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> Something that I found always makes people think is the observation that if everyone that meet is toxic, then they're the toxic one.

This is really bad when you are the one believing you are surrounded by toxic people. My solution was to become a digital nomad and now I understand why. Travelling I don't feel like I'm around toxic people and when I feel I move on.
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Fortunately, USA still has robust immigration (despite political efforts), so we have nothing to worry about, compared to Japan. American population and culture is in no danger of dying off.
Well said. What you describe is not well understood by both those leading these projects and the coin flippers looking for a quick buck.
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macOSX High Sierra and iOS11, both are the worst release in their respective OS, in the same year.

I could partly argue the misstep in hardware as Johnny and his team as well as other department were likely too focused on Apple Park, arguably the biggest Apple product release since the Mac and iPhone.

But I just cant relate how and what Software had to do with Apple Park. Sloppy Software release, iOS 11 GM leaked by rogue employee, Homepod firmware with new info and release. Root bug, Springboard crash. And last time i checked, the iCloud Drive and Whatsapp backup syncing issues is still there, wasting potentially multiple hundreds GB/month of bandwidth in the background.

When the video of an employee's daughter filming at Apple HQ, which her father allows it and spoke about he is working on Apple Pay, the first thought that came to my mind was "sloppy". It tells me something were wrong in Apple, because literally all previous, and current long time Apple employees freaked out when they saw it.

Something is missing since Steve Job's left. It is the fear, the worry whether you are doing your job good enough to please him. The yardstick of quality, in an environment where excellence is the norm and expected.

P.S - I know everyone loves Crag Federighi, but i do miss Scott Forstall.
> The original wording with the nonchalant "say" in the middle of ", opens another door, _say_ No. 3, which has a goat" makes it seems like there was no link between the host's knowledge of what's behind the door and the opening of door #3 and therefore random. Therefore, the 50/50 probability seemed to be the correct answer.

If the host opened a door at random, then sometimes that door would contain the car. At which point, the entire exercise is meaningless—the host would in effect be asking "do you want to switch your door (which you know contains a goat) for another door (which you know contains a goat)?"

Asking the question at all when they just lost—especially given that the host just cost them the game is clearly not a desirable scenario for any game show.

So any interpretation of the problem which would allow for this scenario can be easily discarded as incorrect.
Apparently you are new to Hacker News. We try not use name-calling and insults here.
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Apart from creating new crypto coins. How can we as a developer benefit from crypto market.

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Learning statistics is like learning anything else. Kids who want to make a video game are often dismayed when they realise how much they'd have to learn. If they ask how you put a walking character controlled by the mouse and keyboard on the screen, you'd have to explain about 3d graphics, the game loop, input devices. For 3d graphics you need vectors, transformation matrices, etc. Eventually you get down to basic programming constructs like loops. Like with statistics it can seem like an infinite fractally expanding amount of knowledge. A simple question such as how you draw a moving character or how you calculate whether the difference is statistically significant, has a complicated answer. The knowledge required isn't infinite or tautological or circular. With statistics it eventually bottoms out, but to really understand a t test you need at least probability theory and calculus. College students spend a year studying that.
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Their usage seems fine, perhaps you should look up the word before criticizing people for using the word. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia

It's not far-fetched to associate NIMBYism with
a fear of the strange and foreign.
You are saying this from a privileged position. That's why it's ordinary to you. The win here is that they achieved this while being very underprivileged.
I am wondering why there are no laws forcing cities to add residental capcity for every new job created/office building built. It should be obvious, that if the number of jobs in a city grows significantly, you have to have more residental space, or you will have a real estate price hike and a traffic problem at your hand. In many places, building permits could be limited to mixed office/appartment buildings, or alternatively, the permits should be possible only if the city can show corresponding residental developments (it would be up to the city how much they would charge the office space developer for this).
> Given he specifically talks about a handful of places and contrasts with other regions where people had more children, and has a first hand account,

A second or third hand account of his great-grandmother leaving her farm, but he says he did NOT understand the reasons for leaving from the family account.

> shouldn't you be the one to dig up more info?

You know, when part of the theory being espoused is literally that the region got depopulated because protestant Slovaks had a particular penchant for sex with farm animals, I rather think that the proponent of the theory has to meet a bigger burden of proof than what's in evidence here.

> Unless you think he completely made up the whole thing? Hopefully it's not that.

"completely made up" is a strong word, and OP cites a source. However, reading (part of) that source, I get the strong impression that both interviewer and interviewee were fitting anecdotes into a preconceived narrative. There is a lot of speculation and gazing at headstones, and little mention of trying to get at the underlying numbers: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sk&tl=en&u=h...
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The Omega Tau podcast discusses analog computers on episode 159. It’s probably one of my favorites.

http://omegataupodcast.net/159-analog-computers/
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If you are attempting to hire for an engineering position, greater than 50% of people who apply for the job and whose resume you select as "facially plausible" will be entirely unable to program, at all. The search term for learning more about this is FizzBuzz.

