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When the Chinese market is effectively closed to foreign companies once they make any inroads, it's easy to win against ebay or another US company.
Let's be ageist instead, since that is apparently more acceptable. /s

> you want my granddad to do programming?
> People are always going to make choices in their economic self-interest.

I would add that they will make choices in their understanding of their economic self-interest. People are not rational actors.
I watched some old taped TV documentaries on YouTube and checked out what happened to the companies in the commercials. A surprising number met their end by the FTC or some other government agency.
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Could anyone link to the non-paywalled source research paper listed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27869473 ?
It's not always the case that it's worse if you don't show up. As an extreme example, if you're already facing life, running isn't going to make that worse (they're not going to execute you for skipping bail). On the other extreme, notice we don't have to post bail for a traffic ticket. However, if I don't show, there's now a warrant for my arrest. I was in no danger of going to jail if I showed up for my traffic hearing, but I'm most definitely going to jail (even if only briefly) if I'm pulled over with an outstanding warrant.

But let's go with your thinking. Let's use money, instead of those factors in your second paragraph. But you know what having money for bail might mean? You own property, have family ties to the community, are from the right part of town, and statistically probably have the right skin color. I mean, I see where you're going with this, but in the end I think it's a wash. You've either got money, or you are found pleasing to the judge's eye, and either way it means you're likely white and wealthy.

So I don't know what the solution is. But as others have commented, the UK seems to get away without having to post money for bail (though some have pointed out the exact problems you worry about).
Again, the risk assessment is simply used to provide a risk factor to token holders who are contributing to bail payments. So "Bob" is willing to help contribute to bail payments for any low-risk offender. While someone else may be willing to make contributions towards a high-risk offender. It's not used in the court system to make any decision. Only on the platform.
There's always the possibility that things are different in their country.
This is awesome work, and kudos to Tang, but I am also really impressed with how his advisor, Scott Aaronson, seems to have so selflessly supported his research and given him full credit. Even in Aaronson's quotes within the article he talks about it entirely as Tang's work, and he seems to have considered Tang's best interests in deciding how and when to let him present the work - even that he let Tang present it!

Given a different person, we may have read about "UT-Austin Professor and Quantum Researcher Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm" (with generic help from students in a footnote somewhere). It's great to see this type of collegial mentorship.
These types of exercises are useful not to find their solutions, but to reveal the shortcomings of the model used to create them - and our thus our own mental models!

Building design is older than humankind, and there's tens of millenia worth of reasons why they are the way they are. But those reasons aren't always clear. Essentially modern floor plan design is the output of a black-box machine (human) learning algorithm.

The flawed output here, and the comments, help us point out what some of the missing variables are: egress, airflow, construction cost, etc. Do enough of this and you can get a vastly improved model.
Fortnite is... Which is made by Epic Games... Which Tencent owns nearly half of...
As someone who has done research in quantum information, the age shifts this result from "very impressive" to "extremely impressive".
You have to build formwork to construct with in-situ concrete, so there's still carpentry (or equivalent) involved.

It's a good point that existing architectural concrete 3d printing creates "mass concrete" not reinforced concrete, but mass concrete can be structural.
They also own 40% of Fortnite.
Agreed this needs done asap. Benefits hold unsatisfied workers captive, get rid of this bandaid -- and maybe we can afford Medicare for all.

One other option -- make Hospitals be both insurer/provider. They get recurring monthly income, they'd pay 'other' providers when you're travelling out of network, but they'd be more able to bring down costs, the government should set limits though on surgeries and their needs to be more transparency in pricing.

You'd subscribe to your local hospital and pay a % of your income to the hospital they'd take everyone regardless of income level.
I guess I struggle to see why it has to be Javascript exactly (even if js6 isn't all bad). How about reasonml or clojure(script)?
What is now? PUBG?
Yes, examples are exactly what I was asking for.
An optimal design is one that addresses the most problem complexity while introducing the least incidental complexity. It's objective, but difficult to measure. If you use cron to implement a hello world program, the design is not an optimal one, for example.
I think it's probably a balancing act between placing the big room at the end of a hallway (making that hallway a nightmare prior to any event) and placing it in the middle of the building (making that intersection a nightmare prior to any event). I'm sure it depends largely on the specifics of the room and how often it will be used of course. Less frequently utilized is probably better off further away from the center, more frequently better off closer but with multiple entrances & exits to ease congestion.
This really ought to be handled by the browser vendor. Auto playing video on a mobile browser should be disabled by default.
If you mean IOCP API that requires you to hold memory hostage for it, then no, NT sucks at it. The idea behind that API only works well if there is no switch between kernel space and user space. Otherwise you can emulate that awful API with threads on unix-like systems, it will perform the same.

