup. I think the process of periodically going through all your stuff and deciding whether or not it's still worth holding onto is a valuable one, but the actual mechanics of doing so in the Bullet Journal fashion felt cumbersome (especially when you're trying to collate stuff.) .
Not so much a question as an approach, but...

When interviewing senior people, I like to get them going on war stories. "Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly?" is a good one. It's not necessarily that they went badly, but we've all been on death marches before (and I absolutely would not hire an architect who's never done a death march!).

The beauty of this is you can find out how they react to impossible demands and pressures. What they're proud of accomplishing in dire circumstances. Possibly what they're ashamed or embarrassed about, or mistakes/lessons learned (if they're that bold). You can learn a ton about how they talk about their colleagues! Are they full of praise, or contempt? Do they find someone to blame, or talk about how someone else saved their asses? You can also learn a lot about their actual approach to technical decisions - their taste, for lack of a better word.

You can ask probing questions here, but the important part is to get them speaking in an unguarded way. Nobody makes it to the architect level in this field without at least kind of loving the job. Find out what they love. Find out what they hate. Find out what they regret. Find out any strong technical biases they have, and why. But most of all, find out how they play with others. Because the architect's job isn't just to design, but to communicate. You don't just want a technical expert. You want someone that can value and respect the rest of the team, or they're just going to cause problems.
You don't consider yourself privileged?
I meant co-opting your opponents message.
Don't say "interpreter" if you don't mean it. In the vast majority of cases, Common Lisp is a compiled language.
If you live outside her jurisdiction, her staff's default response is "You can't vote for me, so I'm going to ignore you."

So I write letters that say I'm contributing to her political opponents. You can do this if you live in another state. And money talks louder than votes.
>> He can see far; further than in fact his strength allows him to travel. He conceives of brilliant ambitious projects requiring great resources, and he embarks on them only to run out of steam. It's not that he's lazy; its just that his resources are insufficient.

Oh give it a rest already. You're talking about someone who can't finish
anything, and won't even bother to document his half-arsed, half-baked code,
as a "brilliant" mind? And on the basis of, what? That he (it's always a he,
in the article) used to get good grades at school. Not even university, mind-
the brilliance lasted until high school. But, you know, it's all because that
brilliant mind was such a great non-conformist who could see through all us
phonies.

The only thing missing is a magical ring and a birthmark that, once deciphered
using the ring, reads "Only You Can Save the World™". I won't bother to say
where the birthmark is and how the ring fits it.

As if we didn't have enough trouble already with rockstars and ninjas and people thinking they're artists because they wrote their first for-loop...
Seems like Edge also plans to do this: https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/34
I'm reading that too. Really enjoying it. It's kind of a bad title for what the book is really about, which is general learning and productivity strategies.
Thanks for that. Crazy 'cups' statistics.
> LG's Dual Play

That's exactly it! The "no more split screen" use case is also something I thought of but forgot about :-)
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It still drives me nuts there's no keyboard shortcut for it. `Command + Shift + P` would be sweeeeeeet.
For me it was when I took proof-based Linear Algebra and probability. I went from having a decent mathematical intuition but struggling in practice to actually getting how to do it and succeeding with it.
I would put forth Cleveland. We have very fast growing food and beer scenes. The orchestra is world renowned and also quite affordable to see. There are many quite good museums in university circle (most of which have no entry fee).

The theater district is (I am told) the largest outside of NYC (although I'm not sure by what metric). Regional theater is pretty big here as well if you want to see stuff outside Broadway, etc.

There are many concerts in the city, but Columbus and Pittsburgh are both reasonable drives and get a lot of concerts. Several of the venues (The Grog Shop, Aurora, Beachland Ballroom) get up and coming acts and musicians from large bands doing solo projects, often for low prices as well.

Housing is affordable, for the most part, although downtown housing is close to capacity at the moment due to lots of young people moving downtown. Outside of downtown, I am a fan of both Lakewood (westside, cheaper) and Shaker Heights (eastside, more expensive), both of which have access to light rail to downtown. Some of the cheaper suburbs are mostly 1960s housing stock, built in the era of GI mortgages, so they look kind of same-y, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There are also parts of the area (like East Cleveland), which are probably undesirable to live in.

Cleveland offers a decent amount of outdoor activity as well. Obviously, the lake and river are available for many different outdoors activities (Kayaking, Canoeing, Jet Skis, swimming, boating) and there are several beaches. The metro parks system has parks around the outskirts of the entire city. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a short drive south. You are within driving distance of Wayne National Forest, Hocking Hills, and Allegheny National Forest. Many other outdoors areas in eastern PA are within a reasonable drive.

I'm not sure I agree w.r.t. taxes paying for parks and libraries. I enjoy both of those things and think they are valuable. Additionally, Cleveland (and Ohio in general) has a pretty great library system. Living in Cleveland, you have access to every Cleveland and suburb library (via ClevNet) and the Cuyahoga County Public Library, including eBooks and Audio Books. You also can order books from any Ohio Library via OhioLink.

