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After reading Sloan's _Sourdough_, I ended up buying FWSY and have been making sourdough for about 6-9 months. I find the entire process remarkably fun, relaxing, and exciting. Unfortunately, I still can't get that real "sour" taste from my breads.
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Why would cell phone use cut down on natural light exposure compared to books or TV? The whole point of a cell phone is that you can use it anywhere, including outside. Based on the thesis of this article, all you need to do is play on your cell phone while you're outside to prevent myopia.
Looks like to me the normal error using a none oem disk with an oem key that is baked into bio
I'm shocked that something this obvious has not been worked around.
A proposal: what's being referred to as a 'bundle' or a 'nursery' should be called a 'loom'.

A loom has the precise relation to actual warp threads as a virtual loom would to software (green) threads.
I don't get it. How is putting all of your money in an active and effective charity worse than the default option (stashing it overseas somewhere)?

Also, is the argument that the federal government would make better use of the money than what it's being used for now (effective medical research)?
Give it a shot! I think you might like it!
In a healthy environment, sure. In an unhealthily micromanaged one, you may want to push the review to the end so that you can document that the review process with this person took an extraordinary amount of time and delayed rollout of a feature.
Which they weren't, as demonstrated during the trial and documented in the docket

Well, they didn't seem to actually activate Windows. They only managed to active it using the laptop's original key, not furnished by the CDs guy.
Hmm nothing says it can't be created by telecommuting programmers. Get 10K people to pitch in 10K a pop and that's 100 mil to buy land and start a town
The comment was not only downvoted but flagkilled. It takes time for the community's reaction to settle.

There's something more important though: you helped make this horrible flamewar worse. If you post something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946815, you have no basis to complain about others.

If you saw a house on fire, or a forest, or a city park, I'm sure your first reaction wouldn't be to pour fuel on it. Please bring that instinct for good behavior here too. It's not as obvious that it's needed, but it is.
The "subsidy" argument is usually based on absolutely nothing credible beyond someone saying "money was spent on something that I don't think/no longer think is worthwhile...therefore, subsidy". If that's the basis of this thought piece, minus any credible analysis (and no, saying "a whole retail/business downtown produces more tax income than a single failed mall" is not an analysis), it isn't worth considering.

"the model does not produce returns (ie local tax income less infrastructure maintenance and public service liabilities) that justify the investment"

It doesn't make this case at all. It alludes to it, as if decades of tax revenue and benefits were imaginary, but it doesn't make a credible case.
The text of the decision is relatively irrelevant. GP argues that the charge of heliocentrism was merely a pretext, and that the real reason was political, and that Galileo's heresy would have been overlooked if it wasn't for that.

I don't know if that's correct or not, but it's not like they would admit in the decision that the choice to prosecute was because he'd said mean things about the pope.
This is the lamest argument I've seen in a while.

It's clearly being presented as a true story by the original source. If it's not true it's not food for any kind of thought it's just a really badly written and stupid short story. Stop trying to justify lying.
Anecdotally, my experience has been that while yeast cultures are durable, you can also get some maladaptive selection going from time to time; eg, if you are too irregular in feeding your starter, you might end up with a slow-growing culture rather than the fast-growing culture you get from feeding your starter twice a day and want for a good rise. Your starter will still be alive, but not as useful until you start feeding it constantly again and get that fast-growing culture established again.
Would you please stop using HN for flamewars? It's totally not ok, and you've done it a lot and we've had to warn you about it repeatedly. You've posted many awesome things to Hacker News so we'd hate to ban you, but protecting the site from flames is more important. This is a problem we need you to fix.

Please read and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and help take care of this place instead of helping to wreck it. I'm sure you wouldn't fuel flames in a forest or a garden, so please don't fuel them here.
Does it apply to other countries aswell ?

In France, we have a pretty specific system called "classes préparatoires" where you spend 2 years before accessing business/engineering schools. As far as I know, the ones intended for business schools give a lot of importance to philosophy, history and geopolitics. This seems to differ a bit from how other business schools are described throughout the article.

In the meantime, our business schools seem to follow and try to mimic the American ones.

