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I understand what you're saying. All communication has the possibility of miscommunication: and it's not just on the sender. Ever been misunderstood in face-to-face conversation? Over text? Over the phone? Over email? On an Internet forum?

If it's not useful, people won't use it. If there's a miscommunication, we have ways to resolve those. I can't imagine this is something people will be forced to use, just as people aren't forced to use emoji, or markup images.
This is a great level headed summary of the whole CS degree vs craftsman argument, thank you.
Can someone explain this to me?
The article says: "People who carry a harmful genetic variant die at a higher rate, so the variant becomes rarer in the older portion of the population." However, this is the opposite of how I understand evolution: "harmful" variants (from the evolutionary point of view) should become rarer in the younger portion of the population- whatever happens to their original carriers is irrelevant.

Also "researchers scoured large US and UK genetic databases"- well, I wouldn't be too sure that the biggest part of evolution happening in the human species can be seen inside the UK and US genetic databases.
Well, while I don't disagree, statistically, campus is safer than off campus.
A student startup built something similar for potholes, which i think is a better use of the tech (1). Essentially road repair crews could carry a couple bags of the fluid and drop the bag into a pothole, where it would confirm to the shape of the hole while stiffening on impact from the tires. Unsurprisingly this was invented in Cleveland.

1. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/bouncy-thic...
the processor might not be important but they (we?) are going to spend 1000 on a new phone if it's an iphone (actually also for a samsung like the new note), did you live under a rock in the last 10 years of smartphones? Sure not every person on the planet is going to, but a significant amount is (we'll see if it's enough to keep the expensive model on the shelf or not, that's a different story)
That's not too bad.

"I am working at being more concise."

Maybe, "I am working on brevity."

Related, I am working on this as I've been asked to write a book.
Induced demand can cause both to go up, for extra fun times.

You also seem to have missed the "or" presented by my hypothetical low-to-medium-density-city-dweller: either rents and housing prices get higher when you decide to move to my area, or my life changes in ways I don't want as a side effect of your increased supply.

So now let's imagine I own property and can vote, etc. Which of those scenarios do you think this person is going to support? The one that at least gives me a nice valuable house, I'm betting. You still want to move here? Make it worth my while $$$-wise.

I don't think most policy proposals for increasing density have enough obvious upsides for the incumbents to be very realistic.
Immediately brings to mind the shield exercise in Dune which only the slow blade can pierce. Can't recall if it had a name.
I'm high functioning but still have sensory processing disorder related to ASD which makes it hard to function in very sensory overwhelming environments.

I also had a lot of difficulties relating to socialization growing up related to ASD, even if they are less relevant now that I'm an adult.
>What happened?

I don't get it either. Even if HP lost interest, why didn't anyone continue with RPN (patents, maybe?).

I think RPN is both better for learning at school (you see intermediates, and you learn operator order), as well as general use. I love that you can just get stuck in calculating without having to worry about getting it all in the right order at first.

I'd love my children to use RPN when they reach that age, but there is a lack of RPN calculators on the market, a lack of knowledge at school and it may even be banned by the time they need to take an exam.
Would you mind concisely explaining one example and application of it? I've read (for example) about possibility theory, but I hardly understand what it helps us do that probability theory didn't.
Everyone needs to stop paying attention to Elon Musk’s tweets
Let's see if you shed a tear when a car breaks and city hall (this is, all the citizens, including you) has to pay for it.
Apple does leak things intentionally, we pretty much know that. For example last year it's widely assumed that they were responsible for the leaks about the headphone jack disappearing so that the enthusiasts set would know what was coming and have some time to "get over it" some.

It's also assumed that Apple leaked the thousand dollar price for the original iPad just so they could announce it at $500 and blow everyone away.

In both cases the leak benefited Apple.

I'm not sure what in this leak would be beneficial to Apple. All it does is make it so people will be less surprised on Tuesday and they won't be able to catch people by surprise as much.

I'm strongly willing to bet that this leak (in the HomePod a month ago) we're purposefully done by Apple.

It's pretty obvious someone did this purposefully, but I don't think they did it with Apple's blessing/planning. It was an individual employee (or a few) doing it on their own.
It's just one study, but seems to be in the same rough space, and fairly recent: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2051749/Autism-Wid...
Can they please also punish sites that cover whole page with that stupid cookie warning, thanks.
> because they started breaking laws

I'd prefer the court system decide who has broken which laws, rather than domain registrars or random internet commenters.
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The confusing part is that we are used to thinking about evolution as spanning multiple generations: a gene increases fitness, so its prevalence increases over the generations. Or the flip side: it decreases fitness, so the members that have it reproduce less, its prevalence decreases.

