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What makes you say this? Don't stereotypes come from something? Do you think it's a coincidence that a stereotypical Asian American is reserved, disciplined, and good at math, and that Asian Americans in America make considerably more than any other race[1]?

Btw, "Cut the crap" is an unprofessional, unproductive way to start a conversation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_...

Edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain? What did I say in my post that was inaccurate?
Can’t you just hire a lawyer who specializes in this stuff to collate it for you?

It would be nice if an average person could do it themselves, but I don’t know that it’s reasonable to expect that they should, any more than we should expect an average person to be able to design a building rather than hiring a professional.
Thank you for responding. I indeed spent time/effort in way of my crafted reply because it caught me eye. I haven't fully parsed the paper but covered a number of pages that colored the nature of my inquiry. I in no way intended to take anything away from the author of the paper but wanted to get at what you yourself declared :
"was accumulated in the AMPLab (the predecessor of the RISELab, see https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/)" as The backstory behind the paper as I clearly surmised there was one its historical nature. I also wanted to understand how long this was being worked due to the nature of the language used in the paper and how the concepts and language familiarly fit in with other things I've seen. And this right here :
"The lab's sponsors are also helpful, some of them have been experimenting with the system internally and giving us feedback." Yes, I understand the nature of this is moreso for corporate use cases than it is for academic and furthering therein. I was in search of names but already have a number of them I can surmise and a handful more that I will derive. I think its interesting what is being done here but there were choice words that were stated in the paper that limit it. At this juncture and time in the state of AI development, I will reserve any other commentary beyond stating that there are an incredible amount of fundamental limits in approaching things this way that fall on deaf ears due to the shut off nature/sponsorship of such developments. I wish you guys the best and am sure there will be traction as it relates to RL.
> Have you tried using an app like Forest etc. to avoid using your smart device?

No, this is the first I've heard of it.
They're well positioned as a hub between Europe/USA and Asia+Australia. Emirates as the stopover is literally in the middle (also counts for their ME airline cousins, as they are all next to each other).

Plus with current flight lengths, you need a stopover somewhere. That is changing, though.. with Perth-London direct opening soon. That's a long time to be on 1 plane though. And it's only a little shorter (1-2h) than going via DXB.

(I'm in Perth)
Mmm, not sure I want to contact the mods. It seems like no one else noticed a flood of Nyt articles.
Looks like most of the job loss is due to automation rather than lack of demand. The economy is going to keep growing, the returns will just accrue to a smaller share of people unless the government gets it tax-and-spend on.
Most expensive thing will be the switch, the cabling is not that expensive.

For a 10g card to work you'll need a pair of SFP+ transceivers, one for the card, and another one for the other element you're connecting to (a switch, a router, another computer...) This transceiver can be chosen for copper or fiber depending on your needs, and each transceiver will be from 50 to 100$. Then you buy fiber or copper Cat6a cable.

But, if your two devices are near (less than 10 meters), you can use a Twin Axial DAC (Direct Attach Cable) : you won't need the transceivers, you can just directly connect the two devices with this cable into the SFP+ port, and it's kind of cheap, for example, 12€ a 3meter run:

https://www.fs.com/en/products/40141.html?currency=EUR
Some cities even have their own networking team, as running their own fiber plant and all that entails (traffic lights and other devices that need comms) is usually cheaper than renting out copper or fiber from your local telco.
Doesn't seem any more lonely than now, for the customer, anyways. Perhaps, it's lonely for the shoes being printed out?
Physician here. SV Tech will win because it is customer centric. Traditional Healthcare tech is enterprise centric - the precept on which they base their strategies is 'economies of scale'. People are not widgets. Economies of scale (aka corporate controlled healthcare) do not apply. As institutions grow larger, eddy currents of dominance develop - fiefdoms that compete for control, power and share of the budget. There are so many layers of middle management that the most popular complaint is that everyone is a manager. Our hospital actually has 5x as many employees as there are patients in it. I know of no other industry where this skewed statistic exists. Can you imagine an airliner with twice as many stewards as passengers? Perhaps the legal profession is an exception, where you have so many bodies tending to a trial. In healthcare, patients are lost in this machine and the cacophony of voices speaking to them is a disservice. Perhaps tho in this era of the consumer age, some patients conflate quantity with quality and might actually feel 'more is better'. If healthcare is delivered through a watch on your wrist instead of an army of servants, the layperson might be able to focus his/her understanding on the single voice their device has.

