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For SageMath, what funding we’ve got has been mostly used for organizing many “Sage Days” workshop coding sprints – we’ve had nearly 100 now over the last decade! They have made an absolutely tremendous difference in attracting the over 600 people who have contributed. But also key design decision, e.g., 100% test coverage, helped too. I clearly remember the moment – in a big discussion at a Sage Days (funded by the Clay Math Institute) – that Craig Citro argued for 100% doctest coverage, and we all decided to do it. Without funding, those Sage Days wouldn’t have happened, and the community would not have developed. I also remember a Sage Days that we did jointly with Numpy at Enthought, where discussions and work we did together grew into many important things later. Funding is ridicuously absolutely critical to growing certain types of open source projects. In another direction, a lot of our infrastructure (e.g., build, testing, etc.,) is hosted on a big computer bought with a grant.
One of the grocery stores around here (a Price Chopper, maybe?) has a "cooking class" thing on weekends that's more like bulk meal preparation. You prep a whole bunch of the meal you signed up to make, and get some number of family-portioned bagged-to-freeze meals with minimal extra work required when it comes time to cook them. So you very efficiently make a bunch of one thing but get some servings of four or five different meals (you get to pick which ones you want). You pay in based on what you want to take home. The cost is often under what it'd take to buy the ingredients for it, somehow. My wife does it every so often, the results are great and it takes way less time than the combined shopping and prep/cooking would for the same number of meals.

[EDIT] reworded sentence to make it clearer.
I'm not making a mean spirited attack. In fact, I think in the long run moving would even be beneficial for these people
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Here is some more reading to further persuade you - SECRET FSB LECTURE: Why Putin doesn't drink alcohol [0].

This clip has Putin back in 1999, Chechen War, raising a glass with the troops to then put the glass down and command his men to get back to work, deferring the drinking until the job is done. The supposed 'secret FSB lecture' explains how alcohol strips the outer 'oily' layer from blood vessels causing things to go wrong in the narrow capillaries of the brain. The clip ends with the former president Yeltsin dancing like an idiot and generally being out of it due to the booze.

Whether you see Putin as friend or foe matters not, when it comes to attitude towards alcohol Putin sets quite an example. He also challenges the belief that there is something innately Russian about getting sloshed on alcohol - it doesn't have to be that way.

I enjoy thinking more than drinking so drinking the work trip to the boozer is always a 'do I really have to?' thing for me, almost a chore. From this perspective of 'extremely moderate moderation' I do wonder why it is universally normal (outside of Utah and the Muslim world) for there to be a company 'tab'. An employer that doesn't do that (even xmas party) would be considered miserable and miserly. However, imagine if you had a company where cigarettes were dished out freely on a Friday afternoon and something that you could put on expenses. Any employer doing that would be considered reckless. So why is it different with alcohol?

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLfkEEDOzI
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Meanwhile, President Trump is a lifelong teetotaler.
That may be closer to the current number of 'non-resident' homeless. The figure I had for that is 23% - 1 in 4 - from 2015.

1 in 5 is the number of homeless (from the same survey) whose first place of residence in San Francisco was a homeless shelter. It's buried under figure 16 in this survey:

http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Franc...

So 1 in 4 ( or 1 in 3) people are coming here directly to use the services. The 1 in 5 figure is significant because it strongly suggests that homeless nonprofits are actively seeking referrals from other parts of the state and country. We know that in some cases people are literally being sent here:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/nevada-settles-busin...

Yes, that was found to be illegal and some wrists were slapped. I find it hard to conceive that this is the only homeless bussing program - there's no other conceivable way that so many of them are arriving, and immediately finding places in homeless shelters that typically have waiting lists, and definitely have plenty of underserved former tenants.

Ultimately, the organizations involved have no incentive to stop referrals from other parts of the country. The more people they serve, the more money they can ask for from the city, and the more 'successful' they are as a non-profit business.

And just as serving more people is in their interests, so is dumping the most troubled, and consequently, most costly onto the streets in order to serving another round of newcomers. Once they've outstayed their welcome, or become too costly, they are shunted onto the streets. And the worse the crisis gets, the more money they can ask for from the city.

I'm not suggesting that this is some kind of intentional human trafficking. I am sure that (almost) everyone involved is doing so because, in a small minded way, they think that they are improving the world. However, the end result is a travesty.

