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Yes, let’s have more deadly, congestion-inducing, loud and smog-producing private buses filling up our streets, rather than making a cheap, electrified mass transit system better.

The Queens to Chinatown bus fills a gap in services from Flushing to Chinatown. If that bus is really transporting multiple subway trains worth of people each day, that in my mind means we ought to build better mass transit between those two places. Not that we should cannibalize our working people-moving infrastructure for something worse.
It might be inevitable that we give rise to intelligent machines, become machines and that's it. Nothing wrong with it.

But at present we are behaviorally closer to monkeys even if we dress up in suits and have rules and values. Which don't (unlike what we generally conceive) have any eternal significance beyond being various versions of conventions such as "who gets to pick the lice off the alpha male first".

Point being, what we are is the reality of what we have to work with. Mating included. Puritan scolders will forever fail and life will keep right on going until the machine (if that ever happens).
I'm not sure if the tech is under developed or whether we just hit a local maximum, but in the 80's I would have thought that we'd be free of the need for voice actors before we got CG actors. During the 90's the exact opposite happened, we got fully CG movies but still needed humans for the vocals.

It's also amusing that we discovered it wasn't a compelling means of user interaction 20-30 years before siri.
Just don't buy from GlassesUSA. They peddle junk and then hide behind their no-refund policy when you receive unusably bad glasses.
"You can incorporate in Delaware to allow shareholders from any US state avoid double taxation" - could you please expand on it? Are you talking about corporate tax + dividends tax, or about something else when saying "double taxation"?
I think they tried, but the radiation was too hot and melted through the steel and concrete below. This was an old facility, so it was probably built with that idea in mind. It just failed.

On a related note, I live in Chiba, which is a fair distance south of Fukushima. The rain and wind drove the radiation into my area after the accident. I still have interesting radiation readings in my rain gutters and spouts.
Once I started thinking of vision insurance as more like a bad coupon, where you get some small amount off if you buy a certain overpriced brand, it lost its appeal.
Train Simulator 2018 does that. All the DLC comes to $7800.
Thanks.

If anyone else replies, I am in a small town and people are responding to me with "oh, you are a web designer! We could use your help!"

I am not a web designer. But I am a content creator and can serve as a content manager and I am willing to foster some development here. The town has high speed internet and an excellent library. But Facebook seems to be the big thing here. And there is lots of room for growth.
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It might just be my opinion bit I think that the individual right to refuse is never enough protection. Especially in employment where preying on people who can't afford to say no seems to be the norm.
> This leaves us with no levers of power over government decisions.

I'm not sure I understand this. Yes, the hand-picked successor will be able to fulfill the rest of the term, but then he's up for re-election. If people were actually outraged about this, they could vote him out the next time there's an election (just like they could have voted out the predecessor that set this process in motion). If people were really upset about corruption, they could have voted Cuomo out for killing the anti-corruption panel when it started to look in to corruption connected to him (IIRC, this happened just a few months before the 2014 primary).

It's hard for me to believe that these things really bother people when they keep voting back in the people who are doing them.
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Make friends. If they're inexperienced, it's your opportunity to manage the interview and establish a rapport that an experienced interviewer might not allow, or might discount. Someone who belittles like that is afraid to encounter someone who "really" knows their stuff and the right words can lead to their imitating you instead of intimidating you.
You might find this article interesting [1]. Although free tuition caused enrollment to rise 22%, still German "university graduates earn 40% more than those with a vocational education." And "making tuition free hasn’t led to any noticeable change in the demographics of who goes to college," partly because living expenses aren't free.

[1] Jon Marcus, "Germany proves tuition-free college is not a silver bullet for America’s education woes"
https://qz.com/812200/is-free-college-possible-germany-shows...
I was thinking more along the lines of Musk setting up a trucking company with a fleet consisting of autonomous Tesla trucks. Obviously not something that can be done right now, but given the push towards self-driving vehicles, and things like Amazon's delivery drones, I'm wondering if the current trucking industry is really Tesla's target market in the long term.
I find this to be a legitimate question. At least in my country all news outlets have a political bias one way or another, including those run by the government itself.

Is there something about NY times (I don't read it) that warrants a downvote on OP's comment?
MTA liberally shuts down service for hours/days at a time. I wouldn’t chalk it all up to not having enough time to do maintanence. It was 24/7 back when it was functioning more consistently as well.
One of the shortest papers ever, or maybe the longest:

https://johnmorton1000.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/1976-recu...
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Well written and thought provoking.