But this study takes a snapshot of a population, and looks at gene prevalence as a function of age. So what you see are not effects of reproduction, but rather on survival. It finds the Alzheimer's gene less in 70 year olds, because those with the gene are more likely to have died earlier, and thus not appear in the study.

Thus your statement "APOE-Alzheimer-propensity gene is a new gene" is likely not true. It is likely just as prevalent in the current generation as two generations before; just those individuals from two generations before who had it are more likely to be already dead.

So the study looks at how genes influence survival rates -- something that is very obviously related to evolution if it occurs before reproduction. If survival rates only depend on some genes in higher age, they have only small, second-order effects on reproduction (like a child being more likely to survive if it has healthy grandparents or parents).

(Disclaimer: I'm not a biologist, so take this with a grain of salt).
That's true--although I'd argue that there's still more of a set of specific rules, recipes, and techniques associated with most French cooking than with modern high-end cooking overall. In fact, I've heard it argued that one of the reasons that it's hard to replicate the best of French food outside of France is that such a specific supply chain exists for that particular cuisine.

We're probably splitting hairs at this point though. Once you go beyond classic French and bistro food (which do tend to have a fairly specific repertoire), the lines between where French ends and modern European or American begins gets pretty blurry.
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Or just delete all 3 from the earth, physically destroy all of their data storage media and let people make loans the way they always have for millennia, without three unaccountable private behemoths stealing and hording private data on every citizen then charging them to see/access/protect it, then cutting costs around security and getting all of it stolen. They do not need to exist and their services are a net negative on society.
It's a Kinect-style 3D sensor, so it shouldn't be that easy to fool.
I think you missed the part where the OP said not all candidates are willing or able to work on open source projects.
There's a limit to how much you can build out a city before you've permanently disfigured it.

Imagine taking your typical European mid-sized city and starting to allow multiple high rises taller that historical landmarks; or adding purely residential sprawl neighborhoods that distort residents' lifestyle due to long commutes and lack of attractor points outside of downtown.

You've just made a suburban hell out of a human-tailored environment, with the added sin of having destroyed the "experience continuity" which used to be core to community identity. A loss that is permanent and impossible to revert in later generations

I've lived in Rome and Amsterdam, and I know the feeling
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These are not employees (Beamte are not employed) and they're not federal government. So the article kind of does not apply twice. These statistics also counts weekends and holidays as sick leave, so - as the article mentions - the data cannot be compared with the usual averages which do only count work days. On top, the groups with the highest sick leave are people in high risk jobs - policemen and firefighters. These are definitely not rent-seekers from the government.
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Relatively cheap will go away as soon as ~30,000 new families come in to work at Amazon. Which is a big reason why I'm not sure I want Amazon to come here.
I play music while I work. I got tired of all the programs that insisted on using sound effects or playing other sounds, so now my computer's speakers are mechanically disabled, and I have a separate system for music.

I'll connect it to my sound system if I want to hear something from the computer, which is rarely.
I'm sure they will make it pretty durable. A reasonable method of construction would be like a tire, with steel mesh under thick, tough rubber.

And it's corn starch, not corn flower, and water. About a 2:1 ratio.
Let me ask you this: everyone was going to be talking about it on Tuesday anyway. In what way would Apple benefit from having this news released two or three days early?

If a competitor put out a bunch of news on Friday then this would be taking up their PR time so there could be a benefit, but as far as I'm aware that didn't happen.

There isn't really anything in here that will help people get used to some possible controversy (like the leaks of the lack of the headphone jack on the seven).

What would this accomplished other than to make the Tuesday event less special/magical?
Cornstarch.

It is processed to isolate the starch.
Or our justice system is systemically broken.
I find your idea of "ethical" and "fair", highly unethical and unfair.

Such social engineering has a long and bloody history of turning around and disproportionately hurting the poor and the weak, in unexpected (sic!) ways. That is the socialist tragedy -- think with your heart, but only one step ahead.

"… the government should not support the people. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood."

