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Board games can get better at this, sure, but there are some board games that have a tutorial approach that let's you start pretty much right away. Riot Games (funny enough, a video game publisher)'s Mechs vs Minions did this, for example.

Part of the reason board games usually need so much explanation is the game is because there could be some decisions you make immediately or first turn that could have an effect on how you do in the endgame, so you kind of need to know what those effects are right away.

With video games, you often get 20 minutes of tutorials also, but the game itself lasts 5-10 hours. There are board games that last that long, but they're mostly dungeon crawlers or legacy games that are designed to be played quite a few times with changes between games.

Other games that are designed to be completed in a relatively quick timeframe (I tend to prefer playing those games, honestly), don't have that luxury, unless they're dirt simple to teach. Some people like simple rules games, other people prefer the heavier, more complex games.
there is another story about a girl that inherited 3 dragon eggs and was destined to rule the 7 kingdoms, oh wait... who else is excited about season 8 ?!
ps: TGIF
The speed of light sucks. What patience.
I don't need a solution on hand to recognize a problem. IMO, the issue is not urban development, it's country-wide development. We definitely can't approach that problem by worrying about zoning laws.

Here is an interesting article[1] on the issue that talks about regional inequality, its causes, and possible solutions. Basically, a reintroduction of anti-trust laws would do a lot to turn things around.

[1] https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...
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That is presuming you are able to find out what is happening -- the dysfunctional situation that I described comes about mainly because everybody is pedalling so hard they don't have time for humane man-management let alone watertight oversight and review.

In a half-way competent organisation the team is able to align to common goals and people can be trusted to work together towards a mutually agreed outcome.

It is when the organisation is run in an aggressively competitive dog-eat-dog manner -- where (for example) a five man team is responsible for its' own profit and loss; where the teams that are perceived as performing well -- that are willing to lie and deceive more aggressively -- are allowed to cannibalise budget and resources from teams that try to maintain some semblance of decency -- where your nationality and race have a bearing on whether you have credibility within the organisation -- where managers scream at each other in the corridors and conspire against each other behind their backs -- and where engineers are threatened with lawsuits should they dare to leave ...
I personally love https://www.codingame.com/, but it's geared more towards university students. The challenges get pretty hard, and they all pretty much gravitate around game AI if that's your thing.

The cool thing is that some challenges are multiplayer, in the sense where you need to develop an AI for a given game, and then send your AI on a ladder to compete against other coders' AI.
Ask HN: What would you do with $5k/mo basic income for rest of life?
Well, part of the problem is that mensa is a total crock of shit.
Why do you feel that you need to discuss politics at work? Based on the responses your comment got , it would be a disaster. "think as you like but behave like others"
I think the anecdote and OP’s statement support one another - companies have a hard time reliably staffing generalists and one of the reasons for that is that they are bad at identifying them and determining how to use them.

Parent showed them a generalist skill set and they saw a lack of professionalism.
Excellent point.

The issue is more than simply the increase in cost. To address the issue, small companies and inventors would likely have to file appeals to the Federal Circuit and then file appeals to the Supreme Court AND and hope that enough judges go against the grain of the current environment to help with the plights of small companies and inventors.

By definition, small companies and inventors do not have the money for this litigation and investors are unwilling to fund litigation that will probably not be successful in the current environment.
>Why wouldn't they be? The "crazy" ones aren't being elected by no one. They rose to power because voters embraced them. If you don't want to be lumped in as crazy then quit supporting crazy

I don't disagree that the Republican party has been hijacked. Personally, I am non-partisan and generally will vote for whichever candidates lean more towards a liberal-libertarian platform, be they R or D. Lately, that's been a lot more D than R.

>If you joined up because some arrogant jerk offended you one day then maybe you weren't a very good person to begin with

Hatred and ostracization make people go to very dark places. A lot of people are lumping people who ideologically believe in lower taxes and fewer government services with white supremacists. I'm obviously not condoning people going to those places, but acting like putting these people on blast and calling them awful because their beliefs partially overlap with those of a genuinely awful group of people is at the least not constructive.
> Charge more. Charge more still. Go on.

This might sound stupid, and maybe it's my inner hippie talking, but did this make anyone else slightly uncomfortable? I get that it's "good business", but something feels kinda gross about saying "extract as much money from other people as you possibly can." Like... shouldn't you just charge whatever you think something (a product, your time) is worth? I realize that "what something is worth" is often subjective, but charging more just because you can feels morally ambiguous to me at best.

(Then again, if you're talking about extracting money from a corporation, that feels less gross. But of course my inner hippie would say that.)
Don't forget National Review, which IMO has the best and brightest conservative writers
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It's not just an IQ test, it's a test of ability, which is different. Your college record shows that you

a) Whether you were able to get the work done.
b) Whether you were smart enough to do the work well.

It's the combination that's important, not either single one. Employers want people who show up on time, actually care enough to try, and are smart enough to figure it out.