I'm not super interested in clicker games, but I pre-ordered anyhow, because I have to believe the future of gaming isn't just a never-ending series of venal cash grabs.
I'd be interested in that too. I switched to development from carpentry. I'd like to know where to go when I get burned out on development. I'm not really interested in the standard management or project management routes.
I was riding the NYC Subway a year or two ago, when my brother in law asked me if I noticed anything strange about it.

After thinking it through, I realized that I had ridden that exact same subway car in the past.

It was a recommissioned car from Toronto!

So they're obviously doing something to try and save money.

It really made me question my own city's transit system as well.

How could NYC make do with something that Toronto thought was worth getting rid of?
What happened is that in a quest for more use and engagement sites and networks tuned their feed generation algorigthms to things that you’re more likely to like which isn’t stuff that goes against your world view/current conception of things. And there’s plenty of people out there more than happy to spin out tons of content for every niche so if you’re just looking and not critical of what sources you’re finding there’s a supporting source out there for every BS facebook/reddit/twitter post.
A journalist without domain expertise or the support of a domain expert without an agenda related to the subject-matter of the reporting is crippled in the same way a programmer without domain expertise or support of a domain expert is; journalism may, itself, be a complex domain (as programming is), but expertise in it does not provide relevant domain expertise in the domain that is the subject of reporting.

And it's absolutely the case that most journalists covering complex domains don't have an educational background in the domain, and in most domains the market doesn't really reward development of domain expertise (in political reporting, there's some pressure driving reporters to develop some expertise in electoral politics, but that's kind of exceptional, and isn't reflected in other domains, even the policy end of political reporting.)
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My doctor was hesitant to prescribe me progressives given how difficult it can be to get used to them, and he spent a fair amount of the exam figuring out where to set the focal distance (had me hold my phone at a natural reading distance, had me read from a card at different distances, etc.). I have a very odd prescription, so that could have been part of it. Still, if it’s not too much time and cost, I’d go back and get the exam and get a prescription that explicitly includes progressive values.

Also, someone on HN talked about getting a prescription for reading up close (essentially the bottom focal distance of a progressive lens across the entire lens) and another standard prescription for non-reading use. When I have the time to get my prescription re-done, I’m going to do that instead of progressives. They’re a real pain to get used to, and they correct neither near nor far sight perfectly.
I get the sentiment that there are some lawsuits where the only people making real money are the lawyers but I think it's weird that it reflects on the them and not the system that pays out so little to injured classes. For a case like this it's easy to rack up a million dollars in billable hours.
No what I said was that there's no value even having a FSA until you cap your HSA. An FSA is worse than a HSA by every metric, cannot invest it, lose it after twelve months, many lack a debit card (or charge), cannot increase or decrease it after open enrollments and so on.
It's a loop. In many areas, schools are funded by property taxes, so higher property value leads to more funding for the school, which leads to perception of better school, which drives more people to want to live there, which produces higher property values, which...
If you're travelling overseas, depending in where you are going and what insurance you have, you can save a lot of money on things like eyewear, contact lenses; as well as things like perscription meds and routine dental work.
> You would be able to call free-standing functions with a `this` argument left of the double colon, i.e. `thisArgument::freeStandingFunction()`

If you're going to do that, you might as well do it the right way and make it `verb::theThing` instead.

Alternatively, `with` is an existing reserved word that already kind of deals in this realm, as language semantics go. So...

finishWork().then(placeOrder with deliveryService)
I know a few dentists who switched over to do plastic surgery (mostly boob and nose jobs).
> A hilarious-looking clicker game... but a clicker game. Would anybody spend $30 on a clicker game?

Well that's the thing, isn't it: A lot of people spent a lot more than $30 on Clicker Heroes 1. So yes, obviously people will spend $30 on a clicker game. The question is whether they'll do so via an ethical business model.
I think a good response to the guy asking "What do you want, for us to make $15 an hour?" would be "No, but bringing you down to $50 an hour might be a reasonable starting point."
We trust the government to regulate and control all sorts of things (tv, radio communication bandwidth, some local utilities) I don’t see why having some sort of oversight and rules governing what Facebook can do with data it collects is a problem. At the very least guaranteeing consumers access to all the data Facebook has about them could be a start.
>In China (probably elsewhere too, but China is the relevant place here), apparently yes. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046 touches on some of the dynamic there; the "Western" bit is definitely key.

The part about China listening more to foreign voices with the "Guanxi Bias" - very much on the edge about that. I've noticed a trend towards nationalism in China (and worryingly all over the world), so the fact that they chose the voice of a foreign person over that of "one of their own" might point to the Reddit thread being convincing, even if only a minor investigation is required to debunk it.

