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Well for sure it's harder in this day and age because you are exposed to so many people who appear to be successful and/or flawless (repeat 'appear'). Generally prior to the internet at least when I was growing up not the case. Like I am sure my dad never lost any sleep over how rich Howard Hughes was (the de facto billionaire of our day). There was of course variations of 'the rich guy in the neighborhood' [1] but you could normally identify flaws in them to make yourself feel better about why our house was smaller or your car was less expensive.

[1] As it happens that guy in particular who bought his 16 year old son an expensive car (for that time period) ended up in bankruptcy.
In literary circles the term is "log rolling". That term seems to be less popular today to refer to public figures endorsing one another, but in literary critiques it is still used.
I am afraid you don't understand what makes Stats hard.
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But... brain damage?

The level of energy at work, required to cause harm like that would have to operate on the level of two sonar pings from hell, fortunitously converging to form a node with appropriate geometry to harm a watermelon-sized organ.

We know that blasts from high explosives can transmit brain damaging pressure waves through durable vehicular armor, and there aren’t many other sources of energy known to send opportunistic signals through mediums, quite like that.

If I needed to surreptitiously send an accoustic message to an audience positioned at a distance, I might need to use a very powerful source, with a locally inaudible signal that only incidentally becomes audible when crossing other signals, but...

Such a transmission would probably only be effective up to the horizon, and require line-of-sight reception. Provided that the distance for line-of-sight access up to the horizon is about 25-ish miles, depending on topography, and the loudness required for that kind of reach, generating two beams (as powerful as noises produced by attenuated explosive blast waves) seems like it would require some pretty heavy equipment. Like room-sized equipment.

Think about what it takes to push a sound wave several miles, like a ripple across a pond, and what that sounds like up close. Race tracks, rock concerts, passenger jets. These things all readily occupy a three meter cube, at least. Not to mention that the fidelity of such loud noised is very low, and blurred by the intervening air, the further away you get, meaning any digital packet-based transmission would require really coarse, slow bandwidth.

That rules out a lot of sneaky carry-on luggage sized equipment, for generating such signals. Which points, maybe, to no less than two off-site phased-array tone generators forming crossed noise beams for receipt by someone.

Still a lot of mystery to suss out, and a lot of gray areas to speculate upon. And I’m tossing a lot of assumptions into the mix, like whether there was deliberate intent at all, and whether side effects were emergent or not. And while there’d be limits and ceilings based on line of sight, that doesn’t rule out scale of equipment or range of activity.

The only takeaway is that brain damage at a distance requires a lot of intense energy, usually explosive, although deleterious explosive energy and associated noise can scale from sizes relative to something as small as fire crackers and .22L rounds on up.
It makes me sad to hear people thinking they are too old for something at 35. Unless you make it big financially there is a good chance you will have another 30 years ahead of you. That means you are just at the first third of your career.

Do what you think you want to do. I thought about getting an MBA or PhD at that age and thought I was too old. Now I am 51 and thinking how easy and useful it would have been to do something at 35. Later in life you will almost always regret things you didn't do earlier.
Well, I'm rather extremely selective instead of doing something I consider wrong.
As a general response, I would point out that the entry requirements to study Psychology at University are lower than those of more 'hard' mathematical subjects, such as maths and physics (at least in the UK). During their period of study students also study the bare minimum number of mathematical modules (mostly statistics), therefore, you could argue they are not fully trained in 'maths'.

A completely anecdotal experience: During my undergraduate (MPhys) I lived in halls with about 20 psychologists. I remember one night during the second year (of 4) they all had a huge celebration. The reason for the celebration was that they had had their last ever maths exam of the undergraduate. I remember one girl proclaimed "Thank god, I've never have to do any maths ever again!". She was met with a roar of support... I couldn't help but cringe thinking about the necessity of statistics in their future research.
> "Not many psychologists are very good at maths," says Brown. "Not many psychologists are even good at the maths and statistics you have to do as a psychologist."

It's worse: IME in grad school, the field is politicized beyond reason. It was a very depressing realization.
YMMV but I'd encourage you to take a break from consuming "success porn" online. That's my broad term for:

Social media: because people curate everything and only post things that make their lives look amazing. Real life isn't a constant string of wins, success, and happiness. Don't let it distort your view and wonder why your life isn't the same.

Startup news: TechCrunch, Recode, Bus. Insider, and even here on HN. Post after post about YC, funding rounds, growth, and–of course–big exits. Its easy to find them but the truth is, they are outlier events. If a big startup exit is something you want–fine, by all means go for it–but don't let any article fool you into thinking its easy or guaranteed if you follow some formula. It's not. Startups are hard. There is no guarantee of success because some things are beyond your control.

