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I believe the official stance of the bank of Canada is inflation is below target hence the low rates being acceptable for so long.

What I don't understand (and I hope someone can shine some light on!) is the basket of goods they use to measure inflation doesn't seem to be very impacted by low interest rates - therefore how will the low rates increase inflation? i.e. banks will only lend to me at below 5% if I'm buying fixed assets like a house - which isn't included in the inflation measure. If I want to borrow to buy groceries, gas, or the other things they measure for inflation I would be borrowing at >19.99%. Therefore all low rates does is cause the price of fixed assets to skyrocket. But those assets are tremendously difficult to convert into consumer spending - i.e. You sell your now inflated house, but rather then spending that "profit" (due to the value of your house increasing) on more groceries and gas most people just roll it into another expensive house as they gotta live somewhere. I guess ultimately there will be a trickle down where everything will get more expensive, but seems like it would be a very long process...
No, but I've experienced wrist pain due to weight overuse.
On heavy push exercises, I use these now https://www.roguefitness.com/rogue-wrist-wraps-red-black. Additionally, when possible, I use a false grip to give my thumbs a break.

To answer OP's question, I've worn this for two years when I do long duration typing and mouse (non-trackball style) work. Its portable and discreet. Its helped me and I recommend it to everyone who has carpal tunnel syndrome. https://www.amazon.com/Carpal-Mate-Wrist-Support-Black/dp/B0...
It never was "Windows only": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749640.aspx. Mono arrived shortly thereafter. And it had open spec right from the start. Patents were an issue though, there's no disagreement on that point.
I cannot address the legalities but I will say that it is suspect.

There was recently a thread where we talked about being able to access the internet anonymously because of the tracking done by Facebook, Amazon, and other sites/retailers.

I had a friend who was stalked online for years by an ex and it drove her off the Internet and then basically underground. While this request could be innocent (looking for old friend, etc) it might be helpful if this person making the request might explain the purpose, etc. Then it would be up to those consider searching if they believe the person on the why's and if they want to help.

Just like most things, this hold be good and it could be bad. Whether it is legal may come down to the ultimate purpose the search is undertaken and what the person does if the username is identified.
Alternative in 2008 was to let the banking system collapse, then rebuild from scratch.

Personally I believe many older/sick people would have died if central banks hadn't dropped interest rates and embarked on QE asset purchasing schemes to keep the system afloat.

Credit/lending would have all but disappeared for a while, many would have lost access to financial instruments necessary to secure housing, healthcare, insurance.

As a young person I'm not happy that we've propped up the status quo, that my rent is stupidly expensive, and that the majority of recovery has gone to the wealthy/those who owned existing equity/assets/real estate, but I can see why it was necessary.
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> "But at the end of the day, you have to know CSS anyway"

If you string-replace "CSS" with "assembly", most of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" [1] still seems to apply. People used to argue this passionately that knowing how to write assembly by hand was critical to being a good programmer.

> "Love it or loathe it, you must at least learn it."

This might be true today, but it would be a shame if tooling didn't level up to a degree where CSS becomes mostly a compile target (just like assembly is today).

At the end of the day, CSS provides styling tools for a massive medium, one that should be accessible much further beyond the 0.25% of the world that knows how to code. The main way we can unlock that is with better tools and better abstractions. It's wholly unrealistic to get everyone to be as good at hand-crafting CSS as the author, nor should it be the goal.

CSS is getting more and more powerful and more complex, and it's unrealistic for folks to continue hand-crafting in perpetuity. Even today, with some of the world's best software engineers, I routinely see this:

* Most devs don't know how to create a radial gradient from memory

* Most devs don't know how to hand code shape-outside code, especially polygon

* Most devs guess-and-check repeatedly as they work with Flexbox props and use cheatsheets even after years of practice (while designers are running circles around them using visual abstractions like [2])

* CSS Grid minmax formats, don't get me started...

I personally love crafting CSS by hand, there's a certain satisfaction to it. But if that's the primary way that folks are styling stuff on the web 5 years from now, to me that would imply that we did a bad job of exposing this wonderful technology to orders of magnitude more people.

