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We know yard design kills kids, but we still let landscapers sell them.

Having a yard that lets your kids play near traffic should be illegal because kids will run into the street. Why are fenceless yards still everywhere? Because those nasty homeowners want them.

The critical design factor is the low, non-existent fence, which allows people to go into the street instead of behind the fence.

Why are companies allowed to sell mass market yards with such a huge perimeter in front that children are able to cross? Where are the regulators at the National Yard Traffic Safety Administration?
Hilarious: Used to encounter “hookers and drug dealers in this lot.” Now? “You got the same damn thing with driver recruiters,”
Hopefully some pitchwomen too.
A trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions.

That's a description of a very common technique for implementing, e.g., Schemes. It is described in, for example, LISP in Small Pieces. But we don't usually call that a "thunk" so much as a "continuation". It's just a function (closure, generally, but the state it closes over can be passed in explicitly, which is what is done when compiling to C, naturally) that does one step of a computation and returns a continuation to do the next step.

The main point of this is that you can start allocating your true function activation frames on a heap and mostly lose the stack. This then allows one to do crazy things like return multiple times through the same path (search for call/cc).

Having different terms for the same concepts is a fact of life in this industry.
Same old shit.

This was doing the rounds:

https://twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/status/920935967082639360

and this

http://swns-digital.com/2KU4-15FL6-095I05M7FE/cr.aspx

Hi Monty

We have a story that we thought might be of interest to you, looking at plans to ban key chemicals in weed-killers.

Quick Pitch: Green-fingered Brits could soon be forced to weed their entire gardens by HAND if Brussels bureaucrats ban a chemical found in the biggest selling weed-killers, it has emerged.

More: For more than 40 years glyphosate has been the key component of weed-killers such as Round-Up, enabling keen gardeners to eradicate menaces such as knotweed, hogweed, bindweed and black grass.

But environmental activists Greenpeace and a string of anti-pesticide socialist MEPs want it banned despite it being certified as safe by numerous chemical and food safety agencies.

Experts fear a vote in favour of removing the chemical will leave gardeners to rely on less effective weed-killers, or even further down the line products which contain a fast-tracked replacement chemical.

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+1 you pay at the time the stock vests. When you sell you pay tax on any gains that occur after the stock vested. If you sell immediately there is no/little tax burden.
> Teaching is a distraction to the real work that goes on in universities.

This is the most concise statement I've ever seen of the sickness at the heart of the academy. By and large, and with a few heroic exceptions, professors don't value instruction. It's why I was told my ambition to improve the preparation of engineering graduates through better instruction was a fool's errand, "career suicide" in my advisor's words. And it's why I took my Ph.D. and left academia. This attitude is going to come back and bite them when the marks wise up.
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Twitter is an American company, and is publicly traded as such. They have a responsibility to appease shareholders. This isn't really about politics at all, or patriotism, it's about money.
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I'm about 75% vim, 25% Android Studio, usually in that order (bulk of the changes in vim, then cleanup in studio).
From his tumblr: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/faq:

The 3D stuff (with shadows and such) was created using the excellent, free raytracer POV-Ray.

The rest were created using a custom-made PHP library that uses GD for graphics. The library adds a whole lot of functionality that isn’t present in GD or PHP: drawing anything with alpha blending, geometry and math primitives, 2D and 3D rotations (including quaternions), better anti-aliasing, object-oriented interface, etc.
The bigger question is whether the Belgae, who were in southeastern Britain when Caesar arrived, were Celtic or German.
How did you start into consulting ? I'm tired of the office.

About the software you wrote as wasn't even used said: that st happens, and we can't get too attached to the things we produce - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost right?
I'd rather make few, but meaningful contributions to creators with a system like Patreon or Kickstarter, than make many "micro", meaningless payments without a clue where my money is going.

This is failed from the get go. The whole idea that the program is going to determine where your attention goes, and how that relates to your contributions. Maybe I read a blog I contribute to, and it takes a lot of time, yet I download music from an artist I want to contribute even more to, but I spend 5 mins on his site to download the music.