Success celebrities: avoid videos, podcasts, ebooks, and online courses from celebrity entrepreneurs. These are people who have had moderate success with a blog/vlog/startup/book/whatever and now want to teach everyone else how to do it. Truth is, they just want to take your money and time. The only thing you might learn is how to be just like them (yuck).

Hope that helps. Lots of other good advice here. Find other things to put your energy into and good luck!
Yes, it would be great to live in a world where everyone would judge everything on its merits alone, like you do.

Unfortunately, we don’t. Which is why we still put on pants for interviews, write in full sentences, and occasionally waste oxygen being nicer to others than warranted by the cold hard facts alone.
Since you’re likely young and able, keep in mind you’re not old or dead. Life is very much more or less predictably finite, so being young with the opportunity to possibly be successful should drive you.

Better to be in a position where there’s still time to be successful, rather than old, homeless, sick, estranged, destitute, and desiring only to die.
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No one forced them to enter the lawsuit in Germany.
Without reading the source, I reckon this is because not all Medium blogs are under medium.com subdomains, so you can't request access only to *.medium.com in the extension manifest.
Why would an address be a string? That's poor use of types. I would expect that getAddress() returns an Address. If it did return it as something non-obvious, than I would expect that to be expressed through the interface and thus the call would be getAddressAsString().
It is certainly aviability heruistic[1]. You need no external help to see it, just try to remember 5 physicists and 5 psychologists and compare efforts it takes.

Someone to compare with Einstein? Freud. This guy is no less known to public, and influenced society maybe even more, by breaking taboos around sexual desires. Moreover, he shaped all the modern psychology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
The Arachne browser was last updated in 2013, and its code is freely available - it might make a good starting point: http://www.glennmcc.org/
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Amen.

Take a look at Maslow’s hierarchy from time to time, and think about this success treadmill you’ve signed up for, success is nowhere in that triangle. Neither is power.

What are you planning to use success and power for? Are you trying to spend your way into esteem? Belonging? Force them to respect you? Do you think self actualization requires ordering people around? Do you think if you are powerful enough that the love of your life can’t die from a tragic car accident, an aneurism, or cancer?

You can’t control as much as you think you can, and sometimes that’s a good thing. Fortune favors the prepared mind, but you can show up and still strike out, or you can find more success than you deserve. Recognize your good fortune.

Remember that the guy making you coffee is a person with feelings. If everybody were like you then you’d have to drink coffee you made and take your own trash to the dump and do your own plumbing. If anything these people are doing a service to society. Charity work, if you will. Respect it.
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This is all there is to it. Outline clear goals, don't let too much creep in to your to-do list, and accomplish your goals. If stuff tends to creep in, find out why. If you have to, allow room for that - make one of your goals 'handle unexpected tasks'. If possible, defer things to your goals for the following week. If your goals are set by a manager's expectations, talk to them about the unexpected work load.

I make a habit of recording unexpected work. It's helpful for avoiding feeling bad if you miss your goals (you can see why you missed it - it's easy to forget otherwise), and it's helpful for anticipating the same work in the future and understanding why you didn't expect it.

Goals all the way! Give yourself purpose, keep track, and make sure you've got a manageable work load.
>I would point out that the entry requirements to study Psychology at University are lower than those of more 'hard' mathematical subjects, such as maths and physics (at least in the UK)... During their period of study students also study the bare minimum number of mathematical modules (mostly statistics)

Because the math is easier, and all you need is statistics. As the article states, the problem is, it seems even that lower bar isn't being met.
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About two years ago I opened up a smallish JS file (~100 lines ) and it contained 47 promises, some on the same line.

That was the day I decided JS had gotten way too far up it's own ass and abandoned my career in web development. Every day that goes by makes it seem like a better and better decision.
>I live in an apartment in a crowded part of the city; no garage, no place for tools.

99% of what you need to work on a car will fit in a large toolbox. It takes experience to weed out the stuff you don't actually need though. Most people make the mistake of thinking they "need" power tools.
In a very reasonable sense, the real numbers do not exist in the real world. Almost all real numbers are non-computable, so under apparently reasonable assumptions about what experiments you can conduct, there is no experiment you can do that will produce a measurement with the value of most real numbers.

From this, it’s fairly non-controvesial to say that only the computable reals exist; these are a tiny (measure-zero) subset of the reals.

If you go further and assume a fundamentally discrete universe (much more controvesial), then all you can really measure are integers.
Sure, many companies comply "in certain countries lest they’re blocked completely". But Alexandra Elbakyan has ignored judgments in US courts against her. Under Russian law, I believe that her site is legal under fair use. She has managed to piss off the Putin administration, but that's a separate issue (as I understand it, her communist purity vs his vanity). And Google basically left China over censorship demands.