Taxes are a problem, I think, with Cleveland. The city and most of the suburbs have a local income tax (between 1 and 2% flat rate usually) and the state of the roads and public transit does not seem to reflect the tax rate (although some areas are better than others). Sales tax is the highest in the state at 8% (compared to 7% elsewhere in OH), although food is tax-free. It is lower than Chicago (10.25%) and higher than Pittsburgh (6%).
Did I say that? I said I don't think they will be the (initial) target market, and thus the cars inability to deal with carjackers will be a non-issue.
The condescension isn't too helpful here unfortunately (is it ever?). You could have made your initial response a bit less condescending by saying something like:

The comment mentions "Landauer's principle", which provides some explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

Here as well, you could have made your comment better if you just omitted this part: "which you'd find if you'd attempt to read what you avoided... twice."
I started off as a developer... but not a terribly good one. Got to know our product inside and out... and as the company grew my role transitioned into product owner sort of organically... I found that I was pretty good at writing requirements (at least avoiding some of the pitfalls that non-devs made when writing requirements), and running meetings, and communicating with a variety of teams in the organization (and nicely saying, "No," to a variety of teams) ... and it all evolved from there. I liked the work more since I got more praise at it than I ever got for doing dev work. 20 years later... I've done product / project / process / program... a bunch of P. Manager roles...

It helps to be interested in a lot of things. Understand enough about things at the 50,000 foot view level... Helps to listen to a lot of people -- and care about their success. Learn all you can about as much as you can. If you can't code a bit... you'll have a hard time communicating what you really want to the developers (there's just no way to write down every possible requirement in every ticket). Same goes for every other discipline... QA, UX research, DevOps, marketing, business development, etc... you want to know as much as you can about all of these things so you can build the right process and pick the right focus for your team and your audience.

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* How to Hire a Product Manager - The classic essay on the role of product management - Ken Norton || https://www.kennorton.com/essays/productmanager.html

* Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE
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1 and 4 is matter of opinion. Too many ways to answer it correctly but incompletely.

Number 2, 3 and 5 is asking about past jobs and may be even illegal depending on the applicant. NDAs are everywhere. Rephrase them to be generic.

Number 5 is worthless yes/no type of question as well.
At the moment I'd pay a lot of money for a car that I drive mostly myself, but that also had an advanced safety system which makes it much harder to get into an accident. I.e. fix my driving mistakes and lapses in judgment for me while I'm in control. I'd be willing to pay a hefty premium for this.
> What's to prevent somebody, whether its your government, another government, or marketing firms, to pay other companies to add this technology to their products?

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

-- Hillel the Elder
Did you even bother reading the article? Zuckerberg is trying to do the right thing but identifying all the owners of the land first, and then trying to arrange to pay them. That's how it works in Hawaii, except he's being extremely proactive and in a manner that is friendly to the owners, if you RTFA.
It might prove the system fundamentally broken but it does it at the expense of people's health and lives. Not a tradeoff I'd care to make, personally.
> Today a hobbyist can just buy an 1D LIDAR for 150-200$ or a 2D LIDAR for 450$ on seeedstudio.

If yer not picky, you can generally pick up a cheap "repair part" or "surplus" Neato 2D Lidar unit from ebay, for about $100.00 or so. They are generally pulled from broken Neato vacuum robots. Alternatively, a used Neato (or sometimes even a new one) can generally be had for under $450.00 (plus you get a ton of other robot experimenting parts!).

Another option for hobbyists are used SICK serial-port lidars; I've picked those up for around $300.00 off ebay. They run on 12-24 volts (great for vehicles and electric wheelchair-based platforms), and use RS-232 or RS-422 for communications (where it becomes a PITA is when they are set to the RS-422 protocol - because then you need a special adaptor - and not all of the adaptors work - to reprogram it - using a piece of software that runs on Windows NT4).

They are very robust units, though. Big, and heavy (not for small robots - not at all; these units are about the size of a coffee maker). There are three main types - each with a different color case (yellow, blue, and grey). One of them is an "area coverage" only sensor (and doesn't have a way to output scan data), while the other two are more generalized (at least, this is what I recall - I probably have some details mixed up).

These are on the used market because companies are phasing them out, I believe, for the newer ethernet based models.
I saw Gravity in 3D and strongly hated it. One scene in particular killed it for me. In what should have been an emotional scene when the hero looses all hope and sheds a tear. The tear floats into 3D space and the camera changes focus from the distraught hero to the tear drop instead. So, the audience is taken from what should be an emotional scene to admiring a fucking tear drop floating in 3D space.
The distribution is probably uniform, not normal. The point of such programs is generally to homogenize access, not simply blur lines.
could have been a fat finger someone had on the button. i upvoted you to help.
Avatar. Crap movie, but a nice theme ride in 3D theatre.
The parent commenter finds it hilarious because, in their words, "land shouldn't be owned by anyone." Your family owning multiple plots of land is diametrically opposed to that world view. I foresee a very unproductive ideological argument about capitalism and property rights ensuing.
> how he is against walls then litterly building one

1 mile, long, 6 feet tall?
> It's the same mentality that makes people declare that "[arbitrary tv show] should've been cancelled long ago!"; or what a travesty it is that [arbitrary beloved IP] is getting a sequel/remake/reboot.

I don't know about that, there are very good reasons not to, in my opinion. It's the same reason we don't build on top of the gaza pyramids, or replace the mona lisa with a more modern version.

We like to preserve the legacy of things, and when you pollute it with things not in the original design it's easy to end up reshaping what it means and diluting its history.
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