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I will need to ride the BART this Friday and this thread is not giving me much confidence...
not only that, but if you call them that in your head, it influences your attitudes subtly.

I spent a couple of years calling subordinates "minions" (before the movies, but remarkably similar mental concept). It took a drunken conversation with a perceptive colleague to change that. It was amazing how much my attitudes to my people changed after I stopped thinking of them as "minions".
In the mining example I gave it's probably more clear cut than the SV case.

A whole heap of people are working high wage jobs in essentially the middle of nowhere. The local towns don't have the capacity to replace many lost jobs and aren't the ideal place for all of the now unemployed workers to end up. You don't want a whole heap of empty houses in an area with no jobs.

Diversifying the economy is definitely a step in the right direction and is likely more feasible in an area like SV. On the flipside you've got to be careful that the other industries are valuable in their own right and don't exist solely due to the rivers of money in the area.
I mean, the url for these spam entries starts "Google.com/maps" so I think it is pretty reasonable to call this Google Maps spam.

I don't remember how I found those specific ones, but using Google Maps for Android finds some pretty similar entries. Perhaps you could pass that on to your old team?
Sure, but that's even weaker, since you can't even create new control flows, just cause surprising ones.
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Worse, for Reddit: there is no sustained discussion. I've been thinking and working a lot on discussion (first law: conversation scales poorly), and what sites do and don't work.

G+, for its many, many, many flaws, could keep a discussion going on those rare instances where it started in the first place. In ways few other sites do.

The fact that all members of a conversation (up to a point) are informed of new posts, helps. That's a two-edged sword: low-value comments, if left standing, merely annoy others, and tend to cause them to mute out of the discussion.

But it's a dynamic few other sites match.

I've also been using Reddit as a blogging platform (not simply syndicating content) for several years. I'd already been in the process of moving that elsewhere when the G+ shutdown announcement hit -- I've been somewhat engaged in that over the past month or so. I do plan to continue syndication, though I moderate strongly for quality.
Oooh, so it is that He, the man used to have a very peculiar reputation on Chinese university BBSes back when China just got internet connectivity. That was what possibly lead to him being ousted from Chinese academia a decade ago.

I myself think it was certainly no coincidence that Stanford picked him up.

I'm afraid calling up some of his opinions, and in particularly on the topic of race, as they will be a ten megaton flamewar bomb. Google him yourself if you know Chinese.
Bitcoin doesn't solve that problem; you still have to obtain these tokens by exchanging your authoritarian currency for bitcoin, which can be made illegal very easily.
In the random high IQ population, this is probably true.

In a population that got carefully selected traits for high IQ, these tradeoffs could over time be understood and the effects minimized.
Bitcoin doesn't solve anything. Its mission has been completely subverted by external financial interests, and its leadership relies on censorship and FUD to survive.

Cryptocurrency in general, however, solves the problem of payment processors strangling businesses and individuals at the whim of CorpGov.

It allows entities who are operating within what they believe to be moral and ethical bounds to do commerce without needing the blessing of a totalitarian state like China or the US.
What you say about journals is correct.

But what you say about commercial academic publishers is a relatively recent development. Traditionally, universities and professional societies ran journals. As you say, publishers did the grunt work. However, they did it on a work-for-hire basis. It wasn't until the 50s or so that profiteers took over the academic publishing industry.
> it was voluntary

Do you think parents can consent to this sort of experiment on behalf of an unborn child?
Thank you for these pointers. Posts like this are why I come to HN :)
Stallman almost certainly has a different definition for "Libertarian" to you. He would most likely call your definition "Antisocialist". https://stallman.org/glossary.html
I'd say, instead, that they've taken over the reputation business, and are burning it down, converting legitimacy into money.
From what I see the old Google is dead from self inflicted wounds. In an effort to destroy spam they removed lots of good sites and changed things for the future webmasters and users.

sadly the only game in town for new sites these days is likely facebook traffic, snapchat and youtube.

Google has been looking more and more like the yellow pages in my experience. They serve fast local results because so many people crowd source the info as it's used a lot.

As far as finding useful things outside of local results, the quality varies and the things that are censored are more due to their war on spam than any regulations.

The good thing is that people can still share cool things via snapchat, fbook and their future replacements. The need for google is not the same as it once was.

Sure people will continue to use it as it's convenient for many local searches and accurate enough for that, and its default choice on many mobile devices.

as for web sites and their creators, trying to please google's changing pleasure zones is an unending game without clear rules, taking time and money without an end in sight. Their war an spam has crushed many that were not trying to fight it.

