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Results are contingent on tools. Further, results are so profoundly contingent on tools and the process of the tools, that without deeply understanding tools, often the result is simply misunderstood or mishandled.

This is particularly striking when commenting about business metrics and how they are generated. Not understanding the query and what it doesn't say often leads to misunderstanding.

In a certain sense, while you may be conditioned to care more about the result, I care more about the art and craft, because that defines the result and the backpropagation of information into the tools.

Let me explain more: Slack defines an experience. That is the tool. The result is consequential of the tool. Change the tool, change the result. One compiler produces one output, another produces a different output, more readable. Change the tool, change the result. The locus of interest and control is the tool - although the zoomed out reality is the result is the relevant bit to the user, mostly.

Joel talks about leaky abstractions: tools are abstractions; understanding the tool takes the cover off and lets you create new abstractions and understand without leaks. Understanding tools gives you the ability to recombine and build the new tools - one begins to realize the independent variable is the tool.

And again - lack of understanding produces embarrassment and inability to properly use the tool - understanding gives lucid and clear capability.

With respect to your remark about pasta: I would, frankly, be happier to make my own pasta if I had the time. Same goes for the other food I eat.

I paint for a hobby; I have paintmaking supplies and will, in time, as I use up my tubes, transition over to making the paint that I paint with. I am learning how to make brushes. I often prepare the wood for painting upon. In time I will prepare canvases and likely I will learn the process of pressing and refining flaxseed into linseed oil.

Time and experience have persuaded me not to talk about the tools and so forth to the non-nerd crowd such as, e.g., The Business, because it's not considered useful to them.

Hope that helps.
> A mathematician might benefit from the quiet solace of the country side, the human bandwidth being of marginal benefit,

But most of the working (academic) mathematicians I know, while they need some time in "quiet solace" or whatever, absolutely need to spend some time bouncing ideas off other mathematicians. Not unlike computer scientists, actually. And that's easier when the other mathematicians are local-ish.
Agreed, this article is rubbish, and anyone who upvoted should be ashamed.
Using TensorFlow and Azure to Add Image Classification to Your Android Apps
Stanford's Algorithms courses might be considered good like you describe.
Pretty certain the website is a content farm troll that is also indulging in heavy astroturfing...

http://newobserveronline.com/about-us/

> We are staffed by professional writers who all have extensive experience in news and journalism from around the globe.

No names, or headshots, or bios, or contact info of any of their "professional writers".
That’s not a trait inherent to insurance. Premiums can be adjusted based on risk so that everyone “subsidizes” everyone else by the same amount on average.
I'm so glad these incentives have contributed to expediting the eventual heat death of our universe
GDPR doesn't make illegal the trading of personal data for services. It requires consent for each piece of data (in detail, not a catch all) , and requires an option to remove your data, or opt out of specific uses of said data.
OAuth 2.0 for Mixed Reality applications
We're a consulting firm. We looked back at Matasano and thought about how value was added over the life of the firm, and 4 years didn't nearly capture it. If we do product stuff, we'll just spin that out into a separate entity, and that would probably be 4/1.
>[...] date back to 1960, when John F. Kennedy was president

No he wasn't, so my confidence starts flagging.
Manipulating Space and Time in Mixed Reality
I'm writing this post from my home in Manhattan, Kansas, a mid-sized town in the Flint Hills. We had a gorgeous sunset tonight and I watched it from my back porch, staring across my lawn in the rolling ranch land behind me. I'm working for a San Francisco YC alum tech company but living in one of the most affordable places in the US. Life is amazing out here. I have gigabit fiber internet, great third-wave coffee shops, a great local library, decent restaurants, and a couple of solid cocktail bars. Kansas State University is here, so that brings us a nice performing arts center that gets nationally touring acts and Big 12 football and basketball teams that you can't help but love. My only "commute" is driving my kids to school and driving myself to the coffee shop. We have a great little airport with free parking and I can leave my home and be stepping onto the jet bridge in twenty minutes and SFO is an easy hop through DFW.

It's beautiful out here and I wish more tech workers would consider the Midwest when they decide to leave the Bay Area.
This feels like an abstracted form of arbitrage: the markets have figured out that there's a quantifiable risk difference between men and women, but they have not distinguished cis and trans folks in their model, and not figured out whether this is a hormones-at-birth difference, or a current-hormones difference, or a socialization difference, or what. They have also certainly not figured out how to distinguish actual trans folks from arbitrageurs (this is something that I think the law ought not to try too hard to figure out, on limited-government grounds, but the markets would love to take as much data as they can and feed it into a model). Once they figure it out, they'll price this person as a person, and he won't be able to swing it as dramatically.

