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Thanks for your response and it's quite on point regarding the contentious nature (and emotions!) that come with it.

I've actually got a hard time pinning down all the work I've done in Education. A Degree in Curriculum Design. Substitute teacher for a couple years. Reviewer for Textbooks for Compliance with NCLB. Writing Tutor. Music Instructor. Public and Private Primary through Secondary Education product. Private and Public University product. Internationally travelled, bi-lingual and can pick up a couple other languages. I can often guess a person's Ethnic lineage based on their face, complexion, and last name. All of these pursuits come from a love of learning and turning around and sharing.

Localized Education is key. What works in San Diego, CA may not work well in Nashua, NH.

If there's one reason for a person like me to be pissy about the state of affairs in the United States, it's that I'm more qualified than Betsy DeVos to be the Secretary of Education. If that doesn't scare the crap out of smart people with the ability to change things, then we're straight up doomed.

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Random question (which I am sure has been asked before): is there any way to harness the power of the block-chain to, say, fold proteins? Or something "useful" like that.

I'm not saying that securing the block-chain isn't useful in and of itself, I'm just wondering if we could sort of set up the block-chain to swap in/out problems that are "hard to solve easy to verify and also provide other benefits to humanity". Example: say we swap the current proof of work with a protein folding problem instead, and then when we've "folded all the proteins" (or just decide it isn't a useful problem or whatever) in the future, we just revert it back to the current proof of work. Then maybe we find other similar problems and we could swap them in and out as needed.

I'm guessing the current miners are hyper optimized for whatever the current proof of work is, which would be the main road block (outrage at a "wasted" investment into sha-256 specific machines).

I'm not really up to date on all the tech / politics that would go into a change like that, but curious if it were technically possible.
My only daughter stopped breathing and turned blue 3 days after she was born, and I, lucky to have attended a first aid course just 3 weeks prior to that, was able to perform CPR and make her regain consciousness. She's 14 months old now and perfectly healthy, but the horror of those minutes where she was dying in my hands still haunts me. It's getting better, but every now and then my brain briefly relives those moments.
Nice job. Very usable on mobile.
I know some people here have suggested jumping to another position, which certainly is a viable option, but consider the fact that emotional hardship will always occur in our lifetimes. Similarly, it's worth gaining some self-awareness around why things are activating, whether they be good or bad (activating or deregulating your system in a heightened state or a low-energy state).

My advice is see a therapist on a somewhat regular basis; we are quick to ensure that we always keep our bodies in check and healthy but rarely do we consider that perhaps mental therapy is also something we should do regularly. You've said it yourself, talking to people helps; my suggestion is see a therapist, it is their job to help you gain introspection and be your guide; and in general give you a safe space to express how you really feel and what's activating it (good or bad, ups and downs). It's helpful to have multiple people that you can lean on for this thing, a therapist might help guide you towards creating a community of people that you rely on.
This is a touchy subject, and I want to start by saying that everyone is going to have their own answer.

My answer, when I've been in a situation like this, is to literally talk out loud to myself about what I value and what I care about.

We only get upset about things that we care about. And we only get the most upset about the things that we care about the most.

I had a much more angry, frustrated life when I was a professional violinist than I've ever had as a software developer. When I would play some bad gig for a few bucks and some clown conductor would show up and ruin this piece of music that I spent my life studying, it would make me rage. Or if one of the other violinists in the orchestra I was sitting next to was fucking up and ruining things. . . again, rage. WHY ARE YOU RUINING MY ART, YOU SICK, IRRESPONSIBLE FUCK?!

Or if I was playing a solo with an orchestra that wasn't so hot. Ugh. Why are you doing this to Brahms?

It's genuinely hard to figure this out when you really care about something.

I ended up quitting music as a profession and going into software. I care about the companies that I've worked for, and I care about my role in that and the quality of the code I write. But it's not my life. And I still play my violin with a few groups in NYC. That's not my life either.

I think it boils down to understanding the difference between the means to an end and the end itself.

If you love software the way I love Brahms, great. But don't expect to get that love expressed or respected at work. Recognize the role that work has in your life. It's a means to an end. It's not the end itself. It's a way to get to do the things you love to do with your family.

I decided a long time ago that doing the things that I love the way they should (in my opinion) be done, was up to me. For me that was music. And to a certain extent it has become writing software.

In my mind, a job is a thing that you do, and do well and passionately, for the purpose of supporting the things that you really care about. Maybe it's family, maybe it's writing a novel, maybe it's being a dancer. Who knows.

Again, I want to be careful about the way that I phrase this, but it sounds to me that you have a priority issue.