Do other business school teach similar topics ?
I use my cell phone a lot more indoors than outdoors. I don't go outdoors because my cell phone enables me to connect with people indoors when I would normally be required to go outdoors to connect with them without a cell phone.
Not taking sides in this particular dispute, but it's generally naive and incorrect historiography to take source documents at face value like this.
I'm glad he shared, it helps provide lots of context around candidates' viewpoints and experiences.

Generally, we've found it best not to look away from the mistakes we make, and we make our fair share of them! By doing that we hope to not repeat them, or at least repeat them less often.
Absolutely. The current priority is conference submission, but releasing a simple interface is definitely the plan, as appropriate
Its your call. I like Serverless because it configures all the infrastructure for me, and keeps my lambda code super organized and in an immediately understandable framework.

Its like you COULD just use Ruby to code a site but all the power of Rails adds so much to it!
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Just land yourself an Amazon Headquarters and you'll be fine.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/koch-group-big-tax-breaks-to...
Jan 2018 thread on eye health, 99 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16146106

Jan 2018 thread on vision therapy, 140 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194580
Infrastructure like water pipes and roads are expensive to build and maintain. Lower density areas like malls increase these costs. That's fine in boom times, but from pure economics such areas can easily fail. You can say subsidy or situation normal, but the costs are the same either way.

Resilience is just a simplification, online retail among other things is killing malls and that's ok. It's trying to fight that trend that's a losing strategy.
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I recently finished an executive MBA at a top European B-school. To echo some of the comments, it was overall way easier than my initial studies (eng school), with some exceptions such as a brutal strategy assignment. There was also a sense of entitlement from some of the participants, especially those who were financed by their company. “Entertain me and give me my diploma” so to speak.

On the other hand, due to the executive nature of the program (average age was something like 38-39) the classes were much more nuanced, especially on topics such as HR, management and so forth - when everyone in the room has some degree of managerial experience and a few war stories to share there’s much less room for indoctrination. This was also due to European culture, which is a big part of the school’s DNA and reinforced by the mostly European cohort.

I did learn a lot of stuff; what will stay with me the most is what I learned about myself, through introspective assignments and interacting with other students, most of whom had very different backgrounds. But I would never have been able to do this had I taken the program as an undergrad or right after eng school. It’s true that you can’t teach common sense, you must learn it through practice. However having the opportunity to reflect on that practice, formalizing it and sharing it with likeminded persons was tremendously helpful.

EDIT: to constrast my experience with the content of TFA, I crossed a few MBA students in NY during a seminar. The discussion went something like this:

Me: so what business do you guys want to work in after graduating?

One of them: real estate!

Me: cool, any particular reason why?

Him: to make lots of money and retire early! (Rest of the group nod in agremeent)

Me: ...

This was in 2017 and I assume they had at least heard of the subprime crisis.
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This post discusses using UUIDs as primary keys (but never exposing them), and an additional integer key on each table as the public facing ID.

https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-01-01-sql-keys-in-depth.html

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16050047
You are an evil genius :-). and sadly that happens quite a bit.
We definitely believe the future of work is remote in nature. Physical locality is a vestige from days where manual work dominated -- knowledge work has no such constraint. People want autonomy, and not just in work -- but life too!
That really surprises me. We are also a family of 5. Because of diet issues we even buy a handful of organic items (primarily dairy), and we easily spend less than $1500/mo on food. Oh, and I’d say our diet is above average as far as health, though it could be better. Most meals are home made.

Could it matter where we live? I’m near a big city in the midwest.
You download however many passwords match the prefix (N). If the process has k-anonymity then it's guaranteed that N >= k for any possible prefix.
The text of the sentence is still very clear: heliocentric belief was officially and undeniably a heresy, the sentence banned Galileo's book and the heliocentric books, including the older one by Copernicus, remained officially banned by the Church for centuries afterwards:

"Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Dialogue were then subsequently omitted from the next edition of the Index [of the prohibited books by the Catholic church] when it appeared in 1835." It's 202 years after the sentence.

