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Yes, I got the irony. But I was responding to the criticism of Brand for anthropomorphizing abstractions. And if it was just a joke, with no criticism of Brand, then it was arguably off-topic, no?
But they did so covertly. Which is very important, since this is how the USA operates - "we help you guys" while getting benefits for themselves.

Trump just openly bashes everyone, like a complete moron.
The performance for arm server chips is coming along.
Or $30M per Whole Foods (rented) stores.
This can be pretty annoying for users and developers though. If the user forgets what account they last used and selects a different one next time then it ends up creating an entirely new account unassociated with the first. If I ever do social integration, I require a plain old email based login first and then allow them to connect their social accounts to it.
You'd think. But, you can't. The process depends on the state, but usually requires a birth certificate and social security card, at the minimum.
It does emit more radiation than it absorbs, which is star-like.
One main concern that I have that isn't addressed by the site - performance. How many cells can you have before it starts to show? Any benchmarks to speak of?
Forgive me, I conflated a complex issue. And I also regcogise I'm generalizing.

I know more than a few people who dislike what Amazon did to their favourite local bookstore but also shop at Amazon. I'm very long AMZN and I shop at Wholefood & Trader Joes.

I'm just suggesting that (a) Bezos has smart people around him who could give him suggestions and (b) this isn't bad PR.
Spelling (and related things) in poetry (especially contractions) often signals intended pronunciation variations from the standard pronunciation of a word.

A mechanical modernization and standardization would seem to run a significant risk of damaging some of these, though proper manual final review would hopefully catch and revert the problematic cases.
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This textbook chapter has a good overview of the state of the art: https://cs.brown.edu/~rt/gdhandbook/chapters/hierarchical.pd...
> The lowest performers are unlikely to become best, but the middle still changes significantly.

As long as the middle gets sorted into the Realschule, there's no problem ;-)
But more seriously, according to wikipedia[0] IQ is relatively stable beginning at an age of approx. 11 years, so if we compensate for the measurement error with a permeable system I only see two problems: As you mentioned, at this age the brain devolops so rapidly that being the oldest in the class gives students a measurable advantage, but that is an issue for any school system, and as I said in a neighboring comment, overly ambitions parents are meddling too much, but that is a relatively recent phenomenon and a problem unto itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Age
The value of Zappos is integrating the procurement and warehousing with the Amazon operation. The front end can remain distinct. The same applies to the WF distribution network. That is the hardest thing to get right in the supermarket business.
Even after growing up and finding out what it really is, it still sounds pretty tasty.
I imagine some being ready to sacrifice performance and going with ARMv8 for them not being flawed with technologies such as Intel AMT.
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For small amounts, sure. But gift cards create log trails, which may be discoverable by adversaries. So spending >> declared income is a red flag.
This is really eye opening
Except in most of Europe where not having ID if you are an adult is illegal. Not in the "We will go after you if you don't have ID" way but in the "If shit happens and you can't prove your identity you are in serious deep shit"

Just like snow equipment is mandatory to have in your car but nobody cared until you cause an accident or traffic jam because you didn't put chains on.
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Nothing Cadbury ever did was good for the world of sweets and chocolate. Nothing.
I'm sorry your childhood was perverted by one of the first corporations to chew and regurgitate foreign cultural items for mass consumption.

For god's sake, never buy Cadbury's. The chocolate is terrible and often is not even chocolate. Cadbury's is the worst that England can offer, an example of how English taste was destroyed by the search for profit. If there is one silver lining in the whole Brexit thing, is that Cadbury's chocolate will once again be uncompetitive in Europe compared to continental offers.
> Less social security to be paid out.

That, and fewer people voting for democrats.
A lot of the problems with mathematical notation, I think, are solved problems in programming languages. Mathematicians could learn a lot from programmers in this regard

- Variable Scope. In mathematical writing, the convention is that every variable is a global variable - and in a paper you quicky run out of variable names to use. There should be a way to declare the scope of a variable. For this chapter only, x is this vector.

- Strict Typing. You skim a paper, and you see "x + y". But what is x? a matrix, a vector, a scalar, an operator, a set, a random variable, you have no idea. The "+" operator is so overloaded x and y could be anything. Having to hunt down the definitions for every variable is a time consuming and frankly wasteful process. Conventions are built up around this (upper case letters A,B at the beginning of the alphabet are matrices, but upper case letters at the end X,Y are random variables) but they are mostly rater silly. There needs to be an easy way to infer the type of a variable quickly.