You need to decide what's really important to you. When you figure that out, I suspect everything else will fall into place.

I'm sorry you are going though this, and I hope you come out of it in a better place. I could be totally and completely wrong, but I don't think there's any little ritual that's going to fix this. You just have to make decisions about what is worth caring about.

Is it your current job, or is it your family?
This is different from the popup in nature. A lot of ads rely on cookie tracking to target users, this feature makes tracking almost impossible, and ads without targeting have much less value. Are you suggesting internet ads will invent new ways to track users?
Completely, thoroughly agree. I'm a senior engineer. You want my expertise? Pay me. I care fuck all about your options, your free massages, and your foosball tables. If that's all you have to offer, you're probably not a serious company; you're just playing startup theater. Call me when you have a real engineering problem to solve and you have $$ to pay for a solution because you're paying $$$ every day you don't have a solution.
Foldingcoin and gridcoin do just that. They don't get much attention though.
I did a lot of Flash/Flex work - it was the bees knees of front-end dev in the days before JQuery, Firebug, Chrome etc. and was the most consistent across platforms, as the same plugin was used on each, as opposed to trying to make your web-standards-based app work on several incompatible implementations. HTML/JS/CSS didn't come close at that time, but there was hope that it would develop to make Flash obsolete - which it now has.

People always complained about how Flash "drained batteries" / "crashed browser" / "allows all this intrusive advertising". A case of blaming the technology for the way it was being used. People would say "I can't wait until Flash dies and we have the open web standards instead so we don't have these problems any more".

So, fast forward a decade or so, Flash has been replaced by open web standards and ... guess what? We still have those problems...
Anyone else feel like Apple is the new Microsoft and they hold the world hostage by only updating their products every couple years with features we actually want? It seems like just as the unrest is about to hit critical mass they spring into action and implement just enough to placate everyone for another couple years.
Maybe you're right that in a few years, I'll be able to buy a 6TB SSD for the $200 I'd pay for a hard disc today, but speaking as a user about to buy a computer, I want one that works great today. Which means worrying less about filling up my paltry 128GB SSD.

The other, non-technical, solution is for Apple to make 512GB SSDs standard :) But Apple is going in the other direction, introducing a 128GB SSD.
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Slaughter is not necessarily the worst part of their life.
Maybe he didn't self censor, maybe it was just the printer.
nice - btw, the Rosewill Tokamak 1500 from newegg is a way to save a few bucks on that build, though it's out of stock (they just had it on sale). It's also 80+ titanium.
This is a poorly written post. The title is referring to the stop-ad-tracking feature, but the text is mostly about 'reader mode'.
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> asks the president of Stanford

Interesting tidbit: the president of Stanford at the time was John Hennessy. Take any modern CPU, and you'll probably find that much of its internal architecture is built on work by Hennessy and his group at Stanford. He is arguably the greatest computer architect of all time.
I am not sure how other people feel but despite me using the Internet for a good 24 years now I am still astonished at the connection possibilities it gives to us little people. Here I am, a man of little acclaim and communicate with people who wrote e2fsprogs and the uuid RFC and whatnot. This is still a wonder and I doubt it'll ever become an everyday feeling.
Sorry to nitpick, but the headline should be "The mathematicians who want to save the "American" democracy".
Based on the utter certainty that if an American succeeds at anything, they will broadcast it loudly and repeatedly.

*yes, I'm making a joke. Mostly.
Is there a reason jamboard and surface hub appeared simultaneously here?
Price: Contact Us

Really? I get its an enterprise product but come on
Canada is trying hard to snap out of the insanity of the affordability of the F-35.. but pressures from local contractors tied up in the program are going to make it very hard.
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It's vectorized!
you are mis-citing Arleigh Burke's nickname. You are TECHNICALLY correct but quite misleading. The nickname was actually deeply sarcastic (at least initially). The design speed for the Fletcher class was THIRTY FIVE knots not 31. He was limited to 31 because of I think mechanical issues was the USS SPENCE. He was initially called 31 knots as a way of calling him tardy and slow..

from arleigh burke wikipedia

"He usually pushed his destroyers to just under boiler-bursting speed, but while en route to a rendezvous prior to the Battle of Cape St. George, a boiler casualty to USS Spence (DD-512) (a jammed boiler tube brush used for cleaning) limited his squadron to 31 knots, rather than the 34+ they were otherwise capable of. Thereafter, his nickname was "31-knot Burke," originally a taunt, later a popular symbol of his hard-charging nature.[2]"
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Financial aid is just rebranded price discrimination.
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I don't know what wins for most under used tool, sed or awk?