For small creators I think this is dumb and almost deceitful. You're not going to make anything from hundreds of micro payments. You aren't an (fairly popular) artist on Spotify earning revenue from millions of streamings.

I have a small site on Patreon that people find useful and earn a little over a hundred USD a month atm, from less than 30 patrons. I don't even have any "perks" atm. I can't imagine earning even 10 $ from something like Flattr, much less Google Ads (but I digress ;)).

Point being for small creators the connection to the audience, and how meaningful their contribution is I think is key. Making micro payments in a way that's invisible to me as a contributor, that's meaningless and I feel no connection to the creator.
Would you? So far Monsanto was able to crush everybody - by threats, lawyers, sponsored research, lobbying, you name it. Would you like to be the first one to try your luck?
I think this says it all (from the employer's website)...

<meta name="keywords" content="Instafamous, Contacting brands, sharing, posting, get famous, make money, exposure, more followers">
Why do so few black students go to Oxbridge?
Because this is paid advertising... not opinions, but promoted media.
Romans did not give up after a single loss in battle. They didn't give up after getting thrashed by the Carthiginians, nor the Parthians, nor the Gauls, nor the Germans in eastern Europe. I can't buy the argument that this one defeat forever made western Germania a no-go zone for the Romans.

"Germanicus" became an honorary title given to (a lot) of Romans who fought at beat Germans over the centuries...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus_(disambiguation)
If RT's not-terribly-covert goal were to sow discord and along the way they happen to do good things that are aligned with their goal, should they still be penalized?

Yes, IMO, they should. On net, they are not an honest "journalism" organization IMO and should suffer.

> Papers that generate ad revenue from subscribers averaging over $100K per year in income simply won't write certain stories because nobody would care to read them.

State media outlets can afford to lose tons of ad revenue for their cause. They create a remarkable simulation of the press that they exercise considerable editorial control over.
The air purifier market is riddled with false marketing claims bordering with fraud. I wanted to buy a purifier once but after doing some research I become so disillusioned that I abandoned the idea. Some of the problems I found:

* If the filter is not true HEPA it is probably a garbage. Beware any HPP or HEPA-like nonsense.

* If the filter is no-maintenance it is not filtering anything.

* Check the price of the replacement filters first, it is the same business model as with printer cartridges.

* The square feet or square meter characteristic is meaningless/arbitrary, you need to know the air volume per time.

* Whatever "Allergy Association" certificates are probably meaningless marketing.

* Pre-filter makes sense - it prevents hair and bugs from clogging the HEPA filter. Any other type of filter is probably garbage, there is usually no data or metrics for efficiency.

* The typical carbon filter is probably totally useless, you would need a solid quantity of carbon to absorb anything, not just carbon film or fibres.

* The efficiency of the UV lamp for killing viruses and bacteria is questionable, at best. The germicidal effect is a function of the correct wavelength, dose and exposure time. No data as usual.

* The ionised air and ozone may be bad for you and there is no data or metrics on how much ions/ozone you get.

To add insult to injury most of the purifiers look as if they were designed in the 80's and will blemish every room.

I will invoke the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect - if a company misleads you with a film-like carbon filter, what is the chance they are telling the truth about the HEPA filter, the flow rate or the noise level?
Okay, but that's a pretty big assumption. You can't go on a large tirade against twitter censoring alternative journalism without something to back it up.

If you were worried about this feeding into twitter's algorithm why wasn't that your main point?
Never said it needs to be the current system. Make a simplified version if you want. Or something completely different that uses the similar languages/paradigms?

> Even if it were, do you think it is a good use of the time of the engineer that is going to be allocated to the task?

So what exactly is the alternative? Look, if you can't prioritize hiring, don't be surprised that you aren't able to hire. Yes, the engineers should be able to do this.
I guess my point is just that the utility of this kind of work seems undervalued in comparison to people proving endless minor theorems in little-read papers, which gets romanticized as 'finding out stuff no-one has ever known before'
I'm with apetresc, describing this as a "full stack functional product" is absurd if you really understand what's being asked for. The company and product might be stupid, and the unpaid offer shit, but as far as reasonable and effective ways to hire people goes asking someone to scaffold out a frameworked app and add a couple endpoints should be quick and is a great way to assess their judgement and attention to detail.