Between mysterious penalties (algorithmic of course, the manual ones are not so mysterious unless it's the google plus network), negative seo, and competition that uses inside info, there is little hope for new sites in many categories to get top placement.

I suggest to either establish local brick and mortar to get those kind of local results with google, or give up fighting google's algorithm and the competition - just buy some ads with them, but consider that you'll likely get more quality visitors with ads and engagement with fbook, snap and others.

Given the search results I had today when looking for a particular model of samsung cell phone - I would guess that page rank is playing a bigger role than one might have guessed - even though it said results effected by your neighborhood location (my neighborhood listed) - I sure had lots of results for phone companies in the UK and other abroad places that offered no helpful information to me about the unlocked phone and how it worked with various lte bands here.

Of course, selection bias and all that, other people's experience will vary. If most of your searches are for stack exchange info you might feel they are relevant and awesome. I prefer to use search engines to search for multiple different sources of info about things to get a bigger picture.
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should parents be liable for any kind of genetic defect they pass to their children?
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yes , except in this case it's not an illusion but real
That's right. Check out JSONP for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP

This was really common before CORS.
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The source is idealism. I've noticed a lot of tech people tend to hand wave away implementation details and talk about things as a theoretical exercise on a very wide time frame. So eventually, at some point, this technology will be able to do all the sci-fi stuff of dreams. Probably right around when we achieve singularity.
Disagree it's off-topic. Automobile manufacturers are focused on sales and right now they are moving with the market toward SUV's. The 3.6L engine is in both GM sedans and GM SUV's. Same engine, different body style. This move by GM means they are focused on production and it's probably too expensive to retool these plants.

Very much topic-related.

Not sure where you're going with the "oil despots" statement. That seems off-topic.
Just go to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and create an account, then click on the Edit button and start editing :).
Is this type of thing something people want?

I have been thinking of running for local office (one seat in particular is always uncontested), and my platform would basically be: I'll set up a method for constituents to voice their opinion in a transparent way. I'm thinking something like change.org, but with some way to verify residency.

I think citizens don't get as involved as they want to because the barrier to entry is too high and the results are too opaque (don't know how many called, emailed, etc). I would love to start a movement for more open government, but I'm just not sure the demand is there.
It’s called an experiment because no one knows whether it will prevent the suffering of anyone at all.

If you had to live your entire life with a painful deformity because someone experimented on your genes, do you think you’d find this argument convincing?
Never underestimate the power of fake internet points.
Many moons ago, I worked in the travel industry. Most airlines aren't running their own technology stack -- they are paying someone else $/search to drive their webpage. In a market of razor thin margins, paying per search for you to crawl their flight catalog is a big problem -- thus the arms race. The only way to win at this is to own the catalog, this is why Google bought ITA.

Ryanair is the kind of airline that I would suspect might run their own stack, and therefore not have the same cost structure.
Although not explicitly advertised, it is possible to implement external dictionary compression with both gzip and lz4 by using their streaming interfaces.
You might enjoy reading about constitutions being drafted for real countries - https://www.npr.org/2011/02/10/133657355/The-Nuts-And-Bolts-...
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Corruption was blatant and rampant in the era that saw most of our infrastructure development. The New York City subway was built in the era of Boss Tweed. Honestly I think this is not a coincidence. Projects that balance their own goals with fairness and deference to “stakeholders” will naturally be pathetic compared to projects that simply pursue their goals.
Is that meaningful? Since you can make it close source, can't you as well fork a BSD project and re-license it as GLPv2?
My guess, it was a typo in client and they've registered misspelled domain as easiest fix for backwards compatibility with affected old releases.
Yeah, know his work, and I don't think he'd agree with you: http://www.genetics.org/content/210/2/477
The same is true of most businesses, for example, big retailers are more efficient than many smaller retailers. Though I don't think I'd want to live in a world where I can only shop at Amazon or Walmart any more than I'd want to live in a world where only a few corporate farms produce all food.

Efficiency isn't always what's best for the market, and doesn't mean lower prices for consumers.
>they grow fat on less food.

Seems to indicate that the effects of these chemicals change the way the animal physiologically responds to an intake of a given number of calories.

When we're talking a problem that impacts us on a societal level, we need to look at all potential influencing factors. Limiting that analysis to the "calories-in, calories-out" hypothesis hasn't gotten us any closer to a solution.
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> I still don't understand what problem decentralised currency is supposed to solve.

