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It's difficult, yes. I was just looking for explanations and that's what I came up with. Even if I'm wrong, I think it's harmful to understanding to filter out ideas just because they might sound racist. A kind of self-censorship.

It's not as simple as poor people are poor. Making it more specific: Black people are poor in both the US and the UK [1]. The US has more black people than the UK. So, ignoring everything else, the US has more poor people than the UK.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/weekly-disposable...

PS. To those who think it's racist to say black people are poor, I'd say they're being elitist by assuming that being poor is bad or being labeled poor is derogatory.
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The South Koreans that were intentionally massacred by the US?[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre
I have taught myself to not feel bad about "off days". Rather than 5 days on, 2 days off like structured employment, if I "go with the flow" my body/mind/voice might demand after say 15 days on, maybe 3-5 days off. I'll grant that. As soon as recharged, whatever down-time/"off" stuff I was into becomes boring and the work where I left off lures me back in. But you'll have to allow such off time. Having one right now, hence I'm posting here.

As for "procrastination" through "work-days", I don't do that much, maybe an hour of "random rubbish" a day tops. Grabbing lunch is a nice short break; eating it, another; 10 minutes of weights, another; showering, (h)eating dinner, filling/emptying dishwasher.. it all adds up to just the right amount & length of brief brain breaks "aerating" the work day/routine.

The feeling that's worse than any sort of misguided guilt about off time is when you did power through some 12-15 hours and reflect back on & summarize what exactly one has managed to produce net --- it often feels like disturbingly little for the time, given all the high-level tooling, frameworks, helper libs and the fast hardware & internet we all enjoy today.
The contributions of companies back to *BSD versus GNU/Linux is the living proof of what would happen if Linus had not chosen a copyleft license.

We would still be using Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, Tru64, DG-UX to this day.
Might there be a better time of day to try and repost this?
Yes, a lot of people don't understand that MBAs do not carry much weight anymore (if they ever did). I have family members who aggressively pursued such degrees under the assumption that they'd practically guarantee an executive position. I've also met many who've obtained MBAs in an attempt to gain some career advancement, usually to a higher managerial position. I only know of one such person for whom this ploy was successful.

I have to think that the "Harvard" name carries a lot of weight, but MBAs as a class of degrees have, at least over the last ~10 years, been accompanied with a little bit of a snicker, in my admittedly relatively shallow experience with MBA holders. At one point, I did hire a developer with an MBA, but his MBA was a point of concern rather than merit.

>What HBS does well, above all else, is act as a filter. They really do a remarkable job at admissions, putting together a group of folks who are likely (by nature or nurture) to go on to have an outsized impact on the world.

I have to ask. In your opinion, is access to this network really worth the cost of going through the program?
Another front page post compliments this one: Why Walking Helps Us Think (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14235398)

i.e. Do your thinking while walking, not sitting and hunched over a screen. Your brain and your body will love you for it.
Not sure why you single out Android since most "modern" commercial OS send data home in order to develop predictions about it's user. In the western world, it's called assistance. Android/Google at least give you a hint and some control over what kind of information is being collected.
Kenneth Iverson had a go at combining the terse nature of mathematical notation and the consistency and universality of code with his apl.

Search for his paper "Notation as a tool of thought" (widey available as a Web page or as a pdf).
If it's only encumbered by the copyright and patents of the user (which is the case much of the time, because all rights are often waived), then it's free.

Surely you wouldn't sue yourself over your own claims?
Paragraph 14 of the board's complaint makes no claim that he was presenting his analysis under the guise of engineering expertise.

Yes they do. Specifically: to advise members of the
public on the treatment of the functional characteristics of traffic signal timing - page 7, lines 3 and 4.

I think the thing is pretty ridiculous, and a result of an over-litigious society. The point isn't so much to shoot this guy down. It is to make sure that next time somebody pretends to be an engineer (and starts building a bridge or designing a powerstation or something) and they want to stop him, this person wouldn't be able to point at this case and say "but he pretended to be an engineer, and you didn't do anything". This organisation must be seen as to uphold their monopoly on deciding who gets to use the terms engineer and engineering.

It is a result of not enough common sense in court cases, and too many frivolous suits.
its important to hold the posture during the plank or it will have no effect or even the opposit effect. A good goal is 3 to 6 seconds. When you get stronger make it harder by lifting one leg, put the support leg on a ball, and do it sideways.
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See comments below for the link to their paper in Nature. Most relevant test case is "Impact test, Flexible boundary condition", where they give all the data on their test methodology.