Unless there's inherent racism in China, a black, African female of the same position should have had the same power, fulfilling the role of "foreign person".

But the main point was really about attributing these unwanted characteristics specifically to white, Western men as opposed to Dale taking that responsibility on himself. Regardless of background, he is in a position of power (however you want to attribute that to him) and he made a mistake.
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Thank you for answering. I think it's perfectly reasonable at the current income level, since if that's a typical month's income it would mean that you're still only taking in about $50k/year, which is difficult to do much with.

However, if you're intending to keep that split as revenue increases, I think it conflicts with the way you're framing the company in places like the linked post and the Code Sponsor homepage. Stating a mission like "fighting for open source sustainability" and remarks like "Why do we do it? Basically, we want to help" don't mesh with the fact that your company alone keeps more of the money than you pass on to all of the projects combined.

I recognize that Code Sponsor isn't a charity/nonprofit, but it feels like you're trying to give the impression that it's a similar sort of values/mission-based organization. So it's not a fair comparison, but as a point of reference, Charity Navigator would give a financial score of zero to an organization that only used 40% of their funds for their "purpose", and they'd be solidly in the bottom 10% (https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...).

Overall, your take doesn't seem to be out of the ordinary for advertising. The World Advertising Federation says that 60% of advertising cost is taken by various companies that an ad passes through before it's actually displayed (https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AkjTy8a6FJ8/WGqb2nGR0pI/AAAAAAAAF...), but those companies certainly don't try to describe themselves as philanthropic ones.

I hope I don't come off as too negative. I think it's great that you're working on improving the current situation of open-source sustainability, which really is a major issue. But I hope that if your income reaches the point where Code Sponsor is sustainable (which certainly includes paying yourself), you consider adjusting the split so that more funds are given to the projects you want to help, instead of just keeping it as profit.
I have that as well. It's great.

Also check out Crystal Method's Legion of Boom in DTS-ES.

I wish there were more releases in 5.1 or better, and specifically EDM releases.
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Primary education does serve some basics: reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. It may not be efficient about it, but it's not a complete waste.

But yeah, first and second grade are basically prison, especially for boys. I'd cut 'em back to 3 hours per day.
I think PhasmaFelis has a valid point.

I'd add that what she's doing is not the healthiest role model for young girls growing up, given the issues with sexism in tech/professional industries.

Tech achievements aside, the flaunting of her breast implants is sad. In the unlikely case she has not had plastic surgery, she still seems to be asking people first to "check out my body" and then "btw, I make things too".

I would have the same problem with a man who got 6-pack implants and flaunted his abs with his tech profile. It's short-term shallowness, and undoes the achievements in her field. And so I won't be following what she does, and will now leave this discussion for others.
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Hi all,

I'm in a bind financially after a contract came to an end, and being recently laid off by a startup when they ran into financial trouble. This all happened in the span of about a year. I used up most of my savings having not been eligible for unemployment after my last contract ended. During my time at the startup, I was also trying to re-build my finances but I find myself worse off than I was before. Basically, I only have enough to cover my rent until mid-December when I get my next unemployment cheque.

I know that asking here is sometimes frowned upon in the community, but I've gotten work here before, when I was a student. So I figure that maybe I'd be able to help someone again.

I'm currently interviewing and have an opportunity that may work out, but I would still have to be able to afford transportation to get there.

My contact information and GitHub links are in my profile.

Thanks for reading,

A.
There's an excellent Numberphile on this topic, most of the papers in the post are mentioned in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvkJT8myeI
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Huntsman did is mission in Taiwan, so he probably was fluent at some point, well, with the standard southern accent. FYI, diplomats and leaders will typically use their official language regardless, even if they are fluent in their host country’s language. For example, the prime minister of Singapore is definitely fluent in mandarin, but always will use English for official communication.
> I assumed it was amp.

That's the first of your problems.

> 100% it promotes amp pages.

When I go to Google News, there are no pages marked as AMP. In my original comment, I talked about AMP results in news searches on Google search, which do exist, just like in the Bing app. Those provide a better experience for me, and I suspect 99% of all users, than the AMP-less DDG results, which is why Google and Bing show them.

> I am not talking about bing "app". I don't know if such a thing exists.

https://blogs.bing.com/search/September-2016/bing-app-joins-...

