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Yes, but inventing a new cake recipe (especially one fairly different than what you have baked before) uses a completely different set of skills than baking a cake, is the point.

You need to develop hypotheses about cake baking, test them empirically (e.g. by baking many cakes while varying one ingredient systematically), cross-apply knowledge from other cooking/baking experience, figure out workarounds to any problems that come up, at some point develop a high-level goal (e.g. mix a particular pair of flavors), and then check that your result matched your previsualized goal, tweaking the recipe in response to feedback until it comes out the way you want, keeping detailed notes matching recipes to results, etc. You need to have a much deeper understanding of cake ingredients and baking chemistry, and you need to work a lot harder at a higher level to invent recipes than to follow them.

If you are a cookbook author designing your recipe to be implemented by unskilled homemakers using unstandardized ingredients and equipment, or if you are a food chemist for an pre-packaged cake mix company, you might have an even larger set of concerns and required skills to invent a new cake recipe.

The kind of skills you learn while inventing new cake recipes might also be useful for solving other kinds of engineering problems. The kind of skills you need to follow someone else’s recipe to bake a cake are much more limited and domain-specific.

I must admit I still don’t understand why P vs. NP has anything to do with primary/secondary math education.
The last paragraph of the piece kinda struck me:

"And perhaps if others saw more realistic portrayals of poverty in the movies, they might be more receptive to programs that would help them instead of demeaning and punishing them."

I would love an example where 'realistic portrayals' of a given subject in movies led to changes in public policy / public perception.

If anything, I would argue that popular films, just like other art forms, are more likely to serve as a barometer of society's perception/reception of a given subject than as something that ignites the change.

Take the war in Vietnam in the 60's and 70's - I'm not sure you could make 'The Deer Hunter' in '68, or 'The Green Berets' in '78.

Or the war on drugs - movies like Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, or Traffic certainly showed a realistic side of drugs and addiction... and yet the war on drugs has only intensified since their popular releases.
Sorry, I meant a hypothetical "you". Should have written "why would one assume" instead.
I really liked The Florida Project. I spent time in motels as a child because my mom was an addict. The film is very genuine.
I feel like it would be very difficult for them to dial back. In my area the same thing occurred. Google Fiber was announced, and suddenly AT&T had fiber to home options available. Then spectrum magically increased their available speeds.

If one of them dials down their service levels, users will just swap to the other. They would have to be concerted in their service downgrades if they didn't want to lose customers.
> When did people lose sight of the fact that the primary purpose of film on the silver screen is entertainment?

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not people so much as a person whose most recent book happens to be called "Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen".

I do try hard not to be cynical but this chap's profession is poverty and he has a new book out on cinematic depictions of poverty. It's a struggle not to just see this as tying in the Oscars for marketing purposes.
I am quoting an earlier comment in this very thread: "We use several CAs to issue—Comodo, DigiCert, GlobalSign—and will be adding Let's Encrypt once they support i) SHA-2/ECDSA signatures and ii) wildcards."

Did your colleague mis-speak?
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"Gradually then suddenly"

This phrase, it's context, and your follow up thought have affected me in a raw and uncomofortable way I wasn't expecting today.
There’s no obligation for entertainment to be political — nobody is asking why films about poverty don’t sell more tickets. But there is an expectation that award shows like the Oscars bring some values to the table. And if you accept that the Oscars should be something other than announcing the most profitable or most entertaining films of the year, if things like gender and race representation matter (reasonable people can disagree on this), then certainly class representation should also matter.
This can work up to a point. They are looking for something in return. Your belief, money, or both.
Ohio.

It's gotten worse and worse over the years. It used to be a tolerant place to live but over a few decades it has turned into a pretty negative area. But this isn't just Ohio, the entire region has turned angry, xenophoic and inward. It has grown increasingly conservative and self destructive in many ways.
As an organic farmer I'm disturbed by how few commenters here understand what organic produce is.

"Certified organic" (aka USDA organic) means the farmer complied with a very strict list of regulations spelled out in the National Organic Program's Final Rule [1] and audited by an accredited certifying agent. See [2] for the TLDR version of the final rule.

