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For learning to program functionally, my no.1 recommendation would be The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP).

It’s an awesome introduction to CS in general and covers multiple different paradigms including functional, object-oriented and logic programming.

If you want to dive in to FP deeper. I think you can’t deeply learn to think in a functional style without learning Haskell.

Here are some free pdf books about FP:

https://github.com/allenleein/brains/projects/9

https://github.com/allenleein/brains/tree/master/Zen-of-Func...
I've personally never heard of any other incident quite like this happening at MIT, at least not in the last 7 years or so when I was on campus; could you provide any other examples? The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is psych data being used to send people home on forced mental health leave.

The handling of this incident made me very angry, principally because it's so hard to get MIT students to seek mental health counseling because they are very fearful of retaliation for doing so. The misuse of the mental health survey totally validated their concerns and severely damaged the fragile trust that various orgs student health orgs unaffiliated with this incident at MIT had worked hard to build with students.

Also, this article does a poor job of explaining the recent history leading up to the closing of Senior House, which better explains why the closing of the house was viewed as a total attack on alternative culture. MIT didn't just close senior house, they also knocked down Bexley, another alternative dorm, a few years earlier under somewhat dubious circumstances (suddenly refusing to repair the dorm post flooding iirc?) without proper student input, and I believe there was controversy about a third alternative dorm as well. The students' interpretation of this was that the MIT administration was fundamentally targeting alternative culture and were not negotiating in good faith during any of these closures.
So many questions about how this would be implemented....

Does the equity vest immediately?

Options or pure equity?

To the extent that AirBnB remains private, how do they determine share/strike price? I.e., last round valuation or some kind of mark to market?

Is there a clawback option if you later make AirBnB look bad by being a bad host?

If anything, this strikes me as a political gambit that is largely devoid of meaningful thought. Chesky's playing the long game; he knows this isn't ever going to go anywhere, but if Congress ever gets pissed off at his company the way they currently are pissed off at GOOG/FB, he has a card to play. "As a matter of fact, Senator, we forcefully advocated for giving our hosts equity in AirBnb, but the SEC decided not to implement the simple legal changes that would have been necessary for us to do so."
> I wrote a whole chapter about the downsides of X

I lol'ed 6-8 times... Still, I have to say that I'm loving my distros lately; distro maintainers, you rule!

Some typos in the article:

eents/events
client an/client can
because it the/because it solved? the
tires/tries
ore dump/core dump
trwe/tree
piel/pixel
resulution/resolution
ertain/certain
N ot/Not
screens een have/screens have
Is a car still a car if it's taken out of context? To us, yes. To an AI, it might not matter.

A space collision avoidance AI that identifies a road vehicle as a road vehicle and expects it to behave as one normally behaves would create problems. A human can look at a 1936 Ford truck floating in space and know it's not going to make a sudden left turn. An AI working in space would still treat it as debris if a human told it "that's a truck, it's not going to do anything different unless acted upon."
Cody Wilson arrives back in the States, enters US Marshals custody
Did you miss it somehow?

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/hdom...

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/commits/master/packages/h...
The few YEC people I've read who actually attempt a reconciliation, rather than just ignore it, tend to disbelieve the dating methodologies.
Link is to page 2 of the article (in case you wonder why you ended up in the middle). Maybe someone can update it?
It's certainly the case that neural nets work flawlessly because they're like the brain - ask any journalist. Without doubt, an image of the brain enhances NN performance
People with health problems or mentally ill are more likely not to drink? That seems false. Any sources? I found [1] that suggests comorbidity.

[1] https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://...
I miss the good old times where a pointer was just a number, and if you did `*addr` you plainly read from that memory address. I'm not sure if the standard was ever that way, but compilers sure used to behave like that.

Maybe we can one day get a `--std=simple-world` flag that forgoes a few optimizations and makes UB code do the "obvious" thing.
Startup 1: $50k for 1 year (in the 90s, do the math what it would be right now)

Big company for some time

Startup 2: $0 for 2 years

Startup 3: $0 for 2 years

Startup 4: $0 for 2 years

Startup 5: $500k for 4 years

Startup 6: $1m for 1 year (still somewhat in play because 3/4 of my options got converted into the options of a public company as a result of acquisition, and I got RSU handcuffs on top of that)

All numbers before tax.
I hope I'm done with my startup adventures. Lost taste for it.

Financially, based on my experience, startups do not make any sense as an employee.

