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I don't think it's a fabrication.

The girls won a prize for overcoming adversity, and they arguably built a better robot than teams that didn't have much adversity to overcome. That's not nothing.

But at the same time articles like this one leave me with a feeling of pandering and head-patting.

We all like to see groups of underdogs do impressive things.

If the article were about what an outlier their robot is because it's so good, or what an outlier the team is because they pulled off a feat of engineering against all odds, then I'd be cheering along with everyone else.

But mainly the article is: "these girls faced far more adversity than most anyone else, but still managed to perform adequately."

That's something for them to be proud of personally, and for Afghanistan to be proud of nationally.

At the same time, if the competition were adjudicated in a double-blind way, would they have still beat out other teams?

There's nothing wrong in discussing whether that's a relevant question.

On another note, I'm surprised I got downvoted when adding background information to the discussion.
> You could argue that a community of people collectively own a given area.

You could argue it but it would be wrong. They could collectively own a given area -- form a corporation and buy a neighborhood. Then they would collectively own a given area and the collective entity would be entirely within its rights to decide what does or doesn't get built on a piece of land it owns (subject to the corporate governance rules).

That's essentially how co-op apartment buildings work. But these homeowner NIMBYites don't want to do that. They want to exercise the incidents of ownership without making an investment.

Given how local governments are set up they have the raw power to do what they are doing. But the rest of us don't have to pretend it is okay. This isn't stopping a gold mine from polluting a river, it's not building public schools, it's not defending the country from invasion -- it's exercising naked political power to take property rights from people that bought them simply because they want to and they have the votes.
And the Mac Mini is stuck in limbo... Really want a Mac Mini upgrade that is completely worthwhile.
That's how it should be anyways. A good leader always assumed responsibility.
I think Sprint has like $30B in debt and struggles to make a profit while being a distant 4th. Not sure how viable they can be or for how long. SoftBank made a huge mistake buying up a majority of Sprint.
That's a very empty assessment of life
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You are mixing two items:

1. Planetary protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection): life on Earth might be dangerous for that of another planet, if we land on it. That's why for example the Mars rovers are prohibited from driving near areas where we think there might be/have_been life. And that's why Cassini was sent to burn into Jupiter's atmosphere: so that we would not contaminate any of its moons by mistake.

2. Clean-room precautions for satellites are mostly to prevent leaving anything on them that would freeze and burn depending on Sun exposition.
I don't think I would call people uneducated and their usage of language dumb and wrong just because it does not follow the usage from one specific point in time long ago. Most things you mentioned have been used by a vast number of people for a significant time now. At some point we need accept that language is constantly evolving. You don't write like Goethe either but I don't call you uneducated for that.

Before anyone laments the erosion of our language: The German language has never been so expressive as it is now. Every change gives new ways to precisely choose the way you word something.
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By this point agricultural goods were traded in an international market - wheat was traded overseas, for example. People didn't starve, the global price just went slightly up.
+1 for supporting Linux
Apple is now operating at an almost inconceivable scale. Apple is on track to become the first 1tn company in the world. Apple is the absolute leader in mobile chip designs, and their lead is extending. The iPhone X is such a bold step forward, that in the Steve era we would assume a product like that could never happen without him.

It's easy to see where Cook falls short. It's much harder to figure out what went right at Apple because of his leadership, that otherwise would have gone awry.
You might be right (though there may be other explanations, e.g. ageism or just wanting local employees, and writing "remote" just for the heck of it, "to get more leads"). But even if you're right, that just reinforces my point: I'm not desperate to get a job; I wrote to have a discussion, because they managed to pique my interest... I didn't put any kind of effort to "market" myself, thought they'll figure things out in the interview(s). They were basically fortunate that their advertising hit he right target. And what did they do with that lead that they got? They throw it away through a non-technical filter....
Google put fiber up near Princeton? Or faster speeds just ended up coming around? I'm near the area too.
What happens in a year?
There was a comment a few weeks ago in another HN thread about the fact that GTD naturally prioritize low hanging fruits and random tasks. GTD is great, but should be complemented with a regular prioritization and task pruning exercise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoffel_symbols is probably what you wanted to say
Hongkong has truckloads of free space to develop on. High density com/res zones only occupy ~15% of HK SAR territory.

