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> In this sense I cannot see how one could object to the existence of the square root of 2. It can be successfully pointed out in the same way any number can be (esp. see the article). Only, say, that it failed to possess some properties of interest.

Well the property of interest is having x^2 == 2. If x^2 isn't 2 then x isn't in any meaningful sense "the square root of 2", and it's much clearer to say "the square root of 2 doesn't exist" than "the square root of 2 squared doesn't equal 2".

> I guess the hypothetical objector in this article wants numbers to possess the property of "being easily exemplified by stones" (or whatever), in which case sqrt(2) doesn't have that property.

> Why it should be that "2" exists because it can be exemplified by fingers, and sqrt(2) doesnt because it cant be -- is a bit strange.

By that logic you wouldn't be able to make any statements about general properties of numbers. E.g. we like to say that all integers are either even or odd. But what if I define a new integer, let's call it Banana, that is both even and odd. It's a lot more productive and clearer to say "Banana doesn't exist" than to talk about Banana not having particular properties.
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What is a "yearly service review"? I've had a bank account for years without ever having to talk to anyone inside or from the bank.
How about `How to Win Friends and Influence People` by Dale Carnegie?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0091906350
Or perhaps all this painting is coming from the market orders placed on coinbase
Teams need to interact, but not in formal meetings. That’s a false dichotomy.
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Given that definition it seems like all terrorism is personal and that there is nothing distinguishing about the methods of WU or RAF.
As someone who grew up on printed editions I have trouble adjusting to digital editions. Now I have 3-4 boxes full of books which is a pain while shifting houses.

I tried ebooks but retention is an issue. So, taking notes has become a big priority.

Recently started listening to audiobooks but a lot of times I find my mind starts drifting towards unrelated topics. Are there any tips which can help focus my mind?
sqrt(2) isn't controversial these days. We might even say it's "obvious", because we're all used to using it from childhood. So you might wonder why maths professors would spend effort proving it in detail. This post is an attempt to remind people that there was a time when sqrt(2) wasn't at all obvious, was controversial, and that it makes sense to see it that way. (And indeed if you go back far enough, -1 was controversial).
Yeah. I've consulted at too many places where actually programming is the lowest-priority activity. It's something that is supposed to be squeezed in around meetings that can be declared at any time by anybody.

In college I worked in a factory, and there meetings were a) avoided, and b) carefully scheduled to maintain production. I've never understood why we don't treat more office work the same.

My most productive times have been in shops with a strong pair programming culture, and I think that's partly because non-programmers are much more reluctant to interrupt two people doing something together than one person doing something alone. (Interestingly, other programmers would still sometimes interrupt, but they knew how to do it well. A quick question with a quick answer would merit an interruption; anything that was a longer time sink would get held until a break or the morning stand-up.)
Anecdotally, I've noticed that shopping mall rents have been increased sharply over the past 5-7 years for specialty food stores. Historically in specialty foods malls would target about 15% of sales for their rents. Lately that's ratcheted up to 20% of sales. It's getting harder and harder for independent (even franchised) operators to make money in the mall.
I’ve barely been in a group meeting that felt productive. The problem is: no body has the responsibility.

Even with friends, one-to-one or maximum 3 friends together is the most efficient way to know the people.
Do you always distribute an agenda before your group meetings? If not, they aren’t executed well.
Brick and mortar retail in China has also been pretty dysfunctional and never really developed completely like it did in the west (every mall having the same set of stores like every movie theater having the same set of movies). Then you have the state owned department stores that never really figured out what to do once their monopoly was broken.
I think a personal god who performs miracles, raises the dead, created the universe, knows everything, cares about whom you have sex with and in what position, etc, carries a lot more "baggage" than quantum weirdness.
Have you thought of using COPR[1] to provide builds for Fedora and RHEL? I'm asking because I noticed you provide a RPM only for Fedora 26; Fedora 27 is missing.

[1]: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org
Until quite recently OpenCL was a C only game, so blame Khronos for not embracing all HPC relevant languages, like CUDA does.
>"There's virtually nothing in stores in New York that you cannot find elsewhere"

This is patently untrue.

Walk down 9th Street between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave where small designers have their own retail shops and ateliers. You can't buy that stuff anywhere else.

Go up to B and H Camera in midtown that has 5 floors of camera equipment and incredibly knowledgeable staff.

Step in to the Gem Spa on 2nd avenue, a news stand in the East Village where the man behind the counters will hand make you an egg cream for a dollar.

Go to the Strand, a book store that has 15 miles of books and some great bargains on new hard cover books.

