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Full-stack developer and designer helping companies of all sizes launch new products and
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Over 15 years experience and excellent communication skills.

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I see a lot of dense 3-story housing complexes being build in the south bay. For example along Montague expressway near the great mall near the new BART station Many mixed residential/commercial buildings also. I think the real problem area of housing expansion is San Francisco which is not doing much of this.
Clearly the solution is to remember pi in hex.
Tibet is considered part of China because it was conquered during the Qing dynasty's war against the Dzungar Khanate at the same time as Xinjiang and Mongolia.

That doesn't mean that the native peoples of those areas are not stereotypically considered inferior to Han Chinese. It's comparable to the situation of Western colonies, whose peoples also weren't held in high regard, despite of the geopolitical importance of the regions they lived in.
Interestingly this contributes to why drug companies spend so much money on advertising: it has a predictable measurable return, whereas R&D is virtually a lottery.
I wrote the exact same macro in Clojure a couple weeks ago !

(defmacro lay [[sym expr & more-bindings] & body]
(let [delay-sym (gensym (str "laid-" sym "-"))]
`(let [~delay-sym (delay ~expr)]
(symbol-macrolet [~sym (deref ~delay-sym)]
~@(if (empty? more-bindings)
body
`[(lay ~more-bindings ~@body)])))))
One of my responsibilities to my family (I’m in my mid 40s) is to make sure that we are all fed and have a roof over our head. If that means taking time to keep up with the $cool_kids and stay employable so be it.

If you look at my resume over the past 10 years and the tech I’ve used, it’s indistinguishable from younger developers.
Defining by dollar amount is never a good idea due to inflation/market appreciation. There are so many laws and regulations that are pinned to a dollar amount that get more and more out of date each year.

It should always be something that's a better true absolute measure, for example market penetration.
To be fair, I doubt any management could make ride-sharing companies profitable. The sooner they go under, the sooner drivers start making livable incomes again.
I don't know exactly what you mean by slowing down

Like the PC and Laptop landscape. There isn't money poured into new series and advertisement and hype generated like crazy. Market moves forward at a slower rate.

But for a modern smartphone to be functional...

Obviously this isn't a replacement for your iphone or nexus.
This is a enthusiast's toy who want to support the libre movement and possibly contribute to it.

What exactly do you mean by Linux is ahead of its competition?

I think Linux on the desktop is an amazing platform. There are several different high quality user interfaces and window managers and each one have their strong points.

I personally cannot stand windows on the desktop for 10 minutes.
>We need US companies to win global markets

why
> European countries, by contrast, have mostly not changed their definitions of unemployment since

The US has not changed the definitions of the six different levels of unemployment.

25 years ago, the BLS changed the headline statistic that they lead with from U5 to U3, in order to provide an apples-to-apples comparison with what the UN measures. That change was 14 years before 2008, and the BLS still publishes all six.
Absolutely! But in this case, someone might approve of the EU-style regulations WITHOUT believing they necessarily lead to a lower unemployment number (they might value other aspects, such as living wages, resistance to shocks, benefits, employee<->employer power balance, etc). In such a case, the bet doesn't represent their beliefs, but they still fall in to the "apologist" camp he is decrying.
I believe it could be delivered good or bad by both. It depends on so many factors.
University Students supplemented by their Parents and Loans.
Scratches can be harmful though, they're an easy vector for infection.
Ah, gotcha. I was thinking of the latter, haven't seen the former. I still think it's an induced, unnecessary dependency and I'm not sure I myself would trust something like this. But best of luck to the creators, I hope their customers will find it useful enough to renew/expand :)
You're comparing the real-world implementation of something to a hypothetical. I bet that hot-swapping base machines into different form-factors like that will be just as ridden with technical problems as cloud storage is.
That's a special case, however. See-and-avoid except in specialized scenarios is what the Level-3 designation of driving-assistance systems is about, something that Tesla has not achieved so far.
Interesting. I legitimately liked perl back in the day. The ability to do things like inline c code, etc. was great. But I've been immediately passing on any roles that mention Perl for a long time.
"We were fortunate that we industrialized sooner," not "rate of industrialization is totally random and unpredictable."