Read also Galileo's Abjuration, dated 22 June 1633, which I quote in my other message here, which allowed him to get only house arrest. Also read the details, the book Galileo published actually initially passed the official Church censorship and got banned only afterwards, he managed that far as he hasn't too directly advocated the heliocentric view, had followed the required form, revised his work to meet censors' objections, and obtained a license. It was not enough. The sentence wasn't that he was proven a heretic, but that he "showed" the heretical beliefs "as probable" and that he did it as an offender under previous injunction, which he failed to mention:

"the said certificate you produced in your defense aggravates your case further since, while it says that the said opinion is contrary to Holy Scripture, yet you dared to treat of it, defend it, and show it as probable; nor are you helped by the license your artfully and cunningly extorted since you did not mention the injunction you were under."
> There are plenty of cases where individuals ask XY questions, meaning they've gone down a strange route to solve X and now need help solving Y

In my experience I see more of the opposite: XY answers. I search for or ask X, and there's a bunch of "smart guys" trying to subvert a secret hidden context to the question resulting in a secret question Y. When I arrive from Google to see the Y answer on X question, the answer is useless because unmentioned condition Y doesn't apply to my scenario. Multiple answers are always great though, because sometimes there is a sane default answer, and one or more "well if Y applies, you might actually [...]". There's a lot of value in multiple answers with their nuances explained or why they're outdated or the new way explained, etc..
> Why do you say this? I have never met anyone who thought that "death is good and natural". I've heard many people say that it is inevitable and it is futile to try and avoid it, but "good and natural"?

I've run into a huge number of people who say this, or equivalents. "It was their time." "They lived a good life." "Death gives meaning to life." Those are cliches and thought patterns that make it harder to recognize aging and death for the tragedy it is, and thus make it harder to rally against them.

If you go back through the comments on various HN stories about aging and the possible cures thereof, you'll also find many people here who seem to hold similar positions, as though death is an essential part of humanity without which various horrible problems would befall us.

There also exist a substantial number of stories featuring, for want of a better description, "immortality angst". Oh, how terrible a thing it is to live forever, how meaningful is the life of Man for its limited time, would that we could do the same... There are far fewer stories that take the opposite approach, treating immortality as a thing to be desired and death as a tragedy to be solved. Even in science fiction, where we should be aspiring to far more, I've seen many otherwise good stories and series include musings similar to those above. They reach for the comforting rationalization instead of the inspiring future.
To be clear, the weighted bag-of-words is a powerful application of the contextual salience measurement, CoSal, but is certainly not the only one.

(In practice, this can also be applied outside of language, for the importance of other semantic vectors in context)
Name dropping can be counter productive, sure, but at best it is shorthand. If one had to re hash every prior argument one would never get around to original discussion.
True, the warehouses can be re-greened.

But what the Walmarts and warehouses and these kinds of businesses do, is destroy the local businesses. And when the walmarts shutter or move away, or when the factories close, what are we left with?

We're left with few local businesses, higher unemployment, and a dying community.
Seth's linkedin page puts him in Orange County, so I'd not be surprised if his cost of living is easily 30% higher than yours.
I hope your code reviews are more humane and less condescending than this comment.
"God of the gaps" is a derogatory term, and the idea of believing in a God just because some things cannot (currently) be explained is intellectually unpalatable. So I wouldn't expect most Christians to claim to believe in God for that reason, even if that was in fact why they believed.
I'm still concerned about the license and the fact that this comes from Oracle.
> If you want to learn how to solve business problems, there is a course that is uniquely suited for this. Software Engineering.

I wouldn't say software engineering is necessarily uniquely suited to this. Any 'practice based' study will offer useful tools (mental & physical) that are applicable to business: product design, architecture, urban planning etc.

Anything that offers a few frameworks for analysis, hypothesis and prototyping really.
It's true that object keys are strings, but the array and object situation of JavaScript is quite confusing. Arrays are indexed by numbers, but still accept string indices, leading to behavior like this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/9526860
well said. I run a SAAS business ($200-$450/Month price point) and even though it is not enterprise sales and we have a 30 day trial (credit card required), we have learned that the best clients are those whom we have talked to before they bought the trial because we can qualify them. A lot of tire kickers are out there who need a lot of customizations and are not worth the time.
Why go into an office though? Isn’t business also running into the same overhead with physical space? It costs money to rent this space and much office work is information based now, isn’t it better for most of us to simply stay at home in the Information Age?