Don't get me wrong though, caching/file serving in nginx was always very hacky. And blowing latency by blocking on filesystem and yet relying on vfs cache underneath is just one side effect of that.
The quality of written text could get worse by the general population reading a lot of misspelled chat, sms and text messages instead of reading correct English from proof read quality sources such as books.

My understanding is that some translators are using machine translation for bulk translation and then that human professional translations use that as a base for translating.
While this is true, Tencent also owns major shares in a ton of the games that might be considered among the most popular, as well as minor shares in many of the companies they don't control.

Arena of Valor, most popular mobile MOBA game; 80m daily players as of Dec 2017 and I believe it's currently the biggest game worldwide despite mostly being popular in China (I think there are even stories of politicians delaying press conferences to finish a match lmao) - developed and published by Tencent

Fortnite - Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games

Clash of Clans - Tencent owns ~85% of Supercell

PUBG - They're working on acquiring 10% of Bluehole, developed PUBG mobile, and managed the (hugely successful) China release

Overwatch / Hearthstone - Tencent owns ~5% of Activision (about $2.5b)

Crossfire (still very popular in Asia) - Tencent managed the China release

Candy Crush - Tencent is the distributor in China

Some smaller but also well-known companies:

Path of Exile - 80% stake

Miniclip - majority stake

Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, The Division, Rainbow 6) - 5%

Paradox Games (Cities: Skylines, Stellaris, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, etc) - 5%

Netmarble Games (mobile games like Lineage 2, YS Online) - 22%

(mostly sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_Games)

This is completely ignoring their significant shares in Tesla, Snapchat, etc. And the fact that they're like, not an actual investment firm and have their own business, including WeChat, QQ, and their AI lab. League's decline in popularity is certainly bad for them, but relative to their entire operations it's only a small hit. This recent drop in market value is, in my opinion, better attributed to the doubts over tech stock valuations due to Facebook and Twitter.
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As a sibling to my other comment: Python is not less surprising, when programming in a JS style.

`nonlocal` is crazy. That lambdas may only be a single line is annoying. Being unable to print anything out of a map or filter operation without first converting to a list gets tedious quick. And not being able to go in for a quick monkey patch on repr, because builtin classes are magically different than user defined classes in “some way”, which makes modifying them prohibited, is limiting.

Sure, the easy retort is: that’s not what you should be doing anyways, python just enforces it. But I’d personally hate to see such an argument in the comment section of SICP, the pinnacle of programmer freedom.

Edit: and what about mutable default parameters?? I’ve had a fair amount of experience with python and sill been bitten by a mutable default parameter bug (not quite that, but related) in the past couple months. JS gets rid of that entirely by making them just syntactic sugar for what it would do anyways, which is much easier to reason about.
When bail is paid in full it's returned by the courts when the person attends trial (regardless of the trial outcome). What this platform does is get many people "token holders to make small contributions to paying someone's bail. When they attend court the payment is returned back to the token holders.
Thankfully, zero: https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-r...

But your point is well taken; there's no particularly great reason to, unless your school is so big and your administration is so goofy that kids are constantly running late. That constraint would be better suited to applying these algorithms to offices, hospitals, military bases, prisons, and maybe shopping malls.
Just curious - why did you choose fasta as your comparison?
> “Tang is killing [Kerenidis and Prakash’s] quantum speedup, but then in another sense Tang is giving a big improvement and building on what they did. Tang never would have come up with this classical algorithm but for their quantum algorithm,” Aaronson said.