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[1] http://worrydream.com/dbx/

[2] https://www.flexboxgame.com/
> If your organization uses any of: Linux, Android, emacs, gcc or any GNU utility,

Two things wrong with this right off the bat. First, not all of these are GPLv3, which is the version with the problematic patent clauses that scare companies away. Second, it is not just in libraries that the GPLv3 is generally accepted to pose potential issues. You need look no further than Apple and the great investment they went through to avoid ever shipping GPLv3 software. The GPL kicks in as soon as you distribute the software.
The only example I've ever seen of American Chestnut is in the North Chagrin Reservation Nature Center. It's amazing wood, it almost glows, even 80+ years after construction:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Chagrin+Nature+Cente...

If you go there, you can read the plaque describing the building and the loss of the chestnut which is now, strangely, between the bathrooms:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5617153,-81.4357392,2a,75y,3...
And they will be worked on for at least the next decade. Meanwhile .NET had them for 16 years now.
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I would not. Kids should be outside playing and interacting with other kids, not coding.
This can be a side effect of not being able to take the dogs on walks to destinations. If my workplace was not dog friendly, my dog would get much less "free" walking due to not walking to/from the train.

I would need to walk the dog more, which for a lot of people isn't going to happen (pick your reason).
No offense intended but a lot of these just seem to be really, really powerful machines designed with the idea that if you throw enough power at Ubuntu, it works better. ;)
Informational note: The notion of fixed rate mortgages does not exist in Canada. You can lock in for about 5 years, but otherwise your mortgage rate floats with prime.

If prime rates rise, borrowers can be on the hook for large amounts of defaults as incomes fail to keep up with higher payments.

(canadian housing market exhibits higher sensitivity to interest rates)
I was the same. I lived only UNIX/Linux and knew where things were. In retrospect I can't even look into the mirror now on how wrong I was.

Don't take me wrong I am not saying that Windows / MS stack is better. It's just as good! And that's the beauty of it. I am glad microsoft is embracing other platforms so lets see how other people will react :-)
You are quite mistaken.

We can't trust fiat currencies but we didn't have any other choice for a very long time so we got used to them. There is no way for you to carry hundreds of notes and coins on you and feel secure let alone convenient.

As for ease of use, I remember when the Euro was introduced many people were super confused with the new currency.
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Pick one of what?

I'm not talking about whether Olin is a good school, it obviously is. I'm saying that "rate of company founding" is a nonsensical axis of comparison. It's like noting that Olin produces 100% fewer Stanford grads than Stanford does.
I've seen my doctor consulting Wikipedia before, along with other online resources. I don't think the FDA regulates that type of thing because it's just information, which the doctor is free to use or discard. I would think Watson or any other kind of medical diagnosis system would fall into the same category, as long as the human doctor is making the final decisions.
Easier to take down a drive link than to take down the youtube video and reupload for a new URL.
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Olin alum here - in my graduating class (2013), a majority seemed to have experience "making things" when we entered Olin but there was also a large contingent that was super passionate about and actively pursuing non-engineering activities. I think the admissions teams looks more for passion/hustle/doers than "makers".
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Because 3459T is equivalent to 345T9 and 34T59 and all the other permutations.

You need to either hash all the permutations (making your lookup table 5! times bigger) or sort the hand by card value. It is faster to multiply the 5 prime factors in linear time rather than the N log N of sorting.
Maybe they did use ML in your scenario just not the way you thought:

It takes 50 mins to get your delivery but to make you order they need to tell you its going to take 30 mins. ML also tells them that the 20 minute discrepancy won't stop you ordering next time.

Cycle continues.
There’s a difference between recognising a fundamental right and not recognising it at all in my opinion.

China breaks from the “norm” drastically in a lot of ways. It doesn’t recognise the right of the public to elect officials, for example. There are lost of countries with flawed/fake democracies but most have democratic constitutions, officially. China is different.

20-30 years ago, liberal democracy was the only game in town. All new states formed on this basis. None of the ex-soviet states opted for official one-party constitutions, because it wasn’t one of the options.

There are many one party states, in practice. They don’t make it official. For example Egypt & Syria (also Iraq & Libya, formerly) have been one-party republics for 3 generations. Officially, they’re democracies because it was considered the only legitimate way. They rely on fake elections, emergency laws or some other theatre to get around their own official norms.

My point is that if arab revolutions of the 60s or post soviet revolutions of the 90s had happened today, they may have opted for the “Chinese Model” instead.

But, constitutions aren’t written every day. Laws are. Regulations are written every minute.