It’d be nice to make these old malls with well connected roads into places where digital nomads can hang out, live and commune with one another. Add some tiny homes and maker spaces, fiber optic broadband and fast wireless. Put up some solar panels on the roof and by all means, listen for what is coming with the next generation.
The very first programming book I read was a programmed instruction text on Machine Language. This would have been in 1965, and the book probably dated from a few years earlier. It was another four years before I could actually run a program on a real computer (an Algol program on a Burroughs B5500, input via punched cards).

I tried to find the book a few years back, for nostalgic reasons, but couldn't.
I think there are so many misconceptions about the rest of the country’s tech scene. I’ve been in tech for almost 30 years now. The only time I lived on the coast was in Portland Oregon. More often in the midwest. There are tech jobs, that pay very well compared to the cost of living, everywhere. I’ve never been out of work for more than two weeks.

Stay near one of the top 100 cities in the country and there are almost no issues with employment if you keep your skills somewhat updated.

Edit: I should mention I, and all my co-workers, also don’t work remote. Turns out companies everywhere use technology :)
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And the battery would last for 5 mins.
Agree all you want, your opinion is still wrong.

If many double blind experiments are not enough to convince you, I suspect nothing will.

How do you feel about vaccines?
‘Attention is all you need’, was the first thought i had when i read the title of your paper. It might be worthwhile to have a small bit explaining the distinction between attention and context as you view them. If i understand correctly you are describing how on to build a highly useful context representation. The application of that context in a neural net would be to focus the attention of the neural network on the parts of the input that are more important. From my point of view your paper here helps answer the question: what directs the attention?

Apologies if all of this is blindingly obvious. I’m a fascinated amateur.
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It depends on the degree of quantification and your precise definition of software engineering, but IMHO almost all of software engineering research is minimally as quantitative as the social sciences i.e. psychological or sociological studies and analyses. In other areas, as you also mention, SE is almost purely quantitative in nature.

see: https://jserd.springeropen.com/, https://research.google.com/pubs/SoftwareEngineering.html, and https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/recent for some recent SE research topics.

Software Engineering encompasses, broadly speaking, the following topics:

Software Design => Implementation => Testing & QA => Automation => Project Management

Implementation, Testing/QA, and Automation are largely very quantitative, you can create models and algorithms and analyze them and measure most things even easier than in the physical sciences. On the other hand, due to the nature of Software Design and Project Management you are largely left to tools of the social sciences i.e. surveys, difficult to control experiments, observations, etc.
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Sure, that's why you can check how long the heliocentric books (both Galileo's and of Copernicus too!) remained banned by the Church as heretical (until 1835, so Galileo's was banned for 202 years after the sentence), in spite of effectively everybody knowing that the heliocentric view is right: Newton's Principia was published in ‎1687 (completely protected from the Catholic influence), just 52 years after the sentence and almost 150 years before the Church's ban was lifted, and the Principia was giving the formulas to calculate how the planets, including Earth, exactly circle the Sun (more exactly, the center of the mass, determined by the much bigger mass of the Sun). The discovery of which had immense influence in the whole Europe, and even the formation of the US (by removing the religion from the Constitution of the state in 1789, also more decades before the Church ban was lifted. And some decades before the Constitution some America's non-Catholic priest claimed that Ben Franklin, by inventing the lighting rod, causes the God to make the bigger earthquakes instead of punishing the sinners with "just" the lightning strikes. That's how backwards were these who opposed the science, but they were very real. Almost like now).
But Rousseau was no fool in the field of philosophy, he was in fact one of the chief contributors to the philosophy of human nature, so that analogy makes no sense at all.

His ideas are still very relevant and have seen a resurgence in recent years, as he was one of the first philosophers to tie his philosophy of human nature to a political and social criticism of elites, something that is again extremely topical today.
I'm no gearhead, but the change from the N54 to the N55 engine doesn't seem inconsequential.
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It is owning up to the mistake - hence the published retraction.
Can anyone explain why the government wouldn't just mandate that they be given all the keys from the start? Why would they put up with Apple as a middleman who could potentially refuse their requests?

Also, this key escrow scheme is near impossible to scale to more than one government. Now we need a way to authenticate government agents, good luck with that.