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> Being able to correctly identify logical fallacies is an important skill in and of itself.

It's not, really. A person who understands the notions of necessity and sufficiency, knows what a counterexample is, and knows their truth tables (with or without really knowing the textbook definitions of these things) should be able to function just fine without knowing the names of all the various fallacies.

(consider how many people who are inclined to complain about logical fallacies do not understand these things, and therefore misapply the labels)
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He may subconsciously sabotage his own rehabilitation because doing so could net him even more compensation. I strongly believe that now that he's received compensation and full public exoneration, he should be expected to return to supporting himself. There are a lot of people who are in much more difficult circumstances than him. We cannot provide unlimited aid to every person who's been wronged or suffered trauma. It has to be proportionate and within society's ability ability to support.
Supply and demand is the underpining of a market. It's nothing new at all.
This is absolutely completely untrue. I've heard this so many times from my Ukrainian friends. If Russia and Ukraine swapped populations somehow, but leaders would remain the same I guarantee you would do absolutely nothing in the circumstances in Russia.

In Ukraine, the leader was weak, the opposition well financed, the quality of life was less satisfying than in Russia and there was a clear window of opportunity. And even then it all ended up with a different group of corrupt oligarchs taking control. In essence, nothing changed in Ukraine, at least for the better. You can't blame war for everything.

> Russians are more inclined to believe they cannot change anything, just like the opinion you expressed in your comment.

First of all, this would clearly be considered racist by some, but luckily I don't care. I'm sure there are people in Ukraine who are also level-headed and realistic enough to consider how real politics works. Again, I highly recommend the book to get a realistic perspective.

Finally, just to make it clear, I do not support any kind of war and have nothing against Ukraine wanting to break ties with Russia.
All this stuff was old school batch processing, probably on some shared mainframe somewhere, or more likely an ancient AS/400 in a closet somewhere. As a customer, it wasn't necessarily more reliable, just slow and difficult to deal with, and reliant on finding an employee with a clue.

If you're suffering from poor personal banking experiences, seriously look for a credit union. I do most of my banking with a mid-sized credit union, and they are exponentially more competent and better to deal with than any commercial bank.

On the commercial side, my wife was a finance director, and while she didn't handle payroll or borrowing, she did a lot of billing, receivables and some treasury processes at various times. Her employer used a "too big to fail" mega bank, a bigger commercial bank (at that time) and a regional player that was growing. The regional bank was better in every respect, they were hungrier for the business and because it was a newer/growing line of business, their processes were clean and reliable. The "too big to fail" bank was hooking together legacy crap from 5 different merged banks. Their priority was issues with Fortune 50 and .gov clients.
As a department head I've hired almost 100 people over the last 12 months (We are growing very fast at the moment). The majority of these are applications that come in through a normal application, although I'm not sure how many resumes never make it past recruiting.

Next to this, we have grown the team by moving over employees from other departments asking for internal transfers, these have about the same success rate as external applicants.

And then there are referrals from people who already work in the department (can be for people who already work for the company). The success rate on these candidates is indeed higher. I think this is because the person referring them has already thought about whether the person referred is a fit or not. We give them the same interview process, and don't always tell the interviewer that the candidate is a referral.

That said, I see 3 things that might push the reality closer to what you said "most jobs are filled through referrals".:

1. If you're hiring only a few people, the statistics will probably bias towards referrals. It is easy to get a few referrals for a specific position if you need them.

2. Referrals might end up on the desk of the hiring manager earlier (e.g. from employee to hiring manager) compared to an official application (webform to recruiting to manager). Sometimes we can close a position before the first resumes from recruiting even land on my desk.

3. As jobs get more senior, a hiring mistake becomes more expensive, and in that sense hiring a strong referral is on average going to reduce this risk. So, for higher level jobs I think indeed that many are filled through networking or targeted reach-outs rather than open applications.
Ask HN: Is Accidental Complexity Growing Faster Than Essential Complexity?
I've recently been involved with a few line-of-business projects recently that have been fairly successful. They all use well-honed agile principles, and they met the requirements that their Product Owners had of them, and by all measures were successful.

However, simultaneously, I'm seeing a great deal of technical complexity being introduced to systems: microservices and SPAs (with all the attendant web stack complexity) being the most common. A lot of it seems to be driven by a need for developers to keep their CVs shiny, or because smart developers want cool things to play with, or because of "Google envy". There seems to be very little engineering justification for these approaches in most cases, and technically simpler approaches would work better.

I've been thinking about Fred Brooke's Mythical Man Month, in which he described 2 forms of complexity: Accidental Complexity as being technical in nature, while Essential complexity relating to the problem domain, and being more intractable.