Gender is a pretty crude (though effective) axis to make this sort of risk distinction on. An insurance company that can accurately figure out which men are lower-risk to insure than the average man will probably have a pretty good time in the market. (And get a head start on any policy changes about not discriminating on gender.)
$5m grant to Israel cancelled after Arab student selected
If there's demand for said service, then there will be some new enterprising individual who will try to provide it at a profit.

The level of risk and profit is going to adjust to the correct balance over time.
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I actually had to address that claim during a lecture once. Ridiculous.

For the record, I think anyone peddling pseudoscience regarding medical conditions should be shutdown hard and fast. People who suffer from chronic pain or incurable illness can become desperate and turn to charlatans whose snake-oil can produce terrible effects. It isn't harmless to prey on such insecurities.

http://whatstheharm.net/
Source: https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads?
Thank you. This website is a farce. It's disgusting this got any up votes.
Isn't there a distinction here, though? While they might result in a similar outcome, deletion is different from de-identification.
I am not a crypto expert, but I thought that the idea was to produce a new more or less random salt for EACH password, store the salt with the hashed password, hashing using an expensive algorithm.
Yes the hacker steals the salt with the hash, but now has to go to the trouble of brute forcing that ONE password with its UNIQUE (or almost unique) salt.
In other words, the hacker can crack it, but the process is so expensive for ONE password that cracking an entire database of passwords is a nightmare.
Of course, the hacker just focuses on the most privileged accounts I guess, but the idea is to make the hackers life as unpleasant as possible, and to catch the hacker while they are coming back in. Am I missing the point? I do see that if the hacker wants one password, they can do with effort even with unique salts.
Assuming that's what they reveal, yes. If accident rates are linked to testosterone levels, trans women taking hormone-replacement therapy should have statistically lower accident rates - and trans men taking hormone-replacement therapy should have statistically higher accident rates.
Anecdotal counter point: I've worked remotely for years. I do plenty of brainstorming via Zoom and Slack. It works just fine for me. I never felt productive in the typical tech office space-- open-plan or cubicles. When I was an office worker and really needed to get stuff done, I'd go home. If I can help it, I'm never going back to an office.
Much of Kansas is comprised of the most uninteresting topography in the United States. But for wheat and corn, nobody would live there.

The author claims she grew up in Kansas. I doubt her job requires her to be in Los Angeles. So, why isn't she in Kansas?

As a Midwest resident, I'm annoyed by patronizing West and East Coasters who claim fly-over country is dying. Many folks in the Midwest stay here precisely because the thought of living amongst smug nitwits like the author is so revolting.
Its not just about the compute, but also the data acquisition. You can connect directly to your ADC without extra glue logic (and in some cases use the one embedded on the FPGA). Also a GPU is a lot more expensive than a $20 FPGA.
I'm in San Carlos. Came available last six months.
Watson Services are very much a product you buy/subscribe to. Just like the Machine Learning services you get from Microsoft or Google. You can use them pretty easily with absolutely no consulting at all.
Facebook paid 19 billion to buy up competition, as WhatsApp was a threat to the Facebook ecosystem.
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Yup. See many other OSS products. Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, is nearly 100% remote as an organization. Works like a charm.
On Rethinking Technology Education
Its in the original link, I may have limited the quote too much:

... To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used ...
TLA+ is fantastic. Knowing it is like having superpowers. While others are mortally afraid of concurrency, you just spec your system & go. It also gives a huge decrease in cognitive load when you're implementing your system against a TLA+ spec. The hard stuff is already done. You can just glance at the spec to see what preconditions must be checked before an action is performed. No pausing halfway through writing a function as you suddenly think of an obscure sequence of events that breaks your code.
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I would say similarly to hyphenation is TeX's ability to place page breaks optimally. I don't believe any web technology can solve this problem at the moment.

Just printing the <p> tag, with its constraints of text layout on all layers (word, line, paragraph, page) already has a lot of details you need to get right to get naturally readable text flow before adding on all the other complexities of html. For instance, if you have a single line creep onto the next page, but you could also just move the entire paragraph to the next page and subtly adjust spacing on the first page, then that is preferable so that each paragraph resides entirely on one page. This is obviously not always possible or desirable, so it turns into a search problem with many variables that can be dynamically altered in the middle of text flowing.

My understanding of modern CSS engines is both that a) CSS itself lacks the natural primitives to even express constraints you'd find in TeX, and also b) the concerns necessary to solve page layout to this degree fall into the type of search problem that browsers tend to try to avoid when rendering.

