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Legacy costs for Ford and GM are only decreasing as they stopped giving out pensions in the 90s. As their retirees keep dying off, those expenses won't be replaced.

Also, I know from experience Ford uses their ability to generate cash and borrow cheaply to give "buyouts" to large chunks of retirees at a time (ie. They offer a lump sum of $1 million dollars today instead of a pension. This almost always works out in the company's favor).
How did the A.I. in the expansions or sequels compare?
Most immigrants treat graduate degrees like a back foot toward immigration. Sure the ones at MIT should stay here, but most are getting a masters at Mississippi state, in hopes of immigrating.
You are entitled to your opinion. Less noisy, I agree. More readable, I agree on that too. But if you want to take actions on the list, like add them to your reading list or even know a little bit more about the books, it takes quite a few back and forth between Google/Amazon whatever you are using.

And if a lot of people are interested in that (and people are interested), that's a lot of work for a lot of people.

That's what I've tried to reduce here.
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In my personal experience remote work does not work so well. At least I haven't been able to make it work for me.

For the second point, well I think expensive cities are expensive because people want to be there. If you can choose to live anywhere, why not go to the best place, specially when you can afford it?
I miss Empire Earth... spent hours and hours on that game as a kid. Super advanced map editor, tons of variety in gameplay, even the single player scenarios were great. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Too late now https://qz.com/889524
Company I'm at (and building up a team at) is currently ramping up our QA/SDET efforts here in the US, as my belief is that we want the Quality Engineers to be as close as possible to the regular engineers (to the extent possible) - for maximum benefit (rapid iterations, faster to fail, higher velocity).

Been interviewing a ton of QA/SDET candidates over the last few weeks, and a challenge is that so few (regardless of immigration/legal status) seem to be open to working with many different languages/tech in any given day - meanwhile switching between areas that historically may be perceived to be within coding, product management, ops.

It's a challenge finding people that fluently can navigate between all those areas. I strongly believe the future of QA is in filling out this void that is - usually - left behind when you have Product/Dev/Ops working together; nothing encompasses all disciplines but good QA folks.
Vienna / Austria is like this.
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Because developers are social animals too?
As someone who is really interested in DNA programming but not am expert in biology, how approachable is the editing.

If I'd like to make trees that have a firefly glow at night, is this something that can be done by an amateur?

How about creating plants with higher efficiency of photosynthesis than 4-5% in most plants.
So I live in Boston, and bought a condo in the slums as soon as I could. Not the worst slum (Green St., near Hatoff's gas station for those who know JP), but 50 yards from a halfway house, the suboxone at Arbour counseling and the needles near it, Mattapan is pretty close.

5 years later the condo is up 40%, Hatoff's gas is now being destroyed for (I assume?) more condos, a brewpub is opening pretty close, and families are moving in everywhere. And my mortgage is still $1500, and it will be for the next 25 years until it's paid off.

So why move? I can make great money and I locked into an improving neighborhood. Don't a lot of young people with useful skills do this? Buy into a hood-ish area and wait for it to develop?

I wouldn't have raised a family here before gentrification, but every month it seems more realistic...

My point is, I live an expensive city but I made the right decisions. And now it isn't so expensive, and when I'm at 10 years, 15, 25 years experience, I will still be here.

And anyone who thinks I'm bragging, you can do the same thing I did. My recommendation is Jackson Square and Roxbury Crossing, you can find quite affordable properties in Roxbury. Don't buy where things are nice now, buy where things will be nice later.

EDIT - Hatoff's is just undergoing renovations.[0] I wish it would close! Cheapest gas in the entire city, and connected to a gambling parlor. Not quite gentrified yet...

EDIT 2 - Yes down-vote all you want, sorry me and thousands of other people make economically rational decisions regarding where we put down stakes.

[0] http://www.jamaicaplainnews.com/2017/04/02/historic-hatoffs-...
Without any kind of accreditation I wonder if there's a slander angle here.
Poltifact's description of an environment where all students and retirees don't need to work is not only unlikely but unrealistic.
RFID chips get obsolete. Eg original Mifire chip is considered insecure and should be replaced.

Do you know which chip you have in?

