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> I don't understand why it went past the radar of MIT Technology Review.

In case you didn't realize, the "MIT" technology review has nothing to do with MIT. It used to be basically the alumni magazine (if you're an alum you get it for free with an alum section bound into the back -- does anyone actually pay for the magazine?). A few years back a company took the magazine over and added "MIT" to the front. They basically want to be Wired, so advertorial content is prime content.
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>HN is more than just the comments that catch your eye or those who choose to comment on a particular submission. You yourself choose to be a part of HN. Would you ascribe these same attributes to yourself?

Yes, but I'd describe myself as left-libertarian (to put it on the political compass), whereas a large part of HN is hanging out in the bottom-right.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass
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As someone who actually learned to use a slide rule before pocket calculators became available, that's probably not the best example. Slide rules were good for getting "[EDITED: precise not accurate] enough" results in various situations where they could do so more quickly than solving by hand. You still needed to understand orders of magnitude, precision, and generally having a feel for numbers to use one.

Note also that a lot of calculations on the Apollo program were actually done in part by hand by human "computers." There was even a whole movie about it a couple years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
Depends on the drone and also which helicopter and how close the helicopter is to the drone (and also the ground, because of vortex ring state).

Give me criteria for the later part and I’ll be happy to calculate the likelihood.
Reminds me of the complaints and lawsuits[1] regarding the Stata building at MIT. Apparently in the beginning it had leaks and other lacks of fit and polish.

[1]https://thetech.com/2007/11/09/lawsuit-v127-n53
That's not proof it doesn't work.
If you ran the GCHQ and you had a way to track everyone, would you let it be used to solve petty crime ? Much safer to use it sparingly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/1yshln/canvaslike_gr...

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https://github.com/sterglee/scalalab

src: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5612846/scipy-like-funct...
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Typically if you have a larger delay with ACH, your credit is less than optimal in the business side of things.

I work with merchants and most are overnight as long as it hits the appropriate timeframe, some do experience 3-5 days delay, typically 3 though.
"In most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks."

I've noticed something similar in prose. When there's a sentence in a paragraph that should be cut, it's disproportionately often the last one. I've seen this in my own writing and in other people's. Interestingly, it's particularly noticeable in the writing of Wodehouse; these bad final sentences are one reason his later stuff is not quite as good.
Ive heard customs sometimes doesn’t understand the difference between a conference and working, so if you have a tourist visa and they hear you plan to “work” you will spend the night in jail and return to your point of origin.

Sadly I’m not sure that I can see this getting better anytime soon.
Sports teams generally contract with players. Most employees do not have contracts and golden parachutes and the like. Comparing business to pro sorts isn’t very helpful.
Unlike China, India has a very weak nationalism. The "Chinese Dream" is very much the American Dream redux. Countries that have made great progress have always had a strong nationalistic spirit, may it be Britain, Japan or the United States and now China.

Though nationalism is on the rise in India, it is still a very fractured society, with a strong emphasis on autonomy of groups to make their own "rules", treating the state as a weak actor. The quality of education at all levels is shockingly poor (specially in science and technology) and no way ready to produce any kind of revolution.

While India will make painfully slow progress in the physical sense (infrastructure), it is very unlikely to follow the Chinese model. Sadly India will remain fractured (or de-centralized, if you want to put a positive spin).

If you have been to India, you will know the pervasiveness of "status quo". Things are so broken, hard and complex that it does not make sense to even start doing something.
No! They are not being "optimistic," they are just following Regulation CC.

Ask anyone on the street when they can get the money from their paycheck direct deposit. Unless they just opened their account, they are not waiting days.
You're not getting any replies from the person you replied to because you exposed yourself as too closedminded to even be capable of considering it.
Can someone explain why this was necessary and what was wrong with the previous CoC?
You can actually opt out of Street View. This is very common in Germany [1] [2], but I'm also seeing it in Brooklyn.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View_privacy_c...

[2] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/germanys-complicat...
That's the prevailing food paradigm among HN readers who have something to add to this topic, which is about a product that is mainly consumed by vegetarians and vegans.
Since alphago plays the game differently (optimizing on odds to win, even if by a little, instead of the human method which involves intuition about shapes), it may be that its explanation if it were programmed to provide one would not provide any human readable 'insight' which an expert could then take to improve his or her game. Imagine a simpler example, some optimization solution using multiple dimensions and linear algebra. A description of how this works would be unreadable to most people. Since most readable language operates in the world of at most four dimensions without introducing jargon, this is the real problem, not that the program cannot explain itself.
All humans learn their first language by rote. Much more of higher ed is rote learning than you think. If it wasn't rote, we would never have to see examples or practice something, but the majority of what we actually spend our time doing in school is seeing examples and practicing. If there was no rote learning in math, doing long division would be an order of magnitude more painful, and you would always derive your formulas from scratch.