Edit: Also, the predictions are for next century. Even if they were making the straw claim you believe they are, they probably won't be around to collect on the super-long-term investment you suggest.

Edit #2: Checked out your comment history, looks like you're just a garden-variety racist who thinks that white people are better than everyone else.
Christian Apologists immediately come to mind for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_apologetics

I wouldn't consider the term "apologist" to be pejorative at all.
Dr. Caplan is a big proponent of betting. Disputes in academic journals are endless and inconclusive. Betting gets people to put their money where their mouth is. I think this is the best part of the economics profession and needs to be applied to more parts of society.
I survive on One Meal a Day Diet

Which consists of

a) Oatmeal b)Green Tea c) Coffee

I've been going strong

On weekends I drink protein shake.

I've gained much muscle and focus back through this diet.
Trump's own lawyer has made it clear that was ongoing.

I don't know what you mean by "you started it".
The scene from Elysium really did this well... having him attempt to sign a receipt for the five days of terminal care painkillers. Very evocative.
That's fair; there's no doubt that self-teaching can lead you down an incorrect rabbit-hole (though I do think most grow out of that eventually), and I'm not an exception; I once thought I could write an entire OS kernel on the GPU because clearly no one has ever tried that.

I think my point still stands, however.
That's a solid point. No doubt our ability to eat pretty much anything is a selectable for as a positive survival trait.
They're probably still holding on to the dream of the self driving vehicle ... which is practically at least 15 years out at this point .. probably more like 20~25.
For those interested in how the harmonized rate is defined across countries, the link below states it as:

the unemployed are persons of working age who, in the reference period:

− are without work,

− are available for work; and,

− have taken specific steps to find work.

More detail would probably be helpful, but the harmonized rate attempts to apply equally across countries. There may be methodological differences, but I doubt those differences would be stronger than the difference the author of TFA found.

https://www.oecd.org/sdd/labour-stats/44743407.pdf
Google is effectively has monopolies on search and online advertising.

They should be broken up.
>I can't think of an evolutionary advantage of desiring variety

For one, you can survive better if your "non varied" sources of food die off.

Second, you get more nutrients etc (for an organism that has already needs for different nutrients like us, eating the same thing every day can even be lethal, e.g. scurvy, etc).
Sounds... not right. What is the date?
> "We offer our sincere condolences," said Kaiser Permanente Senior Vice-President Michelle Gaskill-Hames in a written statement, "We use video technology as an appropriate enhancement to the care team, and a way to bring additional consultative expertise to the bedside."

You keep using that word, "appropriate". I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think we should make it agnostic to where it doesn’t matter how the person gets the message. Couple either experience with support groups.
Also worth noticing that Comcast owns NBCUniversal/NBC/Chris Hayes. Not saying they instructed him specifically on how to opine on this one issue but there is a general conflict of interest.
They're not competent. That is the problem.
I agree 100% and have long felt this is the right approach. Basically the bigger you get, the harder it gets to keep getting bigger.
WTF. Quarkus- Seeing Java builds in containers taking less than 0.008s
Humm. I find his assertion that employed people are happier than unemployed people interesting. I wonder if this is because a lot of people live pay check to pay check and the loss of income puts them in a serious bind.

I was laid off last year, and I've been fortunate that I had a good salary and have been able to save a lot. Those few months I was unemployed were the happiest I've been in a decade. I did some traveling and projects around the house I've been wanting to do. In fact I quit claiming unemployment because the required job searches were killing my buzz.
Saying "we are in a globalized world" makes it seem like that is just the nature of things and not the outcome of specific policies taken by primarily the US in the post-WW2 era. Corporate concentration is against capitalism, and dealing with global competitors can be dealt with with the tools we already have, like the current administration is with trade policy.
I'm on a low carb diet for both losing weight and better budget. I've tried so many things over the years, but having a consistent routine every day seems to be the easiest for me to follow. I've found that having a "yes" list is WAY easier to manage mentally than having a "no" list.