My thesis is that our current environment is is the result non-profits being run in a capitalist business environment, with a capitalist, MBA-style mindset. Eventually, the business model achieves stasis with it's environment, which, in this case, involves letting the city be a dumping ground for human tragedy, and letting the city's tax payers pay $250 million dollars a year for the privilege. The crisis is the side effect of this expanding bureaucracy achieving homeostasis and justifying its existence.
Any studies on how effective it would be for the government to subsidize moves?
Might a restaurant specializing in molecular gastronomy[0] devising new dishes qualify then?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy
http://www.potatosemi.com/potatosemi2010/products_74.html

You'll want fast 74-series logic!
I didn't know of pushd, very interesting, may be useful for directory traversal in general.
Evidently, many of these people have decided it isn't harder.
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Ok well leave out the man himself and include instead the brass-covered super-geared world he created.

I want a steampunk blimp ok? There. You made me say it.
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Oops. Left off that key word :) Yes, ES6 modules.
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Any references for further reading on that?

From what I've seen, there are a lot of confounding factors in the studies that both back up and refute broken-windows policing. It can be hard to tell what actually works.
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It is fully possible to produce architecture specific APKs, and the Play store will quietly hand over the one relevant to your device.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/facebook-2/messenger/messenger...

Note that there is one for ARM and one for x86.
I don't believe Linus has ever developed Linux to be a consumer kernel. For the first ~15 years it took over servers, and still rules servers supreme. The mainline kernel still sees all its investment, all its participation, coming from predominantly the server sector.

Intel and AMD will keep making server CPUs, and those CPUs must support booting Linux kernels. That won't change as long as x86 is the performance king, and it would take a contender a sizable advantage to justify the opportunity cost to switch.
Waiting for the security nits, but this looks awesome and I have use cases for it every week
The weather is nicer in Southern California, but you pretty much need a car to get around. SF is only seven miles wide, so you can pretty much get anywhere in the city within a couple hours on foot. I assume that makes things like collecting benefits and checking mail much more convenient.
Agreed; I've seen studies relating stress (especially over time) to decrease of cognitive function. I've observed the same in myself.

Fwiw, two glasses of wine a week is what I'd call moderate consumption of alcohol. Where I live, most people drink far too much.
To answer the question, I would stop phrasing it in terms of jobs and instead in terms of productivity and imports / exports. These small communities require a good amount of imports, especially if they want something resembling a modern life with modern technology. They thereby need balancing exports to pay for them. There is very little opportunity for these people to do productive work and export it. So instead there is a reliance on government subsidy for the required imports.

This equation isn't typically true for urban areas, so there's no reason for people to move. (See Detroit for details on exceptions.)
You should build your design and tell us if it works. Or even better, patent it and maybe make millions from licensing it to a conglomerate.
In a democracy the many have the upper hand, if they get involved. Blaming the few at the top seems to be a easy device frequently used today.
If I'm cornered by a crazy man who's shouting and dousing me - if it hits me in the face, quite literally inoculating me - with God knows what? Even here in duty-to-retreat Baltimore, you'd have a hard time calling that other than self-defense.
No. Living Social was the most successful runner up to Groupon. The problem was that "email deal-based marketing for small businesses" was going to be worth something, but there would only be one valuable winner and no one knew how much that would be worth. So Groupon, Living Social, FB, Google, Yelp, and hundreds of clones all threw in tons of money, slogged it out, and now they're all gone and GRPN is worth $2B, 1/8th of its IPO price.

Exactly the same thing is happening with ride-hailing now. It's harder to copy, but there's too much investment subsidizing it so no one knows what the market will be worth once riders have to pay sustainable rates. But they know being 2nd place will suck.

Citation: I worked at Groupon before and after the IPO.
Solaris awk. :)
> Amazon Fresh outsources their actual delivery, as well, so no points for that one.

In my neighborhood there's an Amazon delivery truck that drops off Amazon bags by people who have Amazon uniforms on... Perhaps they're 1099, but for all intents and purposes it is Amazon doing the delivery.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14647605 and marked it off-topic.
Analogy is actually much stronger we like to admit.

Even if chickens would have choice, all they can choose from for their actual survival is another chicken farm.

Over time they have downgraded their ability to survive without support of the chicken farm.

Even if they had some money to pay for the entrance into the chicken farm then collecting their eggs would be much more lucrative business.
Perhaps you're thinking of the infamous 'Deltoid Pumpkinseed'[1][2] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Deltoid-Pumpkin-Seed-John-McPhee/dp/0...
I started programming C# professionally in 2013...the ecosystem has grown and been improved by leaps and bounds since then. I'm hopeful, personally.

I think one thing that keeps C# things from being implemented elsewhere is that there are just very different styles between even C# and Java. Some fancy libraries will do lots of reflectiony things, build syntax trees, and compile on the fly for performance, allowing complex configuration to be simplified and get fast code at runtime. There's also a big culture of LINQ/functional style, and fluent interfaces in libraries, etc. which doesn't seem to be present in something like the Java community (at least until streams), whereas more dynamic/weakly typed languages don't have, for obvious reasons, a culture of strong typing and letting the compiler do the work for you.