You've demonstrated an even poorer understanding of AMP than the person I originally responded to.
I think it depends on the builder - my mother in law rebuilt her (~100 year old) home in a mid-sized city in Japan about 15 years ago. It seems comparable to american houses -- good insulation for winter (which is good since the only heat is a split-unit heat pump downstairs, none in the bedrooms), noise isolation between rooms (and between floors) seems similar to american wood frame construction. Of course, the tatami room downstairs has paper doors, so if you end up sleeping there, you hear everything in the living room and kitchen.
1000 sq/ft is TINY by US standards.
Yes let’s blame the victims first. That’ll solve everything.
Are you talking about LSTM implementation in OSX version of TF? Because it definitely runs on GPU in Windows/Linux.
I've often wondered though why companies like the MTA don't transform their networks into things like Elon Musk's boring company type network
Robots just kept dying in there all those years [1]. I reckon they are disposable, in effect.

[1]: http://mashable.com/2017/03/03/fukushima-robots-fail/
This guy solved two open problems in mathematics because he mistook them for a homework assignment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_st...

"A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis."

Each paper was seven pages, which would make a fourteen page thesis.
The biggest problem is that the New York government at city and state levels is one of the most corrupt, oligarchic and undemocratic organizations in modern society. I cannot begin to describe how broken it is.

We could have voted to reform the constitution and then stayed engaged enough to pick independent delegates instead of the same old insiders catering to special interests. But we collectively let the insiders and special interests talk us out of our once in twenty years opportunity to fix this nightmare.
Which is the exact type of things that leads to customer complaints. Customers have to be inconvenienced in order to do maintenance on the NYC Subway. In turn the bar to require maintenance will be higher than it is in London. The natural result of years of delayed maintenance is for the system to get worse and worse as time goes on.
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One reason voters in the US trust their government far less to do a competent and honest job than voters in other rich countries is that their government actually is that much worse.

As for why, that's a much harder question...
This is nonsense. AMD already has its own equivalent of Intel's ME: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803373
Part of the reason they tear down old houses is that termites infest the wood and foundations, making it cheaper to raze the home that try to fix it. Black mold is also a big problem in many of the older homes. Newer homes are built with better materials and circulate air better, which helps with the mold issue, so we may see more remodeling done in the future.

Another issue is zoning. Some houses were built when zoning laws were more lax. It isn't uncommon to see a land-locked house that is only accessible by walking in between other houses. Newer zoning laws don't allow new construction under these circumstances, so land owners will typically raze the entire block and rebuild from scratch.
rolling stone still periodically has excellent longform investigative journalism by matt taibbi, which is the only thing i've ever been interested in by them (but i'm way too young to have been there for its peak)
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The first computer I used with speech synthesis was an Amiga 1000 in 1985. However, it wasn't anything you would confuse with a human voice - early speech synthesis sounded very artificial and required phonetic input for (relatively) good results. I think there were chips specifically for speech synthesis pretty early, too, that were used in lower-cost devices than microcomputers.
I’m not trying to prove anything.

I’m just saying her English seems quite a bit better than average.

(My wife is Chinese and has very good English, as do many of her friends. I by no means think Chinese people are generally incapable of learning English or anything.)

I thought my point was pretty obvious and simple.

There are sure a lot of people here with sticks up their butts.
In what way does having an entrance exam make a school non-public? Are state universities not actually public because they have admissions standards?
You could but the profitability of free2play games are whales. I don't remember where I read it, but the vast majority of people playing free2play mobile or Facebook games never spend a single dollar.

This means that if you set a limit on it, you'd be limiting your profit by an extreme amount.

I'm all for it by the way, I think games that sell game affecting content for thousands of dollars are targeted scams portraying as games to get away with it.

Especially because games like league of legends and path of exile had shown how you can do free2play while only selling cosmetic items, if you make a good game.
How? Nuclear tech is already much more developed than other renewables and it's incredibly efficient. The cost of solar is much higher than the cost of nuclear. Hydroelectric and wind are both lower, but they also require certain geography and can't be used anywhere. Nuclear is not dead tech at all, most of France's power comes from nuclear.
I have an embody and an aeron and find the embody far more comfortable.
I've met Chinese people in China with accents that to me said "valley girl", I honestly thought they came from LA.

Far fewer Americans are taught Mandarin, and even fewer from an early enough age that they can master tones easily (I suspect that like Danish vowels you almost need to be born into it)
Does california treat LPFSA similar to HSA?

I get a HDHP, put the savings from not paying high premiums into HSA. The problem with california is, this is treated as income, and capital gains/interests/dividends trigger income either way. Not that it'd matter, but i see your point about FSA coming after from HSA. IT's fair.