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I have thought quite a bit about how useful a course with theoretical and practical elements from silicon atom to HTTP request would be. You start building an AND gate from MOSFETs, an adder from 4000 series ICs, a simple processor on a FPGA, you write Tetris for your simple processor, and then you switch over to a real computer, operating system fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, protocols, ...

That is certainly a lot of information to process, but if designed well it could be like one big project where you regularly end up with a result and then continue building the next layer on top of what you already have. There would be a clear path to follow in order to not get lost in any layer but if you wanted to, you could also keep exploring a layer for a while before moving on.

Not sure if that would actually be a good idea or not, but at least retrospectively that looks like an awesome way to really learn how to code.
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https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/511/

Presumably there's something similar on Android.
Then the teacher tells you that most professionals don’t code this way anymore.
So you start learning about classes, and instances, and instance variables, and methods, and inheritance, and a whole bunch of other object-oriented programming concepts.
Then you try to unlearn the way you originally learned to write code, and learn to write code in the new object-oriented way.

Missing next line: "Then you get a job and your colleague tells you that most professionals don’t code this way anymore.
What "net good" do you conceive exactly? Of importing 1 million unskilled, probably uneducated individuals that wouldn't be able to speak the local language without months/years of language learning?

If you have unemployment in your country then, by definition, you don't have enough jobs for the individuals already in your country. That is the whole point of the unemployment metric. To determine how well in-sync your economy is with the rate of population growth. If anything, unemployment should be a signal to kick people out, not let them in. However, neither up/down fixes it, because it's not a fixed pie. But your ratio is most certainly not going to be "net good" long-term or short-term by importing individuals that are unable to contribute.
Maybe fixing the problem is different than recovering? Like stopping blood loss vs slowly replacing the blood.
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You simply declare a major/concentration and register for classes in the appropriate departments. If you get acceptable grades in those classes you are allowed to continue.
Japan's system is over 60% privately funded, using employer-based private insurance not radically different from the US system. Providers are also more private than public, and the system does not distinguish between private and public providers.

Where Japan differs is strict price controls - all medical procedures and products cost a fixed price, set by a government panel. This helps guarantee that the various private health care providers can make a profit and stay in business, but are not profiteering or abusing customers.
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According to this, medically important drugs can still be used for disease prevention in livestock, albeit with the approval of a veterinarian:

https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnfor...

This seems completely insane to me. I'm not concerned about antibiotics in my food, but rather frequent antibiotic use in animals resulting in resistant diseases which then make the jump to humans.
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The Slate Star Codex essays on "cost disease" are as usual a must read:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/17/highlights-from-the-com...
Mostly, I hope they mostly improve the game. Not remake it, re-think it, re-purposed. Just clean it up, make some UI improvements.

If I were to make a big change, it would be to add a stand-alone server. Not necessarily multi-player, but just something I can leave running and attach to. I have an itch for real-time missions (days and weeks long), plus I'd like to run multiple scenarios at once.

I guess what I'm saying is I hope Take-Two doesn't lose the _spirit_ of the game. It has let us ground-bound wanna-be rocket scientists the opportunity to play.
After the collapse of the 35W bridge, the new bridge the took its place was built ahead of schedule and on budget. As with many things in history, disaster seems to hone our ability to overcome obstacles and get things done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Saint_Anthony_Falls_Brid...
The US would count as a small state by most OECD averages, so assuming by quality of life you mean, 'high GDP and standards of living', Texas would be a fairly good counter-example of a successful small state. I don't think there are many people in the libertarian mainstream who would suggest shrinking government revenue to below ~15-20% of GDP (US average is currently ~27%, Gary Johnson only recommended a 3% reduction in his presidential run [0]), so if you're only interested in refuting the lunatic fringe, then you can probably stop reading now.

To answer your question more scientifically, a preponderance of the evidence does suggest that countries with smaller governments as a percent of GDP do experience higher growth in standard of living [1]. So if your goal is to maximize long term standards of living, you would tend to support a relatively smaller government than is common among rich countries today.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/10/no-not-...
[1] https://taxfoundation.org/what-evidence-taxes-and-growth
The metered, utility like pricing that Amazon does seems like it'd be compelling for a lot of SaaS products.
>bring in presenters with a known reputation for putting butts in seats

And, whether or not they're a direct draw, a reputation for giving good talks, not giving a sales pitch, not flaking out at the last minute, etc.

