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"a little over 6% of the population work in the tech industry"

That was in 2013. 5 years ago. That article doesn't provide a source for that number either, it simply quotes the chief economist for San Francisco’s Controller’s Office who also doesn't provide a source. I'm sure the number is much higher now.
Needs more blockchain IMO. I’m actually serious about that too — individuals can choose to trust / distrust other individuals they know to be experts in their personal network, and if there’s enough proximity to their trust graph, they can know that there is some rigor behind that. Approve too many papers that are garbage and your status will fall and people will unlink you.

If there was any system crying out for a distributed proof-of-work / proof-of-trust system, it’s the peer review process. Provide incentive to review and proper analytics visibility are all there; the only key is that you would have to involve institutions in the signing chain in order to ensure a blockchain “account” belongs to a single individual and not, say, a troll farm working for a pharma company.
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"At some point you own enough things that they own you."

What a profound statement. Thanks for sharing.
Is bitcoin worse than facebook or google ?
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Syncthing might be an option for you. Someone is rocking 17 million files in a sync'd folder (https://data.syncthing.net/).
> > The best part about tech in NYC is that it isn't a non-stop, in-your-face bubble the way that it is in SF/SJ

> I find statements like this both cringe and problematic.

I think the 1st sentence of the 1st comment is amusingly and inadvertently supported by the 2nd.

These are all various shades of yuppie identity non-diverse in thought, culture, or world perspective. They are boring.

You're painting with a pretty broad brush there, yourself.

The diversity of thought and culture in the NYC area is breathtaking. It takes a lot of effort to navigate it at times, but it's definitely there. Hundreds of years worth. It used to be that the North East of the US kinda was the US. Half of the soldiers who went to fight in Europe in WWI were from New York state alone.

A big part of US history of the 20th century has been the demographic, economic, and cultural shift away from the North East to the West and South. As a part of this, it's only natural that a new intelligentsia would arise on the West Coast and pooh-pooh the North East. It's a very common historical pattern. However, when it comes down to it, people living, thinking, and working in close proximity will create cultural value. To denigrate this is to throw out the baby with the bathwater if you are a humanist, or a progressive.
Yes, theoretically speaking this distinction might have been useful, but so would have been combining hieroglyphs and hangul jamo and the ability to define an entirely new CJK character by specifying components and placements would have been even nicer.

None of this would be solved by devolving back to popular pre-unicode standards like EUC-JP or Big5.
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Thanks, it wasn't me who downvoted you…
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'The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.'

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-america...
Compared to SF Bay or NYC, I think it is. Rest of USA, arguable at best.
> It sounds like you're not the type of adventurous person who'd care for this in the first place? Your mind went, in a leap of fear, from "tastes of sea weed" to "box of sea weed", which are wildly different concepts.

Personally, I’ll try things. However, a subscription service isn’t try. You have to be sure you want it to subscribe. Without specics, it’s the random grab bag of clearance items sold for a flat rate.

I’ve had problems with poor quality subscription services in the past. Starts out ok, goes downhill.

This campaign is targeted at people who are familiar with the range of Japanese candies, like anime, and don’t already have a subscription to such. I’m not sure how big that audience is nor am I sure if YouTube videos are the way to reach them reliably (most of the time I’m waiting for the skip advert button to show up).

There isn’t any indication to the type or quality that will be sent. There is no indication that one could indicate flavor preference (I don’t like many chocolate varieties).
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No, but non-drug-using people also love to talk about their abstinence, teetotalism, vegetarianism, healthy lifestyle, Jesus, and so on...
>First, I think that the scientific literature peer review process becoming more like Amazon's reviews would be a disaster for science

You didn't mention any reason for this. While I am skeptical about it too, I also think Amazon's reviews work great for buying a product on Amazon. Also, informal discussions about a paper happen all the time on twitter within the academic community. Giving it a more formal structure is not a big stretch.
It sounds like he's planning on selling them.
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Given the share of SP500 profits that the Google/FB/Apple/Amazon gang currently capture, it's hard to describe it as a "bubble". Maybe "corporate hegemony"... but the situation is SF/SJ at this point is clearly driven by actual cash profits, not speculation, at this point. E.g. Google alone apparently owns the equivalent of 14 Salesforce Towers (the largest building in SF) worth of commercial real estate.
Yes, the pricing for Spanner is fair for what it offers in production (and test). But I really think there should be a cheaper way to use it for dev purposes (and for trying it out). Either running an emulator locally, or on a micro instance equivalent in the cloud.
What exactly is a machine learning model? Combinatorial vs. Zoolander
Why would this be good news for Coinbase?
>Why should we think it's not tens of thousands of years old?

