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I heard a lecture by Richard Florida once. I felt like he viewed things through a quite different lens than I, such that I didn't believe his views on things. I see now that others are more concrete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida#Criticism_and_...

How much of that is "Silicon Valley" and how much is "California"? To start with, why did California prohibit non-compete clauses .. back in 1872(!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Civil_Code says the code was "revolutionary for its time".

If that helped cause openness, did that openness extend to other fields? Including the studio system during the Golden Age of Hollywood?

Given all of the companies working on secret government contracts, how open could they be?

The Pacific Standard article describes Florida's spin on a dissertation by AnnaLee Saxenian. Blank recommends Saxenian's book highly. For example, in https://steveblank.com/2009/04/20/the-secret-history-of-sili... . Blank wrote:

> I read all the popular books about the valley and they all told a variant of the same story; entrepreneurs as heroes building the Semiconductor and Personal Computer companies: Bill Hewlett and David Packard at HP, Bob Taylor and the team at Xerox PARC, Steve Jobs and Wozniak at Apple, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce at Intel, etc. These were inspiring stories, but I realized that, no surprise, the popular press were writing books that had mass appeal.

> But no one was writing about where the entrepreneurial culture had come from. Where were the books explaining why were all these chip and computer companies started here? Why not elsewhere in the country or the world? With the exception of one great book, no one was writing about our regional advantage.

That "one great book" is Saxenian's "Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128". Which, ummm..., answers my own question. :)

Re-reading that page by Blank reminds me of how much an eye-opener it was to hear Blank's talk the first time. His work really is the reason I am now wary when I read (yet again) the standard stories about SV.
Not really... If I made a dirty version of the plugin for myself, I'd just do a DOM text search for "terms" and if found do another search for "arbitration", both case insensitive. If found, then highlight the words, pop a warning to the viewer, and scroll the window or modal to the spot.

The mailer API would be plausible through a third-party postcard/letter mailer API.
My apologies, and thanks for the reminder. I was hoping, in some misguided way, to comment on the debate tactic rather than the underling religious content.
What about radiating the heat into space?
I was curious about this:

> Finally, I generated random fluctuations in the number and tested each with the Miller-Rabin primality test. This produced a shortlist of numbers which were very very likely to be prime. I used Dario Alpern’s fantastic tool to determine whether any of them actually were prime.

I thought that in crypto one normally just repeats Miller-Rabin enough times that it's infinitesimally improbable that the candidate isn't a prime, and that the reason for doing this is that it's too expensive to actually prove it. This indicates that it's now feasible to just prove that a number is actually prime; should crypto libraries now switch to a different method of ensuring primality?
I'd really like to hear from the resident hacker news skeptic/crumudgen on this. Really shouldn't be possible at this level of technology.

For example We have no idea what genes control the length of someone's nose or forehead.
Yes, a separate deal: https://medium.com/@drive.ai/announcing-our-first-rideshare-...
Equifax's tool to check if your data was released in the hack may be inaccurate
Could you just throw loads of genomes (about 1.5gb of data) and a photo of peoples faces and train a deep learning model? It would probably do okay, unless of course environmental factors are more important than genetics here. Judging by how different siblings tend to look I’d say genetics isn’t the whole story.
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How is that not clear to you?
The Ceci and Williams study was deeply flawed. It doesn't actually match how people hire, and has other issues:

https://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-...

http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-That-Academic-Scie...

https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/michae...

The study about French would-be teachers seems of very low relevance to me to software engineers.
Many cards let you cash out rewards points now. With Chase, for example, you can get a check in the mail, use points to pay off your CC balance directly, or use points on amazon (at full value).
Two reasons. First is that NumPy works in Python 2 as well as 3.

Second is that everyone uses NumPy for this. It is proven, it is fast, and using it for simple things is a great way to get started on a path toward using it for more complex things. For example I use NumPy for tabular text processing sometimes, as it is much faster than the built-in stuff if you have a lot of data.
The problem is, what if they hang up? They have an unfair advantage here since they can refuse to consent to your recording, but you can't do the same thing. (I mean, you can, but then they're holding whatever you need to get done hostage.)
Given that it took many minutes to generate the DAG, I'm wondering if your machine is a bit underpowered. You can make mining much easier by adjusting the difficulty parameter here (lower means faster mining): https://github.com/vincentchu/eth-private-net/blob/master/ge...