In the Mega case, the US basically leveraged their Five Eyes relationship with New Zealand to have Kim Dotcom's estate semi-illegally raided in January 2012. I say semi-illegally because it was done under agreements that are normally used against terrorists. I doubt that China could get away with rendition from US soil. No more than the US could get away with rendition of Snowden from Russian soil.

So basically, which countries get to enforce their law in other countries depends on relationships and dependencies, relative military power, and support from powerful allies. Under those standards, Germany might have a chance of prevailing against Project Gutenberg in the US. Except that the US doesn't like to be pushed around.
Look,

Puppy dog, Birthday, Fun at the beach.

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"Where do I get that mad notion?" From personal experience, that's all. Your personal experieces don't refute it - they just demonstrate that people's experiences can differ.

I'm old enough to have been to many funerals all over Ireland and I've never experienced a wake as described in the piece outside of Achill. To be clear, the wake he describes involves having the body laid out in the sitting room for at least 24 hours. Having friends, neighbours, relatives and randomers traipsing in and out of the house at any time of day or night and regardless of the time, food and drink (and in the past cigarettes and tabacco) had to be offerred. Some people would assume the duty staying up all night to ensure the body was never left alone?

All funerals I've been too in towns and cities have held a viewing for the deceased in a funeral home.

Actually I googled it, to check if my experiences were wildly out of whack and it seem not - the top hit was https://rip.ie/article.php?AID=32 - and it concurs with my claim that wakes are becoming less and less common and that they are rarely seen in towns and cities these days. So it seems my notion isn't so mad after all!
Don't think any cynicism at all is required to arrive at this conclusion.
Indeed. The new paradigm seems to be to combine the worst of both worlds. In PS4-land, the new normal for disc-based games is they cannot be played without the disc, but install their complete data to your PS4's hard drive, occupying tens of gigabytes of space.
A sample size of 11 males? With over 14 choices? Actually codifying 15 different possible behaviours from which an "interactions" score is determined by researchers? not blind, let alone double blind? It reminds me of the chocolate paper [1]

Come on! If you actually open the paper, https://michaelfergusonphd.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/sex-d...

You will see that the "total interactions" with boy toys is the same for male and female. You might say: No, the women's one is lower. Well, that's what error bars are for. Error bars tell you: Be honest, you actually don't know. So for all intents and purposes they are equal. It's also surprising that they are comparing humans and monkeys, but the don't use the same metric. The paper for humans uses "Mean seconds of play-time", but the study for monkeys had to come up with a new metric "total interactions" to achieve a similar looking graph. Why?

For the plush toy, the female result was 1.5 minutes, ... but the standard deviation was 3.8 minutes ... so ... what does that tell us? It tells me, design a better experiment!

Here's a better methodology: Take 2 "gendered" toys with accelerometers and take 200 monkeys one-by-one, with trackers. Then automatically measure (in a fully blind study) how long each monkey spends which each type of toy presented. I'm not saying the effect does not exist. But this paper does not show it does.

[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choc...
> Why would would someone want to censor themselves just because people they don't like want a monopoly on language?

All effective communication is "censoring yourself". When I say that I'm a software engineer, I'm refusing to say that I'm a kazoo player, because I intend to convey the idea that people get when they hear "I'm a software engineer" and not the idea that people get when they hear "I'm a kazoo player." No matter how much I dislike (or like) kazoo players, I'm not going to attempt to reclaim the term from them.

And the English language is descriptive, not prescriptive. When a phrase has a well-established meaning - whether that meaning was first by commoners 400 years ago, or commoners today, or (for some languages) a bunch of academics in an ivory tower today - people are going to think I mean that meaning when I use the phrase. If I want my communication to be effective, it's on me to pick words that I expect people will understand, not on my audience to figure out what I really meant.

When I communicate, I intend to communicate the most accurate thing I can to, yes, the broadest audience I can.
Extensions that do this terrify me. Imagine a popular Chrome extension, say, Fireshot, with 2 million active installs, selling out. The next update of the app gets shipped with a screen scraper that looks at coinbase.com. Some time after you've last visited your dashboard, it opens a connection on some entirely unrelated site and posts to the 'send' page to send all of your BTC to a third party address.

