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Heheh -- I'm almost as much as a pedant as you! :-) I actually did realise that "op" went with "anthro", and agonised for a bit over whether to include it or do something that was more technically correct. Eventually decided that this would sacrifice comprehensibility for correctness, and that it was actually okay to make a somewhat whimsical point with whimsical language. But, yes, you're entirely correct.
Users flagged your comment, perhaps because it was off topic.
Inception! And reverse psychology

Make the child observe for a long time without allowing them to do it.

Children naturally want to imitate and begiin to master tasks. So this is how you make them WANT to do it.
Alopecomorphize suffers from the fact that nobody knows the ancient Greek word for fox. I had to look it up. (And I left the comment for other people like me, who might wonder.) You could put the whole thing into a more recognizable Latinate form, "vulpiformify", but then you completely lose the parallel to "anthropomorphize".

I doubt "arachnomorphize" would have the same issues, though.
Interesting. Yeah, there's something to unpack in that.
Have you bought them?
http://archive.is/J3kIj
May I know what's off topic here? Same problem in the core. Macro-economically speaking, philosophically speaking. What else do you guys need to see the truth? Maybe Yuval Harari's book "Sapiens" might help you. I've been personally hurt indirectly by a company started with Ycombinator: Airbnb. Don't I have a voice in this? At least I kept my words when I said I will post this on Hacker news, if you guys take the time to read what I wrote in the medium post. It's the most gentle reminder of how things are going wrong that I can think of.
It helps employees negotiate more effectively. And some people need to realise that they're not hot shit, if they're not.

If a company is not willing to pay a person more, then they're likely not worth that much to them. And that is something they can then work on, instead of living in a dream world.
iOS is not compatible with GPL license and that platform is horribly closed and people shouldn't use it for anything more serious than DRM content consumption. I tried to compile it with dev provisioning profile but gave up in the end, it is also not complete yet. It works perfectly and easily on Android and Linux and that's what I care about the most.
Rural and urban worlds were much more isolated then than now. Only a few people had cars and the roads were very bad. All distances were much more wider then.

It seems that he was not only tolerated, but also feeded by wolves occasionally. He played, sleeped and gave food also to wolves for many years.
> Otherwise you buy the plastic Inspiron or whatever

Aluminium body is now premium? How about not sacrificing cpu life for fan noise? Or repairability. Or non-soldiered on ssd? Working keyboard? Why's that not premium?
Aristotle's ethical treatises.

Also, his Rhetoric.
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If you're really trying to actively learn, I think it's best to do multiple passes. Read the book once and write some thoughts at the very end, and then read through a second time while taking more detailed notes. Your notes will probably be higher quality, as you can write "this confusing idea will be explained in chapter 8" instead of "this idea is confusing".
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I'm curious what languages do it better. I'm looking for something new to learn.
Encryption, when governments are involved, is a losing battle I've come to realize. If a couple of researchers could come up with inherent flaws in CPU architecture then I am pretty sure a government spending millions of dollars for years had done the same. It's like trying to fortify a castle built on sand.
I would so love it if clothes retailers standardised on measures. This stops me ordering clothes online.
His argument begs the question.

If you pre-suppose that describing types and finding appropriate abstractions aren't "writing applications", that is, they offer no value in the process, then spending time doing them is of course solving neat little puzzles to no benefit.

On the other hand, if you pre-suppose that types and abstractions offer some value to the process of writing an application, then solving those puzzles is adding value.

Calling types and abstractions a "neat little puzzle" is a diminution we could apply to other aspects of writing an application: implementing an algorithm to correctly process some data is a neat little puzzle presented by our test cases.

Rich Hickey would need to demonstrate the lack of value of types and abstractions for producing applications to make a solid argument here, and that I believe is a steep uphill battle, because Clojure would be a pretty terrible language if you took out the ISeq abstraction, and there's an awful lot of effort spent shifting the puzzle of "is this function being used right" from the type system game engine to the test harness game engine.
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I think you should speak up with the expectation that whistleblowers don't do well, but with the knowledge that science corrects only if scientists correct it. It's unlikely a single person can take down the culture of an industry, but one person can certainly start a movement.

You're definitely well justified in feeling torn about this. I agree that leaving in silence is not the best idea, but I certainly wouldn't blame you if you did that. It's hard to take action.
I'm late here, but you two seem to be talking about two different versions of privacy.

My read is that evgen is saying "for most of human history, the work required to stay alive has forced humans into the open and exposed much of their lives and movements to their neighbors and community. In this way, humans have not had privacy."

You responded that today companies and governments have much finer-grained data about us and our behaviors than they did even 10 years ago, let alone 50 or 100. True, but these are different claims.

