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Until Americans get over the unnatural and hypocritical loathing of socialism, these ads will work. It's all very visceral and no rational education will counter it.
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So when gas prices went through the roof in the 1970's and there was rationing, you don't think that created consumer demand for more fuel efficient cars?
It only covers it so far. A simple "what caused the big bang?" question brings us back to square one.
I disagree. I bought an Explorer and had multiple issues with the vehicle but the real issue was the horrible software. At one point they mailed me a 32GB USB key and I had to upgrade it in my driveway while leaving it running for an hour. You should have seen the poor older people in the dealership who didn't want to have to flash their cars. Ford is a below average car company and an utter shit software one.
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>I don't know about Utah but most energy companies in the US have different rates for electricity during the day or at night (off peak) and you can easily set your EV to charge overnight, saving even more money.

Thanks for mentioning this. It is significantly cheaper to charge at night if your energy company drops the price during off-peak hours. That $8 or $9 drops to like $3 or $4 here in MA with National Grid service. I did some really rough math and figured that it would cost about half as much to charge a Chevy Bolt from 0 to 100% than it would be to fill my current car, a 2014 Jetta, with gasoline. My greenhouse gas emissions will go down by over 50% judging from an estimate I got based on how MA currently generates energy.

That said, I put a deposit down on a Bolt Premier but am not sure if I will be buying it because it is damn expensive, even after tax rebates and such.
I believe so, but on a ucontroller it also needs to know the machine data types, memory structure, internal peripherals etc, where is this or that pin, how to start a timer or read the ADC etc. Probably all it needs is a good set of .h files to generate appropriate code.
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"social stigma" is between your own ears. Don't let other people tell you how to parent your child.

I'm glad you addressed the issue of number of siblings. The article didn't slice things that way, and I think that makes huge difference. $Tuition*N can mount up. In my case, since my father died in a farm machinery accident when I was young, I drew social security survivor benefits. My mom stashed that away for college, even though it meant a few lean years for the family as my older brother dropped out of college to hold the farm together. He was successful, and I was able to pay for a decent engineering degree at a modestly priced state university. Private schools were not in the cards. My wife also came from a family of modest means, and she was the guru of scholarship applications. She found enough to cover a state university at out-of-state tuition rates. We both graduated debt-free.

Graduating debt-free made a huge difference in our lives, and we wanted to do the same for our (one) child. Who happened to get in to MIT, not exactly cheap. So since we have the means, and only have to do it for one, we are stepping up to it. I can't say we could do the same for N>2 children.

Personally, I don't see paying for college as a parental obligation. Driving some financial sense into your children is, though. Counseling against excessive loans, especially for degrees that don't pay off (art history is cool and all, but I'd not take on a lot of debt for that degree). Someone else suggested something like covering costs of the local state university, with child coming up with the difference if they want something better. I can respect that choice.
You don't need to point to social responsibility programs to show that it's falsifiable.

Simply point to CEOs outrageous self-serving compensation and other perks, and numerous conflicts between active investors and management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_fight is a well known thing.
I have a pedal-powered bicycle that dusts ICE cars at stop lights. For, like, 5 metres...

I've noticed that too. I'm no athlete, but I can often beat cars across an intersection. Another thing I've noticed is that many cyclists don't shift down before they stop. They have to get up off their seat to even start. Even people in full kit on expensive bicycles do this.
>changing oil every 3,000 miles

What? I mean, what? Whatever you want, I guess.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing you'd expect to happen when you treat people as feature clusters instead of, you know, people.
I'm not really sure why this is preferrable over CircleCI? Could someone explain? Especially since CirleCI is free for the first container. This costs $10, and I don't understand the additional benefits of $10 here.
Yup and if you want to make a true comparison find a 500hp car(that will probably run on premium, get ~25mpg and use synthetic oil). That's what our 85D is.

Did I break even? No, but with prices coming down it'll happen.
This is how ssl works, no?
Clearly not, or not enough to make a difference. America didn't stop producing gas guzzlers after the 70's. If anything mpg went down as trucks got bigger
Spousal support? They look at people age 25-54, a lot of them have to be married, and since men earn more and the majority of marriages are heterosexual, you'd expect more women to be supported by their spouses through college.
Sounds like your legislators hated the city. And the voters who put them in hated themselves.
I really loved reading your reply. It was well thought out and very respectful. I am not used to such things on the internet anymore. Cheers to that. :)

You correctly point out that the human waste caused by ads, like our banking industry, is monumental. What fascinates me about your view, though, is that I have always viewed the cause for US banks' human waste factor to be the absurd regulatory environment and the close ties it maintains to the upper echelons of government.