For those interested in my diet plan, I eat the following:

7am 3 cups of water followed by 3 cups of coffee.

10am 1 cup bone broth + 1 protein shake if I'm still hungry

12pm 2 cups of salad + 1 avocado + 2 eggs + 1 keto cookie (Fat Snax, they're delicious)

4pm 1 protein bar (Keto Collagen Protein Bar) or 1 30g of Macadamia Nuts

6pm 500 calories of meat + 2 cups of salad + 1 ChocoZero (Keto Chocolate)

This is about 1,800 calories a day which puts me at a steady pace to lose about 1 lb of fat a week assuming I don't cheat.

I really like this diet plan because I can bulk buy most things at Costco and the snacks on Amazon. The best hack has been pre-packed hard boiled eggs, that's reduced my lunch into a 2 min prep for just the advocado and putting everything together. My lunch requires no meal prep so I only have to think about dinner. And I've reduced dinner down to just a meat which I can cook up in a bunch of different ways twice or 3 times a week.

It has helped me save money, save time, keep fit. Great for post-holidays.
Planes already have a problem with GPS outages or military jamming exercises. Imagine if all cars within a 100 mile radius all of a sudden would stop working.
I would say most do, which puts seniors at huge disadvantage.
Datacenters are placed wherever energy can be easily and cheaply acquired. Some may negotiate special deals with local utility companies, I don't have hard numbers on what datacenters usually pay for electricity though (assuming they don't provide their own).
I don't think that's true - they're using a harmonized rate that is effectively measured the same way. Here's the original publication that the author is responding to:

http://cepr.net/documents/publications/US-EU-UR-2009-05.pdf

It'd be pretty silly of two professional economists to make a bet about two numbers that are measured differently. They know about U3 vs U6.

Also, I don't think anyone has changed their definitions of unemployment recently. BLS publishes all of them and the official rate has been U3 for like, 40 years or something.
I think it would be easier to argue that Apple is being anticompetitive by having undocumented API's only their apps can use, and by not allowing end users to change default mail, map, and browser apps etc.
I'm not sure how a web comic from New Zealand is supposed to form an effective refutation in response to quantative data on academics in the United States. In case it wasn't clear I'm most talking about America. The posted article opens with statementd from Barack Obama and Trump so I think this narrowed scope is on topic. I don't have much experience or knowledge of other countries meritocratic systems.

Oppressed minorities have gotten themselves out of poverty by emphasizing hard work and education. I've already listed Jewish Americans and Asian Americans. The Irish also underwent a similar process. Back during the 19th and early 20th century Irish were widely discriminated against and many didn't consider them White. Irish community leaders started emphasizing education in the early to mid 20th century. And by 2018 Irish have succeeded to the point that Irish surnames are considered signs of privilege. Cuban American households by now make about $20k more than the average American households [1]. Latin Americans as a whole are following suit.

Minorities have overcome oppression through meritocratic systems. It certainly hasn't worked for every demographic. But I don't think you're giving minorities enough credit in their ability to succeed through their own effort.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Americans
I remember watching an old YouTube movie from Brendan Gregg where he screams in front of a sun NAS and the voice vibration affects the HD reading speed among other parameters.
Until recently, brick and mortar really just knew what people tend to buy together. They can't tell, like Amazon, than a single customer buys XYZ over their lifetime. Brick and mortar now employee ways to aggregate using credit card numbers across stores.
Very interesting.

Always fascinated by the Orca species.

It’s my understanding there has never been a reported killing of a human by Orcas and that they possess a very interesting and not entirely understood brain.