For better or worse, it's just a lot safer for conference organizers to accept talks from known quantities. Unfortunately, this makes it harder for unknown quantities to break in and (often) means that there is less variety of topics and perspectives than might otherwise be the case.

Building up a portfolio at user groups and other local events helps to some degree--especially if you've never spoken before. However, in my experience, just about every conference at its in crowd.

In my case, there are some conferences where I get accepted to speak regularly, some where I have a middle of the road batting average, and some where I mostly don't even bother to put in proposals any longer. And it's got very little to do with the topic area or the prestige/popularity of the event.
> There are plenty of CPU capabilities that languages don't exploit fully (e.g. most languages won't give you direct access to the carry flag)

Sure they do: the carry flag is the > operator.

> or only allow you to access via a specialized interface rather than making them a first-class part of the language (e.g. SIMD instructions). This seems entirely normal.

So if you want to argue that unsigned multiplication/division should be encoded as a magic intrinsic (as Java 8 does) instead of as a primitive operation, then I still think it's a bit silly to make such common operations require such verbose encodings, but I could be convinced either way.

> pointer arithmetic, not that one should be doing it at all

The point of wasm is to be a compilation target for languages like C and C++. So pointer arithmetic is very important here.
I wonder how a couple countries (like India) manage 28% mobile ad blocking while only about 1% desktop ad blocking. (for the US it's reversed, 1%/18%)
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> There is reason to suspect that high U.S. costs are part of a deeper problem.

Maybe this is mere cynicism, but if the workers and materials don't cost that much more than in France, my immediate reaction is "excessive profiteering", or, to put it another way, "because we can, and nobody is stopping us".

The same applies to our unreasonably high education costs, and healthcare (although that's much more complex an issue, but at its root, it is too many fingers in the pie).
I want to live in such a way where I get to be a feudal lord, presiding over a large group of tenant farmers/sharecroppers/indentured servants. I want the freedom to employ the state's prisoners for my own gain, without paying them. I want the freedom to pollute, without being subjected to the tyranny of the EPA. In short, I want to be able to exercise power against those weaker, poorer, or less politically connected then me.

My desires are almost certainly incompatible with yours.

Politics is a process for distributing scarce resources. Brokering how, and when people can exert power to the detriment of others is an inescapable part of it. There are many bad actors who seek to do so - not as many as one might lead to believe, but they consistently find themselves at the top of the social food chain.
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Great concept, people are constantly asking our Python group about getting Python + React = web app
> "Easier to implement in hardware" will be more compelling when such hardware exists.

Most things are software;
from previous experience we know that it basically takes 10 to 15 years between introduction of a primitive (AES and SHA-2 both standardised around 2000; ISA extensions for mainstream CPUs introduced in 2010-2017). From the software PoV SHA-3 would be a rather large regression in performance with a "maybe it's fast by 2030 if Intel is really nice" attached. BLAKE2 on the other hand is an improvement in performance and offers a function that is more modern overall. (E.g. not length-extensible thus low-overhead keyed hash usage, flexible output sizes, tree hashing built-in)
Not for that particular finding, but this seems to be a somewhat readable summary of the glass phase transitions, including the one in question:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.03008.pdf
Sometimes when I read such things, I really hope that it was a planted leak to seed disinformation to The Russians (tm). But then I realize that this is the US government we are talking about...
True. This is not hard to deploy if they leverage a centralized management solution for PKI, such as MS Active Directory.
If you have a rooted Android (up to M, I believe) device, you can install Xposed[1] and XPrivacy[2], which prompts you when an app wants to do things like a DNS lookup, or access your address book. The most surprising thing I found with it was a fitness timer app that wants to be notified when my phone rings, with the phone number as a parameter... yeah, "Deny".

[1] http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.instal...

[2] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy
I understand the argument that by working with Trump, people like musk could positively influence the administration; however, it never sat right with me, given what has been known about the danger Trump represents to the republic and the world. I don't say this as a partisan. It has always been clear that Trump is manifestly unfit for the job he holds. Winning via a technaluty didn't change that. The goal for people like musk should've been to eliminate the threat, not to work to normalize it. That's just my two cents.
A bit old-school, but many use JavaFX, especially for enterprise apps, even if people on HN may bash on Java for whatever reason.
Eh, knowledge of a thing means suspension of disbelief is ruined and broken by basic inaccuracies unless the media tries to handwave this away.

