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I've done a lot of dating over the years, and have discovered that the most important thing is finding someone who likes me for who I am. At various points I went on so many dates that I worried that the right person wasn't out there, or that maybe I was meeting her and not knowing it.

The truth is that it's hard to find someone who is a good match, especially by the time you get into your 30s and have a fair bit of life experience. If you meet your partner at 30 vs 20, you have lived 50% longer and had a lot more experiences that have shaped your preferences.

But it definitely can be done. I've noticed that a fair number of people who were perpetually single eventually met the right person and settled down in their 30s or even 40s (I just went to the wedding of a friend who is in his mid-40s).
yeah i figured it was a pick and choose what fits best. Thanks for sharing your list! These kind of interview questions get posted on HN a lot and there's always the same reaction.
I'm sure some exec on zillow's marketing team thinks that someone making fun of some houses will hurt their business. Everyone working for this exec thought they were stupid for pursuing it, but they don't want to lose their jobs over it so they just roll their eyes and ignore it.
More than a few names are mentioned, such as Thomas Friedman and Sheryl Sandberg, but it also seems a disingenuous at times. His theory looks more coherent than it actually is once you begin to break it down. People can be too quick to believe in vague ideas about "the elites" who are against us.

People the author likes, like Noam Chomsky, aren't considered "thought leaders" who "develop their own singular lens to explain the world, and then proselytize that worldview to anyone within earshot” in an attempt to “change the world.” Even though Chomsky would definitely like to change the world, and is quite prolific.

Some of the criticism leveled at some of the people is valid but doesn't support his argument. Like when he mentions Fareed Zakaria's plagiarism, as far as I know it was limited in scope and not common throughout his writing. I'm ambivalent about Zakaria, but I'd rather talk about actual ideas than focus on that episode.

He constructs this "thought leader" strawman to attack, when he would better just directly addressing some of the core ideas presented by the thought leaders he doesn't like.

Maybe the article pulled it together by the end, but I couldn't keep reading when it was this sloppily presented. It's compelling, and there are even parts that appeal to my own biases, but it's too ambitious and falls apart.
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I liked the part where they discarded them all after using them to build the most deadly weapon ever.

Accusations of communism and disloyalty continued to dog the couple, especially with the dawn of the Cold War. Oppenheimer himself battled similar rumors, largely because his wife had at one point joined the Communist Party; in 1954, despite swearing loyalty to the U.S., his security clearance was revoked.

Charlotte Serber likewise struggled to obtain another high-profile librarian job. Her application to work in the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory was rejected because she couldn’t get clearance, probably because of her political background.

Let that be a lesson for all the IT guys who work for the NSA/CIA/DoD.
> a lot of people, when they're thinking about the experience of a game, are thinking about it just as if it were a movie-- such and such happens and the player has this or that reaction.

Yes! I look at it like this:

If you're telling a story about how you played some game, for many games, the story you tell is just the narrative within the game itself. The games I care about are the ones where the stories I tell about it are my stories.
A zillow competitor should just swoop in and sponsor her.
What if the "acknowledge receipt to sender" message gets lost?
Just my two cents. If you have an HR department. This is something you should discuss with them. Second, you should take your buddy out for a beer and both of you should clear the air in an amicable fashion. Cultural issues are a problem but they can always be resolved in a level headed manner.
Should post on ask hacker news for this to get more traction.
I would never invest in this company. My Mom gave me some extra meals of this type and they are great but you still have to cook them, so they pile up, so you cancel...

I don't know anyone that has stuck with the program long term but boy do I hear about how great it is on the ads on all my podcasts.
Why artificial intelligence is different from previous technology waves
I bought it to wake up without waking my wife. Unfortunately the motor makes enough noise in a silent bedroom that it woke my wife anyway.
I'd just like to live in a United States that was still trying to actually be the best in the world instead of lowering expectations to the point where no obvious incompetence is considered a massive achievement...
Forcefully?
MLS?
As Climate Changes, Southern States Will Suffer More Than Others
Ask HN: How are you storing your point cloud data?
"plaintiff not having standing" is one of the biggest bullshit aspects of American law. Unjust laws sit on the books being used to threaten and intimidate people, and only until some with the money, gall and the lack of anything to lose does a law get challenged. This person also needs to get charged under this law, which often not the case. The Justice System, knowing the rules, tries to never expose itself to a potential challenger.

1) Laws should pass a constitutional court before being put into place.

2) Anyone should be able to challenge a law. Period. Of course, those "with standing" should have more weight. But many clearly unconstitutional laws stand simply because of a lack of standing.
You're never going to get around the fact that most of these things are qualitative assumptions. Is your documentation good? There's really no completely objective way to measure maintainability, because maintainability is often about how easy it is to handle unknown future change requests.