I agree with all your other points, but e.g. in China people may soon wish they still had a decentralized payment system. Especially if you have a low social credit score, and the government starts to decide in detail what you can and cannot buy.
So be it. Let them have it, if it means not being human.
I've ordered Google's Pixel Slate (core i7 CPU, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD). Unlike iPad it can switch from tablet to a full blown desktop mode - it has pretty much standard keyboard with "Esc" key and mouse track pad. Slate supports Chrome OS, Android and lately Linux native apps - come to think of it I don't think there's a device out there that supports more apps out of the box.
It depends if the implant does more good than if it wasn't implanted. All regulated devices require post market monitoring by the company and reporting to the FDA. If the data shows harm is being done to patients the FDA can issue a recall.
Yeah, if you’ve got a need for serious speed, especially in decompression, LZ4 can’t be beat.

However, Zstd recently added “negative” compression levels (i.e., faster than level 1). Compression is more or less comparable to LZ4 (try level -4 or -5, via `—fast 4` or `—fast 5`). Decompression speed will be somewhere between normal Zstd and LZ4.

This lets you use a single format and library in an extremely wide range of situations, where previously you might have used a combination of LZMA and Zlib and LZ4.
No, it is the way GP described it. Both transaction fees and reward programs are governed by the same entity: payment processing company. Reward programs were a trick to make people accept high transaction fees, because people fall for the illusion of "getting something in return". In practice, transaction fee is paid by everyone, but many people do not bother to claim their rewards, so it is a net win for payment processors. Also, even people who do claim their rewards usually do not do excesive calculaitons and do not realize that for 3% payment fee they get 0.5-1.5% worth of reward.
I hope you’re first in line to be among the those who suffer.
Actually most states do permit credit card surcharges by the merchant. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas are the ones that ban it. Some of those states have pending litigation against those laws. Some of them also allow discounts for paying cash (as if it's any different than a surcharge for processing)

There was a time from 2013 to 2017 that merchants were permitted by processing agreement to do it, but Visa and Mastercard convinced an appeals court to throw it out. A few places in my state still do surcharges, but it's pretty rare.
It's as standard as most file formats get. The IETF reserves the phrase "Internet Standard" for certain very important protocols -- there's no place in the process for file formats.
Sure, it's doable, but why not make things as easy for your users as possible?
> By the same token, VISA or your bank is government spyware. That's just a ludicrous argument.

No it isn't! The fact that visa and banks are government spyware is basically why bitcoin was invented in the first place.
I'm about the same size as you and got pulled out of the Space Mountain line at Disneyland Tokyo and taken backstage to test if I'd fit in a carriage. Luckily I did, barely, and it was an interesting (if a little illusion-breaking) glimpse behind the curtain of the happiest place on Earth.
I think that you’re leaving out too much of your background in this comment - the nanodegree on top of your existing EE and math degrees and years of experience as a software developer is a much better bet than doing it as a college kid or someone with no degree or professional background.
You have to realize publishers are in the reputation business. And when you start peeling back the onion of how academics are assessed, given jobs, given tenure, etc you start seeing how hard changing behavior can be.

there is no doubt about that. but maybe it's time to question how science is done in general.

in the end the goal is to advance our knowledge and bring humanity forward.

but instead of everyone cooperating to do just that, they are competing with each other, and try to outdo each other. a lot of energy is wasted in preventing others from stealing your research ideas and being the first to publish on a particular topic. instead of looking at the benefits of the research published in a paper, and whether the results can be reproduced, instead what matters more is how many citations the paper can get.

reputation has become more important than producing actual results. academics and academic institutions are measured not in the quality of their research, but in the amount of papers and citations they can produce, to the point that researchers who can't dedicate their life to their work, because they have family, or worse, are a single parent, can't get a job, let alone tenure, because they can't put in the time required even though they may well put in more effort than others into the time they do have.

so yes, i acknowledge that changing this is going to be extremely hard. but it looks to me like changing the way papers are published will be the easiest step, because the components that actually matter are distribution, which is technology, and reviewers, which are academics.

the only thing that i see publishers doing is to edit the journals and decide what to publish. but shouldn't exactly that, also be done by academics?

how about a model like stackoverflow? papers are published like questions, and reviews are the answers. readers upvote good papers and good reviews, so that the most upvoted and most reviewed papers float to the top. the citation count can be included in the score too.

