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For a noob like me, what are the applications of this framework? What are the use cases? What current tools do this?
Is there some connection between the breeding of the German Shepherd and WWII? My impression is that the breed dates back at least fifty years before that.
>However, again majority of these other scholars and the other theories that you refer to still claim that the synoptic gospels aren't "independently" written, that is, that they weren't written only on "oral traditions."

There are actually mainstream Biblical scholars who propose that all 4 gospels were written mostly independently of each other based mainly on oral tradition.

The argument is that Jewish society at the time transmitted information primarily orally, oral tradition was regarded as more accurate than written sources. The argument goes that they were very practiced in transmitting stories without changes and had been doing so for generations. The gospels were all written within living memory of Christ's life. We're not talking about hundreds of years.

There are also Biblical scholars who believe that Luke was based on eyewitness accounts through interviews both written and oral. These Biblical scholars usually are usually also Christian, but in their academic works aren't arguing from a "spiritual position".

My personal opinion, based on reading many sources on this topic, is that it's likely that Luke combined early written accounts from Mark and other sources with witness interviews to produce his gospel.

"Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, it seemed fitting for me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you in consecutive order, most excellent Theophilus; so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught."
> You mean a completely unproven system that most economists believe cannot possibly be funded without increasing spending to unheard of levels and no you don't save enough by cutting the "inefficiencies of the current system" and has a good chance to quickly die due to inflation?

I could have sworn I've heard that somewhere... oh wait, it's the same tired argument used against every progressive policy since the New Deal. You'll have to forgive UBI supporters for not taking economists seriously given their track record over the last century, during which the developed world increased spending to "unheard of" levels about a dozen times.

The US income tax, which required a Constitutional amendment, is only 104 years old after all.

> Can we please stop bringing up UBI as a silver bullet to all problems in every automation article?

I don't see anyone seriously claiming that UBI is a silver bullet, just that it's the only bullet we have left against our future robotic overlords.
Maybe look at the various social consequences in places where the "immutability" line is or has been sold, versus places and times where it isn't or wasn't.
Twitter mobile website runs now on Node/Express/React
Alas, I bought a new TV just before 4K was a thing. It saved me the temptation of buying one while they were so expensive. The HD level is good enough for me.
There are brand new machines. Some haven't been released yet.

They come with a tiny bit of ram 2 gb, 4 gb if you're lucky.

The processor is 64 bit, but because of the small ram you'll suffer with a 64 bit OS. (Both Microsoft and Arch wiki agree here).
Hah, thanks for catching. Fixed.
Funny how similar argument is used by white nationalists to assert that they have a right not to do business with minorities. The mindsets of far left and far right are oddly similar.
As someone who hasn't read any Vonnegut, what would you recommend I read first?
The plants aren't built yet, so you wouldn't expect to see their impact yet. If you want to see what it might look like, look at another place where similar things are already built.
> If snapchat is 100% successful in their current endeavors, you still get to send poop emojis to your friends down the street.

I don't use snapchat yet I still send poop emojis to my friends down the street.

Whether they succeed or fail will have no impact on my poop emoji sending capability.
Hey Deepak, thanks for the feedback. We've built out a UX team and improving that aspect of the product is high on our list of priorities, but please feel free to reach out if you have any specific issues. Happy to document those for you.
Sure, but do you disagree that P(smart|elite school) > P(smart)?

I feel like people on HN have a giant chip on their shoulder when it comes to top schools. They're filled with lots of very smart students and ignoring that is ridiculous.

Nowhere do I pretend that all smart kids are at top schools, or even that the majority is. But if I wanted to select a school to go to with the highest average IQ it would definitely be an elite school.

It's not like everyone is buying their way into elite schools. I certainly didn't, nor did many of my classmates.
I agree. Curtis gets the facts right for the most part, and the movie is very interesting for historical learning, but the connections he draws and the cause-and-effect relationships he posits are very tenuous. It's one of those "take what you like and leave the rest" type of documentaries.
These dance moves are scientifically proven to be sexy
Look, everyone is supportive of gitlab and how they recovered. but to come out boasting after being down for that long is a hard sell.
It's easy to underestimate the level of data-driven thinking that the Trump campaign brought to bear. Some important reading for those interested:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-hel...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-th...

