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Ok...is there a use case where Rust is better? This seems like you're punting. Why would I want to invest the time and energy to learn this?
The careful tailoring of work hours to avoid healthcare requirements was a thing long, long before the ACA.
I wish he'd checked some BSDs while at it. They do feel so much more responsive. Do not know whether there's any factual basis to it.
Is there any device people use for reading scientific papers that doesn't have a configurable hosts file?
I'll wait for the .1 release but the current version of VLC on android and Ubuntu have been pretty flakey. In android have lost all my playists and least twice and in Ubuntu playing full screen video cause the computer to lock up to a hard reset.

I hope this is just a rough patch for VLC which has been a great application for a long time.
A better review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGINiBYxis
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Unless it's for an extended period of time with no meaningful connection to another person

Yes, exactly. The internet has been a cure for this, and we're lucky to be around for it.

When books were invented, there was an outcry against the idea. "We'll never have to use our memories!" Yet books have generally been seen as a positive thing.

Why should the internet end up any different?
Gotta give him credit for owning up.
Exactly. Most Markdown processors don't implement this feature because it is very unpredictable and has too many contradictory edge cases.
would you find it acceptable if 1 of every 13 customers was unable to use your ecommerce site after you paid good money to acquire him/her via ads?

7.6% is a huge number. we dont even start discussions until traffic is < 2% (and also a huge pain in the ass to support). IE11 is not actually that terrible.
I came across some youtube videos of Micromouse competitions completly by chance a few weeks ago.

I wa struck by how impressive the engineering was to make the little things go and corner so quickly. At the same time I noticed there was still what I would consider low-hanging-fruit. Specifically one of the mazes had a dead-end of depth one that most of the mice tried going down after passing it in favour of a longer dead-end path. It strikes me that you could sense simple cases like this as you go past them.

If I were to have a go (I have been somewhat tempted since discovering this was a thing) I would try a sonar ping to compare against a dictionary of known simple configurations. It's something that would be in the realms of possibility for modern microcontrollers. Then if you pass an intersection, you can ping them all and eliminate any known dead ends.

I did see one that raised a camera to scan the map, but it took a long time processing the data.
This. We now have access to two worlds, where before there was one. And it is helpful to be able to choose which world to inhabit at any given moment.
It's funny, I'm reminded of the Björk song. Being in my childhood home for the holidays makes me very terribly wistful -- I can think of the ways that I passed these times so many years ago, and it doesn't exist except in memory anymore.

But I don't know if the freedom of being quiet is lost to the past. The digital detox is increasingly a thing now; the youthful are attuned to and aware of the manners in which they are marketed to. It's only natural that we begin to see countercurrents, and only natural that humans intentionally disconnect to be one with the world around them.
I just want to be able to scroll through open tabs. I don't know why they'd disable this when even chrome has it.
Agreed, I would also add:

Collect Calls

The Art of Peer Pressure

How Much Dollar Cost (Obamas fabourite song)

Blacker The Berry

FEAR
In Haskell, mutable APIs are available but this is surfaced in the types. The idea is not so much that you shouldn’t have mutability, as that it shouldn’t look the same (and be treated by the compiler the same) as immutability.

Maybe Haskell goes too far in this regard, but Rust is in line with the same way of thinking, because mutability is surfaced and checked at type level.
This article highlights some interesting studies I think people should be more aware of, and a good defense of the argument that privilege compounds itself:

'“examiners” scored individuals lower on the same task when they were told that the pupil came from a less privileged background.'

'Those who were told they were “low status individuals” performed worse on both financial decisions and basic cognitive tasks.'
It honestly sounds like you think $100/hr is the upper limit of consulting earnings.

There are at least some people making $250/hr+ as a technical consultant. Is it 0.01%, 0.1% or 1%? Who knows.

But it's possible, and it's possible to get there if you're strategic about it.
> Broad learning skills are the key to long-term, satisfying, productive careers. What helps you thrive in a changing world isn’t rocket science. It may just well be social science, and, yes, even the humanities and the arts that contribute to making you not just workforce ready but world ready.

Saving you a click. Great surprise, if you have soft skills to go along with your STEM skills, you're likely to be more successful. Someone call the Nobel Committee.
Look at codifying legislation. It's all gray and nuanced. I have seen others use tools like JRules to help but people are kludgy
Could you elaborate on your thinking here?