"Organic" produce (aka non-certified organic) doesn't mean shit. The farmer may be following organic practices or may not be. YOU are the auditor in this case. Visit the farm and observe their practices with your own eyes before spending extra on this "organic" produce.

Bottom line: If you're concerned about synthetic fertilizers, GMOs, and/or sustainable agricultural practices in general, make sure you're buying USDA certified organic produce. Or grow the stuff yourself.

[1]: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=3f34f4c22f9...

[2]: https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Organic%2...
Thank you for that. Honesty in a conversation helps. Directly saying that you want to place limits on speech makes your position clear.

I believe the current limitation to speech strikes the right balance, so I don’t support new and subjective limits to speech, like “hate” speech.

I’m unclear what you’re asking about governments and corporations. Members of both already have special case restrictions on speech, mostly dealing with military and security.

But, generally speaking, any organizations is just a collective of people who have the right as individuals. So, if I understand your question, my answer is yes.
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>also expect once autonomous vehicles are the majority of cars we'll see stricter enforcement of speeding laws. When everyone is speeding because that's the norm, you don't stand out. When every other car is self-driving at the limit and you're going 20 over in your Corvette, you stand out like a sore thumb. The UK already uses average speed cameras. I think the only reason they aren't widespread elsewhere is simply because many people speed.

No, we'll see speed limits that reflect the speeds people actually travel and probably dynamic speed limits based on the 90th percentile rule (or whatever best practice rule we come up with to supersede that) instead of our current system by which speed limits are the max of what the various stakeholders will ok.

AITaxiCo and AIDeliveryCo are going to lobby the living hell out of reasonable (where reasonable is not a circular definition involving the current speed limit) limits because they don't want following the letter of the law to put them at a competitive disadvantage.
> For example, it is probably easier on MacOS to get a Makefile to run an executable than to drag files to a folder.

Easier for whom?
> When did people lose sight of the fact that the primary purpose of film on the silver screen is entertainment?

Your points on cherry picking not withstanding, this statement is incredibly short-sighted. Movies are just the latest incarnation of a long line of storytelling. And for centuries, artists have used their usually-comfortable working conditions to shine a light on those less fortunate. Go read some Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens or John Steinbeck and tell me that their stories were written solely to entertain. Those great writers found ways to intermingle drama and social commentary. That should be every storyteller's goal. If stories don't help us learn to be better people, what's the point? If they just become escapism to rid ourselves of our unpleasant existence for a couple of hours, they only help perpetuate situations that need changing.

Movies are like food...if all you eat is junk, you'll end up fat and unhealthy. Vegetables can also taste good while keeping you healthy. Movie makers should be searching for the kinds of stories that are both entertaining and keep our society healthy. Instead we get the metaphorical equivalent of donuts...all powerful superheroes who teach us nothing about ourselves or the people we live with. You can say that all you want to see are enjoyable movies, but I don't think it's out of line for others to hold Hollywood to account for failing to live up to the storytelling legacy they've inherited.
Companies were not given subsidies or tax breaks to pay for telephone or power lines. They were allowed to have local monopolies, in exchange for the requirement they provide utility services to all customers in the area, without regard to the cost of building out service to those customers.
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Yeah .. but his first impulse was to write backprop from scratch. I saw the lectures, been dabbling with NN for years, and I never thought to do it. I always thought the Stanford people made you do it on assn 1 to pay your dues or something. I continue to think of Carmack as the Master hacker.
I recommend getting three books and to begin writing at least 500 words per day distraction free (technical, fiction, stream of conscious):

1) On Writing Well - William Zinser https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonfict...

2) On Writing - Stephen King- https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft...

3) The Elements of Style - Strunk & White - https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/...

The two most important points are concise style and active voice. Both of these habits are critical for SEs to write concise emails, specs and commit messages. You will even see improvement in more casual day to day interactions (via slack, SMS etc).
I did a little demo of working with the new Suspense API.

https://github.com/birkir/react-suspense-demo/blob/master/sr...
Not really. You could skip legos all together and have 3D printers that print out layers of work over time as well, no need to measure weight then as you track it through an API.
> I wouldn't try it with the same car I drive to work with every day.

Most people who do this do indeed use their daily drivers. Most people can't afford to own a second $30,000 vehicle they can take out only on the weekends.