Media/Advertising, on the other hand, feels much more sparsely regulated at the government level, but it does maintain its own absurd regulatory environment in the private sector, and its own ties to the upper echelons of government. I think it's hard to deny that this industry's self-regulatory environment is as ineffective and chaotic as the politically-instituted regulatory environment enjoyed by the banks. But little research has been done into the impact of the media industry's self-regulation. Makes me wonder what exciting secrets may be out there to uncover.
I met a guy in college who was trying to take vector calc, physics, and data structures and algorithms, while supporting himself in San Diego working part time at Nordstrom. He had to drop data structures. I didn't stay in touch, of course I hope he did alright.

I find it depressing that a promising student, who has gained entry into a college like UCSD with good grades in math and basic CS, is struggling to afford to continue. We live in a state where multi multi billionaires lament the shortage of highly educated engineers (who are essential to their billions), but this guy has to drop out because he's having trouble balancing paying the rent with a very rigorous curriculum.
If there's an outer universe in which ours was created/came to be, and you follow a realist version of the Copenhagen interpretation, then you could maybe get both created and non-created versions of our Universe.

Good thought, I like it.
Neither my wife or I received any money.

We've setup 529's for the kids, but it won't be enough to cover the full cost, even for a Cal State school.
This is one of the points of confusion for me. I didn't buy a cabriolet to take kids to and from school, to haul gear around or to beat some other kid in muscle car off the line. Increased safety is a nice, but bigger? faster? I would trade speed any day for better mileage. But apparently better mpg is less of a demand than bigger and faster.
I have not met the person saying it as a cop-out. In my experience they say God did it and tell us about him.

It's only a cop-out if they say it to avoid looking into reasons for the explanation. The religious people I know, myself included, have well established and agreed upon reasons.

Just because you disagree with their conclusions and reasons for them, it's ridiculous to call it a cop-out.
You spend a lot of words there describing what libertarians don't do and defending them from what I'm guessing you'd call a straw man.

So... am I right that you, as a presumptive libertarian, support the fuel efficiency regulations passed in the 70's and 90's, as witnessed by the evidence in the linked article? If someone expert told you that similar regulation passed today would have a similar effect, would you support it?
As a libertarian my view is that in the short term often government does act faster than the market. The problem is that the in medium and long term the market can't act.
The algolia api has more bulk operations, so you can get more than one response per api request. Also if you look around, there are some datasets where people have downloaded all the HN API json responses, and have made them available, so you could use those for local development and testing.

As far as ethics go, it's probably better to use the API than scraping. Sure you're making more requests, but I think the firebase servers and cdn have far more ability to handle a lot of requests than the HN server does. If having that many requests would put firebase out in any significant way, then I'm sure they would put a query load limit on the HN api.
No I think it depends on when you went to college. IIRC, it was 7.5% for 2006-2008 and was around 3.8-5.0% in 2010 - 2015
tav, I'm sorry for my delay getting back to you. I just sent you an email at your profile address to introduce you to someone on our New Business team, who may be able to help.

Open source funding is a cause near and dear to my heart, and I hope something is able to work out.

(And thanks!)
The article clearly shows mpg getting rapidly better in the 1970's, with an inflection point right at the passage of the mileage target.
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the problem is a layperson doesn't necessarily know what a prediction necessarily means without a deep understanding of how the system is making its predictions, let alone how to apply it.

worse is that since the prediction is coming from computer that lends the prediction an air of authority another article called "bias laundering". the general belief is that computers are objective and cannot have bias, which in a sense is true, but people don't tend to think a step further about the problems and biases in the people who programmed the computer.

so that is definitely a thing usually missing from these discussions is that the people using these systems generally don't know how they work, and believe they predict or imply things that they don't
A curious example from my memory. Subversion VCS circa 2005 initially provided two backends: Berkeley and file system. The everyday Subversion usage proved that file system backend was more reliable, more scalable, easier to manage and less prone to occasional data inconsistencies. So, file system has its practical use as a DB.

Another prominent example is Mercurial SCM. It uses a fine breed of file system and custom index files and shows miracles in terms of reliability and performance across variety of platforms.
So the apptoolkit.io SDK is out of beta and ready for production use.

With it you can edit your app code remotely without a resubmit - Cloud Config - and segment your users into your Super Users and everyone else.

Super Users lets you not only see what your users are doing while they do it, but also lets you target just those users within your app. So instead of asking every user for an app review every 10th time they open the app, only ask your super users. They're much more likely to give you a positive review anyway.

I wrote an article about how segmenting your users by the how often they open your app and how long they stay in it is one really good way to be able to target different groups in your app for engagement.

https://medium.com/app-development-tools/find-your-apps-supe...