HK has more nimbers than US, the biggest of whom is the Hongkong government.
I agree that the American population is safe, but I would argue that American culture is under attack. There are massive numbers of people saying that immigrants shouldn't integrate. Lots of other people fighting against our basic cultural expectations like gender norms, common language, etc. Our workers don't have common holidays anymore, particularly among the lower class who has to work during them. Job centralization and women in the workforce are splitting families apart and lowering the marriage rate among parents. There is a widespread belief that there is no right or way to live your life, which makes sense on a global scale, but erodes our sense of community on a local level.

Each one of those chip away at American culture. It _is_ in danger IMO.

edit: To clarify, I'm not saying whether or not this is a good or bad thing. All I'm saying is that our culture is changing massively, the fundamental norms of our culture are shifting, and an argument can be made that common American culture is "under attack" by forces changing it into a completely different direction.
> if I have two children, and (number) one is a boy, what is the probability the other is a boy?

The people who parse the sentence as the gender of the first child is given, will insist the odds are 50/50. Once you see the sample space, the sentence is unambigous.
As a child of an immigrant to the US and a native-born American (who herself came from a long line of mixed immigrant/native-born American families), I find this rather insulting. My parents are not different species, nor were my great-grandparents, nor my great-great-great grandparents.
I've been with apple since 1995, but it seems to me that the fruit has been rotting from the inside out for some time now and it is starting to become very obvious. I hope they get their act together, because a real alternative that "just works" does not yet exist.
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Still on Sierra. The High Sierra installer has been downloaded without me knowing.. I receive an annoying weekly notification that try to make me install High Sierra. And now all these really concerning bugs too.. it makes it worse Apple..
> It’s not acceptable to say you’ll invest in a company and then go fundraise to fulfill that commitment

When a VC “raises” capital, they don’t get a box of cash. Instead, their LPs sign commitments. When the VC signs a subscription agreement with a company, they “call” that capital from their LPs. LPs are then obligated to supply it promptly so the VC can meet its obligation to the company.

This is done to separate cash management and investment. (While the cash sits waiting, one investor may want it in CDs; another in Treasuries. Mingling that risk with the core activity of VCs, picking great ventures, isn’t worth it.)

OP is saying the LPs, as part of their commitment, may have had an out in their paperwork. VC signed subscription agreement. VC called money. LPs said “no, we’re exercising this clause to delay or not give you that money.”

TL; DR a round isn’t raised until it’s closed.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. It outlines a hypothetical and does not necessarily represent the facts and circumstances of 500 Startups.
It will depend on what the remaining population of developing countries does. Developed countries have less children so if the immigrants send back money to develop their home country and also have less children like their host countries do it would be a large gain. Don't know if this has been studied but there should already be plenty of data points to choose from.
Do some studying and apply for an entry level job -or- find a code school/meetup.
Note that one point of failure of this setup is that you are keeping the snapshot/index filed locally. Ideally, you want to back those up as well.
I've made this mistake. I just thought that A) people wouldn't actually shorten the module name even though they could B) it wasn't that confusing having two different names for import/package name.

It was dumb. I won't do it again.

I think if you do it early on you are stuck though. If beautiful soup changes now they will break a ton of code.
You really need to ship an operating system that doesn't grant root access with an empty password.

You really need to ship an operating system that doesn't get into a crash reboot cycle at the turn of a new month.
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There is now the Dream Market:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Market

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dream_Market/comments/6pp9oi/dream_...
What informs your priors?

That is the core issue with practical applications of Bayesian statistics. Especially because it is a totally new parameter that people can complain about. At best this leads to rampant bikeshedding, at worst we get prior-hacking as opposed to p-hacking.
This is simply false. The following things have occurred under Cooks tenure:

- Apple Watch
- AirPods
- Apple Pencil
- Apple Music
- HomePod
- ARKit

Each of those represent entirely new product categories, have captured the majority of a pre-existing market, or have opened up entirely new use cases for previously existing products.

Apple has significant challenges in front of them, as evidenced by this week, and Cook shoulders the responsibility for that. But, he is not Ballmer, and Apple had major security bugs and issues under Steve.