I don't know about apetresc but I'm vested in that being a good way to assess candidates, and think you're doing the world a disservice discouraging people from it just because you don't like the company/product/offer it's for.
Yes, I wasn't being sarcastic. More suffused with resigned horror.
My wife is studying nutrition. To become a registered dietitian and be able to work in many (if not most) US states, you have to do a months-long internship at a hospital or similar facility. __you__ pay for the privilege. And when you finish, dietitian salaries are __pitiful__ compared to less rigorous health professions which don't require a Bachelors degree.
Yes, but the stock doesn't go zero like immediately. You can always put a trigger and get out when it all goes down.
I'd love to build webgl multiplayer games. I hope to get the chance working on these things in the future.
Based on what happened in the south of Chile, I think they might want to wait a couple more decades before claiming escaped salmon didn't gain finhold in the wild:

My uncle was among the pioneers of salmon farming in the south of Chile on the early 70s. A storm destroyed their first farm causing salmon to escape to the ocean. The escaped salmon (chinook) started showing back in noticeable numbers just around 10 years ago.
He wants to be forgiven, but he doesn't need or deserve to be.
That's interesting, so at first Twitter wanted RT to spend more on the election, to do more exposes and journalism with the elections as a backdrop because having RT and others on their platform would be good for the company (and the electorate having more information?)

But this was before they were against it --now apparently they, Twitter, had made a bad calculus and RT might have benefitted the eventual winner more than the then presumed winner.
Speaking of uncritical readers, you clearly didn't read the same article as I did.
I think you have to not only look at your net worth, but your annual salary. There is no stock answer here, but in general if you could not stop working for several years, and your equity is several multiples of you annual salary maybe you should consider selling some. Another way to look at it is what is your goal for stock options in terms of your salary. Are you looking to double it? Quadruple it? It's easier to make a decision if you have a specific financial goal for your grants as opposed to something vague like "enough to retire", or something like that. In terms of financial adviser my advice would be never. At the very least learn as much as you can on your own first. This is a short (15 pages or so) pdf that can go over the basic of saving for retirement with some suggested reading.

https://www.etf.com/docs/IfYouCan.pdf

If after you've done some reading and you have some specific investment you are interested in, maybe it makes some sense.

It's not crazy to hold stock, as long as the company has a good business and management and you think it's prospects are good. But it's not an all or nothing choice. What is crazy is to hold onto stock if you can't afford to wait out a downturn in the stock market, which can be many years.
I've used VBCE.ca where in Canada I transfer EFT (online billing or Interac payment, or direct payment if Royal Bank/TD) to one of their local bank accounts, they convert to USD and pay out the US company in a local USD cheque or ACH but depends on amount/fees https://www.vbce.ca/business/importers but they also accept mailed cheques/couriers so you could set up an account there and just collect payments likely, customer only knows where to mail the cheque or where to send Interac B2B payment.
Yet, GMO as a technology is in many ways inherently associated with an agricultural system dominated by large multinational actors who excert a great deal of power. This is for me the greatest problem with GMO - not any possible health implications (for which there is scant negative evidence). Greater reliance on seed that can't be reproduced locally and on highly specialised chemicals and packages of practice is a huge threat to many farmers (especially where I work - India).
Is it cash back, or Uber credit back? I think its the latter, in which case the card is still a good deal assuming you value Uber credit.
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Cultural artifacts have been separated from these peoples, separated from their context, and stored in European archival rooms since first contact. When doing this a trade is made -- the full context and meaning of the item is traded for possession of the sterile physical item itself. Extracted artifacts often did not come along with the meaning of the object, or the practices and traditions associated with it -- many times because they were private or sacred to the peoples from which the object was extracted.

