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Thanks for sharing. Nice. I'm not a programmer but I have taken many courses all over the web (I think I only lack practice). This talk reminds me of the Edx course on functional programming using DrRacket. As the talk suggests about the boring and bureaucratic aspect of the recipe design, I think that's exactly the reason why I couldn't finish that Edx course twice, though I am convinced that this design/recipe methodology to learning to program, is the right solution (which is absent from the pedagogy of a lot of courses). This talk makes me want to try and take that edx course again, the third time!
"We have invented something no one else has thought of. A small personal computerised device. Now you're able to stay docked twenty-four seven. On the bus. You can dock. On the subway. Stay docked. You can be docked in at home, and at the same time, you're docking with some kids at the public pool. We went to the guys at Fruit Computers and we told them we wanted to make our hardware as compatible as possible... Now you can dock your Lifeinvader to an iFruit or any other device, and it'll take all the data off and reformat it into Lifeinvader-friendly information.

(2013)
So, like an antenna?
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Also, folks outside Korea don't generally know this, Samsung is way bigger than just phones, appliances or consumer electronics [1].

It operates businesses in sectors like chipmaking, construction, IT, chemicals, power plants, shipbuilding, etc.

If you've seen a Samsung container ship, or a Samsung-built building (Burj Khalifa, Petronas Towers), you'll have gotten a glimpse at their size and scope.

Their consumer-facing businesses are just the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung
Ocean acidification is a global problem. NOx smog may seem local but it has large scale effects.
Seems like it. I upvoted when I read the begining, because I came to discuss the problem with the lack of critical stance towards criteria and metrics used to define how innovative a country is, so I thought it was about that, then I found out it was more about chauvinism :(
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I always love reading these memos. I discovered Howard Marks listening to a podcast and found him full of wisdom. In respect to this memo, Marks isn't the first big name portfolio manager to mention the growing possibility of capitalism becoming the target of the progressive left. Ray Dalio of Bridgewater has also alluded to it several times. Then again, when you have CEO's in America making 271 times more than the average employee, it's easy to resent the capitalist system.
Oh wow, you're right. I'd forgotten. Well, that's a relief -- having already failed is a big disincentive to them doing it again.
Oh yeah, I'm loving this.
“ I guess things might be a bit tougher at the base where they house the American nukes“

You’d think, but if an 80 old nun can get in and et a selfie with a nuke, it can’t be too hard ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice
And in this instance apple could just have blacklisted both
The difference between Godel and Atiyah is that Godel's later (and more "philosophical") works are very hard to dismiss, because literally nobody understands it. Though it hasn't stopped people from trying: https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/Papers/dialect.pdf
True, they are not cheap tools, but SawStop makes high quality equipment. Their prices are a bit cheaper than Powermatic [1], and the saws compare favorably in performance-oriented reviews.

SawStop isn't really a homeowner tool, but it is certainly within an accessible price range for enthusiasts, schools, and professionals.

[1] https://www.toolnut.com/power-tools/saws/table-saws.html?man...
No, everything is tracked. apple uses radar (an internal tracking system).

You can’t automate handling of bug submissions unless they’re semi automated (crash reports , spintracer, etc get coalesced, and high volume ones get higher priority).

But people filing bugs themselves? That goes through triage to filter out unactionable bugs and send to correct engineering teams.

Those then gets screen by either (if the team is big enough) and dedicated screener, to the right sub component or engineer.

That all takes time, and is unavoidable
If your visa expires, wouldn't that mean that you're here without valid documentation, ie, undocumented? You were formerly documented, and you have been undocumented.
I don't think this ever crosses an iPhone user's mind one bit.

And being a former iPhone dev, they really didn't vet much of anything, it was mostly what the employee was feeling that day that got your app accepted or not. This was back in 2013 or so, so things may have changed, but it really was a coin flip...
I don't work at Google, but considering the amount of research scientists on the search team and the troves of data they have on users, I think they already use contextual data quite heavily.

