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Your argument isn't sound. It doesn't matter who gives the rewards, what matters is the conditions under which the recipient receives the rewards.

> Thanks to Skinner's work, brain MRIs, and more recent research by psychologists, neuro-scientists, and behavioral economists, we now know how to design cue, activity, and reward systems to more effectively leverage our brain chemistry and program human behavior.

Effectively, Facebook designed a system that gives people rewards for giving people rewards.
You should read "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks" by Michal Zalewski to expand your universe on things you should be afraid pal.

Interesting book that can really burst your bubble on how bad things are and yet we are still here.
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Interesting, I was there a few months ago and was super impressed, guess I wasn't enough of a night owl :)
2 way stops, yield signs.
This is true. Though I realized I wasn't specific enough in what I meant. I was more thinking about the limited available time to students and that rewriting code might mean the students do less science and so are less able to obtain a good postdoctoral position (or whatever position typically follows a PhD in the particular field).
I’d be interested in the physics of turning it into a liquid and maintaining it.

Does anyone want to give us a lesson?
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You don't want to apply - all you will accomplish is drawing attention to yourself from an organization that you seemingly want nothing to do with. If you're not on "a list" now - you will be afterwards.
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I think you're attributing way too much thought and care to the average driver. I see people merge early like you describe all over the place where it's completely unnecessary. It's probably not a conscious choice for safety over obeying the rules, it's just random idiocy that happens to work better in this case.
> Virtue signaling

This is getting very, very close to the fallacy fallacy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482441
The ROI on post-IPO stock is nothing compared to what the VCs get.
Yeah, Litecoin is no better than Bitcoin in any fundamental way. It doesn't solve volatility, scalability, reversibility, etc.
I have no idea what they're building. I'm just speaking to what parent comment is implying about clearance requirements.
But in some sense you do, because you don't come to a dead stop at every intersection, even when it's green. And it's a bitter pill to swallow, but no amount of defensive driving can make you totally safe. Getting rear-ended sucks.
Not necessary world's apart. People stitch video game art now.
Using even more fossil fuels is a nonstarter because CO2 levels aren’t leveling off, much less going down. Only consistent, severe international economic incentives and disincentives can motivate rapid deployment of renewables to hold-out / recalcitrant countries, of which there are many, at present. It’s absolutely vital for the species’ survival. To do otherwise is stupidity, insanity or both.
There are at least 2 trains running southbound service to MV at 6 minute intervals, 10 isn't uncommon either.

206: 6:05am and 208: 6:15am. (10min)

314: 6:59am and 216: 7:05am. (6min)

216: 7:05am and 218: 7:15am (10 min)

and another set of these after 8am. Northbound service does the same thing in the afternoon.

MountainView also has 7:04/7:11 and 8:04/8:11 trains. Unfortunately it trades baby bullet stops with sunnyvale which makes it a bit more difficult.

You are right though, they don't run frequently on evenings and weekends--there is simply not enough evening volume to justify it.

Anyhow, as you can see, there are trains that run a frequency of 5-10 minutes (not <5 minutes) during heavy commute hours. They actually do run 5 minutes apart if you depart from Diridon.

If that doesn't work for you, that's another question.
Take it to high-enough pressure while keeping it at room temperature, and it will liquify.
The problem with rural healthcare is rural people can't afford it. https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/index.html

Midicare is often providing a disproportionate amount of funding relative to the amount of care being provided. In other words Medicare may be 70% of the fund but < 70% of the costs. But, that's frequently not enough to keep the doors open so the government added some back doors to hand out funding without strings attached.
See https://www.google.com/patents/US5973252 -- it looks like the trick is somehow simplifying the autocorrelation operation by fitting a quadratic curve.
Well, to be fair, with Java you are compiling bytecode everywhere before and while you run. So, you're not wrong.
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Nice! Yeah, I always found the last stage to be very counterintutive; it's unclear how all of the various things interact and what they should do.
I just went to see a general family doctor originally. I made the appointment by saying that I hadn't been in for a checkup in a while and wanted to establish a relationship with a general practitioner (for me it felt even more difficult to talk about being depressed with a random secretary). Then when I went in for the appointment I told the doctor I was there because I'd been depressed for a while and it had gotten bad enough that I wanted to see about treatment options. She was kind and professional from there, recommending me to a therapist in the practice and getting me set up with an appointment. It seems like a huge mountain from this side of things but at least from my doctor's reaction, this is hardly a rare occurrence and they know how to help you without making you feel like a burden or a crazy person or something (which is what I feared before I went in).
It's all about leverage. If your drug use could leave the possibility of someone have leverage they can use against you - yes you will be disqualified. IMO, security clearance investigations are not about finding out naughty things from your past simply to find them, they are just a search of "how vulnerable will this person be to being blackmailed?".

