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Zoos have nothing to do with my beliefs around animal welfare and that assumption shows your blinkered view of this problem.

The fundamental problem is that humans view animals as tools, torture and murder for our benefit is normalised from birth and zoos are just an extension of that.

You can argue that zoos play a part in giving some humans some compassion towards some animals but what use is that when their next stop after the lion enclosure is the hotdog cart.

We shouldn’t need zoos. There’s lots of non-invasive ways to learn about animals, and if our shared fundamental belief was that we should do everything we can to show animals compassion and respect, then at no point would anyone need to say “unless these kids see a caged tiger they’re not going to consider the consequences of deforestation”.
Breaking up in a relationship is different and it depends on how deep you’re (dating, living together, kids, married) in and how insurmountable the problems are.
The Digital Antiquarian had a really interesting series on the origin of Tetris and the complicated mess of licensing agreements that resulted from business negotiations across the Iron Curtain. Lots of really fascinating individuals in there bouncing around between the corporate heavyweights.

https://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-par...
7 Reasons to Reconsider a Planned IPO Exit Strategy
Forrest Man – Jadav Payeng hand planted forest to save Majuli Island ecosystem
>You're arguing that a lion that sits in such a small cage it cannot run, has nothing to hunt, and little to do, is better off because they might get ticks out in the wild? Really? And if you want to talk about starvation, then let's talk about the source of Lions struggling out in the world, like human encroachment on their hunting grounds, farming, deforestation, etc.

Do you know what happens to male lions in the wild? A stronger male lion takes their mate, kills their children, and then kills them. And this is just the ones lucky enough to survive that long. Male lions are kicked out of their pride as soon as they reach adolescence. Most don’t even make it to adulthood or survive long enough to mate. And if you’ve never seen an animal kill another animal, they don’t exactly prioritize a quick and painless death. Life as a wild lion is nasty, brutish, and short. It’s incredible, the the romantic notions that people dream up for themselves.
> The difference is that a half-finished construction project is a gaping wound in the landscape, but a half-finished software project is just some code hidden in a corporate server.

The difference is that missing deadlines in construction projects come with bigger monetary penalties (citation needed,
based on the low penal damages I've personally seen in IT project contracts).
Why can't everyone working in a given field be incompetent? When Dr. Semmelweis discovered that surgeons washing their hands drastically reduced patient mortality, he was dismissed and ridiculed. I would say that 100% of those surgeons were objectively bad at their jobs and therefore "incompetent" in a narrow sense. Groupthink can cause everyone in a given field to converge on the same orthodox belief, and if that belief is wrong or dangerous, shouldn't they all be considered incompetent? Even today there are many pseudo-scientific fields where literally none of the practioners are objectively able to accomplish what they claim... and it's not at all obvious that project management is not among them.
Software predicts landslides weeks, not hours, in advance
> The article cites an example from Sales teams.

Did they look at people other than at sales? Could it be that their results apply only to salespeople? Just wondering.
At my employer, senior technical roles are bonus-eligible at rates similar to line management. Salaries are similar as well. And I know a few employees who have dabbled in management and later returned to senior technical roles without lasting negative impact.
I wonder if one could use the read head from an old HDD
Just because I want somethint, doesn't mean I think its true.
I did this. I would agree that it wasn't smart, but I don't think it was unprofessional. I stayed long enough to wrap up or hand off all my projects. It wouldn't have worked to find something else right away because I was burnt out with stress, and adding on job-searching stress and starting a new job right away would have just compounded that problem. What I needed was time off to recover. It's absolutely a luxury of our industry that I was able to do this without (much) ill effect, but all my employers since then have benefited from my improved mental state afterward.

But still, I agree it wasn't smart; the smart move would have been to recognize the impending burn out early on and work with my employer to keep it from getting to the quitting point.
Complicit in hiding the existence of POWs left in Vietnam.
The page isn't to bad. Better than certain other pages I visit that has to fill half the screen with a notice about how they ask for my permission to ignore the GDPR.

Would it be better without an animation? Possibly.

But given the current state of the web I'd ve fine with a few extra "i hate animations"-animations if they replaced sites that spy on me, only work in Chrome and advertises dating sites I don't need.

Edit: good -> not too bad
"Sold for" column does not at the same time means that he earned 0$ from such projects until he sold them.
What is “ruthless change control”? If it means placing realistic constraints on how sales or customer relations teams can alter deadlines, priorities or scope of work, then it simply does not exist in corporate IT and is intrinsically disallowed by the inborne organizational structure of modern companies.
Kinda sounds like you don't like the zoo.
The Book of Why

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect
You are judging all zoos by the worst of them. Go look at a good zoo. None let tigers live so naturally as to kill thier own dinner (cage fighting is evil) but the animals are certainly not bored.
18-year-olds have legal majority, but talk to one for an hour and you'll see most are not 'adult'. 500 years ago a 16 year old could be a man, contributing as a full fledged adult to his community. Today it's 25 if you're lucky.
I kinda like biking standing up now though. I have a single speed with an insane gear ratio so I'm constantly flying and standing makes that easier.