- Anonymous Objects. There is no way to declare a function without either giving a name to it (f(x) = x^2) or at least declaring its input symbols (x |=> x^2). But you can't go, say
(x |=> x^2)(y). Using a symbol to represent a disposable function seems a waste of a valuable global variable (see again, 1) and is inelegant.
> Just use the GMail to avoid the delay with fetching third party accounts.

"Don't use the email client you prefer" isn't really a great argument against it being bad UX...
I think you might have some rose colored glasses on. Resistive screens suck. Even modern ones are less accurate than the original iPhone with respect to touch. They can be good if you have a narrow tip stylus, but otherwise they have always seemed borderline unusable to me. I always end up using my fingernail because touch recognition is so poor.

And anyway, to whatever extent you can type on a tiny keyboard or select a tiny checkbox with your finger, it comes down to software, because your fingertip isn't precise even if the screen is.

Scroll bars also suck for touch devices because they have to be so absurdly wide to be usable.
It isn't cruel, there are legitimate reasons the process is and should be difficult. Document fraud helped the 9/11 attackers get driver's licenses and ID fraud is a major part of many other terror attacks and funding. This is also an identity theft vector, and numerous welfare/tax scams are built on multiple and fake identities.
I was homeless for two years living out of my car. I used a mail forwarding service to maintain proof of residence and get id and stay registered somewhere.
The problem with both the original form and yours is it obscures the active agent and real interests driving the real effect, which is important because not obscuring that makes the generality limitations of the statement a lot easier to see.
She didn't have ID when she was evicted which means she had plenty of time to get one. If she had a license/state ID and answered the expiration mailer she would have had one.
Awesome! And, truly horrifying...
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I've seen 'ye' for 'the' on tombstones from the 1600s. The stone carvers weren't picking type out of a box.
But until she was evicted she was there and thus could have renewed her ID through the mail prior to this ordeal.
For the best quality and variety of food in Europe, you're actually best off going to London because you can get everything. Italy (and to some extent France) suffer from a superiority complex with the result that it's hard to get anything other than Italian food. Best food I've had in Italy is in Puglia where there's more sea food. And otherwise, you get better Italian food in the US. Much of what you'd think of as German food is really Austrian or perhaps Swiss and there isn't that much variety to the restaurants here. However, for best quality and variety of native desserts, I would actually put my bet on Austria.
I am not sure if I would count using Node as evidence for technical finesse. Personally I would rather work for a company accomplishing the same with say Scala, Haskell, or even C#, C++ or Java, before I would consider Node.
>What would motivate someone to intentionally prevent poor people from helping themselves?

A theology that holds that god rewards the just and thus the poor must be so because they're wicked and/or a fucked up reading of the phrase "the poor will always be with you"

A desire to 'prove' an economic philosophy that the poor brought it on themselves by creating a self perpetuating spiral of doom and then pointing to people that get caught in it as proof.

Racism and a general supposition that these policies affect those people over there to a sufficient degree that these people over here are an acceptable loss.

Just being a fucking dick.
Yes, as someone who almost exclusively wears Bonobos and is a relatively young professional I'm super worried about this. I've been to Walmart probably not more often than the times. I can only assume and hope that Walmart did this to get access to people like me and not to transform Bonobos to cater to people who wear three wolf shirts.
Bologna is a city. Mortadella is the food.

Source: born and raised in Bologna.
These guys really care about Github stars.
> I can't quite parse that :(

Sorry. It means we agree.
> Drivers licenses do expire, generally at 4-6 year time frames. Assuming you're still at the same address (which she was), most states allow one to renew it through the mail.

...and paying a fee. Given that the article is about being poor, that's a non-trivial omission.
I don't think there's a significant incentive for Amazon to change Whole Foods. The real gains will be from automating the supply chain, including applying machine learning to quality control. Amazon already grades strawberries that way.
How do you differentiate between 'poor with no ID' and someone overstaying a Visa?
I'd pay a professional to do it or sell it for parts/repair. Working on small mobile electronics requires skills and experience. It's very easy to accidentally cause damage that's worse than the problem you were trying to fix in the first place.
Every wealthy nation but the U.S. provides universal healthcare. They all provide much more subsidized higher education. They do theses things without taxing people to death. Do you have any evidence to support your belief?
Well, yeah, sure, there is terrible software out there. But if you expect everyone you communicate with to live with terrible usability because you insist on using broken software, then you are just being an asshole. Email is an open, federated system, you can just switch to different client software.
No, it means that she went from a situation in which she still had plenty of time to get one into a situation where she suddenly had no time at all anymore.

> If she had a license/state ID and answered the expiration mailer she would have had one.