Then when you go to the hardcore functional languages like Haskell, ML, etc. you don't have a culture of OO much, not to mention they just aren't used much in production environments.

So, you see a lot of things from elsewhere ported and brought to C#/.NET, but not a lot of things moving from C# to other ecosystems.
Extending this to a small text-based GUI with chat could make it a lot more useful, too. Sort of like a person-to-person BBS.
"Enabling" is not a synonym for "compassion."
Was not criticizing the government in particular, just commenting on one aspect of how monolithic systems over time become inscrutable to the humans that have to use them. See Kafka who lived under the Austro-Hungarian Empire for some famous literary examples.
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I have a super fancy combi-oven. It cooks some things nicely, but it doesn't speed up dinner overall. I enjoy cooking and spend a lot of time doing it. The benefit of this expensive oven is better baking, but it is definitely overkill.
I agree about the age reference, it's irrelevant. If grandma wants to learn javascript then so be it, challenge the brain and code away. I don't find his story that uplifting or even worthy of a challenge that any other 30 year couldn't do.
Anti-Virus is in the domain of an operating system's responsibility and third party AV was a hack that has outlived its usefulness.

Given that most third party AV is increasingly indistinguishable from fear encouraging malware, is it really worth protecting this snake oil security theater industry?
This is obviously more than enough to house every homeless person directly

... at which point you will have a lot more than 7,499 of them.
There is no way a gas powered drone will help bring internet access to some remote area.

Why do these press releases always include the most farfetched goals?
As a drinker, I think there's the issue of how those 14 drinks are distributed over the week. IMO 2 drinks a day is pretty doable, but 14 drinks every Friday night over 30 years sounds like a terrible idea.
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It's unevenly distributed
This confirmed to work? Anyone else speak on this? If so props to the guy who discovered this.
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Sorry, dude, you're not getting me. I'm not talking about the jobs. I'm talking about the profound dehumanizing isolation that the future you posit implies.

It's not about jobs. It's about people. It's about not encouraging the shrinking of individuals into tiny-little-boxes where they don't have to interact with people unlike them. Epistemic and social-stratifying closures are pernicious and dangerous to society in ways "inefficiency" never, not once in human history, has been.
Couldn't they have avoided it by writing a type-safe parser in Rust?
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This seems kind of niche, but a service could do the browning in-house before they package and send the meal? I have to think a browned cut of meat would last just as long, if not longer, than a raw cut?
I believe it's the same study that was on here a few weeks ago, it's from brain scans + tests. 550 people over 30 years, same number, same years. Self-reported consumption.

Actual study:
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2353

The study is pretty detailed, but there are some oddities in the results, higher IQs drank more on average and lost more, people who drank heavily lost less than those who drank moderately.

This was based in the UK, in one community, middle-class, civil servants, predominantly men, average age 43 at start of study (and I would guess almost all white, though they don't say it).

Unsafe drinkers differed from safe drinkers by having a higher premorbid IQ, a higher percentage of men and smokers, and higher Framingham risk scores

Some of the interesting results:

Higher alcohol consumption over the study predicted faster decline on lexical fluency but not semantic fluency or word recall.

People drinking has a % greater reduction from their baseline in lexical fluency per year:

7-<14 units 0.5% (14% over 30 years)
14-<21 units 0.8% (17% over 30 years)
>21 units 0.6% per year (16% over 30 years)

!! These figures are odd and seemingly don't add up. Is it just bad rounding? Are their graphs based on these wrong figures? !!

Their conclusion doesn't highlight that it doesn't seem to matter how much you drink in terms of lexical fluency, it's that you drink at all?

I don't really understand the section titled "Grey matter". 3.4 odds in lighter drinkers, 5.8 odds in heavier drinkers? They don't really explain what that means.

Edit: having now listened to the audio it seems there was some technical problem with the white matter measurement, but they say they saw a decline.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508201
In a sense, you just described the beginning of a passion.
How is the 16 bit wormhole code secure against brute force?
>You are aware that the opposite applies too, right? That whoever doesn't want Google scrapping results can block their crawlers?

The point was, 'whoever has the power, makes the rules'. Google skews search results whenever it wants to promote its services. Given Google's dominant position, this harms competition. The EU is addressing this.

>... Here. You are aware that Google search itself is closed, right? You either aren't or your grandstanding regarding the "open web" is completely empty words.