Star Trek does lots of this with "inertial dampeners" and their "deflector shield". It's total handwaving, but at least they did it. It helps sell it, like "oh, ok, well... I guess that makes sense?"

Much like most movie and TV "hacking", or even basic programming is totally irritating (to the point it's a trope now). Same deal, different subject.
Rejection sucks. Isn't it time you got over it?
I'm totally with you. Dr. Patrick Moore is a quack. I mean ya people will argue that he co-founded Greenpeace, has PhD in Ecology and a B.Sc. Forest Biology, but he believes that changes in solar activity that has a much better correlation than CO2 levels, but the sun is so far away am I right? Here's another interview where he elaborates on his quackery, and a link to a science denial website.

> Steven Crowder Interviews Patrick Moore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDK1aCqqZkQ

> Climate Skeptic http://www.climate-skeptic.com/

I agree with you, these crazies are legitimately deluded and a bunch of shills for questioning the data and it's conclusions. I mean sure the government has poured money into this industry and demanded a certain result, but government already knows what the right results are, who are they to question them.
Am also a design engineer, I specialize in water and wastewater works. My clients are all municipalities, with tight budget and politics are a factor. Engineering productivity has climbed thanks to computers, but construction productivity continues to decline. In my experience on small jobs this has a lot to do with safety and regulations. It takes a team of 2-3 to enter confined spaces (manholes) for momentary inspections or maintenance, it takes extra workers to set up traffic zones to ensure travellers are less of a danger to the workers. Time is taken to ensure archeological, agricultural, and culturally sensitive areas are not disturbed. Minority and women owned businesses are given contractual preference, whether they are most qualified or not. It takes a special (read: expensive) team several weeks to document trivial wetland areas (most people call them roadside ditches), and another person weeks of labor to explain how impacts will be minimized. The government sets standard labor rates for construction labor.

But these are things we as a society have deemed important. Its not acceptable for lives to be lost. It's not acceptable for construction workers to accept low wages. It's not acceptable to recklessly degrade our environmental resources, and it's important to have diversity in this industry.

I don't know if it's true in other countries, but it seems the USA vascilates between priorities depending on the public administration. I am young so my experience is short. Bush saw a real estate bubble, Obama saw an insurance bubble, Trump et al aim for a construction boom. I would add that in New York my home state, a Democrat state, there is a large infrastructure program starting, so it's not just Republicans.
Process is the enemy. Reward people for business impact, and fairly evaluate that impact, and all else will follow. When something goes wrong, don't react by adding process to prevent the thing that will go wrong.

The costs in slowed developer velocity and increased developer frustration are largely invisible, but cumulative, and they lead to unhappiness and organizational paralysis.
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This was a roughly six month project for a single engineer working around 75% of the time on it, with help from other folks along the way for code reviews and etc. The first three months was research, planning, implementation, etc and the latter three months was a very careful roll out and migration from the old system to the new and finally decommissioning the old system.
I don't think native toolkits (well, major ones that gain adoption) are coming out much in the C++ space.

I really only know the ones I mentioned!
I LOVE writing code for R for scraping. I am actually serious. The Hadleyverse and the package tiddyverse have changed my programming life (Well learning Racket helped a ton also since there is Lisp in the foundations of R)
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> One of the reasons public sector banks might be indulging in distress sales, is probably corruption

It is.

Example : http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/syndic...

Considering the ineffectiveness of law enforcement agencies in India, it is safe to assume that this is the tip of the iceberg.
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SpaceX is well on their way to re-inventing the Apollo program. Those rockets are huge compared to a Falcon Heavy, and they would literally need a much larger facility to build them, but they'll do it. And they'll do it with hard hats, shirts, safety lines, and in a smoke free environment.
Meeker's reports have, over the years, made several simple yet powerful conclusions such as when I first read the mismatch of % time spent by device vs. % of ad spend on device. I don't know if she was the first to observe this but it made an impact.

That said, the overall report lacks in several respects.

(1) It has an agenda e.g. on the positive value of immigrants (I'm an immigrant and strongly believe in the value of immigration but her "analysis" is selective data to prove a pre-existing point).

(2) Relying on industry data. I saw numerous slides purporting to the future of advertising, supplied by firms who stand to benefit from these changes, e.g. Pinterest and Google. These ideas may be right but we should at least admit that they are not objective.

(3) 355 slides is an absurd volume and suggests that she could not, or would not, refine to what's actually important. The net effect is that her best points will get lost in a sea of nonsense.