I saw the related Mythbusters episode and they mention it not easy to remove the chip after some years.
Interesting game AI still doesn't look good. The "cinematic" approach is to replace all systematic stuff (with potentially stiff/unsolved in-between animations) with motion-captured, "realistic" looking sequences.

The same stuff that made critics laugh at enemies not seeing you when standing on a 0.5 square meter shadow in the middle of a well-lit room because you're technically "hidden in darkness" is what is now "solved" by removing the mechanics altogether in favor of safe and cool looking scripted sequences.

Basically, this: https://twitter.com/robotduck/status/759529875992698880
Not an easy task http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/24/indians-among-...
Thanks, The idea behind the BK-tree is ingenious.

I'm struggling with finding a use case for that data structure through. Why would you construct a BK-tree that would only become powerful when it contains millions of words, which would then create a nuisance when representing that amount of data in memory, making it not so fast anymore, when you could represent the same data in a compressed form and with the same (as well as an extended set of) querying capabilities?

Perhaps BK-trees are for big machines with powerful CPUs? I'm sure there is a setup that would make that tree in fact better than any other tree.
[...] and test them against data

No, in fact they don't. It's hard to believe, I know.
F1 is just one type of what is know as "road course" racing in the US. There are plenty of other categories, including off road.

Having driven Nurburgring as well as having spent days training at well known US race courses I can tell you that turning left all day feels just like being on a busy freeway. Take away the crashes and nobody would care.

A road course requires skills not found in the "let's all turn left for 200 laps" courses. Not even close.

The other aspect of road courses is that they require a very different level of concentration and physical endurance. Hard to understand this without spending a few hours driving a race car on a road course.

OK. Yes, I know NASCAR goes to road courses a couple of times a year. Yet, NASCAR, for the most part, is oval-turn-left racing.
I've been living in Abu Dhabi (capital of UAE) for the last 12 years and although I started getting more and more annoyed with the country, I can absolutely confirm what you're saying. Safety is almost always at the top of the pros/cons list.
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Hello Blake, is there any chance Recursion is considering hiring a software engineering intern, or might consider it in the future? I'm a CS student at the University of Utah planning on pursuing bioinformatics. I've come across your company online several times and am really intrigued by the approach you're taking to disease research.
As someone who owns a few (literally a few) TSLA, I wonder how the financials would hold up to this kind of analysis now.

Then again, the snarkiness of the article and it's clear political bias makes me wonder how a more level-headed analyst would feel.
Could happen by accident too
Because some of the most expensive cities are awesome places to live, if you can afford it.
You can't, but you can search for a job with an employer who would be willing to sponsor an H1-B. Being in the country makes it much easier.
The fact that the report doesn't even mention that there people like me that don't deserve updates, just because we aren't willing to pay over 500 € is what triggered me off.

The dasboard tracks versions in the wild, not the amount of users that were blessed with an update.

The report is presented in such a way, as if during 2016 the OEMs had a change of heart and now all provide updates.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Alan%20Kay%27s%20reading%20lis...

Dozens(!) of comments by Alan on the last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803165.
1. HW resources: games run on extremely tight HW budgets. It's probably the most competitive, cut-through industry in terms of what you can afford to do with a given CPU/memory/bandwidth per frame. While DL is still in the "let's throw a thousand GPUs at it, wait for a week, see what happens".

2. Quality control: DL is a blackbox. Bad for the playing experience for obvious reasons. And even if just using pre-trained models, the lack of control goes directly against what both the designers and players typically want (predictable fun).

3. Finally, DL hasn't made THAT much progress here, actually. There have been serious efforts to apply DL to modern games (e.g. DeepMind with Starcraft), but what you've probably seen is "just" DL applied to some finite-state, 100% deterministic, complete-information, zero-sum games. A far cry from complex dynamic environments.

Which is not to say it cannot be done. Just that the incentives (both business and technological) are aligned differently -- too little bang for a lot of buck.
I was responding to your nonsense advice that 12+ character random ASCII is somehow better or more secure than a "correct horse battery staple" or diceware-style password. They have identical security properties, given appropriate choice of N.

If you are going to memorize passwords, feel free to memorize ASCII gibberish if that's what you are into. Or memorize random phrases, since many (most?) humans find those easier to remember.
"Working anywhere" isn't as great as people make it sound. Being remote-only severely reduces your job pool, which is fine if you've got a good enough resume to get hired by anyone, but not so much if you're average and competing with everyone else.