Although Essential complexity remains stubborn in business systems, I believe we are slowly getting to the point where it is being tamed through more responsive (agile) dev practices, leading to happier customers who get software that does what they expect. On the other hand, I feel that accidental complexity is exploding, and for the first time in my career, it is growing at a faster rate than essential complexity, and masking a lot of the gains we are getting from improved processes. Is this a fair observation, or am I just jaded?
I actually wrote a little compiler that converts AsciiMath to LaTeX for a course in school.

Hooked up the executable to an Automator service so I could highlight some AsciiMath text and replace it with LaTeX from the right-click menu. Much faster for writing math notes in LaTeX!

If anyone's interested, the project's at https://github.com/studouglas/AsciiMathToLatex. Haven't touched it since I made it, so don't judge too hard :p
I agree with his train of thought 100%. But I see the three virtues could also be reworded to: 'Economy', 'Vision', 'Courage'.

Thanks for the share, I like his way of thinking a lot. :)
Do the batteries retain so much of their value because energy density (J/kg) of batteries hasn't improved for a long time? If a battery new tech comes out that is sufficiently energy dense (and is mass produced), these old batteries won't have much value except as scrap.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602245/why-we-still-dont-...
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Maybe they're not as good as they think?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
It just leads to the starcraft website
Boo I thought it was a reference to fictional Tom Parris's holodeck program
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200ms delay is easily noticeable. Even 50ms is noticeable. And latency is cumulative, and your user's hardware already adds some, so you never know exactly how much latency budget you have before the whole system feels unpleasant.

I think 25ms is a reasonable goal, and even 10ms wouldn't be a waste of effort. All interactive software should be written like a fast-paced action game.
s/Play Store/underground carding forum/i and you're pretty much correct
hrm... wasn't for me. Not that I'm Mr. Charismatic - but I changed my thinking and perspective of the world, and as a side effect I gained all sorts of charisma from it i've specifically never had before - to the point where I get free food at restaurants I frequent.

To be come charismatic, I think you need to start with your own acceptance. After that, everyone else becomes easier.
No problem, you are welcome.

If you don't know it already: You can find older post via search box on the bottom. Or, if you submit links via the handy bookmarklet like me, click on "past" in the top line with the points. I'll delete my posts usually if there was a recent (<1 year) submission.
Is that QR code on the Terran's forehead the introduction to an ARG? I don't have time to decode it at the moment, so I'm wondering if anyone else has.
This could also be applied to baked goods, and with time, even expiring produce. It would be something to benefit both the consumer and the store!
Why does a dishwasher need to have "storage" at all?
Hope it won't take years.
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From my experience working at Amazon, they do take it very seriously. They've got multiple teams working on automated detection of counterfeit using rules, machine learning, etc., and hundreds of investigators looking into cases.

They allow return of counterfeit and will reimburse you fully, and they'll have the item return to them for inspection.

If they know you've frauded before, they try and block you from the platform by fingerprinting you and your accounts.

The issue is that there's too many sellers and too many product, it's a really hard problem to solve. Counterfeit has improved considerably too, sometimes it even comes from the same factory, they call it the "night shift".

And while we try to prevent it, we also have to balance out false positive rates, not to hurt the seller's buisness without real cause.

I'm afraid most websites will suffer from this, if you want to be sure, try to buy straight from the manufacturer, but even then, make sure you double check the website, not all manufacturers sell directly and online, so that could also be fraud.
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You'll enjoy these two videos from Alan Kay and Uncle Bob Martin, respectively:

"Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

"The Future of Programming" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc&list=PLcr1-V2ySv...
It's much more about giving up the attempt to hack people. The last three sentences of the article sum it up well:

Stop trying to impress people or "win" the conversation. It's really much simpler than that. Just listen intently and make people feel good about themselves.
From the issue tracker, it looks like the project could use some help - anyone want to hop on and triage?
I doubt any one but you thought I meant that CEOs make more money than 300x ALL their workers, but er, thanks for the clarification anyway.

I didn't say the statistics refute the claim, I said the article's claim is mostly based on a graph that fails to take extreme executive pay into account when discussing average worker pay. The statistics I cite back that up.