If you load Supplementary Data, Figure S9[1], it shows 400MPa at 1ms. It also shows (for the above test) around 9mm displacement at what looks like 365MPa? I suck at math so I'll let someone else figure out the force.

[1] https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
I think I struggle to learn a lot of functional programming concepts now because it's even more distant and abstract explanations.

I've come across this a lot. Some people (like you perhaps) view computing in terms of machines, and others in terms of mathematics and formalism. (I'm lazy and lack principle, so I will go with whatever interpretation is easiest.) FWIW, I've met at least one incredibly smart person from both camps.

If you're into compilers at all, you might appreciate this[1] - how the "machine tribe" and "lambda tribe" view the same thing.

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/12/static-single-assig...
In a way, I think the main problem was lack of research. I've dreamed about opening a small cafe or coffee shop - as simple of one as possible - and worked in one such place with a chef (It was only me and him most days, save weekends).

Restaurants are a bit unique. They are horribly expensive to start up. Coffee machines, kitchen equipment that meets state regulations. In Indiana, this includes getting certified by the board of health as well (You have to have someone certified on sanitation and food safety working at all times). Location is really important, and folks often work really long hours.

Many many close within a year - I've read many similar stories. Folks are doing exceptionally well if you make any profit the first year, and the second year can be a loss as well. Even after you get some profit, margins tend to be thin.

I still think it would be gratifying, but the risk is rather high.
I try to make it related to the functionality but not too direct.

In the scene where I develop, the discoverability is fairly bad so sometimes super-direct names works best.

There was a trend recently where people basically took any random "cool sounding latin word" because.. I don't know.
Problem with that is the "errors" in the real output bins will be encoded into the next generation of neural net and no progress will be made. On the other hand, the dataset could be used as a starting point that could be one-time filtered and improved by a human.
Anthony Bourdain, who wrote our epitaph in Kitchen Confidential: "The most dangerous species of owner ... is the one who gets into the business for love."
An extensive discussion of the details is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14209874 (scotthelme.co.uk, 69 comments)

And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14232872 (vice.com, 10 comments)

NOMX responded, and the discussion about that is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220171 (nomx.com, 26 comments)

Also submitted here, although with no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218905 (bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214549 (nomx.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14214276 (arstechnica.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205379 (scotthelme.co.uk)
Don't get me wrong, the "open" option is complete shit at the moment. The fact that Replicant (and _actually_ free Android distribution) supports so few devices (and has so many caveats) is horrifying. There is effectively no way to use a modern smartphone and also exercise your software freedoms.
Aloha did say China will become a free democracy in their lifetime, only that it will not be the western model of such.
Would someone who is downvoting me care to explain why they disagree

The idea of downvoting for not contributing to the discussion left HN a while ago. You are downvoted because you said something somebody doesn't agree with which is human nature: "our opinions differ, and I have the power to punish you for this, so you will be punished". Human nature, we suck as a species. They are just imaginary internet points. Don't worry about it.
I would not be to quick to judge. Usually countries either get stuck in the middle income or they change the government structure.

China has a long way to go yet to really be a first world country. Even now I think it's clear that the party is nowhere near as powerful as they were and there are things they don't do anymore.

They know that protest could break out if they do the wrong things, they are careful.

I don't think it is inevitable but I highly doubt that a country could get to the same GDP per capita as the western democracies without some government reforms.
There is also bundling of other sports. As a fan of, say, NBA , I really don't care about all the NFL broadcast. Still those prices paid by me.

Future to me seems, where there will be option to subscribe or buy ticket to individual events like, say only this weekend's match between team A and team B. And it seems it is more and more possible.
To an extent - with the caveat that there are entire languages built around this design paradigm, such that using objects is the syntactic past of least resistance.

I agree though, when I dabble in C I often end up writing objecty code. Sometimes it's even a bit functional..
As Ada fan I would say VHDL.
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Lol, justplayed 3 games of noughts and crosses, always fun to see something like this :)
What do you mean by a public-facing interface for human genetics? What do you think that would look like and what would it do?
Whenever I'm learning things when walking, the location an idea popped into my head is pretty much never forgotten. I'm not sure whether its actually valuable, but it feels like it makes the ideas unforgettable. I'm going to assume the value is real because: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

I think consuming some portion of your subconscious with repetitive activity frees up some blocking on your conscious thought, so that you can stay engaged on an idea for longer. It's like your normal boredom/frustration loop gets muted by the repetitive behavior (music, movies in background, walking, fidgeting, etc.)