I feel like the road runner sometimes.

Beep beep.
This has come up on freakanomics or planet money, but I can't find the episode.
I skimmed this article, and I skimmed the comments here too
> ...and if a single location fails to grow adequately we can literally move it within an hour or two.

And one would imagine there'd already be a noodle stand sitting there since they've had ~80 years to find the optimum spots (going by TFA).

Brings back memories of when they opened a Taco Bell close to the Humboldt State campus and then had to hire 24/7 security to protect it from the anti-corporate vandals who didn't appreciate having tasty tacos within walking distance from campus. I can certainly imagine the mobile robonoodle stands will suffer many an unexplained breakdown when they try to displace another noodle stand.
As a Georgian (The country one) we are immensely grateful for all he has said for support of our country while we needed it the most.

While Russia is invading and expanding occupation and impotent Europe is "Concerned" and Obama or Trump did not do jack shit, McCain was only one to voice up and support really small country against huge money he could have earned from Putin like others do.

Fuck cancer and Fuck Russia
People have started investing in fusion. Tokamak Energy and a new company spun out of MIT's fusion program have both gotten tens of millions, for fairly mainstream designs. There are also companies using more speculative designs, the biggest being Tri Alpha, which started in 1999 I think and has about $500 million invested. There's also Helion, which got a modest investment from YCombinator.

One reason fission moves slowly in the U.S. is the NRC. A couple years ago I got to sit in a meeting between a bunch of U.S. reactor startups and a former head of the NRC. The reactor people's main complaint was that the NRC required detailed blueprints before it would even look at a design. It would take several hundred million dollars to get to that point, and then the NRC would give a flat yes or no. With a no you were done, and with a yes you still have nothing but a paper reactor. It's a very difficult environment for investors.
> Zoos have nothing to do with my beliefs around animal welfare and that assumption shows your blinkered view of this problem.

I apologize for making you feel that way.

> The fundamental problem is that humans view animals as tools, torture and murder for our benefit is normalised from birth and zoos are just an extension of that.

I'd encourage you to visit the Smithsonian National Zoo (a choice local to me, admittedly) to shift the perspective that led you to draw this generalization.

> You can argue that zoos play a part in giving some humans some compassion towards some animals but what use is that when their next stop after the lion enclosure is the hotdog cart.

I can argue it quite successfully given the number of conservation and anti-endangerment efforts well-maintained zoos seek to fund and manage. See e.g. the Smithsonian's efforts with Giant Panda breeding.

> We shouldn’t need zoos. There’s lots of non-invasive ways to learn about animals, and if our shared fundamental belief was that we should do everything we can to show animals compassion and respect, then at no point would anyone need to say “unless these kids see a caged tiger they’re not going to consider the consequences of deforestation”.

Regarding non-invasive ways, there really aren't. Life is driven to experience the world through sensation. As best as we know, humanity is the first species to substantially experience the world through reading, writing, speaking (well, others likely have a claim to this), and general indirect exposure. Billions of years of evolution went into honing the senses, whereas only a few hundred thousand went into honing our capacity to perceive and imagine in any amount of detail.

If you want people to care, you've got to stimulate the senses. We can't bring everyone to the wilds, so the closest we can do to achieve this is to bring the wilds to them.

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All of that aside, I'll acknowledge that there are tons of poorly maintained zoos, but the ones driven by academia or through public funding are the ones with this public interest at heart and likewise the ones I'd prefer to keep.
This entire article and discussion is based on a fake headline and a false premise.... there are far fewer disasters of these kinds than there were because we learned from them. There are far fewer system failures of most technical kinds as well.

“Siri didn’t immediately play the right song from my Infinite jukebox at my voice command” is not a bridge collapse. “My online banking was down for an hour” is not near the inconvenience of not having banking available every evening and night before online.

One saving grace is that truly incompetent software projects of any size never make it off the ground (or stay up long enough to be relied on).
Where are you getting that temp range? The last payload electronics I designed (an RF PA) only had to handle -20 to 70 C, and the actual temp swing is less. Of course this is inside a bus.