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Prompted a fascinating answer. 'closed as too broad' -- modern Stack overflow in a nutshell.
According to a recent report the average total cost is $330/sqft: https://www.spur.org/news/2018-05-09/it-all-adds-growing-cos...

I imagine the low-end is substantially less than the average, or could be if SF zoning and permitting wasn't so screwed up and we were actually building more low-end housing. The point of the article is to show what's financially viable if the system weren't so screwed up; that low-end housing is viable even in the face of absurd land-value prices.
No one except power companies and current holders of large amounts of cryptocurrency benefits by the staggering amount of energy being poured into this completely asinine model.

If cryptocurrency is supposed to bring the benefits of decentralization to the masses and usher in an era where the "little guy" is more free, it needs to solve that equation somehow.
The average iq in asian countries are higher than average in western. Combine it with capitalism, and this is already an advantage for them.
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If you like making real meals and not getting everything from Picard, you have to get very creative.

Not really. I lived for years in an apartment like that and cooked just about anything you'd care to mention without too much effort.
Thanks for pointing that out. I have started to see those recently. Not sure if it is a recent phenomena or if I’ve only noticed it recently.
Exactly where they would have been if they were born in Afghanistan. Probably maimed or dead.

I have asked this question to myself repeatedly and never arrived at satisfactory answer.

What pisses me off is the shear intellectual dishonesty with which these successes are reported.

Growing up my parents would always give references to such stories and make us feel how lazy we were for not succeeding like those kids.

Those who come from humble background can still make it big but only when all the stars align for them and they are too constrained to only do that one thing.

Rags to riches opportunities are risky bets and only those who can either afford the loss or don't have anything to lose and don't have any other opportunities apart from that one bet wins.
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Does anybody know of a database where data can never be extracted in bulk. For example, lets say there are the following fields: Name, Address, Date of birth and email. They are put into the db at the same time by a user, but when querying the database you can only get say address and age (With unique random ids) at the same time, or say name and email (again unique random ids) at the same time.

The idea is that it would be impossible to get name and address, or name and date of birth and in so doing privacy should always be preserved.
> which can be made illegal very easily.

And yet here we are, living in a world where this isn't happening.

People are using cryptocurrencies, today, in regimes such as Venezuela, and yet your prediction of it being successfully banned, has yet to come to pass.
get jailed and shot for being subversive probably
>My guess, it was a typo in client and they've registered misspelled domain as easiest fix for backwards compatibility with affected old releases.

It was created in 1996, so likely not. Although that expiration date is interesting...

Domain Name: MICROSFT.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 292
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NS1.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS2.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS3.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS4.MSFT.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 31-jul-2015
Creation Date: 02-sep-1996
Expiration Date: 01-sep-2016
Thank you for the interesting hypotheses regarding the evolution of intelligence. I have a somewhat different take and would like to share:

Some of the most intelligent people in history including renowned philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians did not seem to focus on using their intelligence to acquire as much power or wealth as possible. They seemed to enjoy contemplating more universal and deeper questions than immersing themselves too much on worldly matters. A majority of powerful people did seem to have above or well-above average intelligence but they were probably not in the same league, intelligence-wise, as those famous thinkers. Their other traits were also important to their rise to power.

Environment and population intelligence likely have co-evolved and very high intelligence did not confer much advantage over an above average one for most common professions before the 21st century. The technology and level of economy-of-scale available in the past meant that social graciousness and other personality traits could have been better predictors of career and economic success than intelligence above a certain point.

To have a great engineering or scientific career developing some of our increasingly advanced technologies, very high intelligence seems to present certain advantages over a more balanced group of traits. So a shift in global technological landscape could also mean that the optimal collection of population intelligence and other traits change as well.

As concrete examples, the founders of the largest American tech empires all seem to have/had an IQ at least 3-4 SD above mean based on their academic records.

PS. Your 1) seems possible in some cases and I would add that traits like non-extreme autism-spectrum condition may not be a handicap, but rather an advantage, in a certain environment and career path.
If you're using lrzip, you should also check out zstd long range mode [0]. It uses a long window (128 MB by default, up to 2 GB), together with an efficient search strategy, and multithreading. For example, a 2 GB window, with 4 threads, at level 10:

zstd --long=31 -T4 -10

It should be faster than lrzip + zstd and provide about the same results.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.2
Even its vice-versa, if its not profitable enough google shutdown these services...