They want the list of people who can pressure you to be non-existant or incredibly small.
Apple did some pretty brilliant stuff with testing. E.g. they had it silently test install itself on random user devices, verify everything was fine, and revert for several versions prior to release (presumably they picked users with sufficient spare room). The actual rollout was stunningly issue-free.

As an aside, this is one of the several unbelievably slick updates Apple has pulled off in its history, including:

- the switch to 32-bit clean addresses only (which was probably the most painful switch Apple ever did!) in System 7.6

- the switch to PowerPC (which caused fewer problems than the 32-bit clean switch!)

- the switch to Mac OS X

- the switch to Intel

- the switch to 64-bit on desktop

- the switch to 64-bit on iOS

Microsoft, (in most cases rightly) vaunted for backwards compatibility has had horrific snafus such as DOS 5 being the first version of DOS whose RESTORE program could read BACKUP files from the previous version of DOS.

(It's also worth noting that NeXT itself managed to support four runtime architectures with "quad fat binaries".)
I like North Korean look of Ubuntu UI :)
Sure, you could make your 3-dimensional color space a manifold with negative curvature embedded in a higher-dimensional Euclidean space.

A quick google scholar search turned up https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-22-10-1... but there are plenty of other sources discussing similar topics.
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That's all I meant.
Read the primary research papers cited in the article.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2153989/daniel-au...
> Why? Because the associated computing is now so cheap and, for a Web site with a lot of traffic, revenue from ad networks is so easy to get.

Obviously this is only true if the company makes money from ad revenue. Most startups* don't. Even with an ad revenue model, there's always an opportunity cost to not having more capital. Just because you may bring in revenue which you reinvest back into the business, doesn't mean you couldn't grow faster by having more to spend on hiring, marketing, sales, etc.

It's not the right decision for every company. But if you've already raised seed-round VC, it probably makes sense for yours.

* Following the definition in http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
I have mixed feelings about Wayfair. My hunch is that Amazon is eyeing the market and will aggressively target it once it becomes a focus. That would be interesting to see: Amazon's supply chain management is perhaps one of the best (maybe Walmart is about the same) and I don't think Wayfair would be able to compete.

Now, my personal experience with Wayfair has been mixed. They don't manufacture anything themselves, so its usually a hit or miss. I LOVE the bedframe I bought from them, which turned out to be actually manufactured by a Korean company called Zinus. However, a nice headboard that I purchased was of poor quality (it looks nice at first, but the wood is soft... dents easily. The workmanship is not very good, and this is clear even to an untrained eye like mine).
(5) has been one of the biggest struggles in my life. At times where I could sleep/wake naturally, I was a different person. I had more energy, I felt more optimistic, and alive. I still had my struggles to be sure, but sleeping in your 'natural' rhythm (whatever is native to you) is far superior to a forced sleep/wake cycle.

The problem is, even if you do contract work, or work remotely for a flexible company, you're beholden to your partner's sleep/wake cycle as well.
The first indirect observational confirmation of the gravitational waves was published in 1982, that is, 35 years ago:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982ApJ...253..908T

But the work on the gravitational wave detectors started much earlier, some fundamental calculations to support the current project were made already in the 1967, 50 years ago! That scientist (Rainer Weiss) got a half of the Nobel Prize in Physics this year for that:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20...

Richard Feynman contributed his (valid) argument in support of the energy actually carried by the gravitational waves at the first American conference on general relativity, GR1, in 1957, 60 years ago:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/07/how-...

Regarding the false understanding of the term "scientific theory" by the non-scientific public:

"A scientific theory is an explanation of some aspect of the natural world that has been substantiated through repeated experiments or testing [emphasis mine]. But to the average Jane or Joe, a theory is [wrongly] just an idea that lives in someone's head, rather than an explanation rooted in experiment and testing [the actual scientific meaning]."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/just-a-theory-7-m...

The gravitation is also "a scientific theory."

The gravitational waves are the consequence of the General Relativity, the theory introduced in 1915 by Einstein (102 years ago), but which was also based on the centuries of the previous observations and calculations i.e. all the discoveries of the gravitation (Newton 1687, 330 years ago), electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic waves (more than 200 years ago), etc.

"Though these words [like "theory"] may be routinely misunderstood, the real problem, scientists say, is that people don't get rigorous science education in middle school and high school. As a result, the public doesn't understand how scientific explanations are formed, tested and accepted."

That I have to write all this is a kind of confirmation of that statement.