Walk into the Sunshine Mart where you feel like you've been magically transported into a grocery store in Tokyo.

Visit Old Good Things in Union Square which is basically an architectural salvage store. Many of the pieces are sourced locally.

Venture over to The Market on Mulberry where artists and designers sell their hand-made wares directly.

Step into Lobels Prime Meats on the Upper East Side and tell me its like any other butcher shop.

Visit Rough Trade in Williamsburg that is perhaps one of the best records stores anywhere, specializing in new and special release vinyl.

And the list goes on. There so many of these places. But you won't discover them spending time on Amazon.com. That was point.
I'm on the fence about this. In our org, we have all kinds of meetings. From the perfect highly efficient and successful meetings, to ones where either the results were hard to disseminate and transport because certain viewpoints were missing or ones where half of the participants were there needlessly.

It's a tough task to keep the quality level of meetings high, regardless of scenario. I've been in too many one on ones where we just enjoyed each others company a bit too much and it veered off from relevant stuff to just chat and the goals of the one-on-one besides establishing rapport were not achieved.

It's also trying in a interdisciplinary scrum team. We "sacrifice" a full day of our 6-8 person teams every two weeks and it's a mixed bag if review, retro and planning will be efficient and successful or boring and feeling wasteful. Sometimes planning has lots of time spent where backend devs discuss difficulties that are irrelevant to Frontend, sometimes sometimes a Frontend Dev offers a more elegant solution and vice versa.

Personally I've accepted that it's something where one always has to walk the line. There's no easy fix or guideline that always works and it's best to become comfortable with that and try to do best without following a dogma.
Like a gist?
80ms latency on a Gameboy? That's 10fps. I call shenanigans.
I've read parts of that and it's fascinating. The FBI agents are good at their job.
>Given HN's general focus on growth and funding, I think it's great/important for an article/concept like this to be given some reach. [...] , it's refreshing to see an article like this

It's interesting how people get this inaccurate perspective. It's an interesting phenomenon where the majority (incorrectly) believes they are the suppressed minority. (I feel there must be a name to describe that phenomenon but I don't know what it is.)

The HN community actually is heavily tilted towards no-growth or low-growth bootstrapped companies. (I use "HN" to mean the HN discussion forum and not the YC fund.) Spending any time on HN and noticing what type of business articles are popular would make that obvious. Also, a relevant quote from dang: "Far more HN commenters (and voters) identify against VC than with it.": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13931617

Examples of this are the very popular David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) articles that make a case for staying small and avoiding VC money that pressures you to grow fast:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14694434

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668746

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13929398

Those get upvoted to the front page and commenters pile on in violent agreement. There's no need to be "refreshed" by the advice to stay small -- it's basically the default sentiment on HN.
> __builtin_ctz

avoided it to stay out of compiler-specific stuff. we do have plans to replace getorder() with ffsl().

Perhaps I would be more accurate if I say nnn is faster by design. Movement of data around memory is minimal. No redundant bytes are allocated. We use quicksort and optimize further by pushing non-matches down right away so they never appear in a filter comparison again. And of course, using non-lib custom functions enable using static linkage, having a controlled binary size and removing redundant checks/processing because the limits and borderline cases are known.
The Soviets distributed kalashnikovs, rpgs and other weapons with missionary zeal to attain world communism. The US did all sorts of nasty stuff.

The outcome is a tire fire that will burn for my lifetime at least.
Curious. how do you earn a living? How do you expect others to earn a living?
My parts list is here: http://a.co/fltiKey , and the light sensor is one of those Chinese MH-Sensor-Series Flying Fish with a photodiode. The difference between space and '#' at a normal terminal/editor font is around 20 counts (out of 1024 total), which is plenty enough to detect reliably, and the response time is easily <1ms, as cross-checked by the 1000fps camera.
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There are many different kinds of existence, not just "thin" and "fat".

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...
I hope they include the loss of trust from the customers to whom this happens in this cost of fraud.
I think there's a lot about its expressiveness that's elegant. You can't pick one inelegant practice and define the entire language by that — nothing would pass that test.