Both of these do wonders for clearing up messy data and for a wealth of other things.
The chance of getting an H1B visa is somewhere around 20-25% lately. This is if you and the company is doing everything correctly, and there is absolutely no way to increase the odd. This is why company is starting to refuse sponsoring new visa: it is really hard for them to waste months waiting to know if you can work for them.
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It seems like 140 million would be enough to create something along the lines of a MIT OCW or Khan Academy-with-testing-centres to earn degrees.

Maybe it's the unrealistic and the naive opimist in me that is saying this--but imagine any person in the world with an internet connection could have access to study for a world-class degree on whatever schedule suits them?

Obviously there are challenges involved, and there will always be a place for research institutions, but it seems to me like if anyone in the world could earn a degree equivalent in rigor to an MIT degree that a lot more would. That would help a lot of people and also propel advancements science and tech.

It seems most of us in tech learned a lot of our most valuable skills on our own--so in other words, labour-intensive education isn't the only way to do it.
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Modern ICE vehicles with stop-start which is available even on mid-range vehicles don't pollute while idling, so then the problem with heavy traffic is limited to moving slowly, which electric vehicles still seem better at.
Do people really want to import pictures on to whiteboards? I've never needed to do this. It's usually easy to just draw whatever it is.
#lean, #agile and the fundamental principals of Small Batches seem to be at odds with programs like carrier development and defence contracts in general. It's very unlikely that the lessons from IT fields will ever make their way into projects like this.
My wife listens to me bitch and complain anytime I need someone to talk to. One day she simply told me to keep things in perspective. Think about all the things we have to be thankful for and question is it really worth it to get worked up over whatever it is that's bothering you.
The thing is, lispers don't want more syntax. They've rejected Dylan, sweet-expressions, and a million other experiments. There's a sizable contingent who complain about Clojure using [] instead of all ().

So really all you are talking about is making a nice syntax that enables macros, and that doesn't require lisp. See Elixir.

If lispers aren't going to adopt extra syntax, your only hope is to attract non-lispers, and then you've got the issue where your lispy language has to be better than existing languages at doing something, and that's hard.

Why go to so much trouble for something that's been rejected repeatedly? Macros don't require lisp syntax and that's the main advantage.

My own ghetto transpiler converts this:

sum = reduce partial(+)
[1, 2, 3] sum + 1 println

into this:

(def sum (partial reduce +))
(println (+ 1 (sum [1 2 3])))

https://github.com/aaron-lebo/prose

It's fun to think about, but not sure the general concept has an audience.

edit:

Bob Nystrom's lark is one of the cooler non-lispy lisps out there:

https://github.com/munificent/lark
The assumption that China's huge market is important to everyone is wrong.

The ultimate goal of China government is its stability -- the power under China Communist Party. Everything else is trivial. The motivation behind this is simple: the government fully controls everything and this fact makes many ruling families extremely rich.

Therefore to make big money in China, you have to follow its rules that including self-censorship, very close relationship with government officials at every level, etc. As proved by many foreign companies of many years of practices in Chain, the profit is far less than the compromising and broken integrity. The government and the officials take the big share.

In Chinese, this kind of business is called "asking a tiger for its skin."
I would be curious to hear from anybody who has used a Jamboard, Surface hub or other digital whiteboard in a collaborative setting. Does it get used? More than the regular whiteboard and cell camera?
I think we need approval voting.
But these products have both been out for a while though, right?
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jamboard&sort=byPopularity&pre...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=surface%20hub&sort=byPopularit...
To me, the problem is winner-take-all districts to begin with. It all but ensures some constituents are going to be sorely disappointed. Why not consider something like multi-member districts? We could tune it even further by awarding variable voting power. Then the way the borders are drawn becomes far less relevant. I'm sure there are tradeoffs, but it would certainly be more representative.
That's what I thought. So I'm just curious why OP posted 3 competing smartboarda at the exact same time.
So where to start... You missed the 2017 H1B application window. It's over this year since the quota has been reached already. Companies who want to hire someone on an H1B will have to submit the application in April 2018, then, wait until October 2018, which is the next fiscal year when your visa will be "activated". You can't join the company earlier. So we're talking about you starting in October 2018 if you're trying to join a company via an H1B visa today. That is the exact reason why companies refuse to hire people via H1B. They need people right now, not it 18 months. Though, they can easily transfer an existing H1 visa without any deadline nor quota. That's why they do accept H1 transfers.

Which country are you from in Europe? The government is responsible for immigration related stuff, I doubt they can guaranty any transfer from Europe. It's out of their reach.