Of course, there's an argument to be made that if people don't realize it's missing, maybe it wasn't terribly valuable to begin with. I'd imagine for most home uses it's not very useful, but the fact that you can typeset decades old documents at a de-facto professional level, for free, OR with heavily modified engines allowing more modern practices, is really quite amazing. I hope the effort that went into formalizing "readable text" doesn't get lost as people move on from TeX--it'd be great to get some of this capacity in a browser with competing implementations; TeX is a lot to learn for most people, and it's also turing complete, which is IMHO mostly a bad sign for accessibility.

There are also projects which attempt to render HTML to TeX, but they were frankly mostly terrible the last time I looked. I honestly wonder if it's easier these days for javascript to attempt to render the DOM to TeX and just leverage the browser as much as possible, but I'm not familiar enough with the DOM to speculate on how much this is likely to work on unaltered pages. My guess is you only get so much for free before you have to specifically consider that output scenario, just like other types of responsive layout.
Author here -

Entirely agree and we recommend using Auth Code+PKCE whenever possible. This post is intended to be the first of a few starting with the base spec. In the next one, I plan to go over the RFCs for JWT, Revocation, Inspection, PKCE, the AppAuth pattern, and probably a few others.

Thanks for the note though.
Not only that, but the extracts are one of the most popular form. Then there's profit to be made in pipes, vapes, accessories, etc. Can't grow those.
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I think it would be really useful. And if the giving pledge is real, it seems plausible that a couple of hundred million might be pledged for "pure science"
Yeah reminds me of one of Buffett's sayings "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.". Perhaps illustrated by Eddie Lampert who used to be considered a genius ("first Wall Street financial manager to exceed an income of $1 billion in a single year"), taking over Sears which hasn't gone great (stock from ~$100 to $2.3).
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I think more simply ask how many people make a substantial, durable change in health status in the general population. My sense is quite few, it’s really hard to change your lifestyle or get more exercise. I doubt a small workplace incentive is going to tip the balance for all but a few people, and those were likely already close to making a change.

It’s also labor intensive to measure workplace wellness in a verifiable fashion. You basically need to collect vital signs on your employees, otherwise you’re open to being gamed in the way described in the OP.
Two things I didn't see mentioned: stagnant wages and rising healthcare costs.

I don't think it's a coincidence that malls, especially non-upscale malls, are dying at the same time there's a proliferation of dollar stores and thrift store chains like Savers (basically a for-profit Goodwill).

Near a mall where I live there once was a Circuit City. Now there's a dollar store and a Savers.

Malls are failing because we simply don't have as much disposable income as we had in the 80s and 90s.

The malls that seem to be doing well are the upscale malls whose clientele still have plenty of disposable income.
Yes, that idea is frequently flogged here.
>the JVM _NEVER_ returns memory to the os

That may (or may not) be true of the GC heap, but the GC heap is only one consumer of JVM memory allocations. I don't know enough to confirm one way or another.

Speaking from experience, OpenJ9's JIT compiler aggressively returns transient compilation memory back to the operating system.
The basic idea is that you might start with a manual linkage between concepts, derived from linkages between content developed by subject matter experts, but over time it organically morphs into a knowledge graph that describes how certain concepts relate to and build on each other, and for which scenarios of learners.

That knowledge graph combined with a concrete goal (mastery level) and time to get there (deadline) can then be used to recommend to a specific learner what material to study or activities to do next.

It's theoretically possible to do this even more organically, but you need clearly tagged educational "stuff" (written content, lectures, activities, etc.) and, perhaps more importantly, clear ways to measure outcomes as a result of interacting with that "stuff" (typically quizzes which themselves have been clearly calibrated).
I'm a big fan of his foundation too, but I often find myself wondering whether the stigma is the biggest problem. I looked into becoming an electrician awhile back, and the path to licensure seemed long and expensive. Contra that path, I'm sure we all know very successful self-educated programmers. Maybe the licensure and training expense is totally necessary, or maybe it could be improved through regulation reforms or apprenticeship instead of for-pay training. I really don't know enough about these industries to say, but it seems possible. It also seems like that would be likely to result in those jobs no longer paying such top dollar. Put a different way: it seems like if Mike Rowe were extremely successful in his initiatives on this front, the result may be that the jobs he is advocating are no longer as attractive as they currently are.

Having said all that, I'll be very angry with myself if my future children graduate high school thinking that college is the only next step that would make their loved ones proud, like it was for me and my friends.
Taking a huge buyout then trashing your acquirer for PR points a few years later seems in poor taste. They knew exactly what they were getting into when they accepted the FB megabucks.
I think what the parent poster meant was if the whole town is filled with service providers, their customers must also be from the same local area. But if there are no other jobs for those customers to work at (to bring outside money into the community), they won't be able to afford those services. Local trade with each other (mechanic selling services to an electrician, the electrician doing work for a roofer, and the roofer putting a new roof on the the mechanic's workshop) falls apart when you don't have money flowing into the area from outside (i.e., building trucks to sell to people in other cities).