But for example, Ruby's method-based control flow allows for sophisticated ideas to be expressed in a way that's clear but doesn't demand undue attention. A while back I needed to implement a common structure in Python for basically "repeat this operation with increasing sleep times until it succeeds" in the context of a particular library. Every option I could come up with was fairly inelegant, either requiring more attention than it deserved or being excessively oblique or just reading like a neural networks trained on Python, and none of the senior Pythonistas at my work could come up with anything much better. But I could clearly picture how to do it in Ruby, and it wouldn't have had any of those problems there. The extra expressiveness allows it to express the idea elegantly.
Group meetings with lots of presentations are the absolutely worst way to facilitate business awareness. Nothing is worse than a meeting designed to have nothing actionable come out if it, and that most of the attendees have little interest in the “knowledge” being shared.
Hoopla is another good one for books, music... Kanopy has a broad selection of movies too. All paid for by your tax dollars (not free!) so be sure and take advantage.
You might try increasing the narration speed. Many (most?) audiobooks are recorded at WPM comfortable for a narrator reading aloud for long periods of time but far slower than natural speech. Maybe your mind is wandering because the gap between words is too long for you to process aurally. Audiobook apps (like the Audible app, for instance) allow you to speed up playback without changing the pitch.
No, because CUDA has first class C++ support, while Khronos only added C++ support when it became visible no one wants to keep using C, when better options are available in CUDA via PTX.
We as humans can try to make fun of robots and AI as much as we want. However, the list of AI failures will shrink year after year.
Yes, this is in the front end, not the core. My current implementation is in Swift, using OpenGL, but I'm contemplating writing a cross-platform one as well (maybe Rust/Vulkan because that would target most newer devices other than Apple).
Then the info really wasn’t that important to your day to day job, was it?
> weeklong NYE retreat

I would like to go to random retreats , where do i find these?

Regarding anxiety, I constantly remind myself that people have short memories and even shorter memories about other people. No matter what embarrassing thing that do you do/say will be forgotten very soon by everyone.
UTF-8 adds a fair amount of work to every operation; UTF-16 and -32 multiply the amount of data transferred.

But in practice, I'd expect non-ASCII to be associated with more expensive features, which has more of an effect.
We use PackageCore which integrates well with Travis CI. Fedora 27 is not added to PackageCore yet.

Does COPR integrate with Travis?
I'm not convinced; C# has some usability improvements over Java (particularly earlier versions) and VS is maybe a bit better than the Java options, but it's not a huge margin. And, I mean, IronPython existed and had an audience. But I suspect Python is a much bigger leap for Windows developers than it is for *nix developers. More than that, third-party languages were never really a big thing on .net - F# and Scala fill very similar niches, but one got the sense that F# was only ever developed by Microsoft Research, whereas Odersky worked on Generics Java and then Scala as a professor not directly affiliated with Sun/Oracle.
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I would guess there will be a lot more failures as AI is deployed more widely. But there will also be way more successes.
If you are on Windows use MPC-HC. Else use mpv.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel has a book:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/11/24/86-billion-neuro...

And a TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so...
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For a moment i was expecting Neural Network (NN) from the title. Along the line that NN was used to pre-load directory structures, NN in search results ordering etc.
Not a book, but I've found that asking people what they do and being genuinely interested in it (especially if it's a job you know nothing about) is a treasure trove of interesting information. For example, if you meet a plumber, you can get hours of conversation out of just talking about the various aspects of the jobs.

Although I guess it helps that I like learning about other jobs, too, and I tend to ask people to explain things in detail. They usually like that.
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> people were quite angry.

I don't think this is true. Some enterprises were concerned about the security aspects and asked for greater controls, which Microsoft provided, but Windows 10 has not removed P2P updates, AFAIK.
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> Zoning is not a property right in California Law

It certainly is in San Francisco at least. Well, probably not literally zoning, but regulations around it make the home owners in an area de facto owners of it in many ways.

I see the current housing crisis as a direct result of this.
I wholeheartedly agree. I never would like to work with or for this guy.

> If a person is running late on a project, the best way to find out the reason is to have a one-on-one meeting with them. They are free to incriminate themselves, in ways that I find useful. For instance, they might put all the blame on someone else. After the meeting I will investigate their accusations and discover the truth. Is the other person to blame? If I conclude that the other person is not to blame, then I know I have a person on my team who both runs late and dishonestly blames other people for their problems.

This reads like micromanagement, wasting so much effort into finding someone to blame, and creating an atmosphere of fear and self-doubt.

What he should do instead with all this wasted energy:

Encourage people to discover self-management techniques. Create an atmosphere of trust and reliability by positive, affectionate reinforcement. Give them freedom to breathe, give them reasons to ask themselves every morning "What is one thing that I can improve in my workflow today?" intrinsically?

Intrinsic motivation is key. If you build pressure, they'll never develop their potential, because they never knew that it's possible.

Lead by example, becasue nothing motivates stronger than thinking "Wow, I want to be as cool and productive as my manager, he's awesome!".

This guy does everything wrong. He's wasting time and money, and people will leave until he learns.
The impression i have developed of Marx's thinking is that in his fervor to get his labor theory of value to work he ignored or managed to talk himself in circles regarding the impact of industrial machinery.

