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> I hesitate to say poorly educated because wading through the bullshit of politics isn't taught in high school and it takes years of getting burned before you realize just how much bullshit there is.

I didn't mean "poorly educated" in a derogatory way. Poor education can be the result of many factors, among which individual choice is probably the least relevant. The quality of education is influenced by family wealth, and on a bigger scale by political choices and a certain cultural attitude (I have long had the intuitive idea, which might be completely wrong, that USA's cult of freedom entails a rejection of the value of a common basic educational standard).
These are all the minimum requirements for an engineering manager. If I hire a new software engineer I’d excpect to see someone capable of building awesome products. Same for a manager, being good at managing a dev team is for me the minimum requirement. If I were to push the boundaries further, I’d say that you have to be likable, friendly, inspiring, extremely adaptable to different personalities and totally transparent. Be straightforward whenever you can, cut the BS when it comes to career growth. Put yourself at risk and become friends with all your direct reports. The further you stand the harder it is to maintain a healthy relationship. Get your hands dirty. That’s how you seperate an awesome eng manager from the pack.
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It's not the seller's fault the county is a pain in the ass. Again closing is not for due diligence. Even if you had found an issue, you would have lost your escrow. I would be pissed too if a buyer tried to find a reason to back out of a deal at closing. That's not what that's for and you could have cost them a ton of money if you had found an issue.

[Edit] fyi the proper way to make the seller care about such things is to extend due diligence and let them know you'll need a flood map before you'll move forward on the deal.
So interestingly enough, wearing the orange goggles or using the rubylith on a device that lights itself can get less blue light into your eyes than reading a book with a lamp on next to you (or of course, wear the goggles with a lamp on works too). Could be a further way to fall asleep faster. I've been fascinated by this phenomenon for a while - the theory I've heard is that humans evolved during a time when the sun was the only source of light besides maybe fire, and so darkness or light the color of fire signaled the time for being sleepy. When you get the blue colored light into your eyes at night the brain gets confused and doesn't know what time it is.
Yes, I’ve been happily using this feature since it was introduced.
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> An interesting fact about Oligopolies is that they often degrade into very low margin businesses

If the oligopoly fails, then the result will be low-margin businesses for everyone due to market forces.

If an oligopoly is successful then tautologically the participants won't have low margins because they will be able to suppress what JP Morgan called "ruinous competition" between them.
What syntax would you like instead, for numerical programming?

* Python seems not so different, but once you add numpy then it involves a lot of ugly `np.arcsin(np.sqrt([...]))` type of things.

* R looks horrifyingly ugly but I haven't written anything

Coming from Mathematica 1-based is comforting, and it also matches the way people write mathematics on paper which is nice.
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A discussion about the Web Audio API from a couple of weeks ago with the title "I don't know who the Web Audio API is designed for": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15240762

I'm still not convinced that this API is actually useful for any application that needs to play sound or music, but it definitely seems to have the "interesting synthesizer experiments" segment covered.
I recently discovered Argentum Age, a high-quality, fully open-source game that is certainly inspired by other games, but also feels quite novel in many ways. My understanding is that it has some of the same folks that have worked on Battle for Wesnoth, so I have every confidence that the team can execute on their vision.

http://argentumage.com/
I’ve found the opposite to be true. Good structure yields succinctness.
It is difference between solving problem of low performance employee and searching for employee to be fired as you believe someone has to go.
Use a JS compiler
The problem is simply filtering, it sounds like. It's like grade inflation: the better grades all around don't necessarily indicate smarter students overall, but now you have to select them at a higher bar.
Many* open source projects are ran by volunteers on their spare time. They do it for the fun of it, and often have a full time job already (possibly writing software, or not).

Doing sponsored development involves many activities besides coding, that volunteer contributors might not be particularly skilled at or even interested in learning/doing:

- Attracting sponsors, cutting deals

- Extracting customer requirements, estimating work, project planning

- Developing things that themselves dont need/want

- Documenting and reporting on the work done

Some employeers may frown upon someone taking a serious obligation that sponsored work is, but be supportive of a hobby level project.

It might also complicate your tax situation, and there can be liability considerations.

Many contributors are also not professional software developers, and may not feel comfortable promising to deliver specific outcomes.

* these days there are also many open source projects ran by companies, or engineers on company time.
This, however, provides no explanation for the decline in population prior to the first European contact, as the author is claiming that DNA evidence suggests this was not going on prior to the arrival of Europeans. The author also claims that there was no pre-European decline, yet presents before-and-then estimates that are only consistent with that at the extremes of their ranges. In general, the argument being presented here is rather incoherent.
Not everyone is in a position to negotiate terms. Very few in the US would have that kind of leverage.
All modern browsers (no that does not include IE11) have full ES2016 support in their stable version.