Once you have the job, you find that it takes a terrifying amount of discipline to get as much work done at home, or in a coffee shop, as you could in an office. Some people can manage it; many can't.
You can actually refill your account in person with cash too, it's just that credit card reloads are more convenient for most people buying $7 caffeinated milkshakes (no judgement, I love me some frap)
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I have pretty much the same story (but 4 years) and lived in Sonora and Nayarit. I have close friends living in Sinaloa (expats of 20 years).

I now live in Guanajuato, and the only crime I've heard of first or second hand in the years in mx was a worker taking some cash which was laying around, and some gringo's stealing from each other.

On the other hand I lost three friends in hurricane Odile, so I guess don't forget nature can be a much bigger threat if not given enough respect.
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I find physicians like the idea of working for doctors, and hospitals have shrewdly supported the role of 'chief medical officer", while keeping financial controls with the other C level officers. The Children's Hospital in San Diego is famously "Rady's" because the physicians ran it into the ground and the Rafy family bailed it out on condition they accept professional management practices. Not coincidentally, the Rady family also funded the the UCSD Rady School of Management. Also not coincidentally, many health care workers loathe working there, generally attributing this to a belief that management is more interested in the bottom line than patient outcomes, and this leads to a general distrust of Management.
My biggest. pet. peeve.
Only if you're okay with benevolent dictators for life..
I am mostly amazed that this is the first time that I've read in depth about John Scott Haldane, who is the father of noted evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Super interesting.
A quick rollback frees up the developer's contextual burden and makes it easy to take calculated risks. This works better in some environments, of course. You wouldn't want it in testing a medical support system, for example. LinkedIn goes a bit further and has continuous release monitoring: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2015/11/monitoring-the...
There's a similar issue with finance: someone anywhere in the world can execute stock market trades from a computer. But as a practical matter in the US 90% of trades are executed in a few blocks from each other.
At that moment the ex-tenant can also sue for 3x the deposit amount.
Well, no one's 100% safe from discrimination lawsuits.

However, looks like such practices are not considered discriminatory by law.

> Two federal laws, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA), offer protections against discrimination. The ECOA forbids credit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or whether you receive income from a public assistance program.
Does it really matter? For example, the books he laid out as exaple were probably edited multiple times before release. And most books written by foreign authors are translated and adapted to the language you are reading them in.

Most translations of the bible try to keep as close to the source as possible and manage to do so. And if you imply som morphing of the bible that happened during its existance, there is historical evidence that seems to prove that it remained quite constant.

I see diyseguy post quite interesting, in that he is aware of the priming that still is in his mind and the way that it influences his thinking. I see him not more excessive importance to the bible than many of the people that quote from works of fiction on HN.
I really enjoyed Trieste during the day a couple of years ago, delightful and historic. Haven't seen much of it at night though. It's not unlikely it's got a larger percentage of folks coming through from the Balkans / Eastern Europe than other Italian cities due to its position. There's been tension in the country in the past couple of decades due to inbound migrations from that area.
As far as I could tell, Halo's AI wasn't actually that advanced from a planning perspective the way FEAR did it. The key was that each type of enemy had very different behaviors, so that in the chaos of a gunfight you'd feel like you were faced with a mixed strategy of behaviors meant to push you in specific ways. The Pacman ghost approach, but bigger scale.
Sounds like you're only two-three LSD trips from a major break-through. Good luck man!
This rules out superconductors, does it not?
do you run a business? if not, keep it that way.
what's the murder rate measured on? Chicago is already almost 1% of the population, so I don't see how the murder rate per capita is 50 or 100 times the national average.

Also "200 million Americans don't even live in areas with bad stats" is another way of saying "100 million Americans live in areas with high murder rates"... seems like a larger issue than you're implying
Having personal transportation, rather a horse, a bike, or a car, is pretty vital for a lot, if not most of us, here in the US.

Self driving shuttle services will be a great new way to transport us, especially in metro areas, but this won't work very far from the center of those so if the valuation of that market is too optimistic in regards to Tesla the holders of their stock will pay for it.

If you look at the number of US car companies that have started from scratch in the past 70 years you don't see many still standing (pretty close to none). Tesla has a very different model though so we can't lump them in with most all of the others.