That assumes she had one to begin with. I know lots of Americans that don't even have a passport or driving license.

Anyway, you're a cold one to stick to your theme of victim blaming, take into account that not everybody is able to navigate the bureaucracy as well as you or I and that there are other factors (for instance: analfabetism) that can land people in very difficult situations which even an expert would have a hard time to reverse.

And in case it wasn't clear to you yet: And it shouldn't be that way, if you're a legal citizen of a country and you lose all your identification due to theft, fire or some other reason and/or you are homeless then your government should go out of its way to help correct the situation. Because it is the decent thing to do.
Are you saying that US federal spending is the most effective charity in the world?
You're effectively saying, become a lobbyist.

And you're right. It's a great idea. A sort of white-hat political force (controlling a tangled web of various corporation/non-profit/PAC type entities) that, instead of trying to gain some narrow advantage at the expense of the public, does the opposite.

If Bezos really has the balls to spend it, he has enough money; a presidential campaign, the most expensive kind, only costs 1.2 gigadollars or so[1].

You only need 60 senators and a couple hundred members of the House of Representatives to get whatever shit done you want. So doling out $10,000,000,000.00 a year or so in the right places would go a long way.

Of course, eight years later you're broke, the patient hegemony of other rich people and corporate interests reasserts itself, and America starts sliding down the path to democratic failure again...

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...
Smart of you to see ahead.
You can't possibly think Jeff Bezos had any direct personal involvement with any of this. He likely didn't compose the tweet and likely won't have a hand in reading the results. I doubt anyone associated with him is actually going to read the results.
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They have different cost structures and much higher taxes, and their healthcare couldn't exist without multi billion research efforts US healthcare consumer pays for. How much pharmaceutical innovation is there outside the US?
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The percentage of the population with a PDA was effectively zero before the iPhone created the market. People carrying Moto Qs were a geeky elite. Apple made this mainstream.

RIM was closest but even they missed the real market with their focus on email and physical keyboards.
There are people like myself working on that. Not an easy problem but one that deserves attention for sure.
The Friendly Article, good sir.
"There's 330,000 people that work for GE and none of them had a productive day yesterday, none of them had a completely productive day. So my own belief is that when it comes to digital tools and things like that, that first part of the revolution, is going to be to make your existing workforce productive,"

I mean, this sounds good in theory, but anyone expecting someone to be 100% productive sounds like assembly line thinking, and not new world creative thinking.

People just aren't meant to be short term productive 100% of the time. We keep trying to make the person do more, and pack more into more time, but people are more stressed at work than ever, and working harder, but wages don't seem to be going up. That spread goes to the shareholders.
Why isn't there a total decentralized on demand platform? The bulk of the value is in the people performing the services, not the app technology to connect them.
America, what a boring place...this coupled with news of Amazon buying whole foods just solidifies the idea that people are foolishly obsessed with material objects and efficiency and don't really care about buying responsibly.

Does anyone do any living of their own or just love thinking about where their next box will be delivered from and how quickly it can get to their door.

Hilarious and tragic at the same time.

Edit: The down votes are worth it :)
Is there any reason nowadays not to deploy one of the more performant forks of MySQL (e.g. Percona, MariaDB)?
Before hacker news disble my account, I would like to say that Google, facebook and twitter are one of the worst web sandbox jails. If you dare to say anything out of mainstream opinions your account is very fast disabled and everything lost.

People please avoid these corporations
When I went to the site, I got a fairly insidious takeover ad: The ad took over the whole page, displaying a 10-second countdown timer and a "Click Here to go to site" link. The "Click Here…" link triggered another pop-up ad (it never took me to the site), and when the timer expired, nothing happened. The URL bar had been changed, so reloading wouldn't help, and the back button took me to a blank screen.

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Mutual recursion ;)
Yes. That explains why Americans give up time, money, effort, and care, to help other Americans back up out of the hole our government does not give a damn if it puts them in.
http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html gets posted almost every time there's an org-mode front-page link, and there's good reason for that. I've been working in org-mode since 2006-2007, and it's still the most complete, single-page view integration I've seen of the project into someone's life. Sacha Chau (http://sachachua.com/blog/) is also a fantastic resource for information on org-mode, just a bit more spread out across years of posts.