In fact, aside from Edge which lags a bit behind (and FF 52 ESR) all of them seem to have full ES2017 support already in their latest stable.
Interesting, but they are missing half the genetic story. Being around us changed wolf genes to turn them into dogs. But being around wolves also changed our genes. The humans that could best interact with wolves/dogs had an evolutionary advantage. We dont think wolf pups are cute because they look like our own babies. We protect them becausd at a primal level we know them a valuable survival tool.

The ability to look at a wild animal and see it as more than a threat or food surely had some role in our development. Wolves may have been our firat step towards the domestication of livestock or possibly farming.
see skymuse's detailed response...

for algorithms, highly recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms book.. it uses pseudocode and thus language agnostic

choice of language at production level depends on lot of factors. for ex: you might choose C for speed of execution but Python would win hands-down in time taken for you to write the code, including testing...

getting used to programming takes long time and learning continues life long..
So when paged, your first step is look at something that is difficult to look at, and possibly waste time with false correlations?

If the metrics are known as important to your app, monitor specifically on those - that way you're alerted because of low memory or pooled connections or something you're watching, and can lead your team with that info. If the metrics aren't known to be important, why are you wasting your time looking at them on a dashboard?

If you're paged - when it's raining is the wrong time to patch the leaky roof - it's the wrong time to debug and fix a problem in code. Those notes and todos should be pulled into next sprint triage. In the moment, just restoring service should be priority. If restoring service requires modifying code, database, routes, etc, then your testing environments and change control policies need improvement.
Can you elaborate on the interview practices for attorneys which you think are just as bad?
The intention is not to improve performance by removing useless people- the intention is to improve performance and dissent-less quotas on those who stay.
It seems like whatever APIs you're using are really inconsistent about providing results, and you give no user feedback for this. This makes it seem like the website is broken (because it is).

If your service providers are throttling you because you're sending too many requests, you need to indicate this to the user.
The guy who bought the Duster was living in the Gulf and became friends with the nephew of someone in the royal family of the country he was living in. The Bullshit Castle guys knew the buyer of the Duster and channeled money thru him to the royal family presumably in exchange for favorable treatment at the time of contract negotiation.

The Duster guy got a haircut for making the connection with which he bought the Duster and subsequently, an apparently crummy apartment somewhere.
Yes, but only Webkit/Safari implements it.
It's often not underperformers. Just "pick x% of your team"
Historical loss data is definitely collected by insurance companies for analysis by their underwriters.

Sometimes they share that information with each other. For example, some limited loss data is shared among companies for auto claim information associated with auto policy holders. (Not all companies participate. GEICO is the biggest holdout, last I knew.) I have not heard that companies share property damage loss information with each other, but they may do so the same way they share auto claim information.

On the other hand, not sharing may give them a competitive advantage. For example, Allstate systematically reduced their coverage of coastal homes in the New Jersey / New York markets about 10 years ago, because their threat models indicated that the area was due for a major hurricane. This obviously reduced their losses when Hurricane Sandy hit.

Katrina got all of the big insurers to take a closer look at their exposures from hurricanes, and I would not be surprised to learn that premiums for coastal properties all along the East Coast and Gulf Coast have skyrocketed in the last decade. The risk is very high. They enjoyed over 10 years of low losses, but then this year they got hammered in Texas and Florida.

So, would companies share detailed information with each other? Probably not, but they probably have a good idea of what their competitors have paid out for major events, and they definitely know where the risks are geographically.

Are they going to share that detailed information with the public? Hell no. They bought it, they paid for it, it's theirs, and they're going to keep it.

The easiest way to determine if there's a high risk is to ask for a quote on a property before you buy it. That will tell you a lot. For example, if you're thinking of buying some property in southern California and wonder if the fire risk is high, just ask for a quote. If wildfire risk is high, Allstate (for example) will simply tell you they can't write a policy for that property. Other companies may write a policy, but the premium will be higher than surrounding areas with lower risk.

Flood insurance is a special case. No homeowners policy offers coverage for flooding, because it is the textbook example for adverse selection in property and casualty insurance. (That is, only people who live in a flood plain will buy flood insurance, so the risk is not spread across a large enough population. Fire, on the other hand, can happen anywhere, so everyone buys coverage.)

For this reason, the government offers flood insurance for those who live in flood plains. Interestingly enough, even then not many people buy the coverage.