Years ago "function points" were bandied about as a truly objective measure of software output and value. It turned out to be trivially game-able and added 0 value to software development estimation.
Salesforce.com Developers are the highest paid in the IT industry and TDD is hardcoded into their development process. (All code is required to have 75% unit test coverage).

Correlation is not causation... but maybe it is?
She isn't removing old posts that contain photos sourced from Zillow. If she had lost in court she might have had to do that.
If a comment gets flagged by enough users or downvoted far enough it gets killed, that's what's been happening in a majority of cases on this post.
We worked extensively with the MX IPFIX export and I never saw mac addresses in any of the exports Juniper sent us:
https://www.plixer.com/blog/virtual-netflow/juniper-vmx-ipfi...
Canadian court orders Google to globally de-index website
I don’t think our observations are incompatible :)

Note that I didn’t say China’s plan was necessarily working, I think that’s an open question and I’m actually bearish on it: I think the upcoming generation of Taiwanese are less interested than ever in the mainland and can see through this plot.

I’m just saying that both countries know “one country, two systems” is a dead letter and so China isn’t worried that the crackdown in Hong Kong is damaging its chances. They know Taiwan wrote it off years ago.
This is true for stock splits, but not necessarily true of dilution. It's very rare for non-CEO's to receive dilution protection in their contracts.
How about powerwheels cars?

They're cheap second hand, they have a cheap plastic body so you won't feel back chopping it up to fit hardware onto it... They don't have electric steering, so you'd need a servo to operate that. However they're pretty good otherwise.

Edit: An article on the subject. Brief but you get the idea https://devpost.com/software/self-driving-powerwheels
I love that down in the comments he was asked if any of those 150 dates resulted in him getting laid, and his response was, "44.7%"
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick

2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Don't forget collective bargaining against hospitals. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargemaster
> Insurance is fundamentally a data problem.

this is a special sentence. it reads roughly as "i am ignorant of reality" to me. :(

very american.
Making ice is good way to bank cheap power at a company-scale because they can use it to offset AC later.
They can teach us how to use political dissidents as organ donors, suppress protests by disappearing opponents, imprison those who point out corruption, and no doubt many other things alien to our way of life.
>taking from a robot rather than a human

...which is owned by a human. not to mention the ambiguity between a tool and a robot. can we expect SaaS companies to be taxed because their servers are "robots"? that is not to say i'm against UBI, but the justification of "it's okay because we're taking it from robots!" doesn't hold.
Zuckerberg was in my dream and said
In my dream I was asking Zuckerberg some hard questions, some questions he did not want to answer in front of the others. But then this:

ME: How does it work?
ZUCK: Get me a DNA pen ......then after i give him the pen which is one of those pens with like ten colors inside it, he proceeds to spin it on the paper in such a way that it draws 2 layers of honeycomb shapes and then another small layer between the two. Then says "for every 2 there is 5 supporting it" and then says it again " for every 2 there is 5 supporting it"

What do you make of it?
> Transcription can lead to the same conditional in two blocks of similar code instead of the two intended. It can lead to fencepost errors due to changing or inverting an inequality. And in some languages it can lead to code that looks up data that doesn't exist (misspell a property name outside the happy path).

Funnily enough, all of those are also problems with copy-and-paste. But they're much more likely to occur through copy-and-paste, because it's easy to do that without reviewing the code.
i think the many books on human anatomy disagree with you by their very existence...
I've enjoyed this Thought Leader episode from CBC Canada's "This is That" show: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/thought-leader-gives-talk...
EDIT: Nevermind. unityByFreedom is a troll

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=14667581
Is this actually true? If so, why would anyone ever value an options package at anything above zero (assuming they are non-CEOs)?
I'm happy with my path:

Youthful idealism -> number theory
Mature pragmatism -> pivot to CS

It was entirely luck that my passion was so closely related to the current gold rush.
I'm glad to see some empirical testing of assertions about unconscious gender bias. I think people fall into a bit of a trap when they see the high-level statistics: they assume all other factors are equal and therefore the disparity is entirely due to gender discrimination. While this may indeed be an issue, there are a multitude of other factors at play. Even people who really ought to know better oversimplify this issue.

For example, at my workplace (a government department with a strong focus on economics) there's a big push on at the moment for promoting women. The reason for this is that women are severely under-represented (relative to the male-female population ratio) in the senior ranks. No one seems to have considered that, given the senior executive in the public service tend to be older, the main driver is probably the fact that enrolment in university economics courses was heavily male dominated when that age-cohort was attending university (if memory serves, the ratio was something like 80-20).