My prediction would be gradually the hyper connectedness becomes the norm while the last generations who remember “quiet” die. Of course there would likely always be small fractions of the population who look to the past and practice mindfulness, almost like how people re-enact the civil war battles. But I would guess largely highly saturated connectedness becomes who we are, in spite of a vocal minority who long for a different way of living.
Was it Gizmodo that posted the doctored version of James Damores memo where all references were removed? Clearly not a reputable place to get information from.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/upshot/effective-altruism...

http://www.charityscience.com/blog/why-donating-may-be-bette...
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Yeah in some circles they are basically considered a rite of passage that every self-respecting engineer must go through.
All good additions, totally agree. So much solid work to choose from.
You story reminded me of this quote by the Western author, Louis L'Amour:

“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

I don't think it's completely as simple as he says, but anyone can improve themselves.
In my case, even if you bump up my salary by 10x suddenly, I probably will work the same hours I do now. Why are lower work hours assumed to arise from increased economic status?
That unnecessary addendum made my eyes roll so hard they still haven't recovered eight hours later.
Geometric mean is nth root of product of n numbers.

If you replace any of those numbers with 0, it will all collapse to 0 - perhaps not what you want. But it's not hard to write such a program:

geometric_mean1 =: (+/ % #) &. (^."1) @: (0&>.)
geometric_mean1 2 4 8
4
geometric_mean1 _2 4 8
0

If you want to replace negative numbers with their positive counterparts, you may first replace a number with its absolute value:

geometric_mean2 =: (+/ % #) &. (^."1) @: (>. -)
geometric_mean2 _2 4 8
4
geometric_mean2 2 4 8
4

Original geometric_mean probably meant to be

geometric_mean =: (+/ % #) &. (^."1)

- note the copula (assignment symbol) and rank of first verb (^.) .
The example is so simplistic and toy-like that it is not remotely convincing.
Yes! I’m not suggesting they are synonymous, but proofs in coq are definitely formal proofs (as I understand that term/phrase).
Money, of course. Why do you think such large sums are bid for screening rights? Sports fans want to know what's going on as quickly as possible, both to feel like they're part of the action and because they may be gambling on the outcome.
How much money are you spending on dealing with IE11 bugs? My estimate from my last job is more than that 7% brings in.
I think I found a link that works:

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/images/8/8e/Hacker-Space-Desig...
Great resource at https://sites.google.com/site/myprojectq/robotic/classic-mic...

Looks like the latest iteration will use a fan for suction power, adding to the traction capability.
Should I take time near the end of a big project to do a side thing?
I have been writing animation software for 2 years. It's nearly bug-free, with all the features I want ( I was scope creeping for about a year ). However, I am now dealing with a large code-base, and I'm thinking about writing an editor/IDE type thing that can help me resolve dependencies and refactor efficiently. I'm debating between the various short term and long term benefits.

I know I should launch, everybody says I should launch. I know people want to use this. I am just so overwhelmed, and it's getting harder to manage this huge code base. Plus, I kind of want to run on something new, but not something new that needs to be polished for launch. This is something that could be fairly rough.
I know there are some softwares out there that do some dependency scraping, and will help you navigate around your code-base, I just envision one that does more in certain areas, and feels better in others. Making an editor that feels like google maps in some places, a spider web in others, mind-maps in others, and vim in the code parts. It would be smart enough to let you move methods from one class to another class, and automatically update instances. It also needs to allow you to 'highlight' parts of the code base, because I have an editor engine, and a frontend/exported engine ( the animation software exports to html5 and the html5 export version is slim, whereas the editor version has a lot of extras for editing ), so that's one of the big areas, I don't want to maintain 2 code engines anymore. So, a big part of it would be toggling certain lines of code to target to different versions, and then being able to toggle views as well.

This might be too big of a side-track at the end of a project, and I could be just wanting something else to work on, because mature projects get very un-fun. It is something I probably will do eventually, to help myself manage the two similar engines.

The other option is doing some sort of a JS lint type thing, where I just comment out the extras and they only get compiled in the editor version.

I wish someone would just give me $50k for 5%, and I'd have another year to get things ready for mass markets. When I launch I think the animation software will grow nicely, so I want my ducks in a row so I'm not too stressed. That pressure is counter-acted by the fact that I could use cash to live on, cuz 2 years of development with just a little free-lance is kinda draining.
and sourcing it didn't require venturing beyond economist.com
Blue Planet II is great, but is it really journalism?
Thanks for the explanation. On my phone, so tools for diagnosis are lacking, but it sounds like you might know your Unicode better than I do anyway. :-)
Ah sorry, I completely misread your original comment. :)
It’s very far from impossible. It is trivial to programmatically determine where a method was defined using Method#source_location.