Sometimes having other things going on makes deep work easier, sometimes it makes it harder. I've noticed it's good to test both, and oscillate.
bullshit complaints about doing math without a license

Which is not what they are complaining about. They are complaining about him presenting himself as an engineer, which is something he did, and shouldn't have done in Oregon. They gave him a warning about it, and he continued doing it. That wasn't smart on his part.
Civilization spent years coming up with what we know as programming libraries.

No one asks historical foundations of arithmetics during basic math exam. You don't need to know how to multiply roman number.
Yea, I'm now using sharelatex whenever I am teXing something. Its features ease the pain.
The difference being that an informed Android user can disable all that logging, or at the very least prevent it being relayed to Google. I don't even have a Google account yet have four fully-functional Android devices nearby.

The penalty for attempting that with the North Korean tablet is going to be rather more severe than "can't say OK Google to do a web search".
Efficient markets assume rationale participants. Sports fans are anything but. Sports is all about emotions.

While valuation of sports franchises may be only loosely coupled to reason the salary of players is connected to cash flow into the company. That is even more true if the company will have struggle to get more loans (lenders tend also to be more rationale).
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> I don't want to hear the scratching of a spoon in an empty joghurt cup

This sort of thing is rage inducing in some folks - there is a neurological thing that makes folks become angry at certain sounds, to the point of wearing earplugs at dinner. Eating is a common trigger sound, as is yawning and other such sounds.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."
Yea, academia doesn't exactly have a track record of taking good care of its software...
It looks like ESPN's "$6.4 billion in 2014" in profit is pre-tax, so it generated $4+ billion in cash that year leading an analyst to value ESPN at $50 billion three years ago ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2014/04/29/the-... )

Probably not anymore... It does point to Netflix eventually making a lot of money and being worth a lot more than it currently is. Netflix doesn't have ad revenue (in addition to such huge consumer fees, ESPN had nearly $4 billion a year in ad revenue in 2014 at least) but its subscription fees are comparable to ESPN. Better for Netflix is its aggressive move into its own content generation. If it was "merely" a way to watch other companies content, it would be at the mercy of those content owners the way ESPN pays a king's ransom for NFL, NBA, etc. games. ESPN's strategy to focus on opinion (original content) makes a lot of sense in terms of retaining fans and having a business that could survive losing broadcasting rights for a lot of sports.

While sports team/network owners could go direct to fans fairly easily these days with 1000 tv channels and everyone having "Smart" TVs, they're probably better off under the ESPN umbrella both as a bundle of many sports and through aggregated ad sales.
I am admittedly out of my depth here, but I want to make a quick comment about something I've noticed from HBR publications (which claim to be primarily from HBS professors).

Typically, they strike me as the most stereotypically "academic" writings that I regularly run across. Meaning they are working hard to maintain an appearance of rigor and neutrality, but spend a great deal of time and effort squinting and straining to produce an outcome that aligns with their intended philosophy and desired conclusions. There is just so much output that is naive and tone-deaf to what's experienced on the ground in the white-collar world. While you can arrange some battery of numbers to support almost any case ("there are lies, damned lies, and statistics"), it doesn't change the efficacy or practicality of some of the things they end up endorsing/suggesting.

This is not a universal or blanket condemnation, as I do follow HBR precisely because sometimes their output is interesting or valuable. But many times it's clearly the result of a bubble.

One of the most offensive habits of academia is to elevate people to professorships almost straight out of school, despite these people having virtually zero real experience practicing the art they claim to know how to teach. This is particularly offensive when it comes to fields where the art is a crucial part of the application, like business and law -- which, afaik, are two fields where these farcical elevations happen routinely.
I don't disagree with you, but i think that technically we're still trusting Google to not collect it anymore. I don't see it anything other than "Please google do not track this". Are we able to verify 100% that data is still not being collected?
I think it's a legitimate wish to change the footer height in a document.
Rust's closures are, well, closures. But many of them are effectively lambdas. It's not like we can force you to refer to your environment or something :p

"A closure with an empty environment" vs "a lambda" is a fine, barely-existent line. Or arguably identical.
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When companies complain about labor shortages, it usually implies not enough people willing to work for poverty pay.

There are more and more young people completely dropping out of society because there is nothing in it for them, so they rather live on their parents dime.

Jobs available to those that did not excel in school and joined the right companies are pretty much low paid temp jobs for life.

Japanese women are extremely picky due to their financial independence, so some lowly temp slave will never get any.

When you remove all rewards to social participation people dropping out left and right is what happens.

When it comes to tech jobs even very low paid front end remote jobs (30-40k) tend to get 100+ applications on angel.co and I doubt the vast majority are anywhere near totally unqualified.