So the issue in my workplace isn't so much that there is discrimination against women, but rather that there is discrimination against people who haven't studied economics (and rightly so, given the department's function). I haven't checked the most recent census, but the one before that showed university economics enrolments was still around 60-40 male-female.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not suggesting gender discrimination does not exist. I just wish people would think a bit more carefully about this issue if they must insist on having such strong and vocal opinions about it.
It should be noted it's impossible to have a 'reverse bloom filter' with the same properties as a regular bloom filter. That is, a constant predefined size gives you a particular false negative rate. The thing you linked to is really just a cache. It has to store an entire entry (not just set some bits based on the hash) and doesn't have a predictable false negative rate based on its size. For more info: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/6596/a-probabil...
great resource using 3d animation to explain rna and dna knowledge: https://www.dnalc.org/resources/3d/
They are aiming at 5G network markets. Everything else is secondary.

You can see all their consumer products just as a way to ensure that there are products that push 5G to the max in terms of low consumption/latency/bandwidth in the next 5-10 years. Milking and maintaining the strong consumer brand is extra.

Successors of Ozo camera will the bandwidth hog in 5G.

Withings products are the platform they will use to push factor 10 reduction in energy consumption and “sleep modes” for always on network devices that are part of 5G.

Their new deal with HMD Global / Foxconn means that others take the risk and Nokia brand stays relevant in smartphone market. They still own the brand but they don't but significant money into it.
Some of the most talented people I have ever met in my 30 years in IT worked at Nokia (USA and Finland).

There was something about the culture there that just made it an incredible place to work for everyone. An environment where people were treated with dignity and respect and rewarded with generosity.

The Fins are incredibly hard working and talented along with their US counterparts. I imagine any company that hired an ex Nokia employee was rewarded well.

The company has greatness in it, would not surprise me at all if it rose like a phoenix from the ashes.
.... built by the British, not the Chinese. The British gave the local Chinese a first world place.

Again, HK and Singapore were both built by British folks. Look it up. Had the British colonized more places, it would be even safer.

Malaysia is still defended by Aussies and Brits to this day!
some people consider taxation forceful because it's involuntary.
> A digital fiat currency—one backed by the central bank and with the same legal status as a banknote—would lower the cost of financial transactions, thereby helping to make financial services more widely available. This could be especially significant in China, where millions of people still lack access to conventional banks. A digital currency should also be cheaper to operate, and ought to reduce fraud and counterfeiting.

I don't understand the article's point. Everyone including Chinese banks already uses digital fiat currency. My bank account is full of digital fiat currency going under the name "US dollars". They have exactly the same legal status as banknotes -- in fact, they are so similar that they are considered to be exactly the same thing.
> The problem is that the MTA (which runs the New York City subway, mind you) is inexplicably run at the state level, ...

Previously the new York city mayors had much more control, but they always had a lot of pressure to not increase fares. Note that the nickel fare only ended a decade or so before, after having existed for more than sixty years. So the system needed to increase fares to become more viable, but the mayors needed to run on platforms of not increasing fares.

Putting the mta in state hands was seen as a better, more technocratic solution, allowing the agency to do things that are necessary even if they aren't popular.
DOM manipulation isn't currently supported, for now you will need to provide a javascript layer between the C code and DOM. Its in the roadmap to create these interfaces.

Web assembly is better suited for CPU intensive tasks which you would want to offload from javascript but keep on the client.
OMG. I had the exact same dream last night.
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Joking of course.
Vice News covers it regularly
Why do they just -need- to have Taiwan back that they would kill for it? Just let it be.
Have been lucky to stumble on several new ones over the last few months:

Children of Time (wow!)

Spaceman of Bohemia

The Book of Strange New Things

The City and The City

(I'd also recommend the three body trilogy - fantastic)
the roadmap for WebAssembly does include interfaces into DOM manipulation, it's not the highest priority but allowing javascript replacement isn't completely out of the scope of web assembly. Just don't expect it to be a good idea for quite some time.
So the higher the pricepoint of the item, the harder it is to actually acquire a customer. To convince someone to buy subscription to a $60 box of food is quite the endeavor.

You also need to be wary about how they exactly calculate CPAs based on ad buys. For instance, if they just comissioned a large scaled TV ad buy, that's millions of dollars they have to pay now. TV advertising has a long tail of user acq as it takes time for the message it wear in to a user.

So if those millions hit in the billed quarter, they could still get customers in a later period and the CAC would change.
He did say XA.

The transaction boundary defined in your consumer covers the interactions of that consumer with other XA aware nodes who all participate in a "distributed transaction". So you can process this message N times without committing, and thus possibly N times telling other systems to do M' side-effect of that message, but until you commit the world has not changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA
Nature also has things like immune systems, but you get into very sketchy legal territory there. Our legal system have not caught up with this new interconnected reality.