Just the same, the science of global warming is also based on the scientific observations and valid theories since 1824 (almost 200 years ago):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
Apologies, quick sketch in an airport between flights. May fix this later when I’ve actually got an internet connection.
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This is true, however it doesn't make the point irrelevant.

1. Beyond difficulty of porting blobs, you might well also simply get your updates from a custom ROM faster than you'll get them from the manufacturer, even if it's still supported. That in itself is an advantage.

2. Backporting updates to third party components can be simple (assuming a stable ABI/API); the easiest case is probably that of just dropping binaries from a similar phone that did get updated into a zip file and then flashing it. Look at busybox installers, for example; all you need is a version compiled for your hardware. Java components can sometimes be changed as well (see xposed). This works on desktop systems as well, sometimes: I've been able to 'fix' older games into working just by dropping a newer version of a dll into the game directory (directx, openal, etc))

3. Maybe the company is just stupid. Motorola (or is it Verizon?) has tried Marshmallow for the Moto E2 in Europe, but not in the US. I'd expand on this but I'm on mobile and I'm lazy.
Let's not overlook that once a single self driving car understands these local, informal rules, ALL self driving cars will. That's about a million times better than the current situation where every new human driver has to learn them. I was going to use a number smaller than a million, but 10k or 100k doesn't seem to properly describe the situation. Literally, these systems will be hazards until the day they aren't, and then they will, for all cars, forevermore, be better than every local.
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Living the freaking dream!
I bought a couple of rugs from wayfair, mainly because it was a convenient way to buy rugs, as in: I didn't really want to go shopping for a long time to find a rug that met my needs (dimension, colors, price).

I'm currently in the market for a sofa, but this is more of a hobby than anything else - my wife and I don't have the same taste in sofa design, it turns out, so the overlap between what each like is small to start with. Factor in the need to be a nap-comfortable sofa and there's a lot of limitations there. A good sofa should last 20+ years, so I'm willing to take the time to find the right one.
Haskell syntax is terse but not simple. Not good for teaching Functional Programming PRINCIPLES.
See: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch10... .

How about using Lisp to teach functional programming? Lisp syntax is small, simple. You don't need to teach so much Lisp as teach with Lisp.
This isn't what is going on, at least in my opinion. This type of job posting means the government wants facebook to do something. To do "something", facebook needs employeees to perform that work. Whatever work this entails, the government would only like people with XYZ clearance to work on it.

As an example, imagine Uncle Sam calls you(the CEO at facebook), and requests a list of dissidents based on ABC criteria, and would like that list and the research that produces it to be handled by people with security clearances. Your next step is to hire people with that security clearance, so they can do the work and you can start sending Uncle Sam invoices.
Your arrogant dismissal of a beginners' genuine troubles with a certain programming style is exactly why programmers in general but especially the FP crowd have such a bad rep.
Yes, the attitude is slightly different with that crowd. They are more cathedral than bazaar.
>The equations that do autocorrelation are computationally exhaustive: for every one point of autocorrelation (each line on the chart above, right), it might’ve been necessary for Hildebrand to do something like 500 summations of multiply-adds...
>Hildebrand realized he was limited by the technology, and instead of giving up, he found a way to work within it using math. “I realized that most of the arithmetic was redundant, and could be simplified,” he says. “My simplification changed a million multiply adds into just four. It was a trick — a mathematical trick.”

I think this is the article's way of dramatizing the standard way of calculating the autocorrelation using the convolution theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocorrelation#Efficient_comp...
IBM did research back in the 90s on perseptually-based colormaps and how to best represent various types of data within the color dimensions of luminescence, saturation and hue [1]. For exmpale, they found that,

(1) Hue was not a good dimension for encoding magnitude information, i.e. rainbow color maps are bad.

(2) The mechanisms in human vision responsible for high spatial frequency information processing are luminance channels. If the data to be represented have high spatial frequency, use a colormap which has a strong luminance variation across the data range.

(3) For interval and ratio data, both luminance- and saturation-varying colormaps should produce the effect of having equal steps in data value correspond to equal perceptual steps, but the first will be most effective for high spatial frequency data variations and the second will be most effective for low spatial frequency variations.

===

[1] https://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM

or as pdf:

https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads/blob/master/...
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I bought a bed from Wayfair. It was inexpensive and is fine. Except FedEx made me help carry it up to my apartment, because it was too heavy for the driver. I'm a large healthy male, but I can't imagine my mother doing that.
I mean... sure. And the even better way to raise a series A is to not even need it at all because your company is a rocketship that's not only growing at 500% per year, it's ALSO cash flow positive and completely capable of just paying for itself.