I think we've gained the first kind of privacy and still experienced the privacy loss you mention.
I find the writing style interesting, but I'm not like others at my work who could benefit from learning SQL (business managers at a bank back office who rely mostly on Excel, then get stuck when Excel crashes with large datasets).

Are these funky, quirky books generally well-received outside the programming community? I quite liked Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby, for example, but I would never recommend it to anyone at work.
Rally anyone? I have a hard time getting used to it, and I've seen stories being worked on for the sake of being in rally even though there isn't enough information for good work to be done. I've seen engineers do good work to build features that the product needed but engineer was discouraged from doing it because it wasn't in rally first. And pointing sucks, we're trying to fill stories in just to meet certain point quota per Sprint.
Which is the right one for this situation?

I want to sort a table with a large number of rows after a user clicks on a column heading. This will take several seconds, so I want to change the column header to a bold, red "Sorting...please wait" while the sort is taking place, then change it back.

After changing the heading, I need to put off calling the sort function until after the heading change is actually rendered for the user.

The animation one sounds promising...but from the description it sounds to me like it runs just before rendering, and I want after rendering.

The idle one also sounds good in that it sounds like the rendering will be done before it runs...but if other stuff is going on it may take a long time for idle to actually happen.

What I've used in the past was setTimeout with a value of 0, because that's what Stackoverflow said to do.
This isn’t Mayan “supermom” magic. Kids all over the world (including the US) do manual labor around the house/farm. Kids who don’t earn their keep are a relatively new invention.

(I’m probably the first child in my family line to not work growing up. Most Americans probably are not more than a generation or two removed from that.)
I'm interested in performance optimization (especially under linux) and its intersection with computer architecture. Would you mind recommending me any resources to get started there?
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I don’t think AWS is literally cross-subsidizing the retail business, but it allows Amazon to keep running retail at essentially zero profit without bothering Wall Street. Even without direct subsidization, that’s a serious advantage that no one else can really hope to match.
I use post-it notes. My post-it notes underlines the sentence involved generally.

Sometimes when re-reading books, I find old opinions or understandings that are no longer correct or opinions I no longer hold.

The downside is that my books tend to get a bit thicker
Thanks! Just had a look, aren’t those all reliant on the file type? There’s no standardized metadata scheme built into filesystems?
> 'Day 2' territory

What does this mean?
> I can't really tell if I've invented the problem that I just solved.

Priceless observation, nicely done!

I was quite inspired by Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talk when I listened to it a last year. I think that's the one you're referring to. Excellent food for thought in that talk.
Nice job, this is a great way to teach something like SQL. Any plans to add more chapters? Would love to see something around window functions AND CTEs as this format would go a long way in showing when and how to use them.
The dimensions listed are 296 × 264 × 204 km. It’s kind-of round-ish, but not spherical.
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They probably do, for efficiency. You have to process a frame to some extent to detect motion blur or darkness (how else could you possibly know?), but that doesn't mean you can't abort the processing as soon as you detect the frame is totally unsuitable. I expect whole groups of frames may be able to be discarded more-or-less together, e.g. a dark key frame followed by frames with minimal difference, or where the video encoding's motion estimation says there's a lot moving.
> “Every piece of art I’ve ever made was because I saw bad and could do better, or saw great and needed to catch up.”

I know the context here isn't our tech product development cycles, but it sure could be. Those are exactly the reasons I tend to get inspired to work on something.
It doesnt need to be used specifically for ads, it's still aggregated data that helps monitor network traffic.
Might I ask what demographic group you are in? I personally am in the "founding generation of FB" (now a early 30s engineer in the US) and it's obvious to me that at least the people I know aren't giving data that much to FB. While plenty lurk or use messenger, quick sampling shows < 10% of my friends update more than once a month.

We aren’t talking anecdotally about “people you know”. Facebook has more than 2 billion daily active users.

I'll give you FB has exactness better specified, though I question how relevant it is. Regardless, gmail could easily figure this out by looking at inbound emails. Also linkedin public profiles.

Google claims it doesn’t use email for targeting ads and how will it correlate LinkedIn profiles with Google users? I doubt that MS owned LinkedIn is going to share the data. LinkedIn only has 260 million active monthly users.

Given the lack of updates on FB, search is a much better proxy for this.

Lack of updated by your circle...not based on published numbers.

Search and email is going to be a very good proxy here, possibly better if FB updates are stale.

How many people use email in 2018 for personal communications?

Besides....

https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/stories/how-faceboo...

Maps. (And I'd guess usage of maps far outweighs people who voluntary tell FB)

People only use maps when they don’t know where they are going. People will check in a lot more.
Well the monadic structure is always there, it's just a matter of whether you use it or not :).

