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I've been listening to a CB radio and comparing it to waze during my commute, and CB radio is still arguably superior in avoiding speed traps and wrecks. Truckers use waze a lot but still always default to radio for real-time traffic information.

It's also ridiculously annoying when a trucker gets into an on-air fight with another trucker, or when one catcalls an attractive woman, or when a megawatt CB broadcaster from Mexico or the Deep South USA comes in full scale spouting literal gibberish.
I’ve never had to use ST. I most definitely meant State, which is what I wrote in the grandfather post.
also they seem to need to publicize this to the whole world. I disable JS. -_-'
Spectre is not Intel specific, and most of the processors immune to spectre attacks also don't run web browsers, making it a irrelevant-to-the-discussion point.
Because $2 dollar bills are rare to find and get in bulk; iirc if you buy rolls of change at a bank (for change, e.g. if you need it for your shop) you also pay a bit more than the face value of the currency.
I often wonder what would happen if we learned high school concepts like geometry by recreating concepts like this - maybe alongside learning the proofs, or even before.

Being able to derive proofs on tests is important, but I think equally important is to have created knowledge you can reference in the future.
Two points:

(1) I haven't seen this article mentioned here:

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-...

I am not sure if the article addressed this model in particular, but I found it compelling.

(2) It occurred to me that most of us don't fear death as much as becoming increasingly useless as we become older due to ill health and physical weakness.

It would be not much fun living to be 200 if the last 120 years were spent in a bed or wheelchair.

So what we want is not to increase the lifespan but to prolong the amount of time we can spend in relatively physically prime condition. I am sure this is not an original thought, but something worth mentioning.
Even before you get the ability to downvote, the fascist regime will stop counting your upvotes if you upvote the wrong comments (ones which have been secretly flagged by the mods).

However, if you're careful you can use your upvotes against those comments that you don't like by upvoting everything around them.
I found this particular quote to resonate with me: "We keep trying to get over the hump, but life gets in the way." This continued to happen to me over and over again and I couldn't find any personal tools that helped me get over that hump. As a direct result of my frustration, I am building a solution for this problem called Considerit (considerit.co). Check us out if this sounds like something you would be interested in and sign up for our Beta. Our goal is to help you achieve the outcomes you want with your relationships.
*Alcohol abuse is largest risk factor

> Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health... By contrast, heavy drinking seems detrimentally related to dementia risk, whatever the dementia type.
I would like to see these sorts of analyses done over time, although I'm not sure it's possible (in the very least it would require a tremendous amount of work).

Anecdotally in speaking to people who have been in academic research for awhile, things started changing in the late 90s, plus or minus several years. I've heard a similar story repeatedly and independently about different aspects of the system, but in aggregate there's some sense that there has been change in academic research culture that started around that time.

I wonder if the relative quality signal of different types of journals has changed dramatically over time.
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I can't speak to Poland, but at one time the German system saw to it that the students arrived at the university with a great deal more general grounding than one can count on in American schools.
This is the customer facing business for a plastics factory that specializes in keycaps called Signature Plastics. They've been one of two manufacturers of note in the custom keycap group buys of the last little while (GMK in germany being the other). Their production backlog right now is apparently pretty long.
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There's also automated WCAG tools that check for "contrast errors". For example you should ensure you provide background colors as a fallback if the user has background images disabled or the image has not downloaded yet
If you're in the US then it depends on what state you live in. If he can get into one of the good in-state schools then it may be worth it - based on the social experience alone.

Another way to look at is that if you set your son up to be a good critical thinker and emotionally mature then you can trust that he may make the best choice on his own without any encouragement one way or another.
WASDkeyboards offers printed singles in multiple ways. They aren't the best quality (they are UV coated ABS, I used their keycaps on another keyboard and the coating started to wear through after about a year of daily use, the text is still fine though), but they are the king of custom printing right now in my opinion.

You can go to [0] to get just text on a keycap with a fairly easy web-ui to describe the text, position, and size you want it.

Or you can take it entirely into your own hands and go to [1] to give them a vector file that they will custom print on to the keys.

They also offer that service in a "full keyboard set" option [2], so you don't need to do a ton of keys individually if you want to do the whole keyboard (although the full sets most likely won't fit your profile, but they do fit a good number of more standard keyboard layouts)

Again, they aren't the best quality, but they do a good job, and they take care of their customers. Plus the amount of customization you can do is pretty fucking insane. [3] is always my go-to example for just how customizable they are. Not only full color printing, but also individual key plastic color selection.