> I think the main purpose is [...] not to remove options from people.

And I quote: "Google had long distinguished itself from other companies for committing to the development of a true robot car without a steering wheel or pedals."

http://www.businessinsider.com/waymo-ceo-john-krafcik-self-d...
I would be surprised if AG didn't start with a randomly generated seed to prevent this from happening. Of course that just moves the question to, if you start with the same seed and do the same moves...
> When did people lose sight of the fact that the primary purpose of film on the silver screen is entertainment?

Where did people get the idea that the primary purpose of film on the silver screen is entertainment?

Film has always been art: the purpose of art is to provoke thought, hold up a mirror to society and, of course, entertainment (among others): the ratio of ingredients can change, but it's never been solely about entertainment.

These days, the studios are pumping out motion renderings of comics, as if some ML algorithm that decides on what to work on is in some sort of a feedback loop.

Where are this generation's "Mr Smith goes to Washington"? "Gone with the Wind"? "Apocalypse Now"? (not to imply that these 3 are the best movies out there, just some names off the top of my head, and I'm no cinephile, so let's not get into a movie-naming contest).
> Shrugs, people invoke freedom of expression where it simply doesn't apply, YouTube is a private entity, they can pretty much nuke any content for any reason.

You've got it mixed up, you're only supposed to deploy that snark when someone complains about a private company violating First Amendment rights.

Seriously now, I think its very important to consider how the increasing concentrated private ownership of public communication affects the people's natural rights of free expression. The legal regime that was developed to protect free expression when there was only one entity (the government) with the concentrated power to widely censor may no longer be adequate for the modern world.
It's even harder to solve without laws. And it needs solving.
I wish I could target the browser too. Like my biggest problem is writing a front-end and backend in two languages. If I could do both in one, that would be such a killer feature.
If you click on "Chapters" it takes you to a directory listing of the chapters, click on a chapter link and it takes you to another directory listing of pages. Click on a page link and it takes you to an actual chapter.

It appears that the "book" still needs a fair amount of polishing to be navigable.
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FWIW Charter was transitioning to the name Spectrum before the purchase of TWC.
That's hilarious.

So he fucks up and now has a massive 500 million dollar cash-in-hand windfall.

The irony.

This quote:

>She is expected to run the new board of directors, which will be composed of mostly women.

If she picks people on gender, color, etc instead of merit.... then that means logically that Merit and Ability is not the deciding factor in growing their investment.

When you choose people on their in group identities, as opposed to what it takes to run a business you are:

- sexist/ racist
- going to lose shareholders money since by definition the "best" are not in positions to give the best ROI

Who wants to make a bet via a secured Ethereum Smart Contract that within 5 years this company will be worth less than $500 million?

I'll put 1 ETH (~$1000) up in the bet.
It's not as much about the white masses as it is about the white, affluent people in power in Hollywood and in the rest of the US entertainment industry (which is still the overwhelmingly dominant entertainment industry in the world).

They're the ones that make most of the decisions, and are responsible for what the masses see. They're also the ones who give themselves awards and pat each other on the back at the Oscars:

"In 2012, the results of a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times were published describing the demographic breakdown of approximately 88% of AMPAS' voting membership. Of the 5,100+ active voters confirmed, 94% were Caucasian, 77% were male, and 54% were found to be over the age of 60."[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscars#Voters
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Socializing is a game, but that doesn't mean you can't play it with genuine, mutually beneficial, good intentions.
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And similar to yours to me. Many thanks.
Presumably this title is a riff on Gary Kidders pulitzer prize winning book "Soul of a New Machine". Other than being about a new machine, ie the then new ipod, this piece has very little in common with the book. The book is great, I highly recommend it.
>That seems almost certain to breed more resentment than enthusiasm.

And mistrust. How can the employees be sure the lottery wasn't gamed?
Def check out Lawrence's writing, if anything you will laugh ... if not cry.
Since he's employed by them. (He works for Occulus, owned by FB).

That said, I chuckled at his note about being contrarian, as he writes a post on FB
Tell HN: Here is a hard problem for you all that want an idea
It is 2018, we have self driving cars, but for some reason, we still cannot get printed material digitization to work flawlessly.