I believe critical thinking is as important as anyone does, but there's no critical thinking without foundational skills and knowledge. Education simply cannot be 100% critical thinking, even if we wanted it do.

"Rote learning is widely used in the mastery of foundational knowledge."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning
Why robots will never be humans
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When I was three my family lived in Hawaii where “Banana Spiders” (large tarantula looking things) used to get into our beds at night. They don’t just crawl, they kind of hop about (or so three year old me remembers). So, to answer your question I have a standing agreement with the arachnids that inhabit my abode: I know you’re here and that you eat bugs, which I appreciate, however if I see you, game over.
Scala etcd client implementing V3 APIs
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Scrum is perfectly fine. In fact, it's a great way to achieve agility. But it only works if everyone understands both the process and the goals. For all the "scrum sucks" posts I've seen, I've yet to see anyone offer anything better.
Slide decks like aren't intrinsically bad but from my experience most people who produce them don't actually live by them. A lot of the managers I respect the most don't constantly give motivational speeches but they lead by example. People notice that quickly and act accordingly.

I view people who hand out slide decks like this as weak. Instead of doing the difficult work they just talk about it and leave it to others implementing it.
> Try discharging a weapon anywhere near a major metropolitan area

I used to do it all the time in a major city. Shooting ranges exist inside major metropolitan areas you know.. ;)

Yes, I know that isn’t what you meant, but broad waving statements deserve this kind of response imho.
> Presumably you wouldn't do that to her after she saved your life.

Oh, you grossly underestimate what people are capable of. At least in China there are many reported cases of such horrible patients. Maybe US being a developed country have fewer these people, but definitely not zero.
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>It's even worse, it means the police know it doesn't track criminals and so just want to track regular people.

The police knowing is really beside the point, local government (councils) own and operate the public space CCTV, the police will and do make use of it. The problem is quality and with quality is identification. If no one knows the person on CCTV there's not much to be done.
Seems like he could have put in a couple of paragraphs about that to whet our appetite for the next book.
Most teachers are happy if you want to make an appointment to talk to them.

Or the book "Maths for mums and dads" is useful.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maths-Mums-Dads-Mike-Askew/dp/02240...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/More-Maths-Mums-Dads-Askew/dp/02240...
Olympics Pyeongchang silver award no major ordeal for Pocket Rocket Uno
Is there an example of a company that has implemented the philosophy in the Agile Manifesto in a way that actually meets the needs of developers and managers?

I read this all the time: The agile folks were right about software development, but Scrum/consultants/managers/process sucks! Everyone likes the Agile philosophy but then they all say it's never been implemented right. Reminds me of the "communism is the way--it's just that every time it's implemented it's done wrong!" argument.

My criticisms of Agile are: 1. It doesn't scale to team sizes beyond the point where "individuals and interactions" can drive progress; and 2. it addresses developer needs but does not sufficiently address the requirements of the rest of the organization, including management. Developers gotta develop, but the rest of the business needs things like measurements, reports, status, ETA, sometimes proposals, change requests, etc. A methodology that does not address these artifacts is going to have a hard time fitting in.
Robot vacuums are brilliant. It's worth pointing out that a big vacuum cleaner does a better job at collecting dust than a robot vacuum. One run with a high-powered wired vacuum probably collects as much as 10 runs with a robot one; you see a little dust collected every day because it's not collecting everything on every run. However, the benefit of a robot is that it runs every day. So it's less efficient in the short run, but in the long run it gets the job done. Streaming vs batch. :-)
Try powells.com, an independent but pretty comprehensive bookstore in Portland.
> Ask anyone on the street when they can get the money from their paycheck direct deposit.

That’s because payroll isn’t sent the day of your payday. Go ask the person who handles payroll at the company you work for, they don’t submit it the day of payday (or even usually the day before). It’s normally submitted several days in advance.
They're pretty comparable, performance wise, actually. Both are generally close to C speeds.
That seems very excessive, though regulation so far has been positive. Not that this is you, but fear of "voyeurism" is often said by people who aren't familiar with drones. I've owned multiple drones and would never consider them a spying tool since they aren't discrete/sound like a flying lawnmower. Additionally, most drones are equipped with wide-angle lenses which means you'd have to get pretty close to spy.