I hope the "Cook is Ballmer" trope will quickly die.
Not sure I understand what you are saying.
I'm not sure if tar is a good format for backups, due to its extremely sequential nature (e.g. you can't get a list of the files in an archive without scanning the whole archive...)
Now what are you talking about? The only thing TFA wants, assuming they favor Title II classification for ISPs, is what the FCC has been doing since 2010:

* that ISPs do not discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic

* that ISPs do not block lawful "content, applications, services or non-harmful devices"

You're not "[not] want[ing] more government", you're wanting consumer-facing ISP control and monopolistic renting over all content.
But sharing is socialism! eyeroll
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From a evolutionary perspective its just a disease fizzeling out of existence.
It's not just lack of labor, but lack of profit. Farm efficiency has increased incredibly in the last 200 years. People tend to forget that in 1850, a huge proportion of the population were farmers. Today it's down around 1%.

Consider the implications though: each farm may become more efficient, but that increases the food supply, lowering the food price. Then you add in a shrinking population, lowering demand, lowering the price further.

Sure, for the right price you could hire labor for your farm, but then you'd lose money on every sale. It's not lack of labor so much as lack of labor at prices you can afford.

And this is happening today. A friend of mine is from a large farm family in southern Kentucky. Grain prices are getting so low because of high yields that even with the best technology on hand they can barely make a profit. This is great for consumers (cheap food) but short term fluctuations put smaller farming operations at serious risk.

So to answer your initial question of why there was so much agriculture to begin with: it was required to feed the population.
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>> The idea is to either sustain energy level or spend what you have then gain it - just like charging a battery

I am beginning to believe this is a dangerously misleading analogy because what we describe as energy in productivity terms is definitely not a resource that is depleted and refilled, but something that behaves very differently.

For example, lets say you are in a productivity slump but then a few nice words from customer turns it all around, you feel full of energy and motivation and crush your work with enthusiasm. The customer has not handed over a resource, instead, their words have changed ideas in your head. The ideas in your head are dictating whether you feel full of energy or in a slump, not a quantity that follows the rules of conservation.

An example of a different analogy that conflicts with the battery version is to describe energy/motivation as a fly-wheel. If your don't put enough energy in, it will stall and all energy you put in is lost. However get it up to speed and it can be self-sustaining - you seem to get more out of it than you put in. I find that more interesting than the battery but its also pretty weak.

Addressing the true causes of productivity requires understanding how our thoughts lead to feelings of energy and motivation. The battery analogy is tempting because it is easy to understand and makes the problem seem tractable but its actually disguising and hiding the hard problem.
That is usually a fallacy, that only looks simple as first step.

The first issue is the impedance mismatch between the original language semantics and what is possible to represent in C.

Two examples are tail calls and continuations, that are hard to get right at C level, either requiring compiler extensions, longjmp/setjmp tricks, or a little bit of assembly.

Then there is the whole issue with undefined behaviour in C, introducing bugs that didn't exist on the original code.

Even if the generated code is clean today regarding UB, you cannot ensure that a new C compiler version won't be introducing such issues.

Having said this, there are languages like Eiffel and Nim, whose main backend relies on C compilers, instead of compiling directly to pure native code.

Skipping Objective-C and C++ here, because although they started as C pre-processors, their code was to be an extension to C and so their semantics also imply C semantics.

Compiling to some kind of IR, like LLIR is more sane.

Then you can do whatever you want with it, generate code in another programming language, machine code, or a plain interpreter for bootstrapping purposes.
As a foundation, I highly recommend the book "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. There are plenty of time management hacks. YBaW helps you understand why they work, or more importantly why for you they might not be working.
Apple has succumbed to the programming culture that is pervasive everywhere now -- "release early, release often." This isn't just an Apple problem, this is everywhere. We all use less stable software.
This is not a professional mentality. Releasing later is better than introducing the bug again, never mind a new one.
I hear on podcasts that apple likes to keep their teams small. I know throwing money at software problems doesn't fix things but they have enough money that they could hire some more people.

(disclaimer, I don't actually use any Apple products at the moment.)
I thought we had all decided that throwing more people at a software problem isn’t a viable solution.
Perhaps they meant false equivalence? Although it’s not quite that either.
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Sorry, I disagree. Tim was not brought in. He was already there and recommended by Steve himself. He also ran the co for 2 times while jobs was on medical leave. Your comment sounded like he was brought-in from some outside org just for ceo’s Job.

Take a look at apple’s new patents . There is some serious innovation happening. There is also an attempt to replace iPhone with headgear. Although, current quality bar is a matter of concern
The trick seems to be convincing your best engineers to work on unsexy products that have long lifetimes.

