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I am 35 and I so wish if I could be half as sharp as 23 year old self:

Below are some of things that are helping to an extent.

> Notes and deliberate practice of tools or concepts.

When my father neared his retirement, he would wake up at 4.30 AM and used to make plenty of notes/diagrams relating to his work. And he used to go through them every day like a monk. Now I relate that method to strengthening of neural connection/pathways by kind of deliberate practice (as in learning to learn course from coursera) or in easy terms he was trying his best to catchup work. Im kind of following it.

> Abstraction and analogy.

Abstract a new skill and make an analogy to what you already know. Analogy can be made to an old skill or a new mental picture that you can create for yourself. Google image search for understanding abstract concepts is underestimated. Search for angular architecture or react architecture in google images - you get straight into some good architecture diagrams. You can save an hour of time by getting big chunks of a framework within a minute.

> Tools, tools and tools:

A geeky senior colleague gave me this good advise - as an experienced programmer you don't learn new language/frameworks - you learn new IDE, tools, plugins, shortcuts, templates related to it. And master every little thing about that tool and work backwards. Language, frameworks kind of change and become obsolete - but methods of learning tools is a very reliable way of learning something new.

> Pick a lighter skill or work on a skill natural to your style.

Easier said than done. I used to struggle with low level hardware stuff (drivers etc) at work since I didn't have good footing earlier in my education/career with hardware but I was stuck being a system programmer closely related to hardware. Moving away from low level C to C++ -> mobile apps -> python -> node. My mental blocks are gone. I kind of feel light now and feel excited to code.

> Exercise, meditation, fresh fruits and nuts.

We underestimate fresh fruits and nuts. It was a BBC documentary I think - where they showcased how eating plenty of fruits and nuts kind of helped your brain to become sharper and younger (they do balance test with eyes closed or something). I have seen some of very fit colleagues of mine in late 40's mine eating carrots, fruits and peanuts for lunch. (Though I got to try it sometime)

> Little or no alcohol and more sleep.
I agree with all your points here but I was asking more about practical steps rather than ideology.
Because there's a limited number of "slots" for the sorts of white-collar professional careers that a college degree gives you preferential treatment for. Putting another student through law school does not make law firms hire more lawyers. It means that the average quality of hired lawyers goes up while one more person with a law degree fails to get employed in the field.

The analogy would be more clear with sports - putting more effort into youth basketball training won't make more NBA players, it will just make NBA players better.
I'm guessing someone is going to try to argue that all graphs are social networks as opposed to the opposite using very vexing vernacular.
This is something that I think about, we have CO2 contributing to acidity, but what are nature's ways of providing alcalinity??
I'm not that familiar with Vino but VNC isn't really what I'd call usable over high latency networks compared to x2go/nx and Microsoft RDP.

If all they've done is port Vino to Wayland in order to enable remotely accessing a Wayland based desktop and they are still using the equivalent of the VNC protocol then that likely won't be performant enough for me. :(
Not the original commentor, but there are some valid cases for NoSQL: some people use it for storing massive amounts of web crawling data. But the thing here is that it's throw-away'ish, and in that case it's often not worth it to add structure (even though there pretty much is structure in everythig you look at long enough).

But I do think having any data consisting of, say, items, orders, users, payment in MongoDB is very much a bad idea. Been there.
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It's more analogous to getting black 17 six times in a row. It is possible, but it's weird enough to justify thinking that you've misunderstood the game, or the game has changed.
They're moving slow, probably out of extra caution about scaring off users by commercializing it. It's not like they're unaware of the absolutely massive demand for brands and companies to get into WA.

Maybe it's also spam. You can't sign up for Whatsapp without a mobile number - landlines and VoIP mostly do not work to activate.
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This is the "lump of labor" fallacy. The NBA has a finite number of teams and only adds to them slowly. Having more good white-collar professionals often means that companies can expand and make more money.

Even if there were a finite number of "slots", not funding smart poor kids to go to college is a dumb idea. Having smarter/better candidates for the "slots" is better.
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

--G K Chesterton
Governments care about food pathogens because ultimately they are held accountable by the people. They are not a malignant force, parasitic on society. Governments solve collective action problems by getting everybody to play by one set of rules and punishing people who don't.