The other secret weapon of SV is that it promises to get people to open up their pocketbooks to actually pay for their own healthcare. Government will adore them for that. If you think that will never happen, just stop and think for a minute. People shell out hundreds of dollars a year for the privilege of being tracked and being advertising targets. All because the mobile device caters to their impulse for 'connectedness'. Imagine if this device promised a longer life, better sex, better sleep, less disease. And it showed you with colorful cartoon graphs how much better you were every time you asked it. Forget the fact that many of these parameters are only relevant to the big picture. Statistics apply to populations and any attempt to assign characteristics from population studies to a given individual carry uncertainty. They never tell you how big the error bars are, do they? Certainly a better diet and more exercise confer health benefits. But trying to 'gamify' this data will just add a cognitive burden and most likely will lead to more popular misconceptions and misinterpretations. Or perhaps it will be a new social nexus?When I am in a Starbux or Panera, there are always a few conversations my ears cannot avoid as people share their health problems over a sandwich and a coffee. And I cannot help laughing at how ironic the whole HIPAA thing is.

Ultimately I fear that tech will foster the return of snake oil salesmen, on a massive scale. We are in a deregulation mania now and I think healthcare will soon fall under Trump's razor and he will encourage SVTech to make their move.
> If Venus ever decides to chill out, it will be millions or billions of years from now, as a natural process.

Why would Venus cool down? Isn't the sun getting hotter over these timescales?
Couldn't this finding be explained by the fact that the hospitals with lower readmissions tend to be poorer (since poorer patients are less likely to be able to afford care)? I only took a quick look, but I didn't see how the paper accounts for this and other possible causality issues. On the other hand, it's certainly plausible to me that lower readmissions can cause higher mortality.
Economic instability is a large reason for the push towards protectionism in America. Could those same forces lead to an Indian IT protectionism? Or do they lack enough industry currently?
If you're that worried about merge conflicts, isn't the real problem that you haven't refactored enough for SRP? If two people are working on different things, they probably shouldn't be editing the same code.
Is sound engineering judgement a technical skill or a soft skill? How about the ability to articulate that judgement, so as to explain to others that one set of choices is better than the alternatives, and persuade them to agree?
Don’t stereotype an entire country of people.

That said, the Indians I have worked with were diligent workers who all but ignored instructions. They produced lots of work but most of it was not to spec. It was only a few groups though so I really can't speak with any scale backing me up.
> The title doesn't suggest anything about exact solutions as far as I can tell.

In the jargon of mathematical optimization, there's a difference between "solution" and "approximation". The paper's title says "solution". I would expect the title to say something like "2-approximation" or "(1+ϵ)-approximation" instead.
Thanks. Looks like I have a wrong understanding of quantum computing. I thought QC increases the computing power by a lot there by making it easier or practical to compute the discrete log. So are you saying that the QC paradigm lends itself to a different class of algorithms?
Why is JS bad at "what it tries to do"? I've honestly not seen answer in these discussions, even though everyone acts like they are obvious.

From my experience main problems seem to be:

1) poor static analysis of code, leading to bad Intellisense etc. - Mostly solved by TypeScript.

2) DOM manipulation APIs. I don't see how Rust will help here. Especially considering JS frameworks solve this. I guess that's what's new in the OP.

Otherwise JS serves as pretty good language for beginners/UI wiring.

But thanks for at least describing some strengths (and weaknesses) of Rust when directly compared with JS.
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According to all-knowing "do a google search and trust the first number that comes up" methodology, there are about 2 million farms in the US. And I wonder how many of those 15000 employees are actually engaged in auditing farms.

I know that in my own state (Wisconsin), the government has been cutting the number of people doing any kind of regulatory enforcement, year after year. That includes agriculture, environmental, etc.
What? You either selectively read my response, or you're being deliberately obtuse with your focus on office workers. Car taxes ensure the market accurately captures negative externalities. There is no discrimination - if a doctor, CEO, and a plumber use cars equally, they are taxed equally. In contrast, low/absent car taxes are discriminatory subsidies.

For businesses that require car usage, the tax is merely an operating cost. There is no impact on profit as operating costs are passed on to the consumer.

Of course, allocating that revenue is still subject to local voters' wishes.
> And this will leave more time for people to spend with each other instead of in drudgery,

This assumes that those increased profits from the increased productivity would end up in the hands of the lower-class laborers. What makes you think this would happen?
Right. And that source isn't claiming that people are all equally good at founding startups. Rather, it's claiming that previous failures don't substantially make a person better at founding successful companies. (They do find a very small 2% effect, but that may be statistical noise).
"Hacker News: the whole thing feels a bit yak shavey to me."
Since you are an Indian too, I think your remarks are kind of subjective and your reply a bit harsh, but I'll add more facts that sustain my point of view.