Edit: Earthquakes are another example of adverse selection. If you live in California and have investigated premiums for earthquake coverage, you already know this. No, it is not covered by your homeowners policy. No, I don't want to pay for it when it happens, because I live in an area with extremely low risk for earthquakes (and flooding). And yet, when it happens, I will surely be paying more taxes to cover someone else's losses.
When GAI is imminent, there will be no consensus that it is imminent. Therefore now is as good a time as any to prepare.
My mistake... this way getting shell expanded, so didn't even hit Perl. Nothing to see here!
As a former "kotzebue" mal owner, I completely understand your story. We had a golden before, and when we got our mal, we really didn't know what we were in for.

It was actually odd, in that my parents, being from India, saw big dogs as "security" animals, so didn't spare the rod with the golden initially, and had to unlearn the tough love quickly through the obedience classes with him because he thrived on affection. But with the mal... that girl brought back the mantra, "a dog is a dog. people are people".

Oddly once we made that shift, it was a breeze. Giving her medicine or brushing her teeth were still a chore, but less scary. The only thing was this -- make a decision and commit. You want to take her food? You damn well better walk over it and, despite any teeth or growling, take it. No half-efforts. And dominance wasn't yelling or hitting or screaming. Everything was presence.

We've had many dogs since, none arctic breeds, but it's changed my view on dogs. Every one is calm, well behaved and trained. But we stopped "obedience" training since the mal. Dog, be dog. Walk on the leash. Know sit and down. Try and master "come" but don't stray far in general. Enjoy your safe-space in the yard/crate/bed. Come for affection when you want it. Leave when you don't and that's OK.

I can't imagine a wolf...
I helped rescue 13 wolf husky pups (genetically confirmed) from a situation where the owner was getting evicted and animal control was coming the next day. Because the rabbies vaccine isn’t proven to work on wolves, I was told they’d be euthanized.

I was a ‘cat person’ before that. The brother and sister we kept (and fixed asap) are super intelligent, friendly adorable and yes, a little wild. Im fortunate enough to live in the mtns where I hike them 2 miles every day, rain snow or shine. Our couch looks like it was attacked by wolves...

I’ve met a lot of people with hybrids now and everyone more or less reports the same thing. Caring for them requires something in between caring for dog and caring for human child... They need strong boundaries and lots of love.
When I last looked at Julia, the language wasn't yet stable. It's not fun developing packages for a language that changes from release to release, so I don't expect their ecosystem to stand a chance until they get to v1.0. All the advantages for package developers listed in this article are moot while the language remains a moving target.

It was said that v1.0 was due in early/mid 2017, but it looks like it's still a ways off.

There is (or was) a window of opportunity for Julia to steal mindshare in academia from MATLAB and R, but it feels like Python is beating them to the punch. Of course, Python had a 21 year head start.
So its, pick the least social performers, false friends and in-efficient co worker backstabbers.
Looks like it's not getting a WebGL context. Perhaps your setup doesn't support it?
Humans aren't worse about this; pet owners also anthropomorphize the hell out of their pets.
I think that's worse because it's more difficult to understand.
Companies are required by law to maximize profits for the Shareholders. Because of this reason alone, the acquisition will be a guaranteed fail.
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It is ugly because 1) 1-based indexing and x-based indexing are treated differently; 2) x-based indexing has to use more complex syntax, which in effect discourages the use of non-1 indexing; 3) this strategy sets potential pitfalls (e.g. implementing length and size for non-1 indexing arrays). A cleaner design, I guess, would be to specify index range on declaration like pascal static arrays and use low(A):high(A) for iteration rather than 1:length(A). This, however, complicates 1-based use cases.

Generally, I don't think there is a good way to achieve flexible indexing without causing troubles somewhere, so I don't think Julia has really solved the problem.
I apologise with the vague description of question details. I have been to a workshop where they demonstrated both
python and C. I was fortunate to have a hands on session with few programming tasks and solving problems. The conclusion I came to, is - I love programming.

As I said in other comments before, I was apprehensive if I could deal with initial frustration due to subconscious comparison of how easy life was with python. I asked myself If I would trip off; will I be able to cope up; will my brain be malleable enough or get hardened against the higher cognitive load C poses comparing to python, etc. with no good answers. Hence this question.

Every other commenter echo with your respected opinion and I appreciate your well explained suggestion. I just needed my answers through other's experiences to the above questions.

I will be "starting out with python"(amazon<dot>com/dp/0134444329).

Thank You.
In California, unemployment is a maximum of $450 a week for 26 weeks. Still helpful, but ~$11/hour is a pretty big drop for most of them.
Put monitoring ON your key indicators, so your alerts tell you what's wrong, instead of asking you to figure it out.