Anecdotally, if you type a google search for something along the lines of spring break in Florida, then search Google Flights, it auto-populates the dates of Spring Break into the search.
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There is not a specific black/white for this but if you have to ask you are usually on the wrong side.

For cases like this it's much easier to evaluate it case by case.
>If FB has been infiltrated by so many "agents of the people", they're doing a pretty crap job at improving it.

Granted, my "revolution CIA the people NSA morals evil" language makes it sound kind of silly, but what I'm really talking about is the more mundane pushback that workers can achieve when asked to go beyond ethical boundaries. You don't know whether any individual Facebook employee is working in the right direction or against it, because although they might not be "plotting the people's coup, undermining the New Statsi from within," they might be gently pushing for more realistic improvements.
Facetious is the word you're looking for. He made the comment in jest, not to be taken seriously
> I would respond that A.I is the -only- realistic hope we have for reducing the biases in our medical system.

I would counter that the only realistic hope is social change. A.I. or not, biases will persist in medicine as long as they persist in society at large. The idea that an unbiased A.I. will arise from a process designed and run by biased individuals sounds like utopianism. Technology is not magic and it won't solve our "hard" social problems for us.
Half of a lot of countries would be here to live the american dream. Problem is with open borders and that big of an influx of people the American dream would be watered down.

America was built on immigration and the process should be refined to be easier, however there has to be a sustainable limit per year. Can you imagine if the Governemt here gave free healthcare to all and then opened the borders. The country would sink.

I hope Colombia can handle the influx of people. If not i hope international aide can work to give assistance.

I am ignorant here, do Colombia and Venezuela speak the same dialect of spanish? I.E. are there communication issues (We have someone here from Mexico and someone from Puerto Rico and some things get lost in translation i am told).
> all employees are given brand new iPhone x’s.
> [...]
> replacing every employees phone

Huh? Employees are given a choice of iPhone or Android; the full infrastructure stack already exists for both, internal apps are built and deployed for both. I'm pretty sure that IT could switch the whole company to Android overnight if they had the hardware in stock...
That's not quite true - minors could be included but had to be associated with someone over 18.
Sure, you'll find a premium on top of commodity tool prices to add the sawstop technology. No doubt about it. What you won't find is anyone who says "sure, I lost my finger/hand/arm to a sawblade, but look on the bright side, I saved a thousand bucks!"

That $1000 difference wouldn't even cover most insurance plan deductibles for one ER visit. Not to mention specialists, surgeons, reconstructive surgery, physical therapy, etc.
I'm not a doctor, but your fingers are operated by tendons attached to muscles in the arm. So possibly the nerves don't need to have the exact proper connections, and the finger can still move.
Unfortunately, this wasn't possible for two reasons. The first one was that we would not just need one account, but several ones. Though it might have been possible to limit this for the integration test, and test all the stuff that deals with multiple accounts by mocking the accounting system.

The second problem is that even a fake account doesn't belong on production, not in accounting. They are very strict about such things.
If you think Leave voters are worried about looking politically correct, I think you haven't met many Leave voters.
Then if you're discussing the topic in the context of "whether our current mathematics is useless in the context of Godel's theorem" - then we can easily define progress in mathematics as "how many contradictions we had found today" and thus continue living with an objective till the heat death of the universe.
I think you'll find a hard time finding any source which will claim cigarette smoking under some threshold is not bad for you.

But keep in mind cigarette studies use the metric "pack-years" where 1 pack-year means smoking 20 cigarettes a day, for a year. "Heavy" smokers are generally considered as 2+ pack-year smokers. And it's not like _every_ heavy smoker gets lung cancer. In fact "only" 25% of heavy smokers get lung cancer, 5% of "former smokers", and 0.5% of non-smokers get lung cancer. And 40 cigarettes a day is a LOT!