Look at J1 visa's, maybe you can join a company on an J1 (no quota, no deadline), then in April next year they can apply for an H1B. You'll be under J1 for about 18 months until October 2018, which will allow you to stay and start working in the US right now. Usually J1 visa's are for internships, etc.
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72% of MIT undergraduates complete their degree with no student debt [1] and the rest are from families in the top 1-5% of income [2]. Thus, if directed at financial aid, this pledge would only help those from high-income families. If the pledge were used to give a stipend, could MIT attract more low-income students to apply and accept their offers?

Giving students from high income families a tuition discount likely won't change their decision to attend, hence price discrimination. To maximize charitable impact with respect to financial aid, it could be argued that instead the funding should go toward other schools so that these all-star, low-income undergrads have more opportunities closer to home.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...
Is there something new recently? These were announced early 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7867585/microsoft-surface...
I can see VR/AR being the logical successor of this concept.

Why spend $5k on a new whiteboard when magic leap turns everything into a smart screen.
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I wonder if this is a divide between geeks / power users / developers on one hand, who want more speed, and average users, who want more space. Every time someone talks about speed, that statement comes from a geek. By contrast, I have heard non-technical people complain about insufficient space on their 128GB Macbooks, but not about the speed. Maybe my sample size isn't big enough. I don't know.

When you said that people want more speed out of their storage, sure, we all want it in the abstract, but did you mean even at the cost of having less space for a higher price?

My iMac's Fusion Drive failed, in the sense of not using the SSD at all, and I didn't notice much difference except in specific situations, like booting, app startup and swapping. On the whole, I wasn't any less productive or more irritated with a hard disc. A small screen, a slower Internet connection and having to move data back and forth to external hard discs are a bigger pain for me than the speed of a hard disc, assuming it's 7200 RPM.
Are you suggesting the donor should have specified how the money is spent? 80% of the money MIT has raised is restricted to specific uses, but the less sexy things like salaries and office supplies are still required for the organization to run.
> An FPGA is what, under $100 these days?

More like under $20. And has enough RAM that you don't need an external RAM chip for something like emulating a C64.
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Just like I hire a person to fix my car, or hire a person to fly the planes I sometimes travel on, we hire people to handle running the country for us. It's an abstraction of labor. I really don't want to be bothered with every little tiny decision about budget or foreign policy.

That said, people in the US are so busy that they don't have any time at all to even make informed decisions on who to elect to run the city/state/country for them. This is a problem...people need to work less, but good luck solving that one with a crippled economy and enormous wealth disparities.

In principle, I agree with you...we have the technology to allow referendum voting, and it would certainly make for a more representative government. However, I think time, understanding, and human nature are large barriers. Also, don't think that just because people can vote directly means they won't be easily swayed by ruling-class propaganda. A good example is when cities try to install their own fiber infrastructure and Comcast rolls in and convinces everyone it's somehow communism. That doesn't go away just because people have a more direct rule.

I think a representative republic still makes sense for our day and age. Gerrymandering is a huge issue and should be dealt with...along with lobbying and other forms of (very obvious) corporate intervention in our republic.
It is hard to overstate just how ferociously bad the experience of getting Jupyter from blank computer to the equivalent of "Hello world" actually is.
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I think there's more to therapy than having a good support or peers, although expressing yourself and having someone there to acknowledge you can undoubtedly be very cathartic.

Or, you might talk with friends about what's bugging you, but they're not going to necessarily explore how your feelings relate to external factors, or ask questions to help you understand yourself. A therapist's job is very different from the role of a friend.
It also requires a $600 annual support and maintenance fee...
The AI controlling that account is stuck in a loop.
Because you'd need one per viewer and no good way to handle guests without going well over the initial $5k budget.
yea i discovered this a couple of months ago and though i've never used a tiling window manager i can't imagine what value one would add over quicktile
I think the users privacy should count for something. This is a betrayal in my book.
The universe is a few billion years old, and in all likelihood will last at least a few billion more.

I wonder how people manage to keep a straight face while calling something "universally unique" that can't even cover a time period corresponding to the recorded history of our own species. Perhaps it never occurred to them that archeologists and paleontologists might also find time-based UUIDs useful?

Space is cheap now. We don't have to fit everything in 128 bits. We could just use good ol' 64 bit time_t, add another 32 bits for nanosecond granularity, throw in a decent amount of random data, and still get identifiers somewhere between the size of a git commit ID (160 bits) and a bitcoin transaction ID (256 bits). Nobody writes these things by hand anyway.
I was part of the PBL lab at Stanford which was doing a bunch of research in that space. I think the major benefit is remote collaboration ala whiteboard and replay of course.
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>pledge from a graduate of the school

That is the most important part. He is saying: use that money to help others like you helped me.