The college degree has a better than zero correlation to that. After you get the job it's mainly about performance and output, once you've been promoted a few times your college degree mostly doesn't matter.
>Learning statistics is a tautology. Meaning: the best way to learn statistics is to already know statistics. Go google how to do basic significance calculations in, say, Excel. The first paragraph of the resulting articles will dive into t-test and twin-tales and P-values and on down the lines.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Or rather, your statement is true for all disciplines.

Your question: How do I do a significance calculation?

This automatically should mean you have basic statistical knowledge. How else would you know what a significance test is? In my introductory statistics course, we were taught p-values and t-tests. Why is it so problematic that people who want to use a statistical test should know what is considered introductory material?

>Software needs to bridge the gap between users' intent and their ability to do the analysis. Statistics requires R (you have to know how to program and statistics), SAS ($$$), or another package that limits barrier to entry. Most people know how to ask the basic question, but no idea how to get the answer or interpret the results.

Again: Is that not true for many disciplines? It is always easy to ask basic questions: When I type in a URL in my browser, how does my browser get the information it is showing me? The answer is not something the layperson will understand.

The issue with statistics is that answering simple questions can be complex. What is considered significant actually depends on the problem domain. You need to know what level of significance is good enough for the problem. And if you do not know how the significance test actually calculates things, you will not know if the level of significance you specify is accurate for your problem. It would be scary if my statistics tool gave me simple binary answers ("Yes, these two variables are related") - that would often be wrong and prone to misuse.

I think the problem with statistics is that we don't do enough of it. My undergrad had one class in it, and we never used it outside that class. Yet when I look at skills needed in the real world, statistics is high on the list - higher than many engineering courses I took, and definitely higher than most mathematics courses I took. Most engineers never use calculus outside of school - yet they can still do basic differentiation and integration. But most of them cannot do basic statistics - and many of them have a need to do statistics on the job.

I think typical engineering courses should try hard to put in statistical elements to their homework assignments.
I went to a polytechnic university (i.e. one with a "learn by doing" focus). Our engineering students definitely had to have some programming classes, but they were taught separately from the CS ones. Most engineering students considered them an annoying roadblock in the way of getting back to their "real" work, and I (a CS student) spent a fair amount of time tutoring friends. I'll have to ask some of them if they use any form of programming now, in their day jobs. I suspect I'd get a mix of answers.

As for the CS students, lectures were often on the theory, and homework was usually focused on implementing demonstrations of the theory. A grad student who wasn't a decent programmer was either a cheater in undergrad, or didn't come from our school.
> don't particularly want to feed the poor mice toxic-metal laden soil just to confirm.

Respectfully, I think it's more likely that definite results are hard to get. Researchers generally don't shy away from harming mice.
I'm also somewhat sceptical of the blanket "ideas are never valuable" statement.

Surely there are situations where not many people are going to think of the idea and being first to move on it is very important

...such that both the idea and the execution are important. You can't execute well on something that you weren't able to come up with.
Spoilers below:

You just described the plot of the first Star Trek film. Even better, it was a Voyager probe (a fictional Voyager 6) that was augmented by alien machine intelligence and returned to Earth.
I didn't come to the BPD conclusion until pretty recently. Previously I figured it was the stereotypical situation where the husband is insensitive and cannot communicate what he means. I mean, I am insensitive, I know that. So, it took me quite a while to realize her reactions are not normal. Seeing her reactions to other people, especially her family members was key.

I've had discussions previously, in the right moment. She has admitted that she sometimes takes my comments as criticism when they are not intended as such. We did discuss getting couples therapy, which she was willing to try.
>We have the entire economic output of Bulgaria in liquid assets at our disposal.

This is still a unit error. They do not have the entire economic output of Bulgaria, they have the yearly economic out of Bulgaria.

The correct comparison would be to say that they have 1 Bulgaria-Year worth of liquid assets.

In this context, where the number is used simply for effect, this is not that big of a deal. However, in conversations where the GDP is what is actually important this unit error causes alot of misunderstanding. For example, what happens when the debt to GDP ratio reaches 1? For a lot of people, this seems like a particuarly important point; but in reality, it is just the debt reaching 365 days. Possibly too high, but nothing particularly special about this threshold.
Retire.
"Taxpayers are still paying for highways and infrastructure to go out into suburbs"

You mean highways that go to where they want to go?

"could instead be spending it in a more efficient manner: in an urban environment"

Well, we could be spending it all on barracks where we all sleep in bunks and eat in military-style chow halls. That would be even more efficient, right?

"Efficiency" is not the primary purpose of human life. It's probably not even in the top ten.
Parhamovich said he prefers having his cash with him on hand
in case opportunities present themselves to buy, for example, new instruments.

Civil forfeiture is shady as hell, but his reasoning for regularly carrying that much cash is flimsier than a chromebook.
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You don't need any more specific definition of "profit" in this case than "which approach is likely to make the company more money than the other". By going driverless Uber takes on some new expenses (buying/maintaining/operating the car) and eliminates others (mainly what it now pays out to drivers). My sense is that they will struggle to break even much less come out substantially ahead, but feel free to present your numbers showing how that's wrong.
TLDR: Yes. You will benefit from sharing knowledge.