As it is done currently, the book is scanned, then OCRed, the digital book is then assembled, from the scanned images with a hidden layer of OCRed text, so that you can select and search for text in the digitized book.

Why this sucks:

1. readability is pretty poor, because you are reading a scanned image on a screen.

2. OCR is pretty poor. It can only recognize basic alphabet. Any mathy book will have math all over that is recognized as giberrish. This is the reason why they cannot construct the digital book from the OCR data alone

3. in the far future one may dream of such incredible software that would convert a scanned mathy paper into a well formatted latex document; but that is too much to ask for now

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I know this is actually a hard problem. But it is definitely a problem we can solve with today's tech. It is just a big project.

I do know that some entities do offer proprietary solutions. I have not personally tried them because I am not the one digitizing books. I don't know how good those solutions are, but most digitized books I come across are pretty poor quality, still.
Your system makes two assumptions that have been thoroughly, repeatedly proven wrong:

- It's possible to know what tasks are required to complete a project at the outset of a project.

- It's possible to estimate how long those tasks will take to complete.

Any team I've ever seen who claims to do well with both of the above points either had massive sandbagging problems, sometimes openly acknowledged by everyone, and often failed to deliver the best solution they could due to the rigidity of their project plan and the political consequences of straying from it.

Furthermore, "if it can't be measured, it can't be managed" is true to a degree, but over-reliance on metrics can result in tunnel vision towards those metrics, resulting in accumulation of technical debt, quality issues, less team cohesion and a host of other problems as your teams myopically focus on hitting their numbers above all else.
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> there are people's stories not being told precisely because you would prefer entertainment to something that challenges your views on what is even entertaining.
> Not only that, but who says these movies can't be entertaining??

Brilliant! Except, erm, which one of the top 50 grossing films is telling somebody's story? And are we sure that affluent people are really going to the cinema much? Also, different people go to see different films (e.g. 50 Shades of Gray being the obvious example, or kids films). Certainly escapism/entertainment seems like a common motive with the recent super hero movies. But also, attendance drops when there's no film that people want to watch, so again it's not clear that people would go watch such films even if they existed and the favourable condition that there was no other blockbuster out there happened to occur. In other words, it doesn't seem to be zero sum game.

So maybe it's not the big bad affluent white "masses" fault, but it's a facile argument to throw out there.

But even if we accept that's true, the cost of film making has dropped dramatically. People could make whatever these grim, poignant but yet still entertaining films, put them on YouTube, and watch the views rack up if people truly wanted to watch them. And yet most stuff in YouTube is also pure entertainment. Strange...
The decline of whom started a century and a half ago, and was barely used at the end of the last century.

As a news item this is about as timely as the outbreak of the Iraq War.
Maybe it's because I live in a wealthier and more dense metropolitan area where there is actually still some semblance of competition between them, but over that same time period both major ISPs in the area have stepped up the speeds they offer and prices haven't risen to match(as far as I can tell). Their lowest tier service is 50mbit, which was just a few years ago one of the highest. Both are offering gigabit to the home now, and one offers 2 gigabit in certain areas.
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So, we've got two stylized facts:

1. In modern American culture, young boys, but not girls, are diagnosed with personality disorders and drugged into submission at rates so alarming that skeptics refer to things like "Youthful Tendency Disorder". ( https://www.theonion.com/more-u-s-children-being-diagnosed-w... )

2. Also in modern American culture, there appears to be a very strong preference for having female children over males.

But you don't think these could be related?
Then say what you mean. Instead of trying to limit my freedom of owning a self-driving car, make it clear you are arguing for the right of people to drive what they want to and we’ll be on the same page.
Not sure what interests you but I'm a fan of the backup app [Restic](https://github.com/restic/restic).
SMS 2FA has problems in US. But as usual they made it sounds like every mobile network in the world has it vulnerable.

For places where your SMS is relatively safe, SMS 2FA is the current best for average home user.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is City of God, which is about Brazilian favelas. You can make movies about poor people that are just as entertaining and compelling as any movie about super spies or whatever.
Sorry, but babies are public enemy number one. As long as population grows, pressure on the environment grows. The growth will end, but probably won't end well.
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