So true, and something that stumped me when I sat at the other side of a hiring table myself. I couldn't figure out why until it was pointed out to me that people who are good at their job are not looking for work, they already have a job. In fact, the really good people often don't apply for jobs at all, but instead they get convinced to switch employers. By contrast, the people who can't program are on the job market all the time. So, the job market is heavily skewed towards people not good enough to hire.
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Down the line, overpopulation is gonna affect all of us, as in "humanity as a whole".
It's not like US American children are in any way less wasteful than other children, quite the opposite actually.
Our problem isn't a lack of people, we actually have too many of them, the problem being how they are distributed.

Fixing that problem by further overpopulating certain regions seems like a rather odd fix and mostly motivated by some kind of "genetic egoism" along the lines of "My genes are so great, can't have future humanity live without them!".
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Wow that made this finally click for me. Instead of two actions with the host in between, it’s just two actions. Thanks!
A clue to my meaning was that I also mentioned a catalytic reaction.
Other times, it is a good sign of edge-cases that are physically impossible or highly unlikely.
Sounds like a prosecutor that focuses on convictions and personal record and not on truth and justice. This, the lack of pursuing truth and justice, is what is eroding our society.
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Thanks for the link to buy the archive. I haven’t read Linux Journal much but I’ve read a couple of Kyle Rankin’s articles and got a lot of value from them (he’s also very responsive to feedback). As it’s only $12 to purchase the archives, I figured I’d take the chance.

I can confirm that it’s totally worth it. It takes only a minute to purchase the download. I used my Paypal account and made the purchase as a Guest as I didn’t want to create yet another account on the Internet. Within seconds, I received a download link in my email.

After unzipping the download, there’s a shell script which starts a web server and opens your web browser at the Archive index. You can then either navigate by selecting an issue by year and month – or by using the search feature provided by the Archive web server. I’ve tried a number of search terms (“docker”, “ansible”, “mutt”) and can confirm that it works well; the only issue I’ve had is that the search results list the articles by the name of the column, e.g., this article [1] is listed as Hack and / rather than the more descriptive sub-title Take Mutt for a Walk.

I’d also confirm that the articles are not in plain text – they use HTML and include images (where appropriate). Best of all, there’s no visual clutter, e.g., distracting advertisements. The format reminds me a lot of the CDs with collections of digitised books that O’Reilly used to publish.

In my opinion, the archive is excellent value for money – and I’d highly recommend it.

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10858
How are these tax cuts going to affect tech?
Do you consider spansoring visas?
Your rephrasing actually changes the question. It says that the scenario is run repeatedly, while the question is about a one-off event. By phrasing it as one of a series of events, you have told the subject how to go about answering the problem.

In an earlier reply, I suggested that the only way to interpret the question as posed is that the host is not making a random selection, and the question would have to be phrased differently to allow an interpretation in which the host's choice is random - e.g."the host flips a coin to pick one of the closed boxes which, when opened, reveals a goat".
Not exactly . I think you forgot about following

1. Getting ready

2. Commute

3. Eating

4. Work out

5. Errands

6. General daily stuff - calls, unexpected events

7. Family and kids (if applicable)

I guess during weekdays you don’t have spare hours more than 1 or 2 or at a stretch 3
Holy hell, what are these comments.

A group of girls form a pretty messed up country had the willing and the guts to go ahead and submit anything to this competition, knowing full well they would be at a disadvantage compared to other first world countries, and coming from a very male orientated culture. Their parts where late and they only had two weeks to build it.

Meanwhile a single accurate quote about how they where disallowed entry into the US overshadows all commentary here, with people insinuating that their robot was rubbish and it's just a political hitpeice, consolidation price means nothing etc. Get a life and grow up, I'd like to see you have the guts to try anything like this, even with your inherent advantage of living in a first world country.
Call your representative. This bill is not law yet.

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Perennial poster. They told me that the SRE position is in NYC, not Oslo, and it is not open any more.
It's incredible to read your story. I'm sorry for what you went through.

It also re-affirms my belief about the solution:

> But I decided to do no harm. I started thinking about it as a sort of superpower I have, one that must be used with great care and responsibility.

i.e. Accept it, and deal with it.

This is huge. Most sufferers find that impossible. Because....

> you have to acknowledge and face the pain you've caused, which can result in unbearable guilt.