[0] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/printed-keyc...

[1] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/printed-keyc...

[2] http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keycap-set/1...

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/wasdkeyboards/28965975050/
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I took both of Tim Roughgarden's algorithm courses on Coursera, and in my opinion you don't need to know linear algebra to complete them.
Intel processors essentially are RISC now internally. They just expose more complex instructions as a higher level API.
Those show up nearly immediately.
I'm not French and I am not close to anyone who is, so there is nothing in here of any possible relevance to me?

While there are a lot of posters here eager to point out the limits to what this study formally investigates, the inclusion of the French dimension underscores my suspicion that finding a reason to regard this study as irrelevant to one's specific circumstances is not the best way of looking at it.
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Please be sensitive to the lightness of greys you use for smaller text, especially if you value any of your users who are aging (all of them) or have vision-related issues (some of them, maybe more than you think)
Be careful.

Just because degree holders have higher lifetime earnings, that doesn't necessarily mean graduating from college will increase lifetime earnings. The alternative hypothesis is that the attributes that drive someone to both go to college and succeed in passing classes are also the same attributes that cause success at work.

I'm not saying a college degree doesn't open doors for you, it absolutely does, I'm saying you can't look at the numbers like that and make that conclusion.

(The dropout rate is also ~45% so you take a significant risk of taking on the cost burden without a payout)
Other important causes of errors are weak typing, not checking array indices, numeric overflow, and manual memory management.
There is a very real novelty factor of an uncut sheet. I have one and didn't mind paying the premium. Also, I'm pretty sure the U.S. Government doesn't need help laundering money. They sell them at a premium direct
Isn't this book too academical for any practical learning of algorithms and data structures?

I would recommend The algorithm design manual for more practical purposes.
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena...
Which is why Alan Kay famously quipped about "The Wirth school of non-programming".
> If all of a hydra's cells are replaced every four weeks, I would say that the hydra has a life span of about four weeks. Ship of Theseus and all that.

Most of our cells in our bodies are renewed in a few months or something. Yet people don't assimilate this to death.

Now, you may object that neurons don't follow this rule, so our subjective identity is not concerned by this. To this I will say that when people are concerned about ageing, they are indeed concerned about what happens to their brain (that is, neuro-degenerative diseases), but certainly not only that. The state of all the other tissues is at stake : the heart, the bones, the skin and so on. Yet all of these are renewed on a regular basis. That renewal is not perfect though, and it's that imperfection they blame on ageing.
>if I waiting for people to invite me first I end up with 0 friend

but then those other people are begrudgingly inviting you out of politeness since you asked, rather than being a genuine invite
I mean really, developers tapping away on MacBook Airs?

... Don’t let Jony catch wind of this, he'll use it as fodder to abolish MacBook Pros and their ungainly fan noises
I think in that case it falls under mandatory warranty rules - if he didn't replace or reimburse them, he'd be liable. I don't know if warranty rules in the US are as strict as in Europe though. But in Europe, if your product is malfunctional within a year or three years (it's three for electronics, which is why warranty extensions from 1 to 3 years like AppleCare are dodgy), you as manufacturer are responsible for a replacement or compensation.
> Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health.

Citation needed
> Many researchers studying specific diseases, cellular systems, or molecular components would like to see their favorite research subject take the mantle of “the cause” of aging. But the sheer number of possibilities being put forward refutes the very possibility. They can’t all be the cause of aging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_the_single_cause
Major European cities have had centuries to develop, and were built in large part before automobiles existed, which necessitated density and walkability. Silicon Valley, by contrast, was largely agricultural or undeveloped even 50-60 years ago, and development of suburban housing represented a significant increase in density (and automobile transportation was cheap and fast then, so relatively low density housing made sense).

Now, we are left with the problem that the suburbs aren't going anywhere for the most part, due to lack of political will, and lack of a reasonable market-based solution -- single family homes are often in the $1-1.5 million range for ~1/8 acre lots in less desirable areas, and redeveloping even a relatively small subdivision would be extremely expensive, even if you could get everyone to sell (they wouldn't), and get permission from the city. Redevelopment is limited right now to the commercial corridors, such as El Camino Blvd, and existing commercial/industrial/business districts, all of which are undergoing pretty heavy redevelopment in much of Santa Clara County. Transportation infrastructure including both public transportation and public roads are also undergoing multi-billion dollar improvements, though some of the work may take a decade or more to complete.

source: I have lived in the Silicon Valley area for over 30 years -- its changing faster now than at any point I can remember.
This would be a crazy revenue boost for metro areas outside of rush hour, where interstates are typically 55mph zones, while the traffic collectively moves at 65-70mph; going any slower than the flow is dangerous, but it's a dilemma to risk a ticket or risk a rear-ender.
A "causation" is an illusion. We can think, for example, that cause of ageing is in the evolution: those species who lives longer have slower evolving rate, and they lose a competition with other species who have shorter lives. But this causation does not contradict to the thermodynamic one, it just make thermodynamic not the "fundamental cause" but the mechanism of ageing.