Because we weren't born yesterday, and we now how it was in the 80s and 70s, compared to the 60s and 50s and 40s...

https://goo.gl/images/JBJk2D
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A second iteration of review:

* encoding detection from <meta> tags doesn't normalize encodings - Python doesn't use the same names as HTML;

* I'm still not sure encoding detection is correct, as it is unclear what are priorities in the current implementation. It should be 1) Content-Type header; 2) BOM marks; 3) encoding in meta tags (or xml declared encoding if you support it); 4) content-based guessing - chardet, etc., or just a default value. I.e. encoding in meta should have less priority than Content-Type header, but more priority than chardet, and if I understand it properly, response.text is decoded both using Content-Type header and chardet.

* lxml's fromstring handles XML (XHTML) encoding declarations, and it may fail in case of unicode data (http://lxml.de/parsing.html#python-unicode-strings), so passing response.text to fromstring is not good. At the same time, relying on lxml to detect encoding is not enough, as http headers should have a higher priority. In parsel we're re-encoding text to utf8, and forcing utf8 parser for lxml to solve it: https://github.com/scrapy/parsel/blob/f6103c8808170546ecf046....

* when extracting links, it is not enough to use raw @href attribute values, as they are allowed to have leading and trailing whitespaces (see https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/blob/c1a030582ec30423c40215f...)

* absolute_links doesn't look correct for base urls which contain path. It also may have issues with urls like tel:1122333, or mailto:.

For encoding detection we're using https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/blob/c1a030582ec30423c40215f... in Scrapy. It works well overall; its weakness is that it doesn't require a HTML tree, and doesn't parse it, extracting meta information only from first 4Kb using a regex (4Kb limit is not good). Other than that, it does all the right things AFAIK.
Question was: what contributes to climate change the most, not what marginal growing source of heat / energy consumption is not helping.
PG never fails to stimulate ideas.

I'm in New Orleans. Our cities form of status is totally who you know. Money is not as big of adeal. A billionaire has less clout than the owner of a operation that designs Mardi Gras floats or the bartender that is the lead of the Krewe of Elvi.

I think that is what you would call "Soul" possibly.

After travelling to a bunch of other cities and seeing unfettered capitalism destroy communities, neighborhoods, housing markets, livability, and peoples lives..it's a pretty refreshing place to be.

On the flip side our economy is absolutely terrible.
You have to realize it's not about YOU and not make it an ego thing where you get offended at a suffering person's reactions. People in need are ignored, blamed and screwed with constantly and it's a normal reaction to be depressed, angry and defensive about it. But instead of having that empathy, most people react with a "Well who do you think you are? Screw you then I was trying to HELP!" and make it all about themselves. It's like people who get angry at someone in an emergency who is panicking or in pain. Yelling at them as if they are being a jerk to make the rescuer/provider's life difficult. I saw it a lot in my previous work. If you want to help others effectively you cannot make it about you and have to approach things outside your ego and gain the trust. Most people can' be bothered.
And then you end up writing text in a way that fools auto summarizing AI. War against AI starts in law.
I think that's a bit unfair. Their ideals did inspire a number of other countries to revolution, including China. The USSR did it first and its example was emulated by other countries with some local variations. Many of the early Chinese leaders were educated in the USSR and inspired by Lenin and even Stalin. I think it's only in our backwards looking view, having "won" the Cold War, that the USSR doesn't look so inspiring but to a early 1900s peasant, a successful peasant revolt that toppled a great empire is nothing to sneeze at.
Except this has already happened. The poor today have $10K more than they did 50-100 years ago. I don’t think inequality has improved. And prices have all gone up.

Until we have unlimited resources, resources will, by definition, be limited, and they’ll be distributed by some form of money/credits/whatever.
I'm a junior academic, recently a postdoc, and I saw a little bit of ADHD stimulant use among peers, and the increasing popularity of modafanil. Basically just due to publication pressure; in my field assistant professors at a top flight university have to write not one but two peer reviewed books to get tenure. Others go in an orthogonal direction and get obsessed with intense exercise routines, also with the aim of increasing those ~six hours of usable cognitive time per day.

MDMA and cannabis are both quite popular and talked about openly but I think that's more a general reflection of the culture in places like NYC and the Bay Area, where I have personal experience.