Oh, and nature very frequently suffers all kinds of systemic collapse. Nature isn't immune to this.
Putting a Stop to Ludicrous Job Titles
The fanboyishness really reduces your credibility as an author. If Facebook needed to clone an app that was a potential existential threat to their business with Angular, Vue, jQuery, or anything else they would do it just fine.
You go full union and work to code, refusing to do anything until they provide a suitable ladder.
Masters of Doom is a great book. It's an easy and enjoyable read.
It makes sense. My girlfriend and I have been doing it for about a month. We like the variety, the sense of surprise, and the ingredients are actually fresher than most of the produce at our grocery stores so the price per meal is almost worth it. (Though we'd prefer bringing it down to about $7 per rather than $10.

Where the value falls down is in how much of a time sink it is. These meals take a fair amount of prep, and in exchange for all that time you only get two meals.

When I cook on my own I usually batch enough to have at least another 2-3 meals worth of leftovers. If they set it up as a channel for weekly meal prep rather than 3 fun new recipes to try we'd be much more inclined to stick with it, but as it is it's just too much work for busy people to do every week.
It's a little short sighted though if your only measure is just LTV > CAC. acquisition costs will necessarily increase over time as the user base gets saturated and they churn away. At somepoint, LTVs will decrease because you've already lost your best users.
"At least once", "at most once" and "exactly once" are fairly well established terms in this area.

Idempotency is a restriction/requirement that you may put in place in a distributed system to make the above types of guarantees. Deduping of messages like the article mentions means that it is using "at least once" message delivery, with some notion of unique message IDs and/or messages to then dedup the message.

TCP is a great analogy, where the Windows of the protocol are effectively maintained by Kafka. Anyway, "exactly once" is very hard and requires putting limits into the system such that deduping or something similar is possible. But I'd agree that in all cases anything that claims "exactly once" behavior is in fact implementing that on top of protocols with "at least once" primitives.
This is terrific. You know, I've spent the last ten years perfecting coding strategies around unit test frameworks and mocks. I'm really really good at that. Really. I won't be humble; if somebody wants this, then I'm one of the best in the business. Yet, I'm slowly coming to the realization that that's a perfectly useless skill. Perhaps, even a negative skill.

It depends on the project, but for most projects I've worked on, the most difficult parts are the integrations with external systems. Figuring out what headers you need to pass in a call to Facebook, or what certificates you need to access some third-party API, or what data to send over USB to activate some device. Unit tests / mocks let you blithely ignore all those things. You mock them out, hide behind an interface, write your "application code" that uses these interfaces to do whatever your application does, make unit tests with mocks that behave the way you'd like, and viola your app is done! With almost 100% code coverage even! And it's even fairly well-designed with fairly low coupling. Except, it doesn't work at all, the hard work is still ahead of you, and your interfaces are all probably leaky abstractions that you're going to have to change substantially to make it work for real.

Anyway that's the hole I've dug for my current project. I'm pretty quickly coming to the conclusion that I need to unlearn quite a bit, retrain my instincts. I like your posts. Not even much for the content, but mainly for the concept. Rather than cargo culting onto "unit-testing-in-framework-X-to-achieve-100%-code-coverage-because-that's-how-you-make-sure-your-app-works,-right?", it's more of an intentional approach. Step 1: determine what we really need to make sure of, step 2: determine the best way to achieve that.

Ultimately, what I think is wrong with TDD as most people know it, in a word, is that it's a shortcut. It's easy. You populate your mocks with fake data and it's infinitely repeatable so yay. Populating an actual database with fake data and making sure it's deleted/refreshed/whatever between tests is difficult. But that doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do.
> Not in many biomedical journals where Word is the standard format for a paper to be submitted in.

I don't know about all journals. The ones I've submitted to usually provide a Word or Latex template.

> I've appealed and/or argued successfully with editors to change a decision from "what the referees ticked" on a number of occasions.

In almost all journals editors are not paid staff. They are volunteers. Personally I've never seen a paper will all negative reviews get accepted by an editor, but they have some sway it's true.
TIL: there's a list of open source projects for the EFF that anyone can contribute to

https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/volunteer/coding-wit...
How representative is Alexa data? Are people still installing dubious toolbars in 2017?
> End of the day, your weight doesn't fluctuate that much...

It does if that's a focus of your health efforts.

> ...that level of precision doesn't add much value and can make weight loss harder.

In fact, that daily feedback is immensely helpful. Very quickly, you begin to understand the connection between your actions of the last day or two and your weight.
You hit the nail on the head with what counts as "basic" - as long as politicians can win elections by giving a benefit to people that they don't have to pay for/or collectively can't afford, I'm not sure how you ever contain this problem...