I think this deserves more emphasis: regardless of whether or not we need a quantum computer in the end, as a model quantum computing is apparently useful to do research with and advance the status quo of our knowledge.
Yes, which funnily made Richelieu take measure to federate them all...
Solaris has event ports which are equivalent to Windows IOCP. So not all *NIX systems are deficient in that regard :)
A little bit backdrop of Ewin Tang: http://www.uta.edu/utamagazine/archive-issues/2010-13/2012/1...
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It is OK to support the intervention, but it's helpful to be honest about what it is (subsidy) so we can have an honest discussion the tradeoffs.
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Ask HN: Career advice for a non-traditional engineer at a Decacorn?
Hi,

I'm current an SRE at a so-called decacorn startup in the Bay Area.
I graduated with a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from a top 10 US school, but have been programming since 12 roughly.
I've had a number of roles at the current startup, but have been an SRE for the past couple years.

I don't think SRE roles are for me, especially as it seems to pigeonhole to a DevOps type of role, and instead I think I enjoy infrastructure SWE roles more.

Ultimately, I'm interested in becoming an Engineer Manager eventually, as I enjoy working with people and projects at a higher level, as much as I love coding.

Do people recommend pursuing a graduate degree, and if so, an MBA or a MS CS? If not, should I just keep going in the industry?
Nah, not suspicious at all! I am a Brazilian and still live here (for better or worse).

I live in Minas Gerais, where things are not this bad, but last month we gave a party for my daughter's birthday. All the invitations were sent with a 30 minute offset from the real start time as agreed with the caterer because we knew everyone would be late, and it turned out fine.

All my professional meetings start at least 15 minutes late, and it enrages me to no end! Yes, it is really that bad!

>To be blunt, the idea that you could correct such behavior from professional adults by duping them with altered schedules is even childish.

I tell you, it's real...
> Lisp itself is trivial.

Anything about an actual programming language is trivial in the book. I think by design.

In a way, the book isn't even really using the Scheme language. It uses a seemingly makeshift language to help decompose a thought-process into uniform and logical elements. Then, if you throw some syntax at it (using a bunch of parenthesis), you can actually make a computer execute your thought process, almost as a convenient coincidence (which is also why the actual language doesn't matter. It's just that all other languages are more cluttered when trying to capture the concepts of the thought-processes as presented).

One of the stated goals in the book is to blur the line between procedures and data. I believe that if you do SICP well, it blurs the line between data, procedures, and conceptual thought. If you can express a thought well enough to give it a name, to "define" it, you can control it (or "them", depending on whether you are depending on a procedure or spirits to do your bidding).

You don't walk away from SICP an expert Lisp programmer. You walk away from SICP wondering if yin-yang is a fun joke by the authors, some weird coincidence, or actually a governing principle of a Universe which itself is written in Lisp.

You also walk away wondering why people insist on calling OO a "paradigm".
If you're skimming this, as I was, and seem confused -- IRA in this article is not the Irish Replubican Army...

> Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA)
Sometimes you can... We did fix a few issues with a washing machine controller once.

But that took a lot of work on an undocumented software in machine code in 8051 and had the best tools.

The issue is that is not easily traceable from machine code representation. Even electronics are easier.
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Facebook themselves are a bad actor.
> so there's no reason to suggest that you still can't build up $50m companies on purely PHP code.

Yeah, that I agree with. The success of a company and the quality of the programming language(s) it uses are almost never linked.

>Anyway the discussion from the article is whether it would have been better to write it in Java. I can't see what benefit Java would bring.

Quite true, yes.
Most public safety people can retire at half pay with 20 years, and it goes up year by year, usually capping at 60-70% of the average salaries of the last 3-5 years. Many contracts don't cap overtime with respect to pension calculations.

If you join at 18, at 50 you'll have 32 years, which in many departments means seniority to get alot of overtime. It's a decision that the municipality makes -- they understaff to preserve cash and dump the longer-term problem on the bigger pension fund.

The early retirement is important, as the life expectancy for police/fire drops significantly based on retirement age. But the polices re: overtime as it impacts pensions are often too generous. These issues are "fixed" for normal employees in most places -- for example in NY non-public safety employees and teachers have caps (~10%) on how much your salary can increase for pension purposes and either eliminate or cap how overtime applies.

My wife worked for a public employer who had a way to let overtime go into an optional 401k-type plan at a higher rate so that blue collar employees would have an easier time retiring on time. (Many blue collar folks basically depend on OT)
I even ported the "Simulator for digital circuits" from SICP in Java (which "slightly" differs from Scheme): https://github.com/vandekeiser/wires
(look at the wires-core module).

What I like about this book and "The little schemer" is how it is possible to "program in your head" with the examples. Maybe it is due to the homoiconicity?
Completely agreed. Didn't mean to imply otherwise!
https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/airplanes-safes...