Mentally, Startup 5 made me question my faith in humanity.
>who are not trained to recognize the general category of mammals / animals

Does such a human exist? Other than perhaps someone blind from birth who had their sight restored, I don't think you could fine such a person give how conditioned we are to recognize animals, perhaps even on a biological level. Closest I can think of is animals that are camouflaged, and I think we would see many humans making mistakes on those. I've definitely have, especially with regards to insects that look like plants. But those animals specifically evolved to throw off predator detection systems.
They don't, or rather don't feel the need to:

Each story lives in parts of their brain that are entirely segregated from one another.
Let me guess - food technology and cost cutting? ;)
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From a few days ago.

"Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927802

I wonder how much of "X helped me" is a result of the placebo effect and how much of it is truly helpful.
Just Don’t Call It Privacy
Given enough starting points, any local optimizer will eventually crawl out of local extrema.
The EU is still discussing it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45366390

It might be on a per-country basis. So far 2/3 of the responses have been German.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/world/europe/eu-daylight-...
Interactive explanation of marching cubes and dual contouring
Fotomat
The Roots of Techno (1994)
That is the one. Thank you!

One reviewer said it was disappointing as it is for high school students, which was true, as far as I remember. It had cute cartoons and such in it. The ideas were interesting but again I was in my early teens. As an adult not sure if I'd have the same reaction to it. Certainly not after paying £30 for it.

I still remember some of the solution there, looked at the table of contents and suddenly remembered a lot more, like metal pipe elbow with the steel balls flying to it - use a magnet to build a protective layer of steel balls. Another one is to use blocks of ice to slowly lower a heavy transformer to the ground.
The article says this is about speed in the very first paragraph.

> The airline said the biometric facial scanning is optional — a move that will shave off a few minutes off each flight
As a parent, if you were going to spend $150K - $200k on something, you’d be smart to check things out in person to validate that it’s the right purchase choice.
Isn't who has sex with whom the primary issue in most animal groups?
Do they do more languages in third year? I did Python, Java, C, C++, MIPS, Haskell (at least one full course of each) and then a crash course in a bunch of older languages (1 week each) as part of a compilers course across 3 years of undergrad and I think it was a great balance.

Unfortunately since I left, the "training" people have won out over the "education" people and they do mainly C# and .net with a bit of F# thrown in.

I think you can get by without C++ or Java professionally already if you have some of Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript but I would still recommend C++ at least so that people have some better context of what problems Rust/Go aim to solve and get a better understanding of how memory works (useful to keep in mind no matter which language you end up using day to day).

At least one functional language - I think Haskell is the nicest to learn as a beginner.
I don't think there's that many of those left, at least isolated and big enough to serve as an actual testing group.
The Humanities' Decline Makes Us Morally Obtuse
That's about ~25 years if one is contributing ~25k a year (reasonable 3% match + 18k yearly limit) and the accounts are yielding a nominal 8%, which is not incredibly impressive (5% real give it or take).

Make the nominal interest 10% (probably more similar to the actual returns in the past two decades) and we get there in ~20 years.

Contribute more (e.g. backdoor roth and/or mega backdoor roth) and we get there much faster.
In the past, such a message wasn't needed because people tended to keep their views private and maintained a sense of decorum at work.

Most political expression these days is shallow and negative, and as a result is potentially divisive. I doubt many employers would have a problem with positive, constructive sentiment...but these days people just talk about who they want to punch.
Locations of variables do not move, but references to variables do:

(lambda (F)
((lambda (x) (F x)) A))
^--- F in inner scope
of (lambda (x) ...)

(lambda (F)
((lambda (x F*) (F* x)) A F))
^--- F in outer scope
of (lambda (x) ...)
Are there no public domain ROMs which people can try out immediately on the demo page?

(otherwise) fantastic project, good PR for go too!
Not a flagged but maybe because of caps?
1. The best evidence that there is no safe amount of alcohol consumption is the Mendelian randomization (MR) by Holmes et al from 2014 [1]. I believe that the more recent paper making such claims is no better than the usual observational studies. But the MR paper is convincing to me. The risks for mild drinking appear to be low enough that I don't abstain, and I am happy to tell my patients about my thought process.

2. While we like to claim that a study randomizing people to alcohol wouldn't be ethical, pre-2014 I don't think that would have been true. I think there was enough equipoise. Post-2014, I would need to see some strong counter-evidence to make me think there is equipoise once again.

3. The environment changes. A trial came out last week showing that ASA may be harmful for older healthy people [2]. This probably reflects that our bloodstream is no longer nicotine-filled, etc., so the heart attack risk is low enough that the bleeding risk may outweigh it. There may be something about alcohol that was helpful in the 1950s that is no longer so today, due to these environmental changes.

1 = (Free full link): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091648/

2 = https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1800722?query=fe...
I posted a suggestion a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022586 ) that cloudflare start to do this in order to protect itself and it's users.