So you can do an extrapolation with the numbers above to estimate a conclusion. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that 1 cigarette per WEEK is even as harmful as living in a big city like NYC or SF.
Ask HN: Why is it easier to get a raise with a new job?
Or why is it hard to get a decent raise?
In my experience it is pretty much industry standard to favour new employees versus old ones, but to me it does not make any business sense (apart from showing who is boss).
It cost time and money to cover for turnover and still new employees can be hit and miss. Also, they most probably need some form of training and it will be years until they have the same experience.
The medical system has been trying this sort of thing for decades but evidence based medicine had only become a major focus relatively recently. And it is working, but you can't expect fast changes in a complex system.

I don't think it's possible to quantify the limits of bias we can eliminate. But the system is moving in the right direction. And AI isn't really required for most of this work; it can provide improvements in some areas but simpler statistical techniques are usually good enough.
> I applaud Columbia for this […]

> […] i hope we provide aide to Columbia to help with expenses

Just so you know, the English spelling is “Colombia” (O instead of U) [1].

If you say “Columbia” (U instead of O) you are talking about the historical female personification of the United States of America, and a poetic name for the Americas [2]. I don’t know why people make this mistake so many times, even looking at this list [3] I cannot find any reference to “Columbia” as the name for the country.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia
I’m not aware of any logical argument from a point of atheism that assigns actual value to anything. If the entirety of existence is pointless, then there is no logical argument for human life being more valuable than a robot because both have zero intrinsic value. Given that, fighting the natural anthropic tendency seems pointless.
It’s nice to see that Harry S. Plinkett has a constructive hobby these days.
>>I wouldn’t. That line doesn’t exist, at least in the laws of the legal system.

Who cares? It is well known that the legal system trails technology by at least a decade. Therefore, it should be clear that we are discussing a line of an ethical nature, not a legal one.
> And it would never make sense to make a robot that is leery of being turned off, because maintenance is essential.

How many humans avoid necessary health care out of fear, up to and including the point at which their delays reduce their health? My grandmother died from cancer - turns out she had very noticeable (to her) symptoms for years but was afraid to go to the doctor for bad news. By the time she did (because she collapsed) she died within a week.

That's an extreme example of a pretty common issue. Of course, we have evolutionary reasons to want to avoid showing weakness or getting bad news, but my point is that the behavior is emergent, not intended.
These guys => 2 guys in your transcribed conversation. I'm talking about the conversation.

What's worrying is a person deciding to not refund a 13-15 year old kid that I'm pretty sure doesn't know how many money has spent on games.
Just a few examples
https://sweden.se/business/10-world-shaping-swedish-companie...
> What Apple dictates is what people can distribute on their App Store.

That's the unfortunate status quo. But it would absolutely be possible to legislate Apple (and Google Play Services - grey area) to allow 3rd party stores/apps.
Good evening M'lord.
DVDs are usually less than 5GB. 1TB drives cost $40 these days, less if amortized over larger disks.

Which means $100 buys you enough disk space for two redundant copies of 200 movies assuming you vobcopy them; about twice or thrice if you convert to h264 or h265 or av1; and half again if you have BD quality rips.

That’s about 50cents/movie for two copies, half if you only keep one. Is this really prohibitive?
Who says you get to choose what the robot can and cannot feel? Pretty much all of our understanding of artificial intelligence comes from modelling and trying to replicate the workings of the human mind. It seems likely that the first time we create an AI with a similar level of reasoning and awareness to a human being, it will have a mind that works similarly to ours, and therefore we should not be surprised when it starts exhibiting characteristically human desires.

Alternatively, it will emerge from something completely different and surprise the hell out of us, but in that case we are unlikely to have had much input on its design either.
If you do a search across his blog there's various articles touching on different parts. Here's one such:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...
The kooky internet starts on the second or third page.

Most of the main entry points for the internet have been intercepted and squatted by "big internet". Google is where you go, and the top searches are all squatted throughout the front page and the ranking algorithm biases the bigger companies.

