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I would guess that the author read the study from which the report is based, and noted the section defining 'Child Income' :

"Our primary measure of child income is total pre-tax
individual
earnings. For
single filers, individual earnings is defined as the sum of wage earnings and net self-employment
income"

They go on to say how they also measured child income in the same manner as for parents (including investment income, etc) to see if that made a difference.
"First, its an ad hominem attack on credibility which while sometimes useful does not refute the central points that Pai made."

First, your messaging on this is confused.
Since how is it both ad-hominem and "sometimes useful". By definition, ad-hominem is not useful. So it's one or the other.

Second, I believe i directly refuted each one, actually. We should in fact, be subsidizing 1/3rd of the households broadband if that's what it takes to get broadband for the categories of people i listed. Especially when Pai's alternative is "encourage investment", aka give AT&T or whoever another 100 million to do nothing with. He doesn't actually give a real plan, just a magic thought that we'll somehow "encourage investment", ignoring that literally none of these companies want to be investing.

Heck, they even say that in their investor filings, which he apparently doesn't bother to read. Nowhere do they say "hey, we really want to provide rural broadband, but are held back by regulation". Instead, they said "We don't think rural broadband is worth it for us, but we want to make sure no one else gets a foothold, so we are going to do what we can stop them from doing it any other way than paying us high prices".

Don't worry though, i'm sure magically, his "investment encouragement" will change the literal written down plans and presentations of the large telecoms.

Also, it doesn't seem to apply to municipalities, since he's strongly against any of these rural communities being self-supporting by starting their own rural networks. How strange that is. you think he'd be all for it, since it means the government doesn't subsidize them anymore. That's what he said he wants! Apparently people investing is not okay, but companies, that's awesome!

It's also strange techfreedom don't seem supportive of this, for an organization dedicated to "tech freedom", it apparently doesn't mean for people.

Meanwhile, Pai lives in a mythical world where they are desperately trying to provide large scale broadband at low prices, and sadly stymied at every turn simply that doesn't exist.

But really, he's not an idiot. He knows this already. He's not even really that malicious. He just wants something he can do that is business friendly so he can declare victory and go be a million dollar telecom lobbyist like all the others. I just wish he didn't play the game along the way. Because that's what would make me really respect him.

But hey, you can classify my argument however you want, because i already knew i wasn't going to convince you.
http://incredible.pm is perhaps relevant, albeit shallow and localized.
Well it's not like I asked them and they refused to ask me any questions. 3/5 people asked me "what happens when you boot a VM in openstack", which was a kind-of-shitty question because I can know the answer from just looking at a picture in the docs. More than that, I went in expecting a grilling interview (because Walmart Labs) and it was a huge anti-climax. I wasn't hugely impressed by the people that interviewed me too, except for one guy who has now left.

As to discerning a reason, no clue. At least 2 of them were competent coders, so no idea why they never asked me anything.
Well said. I have nothing but contempt and loathing for the advertising industry. I think they ruin everything. I also quit watching and listening to commercial broadcasters, and even quit working for one.

I have a sister who is a successful advertising creative and executive. Our wildly differing and strong opinions on the topic makes for interesting family dinners.

I am longing for the day that AR technology gets to the stage where lightweight sun-glass frames can have the ability to overlay classical art, or any other texture, over real-world ads in real-time.

I have also been wondering lately if some sort of Adnix [0] like device could be developed using the incredible machine learning software that is becoming widely available. I know very little about such things but I have been meaning to make time to see if it is within my abilities.

I'd love to scare my sister with it.

[0] Adnix - http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=2223
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To be a bit more specific, it is extremely unlikely (nearly impossible) that you could ever find a single individual who is both a "postgres database specialist" and a "ruby developer". Do you even know what the word "specialist" means? It means specializing in one area - like postgres - without trying to be a Jack of all trades, ie: with ruby.

"DBA" is a full-time position, not an addon to a developer's duties. They are separate skillsets; you don't get a "2-for-1" special by hiring an expert developer + DBA in one person for one lowly salary.

Do you realize this event would have never happened if you had hired a pure DBA? Or do you really believe you can pin the blame on your ruby developers for not being able to wrangle a production postgres database?