So, yeah, with 10 years of org-mode experience behind me, I still don't feel like it's smooth yet. I never got the hang of clocking. The lack of stable integrations to the outside world are what kill me. Yes, there's been mobile apps from mobileorg to orgzly to new ones I don't know about, but none have ever really nailed the interface. Calendar syncing is iffy, and breaks often. I still use org-mode for notes, blogs, writing, etc, and my emacs config is org-babel'd, which is a fantastic literate programming environment. I'm even working on a small package to export org-mode to gitbook format (http://github.com/qdot/org-gitbook, don't get your hopes up yet as right now it's just 2 small functions, but it does work). org-trello integration (https://org-trello.github.io/) is getting me closer to what I want, but that still means bouncing org -> trello -> other services, which isn't exactly ergonomic.

I would love if org-mode could be my full memex implementation, but there's parts that just aren't there quite yet. Since part of the package is still extremely useful to me, I'll certainly keep trying.
It'll be interesting to see a summary of all the ideas, after all the snark, looney and funny replies are filtered out.
Counterpoint: If you find you're having to implement "the fundamentals" that often, maybe you aren't a good fit for an engineering position.

Not every company wants someone who views every problem as a nail to hit with a CS[1-4]01 hammer.

There are positions where novel applications of known algorithms are required for which no existing implementation exists and there are research positions for generating new algorithms. These positions together comprise a tiny fraction of intellectually challenging software development (and an even smaller fraction when your pejorative "CRUD" applications are considered). I'd guess outside of these two contexts and school the need to understand "the fundamentals" well enough to have them "deeply ingrained" is smaller still.
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LOL yeah because DC, where the op-ed is focused, has a 76-6 Democratic to Republican party registration advantage.
It's much better than what is out there in industry, however: plaintext data. Usually the attacker when you upload data to the cloud isn't the cloud provider, but outside intruders.

I feel it's not constructive to claim that solutions that provide intermediate security are useless; schemes that provide strong security (eg. ORAM based schemes) are far from practicality, and so these intermediate security solutions are the best we've got.
Yes. This is why you find people of Christian faith volunteering to...you know what, never mind. I wish I lived in a world as simple as the one you seem to.
To paraphrase maxerickson in this thread: the process should be secure, not difficult.
Surely you mean React, not React Native?
Or, a more real-life example, one might want to donate anonymously to a no side in the referendum about gay marriage in the US lest they want to lose their job.
I think a key challenge with music theory is that it is tackling some of the same problems as in linguistics.

You have a somewhat formal system that follows some sort of methodology. However, while there is a system, it seems nearly impossible to actually describe the axioms of this system formally.

With language or music, how do you determine some bases from which all other concepts are composed? I suspect that there is probably no such bases since new concepts seem to be able to be spontaneously created from human experience and often have circular relations.
So your position is that it's good that it's illegal to arbitrage prescription drugs across the US border? I'd love to hear more.
No: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/gnq8t/is_it_tru...

The question itself is weird; planets don't really "fail" to become something else. They simply accumulate mass during accretion, and either that mass (and other factors) is sufficient for ignition and sustained fusion, or not.

It would be a little bit like asking if Neptune is a failed Jupiter or Mars was a failed Earth (hmm, perhaps a bad example).

Jupiter is far, far too small to have been a candidate for a brown dwarf.
From what I understood, attributes are passed down via prototypal inheritance. How do you prevent children attributes from clashing with their ancestors' context?
I have nightmares of a long chain of components, each with a `name` attribute, and not knowing which `name` is which at any level.
If the answer is to somehow namespace the attributes on a collaborative basis (for example with a naming convention), it won't work.
> Easy to learn: There is NO API to learn.

True, but how useful is it?

> Easy to reuse: Everything is powered by stateless functions instead of classes and objects, making it extremely modular.

Maybe it's all stateless functions under the hood, but the "hello world" code snippet includes code that mutates the DOM:

onkeyup: function(e){
if(e.keyCode === 13){
document.querySelector("#list")._add(this.value);
this.value = "";
}
}

> Easy to maintain: "Development workflow" doesn't exist. No NPM, No Webpack, No Babel, just vanilla Javascript and 100% based on web standards.

Are these tools really the main source maintenance pain for web developers?

In my experience the code I write is the biggest maintenance burden. I'll suffer through complex tooling if it helps me avoid maintenance anti-patterns (like storing state on DOM elements...)
Light background check. Validate their fingerprints/photo against database of Visa holders.
Digital cameras already have a great interface for most users. It's single button click.

The menus and dials are for expert users who don't want a more simplified interface because it's more efficient for them to learn the dense interface that novices find confusing.
Isn't owning the Washington Post (as Bezos does) a step in the direction of influencing social outcomes?

Rupert Murdoch is the primary backer of all things right wing in the world, and does more to influence elections and governments than Russia ever could. He wields that influence through media ownership.