- Grover Cleveland, 22nd US president, 1887
TL;DR: It's like everyone's tweets. It's hard to condense complex opinions to 140 characters, so treat EVERYONE's tweets (not just Elon's) with a grain of salt.
You get used to them, or wear protection. Black flies are my least favorite. I think we may be too far north for malaria to be a real concern. I live just above the 45th, but I go north to play.
An explanation not explored in the paper: the social pressure to have children later in life favors people living older.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "small homes". Here, take a look at the house I live in, which is very typical of the buildings in central Berlin: https://www.google.de/maps/@52.4952517,13.4168985,3a,75y,199...

Generally, Berlin has mixed zoning with retail on the street level, apartments above, and offices and small manufacturing in the back. You can't build higher than what you see in the photo (the old limit for fire ladders), unless it's in an area with other higher buildings already.

Rents are rising as a return to normal. Most people pay around $1.2/ft^2 (sorry, I have no idea what unit the US uses for rent)
> Hey...context matters

Indeed it does. So let's recall the context in which I made my original comment:

> Are you seriously suggesting that, widgety though JS's implicit type conversions might be, if its booleans had three values then things would be better?

That seemed to me to be a pretty non-constructive question, essentially a passive-aggressive way of saying, "You can't possibly be serious. You must be a complete newbie dweeb to come up with such a dumb idea."

That's why I responded the way I did.
The GP probably meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
The domain name is Nice.

Also, i think you should consider changing the font.
That article is a little deceptive. It is mainly tracking TARP, it doesn't track the money injected into banks by other methods (like the FED directly buying subprime loans and manipulating the market).

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...
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These are installed in areas with speed limits at walking speeds. So if you're driving fast enough to damage your car and then seek damages, the best thing will that might happen is that they'll laugh you off. The worst thing is that you'll loose your drivers license. (No tears shed either)
I can use the incorrect finger under duress and lock the device out.

I can't change my face. Faces are not passwords.
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IMO, the damage from this is negligible given that it's only a couple of days before the release.

- Competitors can't respond in any material way that will take away from the announcement.

- Journalists (and thus consumers) get more time to grok the feature enhancements.

- Developers (the general 3P devs who don't have strategic partner early access) will have time to dream up how they'll extend the new features.

That being said, if this happened 3 or 6 months before the release, there would likely be more measurable damage.
On a Mac, run “scutil --dns” on the command line. This is the level of complexity supported by the native resolver.

Many admins prefer the old-style where you can only use one resolver for all domains. OS X permits each connection to have its own resolver configuration, selected using the “domain names” and a priority heuristic.

Viscosity implements this as “Split DNS”, where only the domains sent by your VPN server are attached to the VPN connection’s resolver configuration.

I assume other VPN clients vary in their behavior, and so this (unsafe) curl | bash guideline is some sort of mechanism that tries to rip apart the priority stack in favor of simply using resolv.conf.
What are some good resources for developing good algorithm skills for a non CS grad? Examples in JS, Python or Go preferred.
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When it comes to performance Apple has been leading for a couple of years. The only android phones that have been able to be at the top of the line iPhone do it because they had twice as many cores. In any single core benchmark Apple seems to wipe the floor with competitors.

And there's a battery price to be paid by winning that way.

So if Apple doubles the number of power course they have where does that leave Android phones for competing on the ultra high-end?

(Before anyone says "Android phones are fast enough"/"It doesn't matter" I totally agree. To the normal user this isn't a real problem, it's just fun tech geekery)
How many public lighting bulbs and metro card readers have you broken recently? Those are all more fragile than this.
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You can't trust anything the daily fucking mail says. For example, from the article you link to:

> Some scientists however believe there has been an actual rise in autism cases due to environmental factors. The MMR vaccine has been cited as a possible cause however a link has yet to be confirmed.

This is bollocks, and we knew it was bollocks before 2011 (when this article was published).

The GMC hearing; the Lancet retractions, and Wakefield being struck off all happened in 2010.
Here you are

https://youtu.be/J_Q5X0nTmrA

Fuzzy logic reminds me Albert Einstein quote about mathematics. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
I'd say the salient point about secrecy being this:

> But Mr. Trump has chosen to keep the waivers secret. He dropped a practice, in place during the Obama administration, that any waiver would be shared with the Office of Government Ethics and posted on the White House website or the ethics office’s website, or on both.