It can get better. Living a quiet life is better than a life full of extreme highs and lows. It feels emptier, because it isn't full of drama. But it's how most people live.
My genes are so great you won't have a future humanity without them. You're welcome to save the future by not passing yours on.
Not really. The easiest way to get a loan is to start a fast food franchise or build houses. Banks don't do innovation.
You might be thinking of the Planck Length.
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To combine multiple comments into one...

It's helpful if you have a sense of purpose or Mission (the Elon Musk comment).

Using GTD, or something like it to manage your own task pipeline is really useful. Trying to figure out the exact next step wastes a lot of cycles. I've found that when I'm in that state, it's because I haven't broken down the task into small enough chunks.

Manage your energy (this has something to do with the tasks themselves, and a lot to do with what you eat, how you sleep, how you exercise, and your general mental state).

Offload, automate, or drop tasks that you don't actually need to do (yourself).

Remove distractions to make it easier to focus and control your attention. (I've been thinking a lot about this quote lately: What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -- Herbert Simon)
I have similar experiences. Try to have a design whiteboarding session remotely...
He already said it wasn’t his and that he didn’t know how it was hidden in his car. Whether under duress or not, the authorities aren’t giving the money back as a result.

Such proof is now needed.
That app doesn't seem to be great. It complains when a password contains spaces or is longer than 16 words.
Sounds like you would be comfortable with China's Once Child Policy.
While we're at it... maybe provide Linux (Ubuntu?) as the default operating system? If we're feeling really lucky we might do with asking them for the original Thinkpad keyboards back.

That would be a dream computer.
>> what is required is for Americans to have more children.

Wow, just wow. But I'll assume you're talking about the bigger picture of - if the country is to survive long term we'll need to have a higher birth rate, what could be done to encourage that. I'd say the first thing we have to do is get people off the economic treadmill. Stop encouraging people to pile on debt. When everyone is too busy trying to pay the rent there's a disincentive to have children.
It's fundamentally necessary, since I/O is stateful. Functional languages have language-specific ways of doing this, but you can see examples of this in non-functional languages.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries is a great, practical talk about this.
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Yeah, if you're an employee you might care about things like that but some people do consulting, you know.

I would add: some organizations make fistfuls of cash and don't have much in the way of a technology team. Others pump billions of dollars through Excel macros. Not every company has a great IT team following all the latest buzzwords.
Clicking unsubscribe relies on gentlemanship instead of self motivation to work. It relies on people respecting you and being kind, rather than doing what is best for them. This kind of system rewards unscrupulous behaviour (not respecting the click, subscribing you by default , etc).

It is a common mistake in organising workflows involving humans. It works beautifully on small groups but collapses under its own weight at scale. You will always be swimming upstream.

If you will allow me to take some liberty, this is comparable to communism vs capitalism, in practice. Loosely. :)

And yes: clicking spam makes google lower their reputation , eventually spam holing all their email directly (= disincentivising bad behaviour ). This means that now, suddenly, the company and you have the same goal: not to send you email you would consider unwanted. Currently, they can get away with spam by calling it a mailing list and adding an unsubscribe button.
> If he is sincere, he should ask the managers of Uber to share all the dirty laundry that they know.

Right. They'll just hand it over if he asks nicely. It's not like they've done anything illegal/unethical.

The uber culture has been built up over 8 years, and you expect a new CEO to clean it up spick and span in 3 months? Seriously?

How on earth this got upvoted to the top of the page is beyond me.
Interesting, a right to light is actually mandated in my home country (Poland). Here’s a photo of bizzarely shaped hotel because of it:
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Unless I totally misunderstand net neutrality, that article has very little to do with net neutrality. A number of the points are about the FCC's rules not net neutrality itself and there are some that don't seem to make any sense at all to me (like #6).
The “It’s used for illegal stuff.” argument by and large is just meant to scare off ordinary people.

Crypto currencies actually make it easier to uncover dark or illegal transactions because crypto currency transactions are inherently traceable. After all, traceability is the key feature of any ledger, digital or not.

It’s precisely because paper money isn’t traceable that laws against money laundering were created in the first place.

There’s a real ethical issue with speculating in crypto currencies though: Just as with gold or fiat currencies these assets don’t create any value.
1.5x usually
The problem is that journals have incentives too. And these unfortunately often align: sexy results -> more income.
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you are being very critical, a part of university education is tolerance, although some opinions differ on if that relates to knowing literally everything. Trade-offs are a part of engineering because optimal solutions don't always exist. I'm saying, programming often is just knowing which functions to pick, which is not an inert skill except for reading comprehension, if there is a good documentation. There's nothing universal to learn there, the interesting bit is writing those functions. But a pseudo random number generator is rather advanced stuff.

I hope you helped out as good as you could to bridge the gap and maybe you were rightfully disappointed if the student hadn't prepared to catch up to undergrad material in spare time.
you assume correctly
> Qwintessentials

Really?