The bar is constantly being raised while the pay is lower than ever before.
use a motor table that can be adjusted in height. then lower it and Sit down when you get tired. First you will only be able to stand for minutes. After getting used you can stand up to an hour. Get a thick mat, and take your shoes off.

get a cheap 1 usd camping pad insulate,fold it, and you got a 200 usd ergonomic mat.
The problem with sports broadcasting nowadays is twofold

1. Viewing games costs too much

2. The commentary for said games sucks

I'd happily watch a random MLB game on a Tuesday, but sorry I am not going to spend $113/season to watch on MLB TV. The NFL is the worst. If you're out of the US you can purchase and stream games for $200/season or so, but for in the US you have to have directTV to get all the games which isn't even offered for many possible subscribers or spend $30 in beer/food for lunch at a sportsbar with no audio for your game. If I'm at home I have the choice of the local game and maybe one other random national game and if both of these games are blowouts I'm tuning out.

People want to watch their team play. They don't even mind commercials as long as there's not TOO many of them. The NFL is reaching their limit. NFL viewership has peaked. 2016 ratings declined 8%. Watching a touchdown followed by a commercial followed by a kickoff touchback followed by a commercial is too much. The only way to grow a sport is to grow viewership and fans and the only way to do that is make content cheap, easy to access and enjoyable to watch which brings us to the commentary.

The future of sports and money in sports is in the live aspect and in the commentary. I want to watch a football game commented by Conan O'Brian or Snoop Dogg or even some entertaining twitch or youtuber not Al Michaels and Phil Simms. Why not collect royalties on commentary streams? Let 1000s of people pay for the rights to comment on an NFL game and let the viewers decide who they want to listen to commentary from. Its absurd that in 2017 people still resort to reddit.com/NFLstreams or NHLstreams to watch some low res game with pop up ads everywhere with commentary from two old white guys.

Once viewership increases, ad money will increase which would offset the streaming fees the leagues would be missing out on by providing their content for free. If ESPN would simply show sports and provide interesting commentary from interesting individuals I would watch around the clock.
xda-developers need to root this device.
Too true. Shows how long a bit of marketing goes.
Learning what? In most cases you will be strictly forbidden to use basic algorithms in your job. No one allows you to write quick sort or hash-table or crypto from scratch.
It's reasonable to be suspicious of anything that suggests taxation as a prescriptive treatment. Government force is like hard-coding a value in the code; if you really must do it, it may be OK, and everything needs something roughly equivalent in some form to provide the basics (variables loaded at runtime from the environment or a config file, etc), but it's never really the answer you want to hear.

I agree that our specific investment system incentivizes eat-the-world behaviors that are ultimately socially destructive. I am pro-competition, but just as we don't insist track and field athletes bludgeon their slower opponents to death, I don't think there is an economic imperative to heavily favor an investment/banking/financial class, especially when they provide no tangible or real economic benefit. Their work is all in pushing paper and moving numbers. In a well-aligned system, there is no way they should be capturing the amount of value they capture (and same goes for copyright interests).
There is good chance it's actually developed by developers seating somewhere in Bay Area working for some VC-funded company with inconspicuous name.

After all there is a lot of commercial surveillance software that sold to authoritarian regimes. Of course that doesn't mean someone work directly with NK.
The author is aware of the logic programmign paradigm and constraint logic programming and has been "thinking a lot about Prolog" but only mentions imperative and functional in the article title because:

most programmers would just not use Prolog (too exotic) while they may be OK with JavaScript

That just makes me sad. I don't know how else to put it.

Learning new languages used to be fun, I think. Now we gotta mollycoddle programmers into thinking about "new" paradigms, which are really not new at all, by wrapping it all up in javascript otherwise they run away screaming?

I hope that's not true.
Thing is, one of the aims of LaTeX is to separate content from formatting. I'm guessing in that in your resume.tex, the layout is fairly tightly bound up with the content, but it would be great to hear I'm wrong! Like, if you want it to have a different number of columns, or put the job title and years together outdented in the left margin or whatever, can you do that? Or are you kind of relying on a particular choice of style file?
Maintaining balance on uneven ground also works your lower back and pelvic floor more than on a concrete path. Strengthening these can help if you have back plane (and one could argue that chronic pain is an impediment to thinking).
Plan A would be to send some robots to try building using this technique.

If it doesn't work, you're only out a few robots (who may be able to be repurposed).

If it does work, leave them to it building a habitat which can be fitted out by further waves of robots later. By time that's all done the hard part of sending humans there will be more possible, and they'll have a base ready to move into.
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