>Not working hard doesn't come from the culture

Yes it truly does. Since every individual has inherited from the environment and has been cultured that he needs to do just what he is told (the minimum), this is how he grows.

>Maybe the firm you are dealing with doesn't pay the employees well enough

You can't hide behind your finger with this excuse. If you want a raise you tend to work harder, do the extra mile, you defenly don't get a raise by doing the minimum. Also, if you are good at what you are doing but you are not happy with the salary then why accept the job in first place?
It isn't but I thought we were talking about infrastructure (there are clearly political factors at work there too of course).
Insane how we both get downvoted isn't it? Oh well. Another decade or two before people wake up.

Agree with you, so much of our economy and social structure is built on the fact that people get sick - and either stay sick or get medicated for the foreseeable future. Sad. All we can do is mention it, even though we get shut down quickly be it online or IRL.

Mandatory anecdote: I cured severe arthritis in the knee 6 years ago through a 30-day water fast. It was gone by day 20 or so, and stayed gone for 6 years now. It's sad that so many people suffer needlessly.
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> Why buy a truck for 1oz of gold today when I could buy two for the same amount next year?

Because someone needs a truck now. Deflation makes people more fiscally responsible, not less.
They don't mind, and are quite responsive in my experience. It's better to do that than post comments or Ask HN submissions as you'll get a definitive answer.
No. Perry's scam utilizes ultrasound, and it works as well as you would expect if you do the math, i.e. pretty much not at all.
I would like to argue Bitcoin has a fundamental.
The number of people using it and making up its value.

`Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2)`
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
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OK, makes sense. No indication that anything was wrong with the batteries before iOS 11, so why assume new batteries will help. It's strange though, because my experience, with a "new" replacement iPhone 6, is that iOS 11 works great for battery life. It's hard to understand, unless the replacement iPhone 6's they're making now have some difference compared to the old ones that has to do with battery life.
> The fact is that the kinds of “soft skills” we’re talking about aren’t the ones that come for free to anybody

I wish that a certain ex-Googler could have been educated in these skills rather than being shown the door.
> Beta Cloud Services are not designed to comply with any specific governmental regulation or specific security measures. Client agrees not to input content that may be subject to any such regulations or required additional security measures.

Beware if your IBMid is on behalf of your company / you as an employee. At least in the EU, there's hardly any (real) data you could use for WPA development at this time.
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> Re email: Because you don't know if the destination server is encrypted (you send emails from your server and it finds the destination), any email must be intercepted at your server and a hyperlink to a secure site inserted in place of the email body

Couldn't this be solved by just encrypting the email itself? Even the headers could be encrypted along with the body.

On the subject of fax machines, would they still be compliant if they're connected to a VOIP system?
You could work out the math for how much value you get out of sending email as opposed to how much you lose from unsubscriptions.

You can also square the circle by writing good copy that actually appeals to your audience. Few e-mail newsletters do it; disengagement is a real threat, by the time somebody unsubscribes, they may have deleted your email 10 times before reading it.
> No, it’s 100% about this. You do know that violent crime is at an all time low, right (at least in the US)?

This is incorrect, it's been rising the past couple years: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/violent-crime-murder-c...
Those are specific forms of reaching out. Contact is different but not any more efficient IMO, so I guess we will have to agree to disagree. If I had to direct someone to look into it, I might say --

'Please find out if Bob's surf shop carries Mr. Zog's Sex Wax.'

A few of the terms in the header image on the article seem perfectly appropriate to me depending on context, but I'm probably thinking of them being used literally (reaching out as in contacting, incentivising as in more money paid, deep dive as in RCA) and have insufficient exposure to the BS versions to comment - so, I'll stop!
Sure, we don’t know all the externalities, but some of those externalities could be positive. The fact that we don’t know doesn’t mean the true public cost of electricity is even higher than the market price.
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But now you're assuming the labor was selected due to proximity to the raw resources when conventional wisdom says the labor was selected purely on cost.
It's not only what is said, but the timbre of the voice, repetitions and odd names, all these are hallmarks (some types) of the ASMR phenomenon Youtube.
I'm going to propose as a conjecture that (maritime) radio weather reports are universally soothing and nostalgic, were they written by Met Office and broadcast by BBC or not.

I don't know specifics of the UK culture, so maybe they have cultivated the veneration of the Shipping Forecast to immeasurable heights unmatched by its counterparts in other nations, but I'd require some comparative evidence to persuade me that there really is something special about Radio 4 maritime report or how it's experienced (aside from the fact that it's the British weather report and not some other weather report, and thus the populace of Britain finds it more enjoyable than the continental alternatives).