It certainly wasn't "top secret" in the classified sense but it was done with secrecy as if he had something to hide regarding the practice or, perhaps a more charitable reading was that he was ignorant of the precedent. From hiding the wh visitor logs to the ethics waivers to stopping the recording inside the wh press briefing room in my view they are actively trying to be less transparent in their dealings.
That's one possibility. I've also seen suggestions on Twitter it might've been from a carrier who is doing some sort of final testing.
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Doesn't your SSL provider send you said mail ?
Remember that we just found out that the next version of iOS has a special feature where you can press a button five times to disable the biometric stuff and force someone to use a password to login. I imagine that's their solution to this (and TouchID).
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You cite Amazon and Walmart as bad actors since they have 'annihilated local economies' -- but at the same time, they have delivered untold amounts of value by lowering prices to nearly (or below) cost for millions of consumer goods. Not to mention the time they have freed up from peoples' lives having to spend time purchasing items at various brick and mortar stores. Would it really be better if mom and pop stores were selling the same products at higher costs, wasting immense resources in the process (subsidized by consumers and possibly tax payers) due to lack of efficiency and scale?

How do you speak so confidently that they are "contributing to the problem?" It is a hard sell that they are abusing their market dominance, because of the very fact their margins are so thin. Since there are multiple market leaders, and their margins are thin, this implies they are competing fairly. You seem to take it as a given but it's a hugely complex question. I'm all for trust busting large companies abusing their power -- abuse which usually manifests in large margins.
I am curious how this decision will impact the neighborhood and city in the long-term. Unless the city spends more to educate existing residents or finds a way to bring in a more qualified workforce, higher-paying jobs won't come to the city and tax revenue will stay flat. I'm afraid this will hurt the city more in the long-run than any gentrification would.

This is probably also infuriating to other parts of Germany, which pay substantial subsidies to Berlin and a few other poorer states.
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OP is right. This is state-of-the-art experimental science. Needs to be confirmed before opening the champagne bottle.
After I proposed the idea, they said they liked it and were willing to give it a try. They offered 1.) slight changes to the UX, 2.) add a payments feature, or 3.) some back-end bugs that need to be resolved. They asked which of them sounds most appealing as a test.

This was perfect from my perspective, and after I signed the NDA I told them all of those sounded fine. I mentioned that fixing a bug is one of the best ways to get familiar with a new codebase, so I'd probably focus on those, but that I'd like to hear about the rest too. I can probably throw in some of the feature requests or UI tweaks.

That's a bit more candidate-driven than might be expected, but it's really wonderful so far. I feel like I have autonomy, while at the same time they'll get the data about whether I'm effective in the field.

The bias question is important, and I'm not quite sure the best way for us to collectively deal with it. All I know is that there seems to be far more bias in a traditional interview pipeline. One of my recent rejections came after being asked "A hammer and a nail cost $1.10, and the hammer costs a dollar more than the nail. How much does the nail cost?"

Obviously the point of that is to see how you think through a problem. But such problems are useless. They're abstracted from what we as engineers do in the field, and the candidate knows that their entire fate rests on how well they answer that question. Yet those are the kind of metrics real companies are currently using.
They are loops. I just listened to the 50 minute one, and 35 minutes in he's saying the same phrases he's already said near the beginning. "3rd eldest daughter..."
You usually end up sending copies of your passport and proof of address (eg utility bill) by post. Sometimes the copies have to be certified by a lawyer/solicitor, to prove they are true copies of the original document
I have to apologize. What actually came to mind was that I know some probably couldn't make the mental leap to again divide by the other factor when they see the multiplication symbol there as written, then reaching for the calculator. I totally see now how it appears I was attempting to be condescending, sorry.
I was assuming that the same people would still live in the city, only in different areas. So it's all economically neutral if that's how you want to look at it.

This is also not about completely excluding any group from anywhere. There are plenty of doctors and lawyers living in Kreuzberg. It's about preserving a mixture of background/ages/incomes, which has shown to work rather well.

It's also hard to deny the economic impact of this scene on the city, it both includes and attracts startups, for example. Or look at Heumark development: a triple-digit million euros investment that grew out of a nightclub (bar25).
It is incredible how seriously Apple takes itself.
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Building new cities doesn't do much good so long as all the jobs keep becoming more and more concentrated in a handful of existing major cities. There are already existing cities that are more affordable, but so long as the jobs aren't there...