I’m trying not to be normative or negative about China. Just noting that China as an example, has an impact. It’s now a superpower and acts as a role model. A moderate position on internet censorship is now someplace between “uncensored” and “china.” Anything in between is within the “normal” range.
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Here are some things I've found helpful:

1. Most importantly, set your own expectations correctly.

No matter how you slice it, switching domains after years of experience is going to be tough. That's not to say it isn't the right decision, or won't be incredibly rewarding. It's just going to be challenging. I've had more personal success in these scenarios after accepting that fact, and not being so hard on myself for the ramp-up time.

2. Identify people with expertise, and talk to them.

Don't get stuck in a research/reading rabbit hole. It can be tempting to sit back and try to replicate your prior expertise by reading/studying your new domain. Rather, find people you identify as experts and talk to them. Learn from their experience. Chances are it is your experience that made you an expert in your last domain, so do your best to learn from those with experience in your new domain.

I hope this helps!
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The simple answer is: your kid should definitely apply.

1) To be completely honest I can't speak to the current admission climate and criteria, I enrolled in 2007 with the 5th class. Things have likely changed a lot (they do when the institute is that young and application and admission demographics change rapidly at this age).

2) Myself, I grew up in a quiet conservative Middle Eastern city (first international cohort rep!), never "made" things that I could put on a resume, and mostly just had solid grades in math/sci/compsci. I had solid SAT scores, never took the ACT, and my GPA was hard to translate (I didn't attend an AP/IB curriculum) for direct comparisons. The admissions team emphasizes that individual scores are of low relevance, as are aggregate GPAs -- Olin is primarily looking for kids who show a passion and/or aptitude in STEM/entrepreneurship which can't always be represented by scores. This is why the final stage of the admission process is a weekend-long in-person interview+team builds+campus tours where they (and you) try to evaluate whether you will survive/flourish/despise Olin's pedagogical practices, and this is ultimately the deciding factor. Parents are welcome.

3) As Olin grows older, the graduating classes have polarized more and more into founders, and pure scientists. My class ('11) had ~35% join PhD programs in everything from solar power to cancer biology, over half with prestigious grants such as NSF. And more people are becoming not only founders, but embarking on various philanthropic and/or entrepreneurial journeys, from SV startups to building solar cookers in West Africa. This is a shift away from joining Google/Microsoft/Facebook/IBM/etc, which clumped was previously the largest cohort of a graduating class (and has shrunk to ~20% now).

The hypothesis is that both these people are actually the same -- they absorb skills, look at the world, try to reason from first principles and their recently gained knowledge whether something could/should exist and improve human lives, and then just goes and does it. Pure academics is the long-term pursuit of human improvement, contributing to the greater corpus of human awareness, and entrepreneurship/makerhood is the near-term, fast-moving version. They are just essentially the same mindset applied on different timeframes.

My point is that I think you shouldn't worry about which of these perspectives he pursues at this point -- if he's the kind of kid who'll like it at Olin (he may not), the path he'll eventually take will be influenced by where he feels he can contribute the most effectively. Olin will give him some exposure to more people on the maker-side of that spectrum.
>> why aren't we hearing stories about all those possible new jobs ?

you tell me :) I'm not 100% sure why the automation narrative has primarily been of the "impending doom" variety.

I think just like with the internet - even if automation does take off big time there will be some "victims" but also new possibilities from the obvious ones - like manufacturing, supporting/updating, installing the "robots" to some things we (speaking for myself lol) can't envision until this actually happens.
Why are those two things mutually exclusive?
They aren't asking for parenting advice here. Kids need more than just playing outside, hence the whole school thing.
More importantly, I'm curious whether there are any ad managers who actually weight those estimates heavily for more than directional guidance as to whether they have enough reach to be worth testing and getting actual benchmarks. If so, I'd love for them to chime in with how they use that data.

I don't rely on those numbers for anything critical as getting benchmarks from a live test is really the best way to go about it.
If you have some skills that he would value, he's a friend of mine, we aren't like best buds or anything but we share the same passion for operating systems so we get together once in a while. I certainly know him well enough to introduce you.