Military electronics are just as bad, as they have to operate from the Antarctic to the desert, and be thrown from the back of a helicopter onto concrete.
Show HN: Travel Shopping Buddy: Recognize price tag/show amount in home currency
Just aim camera at price tag. Zero-touch interface. https://travelshoppingbuddy.com
It seems to lead to the sort of situation where the only kind of success a poor kid can hope for in life is the kind where they get into the kinds of degrees that offer pay, whereas privileged rich kids have the luxury of getting to go into "useless" humanities degrees and curate our culture and history and whatnot. Only enabling the leisurely well-to-do to enter the latter kind of career path is generally considered a bad thing.
This website which called itself and which still calls itself Hacker News is in no way about hacking, nor hackers, nor news (apologies to Voltaire). Just look at yesterday's front page stories https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-08-25.

The word hacker is meant in the somewhat esoteric "someone that likes discovering clever tricks" sense. I doubt that's the definition Verizon is using.

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-ne...
During the time period in the article EA advocated design via the rule of three: 1/3 proven, 1/3 improved, 1/3 new. They were just getting their feet wet in the f2p space with some Facebook and mobile game acquisitions and wouldn't readily apply those techniques to console games for a few more years.
> You're arguing that a lion that sits in such a small cage it cannot run, has nothing to hunt, and little to do, is better off because they might get ticks out in the wild? Really?

You are making a straw man argument.

There is no reading of their position for which this is a reasonable interpretation.
I've definitely left a good dev job for more money and regretted it.
I don't think the suggestion was to job hop. My read was that they were suggesting to just always be aware of the market (hence the don't have to apply line) so that you can jump at the perfect opportunity if it comes up, or if something happens to change at your current employer that would require you to search for another job, you're already ahead of the game.
Incumbents have such a huge advantage, that in most elections, the chance of them winning is +90%.
He said zoos can be ethical, not all zoos currently in existence are ethical.

No where in his post do I see him arguing for putting a lion in a cage small enough that it can't run.
We have so much information to take in, and it is so often something we already know, or a well worn trope being repeated that skimming becomes a survival trait. We cannot ingest this amount of input without disqualifying a few bits in the data stream.
This comment reminds me of the days when I had to run mail systems and people would complain about receiving spam. Doesn't matter if you block 100 spam emails from their mailbox, if even one gets through, the spam filtering is crap. Especially if the spam is "obviously spam" to their human eyes.

Amazon might very well be filtering out a massive amount of fake reviews. In fact, they might be filtering out the vast vast majority of them. But because you can see still see a lot, they must be "unwilling" to do it.
Space Force: Lost in space?
Firstly I think characterizing the natural state of animals as "misery" is very misleading and using that to justify caging them seems strange. Also, I don't think that zoos are inherently unethical but they need to always be cognizant of maximizing the animals welfare, which is what the zoos talked about in the article are doing.
It's complicated to move internally in a corporation , so thinking as to moving to another company to another position when you have responsibilities it's pretty much like playing the Russian roulette with your finance and your situation.

How is changing jobs like Russian Roulette? Since both salary compression and inversion are real phenomena, the statistically best way to provide better for your family is changing jobs.

From personal experience, and not living in Silicon Valley, I changed jobs 3 times in the last 4 years and made $45K more. I changed jobs 5 timed in the last 10 years and made $65K more. Before that, I stayed at one job 9 years and only made $7K more in year 9 than year 2 with measly 3% raises and bonuses being cut.
Tech detox, I increasingly see people lamenting the invasiveness of tech in their lives and wanting an escape from some of it
Sums it up pretty good. 'this' was a minor problem when promises came out and bind got sort of sprinkled everywhere. Arrow notations can now take care of that by making it less verbose by binding 'this' behind the scenes.
The Gaming Historian does a great job. Especially fond of his video on Satoru Iwata (former President of Nintendo)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k4cJh2YgrKE
Honestly I feel our political and economic structure need to change to reflect new tech. Democratic republic and capitalism as we know it.

The age of information seems to have become a breeding ground for misinformation. I don't really mean "fake news", but deceptive, plausible, half true news. This had made democracy a little... weird lately, especially in an era you can deliver different news to someone based on their location.

Our economic system has been based on supply and demand. But what if we basically have unlimited supply, as is the case with software? AI is going to hit hard here, with it being smart enough to replace all minimum wage foreign labor. A lot of governments are experimenting with basic income in their own way.

We've also had this weird effect where a small company can raise millions in investment and seriously threaten well-established companies within a decade.