Even the "long tail" went through a period of ad revenue extraction/industrialization. So even those corners are wrapped by crappy aggregators and SEO spammers/interceptors. If there was a dime to be made, someone has tried it.

Actually, I'm wrong about my first statement. After the big companies/adwords spenders comes all the SEO spammers.

Google stopped caring about how SEO spammers drown out small corners of the internet since all their revenue is first page results/adwords.

Your best shot for kooky stuff is finding a kooky site that is pretty good, and doing a manual walkback of the google algorithm: find other pages that link/reference that kooky page and see what non-spam links are on those pages.

Hopefully you'll find some subreddits or discussion boards or other stuff that also centers around that kookiness.

I almost think that the old categories/directory/yellowpages style that is manually maintained used to hold good results for kooky subjects. But those all got closed off.
I'm sorry, but where aren't flechettes lawful?

Canister rounds, from my knowledge, result in ball projectiles (ballistic flight) while flechettes are finned (aerodynamic flight).
Jesus. It’s hard not to worry about this particular combination of events. Is there a benign explanation?
I thought it was filed through the standard external bug report tool? (The PS queue is higher priority, but I assume also gets huge amounts of spam)
Could use some Escher. Why the flagging.
Sarcasm?

I only ask because you're saying this on a website. A website focused on funding technology startups. Hosted on the internet. Build by darpa grants. Like, this doesn't seem like your sort of place if you're serious about thinking technology is evil.
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How big is your movie library and what would you consider cost prohibitive? Hard drives are pretty cheap these days.
‘Msiri was the most militarily powerful ruler in the area, and traded large quantities of copper, ivory and slaves – and rumors of gold reached European ears. The scramble for Katanga was a prime example of the period. Rhodes and the BSAC sent two expeditions to Msiri in 1890 led by Alfred Sharpe, who was rebuffed, and Joseph Thomson, who failed to reach Katanga. Leopold sent four CFS expeditions. First, the Le Marinel Expedition could only extract a vaguely worded letter. The Delcommune Expedition was rebuffed. The well-armed Stairs Expedition was given orders to take Katanga with or without Msiri's consent. Msiri refused, was shot, and the expedition cut off his head and stuck it on a pole as a "barbaric lesson" to the people. The Bia Expedition finished the job of establishing an administration of sorts and a "police presence" in Katanga.’

TLDR:

Can I please have your land? Can I please have your land? Ok, fine I’ll just shoot you, chop off your head and stick it on a pole. Then I’ll have your land.
I guess to be fair to the authors. The actual technical achievement is mentioned, albeit briefly,
"To build their rectifier, the researchers used a novel 2-D material called molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)"
It's a novel material that can be used to make planar shoctkey diodes via an unusual process.

The entire rest of the article is just pointless misleading fluff.
You don't understand how it works. Specialty boards don't control funding for residency programs.
I had a lighter board kickback on me while cutting a grove. It hit me in the side of my gut and then proceeded to fly back another 25 feet into the street in front of my house.

The kickback happened because the blade was so shallow. As I pushed the board into the blade, it rode up on top of the blade. The answer is more downward pressure, but I was using two push sticks to guide it through and didn't have the leverage to provide that pressure. Luckily, I was in a completely stable position and at no time were my hands anywhere near the blade, but it was still pretty scary.
When I had a subscription to the NYTimes, the NYTimes Magazine was included in every sunday paper. So not quite "different publications".
Ask HN: When did you realize your side project could be a paid product?
This is absolutely AWESOME! Kudos to Colombia; and any other country that opens their borders like this!