A causation is the way to describe reality, not the fundamental feature of the reality. And so, the causation should follow the goals of researchers. While searching for ways to live forever, we will not benefit from evolutionary explanation (we cannot fix evolution to get longer lives), but thermodynamics explanation could be useful (if its true, of course). So, thermodynamics is a good candidate for the role of "fundamental cause".
Data Science degrees seem to be such a hodge-podge of topics, with very uneven quality between programs. For long-term benefit, I'll admit I'm more inclined to tackle a traditional MS like CS, math, or stats.
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This like the opposite of my experience.

I'm male and in a long term stable relationship and my true friends are just as important to me as they ever were. They are like family to me.

On the flip side my girlfriend has decided she suddenly no longer has much interest in hanging out with her friends, which is concerning. I have solitary hobbies I enjoy, and I can't fill the gap that her friends have left.
This is exactly why I keep a rotating supply of lego's on my desk at work. These bricks would certainly be a welcome addition to that rotation.
So I think it's helpful to think about aging and death on two levels: cells and organisms.

Organisms age and die when their cells age and die. An organism can not age and die by either replacing its cells as fast as they die, perfectly, or by having cells that don't die.

Why do cells die? The article presents two views: either they are programmed to, for biological reasons, or they just break down over time, because engineering is hard and physics is a real mother.

It'd be real convenient for us if it was the former, because humans aren't built to have all our cells constantly replaced throughout our life, but this article makes the argument that programmed cell death is unlikely and physical wear and tear more plausible.
Good Riddance.
I quit a job once, for a number of reasons, but one of them being that as I learned the intended application of the technology I was working on, I grew more and more ethically uncomfortable. I was initially lured to the company for the opportunity to work on cool technology (GIS, sensors, airborne mapping), but soon realized the stuff was being primarily sold to law enforcement for the purpose of, among other things, surveillance and immigration enforcement. So the end of the day I decided I don’t want my name to be associated with that. I don’t want to have to explain to my daughter one day (whose mother is an immigrant) that I was part of building an immigrant surveillance system. So I went and found something different to do.

There are lots of opportunities in software to take the ethical high road. Do I help the company try to sneakily get the user’s personal info? Do I help us cheat this benchmark? Do I hide our bugs by silently restarting the app when the user is probably not at his PC? (each of which I was asked to implement at one point in my career) Does what I’m programming sit well with my personal ethics and beliefs? I should be able to explain why I am writing the program i’m writing and be able to live with it. (EDIT)If I am the owner of a company and I’m interviewing someone and they worked at some company notorious for using dark patterns or anything else ethically questionable I think it’s fair game to ask about their involvement.
I was driving through Atlanta the other day for the first time and now appreciate the value of lane guidance. You can be on an 8 lane highway with three simultaneous exit options. If you find yourself in the wrong lane it is not an enjoyable experience.
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A friend did his PhD in the thermodynamics of open systems -- the sort of thing that describes, say, the long-term evolution of a "thing" that occasionally consumes and rejects energy. One thing he mentioned to me was being contacted by lots of crackpots, each with their own new idea wrt what open system thermo means about living organisms. It's a very new and very difficult field and there aren't hard results yet. I would take this article with a shaker of salt, and perhaps some tequila, lime juice, and Grand Marnier.
I can't imagine worse environment for a tech job than the one where you have music playing out of speakers. Also - working on your laptop? Without proper monitors and upright sitting position? Nope, thank you.
Neither are true. I get fresh straps of $2 bills all the time. They are still printed.
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I am working in call centre. I want to change my career because growth in the current job is none or very slow. I want to become web developer. Before leaving the current job, I want to learn from HackerNews crowd whether web development is the right move , and what stack to learn in 2018. I'm interested in your reply.
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Same, neat little desk toys. Shipping would probably make them prohibitively expensive for me though.

Also I'm afraid that now this success story is out, copycats will pop up left and right.
That's not a shared office, it's a coworking space or something.