(4) I'd rather she went over past year's reports to see where her trends did not hold up and why so we can understand other forces at work and all be smarter for it.
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You're right. I'm glad I asked, I need to get over my 'but-I-didn't-go-Harvard' internal dialogue

I think this space is missing a critical component. That's why they have all failed to scale beyond a little early traction. The branding is very wishy-washy, nothing that resonates across many cultures and perspectives.
How so? The movie shows them going from A to B, physics says going from A to B takes far more delta-v than the spacecraft would have, therefore it's a physics issue. It would be like a WWII movie showing a bomber taking off from NYC and bombing Berlin.
This happens surprisingly often.
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Nice! A few comments...

I think XRP is down to about 60% founder control, they've been giving it away to strategic partners.

Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.

I don't think Golem or Augur are actually in production yet, they're just tokens on Ethereum that will play a role in the actual systems once those are live.
> no longer being able to watch most space movies due to frustration caused by the filmmakers not grokking basic orbital physics

Meh. I've a degree in Physics and I still enjoy Star Trek.

I agree with the rest.
So what is the solution? I feel like the US is currently on a very unsustainable path right now with the political polarization.
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Yes. But by and large those don't involve new right of ways. The interstate highway system involved a huge amount of land taking by eminent domain. The legal challenges today would be immense. In part because the country is just more built up but it's also generally harder for the government to just buy up land because they're the government, to say nothing of environmental etc. challenges.
Your attitude is pretty dismissive. I don't think it's crazy to say that once someone understands some principle better, they may become more aware of the excessive artistic freedoms some producers take in twisting reality to make their plotline work. And in general, I don't see what's the point of gratuitously attacking people like this, it's very unpleasant.
Then what is the point of keeping them in the country? And why not take the rest of the third-world? They're either official refugees and get asylum which allows them to work, or they're illegal immigrants that aren't officially allowed to work. And let's be honest, they're not really refugees, and they're not really the neediest individuals in this world.

Give me a 1-million-person quota to import into Germany, and I guarantee you I will help the neediest in this horrible world. Starving, emaciated children, elderly and abused minorities around the world. I would certainly not import what Germany seems to have imported en-masse the last few years. I.e. import fit, working-age men from an incompatible culture, that don't know the language, and are able to cross an entire continent on foot.
This space is growing a lot if Instagram and articles in popular publications are any indication. I'm honestly surprised no one has cracked this nut yet, even a few major companies have tried and nothing has worked at scale.
I noticed PowerDNS in the mix, can you say what backend you are using with PowerDNS and how that has been?
Why not just use Github Enterprise then?
You should consider differentiating "tokens" from crypto-currencies backed by their own unique blockchain implementation. For example, Golem is a token built on Ethereum, however, it's not really a true "crypto-currency", rather a payment layer for Golem's "fog" computing platform.
Hence, engineering.
A lot less often now that best practices are better understood, and people insist on public security audits.
It's true that simple models often outperform more complex ones on small datasets. But the comparison seems rather unfair in this case: the "deep learning" model employed seems to be a simple feedforward discriminative classifier, and these are known to perform badly on small datasets. There are other "deep learning" models that would likely perform much better on small sample sizes. I've written a blog post about one idea [1]. If you prefer published per-reviewed research (and you should of course) then e.g. Semi-Supervised Learning with Deep Generative Models [2] is a good starting point.

1. http://www.openias.org/hybrid-generative-discriminative

2. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b6b9/39ffc9920cd8521299a6fe...
Surprised an outsourcing push isn't in there; nothing demotivates more then your employer seeing you as an expense they can get cheaper if they outsource.
> A full recompile takes me ~1 hr

Could you explain why full recompiles on a single machine are necessary? Are you testing different compiler settings?
It would become part of the same process of renewing your registration and getting smog checks. It would probably be like smog checks where there are many depots to get read, run by small businesses and gas stations. I would actually just roll it into the entire smog check system we have currently.

Far more efficient than toll roads, where you have to build toll infrastructure, hire employees, do enforcement and create traffic jams at every toll booth. RFID toll trackers are not enough in preventing the traffic jams. On top of that, you don't have to build anything to implement it today to create a usage tax for roads, since smog check equipment already checks your mileage. It also applies to all roads instead of a select few roads. To determine the distribution of where the tax money should go, you use the passive traffic tracker systems we have almost everywhere.
It's actually fun enough to suffer quite a bit, but yeah, watching people with mods on PC makes me very very jealous!