It was tuned to yield a block every 15 seconds or so on my laptop; may be slower or faster depending on how fast your machine is relative to mine.
Another important property of voting systems is that you can't prove who you voted for, so that you can't be forced or paid to vote for someone. A blockchain based solution, even like ZCash does not fulfil this.
10 years ago I built a streetlight system, we implemented and tested the protocol by build a simple simulator in a qt app and embedding the same software stack inside it, it allowed us to create models that modelled x/y locations, distance signal drop off, random noise, exit points etc

Large randomly placed simulations only started to slow with ~15k nodes ... In other words it's not hard
Just a datapoint: lots of czech(oslovak) devices contained large amounts of MH54xx military grade TTL logic, because it was more readily available than lower-spec MH74xx (and I believe that both soviet-made KL555xx-series and east german D1xx-series of SN74xx TTL logic clones didn't have different reliability grades)
So how much will employment will be affect by this?
is there any other position that are threaten other then the drivers?
I think the interest for the HN crowd should be the enabling technology, which is Proxy[0]. It provides a way for user code to trigger on property definition & access, as well as function invocation. Dynamic debugging is a good first application of this technology, but is by no means comprehensive.

0 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Here is one script [0] that was posted on Github yesterday, I believe a few others have been popping up ever since this video [1] by Numberphile on Thursday.

[0] https://github.com/jorants/PrimeImage

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQQ8IiTWHhg
well Phreaking seemed to me to be phone based.
Stress relief. Thermal / moisture expansion of the PC board (and this looks like shoddy phenolic paper) bends the leads a tiny bit and the bending forces go through the component. By making the leads longer, they are less stiff and require less force to accommodate, so less drift due to this.

It was a relatively common method in precision electronics.

There could be other reasons as well, e.g. if these were ceramic capacitors they might do that to avoid cracking issues. (Because ceramic capacitors drift a lot by themselves, a drift/precision explanation does not make sense)
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https://github.com/jorants/PrimeImage
Hurricane Irma is literally sucking the water away from shorelines
Interesting conflict between these researchers.

From Erlich [0]:

"The take home message should be that identifying someone in a group of ten people requires very little effort. Anyone with access to even low dimensional data, such as basic demographic, can do that. This is not very surprising."

"To summarize this point, the title says: “Identification of individuals by trait prediction using whole- genome sequencing data” but most of the trait predictions is carried by ethnicity of the individual (genomic PCs) rather than the trait specific SNPs."

Summarizing: DNA can estimate ethnicity, which can be used to predict a range of traits, including facial structure. These results would be far more impressive if they were able to predict faces in data composed of a single ethnicity. HLI may have overstated their results, but nevertheless they raise important points about re-id.

[0] http://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/07/185330.1
Identical twins look pretty similar. Siblings only share half their genome with one another.
Good open question are indeed excellent discussion material, no doubt. /r/askreddit (100x the answers) shows that every day. Even when some popular questions come up regularly.

I'm just puzzled why even with trivial questions like "what 5 websites do you visit everyday?" or "what skill do you wish to have?" or the more interesting "What is your biggest business expense besides salaries?" a submitter wouldn't share their own answer. And then (sometimes) within the same hour ask the next question.
Thank you! I'm going to read through this!
My favourite feature of Firefox that I haven't found in any other browser is the ability to capture, edit, and resend HTTP requests directly from the Developer Tools. Super useful.
Absolutely. As I get the school together, I'll reach out to you once I have students. :)
The fact that identical twins look similar suggests that most of the variation in facial identity is going to be driven by a heritable element. If you could fully execute the program encoded by a person's DNA, I'd expect to see a reproduction of their face.

However, that depends on correctly mapping the program to its output. I'm skeptical that we're at the point where we can model this correctly. I think this is why you see that all of the predicted faces in the Venter paper look like a generic/averaged face.
Yes, this is the (I think) a step in the right direction. Don't have special judgements about taxes (i.e. Apple in Ireland) because companies try to minimize the tax they pay. Actually change the laws so it's consistent for all companies.
That doesn't mean they will though. Companies frequently make the decision to buy services that they could build instead. I'm not saying every one should be paying for feature flagging, just that it could make sense for some companies.
Oh sorry, no. Truffles grow as part of a symbiotic system around certain tree roots, and it's devilishly hard to recreate those conditions well enough in "captivity" if you get my drift.