Good luck with the book by the way. One word of warning: please try very hard to avoid falling into a simplistic narrative that will contribute to drug prohibition. Criminalization of drugs has, IMO, ruined far more lives than drugs themselves. A former Columbia colleague, Carl Hart, professor in the psych department, has written a lot on this and might be worthwhile as an interview subject for your book. Personally I think he sometimes pushes too far in the opposite direction, but he is nevertheless an important public voice speaking up against decades of scaremongering.
You may be interested in authors like Pseudo-Dionysius the Areophagite and Origen, who were extremely, extremely intellectual in their approach to reading Christian scriptures.
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>I don't really understand why asking someone to do a small amount of programming for a programming job interview, when they claim to be an experienced programmer, is any sort of "extreme" practice.

It isn't and that's exactly what you should expect.

Nonetheless it shouldn't be too much to ask that the test and interview ask relevant questions and that the company puts skin in the game that is commensurate with the sacrifice being asked of the candidate.

In other words, 5 minute screener tests are cool but if you make me do a weekend project you put me up in a 5 star hotel.
> Have you never been to London? There are homeless literally everywhere

I live in London currently. There are almost no homeless people. What are you talking about? It's one of the largest city I've been to where I've seen the least amount of poverty.

I'll also say that London is super safe, you'll almost never see crazy people in the streets or public transport. I regularly take the bus or the subway at late hours and I've never seen anyone dangerous or looking for trouble.

You definitely picked the wrong city.
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You sort of prove the cherry picking argument. Average salary means nothing in a vacuum without cost of living considered. And when it is... Unsurprisingly NYC comes in at the bottom of the list, https://www.codementor.io/blog/best-cities-software-engineer... Seattle is actually #1
This is good for crypto asset class. BTC is already trading on futures market. More big players are joining. This whole thing is still in infancy and at experimental stage. A lot is happening and many real world use cases will start to emerge.
Sorry, I was simply sharing my own experience and point of view. Please do treat it as such.

You can also say I created my own bubble by choosing to live in SOMA and the Mission (or anywhere downtown SF in general). I'm just sharing my experience of encountering mostly tech employees in those neighborhoods. If you've experienced otherwise, kudos to you! :)
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As a strange event, I actually upvoted bitmapbrother, we agreed on something! As he says, MicroG is a hack, and there's no reasonable point where someone is going to take stewardship of Android away from Google. (Other than antimonopoly action.)

There's no point in having Android if you can't run Android apps, and most Android apps users want are now dependent on Google's proprietary libraries (Play Services). So why would you want an Android fork if you aren't going to be able to run Android apps? Might as well go with KaiOS at that point.
Keep in mind the therapeutic dose people take to focus better is an order of magnitude lower then the dose people take for recreation.
I think you and I are arguing semantics then. The very question "what do you mean by a string?" already indicates that you might be familiar with some of the differences between unicode and ascii, for example. In that case, I'll clarify what I mean depending on the language the candidate is most comfortable with. For example, if they plan to use C++, I might clarify that they can assume that the string is an array of chars containing letters a-z. I really just intend it as a filtering question, but someone can definitely get bonus points if they ask intelligent questions to clarify the problem.
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I love how crazy everyone got and how very far off the mark I went. Hah half of them are telling me, a power lifter who works out 4 days a week how I must hate people who are into sports and athletics. I should have been more explicit. Sounds like you have a great crew! it's just a pattern I've noticed. Having worked in 3 states. Culture is a real thing. There can be pockets. I think the culture is MUCH worse in Denver, than Broomfield, boulder, fort collins.
You can find cheaper, but I've replaced the insoles in almost all of my shoes with Superfeet Carbons. They're a hair thinner than most insoles so they open up the toe box a little bit too, and having enough space in the toe box totally changes how I walk.

(Ecco shoes tend to be low-rise already, but for some reason their insoles always squeak for me. I replace them for my sanity, not because the replacements are lower. But other brand have a taller heel).

I still heel strike when I walk, but only barely. The knife edge of my foot lands just after my heel, instead of what most people do which is lift their toes a half inch to an inch. Ouch.
There seems to be a level of arrogance coming across in your descriptions of "Low-level factory jobs."

Having spent time in both worlds I have to say that your assessment of the skill and devotion required to work in those positions in inaccurate at best. Insulting at worst.
There's not really such a thing as being GDPR compliant. It's more about being ready when someone will be coming for a privacy related trial or information removal or when the infrastructure will leak data and the national privacy agents knocks on your door and asks "what did you do to prevent it ?".

Best efforts. Except for the GAFA. And public agencies (best best efforts).

Source: working in a public agency and attending a lot of GDPR intro sessions and watching the consultants walking down the corridor.
What did Boston do wrong? Enforce non-competes. Non-competes may be "business friendly" for individual businesses, but for health of business as a whole, they just allow entrenched mediocre management to stifle technology by preventing employees who see they could do it better from out-competing them.