For the most part I admire the Clojure community's focus on data and wariness of higher order abstractions. Whether it be classes, typeclasses, or higher order functions, if you can express it with just data it's almost always better and most communities would do well to remember that.

On the flip side when there is a need for higher order abstractions, I sometimes find Clojure's standard tools to be lacking. Speaking of monadic structure being there whether you use them or not, transducers are a great example. I find them overcomplicated in Clojure, which I think is due to focusing too heavily on using standard function composition to compose them. I regard this as a bit of a trick or a coincidence. When's the last time you composed something with a transducer that wasn't just another transducer as opposed to an arbitrary function? In fact if you instead use monadic composition (i.e. compose `a -> m b` with `b -> m c` to get `a -> m c`, in this case `m` is just `List`) you'll find that transducers are just functions of the form `a -> List b` rather than higher order functions. And yes that `List` remains there even though transducers work on things that aren't just concrete collections.

I've been meaning to try to push out a Clojure library that shows this but haven't gotten around to it. Maybe this thread will be the kick I need.
> Twitter and rival Facebook are increasingly caught in a Catch-22 situation—criticized by some users for allowing hateful posts, but blasted by others for removing content because it curtails free speech.

I don’t think this is an accurate framing of the problem. What people want is consistency. If you want to ban people for being fringe, obnoxious or worse, you need to do it regardless of who they are.

What happens is one side of the political spectrum gets their worst actors banned while caustic tweeters on the other side of the isle can often be found with blue verification checkmarks (and unchecked aggressive tweets).

Imho Dorsey was correct in not wanting to ban Jones and Spencer because that’s more consistent with how the far-left is treated.
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A button down shirt is one where the collar is buttoned to the yoke. I think you mean a button up shirt, one that has a placket and buttons in the front versus a pull over or t-shirt.
I really like your explanations. I have never been able to wrap my head around joins.

You say that: "Programming is best learned by doing", but I am struggling to do anything...

It would be great if there was some online area like SQL Fiddle with the data loaded, so I can run queries and see results in my browser without having to set anything up or am I missing something.
I use fbreader and anote and highlight ebooks all the time.
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What's Google known for? Search.

This means people tell it exactly what they want. Who cares what your relationship status is when I can see you type in "wedding ring" into a search box? Who cares where you like to eat in the past when you searched for "chinese food" on maps, and potentially even clicked on an ad for a restaurant?

This is called "intent" and it's incredibly powerful because you can advertise for exactly what a person is actually looking for at that moment. Inference (like Facebook likes and profile details) will never be as good for real-time targeting.
Who would you consider a visible far-left figure that ought to be banned who hasn't been, and why?
"This problem cannot be solved by appointing non-experts to review panels – that merely creates incentives for research that’s easy to comprehend."

That doesn't sound SO bad. Selection criteria seems like a major issue here, and the author only talks about the validity of the results.

Why do we care about physics? Or psychology? There are answers to these simple questions, but I don't think the answers inform the selection criteria. We don't care about physics because academic researchers need to publish papers or get funding.

Having any old non-expert on the panel could be problematic. Especially if they become political tools, and right now they'd definitely become political tools. But it would seem reasonable to me if there were adjacent experts. What do engineers or chemists want to see in physics? These aren't hostile interlopers. But if nobody outside a field cares about a line of research, or trusts a line of research, then maybe that's a bad line of research.
Alfred Stieglitz's Lantern Slides: History, Technique and Analysis (2015) [pdf]
If I want to target a demographic for top of the funnel advertising, I can target a lot better with a Facebook. If I want to target people who are buying now, why not go to the source - Amazon, Zillow, Priceline, EBay, etc.?
I think that level of experience is fine, as long as you understand that you would be doing full stack work in the role :)
A significant chunk of that ~4 Billion or ~5% of total global online advertising is because Google also owns YouTube, which captures a large chunk total advertising spending independent of search.
As someone who doesn't live in the US/Europe this is how "remote work" on HN comes across to me.
Leadership podcast
In a city like B’ham, with little ability to provide public transit due to low density and high per-capita costs, something like Bird fills a gap.
How to create a new business with AI?
I feel the same way, but with existence in general. Authoritarianism is way up, the planet is frying, AI will destroy jobs and supercharge surveillance ... I'm not sure I want to witness the result.
I don’t think anyone should be banned. If I had to pick a very visible example of caustic far left tweets I’d say the New York Times tech editor is a good example:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/10254378067752...

In fact someone changed those tweets from “white males” to something else and got banned from Twitter.
I've been getting strange ads on facebook for industrial kitchen items on amazon recently... i didn't think i wanted one, but now i am considering an at home industrial orange juice presser...