Huckleberries are an interesting case and that nobody is quite sure why they fail as a crop, but at the end of the day the only way to grow more huckleberries is to clear woodland and let huckleberries grow there.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/08/11/542690164/for...
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Here's an explaination of the error:
https://serverfault.com/questions/788019/this-servers-certif...
Yes! The subtle point being that our pipelines/highways already exist, and I'd love to shove something besides oil down the pipelines.
I think the robot apocalypse scenario is broad enough to include humans working for our robot overlords. :-) Think of the many humans essentially indentured to corporations, working for low wages while trying to pay off enormous debt.
I got a service manual for an old camera and it is a fine, complete piece of technical writing, literally all the information one would need to fix any problem with the camera.

It dawned on me that in the 70s things needed to be that comprehensive because ... no internet!
That's nice. But also a new attack vector.
Those 2 things are <1% of what we Chinese thought as "Chinese cooking".
Someone needs to start a company that offers transfer pricing as a service. Sign up and get a physical address, subsidiary corporations, bank accounts and even employees & board members in Ireland. Much of this can be shared infrastructure of course. If tax avoidance is going to be legal for the big guys, why not make it accessible to everyone?
The idea of any group of humans "saving the Earth" is neighbouring on hubris. It's fine for the plot line of a Hollywood movie, but pragmatically we can't even engage in civil discourse anymore. Tampering with systems like plate tectonic without the ability to even predict the effects of oil shale fracking means we still have a lot to learn.

If the concern of the Earth being wiped out is legitimate, then focus instead on colonizing Space. The end result is the same: preserving human civilization.
I'm pretty sure those "average monthly wage"s are not exactly per-person. The average person in US certainly did not make >$500k/year in 2013.
Thanks for stopping by to comment, I have a good bit of respect for C-level executives that take the time and risk to comment in public forums.

Let me color the remainder of my comment by saying that my experience is in the 802.11/Wifi land and may not directly apply to the systems Thinksquare uses.

I have been working in (802.11) wireless for ~20 years and have seen pretty much every implementation of mesh fail spectacularly. One implementation I got to see fail up close was Kissimmee/St-Cloud's Tropos system.

Some of the largest obstacles were outlined in the linked page -- how to figure out what's going on. It seems Thingsquare is not forming the mesh on the 802.11 networks, but on a separate low power network. Not sure all of the intimate details of this 802.15.4e setup but I imagine it has some of the issues of 802.11

One big problem on 802.11 networks is that each radio is half duplex, and once you get 2-3 hops out, speed an latency are severely impacted. The variability in latency caused by retransmits in a noisy environment wreaks havoc on TCP window scaling.

I've always heard about this self-healing, route-around-problem-areas magic, but have never seen it work well in practice. You generally don't know if a link is bad until you try to use it, particularly if you aren't actively testing the links in order to reduce your power consumption. But then actively testing the links can itself generate interference with other links.

Some of these have been "solved" by using devices with dual radios, one for the 'mesh' network and one for user access. Maybe someone finally has some magic that works, but I've seen many municipalities and corporations promised the moon, spent millions on networks that then fall flat on their face.
"Imagine being able to "ship" electricity on conventional roads, or even in existing pipelines, much the way we do with hydrocarbons."

That's why people get excited about Hydrogen. Surplus energy can be used to produce H2 via electrolysis. The process is pretty inefficient, but that perhaps doesn't matter if the energy source is abundant enough.

However, the infrastructure required for H2 distribution would be expensive. You can't use existing gas pipelines. It's probably more practical and affordable to just build long-distance HVDC connectors to export 6GW of energy.
Delaware doesn't have unusually friendly for business courts. It mostly just has a lot of established case law. It's cheaper for businesses when they know where the lines are on most laws because of previous cases and rulings. Ambiguity is more expensive than the level of bias in most legal situations.
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I think the reason AI & robots are so rich a concept for these fictional explorations is that humans vs robots are like (at least?) three significant archetypes:

(1) Parents/children
(2) Gods/humans
(3) Owners/slaves

Sometimes these comparisons are evoked explicitly (in Blade Runner, Roy Batty says "I want more life, Father"--which alludes to both the religious and parental Father--and later, "That's what it is to be a slave.")
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I'm not a big fan of most tech certification efforts. They mainly document attendance at classes and/or ability to regurgitate trivia. They also tend to reward formality instead of quality, and slow progress. Consider, for example, if we'd had this sort of certification 10 years ago. It'd likely be filled with waterfall-style process requirements. Those don't actually increase safety; they just look impressive.

I'd be happier to see licensing and accountability. But it would have to have significant teeth. E.g., companies can't build systems of type X without somebody licensed. If there are problems with the system, then the person with the license faces personal fines and risk of suspension or loss of license. That would be less bad than certification, but it could still substantially slow industry progress if the licensing review board had a conservative tilt to it.