> First, Cambridge Analytica [a company that was founded in Steve Bannon's office and counts him as a board member] buys personal data from a range of different sources, like land registries, automotive data, shopping data, bonus cards, club memberships, what magazines you read, what churches you attend. Nix displays the logos of globally active data brokers like Acxiom and Experian—in the US, almost all personal data is for sale. For example, if you want to know where Jewish women live, you can simply buy this information, phone numbers included. Now Cambridge Analytica aggregates this data with the electoral rolls of the Republican party and online data and calculates a Big Five personality profile. Digital footprints suddenly become real people with fears, needs, interests, and residential addresses... Cambridge Analytica also uses, Nix told us, "surveys on social media" and Facebook data.

> The embedded Cambridge Analytica team, apparently only a dozen people, received $100,000 from Trump in July, $250,000 in August, and $5 million in September. According to Nix, the company earned over $15 million overall. (The company is incorporated in the US, where laws regarding the release of personal data are more lax than in European Union countries. Whereas European privacy laws require a person to "opt in" to a release of data, those in the US permit data to be released unless a user "opts out.")

> In the Miami district of Little Haiti, for instance, Trump’s campaign provided inhabitants with news about the failure of the Clinton Foundation following the earthquake in Haiti, in order to keep them from voting for Hillary Clinton. This was one of the goals: to keep potential Clinton voters (which include wavering left-wingers, African-Americans, and young women) away from the ballot box, to “suppress” their vote, as one senior campaign official told Bloomberg in the weeks before the election. These “dark posts”—sponsored news-feed-style ads in Facebook timelines that can only be seen by users with specific profiles—included videos aimed at African-Americans in which Hillary Clinton refers to black men as predators, for example.

(Though, with a grain of salt, it's hard to tell which ad campaigns were optimized by CamAnalytica vs. other data scientists on the team: https://twitter.com/GaryCoby/status/825454953560936451 ... but the type of thinking is the same.)

Regardless of your political leanings, it's clear that the arms race in data for politics has reached a new level. If a party (or niche therein), whose views you fundamentally oppose, builds a data science team, are you morally obligated to try to counteract their efforts by helping to build even better targeting for the candidates and views you support? That statement, it would seem, goes both ways.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, especially not in flamewar territory.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13608057 and marked it off-topic.
I disagree. I think "description" is important, and some words facilitate communication.

For example, I consider "heterosexual" and "homosexual" mostly as categorization words, as they tell you almost nothing about a person.

On the other hand, if we used words like "penis-loving" and "vagina-loving", which are descriptions, we'd get along much better. I'm pretty sure I have more in common with vagina-loving women (i.e. bisexual women and lesbians) than with only-penis-loving men (gay men).
Being the exception doesn't exclude the fact that poor kids are at disadvantage of gaining admissions to Ivies. A student from Phillips Exeter Academy has a much higher chance of being accepted vs a very smart but poor kid from a rural America high school.
What does IPC between UWP and native buy you? Do you have some legacy code that has to run natively (been there with a Java app many years ago using TCP to talk to a tiny host process for some native code)?
Wow, the presentation here is really polished. Kudos!

For any readers, the test AFAICT is time to last byte for a single reader. It's a bit unfortunate that it seems local caching is affecting the bagend result by the time you switch the comparison to Firebase (though in full disclosure, Firebase's local cache isn't available on JS so that's a bit on us too).

I could give a few perf tips on the data layout for Firebase but it isn't clear whether the toy app has intentional indirection to model something more real.
> Who forces you ? You can use slack on the web can't you

Slack's web client is still slow. Their "native" client is just a Chrome wrapper over their web app, with some glue code to hook up notifications.

> it has no good web interface so the casual user won't come in

https://webchat.freenode.net works fine. If you need or want help with a project and can't be asked to spend a few moments opening up an IRC client (native or web), then I don't know what to tell you.

> Gitter, Mattermost, and Discord

Gitter and Discord are both closed source, proprietary systems made by companies who want to make money. Open source projects shouldn't rely on them if possible.

Mattermost is OK, but requires running your own server. IRC is free, and there are public servers specifically made for open source projects.
For apartment dwellers I always recommend getting an older dog. Puppies are cute, but they're honestly a lot of work and generally high-energy. After just one or two years most dogs will settle down and you'll have a very good idea of what you're going to get. The adult dogs are perfectly trainable. Most people who get puppies also have no actual skill in how to train dogs, so they're basically rolling the dice on what their dog's personality is going to be like.

Rescue organizations (in the US at least) are a great place to find dogs. The dogs have often been in a domestic setting with a foster owner. The history of the dog is usually known. You'll be adopting dogs in the 2-8yr range and you'll have a great idea of what you're getting.