So if your intent was to understand the culture and tradition of these peoples, or their artifacts, it makes a lot of sense to respect their traditions and cultural practices. As you know though things never quite happened this way -- there was a genocide -- extermination of their culture and people. So given the complete lack of respect or willingness to follow this principle historically, along with a genocide, researchers are especially careful to respect the wishes of the peoples whose stories, artifacts, traditions they are dealing with.
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Very much agreed, but that is super unlikely given the current administration.
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Good to know private shareholders are getting even richer off all that taxpayer research money that's pumped into MIT.
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To me the question isn't if weedkiller is bad for ecological systems or plants: it obviously is. The question is, why the hell do we use it when we've had agrarian societies for 10,000 years? I see basically two areas where weedkillers are typically used: agriculture, and aesthetic.

For agriculture, weeds can be a fierce problem. On small gardens it's possible to use various tactics to control weeds without chemicals. But on large farms, usually a variety of tactics need to be used to control weeds, and chemicals end up being the simplest and quickest. But they are certainly not required. Here is one list of non-chemical weeding options: https://thefanningmill.com/2015/05/27/infographic-weed-contr...

Really I think we should be having a conversation about whether the risks of chemical weeding are worth the benefit, which is primarily just an economic one from agricultural exports. We can easily provide for our nation's agro needs without dangerous weeding techniques, and at about half to a quarter of the current amount we produce.

On top of this, our diets in general are hampered by the crazy way we consume specific foods. We let "consumer demand" drive what crops are grown and brought to market, even though it's been shown that consumers often demand things that are bad for them, or are overly picky. We consume too much food in general, but consuming less would hurt the economy, even if it would make us healthier and reduce healthcare costs. And we give up the option of purchasing from small local farms in order to get more food for less money. Not to mention the fact that processed foods are still in high demand, as well as meats which place burdens on both agriculture and environment.

Weedkiller seems like a good place to start this conversation. Do we need weedkiller? Do we need such gigantic amounts of just a few crops? Do we need giant farms owned by a few companies? Do we really need to eat oranges year round? And should we really be letting vendors [whose primary objective is profit, not health or choice] control what foods we are given the option to eat?
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Not all of their shareholders are American, in fact much of the equity is largely concentrated amongst a few relatively well known names

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I'm a child of the 90's, I'll preface this with that.

The problem isn't the freedom from the screen - its the societal expectation that parents need to go outside with their children, and that children cannot be left alone for a fear of the unknown.

At 8, I spent hours away from adults, I listened to the radio, to music, read books, spent time with my cohorts - at age 10-11-12 - I was riding my bike miles from home alone - and this was in the age before kids had cellphones too, I always carried change for a payphone, and had phone numbers for my mom at work, and my grandparents (who lived about 6 miles away) memorized.

I see nothing wrong with reducing to eliminating screen time - digital devices are pervasive and have a stunting effect on socialization and people skills (in my opinion) - the issue is, is the presumption that children shouldn't otherwise be left alone unsupervised.
You might have the causation backward, though. Maybe many teens spend so much time interacting with a screen because they're unhappy, not the other way around. Another top-level comment on this thread gives a possible reason: lack of autonomy.
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oh man, this just ruined my day. You can normally see the difference immediately by color between farm and wild raised.

At least they have to label it as color added now...
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Yes and no. I generally don't recommend emacs to everybody by default because I've come to realize it's not what everybody wants. Until people want to have a powerful, customizable editor I recommend something pretty and user friendly. Perhaps sublime text, where they can ease into being productive.

That said, I do definitely recommend it to people on a case by case basis (Power users, command line gurus, mouse haters, etc). Those who make it over the initial learning hump tend to really love it.
Someone should build the anti-linkedin. You know where the co-founders of this company would be added to that list.. and populates any relevant articles on why they're not good people to work with.
> Bee is a photo sharing site that connects you with your favorite brands.You post photos to Bee and they're sent directly to the people who matter. You get nationwide exposure and photo credit as your shot is featured on everything from billboards to social media.

Their business model is "paying" people for stock photos with exposure. I'm not surprised they're averse to fairly compensating people who do work for them.