But these things are impossible to arrange for many businesses.
This makes sense to me, because North Korea is still technically at war with South Korea. During WWII, when all members of the male-dominated workforce were overseas fighting, the propaganda posters were mostly centered around female participation in the workforce.

If your country has been at war for over 60 years, I suppose your society would develop a kind-of "gender-agnostic" workforce, or perhaps a total reversal of demographics from a country who is at peace.
Yeah. I have to agree. The same was true for me with OOP, when learning it ages ago.
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Thanks for nothing.
"Satoshi" choose to produce the largest percentage of the total Bitcoin supply to the smallest group of users for the lowest computational effort/value input.

Rather than designing the supply distribution to coincide with increasing computational and energy value input, the production curve was crafted to gain control of as many coins as possible before anyone else joined the network.

This is a catastrophic design flaw as it means the majority of BTC in circulation was created with very low value input. i.e. 10,000 bitcoins shouldn't surpass the value of two pizzas.

The current value is a mix of passing on the "coins" to greater fools who only think someone else will buy their coin at a higher price. Combined with exchanges which arnt required to publish their reserves, or prevent insider trading or falsifying bids.

More stability will come if verifiable liquidity is offered at any of the exchanges. As we've seen many times, panic sells over trivial news and rumors create freefalls in price from the absence of buyers willing to hold the bag.
I never do rolling stops. I've been in situations at night where, if I had done a rolling stop, I would have gently hit someone on a skateboard or bicycle. Some people completely ignore vehicles at crossings. It almost feels like they're trying to get hit by a car.
Not really:

SELECT *
FROM sales
WHERE (sale_date, sale_id) < (?, ?)
ORDER BY sale_date DESC, sale_id DESC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY

This is a postgresql example. See use-the-index-luke[0] for a generic approach.

[0] http://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results/fetch-next...
I believe I understand what you mean now, although it's possible we might be conflating the environment having a large impact on ones behaviour (which I agree you are correct on), and; someone's innate personality developed due to genetics and their collected experiences in different environments and as such behaving better, worse, or different in those environments. Essentially we are arguing Nurture vs Nature, or Environment vs Genetics, right? I believe they both have a large impact and can cancel each other out.

For instance in your first example, a very charismatic person might not get a reputation for being a dickhead because everyone loves him due to his loveable personality, yet he's in the same environment and situation as the person who is known as a dickhead.

> I can give you a much simpler example. Put 10 people in an arena and give them a sword, gladiator style. The last standing gets to stay alive.

> Congratulations, you just discovered that any human can be turned into a murderer in 10 minutes! They adapted to their environment.

Have you ever been in a disaster or life threatening situation? There's a fight or flight response and that response can be different depending what sort of personality you have, right? I imagine not everyone would fight in your hyperbolic example if we simulated it thousands of times. I guarantee there are many people out there that would drop to the ground crying in a ball rather than fight to the death.
I suspect this is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmn4E-kPSo

The lead singer's voice just sounds so thin, and unnaturally on-key (no vibrato).

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find verifiable examples because those higher settings are probably mostly used to cover up poor singing, and so nobody involved is going to volunteer that information.
The irony here is that many of the responses in this thread are pushing you to start your own thing and change the world in a way you care about... which is pretty much the origin of these cult mentalities you're trying to get away from.

It's a real tough challenge to go from strong founding values and vision to then having to promote those values in a way that keeps your business alive. In fact, it's antithetical to the dominant business model of the internet.

My suggestion: focus first on the business model you want to operate with. How do you want to exchange with the world? As a non-profit? As a VC funded startup? A private company bootstrapped on revenue? A large public company? A consultancy? Making royalties on IP? Investing? A small local business?

IMO you'll find more relevant people and opportunities that share your value system this way.
Lisp syntax is particularly ill-suited for humans.
Getting married and having kids is amazing at building up both focus and ambition.
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The waves do travel at the speed of light, since that's the upper speed limit in GR.

The light is affected only because the distance it has to travel changes when spacetime compresses and expands. So the time it takes from A to B changes, but also the wavelength of the light.

What is used in Ligo etc. is interference. They shoot two perpendicular laser beams that collide in a point. Ordinarily, the lasers interfere at this point and everything is aligned so they cancel each other out almost perfectly. But when a gravitational wave changes the length in one of the arms, the interference isn't perfect anymore and you can detect the laser signal.

To a very very good approximation, a gravitational wave front hitting Earth is a flat plane. This means the detectors cannot see waves that hit the arms at close to 45°, as well as waves that hit the Earth's surface close to vertically at the detector location.