It can take a while to find the right dog, but it should. It's a decade-long commitment.
I think your second point is the real open question that should be explored deeper.
Your first point however is harmful and patronizing. If you can find coding answers on stackoverflow you can certainly google for information on opening an LLC and a business checking account. There is no need to bring in business partners, you can contract an accountant and even an attorney without compromising anything and just paying for advice.

Just doing one thing all your life is not an excuse for not taking care of yourself. Developers know how to brush their teeth and feed themselves, and they know how to navigate really complex abstractions, they can certainly learn the basics of incorporation and contracts.
The code that took America to the moon was just published
> is so destructive in this town

Destructive to whom?
I could have 100 year old scotch in just 150 days? Hoorah!!!

Oh, wait. This is just based on subjective taste? Well, everyone knows that people, in general, don't have any...
Unless I'm misreading things, the reason they only lost 6 hours of data instead of 24 hours was a chance backup, but there was never an existential crisis here.

Downtime happens to pretty much every service out there. In this case the company was incredibly forthright and so we can make fun of their stupid mistakes, but really most mistakes are stupid when you look at them -- when you make thousands of decisions a day, some of them will seem silly in hindsight. We just never learn about most of them.
I recently tallied up the schools that founders from our Summer 2016 batch went to, and they attended over 180. There are many schools on that list that most people haven't heard of.
"Write everything down" is the ante to function at all!

I agree... but I guess I read that coming from the perspective of someone who isn't a super fan of distributed teams. Many teams think that futzing around in slack or hangouts is enough. "Writing things down" is practically discovering the wheel to some places!
> What other option do they (rather, we) have?

Better jobs. What options do a crack addict have? Very few. That doesn't mean they are better off now being deprived off it, they would be better off never being dependent.

> Keep working to support your family

Why did they have a family when they were at risk? Either didn't perceive the risk, they operated under a false sense of security; or no other options were offered because the jobs that existed were seem as suitable.

If there were no jobs they wouldn't be inclined to settle down. I note that turning down a job can be grounds for losing some welfare benefits.

> Maybe GM or Chrysler has an opportunity for you

speculative. In the context we are talking about there are dangerous correlations: If one worker loses their jobs, the chance that another will increase (due to the possibility of a common cause, in this case automation), not to mention the chance of greater competition from other out-of-work workers (or lower compensation).

> Maybe Facebook or Amazon

Are you still talking about bad jobs? I'd love programming/tech to be more automated, somehow.

> putting the blame on the employee shows a complete lack of empathy for someone because they "chose the wrong path in life"

that's your strawman,not my argument.

> Does the employer have a duty to support the individual who became obsolete?

Do you mean at current, legally? No.

legally or morally, in the future? yes, maybe, who knows. Corporate tax pays for some social welfare.
Things won't change if you're not allowed to criticise the current system.

> we should all collectively have a duty to make sure the lives of these people aren't completely destroyed

I disagree, this isn't enough. We have a duty to make sure the lives are full of this kind of risk too, "completely destroyed" is too low a bar.
It's more expensive in terms of opportunity than money. Sure, an expensive SAT tutor will help but lower class kids usually have to work or take care of a substantial amount of chores in the household. That takes time away from the activities that get them into top schools.
> Derrida’s famously difficult thought is often dismissed as “post-modern” nonsense. Is there more to it than might first appear?

TL;DR: No.

Well-written article, though. Unfortunately for the author, Derrida's philosophy is fundamentally self-defeating, so arguing for its value is an extremely expensive exercise in fighting against the nature of our universe.

So, 30 Rock is my go-to philosophical rebuttal for such displays of mind-numbing struggle: "Life finds a way. Did you learn NOTHING from Jurassic Park?"
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The feeling that the app is shady (because of permission overreach) may stem from the notion that Keybase is a chat app. It is, perhaps in the same sense that a browser running Slack is a chat app. It also includes crytographic key management and message handling via both GUI and command line (the core product), as well as a FUSE-based file system interface that allows transparent encryption/decryption with other users (Keybase FS). Viewed in that light, the installation footprint might be considered more reasonable.
Did you also support Visa's and MasterCard's decisions to stop transactions to WikiLeaks?
I'm all for discussing the intricacies of this topic. However, by the way you position yourself it sounds like you think millions of people are choosing to be gay just to mess with you or something.
I should probably have clarified that, where the focus is on physical performance and trainability.