Edit: After seeing the downvotes on the parent post, and a couple similar ones, I think people are reading "creating wealth" vs. "not creating wealth" as value judgements on the people in those industries. Whereas in this context I think they mean in the purely economic / accounting sense, similar to "cost centers" and "profit centers" in businesses. Without profit centers, the business would crumble, but without the value that the cost centers bring to the business, the profit centers wouldn't be able to function.

So just like Silicon Valley needs to find a way to not price service workers (janitors, mechanics, etc) out of the area, other places need the same healthy balance of money flowing into the area along with a local economy to distribute that money around.
Now all of my comments expressing displeasure with this website are getting downvoted. I suspect whatever network of accounts colluded to upvote this trash briefly into the top 30(before it got flagged), are now downvoting anyone who says something bad negative about them. There is fuckery afoot!
The few video sites that have managed to compete with YouTube all have interesting angles. There is DailyMotion, which is popular in France and seems to play fast and loose with IP laws. Tudou for when you're behind the great Chinese Firewall. Facebook videos, which compete in view counts with YouTube by force of their own monopoly on social media. And Twitch which carved out a niche in video game streaming. Maybe we should consider Twitter videos too. RIP Vine.
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If it's foreclosed, is it just a waiting period? After that can't the be assumed by someone or government entity and then just sell it at auction?
Ask HN: Important fintech regulations to be aware of?
I was wondering if anyone had any experience or knowledge of important regulations to be aware of when trying to make financial software or applications.
I like small companies because they let me get things done. "Solve this problem." and I'd solve it. That could mean cleaning up some workflow, or building 5 automation engines.

This gets more difficult when you have modules that have more than one person coding on it, because now you can step on each other's toes.

Big companies usually have 7-8 people working on a particular module, which requires a lot more coordination. That module is probably spec'd out by another team of a few people who talks to the business teams that will be using it, or talk to a client. These teams all have managers who need to know what's going on, so they have more meetings. When there's a question on the spec, it now involves two teams that must have a meetings to talk. Teams ask questions of other through their managers which leads to more meetings. The original, "Solve this problem," was defined by an upper level executive 5 levels up, based on some grand strategy that I don't know about and won't be explained to me.

It turns into a big mess.
If FB pays $19B for every messenger competitor that gets traction, that's a huge incentive to make more of them.
Looking into DTube, their about page says, "Because of the decentralized nature of IPFS and the STEEM blockchain, D.Tube is not able to censor videos, nor enforce guidelines. Only the users can censor it, through the power of their upvotes and downvotes."
23x sounded pretty high, and indeed the GP's Wikipedia article cites 23x as one option from the original 1979 work, or 11.5x as a more recent one. The latter seems much more reasonable, and a quick look at stats for Australia suggests current stats put it at something like 6-10x.

But the more interesting article to me was [0] which presents a study that says around 30% of "cycling" deaths are due to natural causes such as heart disease.

[0]: https://blogs.crikey.com.au/theurbanist/2015/09/01/is-it-jus...
Night Court's a real thing in NYC at least, although obviously the show wasn't completely accurate as to how it works.
If that happened, but went the way of Palm Pilot's "Graffiti" system, what would be the analogue of touchscreen keyboards?
Has someone prohibited such bulbs? In the US, I think there was some exemption for utility incandescents.
For the non-STEM (e.g. social) research grants there always seemed to be a bit of a nudge to get the hypothesis confirmed because it was often political (government) or purpose driven (NGO or patron). I sometimes have wondered if the same dynamic had crept into STEM research grants.
yeah so did I and all my friends. $1 whatever.
same site reports

>Jews in US Congress Urge Israel to Accept UN “Deal” to Deport African Invaders to White Countries

I don't think this would qualify as a creditable new source for IT information.
You just described how I learn new things!
Following this logic to its conclusion, there is no such thing as control and all laws are pointless. You can't force people not to kill each other, but you can enforce punishments that dissuade people from doing it (and in some countries create regulations to make it harder to acquire tools to do said killing). Same thing goes for stealing, perjury, fraud, assault, breach of contract, defamation, etc.

I actually cannot think of a single instance where someone has "control" over something and the law exists purely as a way of exercising that control, and I can think of hundreds of examples where laws exist to stop people from doing things they may be physically capable of doing but would produce a negative effect on society if permitted. Maybe there is such an example, but it'd be an outlier.
What's an example of a metric that measures the true merit of something?