We're also on Product Hunt today.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apptoolkit-sdk

Any questions, just let me know.

Ross
I mean, that same algorithm could be used to determine that blacks or other at-risk groups should receive extra attention or support. An accurate picture of reality can be used poorly or well.
Hybrids are cool, but now you have to maintain an electric and gasoline engine. I'm in the market for a new car and when comparing the prices of a new Chevy Volt vs. a new Chevy Bolt, it's not a huge price difference to go all electric and greatly reduce moving parts.
They tend to go into art more don't they? Isn't the typical art students GPA fairly high? That would give them even more scholarship money.
To which community are you signalling virtue?
I seriously doubt that you could explain your intentions to an ant (even if you wanted to, for some reason).
Oh! I forgot two really important ones: understanding what incentivises people and being able to tell a RELATABLE story around those incentives.

People LOVE stories they can see themselves in. Gets their imaginations all worked up.

Also, EVERYBODY has incentives. Money, becoming a 10x developer, travelling the world, being a better parent. All of these are incentives.

If you don't believe me, check this out.

Remember the last time you got pitched a timeshare? (If you ever went on a heavily discounted Disney vacation, you almost certainly did.) The salesperson working the room will spend at least the first 15-30 minutes setting the scene. "You. Puerto Rico. Corona. Beach. Need I say more?" type stuff.

Pyramid marketing salespeople do the exact same thing to build their downlines (i.e. hire more people under them). They spend 80% of their presentation on how much you can make and maybe 10% on what they're selling (the other 10% is lost to heat).

Luxury brands are THE MASTERS at this. (I would not be surprised if hip hop icons got some kind of commission/free clothing from high-falutin haute fashion brands; luxury setting is all they do!)

They seem cheesy, but people eat stories up (and, consequently, buy product) like no tomorrow.
My first question on seeing this was "what does the advice look like?" Thanks for having so many examples right on the home page!
The environment is an unpriced externality so it has to be controlled by the government. Also, the needle starts moving with Tesla, Volt, GM etc. Breaking into electric. The government has helped there too. I am a libertarian and I am totally ok with that. Market solutions will almost always be better than government ones BUT some things can't be solved by the market. Whether perverse incentives or unforeseen issues, I would rather a gov solution than no solution and am not averse to a combination
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_divor...
Weebly was kind of like that: https://youtu.be/F90BRJHXsVI?t=288
I think the idea isn't bad. There are people who want to mentor and people who are in need of mentors, makes sense.

However, I have two main questions:

Does having a person to talk to offer a compelling alternative to a blog post/book etc. that emphasizes the things you just mentioned: "brand that exudes quality, land speaking engagements, push to hit goals" etc. ?

The second question is: what about people who already do that? Will this be mainly geared towards entry level folks looking to go from mediocre jobs to good jobs? What do you have that would entice someone like me (happy with my current job, well paid, an online brand to some degree, does speaking/open source)? Perhaps I am not the target customer?
Unfortunately she is not the best example as a lot of her money was made in the widely publicized inside trading case.

There are others though for sure.
It is a lot easier to hire someone to take care of housekeeping duties or to do them yourself than it is to make up for 10+ years of little to zero non-homemaking skill development.
Average fuel economy almost doubled from 1975 to the late 80's.[1] I agree that trucks hurt that trend overall, but there are a lot of consumers who value fuel economy even in the absence of gov't regulations.

[1]https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads...
Of course elected officials may decide that it's worthwhile to spend larger portion of the budget to educate everyone, but why would they? What are the arguments other than "i think it should be" that may convince them and the electorate that it is a good direction to proceed?
To whom is the paycheck made out? In a relationship with a large pay disparity, there is a financial dependence and vast power difference between the involved parties.

If your partner started to abuse you, would you rather be the homemaker or the person whose name is on the paychecks?
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And I absolutely can not live with ISPs having control over content and it's speed.
You need a certain population density for high speed rail, or even decently fast rail, to be economically viable, don't you?