I know what you say is popular in certain political circles, but it's a false idea about government. Worse, it's a cynical meme that corrupts people into making government less effective, by both stopping people from trying to hold government to account, and not trying to change the rules that governments enforce.

The best way to make your idea of government true is to stand idly by and do nothing.
Both the stickers and three-part series were conscious choices.

Etsy did a three-part series on the benefits of MongoDB in the early 2010s.

MongoDB was also well known for its stickers, and their marketing team wrote online about how these stickers helped solicit emails:

"Give away swag: This is a low cost, easy way to build a lead database and get developers to decorate their laptops with your logo!"
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I don't think it should be surprising that this comment violates the guidelines for being unsubstantive. Please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
WhatsApp need it because of the P2P technology. On Telegram, your messages are stored on their servers, so it's less secure, but you can text on multiple devices.

I agree that we need business tools. The demand for customer service via WhatsApp where I work is much higher than the ability to a single operator answer them.
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The US Army is developing autonomous armored vehicles
Pretty interesting deep dive on what he did at Expedia: https://skift.com/history-of-online-travel/
See the Ekklesia (Ancient Greece) for pro/con:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817173
Can also be used as a quick way to get people to unfollow you :-D
Yep. I've done the same thing by using JSONB in postgres.
Or GRAAL.js which is a lot further in implementing al the new ES6+ features than Nashorn will ever be [1]

It's really quite nice and I think there will be exiting news in this front from Oracle lab soonish...

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oracle-labs/program-langua...
There is also a feeling that a 100-year event is too rare to be concerned about, though I don't know that changing it to a 1% per annum would change many perceptions.
> It is kinda surreal that a company obeying the law is headline news.

It is like a construction company advertising they have built the house "up to code". Maybe it sounds good to them, to me that sounds like "we've done the absolute minimum required and would have majorly cut corners had it not be for those pesky rules about fire safety and such getting in the way".
What do you believe fiat currencies are backed by?
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I probably should have checked the drop down of supported languages before typing Japanese. :)
I was a bit shocked at first when it was classified as German and then French.
So are they bullies that need to be stood up to or are they stressed out folks who need to chill? Given nothing else than what is here, I would err on reading those tweets as coming from a place of struggle, not a desire for domination. Folks being unable to follow their own rules when positions are swapped is true more often of these sorts of rules than one might expect.
It is not a positive statement. It sounds like one, by it's actually a judgement about how effective government is. I'm quite certain that it is false.
There's no fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders. Google was under no legal obligation to break the law here.
Except it'd change the whole dynamic of Twitter as the restriction forces people to communicate in a certain way. Allow "long" tweets and people will just use the space and it'll be a nightmare to read a timeline, like a giant multi-user Tumblr..
Before 2022? Yes, I should take that wager.

The tricky part about a wager is that it gives people a strong incentive to reinterpret events to their advantage, and its tough to define this in an objective way. Even if it is defined objectively there is ambiguity in language and again they may not realize they disagree on what they are wagering about.

But maybe in a few days when I get paid again I could make a wager if there was some agreement on what we were wagering. I have a feeling that once that got pinned down you wouldn't want to continue the wager.

2021 is four years from now. Do you really think that, in the next four years, this early rider program https://waymo.com/apply/ won't progress to allowing rides without the supervisor employee present on some rides? Once they have that working on a regular basis, should we not assume they will start charging for rides? They could actually do that now for certain routes and times if they had the government sign off on it. So it is feasible (although unlikely) that you could lose the bet tomorrow.