And the word you're looking for is 'whose'. Who's means ' who is'. Apostrophes can be tricky, I know, but hey - you got pedantic on me first.
It is a QR code! I just scanned it and it had a url.. http://starcraft.com.
I have flirted with GooAma AppMicroFace, and got a few interviews deep once, but after careful thought I stopped the process, and now I ignore the biggest tech companies. I simply don't want to be a cog in a giant machine, and therefore my talents will always go to start ups and small companies. Surely I can't be the only person who refuses to work for the top tech companies out of preference?
They're higher-resolution and a better colour-depth, but it's a bit jarring how they're all identical... at first-glance the game's overall visuals feel like a low-production-value freemium web-game.

If they did things like apply random aesthetic changes (like dirt, grime, slightly different greebling) to structures of the same class then I think that would make the game look better - some games did that, for example CNC Generals had different models for the GLA Technical vehicle, and non-functional animation speeds for infantry units were randomised too.
> Was there something wrong with having a serial connection to another device that handled the reporting like every other machine?

From the manufacturer docs, that is the most common option for these things: https://www.miele.de/media/ex/hk/Professional/CSSD.pdf

Slightly cynical answer: In medical environments? Then the device on the other end of the serial connection is probably vulnerable and/or horribly outdated, either by being an embedded device made to the same (lack of) quality standards, or by being a desktop PC running Windows 2000, or software requiring to run as Domain Admin for no good reason, ...
Fascinating but flawed.

> By targeting internet companies in particular, I’d chosen an industry with a high likelihood of reliance on resume-processing algorithms.

Internet companies hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes.

By contrast banks, insurance companies and departments like call center hire armies of drones.

You are much more likely to find automated resume analysis in the latter, it works much better there.
:( I'd hoped that by the time we're flying around the galaxy in spaceships we would have moved from HTTP to HTTPS.
This CEO is democratically elected – his staff can fire him once every year
Yeah, typing too fast. Thanks for parsing my terrible grammar. Ah to be human :)

First off, I mean I don't get angry about the disruption. Honestly, nine times out of ten, volunteering once a week to do something like take my daughter to gymnastics class with the other kids and leave my wife at home puts things on an even keel faster than almost anything else I've encountered. That's just one example, but acknowledging the flexibility working from home provides and taking advantage of it, so long as deadlines don't slip.

Then making sure I'm honest in my conversations with my supervisor about the time I took off in the middle of the day, especially if she wasn't aware of it, so that she knows what I was doing, my plan for getting my work done (usually a little work after kids go down instead of a TV show with my wife), and that I don't plan on doing that every week.
Good point. These are smart people developing these sandboxes - they know what they're getting themselves, and their users, in for.
But we've been doing it our entire lives. Children learn their parents and learn how to best manipulate them. Men learn what women respond to and try to orient themselves towards that.

Televangelist Robert Tilton manipulated people in an anti-social way - so don't do that. But Bernie Sanders manipulated millions to become politically and socially engaged.

I think for me, the gauge is: if the other person found out I was actively using tactics on them, would they be angry, or accepting and curious? Tact has a lot to do with it, and who you are otherwise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13962309
Why not? If you have a water leak, you get a high bill and then you can ask your water agency to refund you if you fix the leak. ISTM being infected and spewing data could be handled similarly.

Currently there is effectively no incentive to avoid having a gadget that joins a botnet.
This must feel a bit like a blow to the shieldbattery developers. I hope the community will continue using it despite this announcement.
For the cost of a new battery, you essentially get a car that performs just as good as the day it rolled off the assembly line. And since most tend to come with collision avoidance ability, more EV's might outlive their first battery without any accidents.
I am aware what that 3.5 billion number means, but others may not be, so thanks for that.

Only last year, the number was 62 people owning as much wealth as the poorest half the world, the year before that was around 87 I think. It's a good number to keep an eye on. In a discussion about inequality, the number is very relevant, and far from meaningless.
> Collect as many emails as you can.

How would you go about doing this? I'm at the pre-launch stage myself, and this is proving to be a harder than I thought. I've only tried Facebook Ads as of now, with limited ROI.
This op-ed is by Senator Orin Hatch and it's really about the evils of venue shopping. This is governed by the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b):

(b) Any civil action for patent infringement may be brought
in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or
where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and
has a regular and established place of business.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1401

Alrighty then. The trouble is that Hatch is reviewing the TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods case and hoping against hope for a good outcome from the Court. Dude, you're a Senator in the majority and a past Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Have you considered legislation?
This is a terrible analysis. First of all, it assumes that the cost of a kWh of battery remains at today's high value. If battery costs are falling rapidly (and they are), then the value of a used battery pack will be driven down as inexpensive new packs come on the market. Second, it ignores the fact that 10-year-old packs will have a substantially higher rate of catastrophic failure than new packs, and if reliability is paramount then a used pack that is closer to failure won't have that much value. Third, the fact that every car brand uses very different pack designs means that it would be a nightmare to design some kind of heterogeneous power storage system made up of batteries from Leafs, Bolts, Fiats, Teslas, i3's, etc.