These changes will take a while to hit, at least a decade. But I think the moves will have an impact on what kind of tech emerges.
NYU recently made its medical school tuition free for exactly that reason, to prevent a shortage of first-line family physicians and research doctors.
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Maybe it’s encrypted.
I’ve never left a job and regretted. My criteria for a job are technology, environment and money. Once the technology got out of step with the market, it’s dangerous to stay at a job. Once you’ve been at a job long enough, why not leave for a better environment? As far as money, all other things being equal. Why not leave for money?
Amazon Echo Acting Strangely – Thoughts on Alternative?
Mostly a lurker here but thought I’d post for some advice. About 2 days back I noticed my Echo kept waking up randomly to volume spikes from conversation between my wife and I before we headed to work. I figured it could be a faulty microphone but then it sorted itself out.

Around 8pm as I was playing some light R&B and it would wake up randomly again (it’s in the living room). It really got to me when it had began playing my phone messages. I switched it off immediately. I’m guessing this is a terrible case of voice squatting.

I had literally bought this about less than a month back, and I can’t put my finger down if this is just a mic problem. I read about the case of a family’s conversation that was recorded and sent to a stranger and i’m starting to think that my device is recording more than what I bargained for.

Are there any ways I can test for this?

I went about to search for a more secure voice assistant and came across Snips in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826373. Seems to be a ‘private by design’, open source, decentralized voice assistant app. I really like what they are proposing with decentralized data generation campaigns. It looks like they are placing incentive models to their program? I’m looking to obtain their maker kit next week.

Does anyone have experience with Snips and could advise whether it's worth looking into?
> No where in his post do I see him arguing for putting a lion in a cage small enough that it can't run.

That's arguing for zoos in general. There aren't any zoos with large enough enclosures, only nature reserves. A zoo is putting a large animal in a small enough cage so that the public can wonder passed and look at it, that isn't compatible with a large enough enclosure for the size animal we're discussing.

If you want to go ahead and link me to one of these "ethical zoos" that has a lion enclosure, I'd welcome it.
You're implying that being selfish is inherently bad. Of course it's selfish. You're doing something for you. It's only a problem if it unfairly hurts someone else. How is that the case here?
Stats: Understand common distributions (gaussian, exponential, beta, gamma, laplace, bernoilli, etc). Understand how various goodness of fit tests such as chi squared, t-test and ks-test work, and when they're applicable (or not). Understand linear regression, and its basic extensions such as logistic regression, and generalized linear models (also, what sort of data breaks them). Principle component analysis is also useful, if you take the time to understand how it works.

Computer science: Clustering algorithms (k-means, hierarchical clustering, etc), some basic graph theory and graph distance/shortest path algorithms.

Validation: Learn to identify non-stationary data and autocorrelation of model errors. K-fold cross validation and ROC curves are also a good idea.

Programming: Enough knowledge to efficiently extract information from semi-structured data. Basic tabular data manipulation/transformation. At least one data visualization library. Python, pandas and matplotlib are probably your best bets here.

Data management: SQL is a safe bet. Smaller shops may use excel. Learning map/reduce with spark may be helpful as well.

Domain knowledge: You need to understand the domain you're analyzing reasonably well. Pick an area and learn it. If you're not sure what you want to work on, I suggest starting with biology or finance.

Writing: To be successful as an analyst, you need to be able to turn visualizations and the output of statistical tests into a story that's accessible for a lay audience. Few analysts take this part as seriously as the technical side, but it's tremendously important.
Maybe if we all collect our unused and expired baking soda...
I'm not a biologist but this link [1] seems to say that folate intake increases methylation, which then reduces risk of certain conditions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16251634
My parents did too. Good luck with that in technology. I’ve seen (and been) one of those people at a job for a decade, and then when it’s time to leave find yourself unhireable. While you are there, watch salaries increase in the market much faster than your salary increases.
Not clear why he couldn't sell any of those sites.
Link to a "good zoo" with a lion enclosure. I'm legitimately interested because I've been to zoos that pat themselves on the back for being larger than average and it is still completely inadequate.
It is always funny when people compare external languages to platform ones, but keep forgetting to include tooling, libraries and eco-system when comparing them, reducing it to grammar and semantics.
Data science lost all of its appeal to me when I spent a weekend diving in and found it was about 70% fidding with weights until you get the answer you want and 30% trying to figure out why the data was so wrong.
As an outsider it is easy to severely underestimate the dynamism of mainland Chinese urban environments. Also, according to a recent international study by HSBC mainland Chinese consumer enthusiasm for technology adoption is off the charts versus all other countries surveyed.

While resistance to vandalism is a design consideration with any public facility, mainland China has extremely small rates of petty street crime relative to, say, the US or UK. Besides, our business model is not "displace another noodle stand" but "serve frustrated demand wherever it exists" which is typically somewhere else.
If the filter is to keep out readers annoyed by animations, then yes, I suppose it worked perfectly!