> You radically underestimate (...) the instrumental benefits to you of publishing it (much you know that other people do not).

(He is saying, at least, that) you will benefit (more than you estimate) from publishing things you know (that others don't).
That is basically the exact plot of the very first Star Trek movie
Meh, at least my (mechanical engineering) degree wasn't.

Sure, you learn some mathematical tools that can help you solve some very practical problems, but it stops about there. I was not taught anything close to creative mathematical thinking. I was never taught the fundamentals of things: the axioms and the theorems on which the tools we "learn" are based on. I can guarantee you no one in my graduating class could read a proof of even modest complexity, let alone write one.

Granted, I did go to a school with a good reputation, but one of a very practical/applied program. Still, I'm pretty convinced that math and engineering are very, very different fields, even if all engineering programs include a handful of math classes.
A recent study by University of British Columbia researchers found that rain and darkness like one would experience during Vancouver and Seattle winters would also be challenging for self driving cars.

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If there's room for everyone, then why are there locations where it costs $3k/month for a studio apartment? What do you think causes such insane prices?
This was mentioned by someone else, but in case you missed it: the "concise format" is a result of this being a 23-tweet tweet storm that the Threadreader has compiled into one page for us.
Interesting, you presume to know what network they are using now when they could have left T-mobile before your precious footnotes occurred. Good try at a gotcha though, really raising the discourse.
There is a massive gulf between hiring and work. There's another massive gulf between what a manager asks for and what HR or recruiters ask for.

> "If companies find it hard to reliably staff generalist positions"

The process of hiring for this is hard. Finding people like this is also hard.
It's a clever argument, the equivalent of "think of the children!" aimed at winning over people who aren't really paying attention to the issue.
Probably wanted to take advantage of fleet clean/mpg averages when that was enforced.
I think it very much depends, some professions have much longer interviews (at least historically), namely where banks would do super days where you could be having possibly 10 interviews (compared to maybe 4-5 you'd have in software). However, the difference here is that a lot of software companies will then later have you talk to different managers on the phone rather than knowing which team you'd be on at the time you get the initial offer.
Agreed and the high prices on the West Coast and NE are part of the solution not the problem.
Virgin seems to have done well. Their safety videos have a similar aesthetic to the ad in the article, and their service has been good every time I fly them.

Now, if only they would fly to places I typically go...
Ask HN: What is driving cryptocurrency value?
Maybe an unusual question for this community, but here goes. I'm interested in speculating a bit on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but my personal code of ethics would prevent me from profiting off of something primarily used for dark or illegal purposes. (Online drug markets, money laundering, etc.) I'm not sure how much of Bitcoin's value is due to this stuff vs. legitimate uses or just excitement over a potentially revolutionary new technology. Any thoughts? Thanks!
I wouldn't be happy about it, but unless I have a legal right to control what happens to that plot of land I should go pound sand.
What incentives are offered so they don't leave?
> They are doing this, primarily, with software.

Not really, no, or at least no more than ordinary companies like Target, where they also have you apply on a website. They're paying people to do background checks, vehicle confirmation, and so on.
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> Interesting, you presume to know what network they are using now

Crazy thought, but perhaps I based it on their comment that simply said:

> It's one of the multitude of reasons I left for T-Mobile.

Which, in most educated circles, means they are still with T-Mobile. If they weren't I would have expected another note that they moved on to another carrier. But guess what, all the other carriers play the same game so I'm still on the right side here.

> Good try at a gotcha though, really raising the discourse.

Drop the snark, you know exactly what both comments were going after.
It has long past sling shot phases around planets
"I don't need a solution on hand to recognize a problem."

I hate to use this word, but complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is basically just whining.

As far as anti-trust goes, Walmart has done more to equalize the playing field for rural and "underserved" areas than all the public policy think tanks in the history of the world.
I guess I need to be the contrarian again, but unless I was forced to due to financial woes, I would never again willingly live in dense urban housing. Or dense suburban housing. Or even these "townhomes" which is really just a nice upscale-sounding word for "apartments".

I've lived enough of my life sharing a wall or two with neighbors. Smelling their soup. Listening to them have sex. Wondering if their meth cooking was going to burn down our whole building. Having to go for a long walk to find some green space for a kid to play in. Having everyone knowing when I'm coming and going. Screw that.

Let me keep the option of living in a single family home. Build more of them so I'm not confined to a tiny few 1960's-era neighborhoods. I'm fine with having to pay through the nose for a little privacy and a backyard, given the alternative. Go build your apartments and town-homes over in apartment-land. Being able to reach out my window and touch my neighbor's house is NOT a selling point.
Campus Brutalism is some of my favorite architecture, and currently very in danger.

Kane Hall, University of Washington: https://i.imgur.com/HCfp41e.jpg

http://www.sosbrutalism.org/cms/15802395