There are several other advanced self-driving vehicle programs out there including Cruise, Uber, etc. They are also using the LIDAR technology and detailed maps etc. Audi has announced they will have a 'level 4' self pilot mode for freeways in 2020-2021 https://media.audiusa.com/models/piloted-driving They announced that in 2017 (or maybe 2016) because they have been partnering with nVidia and saw nVidia actually demonstrated deep neural network autonomous driving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmVWLr0X1Sk

GM, Ford, Honda, Tesla have all made announcements that they plan to deploy self driving vehicles on or before 2021. https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline...
I wonder why his grandmother bought the car instead of giving him 13.000. then he could pay a car in installments and have the rest for any emergencies. I never understood why people prefer cancelling credits in an economic crisis instead of keeping them.
Yeah, whoever, the whole ecosystem, I do have the "text reflow" plugin for mobile firefox which helps a lot, it requires clicking on every individual paragraph to wrap it through so it could be better.
Additional magic is involved -- Math.atan2 is an intrinsic method in HotSpot, which will use a hand-coded implementation instead of the Java definition when possible: https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc
I don't understand how your example is comparable. On one hand we have motorcycling, a mode of transportation that is fairly risky I suppose but is largely gender agnostic. On the other hand, walking alone at night in a city leaves you exposed to whoever might be around while you're walking. For men, the risk is mostly in getting mugged or maybe being struck by a car. For women, the risk is that plus the risk of being creeped on in a myriad of ways, ranging from uncomfortable, creepy comments down to full on sexual assault and rape. So no, the risks are not the same. And relating generally higher levels of neuroticism in women to a higher perceived risk seems more overtly sexist than scientifically sound to me.
I don't think anyone who was following what was happening doubts that home flipping played a major role in the development and ultimate collapse of the bubble. Many flippers were left holding properties they couldn't sell when the banks had scraped the bottom of the lender barrel and there was no one left to sell to. When that point was reached, the market fell faster than a bad souffle. It's not really an either/or situation. In fact, getting good data on what was really happening at the time is not easy because so much of the paper c. 2005-2007 was basically fraudulent to some degree or another.
Instead of nebulous terms like NoSQL you should instead just look at the damn features because these concepts are orthogonal. MongoDB has transaction isolation on the document level instead of the database level. If you can store everything in a single document then it doesn't matter. If you can't then use a database that supports database level transactions. It doesn't matter if it's a NoSQL or RDBMS database.

I feel a lot of people know that typical nosql databases (without database level transactions) are not suitable for their problem but they don't know why and then just think NoSQL is always bad and RDBMS are always better because the NoSQL databases are intended to be used for different problems.
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I think it's way better than the Uber library. We tried both and ended up going with this version and it was much more flexible for our needs.
Huh. Was it killed manually subsequent to that?
No it's not the same thing. The 500 was a Houston stat, not a US overall one.
Interesting, reading aloud has been a tradition inside every cigar factory in Cuba since the 19th century.
http://mashable.com/2016/11/19/cigar-factory-lectors/#l37Rcj...
Nature abhors an empty vacuum.
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The article suggests writing the supporting chaos tooling in something like Go or Rust. FWIW, using Distributed Erlang as the basis for a chaos orchestration/control-plane was fairly straight-forward back when that was a thing I did. It alleviated the need to figure out how to deal with communication (push & pull), process migration, debugging, tracing, etc. The self-hosting debugging and tracing facilities in Erlang being useful for runtime instrumenting and keeping track of the injected-faults/probes to better correlate chaos to observed behavior.

Integrating with other system/library facilities through NIF bindings to things like `libfiu` was also fairly intuitive.

I suppose somewhat ironically, the next go around for this stuff for me will actually be in Rust, but for completely different reasons.

In any case this series is great. It's always a joy to read.
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The problem is not making numerical estimates of low probability events or how such events are modeled: it's completely ignoring the statistical probability distributions of the model. All of the models are extremely "long tail" distributions and just about entirely ignoring the long tail.

We shouldn't be referring to this as a low-probability flood but as a high sigma flood.

ETA: Disclaimer: Day job includes rainfall statistics analysis.
> Of course, the "once in 500 years flood" may also be an inaccurate probability as well

Or rather, the odds of that kind of flood increase a bit each year.
I see, thanks for the extra context. By the way, the notion of "marketing attacks" is a powerful one, it's going to stick with me.
Yet another reason to stop drinking Soda, one of the most acidic things that can be in a person's diet.
Right what the parent comment is saying is that look at a map of the US, how many major cities are there. The odds of two "1 in 500 year" floods happening consecutively are low for any individual city. But if you have enough cities it will happen somewhere. And then you write the article about it.