Or if you have 2FA enabled for sends, just intercept the send POST with an address of your choice, but display the user's originally input address on the confirmation screen. To make it even more confusing, keep a list of transactions:intended accounts so any time the user looks on _any_ bitcoin site it shows the transaction was going to the right account.
Don't you get tired after work to go to studies straight away? And no exercise?
I do not think your argument fair. In fact I find it disappointing. Some things lend themselves to collecting numbers and figures and measurements, and other things quite simply do not. Philosophy, history, literature, and human languages are what first come to my mind as important fields of study that have significant impact on our outlook on the universe, but we can't scientifically measure them. Indeed it is philosophical thought and ideas that underpin our modernity. Moreover, much of our collective advancement is in significant peril because 'the arts' have been devalued so much. (Although William H. Miller just donated a significant sum to the John Hopkins philosophy department since he felt his degree in philosophy made him so successful.)

What you go on to speak of in your second paragraph is the art of rhetoric, and ironically you have unwittingly engaged in the very sort of ad hominem attack which you are complaining that you think that liberal arts scholars would use to defend their position.

An ad hominem attack is a classic logical fallacy and that is something that I suggest you research.
Because software development generally doesn't reward experience. Technologies change with the wind, and a new grad has just as much experience on the latest JS Foo Framework 0.1 (released yesterday!) as someone with 20 years of industry experience. In addition, older folks say negative things like "don't use JS Foo 0.1 in production...it was released yesterday, and there are battle-tested frameworks to do the same thing in $boring_old_language". This makes younger programmers frowny and sad, and less likely to work overtime in exchange for pizza. After all, those old guys don't know anything, or they wouldn't be using such boring, messy code in the first place!

You do gain some generalizable skills over time (and there are always exceptions to the rule) but in practice, older developers are more expensive versions of that which can be bought at a college career fair -- and the marginal difference in efficiency is offset by the young turks' propensity to work long hours while being paid in snacks.
Are you referring to the field's own internal politics (e.g. preference to psychological doctrine or against, e.g. BF Skinner), or are you referencing American government politics? (e.g. like Democrat or Republican)
They never mentioned able-bodied, so what are you quoting?
Sure. That path, though, is degrading over time. Surfing the web without JS is becoming less, not more, achievable.
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As an outsider, the most likely culprit seems to be american school system.
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Fucking fucks! Stealing, rewriting Git history to make it less obvious and breaking the agpl rules. Dickheads!
"In January, James Damore, the engineer who was fired after writing a screed against Google’s diversity efforts..."

Aaaand, done.

Any article that characterizes Damore's memo that way, and most of them do, is misinformation at best. Charitably, such a statement could only be written by someone who either didn't read Damore's memo, or believes they can somehow discern Damore's "real" intent despite his saying exactly the opposite.

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Sorry to dump a bucket of cold water on this but medicine is all about metrics. So they just need to see a certain number of patients a day? There is no "they" and it's a lot darker than that. Each individual physician has a profile and some physicians even get daily reports. The annual financial cost is $40,000 per physician for "quality reporting," "process quality measures," "quality based incentive programs," or "value practice metrics." I didn't believe it at first either so I suggest googling it.

For profit or non-profit, it doesn't matter. They don't exist to loose money. If a physician can't or won't adapt they are terminated.

Does AI have the potential to advance healthcare? Absolutely! Who stands to benefit most? Countries currently lacking in quality healthcare and infrastructure.

This author wrote a piece:"Getting to the Heart of Arrhythmia with GPU-Powered AI." There are over 100,000 EKG technicians making $45K-$68K/year in the USA while the EKG machine is $10,000. Actual interpretation of the output requires a trained physician.

Then there's the medical device industry that both Apple and Google have been pursuing with only miniscule victories.

If you want in interesting read:

JPMorgan Chase (Assets 2.5 Trillion) and Berkshire Hathaway (Holdings 620.8 Billion) have joined forces with Amazon (Value 720.04 Billion) to form a new healthcare company for all U.S. employees.
Your comparison is surprisingly apt, since both languages commonly have long type names (std::vector<int>::iterator, etc.) and I often find that code that does type inference often reduces clutter because I don’t have to know the exact type that something is, but by looking at the code I generally can know what the “high level” type is.
Talk to a psychotherapist.

You need someone to ask you probing questions about why you're depressed about it.

If you can't afford to do it just write your thoughts down. I try to work my way through my worst fears step by step writing each thought. Usually I find I end on a positive note.
Well, yes, and the people who use "Make America Great Again" generally believe that their proposals are actually a solution to an actual problem of America being no longer great.

It seems to me that if you want to convey that you disagree with those people or their assumptions, using their snowclone to describe a tool that actually solves a problem that arose recently is counterproductive. If I wanted to convey disagreement, I might release a tool called, say, "Make HN Readable Again" that added a bunch of slow JavaScript and popups. (And if I wanted to convey neither agreement or disagreement, I'd pick a different name.)