Looking at it with modern eyes, it would be easy to make said machinery operate like an amplifier of labor. Meaning that for each unit of labor used to operate the machine, the owner would get a multiple of said labor out.

Marx instead tried to reason that machines were simple stores of labor, never giving more out than was used to make the machine in the first place.

He still managed to make some observations that i will claim still holds to this day.

While in volume one he focused on the industrial labor side, as a way to lay the foundation of his other commentary, his later volumes pulls in finance and lending.

From that he concluded that it would actually be in the best interest of industrial capital to collaborate with labor in a common front against finance, but that sadly they would side with finance capital until it was too late.
> While some of these may be good tips, they don't exactly sound effortless.

No kidding. I can barely even imagine juggling verbal language and body language and facial expressions.
One benefit of this approach is it requires the organizer do work to justify the cost of the meeting.

Also to embellish your last point, every meeting ends with distribution of a list of decisions made and responsible parties for implementing them. That ensures every meeting generates tangible benefits, and you don’t have the same meeting over and over again.
I was imagining a React style UI framework but for desktop apps. The ingredients I have in mind are React, GraphQL, and Rust. I think these three solve the problems of their respective areas the best and combining them together would be priceless.
It depends where you are and how wealthy you are.

NYC is a reflection of america. The old school Greek diner has been replaced by Starbucks and non luxury retail is largely homogenized.

It’s also a much les diversified economy than it was in the past. New development of fancy building that lay empty as speculative investments starve out the storefronts.
Just a technicality - Chuck Lorre productions, including The Big Bang Theory, do not use laugh tracks [0].

But yes the live audience laughs moronically on cue and I totally agree with your assessment of the show.

[0] http://www.chucklorre.com/index-bbt.php?p=537
Germany has maintained a strict no wage growth policy for decades now however to push exports, potentially contributing to the stagnation of the euro zone.
I like to play tetris on lower levels while listening to audiobooks, it keeps me focused for some reason. There was another game, which I can't find at the moment... an OpenGL demo of a car at night driving down an infinite highway in a low polygon city. That was great for audiobooks.
Totally off topic- why is it people always use "voracious" to describe their reading habits?
Only for certain categories. Rule of thumb is that if it’s a commodity-like product, proceed with caution.
Prefer ncdu where you can delete stuff.
>Interestingly UFOs and supernatural events have been clumped together, but afaik these UFO claims typically don't require rewriting the laws of physics.

Antigravity and FTL travel require rewriting the laws of physics AFAIK, or at least amending them. There are possibilites that only seem to work on paper, assuming the existence of fudge factors like negative mass.
Or more likely your meeting organization skills suck. What did the agenda say? What was the specific task the meeting was solving? Did it need 15 attendees, or 3? What did the invitees say when you distributed the agenda?
Yes, it can be, and it's already present.
This is such bullshit. Corruption is not cooperation, it's more like a leech on public resources.

I work with one of the big consultancy corps which got hired by one of the indian state governments to help put in place the eGovernance initiative. Well it turns out a lot of the civil servants involved have made it their goal to make sure that the system is as incompetent as possible so that people are forced to fall-back to the old systems where it'll be easier for them take bribes.

It infuriates me to no end that progress (which is supported by the elected government) in a country is being blocked by corrupt numbskulls who just wish to make sure they can fill their pockets.
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Are private citizens allowed to shoot poachers on sight?

In most countries, the right of private citizens to enforce the law themselves is very narrow. This is not because we do not respect the law, but because allowing private people to play cops and robbers can easily become a situation where it’s hard to tell who is what.
No problem with people actively trying to be more confident or just practicing being more sociable etc, but the slightest scent of social manipulation, trying to get something out of me, or anything scripted borders on "pick-up artist" repulsion.

Being in the UK is particularly difficult and I get the impression eastern Europe is similar or the same. Getting an honest and authentic reply to every day questions seems impossible. But I also understand that there is some weird cultural requisite of toughness and not making a fuss getting in the way of authentic conversations with strangers.
Plus whales are (near?) sentient, while most fish are not.
Awesome work! Total Commander is the one software that I've never found a good Mac replacement for, and it causes me no end of sadness.

Your approach looks very promising, if still early days. Emailing you further specific feedback, hope you keep working on this and continue on your current path.
I'd be very interested to know what you mean by "nothing short of magic". I've had a quick look at the rspec documentation and as a Python dev this looks very similar to what's in the Python standard library. Would that be considered magic as well or does rspec have some cool features that I have missed?
They should look natural and effortless to the other party.