My main worry about drones comes from terrorists using them where crowds of people are gathered (concerts, events, etc), as other people have mentioned.
Techies are so f'ing useless.
We keep reinventing every frikking wheel.
I should get out of tech, it's depressing
While I think most of your points are valid, I want to clear up some issues with the H1B.

From:

http://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-grace-period-sgm-law-group/

> However, as of January 17, 2017, foreign professionals under the H-1B visa will have a 60-day grace period if their employment is terminated.

Note that the time given to leave after the end of the regular employment term is still 10 days, and that is a point of confusion for some people. IMO, 10 days, while tight, is not unreasonable if you know it’s coming far in advance.

Let me make it very clear that I am not trying to make a value judgment about the H1B visa program — rather, I just want to get some facts straight for others who are reading.
> YouTube doesn't have single key shortcuts to jump to fixed speeds.

True, that would be nice to have.

> You can speed up and slow down with '>' and '<', which I find less convenient because it's easier to set the wrong speed.

Really? Given the two options I would rather have relative controls rather than absolute for playback speed. 2.0x with Speaker A might sound like 1.6x with Speaker B, due to their different cadences, accents and mannerisms.

> You can also skip back and forward by 5 seconds with the left and right arrow keys, which is convenient when you're watching at 2x speed and you miss something.

This is definitely available on YouTube by default. Don't know the skip length off the top of my head though, it might be higher or lower.
Like boiling a frog

In 2002 Dr. Victor H. Hutchison, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of Oklahoma, with a research interest in thermal relations of amphibians, said that
"The legend is entirely incorrect!" He described how a critical thermal maximum for many frog species has been determined by contemporary research experiments: as the water is heated by about 2 °F, or 1.1 °C, per minute, the frog becomes increasingly active as it tries to escape, and eventually jumps out if the container allows it"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
That's a nice way to think about it.

One of the things that still slow me down sometimes when designing something in C++ is its somewhat muddled concepts. The overlapping concepts make it harder to divide and conquer the problem to solve.

Rust is quite different regarding interfaces and benefits from many more years of research and experience, so I have reason to assume it does better.
I agree with the idea of periodic pressure- mostly because it leaves you able to respond appropriately when it comes, which it always will.
We used to have “Home Economics” in the US that taught cooking, paying bills and balancing a household budget. They deleted that class from public school curriculum, along with Civics, Cursive Handwriting and Physical Education. At least that’s how it is in LA Unified. We had a coach once a week, at my daughter’s former school, paid for by funds raised by parents.
"Every wrong-doing as a bug" would be a brilliant PR strategy.
If every email client currently in existence only accepted a single email address at a time it would be a perfectly valid complaint about email. It's like all those W3C standards that none of the browsers actually implement, "it's not a problem with <protocol> it's just a problem with every implementation in existence" is not a useful distinction to make.
Path length differs from velocity. The speed of light in a medium varies according to the refractive index of the medium. [1]

Free space (vacuum) has an RI of 1.0. Photons move fastest in free space, about 300,000km/sec.

Water has an RI of ~1.33, meaning photons move through water at about 1/1.33, or about 75% of the free space velocity of light.

RI of optical fiber is often ~1.4. So while there may be path length increase due to off-axis propagation and bouncing, the actual photon speed in the medium is 1/1.4, or about 71% of the 300,000km/sec speed of light in vacuum.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index
Is there any ScalaLab documentation? Why is this massive repo only uploaded in 1 commit? Something that people really like about SciPy and Matlab is that if you need to do an operation on some data they have documentation that will show you exactly how to do it. Very clean explanations with input and output data shown.
Perhaps the excessively angry reactions are just a natural response to the very poor customer support that these companies offer?

Often it feels like overreacting is the only way to extract a response from SV companies. Reminds me of the upwork story a few days back.
This stuff is great. I used it to design an API in Python.

A request comes in and the wrapper checks for a schema. if it is not a GET request and one does not exist it errors out even before the method is called. If one exists, the schema is validated automatically. If the target method is called, you can be safe assuming that the input is valid (in terms of type and does it exist or not).

Same goes for output. Server will error out before it lets incorrect output be returned to the user. Great way to present what the application accepts to a developer. This is what it will accept and return, because this is what we use to validate input and output!
If Trix is Sheets and Kix is Docs, what does the K stand for?
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A MANPAD can't hit a fast moving jet at 20k feet, and anything larger can be destroyed by conventional munitions. This is exactly what we saw during the first Gulf war, when Iraq - which had for the era had a very advanced IAADS - was torn to pieces by the teen fighters. A decent SEAD campaign + lasers = a new, scary kind of warfare.