Determining which method responds to which message is only possible in an instantiated runtime, but that’s true for any late-binding programming environment. Complaining about it tells us more about the complainer than about the language.
They (uber/lyft) work well for my dog emergencies too.
True. I think some FP people, especially the new converts, seem to hold a weird view that simple == shorter code, which is SIMPLY not true.
You wouldn't invest time and energy to build web app in rust, but you would be able to write your frontend in rust instead of investing time and energy in $JSFRAMEWORK of the year.
As a product marketer, I have to say that the name is very unfortunate.

1. Sundown is the name of a Markdown library written in C: https://github.com/vmg/sundown. That Sundown is pretty widely known and used among Markdown implementers. As such, when/if the OP's project takes off, it is going to be confusing (for awhile).

2. Also, the name itself doesn't strongly suggest that it's an alternative to Markdown. Do recall that Markdown's etymology comes from "(HTML) markup". For the Markdown-implemented-in-C Sundown, the name worked because it evoked its relationship with Markdown. In this case, that's not what the project is about. If the intention was to evoke Markdown, then they should have kept the "Mark" part of it, not the "down" part of it.
Prop 13 is very regressive. The guy who gained 2 million dollars on his house's value, pays 2k in taxes, whilst the poor guy neighbor with the same exact house, who bought recently, has to take out 5 mortgages to buy that 2 million$ house and then, thanks to prop 13, is paying 10 times more taxes.

Millennials have been in a very poor position to start with, but Prop 13 really drives the last nail into the coffin.
“Proof of stake” (as opposed to “proof of work”) is an attempt at reducing the energy footprint.
One thing to consider is that some folks don’t “trust” education. If you choose to volunteer, it will help with trust issues.

Disclaimer: I know this dude's cousin. Regardless, this is exactly what taking initiative looks like (with a large sprinkle of education).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IH9AruhN4X4
"hey you, the quiet one in the corner! Stop being so shy and tell this big loud arrogant idiot why he's wrong to his face!"

I exaggerate, but introvert friends tell me this is what they're hearing when they're encouraged to speak up in group meetings.
Wondering if you are doing anything about it?

p.s asking as @spicyj is, from her profile, an "eng manager of React @ Facebook".
But in this example the banks are not really doing the classification. They're trying to figure whether it's more profitable to approve or to decline a credit application. That decision depends not only on probability of default (that risk score predicts), but also on other factors such as APR and type of product. There's another model with some P&L assumptions for that, and turtles all the way down.

Besides, banks typically adjust their credit policy a lot more often than credit bureaus update their scorecards, hence scorecard developers cannot really rely on the fast changing loss function.
We can view this as either a positive for how Uber works or a negative for how taxi cabs work. If the pervasive means of transportation other than ambulances are unresponsive or expensive compared to ambulances, then obviously ambulances are the choice. One might also drive oneself, get a ride from a friend or family member, or hope that a city bus will be fast enough. An Uber ride could be faster than a ride from friend or family and safer than driving oneself.
Is YouTube doing mining?
I am using the YouTube app installed from Google Play on an Android TV box. Everytime when I start a video, it is smooth for the first second, then highly congested in the coming few seconds (less than 10 seconds) but there is plenty buffer (white area in the progress bar).
Then the video become smooth again.
This pattern happen to every video on the Android TV.
And if that's not a strong enough argument, just think of the climate! All those hours stuck in traffic, each one a car running for 2 to 4 hours a day, that's got to be causing a lot of pollution.
>> what good will J do for me?

> The best would be to learn it and see it for yourself.

I've found the statement on the front page of jsoftware.com to be rather accurate:

"If you are interested in programming solutions to challenging data processing problems, then the time you invest in learning J will be well spent."

And "data processing problems" could be understood pretty widely. I've had a case when I first spent about 45 minutes producing a prototype (a program which would generate realistic plans for floor of an office building) using J, then converted that prototype in functionally equivalent (no embellishments) program in C# spending a couple of hours. Certainly working on a prototype took several failed attempts, yet it was still faster than doing the same in C# after the algorithm was already clear.
I will alert you when I post about it on my blog.
See if you can spot the sub 4s route: https://youtu.be/IngelKjmecg
What exactly are you suggesting?
More AI = more successes and more failures. Isn't that stating the obvious?
I took a taxi to an urgent care clinic when I broke my ankle in a bike accident. Would've taken an Uber or Lyft if taxis hadn't been around, but there were a lot of them. Whatever was fastest. I really wasn't worried about saving a few bucks on a ride at that point.
We've been building Tampa Hackerspace for the past four years and much of this is similar to advice I give.