Of course, the real problem with most places is not engineers not knowing. It's with managers who push for things to happen despite what engineers advise. Licensing could sort of fix that, in that it could force engineers to act like professionals and refuse to do negligent work. But it still lets shitty managers off the hook.

So what I'd really like to see is a regulatory apparatus for PII. In the same way that the EPA comes after you for a toxics spill, an agency would come after you for a data spill. They investigate, they report, they impose massive fines when they think it's warranted. And when they do ream a company for negligent management of data, executives at all the peer companies get scared and listen to the engineers for a while.
What you say might be true, but it isn't covered by Google's denotational definitional of the word connotation:

connotation - 'an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.'

That seems to also cover whatever meta- preferences that a particular word choice may signal.

Funnily enough, we're now in the realm of debating the connotation vs. denotation of the word 'connotation' itself.
California corporate law is much worse than that of Delaware. Corporations are taxed by every state where they have to register to do business. For every corporation with a California HQ, that certainly includes the Golden State.

Corporations, such as Microsoft, which are headquartered in states with nicer bodies of corporate law frequently choose to incorporate in their home state, such as Washington.
Topolobampo in Chicago is a Michelin starred restaurant by Rick Bayless. There is actually a ton of Mexican fine dining in Chicago, and tons of excellent standard-fare Mexican in Chicago.

I've had fine-dining Mexican in other cities, and I'm not surprised that it's hard to find Michelin-starred Mexican establishments. I'd describe the fine dining Mexican I've had elsewhere as overpriced garbage, and I personally think that is being generous. One of my friends brought me to a fine-dining Mexican place in NYC that was so obviously massacred for American tastes that I literally could burst out laughing merely by thinking about it for a month afterwards.

I think you are on to something though -- the 'bad' Mexican I've had is always fussed with too much, whereas Mexican I'd generally describe Mexican food as pretty straightforward. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case across the board. I think the places that fuss with food too much stay in business because there is a certain segment of the population that judges value based on complexity and 'moreness'. That measure is kind of backwards in the same way that measuring productivity of a developer solely by lines of code written is backwards. The best code is often succinct.
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What's the point of conquering the whole world if your people then can't even afford a coffee or a taxi? Where do you think all the wealth extracted from developing countries ends up? And it's not like it's going to magically return there if a few people refuse to get Starbucks or use taxis.

>Even after rent, you still end up with more money than most people earn in other places.

It's virtually certain that people in management, sales or any other important part (besides engineering) of any company aren't thinking like this. "How much can I get" is much more constructive way to approach this, compared to "how much do I need".

Remember, you don't have to spend a bunch of money on useless crap, but since most people are doing just that, you can negotiate as if you did too.
For those wondering, Reason is basically transpiled to very similar OCaml, with some focus on platforms like the web. I think some folks at Facebook might be interested in Reason becoming to them as Java is to Google.
WA has business & occupation tax which functions like a corporate income tax but it is levied on revenue rather than profit.
I run business in Finland and pay high taxes. Friction is not the taxes. If it were, I would have moved my business to Estonia long time ago, it's just few hours away. I could do it over internet in few hours and start within days.

There are different ways for countries compete as "business platforms". I'm not saying that some way is better than another, what I'm saying is that there are different strategies that can work.

High taxes in Nordic countries work as form of evolutionary pressure. They harm low-tech low education requirement jobs and businesses. They drive them to China and to the third world. They help high-tech companies and skilled workers, because taxes pay for great education, safety nets general well-being.

Within US different states have different strategies. High-tech hubs seem to tax more and provide more just like Nordic countries. Some states choose to compete with low regulation low pay jobs against Mexico, China and India. Good luck with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United...
Hi. My team basically runs the service - we don't provide much content. We rely on other domain experts to do that. We'll soon start highlighting some great notebooks on the front page however, especially ML related.
Curious, can you not ask them to produce the other letter then? As they signed the green card.
proxies can do this relatively easily.[0]

Here's a minimal fiddle doing just that:
https://jsfiddle.net/6v82dj01/

As for actual implementations, I used it in a small analyzer for RPG Maker MV plugins[1] that roughly does what you want with very little actual code[2].

[0]: http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_proxies.html#sec_proxies-expla...
[1]: https://github.com/ldd/plugin-analyzer
[2]:https://github.com/ldd/plugin-analyzer/blob/master/plugin-an...
Is the date that the green card was bought recorded by USPS? Basically, how exactly does writing the tracking number within the letter prove that the letter was mailed with that envelope?