The current situation is that EV resale prices for everything but Teslas are plunging like a rock. Three year old Fiat 500e's are selling at auction for $4k, which is already less than the author's purported resale value of their batteries at 10 years.
I'm a bit confused by your question. I'm saying it might be reasonable to charge per byte sent, that's all.
You can set the skill level. As a complete chess novice, I can do okay at very low difficulty. A level or two above the minimum and it completely wrecks me though.

For anyone interested in playing with it yourself, you can use python-chess (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-chess) to set up / play against the engine (or make engines play against each other) without having to directly use the UCI commands.

edit: It looks like there are quite a few other front-ends that will work with Stockfish. Fritz and PyChess look popular. I just used python-chess for a project a while ago.
'Member StarCraft? 'Member the Matrix? I 'member.

(This game was a huge part of my childhood. Love it.)
I have this book. It's cute.
Yep.

We need to just skip all this JS and other web standards nonsense and skip straight to the writing Golang, Rust, C, whatever, that is delivered (as a binary) through the browser and into a nice little sandbox that exposes system level APIs (notification, temp file storage - everything we can already kinda do in JA now) so we can get on with a faster, better web.

(Kind of makes me think we have this now: Docker/containers. Hmm... hit an HTTPS endpoint and a Docker container is downloaded and the application is launched...)
I'm deliberately threadjacking here to reply to this first helpful comment, because I cannot see any evidence that the OP ever responds to any of the replies they have sought, e.g. this one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967272

I get it why there can be helpful info on discussions like this, for others...

But when the person who asks never goes into any detail, I am sorry, but it just wastes so many people's time. Furthermore, the earlier Ask HN, indicates there's lots to be done, prior to any launch, and that many services that are geared to product launches, would probably not be affordable to this person, because they seem in too early a stage, being quite generous as to their other circumstances.

This sort of thing really is probably best done by paying LinkedIn to search the detailed skills / services in a database like that, instead of trying to make HN a personal, but not at all personalized (for nothing about the specific needs is given, at all) commercial meet and greet / help wanted board.

edit: typo/clarity
If there is sufficient demand from utilities for these batteries, wouldn't​ the supply get ramped up?

I assume at a certain scale, the costs go down for everyone. Part of why used combustion engines don't retain much value.
A touch on the forearm is what I`ve experienced most from saleswomen, a breast press on my arm has occurred more than once. Always* during a negotiation when I was the prospective buyer.

*Excluding social interactions.
In other words, there is very little demand for "Busting confirmation bias via Objective analysis of customer discovery interviews" as a service, even though you might think it should be profitable.

There is some kind of lesson for both founders and "founder advisors" somewhere in there. I think it goes something like this: "The market is an irrational, complex beast and people who post-rationalize don't even know what is going on until WhatsApp has already been acquired by Facebook for a gazillion dollars" :-)
Anyone knows if you are going to be able to select more than 12 units? And if auto spawn to minerals when workers pop up?
I doubt any one but you thought I meant that CEOs make more money than 300x ALL their workers, but er, thanks for the clarification anyway.

You are completely misinterpreting me. I was not arguing against this claim at all.

The statistic you cite claims that a select set of CEOs make more than the average worker across all firms. I.e., the CEO of Goldman makes 300x more than the average worker at Goldman and Walmart combined.

It does not make any claims about inequality within forms - i.e., whether the CEO of Goldman makes 300x the average worker at Goldman.
> Not to mention, your search in an ad-less world will simply return... ads. Because that's what ads are meant be: persuasive arguments -- salespeople calcified in text.

The last person I'd ask for advice about what to buy is a salesperson.

Besides which, in an ad-less world, how would a search return ads? :) It would return independent and unbiased product reviews.

> Let's take this ad-less world to its logical extreme ... design and paint every building so it's the perfect shade of uniformity; strike down any person that so chooses to wear any clothing but our perfect shade

This is not a "logical extreme"; this is a straw man that fell down a slippery slope.

> ads serve a purpose

The purpose of convincing me to buy things I wouldn't otherwise have bought, which they do by lying, misrepresenting, dissembling, and psychologically manipulating. (Especially Internet advertising.) I feel no obligation to support that purpose, especially when pursued using those means.
Software still does this today. For example, a large part of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721822 is down to progress bar rendering making the loading of the saved-data file be much slower. :( See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721822#c32 for the most recent data there...