Everybody would rather spearhead the new iPhone XI project, than spearhead the "add 10% to the battery life on 4-year old MacBooks" project.

You'd need an incentive program to offset fame/pride. For example, "150% pay for working on non-sexy projects" or "additional points for tangible improvements or bug fixes to legacy code".
He doesn't need to go, he just needs to do what he does well (supply chain management) and let the experts do the rest

However I do think the SW part has been going down for a while. Maybe not enough resources or management takes it for granted.

And unfortunately to me bugs like "fails the 2nd time" or "fails at a specific date" (and yes I think the same of Android's missing month bug) means there are developers who don't know what they are doing.
Incredible work! Forgive me if I overlooked it in my excitement, but what technology handles the networking of this masterpiece and could something like socket.io handle it?
That's a very narrow view of culture. You're basically saying that culture is immutable and thus any changes are threats to it. It hasn't been like that for the last 250 years, why should it be like that now?
One of the really frustrating things is that it's still unclear whether people's iOS and High Sierra installations work now.

I follow this stuff with a fair amount of interest and I'm still confused, god help the average consumer who just followed the nagging update prompts.
If you are hired as an engineer and it is not your job to provide investment or business advice then I would say that you have no professional or ethical duty related to your personal private evaluation of the business merits of the project you are working on.

If that is not your area of expertise then your evaluation may be wrong or you may be missing information on the bigger picture to understand the strategic reasoning behind a project.

If you are highly confident that a project will result in financial losses then the only really important questions are personal: do you want to work on this project given that you think if will fail financially? will financial failure negatively impact your career later?
There are plenty of ppl who are better at selling themselves than the actual effectiveness of the technics they sell.

I need not name names (but GaryVee comes to mind.)
I took a course in "probability theory" that never mentioned Lebesgue integrals. Those came in measure and integration later.

The course was about distributions, how product distributions interact, the central limit theorem, etc. That is, it was about turning stochastic models into predictions. Later we had a course "Statistics" that is about matching seen results to stochastic models.
Haha yes! Perspective.
There's a delay between adding such a law, and it having measurable demographic impact. That the law coincided with the growth is not the reason for growth: the prior population boom was the reason -or part of the reason- behind both the growth and the need for such a law.

They didn't have an economic boost while suffering from the effects of sub-replacement/low fertility rates. Instead they've developed a huge population that was enough to fuel a huge growth, so much so that they had to slow it down.
Yeah, I didn't understand this line, especially as at the very end, the author suggests just using the anonymous function anyways.
Yeah, completely unfair — under Ballmer, Microsoft seriously improved their security, going from a complete disaster to actually quite solid. It clearly wasn’t Ballmer’s engineering prowess which accomplished this, but resource allocation and prioritization in response to the market.
Same here, not in a hurry to update to High Sierra now.
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Thanks for the heads up. I wonder what will happen first, Apple releases a fix or the logs fill up my disk?
That's what that was! I was up late last night trying to debug my app because of this.
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I was describing a communication gap due to differing mental frameworks for the issue. I was not suggesting one of us was "dumber" than the other.

I should probably have said "we're pretty close". It is the mental framework that's the issue, or more accurately the frame of reference. Most of your discussion is focused statically, on what a particular individual gets for their money. And whether you want to admit it or not, there is a consistent thread of moral judgment in your arguments. You talk about people spending money on vices, and other people who receive money without earning it.

My frame of reference is global, looking at the two factors that actually mathematically matter for economic growth: the velocity of money, and the productive assets left behind. There is no moral component. In that frame, it's entirely possible that spending that appears wasteful could actually be part of a productive system. The net effect of an air conditioner is to produce more heat, despite the fact that it blows cold air into your home. Your original argument was that a basic income would be "pissed away" and be economically inefficient. My response is that you're only looking at one side of the system, like someone concluding that too many air conditioners might cause an Ice Age. That basic income would pass back into the economy by way of grocers, landlords, auto dealers, and yes, probably some liquor stores and cigarette companies. It could nonetheless be a more effective way of stimulating the economy than giving tax cuts to the wealthy.
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Culture is fluid. They're not attacking American culture, they're contributing to it and helping to shape it. Just because our culture is one way now doesn't mean it should always be that way. We can debate all day whether we like the direction our culture is taking (I for one am not at all happy with the status quo), but saying that outsiders are attacking our culture is borderline xenophobic.
They also released 10.13.1, which undid the patch for the root login issue.