The oblivious or intentionally cheap "the DBA must be an amazing ruby developer" expectation shows your hiring staff - or the management guiding them - has absolutely no clue what they are doing. I can just imagine the internal discussion right now; pointing the finger at the developers with no postgres experience, or downplaying the significance of this event and pretending like it was simply bad luck, and lying to yourselves about how "it will never happen again".

This job posting is completely outside the realm of reason. If that job posting has been up for months or years, I can see its description being exactly why you didn't have the right talent on board to avoid this incident.
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Those LUT's have implied indexing internally, I suspect something akin to indexing is essential.

Logic functions can be composed using any one of: NAND, NOR, XOR, IMPLY, or other units like full-adders etc.

All memory depends on some form of persistance and/or refreshing.

Sometimes this is a physical phenomenon like magnetism or electrical compatence or after-glow in a willian's tube. Short-lived effects need to be refreshed.

Sometimes there is a feedback loop that continuously sustains latching, such as flip-flops.

Magnetic core memory could be less transient than say, a mercury delay line, but needed to be rewriten after being read.

But regarding your question, I think so. If it is possible to impliment one with the other (but memory usually has internal indexing).
> Demand is characterized by price.

No, demand is characterized by the quantity demanded at a given price. More precisely, the demand curve is a curve of quantity demanded vs. price.

> I'd love to find programmers for $1/hr, but I haven't increased the demand for programmers by saying that.

Not by just saying it, but you could post a want ad for programmers at $1/hr in order to investigate the potential supply of programmers at that price. Of course you would find that it was zero, but that just means there's no supply of programmers at that price, not that there's no demand.

> Every time the price goes up, there will be buyers dropping out of the market not willing to pay the new high.

Now you're assuming that there is supply--programmers available at higher prices--but not demand--clients don't want to pay the offered price. (A more precise analysis would say that the quantity supplied at that price is greater than the quantity demanded--some clients will pay that price but not enough to hire all available programmers.) You're right that this is not a shortage, but that's because it's a surplus instead--supply exceeds demand, instead of demand exceeding supply.

You're also ignoring other possibilities. Programmers could decide to accept lower wages instead of higher ones. "Price" is not something magically set by higher authority; it's the output of the market, not an input to it. In the first case above, if you want a programmer you will have to raise your offered price until you find one that is willing to work at that price. In the second case above, if programmers wanted work they would have to lower their prices (on average) until enough clients were willing to hire all of them.
I have had a one but long period of depression in the past where everything was dark. Dark as hell. Retrospectively I can say, by far the thigs that help the most are just someone listening. Listening the other who needs it and in a 10% maybe help them by reframing them and put in perspective their view. It is a really difficult job. Second something that helped me a lot was CBT online by using Lantern, it helps you see things differently and chat with a therapist all day long, personally I trusted my couch there way more than any of the 3 therapist I saw personally, they sucked. Lastly the best thing that helped me get back to my real better me was to become useful. That means do create stuff on the side (a useful startup with paying customers) and get a job in the terms I always wanted earning well (remote consultant). In my case money played a big role. Also as soon as possible get the best gym you can. I tried 5 gyms and some sucked, other were good, but I as soon as I bought the most expensive one, it was by far the best desicion I have made. Last but no lease, it might be stupid but something that impacted a lot for the better was upgrading my work tools to the best one on the market, I bought a nice big monitor and ordered all my workspace. This improved my mood a lot instead of a the tiny little screen of my Mac, not recommended for 15+ work day. I forgot, try reducing sugars and carbs. Hope this helps someone. There is a escape. Get in touch with me if needed. g at black dot uy
I've heard rumours that HP was developing something known as memgisters; where instead of moving data from memory to a CPU register - operations could be preformed directly on memory.
My parents live rurally where the only options are satellite or a rooftop 3G antenna with flakey and expensive 3G data. Adblocking has been a huge deal for them. Saves money and speeds up page loading dramatically.
> If you're saying NASA's other choice was nothing, then it was purely political and if they'd stuck to the science the Air Force would have been told to suck it eventually.

Yes, it was political. And it wasn't at all impossible that they would just collapse NASA's budget (this was in the recessions of the 1970's), and NASA wouldn't even exist today.
I remember that in my Catullus and Horace class we had to read 16, but my teacher didn't explain pedicabo or irrumabo (and neither did my dictionary), so it was a somewhat strange experience.
When I searched for the string "SPW" at the wikipedia URL you originally posted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuramoto_model ) I found nothing. Hence my queries.