I've shared an office with a teammate before, and it was very productive. It was a great mix of heads-down work and the ability to discuss issues/design as needed.

OTOH, someone I know started a coworking space a few miles away from my home. I popped in there a couple of times to check it out and decided it was very much not for me. Too much "collaboration" and background noise for me personally, though some thrive on that. The clincher for me was one time there was supposed to be a presentation that sounded interesting, and well after it was supposed to start someone announced that it had been canceled last minute. "Well, I'll do a little work then," I thought. Then they announced that since the presentation wasn't happening they'd be playing talks from YouTube. Great, no work after all, big screen video and blaring audio of something I can watch myself at any time, because why? I dunno. Just not for me.
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Especially since these western people you mention aren't in danger of being jailed or executed for expressing the wrong views online.
This is definitely the most common response I hear to shared/open offices ... but dang it, I love them (part time)!

I go into a co-working space once or twice a week, and wfh the rest of the time. When I'm there, I enjoy being around people who can relate to what I'm doing (even if it's just as simple as a knowing nod when I comment on a tough bug I'm troubleshooting). And if I need to focus, headphones easily place me in my own acoustic palace.

I totally get that everyone is different, and thrives in different environments ... but don't crap on this type of shared experience as if it's universally hated by everyone, because it's not.
Eva and Gabor Tardos are two I'm familiar with, but there are many more.

Another Hungarian woman, Marianna Csörnyei, proved the equivalence of the zero measure notions of infinite dimensional Banach spaces.
Noise cancelation does nothing for kitchen noises. They only silence things like fans or HVAC systems.
I'm fine with vendoring going away as long as we can check these new modules into version control and have vgo use them. Adding a caching proxy adds too much infrastructure for most folks, and without it you can't have reproducible and available builds.

I like Go's distributed package imports (even if everyone just uses Github), but it means you're distributing single points of failure all over the place. Vendoring (whether source or modules) solves this problem.
So let's follow your logic and assume it's clearly in everyone's best interest to go to college, and 100% of high school graduates go on to university.

Now the market is flooded with bullshit degrees (assuming no one drops out, putting themselves in an even worse financial situation) and the value of a college degree just went down. Now what?
This is outside my area of expertise, but it seems that the author may not have presented Medawar's argument correctly. As I understand it, Medawar's theory of aging was not so much based in physics as based in evolution. The author presents it here as random DNA transcription errors building up mutations which eventually cause the animal to die.

But I think that Medawar's argument was that all animals are subject to random accidents, predation, disease, etc. This will produce an exponential distribution of lifetimes. As a consequence, beyond a few half-lifes, there will be exponentially few members of the species. So if there is some mutation in the DNA which causes the animal to die beyond that time, there will be so few members of the species around to exhibit it that there will be effectively no selection pressure to keep this mutation out of the population. As a consequence, even if you started out with a population that could in theory live forever, it will very quickly become riddled with mutations which start to kill the animals after a couple of half-lifes. From the outside, it would appear as though the animals were "programmed" to die at a certain time.

George Williams presented a similar argument, but also claimed that some mutations can increase an animal's fitness early in life at the expense of decreased fitness much later in life. If the animal will likely have died of some accident by that time anyway, this trait effectively has no downside and will be selected for.
> If this is the future of tech work, then I guess I'd better find another career--perhaps gardening or wood-working?

Exactly. I can't imagine working in an environment like that.

You don't want to hear me playing Smooth by Neil Cicierega[1], and I don't want to hear you playing rap.

A work environment is not the place to be playing music for everyone around you. Constant generic music is the worst part of retail, and that's saying something.

If your goal is to foster creativity and productivity, but all I hear is thump-thump-thump drilling into my head, I'm not going to be either. Even when it's music I love (or music I love working to) I'll still pause it when I'm trying to really understand what's going on in a complex system.

[1]: https://youtu.be/8D-WVlRohQk
I agree with you on the point that a certain drive and determination helps in both going to college and more general life success irrespective of a degree. There are some people who would succeed without going to college, certainly.

But going to college makes the path much easier, even for talented and motivated people. So I take that into account and look at the numbers, and stand by my assertion that except for maybe the most unique cases college makes sense for the vast majority.
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"IMO, aging is just a way to ensure that dying occurs"

The research 100% disagrees with you.

Aging even occurs in computers: every computer will eventually get in an unexpected state that it cannot recover from. This could even be caused by a stray UV ray that flips a bit in an important memory sector.
It's not a great saying, and it is a myth that people naturally become conservative as they age.