In my own humble opinion, I think Tesla's fate will be decided by how fast they can produce a low end, very affordable and dependable car for the masses. If they can deliver that within the next 3-4 years they've got a very good shot at moving up to competing with Ford and GM.

If they instead try to compete with higher end cars they'll find that's a hard road to travel. At some point soon the big players will produce a car that's a competitive option and dilute their market and they'll die.

It's worth remembering that both Honda and Toyota captured market here with affordable dependable cars, not luxury cars. Those came quite a few years later.

I fully expect Tesla will produce an affordable car though, and it would make perfect sense if they called it a "Model T".
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Where does it state which devices got which patch level?

Just because a fix is available today doesn't mean an old Nexus will get it.

As for agenda, as a consumer and developer, I want a device where I am able to use the same Java libraries as on a regular Java and get updates as on any of my computers without having to pay more than a month salary for such time limited privilege.
As others replied, it varies.

In Japan, an ATM inside a bank might hold up to 40 million yen (≅ USD 350k) while an external one might have up to 30 million (≅ USD 270k).

Japan's a fairly safe country but there have been many cases of ATMs getting stolen too. Power shovel seems to be the method of choice.
But this isn't 100 miles of a course (in fact it's likely more). It's also not a course. You need to figure out how to get to the checkpoints over obstacles, through brush, night and day. You also need to do it alternating clockwise/counter clockwise, except the last lap... it's a far cry from a flat, supported 100 miler.
No, this is not a private currency - Amazon is not issuing currency, you are depositing US dollars into an account.
Hood can stay hood a lot longer than your personal life timeline. It's kind of like the assertion 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent'. Younger people who want to buy somewhere affordable get long commutes instead in boring bedroom communities.
technically there isn't a "real" course, but a set of checkpoints.
"Exterminate an entire race" - if your referring to Jews, then it is sad that you adopt Hitler's position that Jews are a separate and distinct race. That position is the start of a slippery slope that ends with them being sub-human and "other" than "us".
Not to be pedantic, but if someone understands monoids well from abstract algebra and someone else says:

"By the way, in addition to all the existing monoids you know (Ints under '+', strings, lists...), functions under function composition also form a monoid. Here's an example."

Isn't that pretty much getting them to the same place? Do they really need a study of category theory?
Yes but where do you think all the information flows
Looking at the CSS Grid examples, I am not sure why? Tables and Divs with reflow can do the same, but with more predictable outcome and less boilerplate.

How about optimising the existing render-paths even more in Blink/Webkit/Gecko instead requiring us to wrap the head around new-but-old things to make it easier for you (the engine devs). Or who else thought it's a good idea to invent yet another syntax. There was a lot of unfounded hate against Tables for the last 15 years, but as we all learned out, Tables have there place.
Student loan servicers are guaranteed repayment by statute. They are in a much easier business than mortgage lenders.

That said, Navient is in the business of collecting on debts, and they have every right to do so within the bounds of the law. They don't owe borrowers anything.
Thanks.. wish an official not-promising startup 'mattermost channel' was present.. but this is a good alternative for now.
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Yeah, I too do most of the times.. Stumbling the problem or the code flow in mind may be a difficult one but it becomes a lot easier when we narrate it orally!
I'm fine with it being hood, I live here after all. But it is nice when things improve.
I've worked remote for almost three years for a profitable startup. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but not having a commute is incredibly liberating. I've also found my careeer options to not be limited by being remote.

Also, I live in Florida 20 minutes from one of the best beaches in the country. Not as "culturally fulfilling" as say the Mission or Castro districts (have been to SF more times than I can count, but have never lived there), but I sit on a quarter acre lot with a 2600 sq ft 4 bed/3 bath single family home with a backyard pool for ~$1000/month (owned, not rent).

Trade offs. Living in expensive cities doesn't necessarily translate to a higher quality of life.
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It's clearly not an apples-to-apples comparison, but for comparison, Gabe Newell's response when an employee (Erik Wolpaw) was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis:

> Expecting his condition to require a departure from the company, he spoke with managing director Gabe Newell, who surprised him by offering an extended leave with pay. "Your job is to get better," Newell said. "That is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better."

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We can't all work at the most lucrative game company on earth, but that sure was classy.
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