The "ten people" to start is close. I tell people you need at least 100 in your broader community and at least 10 committed to the point that they'd put money into it. More is better though.

We probably would have started a year later if we hadn't had a firm "just do it" person on the board.

We got lucky with our initial landlord and very lucky with our current landlord. Everyone we talked to would tell us how easy it would be to find space but it was a huge hassle finding someone that would rent to an unproven organization without much cash on hand.

Using recurring billing via Paypal (now considering Stripe) was a huge help.

Of course we meet on Tuesdays. It's been painful but we meet every single Tuesday. There's never any confusion about whether we meet this week or next week. Every Tuesday.

The "Sine Curve" pattern worries me and I can definitely see some of our shops / areas becoming cyclical.
I've been wondering about this for a while but, is there a reason why Uber or an alternative cannot/should not get into the Ambulance space, if it were able to get qualified staff.

I feel like Ambulances/Hospitals charge way too much and using the app/tech at a basic level to connect the ambulances with patients addresses may be a good start for everyone and also the increase in supply may reduce costs.
Architecture. They're probably writing every X seconds to an S3 bucket, updating that bucket content to a cloudfront URL which then servers requests from end users. You can see how this pipeline could incur tens of seconds of latency over actual real time. As long as the latency is constant and in the tens of seconds, it qualifies as a live stream in my book
"The JetBrains guy" ... That's just one guy?
Honestly I see no reason to even mention markdown. Sundown really has nothing to do with it. Just state why it's an improvement over HTML in various scenarios.
They found recently that Egyptians used metal from meteorites to make daggers for royalty.

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/02/africa/king-tut-dagger-me...
Sed here (the author).

SunSed is for developers with HTML knowledge. You can use SunSed language to create custom HTML tags (abstract HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then Sundown to abstract your HTML.

I think Sundown is very easy to learn and SunSed language has very little learning curve because it follows the exact syntax of HTML:

https://www.sunsed.com/tags/s
I'm curious, this article spins the whole "lower rates of ambulance usage" as a positive thing, but is there enough evidence to say that?

From the article:

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With demand for ambulances decreased by available Uber drivers, emergency personnel have been able reach critical patients faster while also applying necessary treatment on the way to the hospital, according to a new economic study from the University of Kansas:

"Given that even a reduction of a few minutes can drastically improve survival rates for serious conditions, this could be associated with a substantial welfare improvement."

The study investigated ambulance rates in 766 U.S. cities from 43 different states. Taking into account the timelines of when Uber entered each city, the researchers found that the app reduced per capita ambulance usage rates by around 7 percent.
_______

Okay they claim the study says "emergency personnel have been able reach critical patients faster" but decreased usage does not necessarily equal faster response time. It would have been much more solid if they actually looked at the ambulance response time, not just how many are being used. (My skeptical side leads me to think this is because that data-set didn't match their narrative.)

There is also the question of: Is this actually a good thing? Are those 7% less people using ambulances all not having serious health issues? Especially when something is wrong, you are often not a good judge of your own health.

How many people having chest pain thought it wasn't too bad so they called an Uber instead of an ambulance and died on the way to the hospital? Might not have turned out that way if they just called an ambulance in the first place..

Need more data to decide if this is an Uber propaganda piece.
A good example of a good approach working with J: http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10005770
Having a better AUC score does not guarantee a better AUPR score. So a model with better AUC is not universally "better"

See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98....
It's a Christmas miracle!

In more seriousness, I'm curious how well this is supposed to play with the other partnerships that Lyft already has? i.e. all together, is this suppose to represent one coherent effort to build L5 autonomous, or multiple parallel ones?
While these sources main point is to research where money goes and argues against quitting your job to donate time it does not infer, imply, or make a case, for or against, volunteering vs giving money.

Yes, a donation is better then quitting your job to join the peace corps, if you are under qualified. [note: peace Corp does not take random folks. They look for specialized professionals. https://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/volunteer-openings/]

Please watch video I linked to above. Donations are great; So is volunteering a bit of your time in your community to educate, or at least incurage, folks to strive for betterment.
I think it's pointless to think like that. Humans, to aliens who want earth, are like hornets that are in the way. If you know what hornets are, and that they're mean bastards, you don't attack them with better stingers, and it doesn't matter how eager they are to sacrifice themselves for the nest.

Aliens would use pesticides and we'd never see them coming. See "The Screwfly Solution".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution
Yesterday, I learned that the correct term for that is “autoincorrect” thanks to HN.
The one in my hood closed overnight inexplicably before we ever got to try it. Oh well.