The focus on "sloped backs" among GSD breeders is a tragedy.
Virtually all pet dogs can't do some of the things that dogs would do in the wild. Why is running hard in hot weather one of our sticking points?
You can change that on your personal prefs to show the file list by default, with Readme on bottom: http://c.ekin.io/3z1V2v3P041b

git push speed is fine on our own ce installation but gitlab.com is beyond shitty.
Maybe I'm ignorant but my understanding was it's not really a social construct for us, it's often rooted in the understanding of genetics that makes inbreeding a bad idea.
Columbia has 8,410 undergraduates

University of Illinois has 32,878 undergraduates

the 75% SAT score for the college of engineering at University of Illinois was 1530 (no writing, so out of 1600)

https://admissions.illinois.edu/Apply/Freshman/profile

the 75% SAT score at Columbia was 2330 (including writing so 2330 * 2/3 = 1553.33333333

https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/classprofile/2019

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the top 25% of a place like university of Illinois (and a lot of other big state schools like it), probably represents a critical mass of intelligent young people that would be pretty competitive with ivy league schools

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also, while ivy league school give out generous amounts of aid, Illinois students aren't filtered by exactly how generous a discount the financial aid office wants to give on at 55k a year tuition (I suspect the top 25% does pretty well scholarship money wise at Illinois too)
So, he was right about at least one thing then. :)
Sounds like you should keeps your wealth and buy uzi-armed guards. Giving it away to peasants will allow them to buy uzis.
I should have said that the idea of him suggesting topdown planing didn't come to me after watching the film but after hearing an interview he gave concerning the film. In the following clip, at around ~0:25, he briefly talks about having a big vision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_R98EBO7s

> A revolution can be a nice first step, but it's a waste of time if you don't know the specifics of how everything should run the day after the revolution is finished.

The way I see it, a revolution is often necessary but seldom met with success. I am not confident that what follows can be specified. I think it rather emerges from circumstances which may or may not turn out to be a boon. Whether or not there are specifics may be a question of the altitude from which you look at it, though.

Having said that, I don't want to discount your comment in any way. Just my two cents. I am not a professional revolutionary ;)
gmail _could_ work: use the IMAP endpoint with an offline client.
If you need to use mailing on an 56k connection, it's either Squirrelmail or regular mail clients.
I think you're confusing sympathy and solidarity towards their engineers (which I was very glad to see) with "wow, this could happen to anyone". Quoting from their post-mortem:

> So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place.

It's not true that having zero tested working backup/restore strategies happens to everyone. It's a catastrophic failure in process. Let's not blame any specific engineers, but it seems totally appropriate to blame the CEO (who was the subject of the puff piece!) and decrease your trust in the company appropriately.
Interesting thoughts! We're definitely trying to strike a balance between reliability and short-term popularity. One of the ways we're trying to solve is by every day pushing up "wildcard" products that are getting traction.

Another of our bets is that since a user can only recommend a product once, over time the more obvious products should find it relatively more difficult to get new recommendations and newer products will surface.

This effect might become more noticeable with some filters (e.g. recommendations only from YC companies).
New research to help preserve the benefits people receive from nature
IRC is simple enough for developers of and those using open source projects. Slack and their ilk have more of a place handling internal communications where non-technical people need to be involved.
If you want examples of "industrial-sized" Go projects right now, you may have to look at case studies for proprietary cloud infrastructure, e.g. CloudFlare, Fastly, DigitalOcean, SoundCloud, and SendGrid. These companies obviously don't open up their product code, but they've been happy to share some information about their use of Go.
I think he understands the article, and that you're not following his point. He's saying: yes, due to genetic defects in the breed, his dogs can't run in hot weather. Solution: don't have the dogs run in hot weather.
This is normal, and gamers also experience it. It's only an issue if it's interfering with your sleep regularly. You'll find that it's most acute when you're deep in a problem or learning something completely new. If you find yourself in a "loop," get up and read a few pages from a book that you're not too excited about (not code related, history or a novel). The dreams should recede when you're under less cognitive load during the day, which should happen as you learn in your role.
The typographic enhancements with the expansion of Web Fonts and...
Is using a catering service cheaper for a company than building your own kitchen and hiring a chef?

For what it's worth, Google's cafes are run by third party vendors. I am sure they make healthy profits as well.
>>Languages like Java and JavaScript don't let you lay data out

You can do enough magic in Java, if need be. It's just not easy and you'd using arrays (not objects) or direct byteBuffers

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Btw the entire test runs in L1, so memory layout irrelevant. It's just not a good test.