An open platform has absolutely nothing to do with the source code. For e.g. Linux would be an open platform even if you had no access to the source code. This is because you can run any software you want, poke at any and all bits in memory, call any API you want, extend the OS using documented APIs in any way you want, etc. OSX and Windows are open too, with some caveats relating to their app stores. iOS and Android are not open platforms.

Google is creating tightly integrated closed platforms where they control absolutely everything, and doing anything that is not "blessed" by them is automatically illegal and violates their TOS For e.g. If you came up with a better commenting system, you can't create an app that lets you watch youtube videos and comment using your own system. If you came up with a better stock ticker, you can't compete with google because typing 'apple stock quote' popups up their own service and there is no way to get that top spot. Such integrations combined with their dominant market position harms competition. Anyway, i've spent way too much time on this story so this will be my last comment. Need to get back to work ! :)
> All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world

Cloudflare will need to hire a sandboxing expert for that.

Wait...
Google hires devs to develop similar libraries... to power their machine learning efforts. There is tons of numerical work in finance, too. I don't think the money is to be made by selling copies of a Matlab-like piece of software, but in the application of the tools.
Literal description is not an exaggeration.
> Really, if you wanted proof that there was a bubble, you’d look for a refrigerated warehouse REIT.

I know someone working on a roll up of refrigerated warehouses. A REIT might be part of their exit plan but I don't think these meal-in-a-box companies even register on their radar.
The number of seconds in these intervals, see the top level post.
I don't think it's an issue for most people. The sharps bins look very medical so it is easy to forget that the users are potentially throwing away things other than insulin needles, especially if you're not wandering around looking to be angry about the fact that people inject drugs.
> Why should that be noteworthy?

Because there's perceived ageism in this industry, so saying you're just getting started in your 30's is interesting.
Nevermind that Tokyo has 20x the area and population of SF? That's not counting the metropolitan area which matches the population of California.
The killed off their Raspberry Pi competitors as well.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There's still copper. It just couldn't compete with the open pit mines, overseas, etc., at subsequently depressed prices.

Now that copper prices have risen, in recent years (not sure about at the moment), there's been intermittent talk of starting some of the UP mining back up.

Probably won't happen -- my guess. Too much investment, given current global volatility. And the relevant people are largely gone.

More recently, foreign paper products production has been inflicting a further hit. The local town near where I stay lost its paper mill (for paperboard products) a few years ago. As one example.
I'm fairly certain they would have designed and kept the Earth's actual and expected population in mind with their scaling.
Ah! That works, thanks!
I’ve had similar experiences. If I want vectorised code, I just write it myself using intrinsics or assembly. It’s fine if the compiler can autovectorise something I didn’t feel like doing by hand, but I’m not going to rely on heuristic voodoo to get the machine code I want for a hot loop. I wouldn’t mind a slightly nicer wrapper API for the intrinsics, though, something like glsl-sse2[1].

And that’s more or less what I’m planning to do in a programming language I’m working on, actually—if you use a SIMD-compatible array type, the compiler will try to keep it in a vector register, and some operations will be faster (e.g., “+” on two Float32^4 values will compile to an addps) but it’s up to the programmer to use the instructions they actually want, or tell the compiler with a macro “please vectorise this loop or warn me about why you can’t”.

[1] https://github.com/LiraNuna/glsl-sse2
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I agree that people should remain compassionate. I understand why some people experience schadenfreude when it's rural Republican voters failing to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" after hearing that advice given to urban Democratic voters, but tit-for-tat shaming is not humane. These people largely don't vote how I vote but they are still my fellow citizens. They have dependent children and elders. Some degree of suffering is probably unavoidable, because relocation is painful and many of these towns don't have long term futures. I don't want their residents to experience unnecessary suffering as some sort of lesson. We should try to help the people transition to better opportunities in other regions.

If the residents refuse that sort of help and instead demand that the government somehow make the old mines profitable again, then one may indulge in some exasperated eyeball-rolling and mockery, but I'm trying not to do that preemptively.
Fair point about the risk factor. I take the edit back!

But I think our disagreement is philosophical. Ultimately I feel much of medical research is prescriptive - and thus there is no misrepresentation, except perhaps amount of uncertainty that is associated with these studies.

I think hese uncertainties are poorly communicated by scientists themselves, and just appending "maybe" to every headline adds very little to the conversation.
I don't usually have such strong feelings about a for-profit entity but I hope they do really well, and so does Udacity.

(And, I suppose, EdX)
I think the key to growing long-term creative ability is getting in the habit of daily creation. For me I build a lot of HTML + CSS demos, so that means starting my day by experimenting and looking things up in the spec, then building some demos with what I learn. :)