I've had brief experiences with high speed rail and I loved it. Much more comfortable than the whole taxi/airport/plane scenario. Though I do understand HSR doesn't scale for very long distances.
That's fine if you are measuring the bias component too. If you're not, you risk perpetuating it. It's natural if I read a sentence about hands to conclude that the test refers to people and not fish, but if I read about 'the hands of a surgeon' and assume that those hands are male based on the current demographics of the surgical profession, I'm making an unwarranted assumption on insufficient information. It's wise to grant utility to uncertainty by maintaining a 'Don't know' option rather than being in a rush to make a determination before it is necessary, not least because of the computational cost of unwinding incorrect assumptions.
Isn't it preferable to accurately measure and account for Bias? The same metrics can be used to combat bias that reinforce it. Without accurate metrics, how do you form your argument against bias? Feelings?
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I don't generally want to give up performance. As a game developer, I usually actually need all the performance I can get. My default choice is always a language with nice, low-cost abstractions, that compiles to native code. I don't see that changing, probably ever. I always want to get the most out of the machine.
Some libertarians believe that but in my experience at least an order of magnitude more have a philosophy which boils down to “you can't tell me what to do!” with some serious magical thinking about markets, trickle down economics, and the inherent merit of rich people.
> Libertarians are not anti-regulation

Yes, they are. See https://www.lp.org/issues/the-economy/

"Libertarians believe that the only proper role of government in the economic realm is to protect property rights, adjudicate disputes, and provide a legal framework in which voluntary trade is protected."
If the good people don't do it soon, the bad people will...
Any libertarian worth his salt is going to first point out the fallacy of your argument: You can't know what the market would have done, so how can you say that the regulation is "good" and that libertarians are wrong?

The other glaring failure in logic on your part is your assumption that fuel efficiency is what is best for your fellow man as opposed to whatever else the market would have alternatively provided without regulation. If you really wish to impose your preferences on everyone else, then by all means, just admit you are an asshole.
On the other hand, most of those women were already rich and powerful. (including a more lucrative profession than housekeeping)
If you are going to "debias" your model, what is the point of even training the model to handle these issues in the first place? Not surprisingly, human language can be biased. If you train a model on human language it will not magically transcend those biases. The problem is that people have this expectation that ML is going to lead to these perfect decision makers.

Machine Learning creates models that reflect the data, not the truth.
I'm a recruiter who's been a CTO, contract developer, consulted for most of the large international staffing companies, run (very) occasional courses on career development for developers, and have hired many people as a technical interviewer. I give a lot of free advice to developers I represent.

I will be curious to see if there's an actual market for this.
So the cascading cypher options (AES-Serpent-Blowfish) for VeraCrypt volumes are less safe than a simple AES encrypted volume?

Serious question. I know nothing about crypto, just assumed "more is better, but slower".
"I hope those who read this don't downvote because they, like me, disagree with you. Voting on comments is about pushing productive conversation to the top. I, for one, would like to open the doors in this echo chamber."

I'm sorry, but when the same poor arguments are used time and again, it stops being productive.
Which is funny, because Scala is a pragmatic mix that's halfway between more "pure" functional languages and Java. Guess the sweet spot is a quarter of the way there, not halfway. :)
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Would love to get your thoughts. What if there was a chrome extension that allowed you to upvote any link you run into over the internet. This way you have a meta layer of human curation over the internet, giving contextual clues as to whether something is really useful or not!
That, and they drastically reduce housing costs, and increase incomes. Two of the biggest areas we're currently sliding backwards with in modern cities.
> notwithstanding that the ASR33's concept of Rubout didn't
> really map at all onto the new hardware.

If you are working with paper tape, Rubout (DEL in ASCII parlance), like every other code, advances the tape when punched. So, if the tape is a stream of characters, DEL erases the one under the cursor and leaves the cursor on the character formerly to the right. That is, Rubout/DEL is defined as a ‘forward delete’ operation, and that's something that remains useful.

That leaves Backspace as the natural choice for entering ‘backward delete’ on a keyboard, at least after 1979 when you have the ANSI X3.64 escape sequences for explicitly nondestructive cursor keys. I think there's a reasonable argument for Backspace being nondestructive for overstrike effects (accents, underlining, APL, etc.), especially when received by a terminal, but I know none for changing the meaning of DEL.
It's not that anything feminine is "bad", it's that women are often pressured into doing "feminine" things because reasons.

There's no reason "homemaker" should be inferior to "computer programmer", but there's also no reason that homemaker should be "feminine". Men are equally capable of taking care of the house, and women are equally capable of programming computers.
It's the next step in object-oriented UI.
I think a good way to understand how they work is by implementing a simple Scheme interpreter that explicitly passes around the continuations of the guest language.

This page helped me quite a bit a few years ago
http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/27/continuati...
Nowadays it is implicitly expected by most top universities that parents WILL pay for their children's education, and sometimes explicitly stated when it comes to applying for financial aid. I wouldn't expect any student to pay the astronomical tuition for college (50K x 4 years) all by themselves without any assistance.
Awesome, Sam. I'm definitely applying!
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Do you work in or around the Bay Area? I don't actually know very many recruiters who are more than just salespeople.
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