The traitorous eight and the many who have done similar things are what made Silicon Valley.
I think the main thing would be consciously correcting for that: the real value is asking about design decisions — it's my favorite technique — and just making sure that it's fully normalized that not everyone has those out in the open.

It's still easy to spot the liars — e.g. I've interviewed people who worked at the NSA and even they could talk about the skills they used, just not which projects or data — and the process of deciding which things to talk about is a pretty good way to explore their communications style, too.
Wouldn't it be good to add paypal as an option?
I don't need your service, but I'm always hesitant to give out my credit card number this easily.
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Awesome project. Thanks for the link!
It's at least true for the foreseeable future that he'll be the leader. Just like you don't know if a current relationship will persist through the end of your lives until one of you dies. :-)
I think you are completely missing the point I am trying to make.

Imagine you have strong interest from Google, FB, Uber, Amazon etc. Google wants to waive their interview process as you are an open source contributor (they actually read your CV and clicked on the links). FB wants you to lead some ML team they have doing cool things etc. Other companies beg you to work for them even if you don't consider them interesting, willing to overpay you and pamper you.

Now comes your unknown company/startup. In order to even talk, you require passing some HackerRank coding test. I look at your Glassdoor reviews, you either have none, or few, or your compensation seems to be low etc. You might be working in interesting area, maybe I should give you a shot? Or I just want to see what current crop of interviews in your industry looks like, maybe I agree on going through the process? Maybe I even visit some interesting city you are located in and scratch it off my bucket list?

In the end I won't work for you. I won't consider anything you offer. I've gotten from you what I wanted - glimpse of the area you are working on for more ideas, keeping my brain up to date to interview requirements, visiting city I've never been before. You wasted time and money on me. You didn't get anything. I puzzled your head because you thought you'd have a shot at getting me. And that is the best outcome you'd get from this; most likely I wouldn't even talk to you after your initial requirements and go with other choices available to me.
Your “genius quants (aka insider trading)” quote is an easy target, but instead I’m going to respond to this:

> That is a typically upper middle class white with a BS/BA in econ/finance/cs/communications who got "really drunk" in college, "loves" IPAs now and does sober February's as a challenge.

These are all various shades of yuppie identity non-diverse in thought, culture, or world perspective. They are boring.

Speaking as someone who is a software engineer in NY, your broad generalization has not been my experience, nor does it apply to me. Moreover, I consider it pretty dismissive to reduce such a wide swath of people to the stereotypical yuppie. According to you, software engineers are homogenous and boring.

If you really can’t find more diversity in the conversations you’re having, I strongly encourage you to seek out more diverse people. To put this politely: the lack of self awareness you’re evidencing in this comment borders on hubris.
I've had fallen arches since I was a kid. Is there something I can do to fix it? There was a point where I was doing a lot of barefoot running on the beach and being extra careful to focus on my ankle and foot posture, and I think it helped, but as soon as I stopped running every day I reverted to my old posture (ankles rotated slightly outwards, feet as flat as a board).
This is a really obnoxious quote by Keynes, who wasn’t the perfect rationalist himself - might even consider him a magician as well, therefore Newton was certainly not the “last”
> Normal mammalian pregnancy is a well-ordered affair because the mother is a despot. Her offspring live or die at her will; she controls their nutrient supply, and she can expel or reabsorb them any time. Human pregnancy, on the other hand, is run by committee – and not just any committee, but one whose members often have very different, competing interests and share only partial information.

Such eye-opening and fascinating analogy.
There are probably 10 already in existence, but they don't meet some exact legal or technical requirements that these companies demand.
Man, I just now understood Ai Weiwei's statement because of your comment. China, as a civilization, has had a diminishing influence on the world, culturally speaking, since the Tang or perhaps the Song dynasty. The strictness and centralized power of the last two dynasty and current government really shackled the creative output of its people. While we can argue that the Han and Tang dynasty has an influence on the world, it's hard to say the same of the dynasties that followed.
"Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.

Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.

Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.

Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.
Remarkably, this stunning low point was not even incorporated into the model runs of Professor Maslowski and his team, which used data sets from 1979 to 2004 to constrain their future projections.

In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly
Professor Peter Wadhams
"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
"So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7139797.stm

And here is Al Gores predictions

https://www.snopes.com/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/
Do gamers care do you know? It is trivial to get versions of any software; cannot imagine people actually adhere to these laws in this case? Buy the censored version; get a torrent of the real thing?