One of the coolest things that could happen long-term, is that these Venezuelan migrants start businesses, stay in Colombia, and contribute positively to the overall economy of Colombia...ultimately making their lives better, the lives of Colombians better, and showing the xenophobic parts of the world, that, yes, immigrants into one's country is a good thing!
There is no choice. The car cannot calculate the probabilities, which is a prerequisite to being presented with a choice. No question, no choice, no decision. And nobody is going to try too hard to make it feasible, either, because the answer to that hypothetical question would be the same -- occupants and outsiders will both be safer if the car stops moving. So ... just stop the car.
Nice writeup, thanks! I saved the link in my 'cool Racket' list.

I am also using Racket for a side project (Racket for the top level and 'business logic' with some Python/Keras stuff wrapped as services). Racket is very nice, and it is "weaning" me off of Common Lisp (which I have used heavily since the 1980s). The Racket ecosystem just keeps getting better. (I still love Common Lisp though)
Now who’s dehumanizing people?
> The worse part is there has to be someone that KNEW they where in violation.

Given the timeline outlined in the TechCrunch article it seems practically certain to me that they intentionally used the Apple EDP infrastructure to circumvent Apple's ban on literally the same app.
Uber is worse, but they aren't a FAANG member
People reconnected with such acquaintances a couple decades ago without Facebook.

I find not having FB way better for those relationships anyways, instead of creepily knowing their life story since I stopped seeing them )because of FB) we have something to reconnect and talk about if I do run into them.

And I did manage my FB friends well, I deleted it when I realized FB facilitated those conversations in ways I hated and most of my feeds was ads anyways.
There was something seriously seriously wrong with those people.
1. Unfortunately, the main issue was a changing interface of the third-party system. The manual testing against the real thing was the problem. I fully agree with automating everything where an abstraction is sufficient.

2. This is good to know. I might have worked with vague requirements for too long, but knowing this may help identify the parts where testing is indeed possible.
There's an additional danger. Many times society moves forward when the standard-bearers for what was "acceptable" or "correct" before retire or die out. A.I. doesn't die. An A.I. constructed with today's biases may, in some form, outlive its creators and carry these biases well into the future.

"Science progresses one funeral at a time." -- Max Planck
> I truly wonder how many innocent lives could be saved if military people would start writing honestly.

People didn't die because of writing. They died because someone used the building to shoot at people and couldn't be flushed out with smaller weapons. So, the answer to your question is "probably zero"
Correct! As I say in my post, it is the meme of the 3 Laws which is harmful to discussion on Robot Ethics.
Portable spectrum analyzers capable of up to 2500 MHz are not so expensive these days. I'd bring a horn antenna and spectrum analyzer and start hunting.
Three dimensional fractal
There is no meaningful answer to your question. For religious individuals, the answer is dogmatic (and generally yes, humans have value above all else except God(s)). For atheists, the answer is logically a vacuous no, because all of existence is without meaning.
Mine still seem pretty good even after stopping reading the News Feed completely years back. It's not quite deleting Facebook -- I still use Messenger a lot, and also the events now and then -- but it's in the same ballpark, and I don't miss it at all.
Yes, the walnut sauce is lovely. And the cheeses. And the wine. Damn, hungry again.
Actually, it's to allow for non-NUL terminated strings.

A good example is when using a String supplied by a scripting language such as Ruby or JavaScript.

Normally, you might need to copy the string to add a NUL byte, or request that the scripting engine provide a NUL terminated string (which might result in the same action performed).

Using this optional approach, a potential copy of the data can be avoided.
The amount of money lost in services is way too big to be free electricity.
How many movies do you have? A 5TB hard drive is slightly over $100 and will hold a minimum of 100 Blu-ray rips, assuming they use the entire disk capacity and you don't reencode them to something smaller.
I'm grateful he shared it. It's valuable for others to learn from his foolishness, and brave of him to recognize this and tolerate the embarrassment for the benefit of strangers.
To an extent, capital now seems to route around barriers similarly to how the internet routes around network problems.
Product manager for Cloud Firestore here. We extremely grateful for all the amazing beta program customers and all the feedback they've given us.