It can be intellectually gratifying to use brute-intelligence to "save the day" during an urgent incident, but those heroics are part of the "Star Trek Bridge" scene play, and wastes crucial time.
Yeah it's a coroutine, on yield the system suspends the entire stack: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.11
The archived version, https://web.archive.org/web/20171014113120/http://fare.tunes...
Bear in mind that open-source software was much more niche just 5-10 years ago. It was considerably less common for companies to make use of FOSS, understand it and be willing to invest in it.
Even the idea that it was possible to get paid for developing software that is given away to everyone for free was rather unorthodox.
Best practices in financially sustaining open-source projects are still developing, and I think we will see much more of it in the future.
Got any suggestions for a knowledge source of AI at a 100-1000 foot view? Ie not stuck in the weeds, but enough to know what’s going on nd where.
> Maybe Russia did something or NOT but I still haven't seen any evidence up to now.

The Wikipedia article[1] is a good place to start, and to my eye seems fairly comprehensive. Many users of Reddit have also done quite a good job of periodically summarising the state of the investigation and evidence when these discussions have arisen, e.g. [2].

As a side note, I believe you were genuinely interested in the topic, but constant use of "where is the proof?" in the face of readily-available evidence and high-profile reporting is a tactic so commonly employed by pro-Russian state astroturfers that it has become the subject of ridicule[3]. This has unfortunately poisoned the discussion pool a little so it may be useful to keep in mind in case the topic is broached in future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...

[2] https://np.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/5hhn4t/...

[3] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/proofster
As a recent Vim user, I used to roll my eyes at people who were so dedicated to it, but I'm quickly coming around. There are still some quirks I haven't gotten used to however, the biggest one being the emphasis on keeping your fingers on the homerow, but at the same time having a heavy reliance on the Esc key, which breaks the homerow policy.
Uhm... In command line? And with a good stand-alone editor? There's really
little to brag about, especially that there are people who do that for living
three, four, or ten times as long as you do in total.
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This is a terrible argument. You assume that a difference in degree can’t at some point lead to a difference in kind? Yes, this has always been done and that is part of the problem. Big tech companies say, hey there’s nothing new here—but there is. It has now got to a point where you end up with these oligarchies. Small companies simply CANT compete. Before a company could say: we only have so much shelf space or we only have so much material or it will cost $X/unit and is not cheap. That is not the problem because this is just information. There is zero marginal cost. And a whereas before they may have been able to work their way up by getting their product on the shelf of a small mom-and-pop store or get their raw materials from a different supplier, now there is only one distributor, only one supplier and if you don’t have favored nation status then you can’t compete. It’s for these reasons we put anti-trust rules in place because we recognized that it was suboptimal.
R had changed a ton in the last three years. It's pretty clean these days.
Parent is well within his rights.

I would be pissed if I bought property that knowingly floods, but the seller's agent insists it is the responsibility of the buyer's agent to discover this.

What if the buyer relied on the seller's agent?

You believe the buyer is at fault?
“I don’t want to stay in this community,” he said. “I have to go far away from these reservoirs.”

The value of the property will drop and people will move right back in. Reading the article it sounds like the city and county still aren't willing to take any real action to move housing out of the flood reservoir.

I wonder what will make City officials take a wider view. As long as short term gain is the largest deciding factor, we can expect more such tragedies.
I've bought "real property" three time in my life. Each time, despite the "realtors" complaints, I hired an attorney to look over the deal and to be at closing. And each time, he noticed things that the "realtor" didn't know about (or pretended not to know about).

Realtors are not legal experts. They are mostly part-timers who passed a test. Don't rely on them.
First, notice I specifically called out my assertions as anecdotal, but I imagine many large cities are the same.

I am a cyclist, but I am not dumb enough to ride a bicycle in downtown automobile and pedestrian traffic.

I walk over a mile each way from the train station to my office, and have been hit twice by a bicyclist during that walk. I stand by my observation that the majority of bicyclists in Chicago are extremely dangerous and do not follow traffic laws at all.

They also wear headphones and even look at their smartphones while blowing red lights and riding down sidewalks packed with pedestrians. The delivery messengers are of course the worst in this regard.

The city put in special bike lanes on many streets and still bicyclists don’t use them and ride the sidewalks instead.
I believe that Psilocybin is legal in Jamaica, see https://www.mycomeditations.com/. Since it would seem that large numbers of people visit South America to attend Ayahuasaca retreats, one may assume it is legal there. And some religious exemptions exist for both Ayahuasaca and Peyote in the U.S., but even this may be a bit fuzzy as this certainly isn't widely advertised. One may also purchase legally, in all but a few U.S. states, Psilocybin spores; they become illegal once grown.