This is, incidentally, why the A-10 is obsolete. Trying to fly slow and low on a modern battlefield is indeed doomed. During the Gulf War, F-16s performed more CAS missions than A-10s did because the A-10 was simply not survivable against modern threats. To the extent they had to be withdrawn from known Republican hot zones because the danger was simply too great.
The main problem here is human body works in mysterious ways.

We are by definition reacting different, and unfortunately statistics are not helping on this case.

Basically, we have:

- too many illnesses (I guess 10% of top common health problems, covering 90% of all problems)

- for each illness, we have N number of symptoms (which unfortunately all or only a subset of this can occur)

- then we have fake symptoms (statistically out of threshold values but we are living fine with them)

this is generating a big number of combinations.

With this much combinations, it is requiring extensive amount of tests.

As everything health is also optimized for the greater good. Which requires optimum cost management.

So basically medicine today, with statistical approach, is happy to skip 1%, if it can fix 99% with 90% less cost.
Also automatic curated photos, reminders and so on. A mobile app that is very simple and easy to use.
By whose measure?

The First Amendment guides things.

We either accept that the internet is a peer system, by which our speeches carry based on value, or we do not.

Frankly, we wouldn't have this fake news problem, is media were actually doing it's job.

That is a core problem, not stupid shit people say.
It's Groundhog Day all over, and the cycles are getting shorter and shorter.

You'll love this talk by Robert C. Martin ("The Future Of Programming"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc
> Diagnosing and fixing one is a really good project for a 10-15yo

It does sound fun. But, it'd be a project. Now imagine you had no manuals, voltmeter, or replacement chips. What's a 555? Not so fun now.

Or imagine this another way. You have all the docs, and a fully stocked electronics lab. And in the other corner is someone with a screwdriver and a broken mechanical metronome. Who's faster?
For example: your comment had no reply link, but the one above did.
I don't know.. I'm trying to think of a product that was fundamentally broken in v1 that was eventually "fixed" by exec encouragement/buyin/investment and ended up succeeding. Maybe Internet Explorer. Yea, I suppose Microsoft is the master of this "v1=shit, v2=shit, v3=barely usable, v4=world dominating" approach.
>But if the non-explainable system is better even than experts, I think most people would want the non-explainable system.

Maybe? You'd have to convince me in areas as medicine. Why are you recommending this treatment path? "Dunno. The computers says so."

Mind you, the doctor may well not in reality have a lot more solid basis for his recommendation. But at least there's the appearance of logical justification.
You could soon be manufacturing your own drugs–thanks to 3D printing
> A design for a sports team, for instance, needs to look different from a design for a bank.

This is surprisingly profound, and an example shows this. I don't know much about sport, but san jose has a hockey team (don't laugh -- I know it doesn't snow there but apparently they are pretty good). Anyway, when they started they weren't very good, as new teams never are. But their logo was a shark biting a hockey stick around a 1990s-style triangle with late-1980s colors (they started around then). It was just the right combination of cute and aggressive that even I noticed it, and was shocked to see people around the US wearing clothing with the logo. It's like the "NY" or "B" baseball hats that are very popular outside their geographical areas. I believe this marketing made them quite a bit of money when they were starting up and more importantly made people around the country pay attention to a team.

(it helps if you are launching a new team to do it in a place like san jose which is a backwater overshadowed by its neighbor -- the locals were quite loyal to their only team which helped put them on the map).

I can't really imagine anyone wearing the chase logo on a T shirt except to a company event. Pretty certainly if you see a shirt with a Google or Facebook or Cisco logo the wearer is an employee or family member of one. Even Apple, with its amazing consumer brand doesn't end up with people wearing its logo on their clothing (instead they carry it :-)).
You are not factoring in the very large number of people who currently aren't voting at all. They haven't really bought into the system, or they are jaded, something.

Those people, giving something to vote for, and explicit good that they can identify with, we'll improve turnout numbers, and can dramatically change the election outcomes.
> if everyone decides to sell anything at the same time the price of it will drop substantially

Except whole companies sell at a premium to the sum of their parts [1].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/acquisitionpremium.asp
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What it is:

> Wikipedia Zero was created in 2012 to address one barrier to participating in Wikipedia globally: high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers to freely access Wikipedia on mobile devices.
Depends on my interests at the time but I prefer the blogs where the tech is open source so mostly Twitter[1] and LinkedIn[2] for me. I also follow Airbnb[3] primarily for their blogs on Data and ML (the area in which I work). Have occasionally looked at Uber and Netflix for some of the posts related to Big Data and ML.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us.html
[2] https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog
[3] https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering
People can't take a joke. Haha.