It's kind of analogous to hitting a golf ball into an open field and then exclaiming "Of all the blades of grass, the ball landed on this one!" It's only interesting if it goes in the hole with the flag, otherwise you have a sort of selection bias going.
There was an article about this recently - it basically said that your average ore mine(not even coal mine) uses as much energy per day as the entire bitcoin mining does for the whole year.
You need some semblance of stability though. No one is going to agree to pay me 1 BTC per week if they're implicitly giving me a 30% raise in week 2. Just the same, I would not be happy to get paid in an extremely inflationary currency that meant I was taking a pay cut week over week.

It has not shattered any belief in traditional currencies or governments for me. In fact, it has made me realize their value. People are just using it for speculation which makes it feel a lot more like a multi-level marketing scheme than a currency.
And a 'relaxed' stance on stupid matches. Not a fan of the org after the Gabbi Garcia shenanigans
Increase simultaneous uploads or divide your backup into more parts and upload it simultaneously, works for me - uploading from OVH DCs, France.
Should any land be required to have flood insurance?

The NFIP supposedly reduces taxpayer cost (with the shaky risk management you mention), but it currently has huge potential liabilities compared to the premiums it collects (and owes the government a bunch of money from past payouts).
We don't get to chose what we get.

Usually the customer's IT assigns hardware to external consultants.
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That's a great app!

I have long standing hate-on for the TTC's inefficiency... buses that more-often-than-not travel in clusters where the first one is half full, the remaining ones are empty. The TTC constantly raises fares but does little to utilize technology to make themselves more efficient!

/rant
Clubhouse is pretty sweet, I feel like it's basically Pivotal Tracker done right. Fast enough to not get in the way but flexible enough for most workflows. We're a pretty small company though, I don't know if something like JIRA becomes more necessary as the company scales.
> In the 1970s, Congress passed a law to make a particular form of subliminal advertising illegal because it was believed to be morally wrong. That advertising technique is child’s play compared to the kind of personalized manipulation that companies do today. The legal question is whether this kind of cyber-manipulation is an unfair and deceptive business practice, and, if so, can the Federal Trade Commission step in and prohibit a lot of these practices.

Three things here:

1. Nobody has ever proved subliminal messaging can actually subvert a person's will, which was reflected in court cases. Even a modern experiment set up by the BBC (apparently the only such study since the 50's) showed no effect.

2. The FTC has never said anything about subliminal messaging, so it's unlikely they would now.

3. Subliminal messaging never helped pay for users' free services.

Let's face it - we live in a different world. The old ideas of privacy, whatever they were, are erased when there's a carrot attached to it, and no stick. Schneider is doing a great deed in trying to drum up support for increased privacy regulations, but this is a stupid argument toward that end.
That's a good idea. Thanks.
Yet another reason we should create legislation that puts some additional brakes on buying a second house.
I think we've all heard this one once or a million times too many, and personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News in any case. Please don't post like this.
My website contains a very limited picture of my life.
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You can also re-cast the process of founding a startup as searching for a business plan and the goal as discovering information about what the market will bear that nobody else has. In fact, several prominent startup methodologies (Lean Startup & YCombinator's process) recommend doing so. Then you haven't failed at all, because the goal wasn't to execute on the business plan (which you just made up anyway), it was to discover what the actual facts were.

The advantage of this, from a purely utilitarian perspective, is that you don't feel the emotions of shame & disappointment that "failure" usually connotes. And so you can jump into the next idea more quickly, with an open-mind, and pursue it with the same thrill of discovery.
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I also wonder if the market for low-skill juniors is really bad right now (note: I'm not saying that bootcamp grads are bad). I started to see this a couple of years ago and I had the sense that most of the hirable people past their college years who would attend a bootcamp probably did already.
Carob (Ceratonia siliqua, Césalpinée - Fruit of the carob tree with large fruits) was formerly used for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, in particular diarrhea.
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If you include the entire metropolitan area, then there are many, many more train stations to factor in than just the central stations. But in any case, order-of-magnitude wise you get the idea. Houston isn't that small and many cities around the world with even 1 million people have excellent public transportation.
Contracts say whatever they say. What I was asking is if the wording I specified would make shutting off the car legal.
For an academic take on Time Travel:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel-phys/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-travel/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/time-machine/