The thing is, I'd expect that every country with a coastline has maritime weather reports and forecasts. And the claims about the connection to Brexit island ethos notwithstanding, the description of the evocative feelings and whatnot didn't sound alien to me at all despite never listening to the BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast. However, I do have heard FMI's daily "Weather report for shipping" numerous times, and it sure is part of national "radio mythology" (I remember how some years back patrons of relatively popular internet forum decided try their hand at amateur internet radio: They played music and then read aloud the weather report for shipping.)

1. Weather reports are one of the oldest type of radio content all across the continent. Their format probably has not changed much since the idea was first introduced. (After all, distilled to their most rudimentary basic form, a weather report is a series of numerical readings, and there's only so many ways you can read a collection of numerical readings aloud on radio. The poetic repetition is bound to be soothing.)

2. In countries with a national public broadcaster, such regular programming becomes part of the shared cultural experience; the daily weather report is always in the background, and because of part 1, it remains unchanged as decades pass by. This explains the nostalgia.

3. Why maritime reports could be special? Different from the regular weather reports, the condensed format and terminology of the maritime forecast communicate information whose purpose and use might be slightly alien to non-seafaring populace. At least this is my experience: I understand what kind of implications of "x degrees Celcius" would entail in my daily life; but what about the more, should I say, nautical information (wind speeds and wave heights and alike)? Not so much. Where are the measurement stations with obscure, poetic-sounding names located? No idea. In short, maritime weather reports have certain mystique to them.

4. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the Met Office and BBC were the original forerunners of this kind of public service; BBC is one of the biggest and best-funded public broadcasters in the world, of course everyone has copied them.

Someone should write a monograph on international cultural history of maritime weather reports?
The 2nd generation full-sized Echo has Bluetooth/line out support[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Generation-improved-powered-d...
Hmm - mind sharing the settings behind your calculations? Surprised the error is several orders of magnitude. (PM is fine, if Hacker News has an option like that)

The model behind tool was based on a decently large / diverse data set of small websites; it lines up well with public information from sources such as site brokers.

(and of course, I run sites as well and plugged my own data through the tool during the validation process)

What kind of traffic are you getting on those sites?

Probably also worth asking if there are site design or traffic factors that reduce advertising interest? (for example, forums and downloads may have lower intent)
I've considered mind maps, but I can't overcome this problem: 10 years from now, will I be able to use that data? When/if needed, how do I export the data and what application can utilize it?
Why hasn't Big Tech made a bigger dent in the insurance industry?
IF the authors have a history of poor work, or no history at all, or a bunch of stuff that has been discredited, then the likelihood that they have solved a big problem declines.

People who do massively important work typically telegraph quality by doing earlier good work. That isn't always true, but it is commonly true.
>Concluding that we need an "anti-bullshit movement" to get rid of bullshit is missing the forest for the trees.
Bullshit is organizational self-deception. Comfortable statements intended to insulate leaders and followers from uncomfortable problems. In other words, bullshit isn't abnormal; it's natural. A reflex to maintain the status quo while the surrounding environment decays.

Sure, but that's assuming we need those organizations, and we need them to continue to operate as they do.

And if not that, it at least assumes that some companies don't overdo this thing.
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> FYI you are just showing how awful are communities around "legitimately good" languages.

Just to let you know Rust's community is pretty cool and not awful at all. For instance the Rust Survey 2017 reports that 98.7% of respondents feel welcome within the Rust Community.

Furthermore according to the Stackoverflow 2017 survey, Rust is the "most loved" language.
What's the best way to fund yourself if you aren't in the first quarter? What's non-vc way to fund yourself?
Yes, it's unfortunate that sympathy has gone out of favour and empathy has changed in meaning.

Perhaps 'simpatico' is closer in meaning to the desired emotion.
curious, which variant of redo do you actually use?
There are some very huge differences between Bitcoin and Denmark’s payment system. It’s perfectly fine for you to dislike or scoff at those differences, but some people find Bitcoin’s differences extremely appealing, and it’s disingenuous to say that the payment systems are accomplishing the same thing just with different energy costs.
> These people are mainly relatively unskilled. These companies are notorious for hiring entire batches of graduating students.

I guess the best interview should also add a touch-type test and the candidate should require at least 30wpm or so (if typing is very much required for the work).

When I was at college I have only seen less than 5 such students from the 250 total.
I've seen that argument before and I don't think it is helpful.

You're associating the word soft with easy and hard with difficult -- which is part of the problem.

Soft skills are difficult for many.