1 in 114 chance of dying in a car crash vs 1 in 9281 chance of dying in a plane crash. You can verify this anecdotally...we all know someone who has died in a car crash (I know at least 6 close friends and relatives who have), but nearly no one knows someone who died in a civilian plane crash.

But his fear is irrational so I don't know if statistics will help. Most people are afraid of sharks, lightning strikes, and snake bites even those these events are extremely rare, and nearly no one fears heart disease or cancer which are the top two causes of death by a factor of tens of thousands. 600k people will die of cancer this year vs maybe 500 plane deaths.
Terminal cancer,etc.
Precisely. Government manipulation of the energy marketplace strongly impacts the economic viability of some energy sources over others.

Current market conditions mean people will choose traditional grid-backed energy (most of the time) for economic self-interest reasons.

Whether these subsidies are good or bad is up to the reader to decide. There are plenty of people on the internet that are willing to tell others 'what to think.' I just like to highlight what I believe to be the causation so we can achieve an optimal outcome instead of endlessly parroting dogmatic beliefs of any political party.
Excellent answer, except your last paragraph!

I have used pretty much any and all cutting edge tools on the market. If anything in some instances, it creates even more proofreading/reviewing work.

That being said, as I explained to another commenter above, I foresee several useful use-cases for MT (and there are already are some!). I see them as mostly a separate field from human translation work, in parallel, with little overlap.
What is your source for this? I know people in Canada and France with autistic kids who have never had any such issues.
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If they publish every time they remove "32 Pages and accounts":

1) that will be a lot of blog posts

2) it will take a rather long time to chew through the vast quantities of fake accounts and bad actors
Is that really preventative care though? Why would I take pills for high blood pressure, if I don't have high blood pressure already? I thought preventative care was care that is, well, in prevention of the problem. Ie, checkups and recipes to exercise more.. or eat less carbs, or do more cardio. or w/e.

I know nothing on the subject, so please take this as a question.
Lets get over this bad app called facebook, its actually not that relevant
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Consider this - Ancient Aliens won't convince most people who understand science, but might convince people who believe in religion. I would argue that the ideas in Ancient Aliens are more reasonable and thought provoking than religious cosmology.
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While I think your point rings true, trying to use your historical examples to point it out dismisses human migration among other factors that may have contributed. For instance, there is a good chance that most "Spartans" have died off as a people, since their population problems are well documented. and both the army of Alexander the Great, and the Roman Empire are armies of much larger territory then current Italy/Greece in their peak. And much of Macedonia of Alexander's early reign isn't part of what's typical Greece today.

That's just nit-picking about the complexities of history, but I do agree that the point that people and cultures can change is very true!
This is interesting, but it's not clear from the article what the groups in question were actually doing - they don't seem to be directly connected to the republican party or Russia.
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So the Russian bots are posting left-wing content? How does that work?

EDIT: Looking for clarification, here. Not sure why I'm being downvoted.
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It is too bad. It was a nice idea, started out OK, but petered out quickly.
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Why are you sure that at some point in the future, we will live in homes with AI-generated floorplans?

It's a bit like saying that poetry will mostly be written by computers at some point in the future, or humans will mostly have sex with robots in the future. There's going to be more to this than whether the aesthetic experience is acceptable.
I actualky have those same LED lights. They have been working great for me for over fours months. No complaints.
It sure would be nice if Facebook would come out and clearly say that these bad actors are clearly non-partisan, and are simply trying to cause civil unrest in the US by agitating both sides of the political spectrum.

I'm sure these state actors are thrilled that their plan has gone so well -- not only are their agitations seemingly driving the population apart, but the wider politicization of the issue itself, fueled by the media, where people think the bad guys are acting to tip the scales in the favor of the opposition just plays further into the hands of these actors and does more to fracture our society than any of these stupid Facebook ad campaigns they're concocting ever could.
This is awesome. I'm glad Facebook is getting more involved in moderating astroturfed stuff.
I worried about the same. I'm very happy he's alright.

I forgot about PSP. But Reading about it brings lots of memories. It was a great program, just like its author.
I am impressed, what an interesting piece
"race is a social construct" refers to the fact that the racial categories we place people in as a society do not have a strong relationship to the type of racial information available through biological testing.