With so many censoring rules popping up in different countries, a centralized service could easily be forced to eliminate tons of information.

right to be forgotten, not just from host country, but whole planet. GDPR. dmca, things that are fobidden in Asia, things that are to be blocked in and around Indonesia and such.

When a small group of trolls uses other people's policies to harass and deplatform women because they have issues with cleavage ( https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/14/paypal-ban-asmr-sound-ar... ) - it should be obvious that more and more of these kinds of censor those you don't like by using the policies of others is only going to grow.

Especially as more and more places are developing more censoring policies, and people are sharing methods for removing / de-platforming.

(they came for Alex Jones, and we kept using paypal, then they came for girls not dressed in Burkas and most still used payal, then they came for..)

The big internet companies are being used against the smaller groups of people all over the world.

Cloudflare ordered to give customer location data recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039208

Google and others have been forced to do the same, and even though some big G and Fbook occasionally try to deny some of the data sharing, they did not stop SESTA, instead looking to use these things as excuses / pass the blame.

What was the case where Msoft had to drop the appeals about sharing data from computers in other countries with the US?, as a new law was made, cloud-sharing or something like that?

Big G working on tracking and auto censoring for China and other places. Facebook, Instagram having to rush censoring in areas around the world.

Canada and the US have some of these things in the bargaining for the NAFTA re-agreement I think as well.

This is all happening much faster then most people realize I think, the ramifications have yet to understood.

Bifurcation, or divarication - it's getting split up much more than just in two.

Sadly the giants like Google and Cloudflare are being used as the largest hammers, or may be biggest saws to cut up and split up the worlds knowledge.

These are interesting times indeed.
By 2025, the Definition of 'Privacy' Will Have Changed
F*ck that. What's next? Let them do cocaine!?

[joke]
You only pasted a clang run here. It's gcc that's supposed to give 3 5 7.
It seems to still be completely relevant.

I wonder if Ridley Scott was inspired by 34:45 - 35:30
They may be close to first stages of sight pipeline. Maybe even close to full pipe for some simple animals. For humans, they're pretty much input processing stage. Human vision (and presumably animal vision too) has runtime feedback that uses the the output of the vision process to fix up the input. That's what makes you suddenly see things if someone tells you what to look for, or suddenly unsee things. That's why you didn't notice I repeated the the word "the" in few places in this comment.

As the intro to the the article says (you now noticed, didn't you?), the way DNN vision systems are different is that "unlike humans, they can’t do a double take". And those "double takes" is what our vision pipeline does all the time.
I think you might be surprised, I have had people standing right in front of me take credit for my own work. The reason we have such byzantine interviews in this industry is because you cannot trust what most people put in their CV.
What Does Facebook Really Know?
> Unfortunately medical doctors are not scientists.

at least average/bad doctors aren't
>Three out of every four students in grades 9 to 12 fail to sleep the minimum of eight hours that the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends for their age group

Do 3/4 teens fail in life? Do they develop debilitating disorders and such?

I guess I've heard for years we need more sleep yet we don't sleep and we continue living. May be certain things like stress and work are troublesome and such but that seems more like the issue than lack of sleep is.
On avoiding boredom
Nope. Nobody gives a CRAP anymore.
I have been reading for years about the numbers of studies being done (especially in the public health field) that can be whittled down to correlation without any strongly proven causality. Is this an issue with science, or with how the media reports on science? Is it really as bad as it seems?

I understand that it's difficult to control for various factors when doing large scale studies of health and behavior, but my perception as a layman is that there is some willful ignorance or absence of rigor. I realize this is perhaps too harsh a statement; I'm just trying get my point across.
Several ways: At first, years ago, enough publications or authors asked me to confirm permission to use the image that I realized it was popular. Some of the publications attribute the image to me. The MRI image itself (https://www.flickr.com/photos/lizhenry/2051224366) has my name on it. And, finally, a reverse image search, these days shows hundreds of thousands of uses. I always wanted to use my brain in the service of science and literature, but didn't know this is how it would happen! ;)
Coding error? Maybe... but I would bet it all started in business where some management decision was made to replace "Bob" who programmed the bots for years was replaced by a cheaper less experienced person, all in efforts to reduce IT costs. So let's rename this thread, "Business Management decision forces 2019 Subaru Ascents to be Scrapped".
Because that's not the problem. The issue is that networks can't recognize their output doesn't make sense, reconfigure themselves and try again, and repeat that process until the output starts matching expectations (while simultaneously weakening those expectations the longer this continues). The way our vision does.
>It seems to me you just have to run your NN on pairs of doctored and undoctored images, and create a separation of concern between scene continuity and object recognition.

This may fix this problem, but what other visual issues will we uncover that might be fixable with the right kind of training but which we haven't yet accounted for.