It is true that the article you posted later in response to my queries does indeed contain references to the term "SPW". Thank you for providing that clarifying link.

Unfortunately the terminology and origin of the term "SPW" (or "SPW-R")remains unknown to me, despite the second article using it freely. The article says, for example:

"... John O'Keefe investigated SPW-Rs in more detail in 1978 while studying the spatial memory of rat..."

Queries on Google seem to indicate that the term "SPW-R" refers to the same concept as the acronym "SWR" (a true acronym), but I'll never know, being too impatient to consider the matter further.
So you're saying that GVFS isn't a good idea because it's not good enough for working on the Windows repository?

Well, yeah. It's pre-production, and let Microsoft worry about their own problems anyway. But it sounds like GVFS will be killer for people who have large repos that aren't as large as the Windows repo. Even if 4-5s for the 270GB/3.5M file repo is too long, 400-500ms for the 27GB repo is fantastic.

At some point you ask yourself, "Would I split this repo if my tools could handle the combined repo just fine?" If the answer is no, then you're going to be happy that the tools are getting better at handling big repos. Microsoft's choice to exploit the filesystem-as-API and funnel all filesystem interaction through the VCS is a smart choice and there are a ton of opportunities for optimization that don't exist when you're just writing to a plain filesystem.
What stops them from offering both?
Unpacking a comment like this is one of the quieter pleasures of reading HN.
No I wouldn't trust just 1 solution and 1 hidden / obfuscated route.
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Do you have any sources for those claims? I'm sure many of us are, like me, trying to figure out which of all these conflicting claims are backed by science.
"The existence of ethnic cleansing is a compelling argument against diversity being a strength"

no, it's a compelling reminder to fight racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, and the rest, like the deadly diseases they are. the atrocities of the past are their result.
> 99 lines of 72-column (or less) open source C++ code

> #include <math.h>

> #include <stdlib.h>

> #include <stdio.h>

After g++ -E smallpt.cpp, how many lines is it? :0
Nope, but those are really the only two conditions possible---either they are supportive, or they are nuanced.

If they have another state of mind, they are likely to be against him.
I'm sure the company is filled with engineers now. But my point is why put someone with no research, engineering, or management experience in charge?

Imagine a hypothetical scenario. I'm a VC and some kid with a degree in biology told me we should make phones that use ultra capacitors instead of batteries.

Me: "That sounds cool, but it's probably not going to work because ultra caps just don't have the energy density."

Kid: "Yeah but if you give me 25 million dollars I can hire a bunch of engineers and figure it out."

Me: "Why do I need you? You're idea isn't novel. You don't have any experience or training, and you probably can't even do it."

Kid: "But if I do, you'll make billions."

Me: "I can give the same money to anyone of thousands of people qualified to actually run an R&D project, and I'll have a much higher chance of success."
Based on the number of insignificant papers I have had to crawl through in various ACM publications, I am inclined to agree. Having said that, I don't think the rankings are that out of line.

I do wish that CS (and science, in general) would stop requiring publication for tenure (and Ph.D candidates). Wading through 500 abstracts to find the one useful genuine innovation gets tiresome. At least the ACM has recognized they have a problem and are starting to provide curated lists in their monthly "Communications".
Classical linear regression model [pdf]
Just not your own liver, or the liver of others. All other liver is fair game!

Seriously, though, it's amazing what you can do with liver once you learn how to cook it to your own preference.
Yep. Either closing the tab, or opening the browser console and spite hacking until I can see the content.
No, it's not more advanced, but it was filed several years before ubeam's first patent.
Nice Post!
Learned a lot. Thank you!

I've removed my Facebook account 3 years ago and never looked back. Everyone who should be in touch with me have my e-mail address and mobile phone number, other's who actually want to take a sniff into my life try to trick me creating one, but hey - I've been there, f*ck off. Nonetheless I relocated to the US, Boston, 7 months ago and haven't acquired any meaningful friendship with anyone, I still don't care. I better off read Literature and Philosophy rather than infinite stream of non-sense.

GJ
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Right now the market for educational software is a mess. It’s incredibly difficult for developers to get their products into schools, and it’s even harder for them to scale. School districts spend tons of money on learning applications, but they have no way of knowing if students are even using the apps they’re purchasing. Teachers know there’s great software out there, but relatively simple challenges like getting 30 students logged in at once make using it impossible.