I'd want to have some idea that it would be a good fit, so if you are really interested please contact me via email. Look at my profile, I think I stuck my email there, if not you can find it easily enough.
As someone who used to work in the IFE software field, I can assure you these systems are perfectly capable of crashing themselves in endless loops without any outside help from the likes of us, thank you very much. ;)
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Just as a counterpoint:

Number of hours I've spent fixing type-related bugs in Python code = n

Number of hours I've spent figuring out how to make the compiler happy in C# ~= n * 5

I'm not being altogether serious (I've written a lot more Python than C# so it's not a fair comparison) - but you're ignoring a lot of useful debate about static vs dynamic, explicit vs implicit, type inference, languages for teams vs languages for hackers etc etc. It's fine to not go down the rabbit hole but at least acknowledge there is some debate on this topic.

Otherwise you give the impression that you think those of us who prefer dynamic languages are deluded oafs we are going to wake up one day, slap our foreheads and exclaim "Doh! It's only just occurred to me how useful explicit typing is. Silly me..."

EDIT - I've always enjoyed this post to python-dev by Cory Benfield explaining why he disliked the idea of introducing type annotation to the requests library.

https://lwn.net/Articles/643399/

Whilst it's not an indictment of all possible type systems it does give some flavour of how the mind sets differ in static and dynamic language communities. There is a genuine cost in expressiveness that surely can't be entirely dismissed out of hand.
There is a lot more "cognitive load" when I wonder why something that I need is apparently disabled, or when I can't even find an option because it is being presented in a way that doesn't remotely resemble something that should trigger an action. Consistency counts too.

If a button is "dangerous", it can be dealt with in other ways, such as:

- More space from other buttons

- An ellipsis "..." to indicate to the user that a confirmation will appear (making it more "safe" to experiment with the button)

- Adding an icon and/or color
It's also a fairly trivial thing to implement with flee system locks (just make sure your fs had sane semantics). In fact, with a bit of cleverness and fs locks you can implement more complex patterns trivially as well such as a pseudo daemon that is both cycled (without appreciable downtime) regularly as well as having a backup process to take over on failure.

Obviously, you don't run your webserver that way (right!?) but it's not nuts to manage (even near real-time) queue consumers in a backend that way.
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I like the declarative nature of CSS.

I find that keeping what I do simple and small and well documented makes the simple stuff I do easy to maintain.

Yes, I can write you (another) 100kloc of Java or C++ or JS if you really want, but I did also enjoy Standard ML and Prolog over more and more imperative code with exciting race and portability issues.
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Hi HN!

We are the co-founders of Lyrebird (https://lyrebird.ai/) and PhD students in AI at University of Montreal. We are building speech synthesis technologies to improve the way we communicate with computers. Right now, our key innovation is that we can copy the voice of someone else and make it say anything. The tech is still at its early stage but we believe that it is eventually going to make possible a wide range of new applications such as:

- reading loud text messages with the voice of the sender,

- reading audiobooks with the voice of your choice,

- giving a personalized digital voice to people who lost their voice due to a disease,

- allowing video game makers to have more customized dialogs generated on the fly, or avatars of their players,

- allowing movie makers to freeze the voice of their actors so that they can still use it if the actor ages or dies.

Yesterday we launched a beta version of our voice-cloning software: anyone can record one minute of audio and get a digital voice that sounds like them.

We know that many on HN are concerned about potential misuses surrounding these technologies and we share your concern. We write further on our ethical stance on this page: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/.

Our blogpost about the launch: https://lyrebird.ai/blog/create-your-voice-avatar that features the first video combining generated audio and generated elements of the video.

There was a thread about us on HN when we launched our website four months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14182262) but at that time, no one could test our software yet and we did not really answer any question of the community. So this time we are ready for questions and would love some feedback!
It depends which conclusion is being questioned.

arcticfox is probably referring to the title conclusion "Olin College Produces Founders at Five Time the Rate of Stanford" not being the result of selection bias during the analysis phase (as implied for example in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15184748).

The conclusion "Olin College is more effective at turning people into founders than Stanford" is indeed a far more speculative conclusion due to self-selection.
My step father, I his 60s, took his schoolboy French, that he hadn't used in over 40 years, and turned it into a decent conversational level simply by not caring about how bad he was but just going for it.
All of that money and work just so people can say "yep, I might die in a few years because I have X". Wouldn't it be better to put $200mil into curing the illnesses rather than putting a product on the market to scare people into treatment they may or may not need?
It is absolutely selection bias. Compare averages by major for each school, not the total population for each school. To compare a college that produces almost exclusively engineering majors to a university that offers everything from constitutional law to communications is absurd.
Excellent! Can't wait to find 100s more "3rd to 5th cousins" :D
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