For example, we see so many optical illusions because of how our eyes and brain (and the neurons between them) work. These are often times caused by our sensation or perception incorrectly picking up data, but on purpose (well, as much purpose as an evolved system could have). For example, how neurons in the eye exaggerate differences in brightness or how we are overly sensitive to perceiving faces so that we see them even where they don't exist. What impact does the lack of these have on an artificial vision system? For starters, it would likely indicate the system wouldn't recognize the optical illusion unless trained for it, but are there any other impacts that we need to take into consideration, especially when considering having human lives depending upon the system?
Maybe, but I wouldn't have put my teenage self on nightwatch. It wouldn't have been pretty. I'm also getting to the point where I don't think I would trust my father to be on early morning lookout.

Seems like there are enough adults who are night owls and morning larks to cover an adult-only watchfulness.
I can give one example explanation. My Father is an evangelical Christian (FYI, I am not, I am an atheist and a science enthusiast). I have asked him this exact same question out of curiosity. Here is the answer he gave (albeit just one perspective). He said "God is so powerful that he can do anything including placing all that evidence there to test our faith". That shuts down any reason to continue a conversation (needless to say this is a topic we generally avoid).

Someone once said (not sure the attribution) "never try to reason with someone who has irrational beliefs".
I know this is probably impossible because the "actual" investors wouldn't be able to cash out, but it would seem to make sense to me for companies like AirBnB and Uber to be organized as host/driver co-ops, with the "corporate" services like ops/marketing/engineering being subordinate to the interests of the workers (hosts/drivers), who also happen to be the owners of the majority of the actual capital stock (apartments and cars). Nothing would even need to change from the customer perspective, very little would need to change in terms of the technology. AirBnB employees would just be working for hosts instead of the other way around.

Many agricultural co-ops work like this. You probably are more familiar with the brand names these co-ops employ than their actual organization: Oceanspray cranberries and Florida's Natural orange juice are two you probably know about. These are co-ops where the farmers who produce the oranges and cranberries have pooled to do all the things necessary to actually sell their product on a national market, like advertising and running processing plants (i.e. squeezing the oranges, packing the cranberries) but farmers still own and harvest their own crops. It's not really that radical an idea, and seems to make even more sense in the case of AirBnB where the actual capital needs of the centralized entity (an app) are much less expensive than the physical plant needed to handle gigatons of produce.
Anecdata, but I see selfie sticks in Tokyo used for group photos much more than individual selfies. One presumes that the resulting photo is then shared within the group.
The “Father of Fiber Optics”, Dr Charles Kao, Has Died
That is so strange I kind of really enjoy vomiting and I am really into doom and collapse scenarios as well. Same relation with different ±signs.
Yeah, but you need to earn over ~600k DKK per year to qualify, IIRC. That’s around 80k Euros, which is what you might earn after 5-10 years in tech here.
And China calls itself democratic. So did the GDR. Socialism is just an economic system. It becomes communism when it's controlled by a single ruling power: the communist party. So communism is the combination of political ideology controlling the socialist economy.

There's no point in getting into semantics, the USSR and the "aligned" countries (all of which put Socialist or Republic in their names) were very much communist countries even if they didn't achieve the ideal textbook communism. Just like there's no textbook example of a free market.

I said the fall of communism because it encompasses both the political and economic systems. And the communist ideology might have played a big role on gender equality.
Quiet cars and robots that do your work for you are not threats. Too bad all that sci-fi only prepared us for laser battles with aliens.
Oh nice. Yeah, Denmark seems like a great place to live.
How much did you have when you initially joined, that got diluted to ~0.3%? I guess somewhere in the ballpark of 1.5%?
> In evolution this was likely beneficial to make it easier for teenagers to socialize among themselves without adult disturbance,

Any evidence to put this down as a 'likelihood'?
It never was guaranteed by any standard, and in fact numerous old machines had weird pointer formats: segmented addressing, strange widths (36 bits), and tagged pointers come to mind.

Its more like we had this window of time when pointers were not weird and got too used to it.
Cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:73LY6v...

(I am shown a consent dialog that does not work.)
am i only the one that want's to know who their plug was? :-)
As downvoted as this is, this has a point. People point too much to supposed "innate evolved tendencies" while completely discounting social construction and peer pressure and culture, which are definitely relevant.
One simple technique is to say that the fossils or whatever were intentionally placed there to make the world seem to be older than it is.
Pretty decent tribute (?) site: http://www.chindogu.com
If I understand correctly what this is about, one example is buffer overflows, where you write to the first symbol but end up in the second:

char symbolA[10];
char symbolB[10];

symbolA[15] = 0; // actually writes to symbolB
Reminds me of a local story - a 200 year old tree fell in a storm and pulled up a 1000 year old murder victim as the roots had grown through his corpse