At Clever, we’re working to change all that. We provide schools with a free API and single sign-on solution that makes using educational apps a breeze. We’ve grown fast: after four years, half of all schools in the US (65,000 schools) are using our platform. Our goals are much bigger than that, though. We want to be two things:

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-a single identity that students can use to see everything they’ve learned across multiple apps.

We’re a team of just over 100 (40 engineers) based in downtown SF, and we’re looking for engineers who enjoy working in (or would enjoy learning) Golang, Node and React. More generally, we want people who are sharp, adaptable, and passionate about improving the way education works for everyone.

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I feel like the price of copper, due to demand from other industries, would be a huge deterrent to widespread use in hospitals. Is that not a major issue?
This seems to be comparing shipping cost to shipping revenue, not revenue as a whole.
You're forgetting Mobile. Using Chrome on android and Windows gives you the benefit of shared accounts, shared passwords, bookmarks and history.
it's established terminology, and much of whatever "heat" comes from its use has more to do with simply talking about class, not because of the word. (i'm not sure i understand the meaning of the expression, "it causes more heat than light." my take is that it rankles people more than it expresses an idea.)
Yes! I was going to buy LifeX bulbs on Prime, but noticed it was going to take 2+ weeks to ship. I checked the LifeX website and the same bulbs were 25% cheaper and shipped immediately.
3325. I'm not quite sure why you're asking. This isn't about the size of the library, it's about the lines of code the programmer needs to write to express an idea.

If you are concerned about the size of the final binary, then as the author states, it's under 4k with a few optimizations.
> Radicalizing the American population and fostering identity division for the sake of votes and views is not a gentle pressure.

I'm not sure that anyone is "radicalizing" the population anymore than it already is. America has had a small but vocal radical left for a long time.

> Does this fact make slandering any better? what's the minimum economic divide that gives me a free pass over hate speech?

I really wish I knew what you were talking about.

> The Japanese are over-represented in every growth sector of the economy in Japan. [etc]

These are unfair comparisons and you know it. I used the term "over-represented" carefully. We'd expect a regression of the workforce to something roughly approaching the actual national population averages. Instead, we do not see that at all.

> Being against Trump is not mutually exclusive to holding media accountable.

I really wish I understood even remotely what you were actually aiming at. "Holding media accountable?"

> I'm afraid people think physical violence is something to be celebrated and used against political opponents.

Okay, stop right here. Let's break this down, because I _do_ think I know what you're talking about. You're mad because #punchanazi is a thing, and because Richard Spencer has been hit twice.

Let's point two things out here:

1. In general, the protest in the US has been overwhelmingly and surprisingly peaceful with the exception of a very small number of extreme groups in the margins, _with 2 exceptions_. Both involve members of a vocal minority of people who incite violence against vulnerable people while claiming that is their ideology.

2. Richard Spencer is someone who plainly and loudly advocates for the removal of anyone who is not "white" from America, by force if necessary. He advocates the end of a free and open society to create a "white homeland." He is not a 'political opponent.' He's an advocate for the collapse of a free, democratic society into a religiously motivated fascist state.

He's a special case. And he represents a historically special case. And before you say I'm misrepresenting his case, you should listen to him talk to people who accuse him of being a fascist actor.

> But your condescending tone is not worthy of further discussion.

It's not my fault you refuse to actually mount an argument there, Red_Tarsius. Other people who are not me and lack my somewhat wry writing style have pointed out you're not bringing much to the table other than hemming and hawing about how put upon you feel and how we should all play nice with the actual nazis among us.

You call yourself "an enemy." I wonder what you think that's really like. There's a really sharp divide in my life around the things that made me feel bad and the people who genuinely hurt me for what I was. I only consider one group my enemy.
I've found that having some sort of background noise going, whether it's music or news or whatever, really helps minimize the extreme "skin crawling" feeling I get listening to people eat, breathe loudly, slurp soup, or whatever it may be. So now I will rarely sit down with my family for dinner without putting on some music first!
Good ads are called sponsorships. It's when the content creator and the advertiser creates a relationship because the advertising is relevant to the content or the audience. In this model the content creator also pledges some of his own reputation to product.

The algorithmic "stick in whatever ad in this box" network system sounds good on paper ("tailored to JUST YOU!"). But I've never seen it actually deliver on the promise. At the very best I get stalked around the web by ads for the thing I just bought last week.
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