Apex ocean predator, hunting in packs.
Mass transit is currently virtually non-existent and it appears that every new proposed transit project is defeated by voters.
Kind of asking a question, about how other people felt about some other news. That's not what I was talking about, at all. I don't care / wasn't talking about "Democrats being angry" or anything. Maybe he can answer that, but I don't care.
Awesome work! We love to see go link enthusiasts!
There are a ton of good open source golinks systems out there, we just want to give users a full suite of golinks with zero setup :)
I get it - but I still believe that mimicry of concern is less desirable than actually HAVING concern. I'd much rather get bad news from someone remote that has concern than from someone in-person that doesn't. And I certainly wouldn't want to have to wait for an in-person meeting with a diagnosis hanging over my head if I can find out sooner.
I'm with you, except for the part where we trust the middle man to please-pretty-please-pinky-swear delete the key. That, to me, makes it weaker than a token approach. With the token approach, the intermediate value has such a short useful lifetime that it's practically not a secret. The real secret -- the value required to duplicate the token -- remains with only the client and the centralized store.
How do you do investigations if you aren't allowed to question suspects and witnesses and keep records of them? I'm really perplexed by this stance.
It's running in hundreds cities in tons of countries with huge pools of drivers. The server costs alone are going to be big. Plus you have to hire and pay for really good reliability engineers. Any outages are going to cost you a lot of confidence, and a lot of money. This is a really big amount of data, more than most people realize.
Women in Dapp – Stories from dapp builders – who happen to be women
This is one of those questionnaires that is generated based on your credit report and other items related to you identity. So it's extrapolated from your birthdate and probably makes it ever-so-mildly more difficult for robots to get it right than it would if it just asked for your birthdate.
For older coders, I'm not sure that same signal works. I've forgotten more frameworks than most coders will ever learn. I mostly don't care about programming languages, they're roughly the same and I can learn a new one in a couple weeks.

Why not? I’m older than you and I have passed plenty of technical interviews on the $latest_tech.

Sure you can learn a language in two weeks but a language is far more than syntax. There is the ecosysystem, frameworks, third party packages, etc.

And honestly, I would be more concerned about hiring someone who built their own bespoke framework from scratch than someone who used an existing one. Building frameworks rarely adds business value.
Yep. Looks like a coordinated campaign... maybe involving one of those forms you click on that dumps boilerplate into an email so the commentator can be as passive as possible.
I find it's not the terminology people are offended by anymore, but the premise that you are labeling them as something. Change the terminology to something else and they will still be offended. IMO, it's very similar to being offended for the sake of being offended.
Humanity is not expansionist on a galactic level. Once we are in a position we could make it to the stars, maybe we wouln't do it either, since it might take too much resources that can be spent more efficiently in ensuring our own survival here in this system.
United Airlines asked me to fill in a bunch of crazy password questions a few weeks ago.

Things like "What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?" Well, I dunno. It depends on my mood.

Or "What if your favorite vacation destination?" Another bad question because my favorite today may not be my favorite when I get back from the next place.

Unfortunately they were all mandatory — there wasn't an option to pick only the sane ones; all ten had to be answered.

Most of them felt more like marketing trying to build a profile on me rather than IT trying to keep my data secure.
Ethical Advertising
Maybe the term "apologist" is uncollegial out of context, but apologia without stake is worthy of a ribbing when the apology matures into a confirmed failure.

Also why can't people have fun battling with words and bets? It seems better than revolution or fistfights to me.
The point is that these are bets between people who disagree with each other. They negotiate the data and terms and hopefully learn from the result and change their minds. This is one way to help tune bayesian priors about what ideas and people to trust and investigate further.
> From reading how the US government defines employment/unemployment/labor force participation [1], the definitions appear to be materially the same

They are the same. There are six different levels of unemployment which are measured and published regularly. One of them, U3, corresponds to what the UN uses and is the de facto international standard. Back in the 1990s, the BLS decided to start referring to this as the "official" unemployment rate instead of one of the other five, in order to adhere to a common standard.
That's a good point, at least WRT After Words on C-SPAN where I believe the book author has a say in who their interviewer will be. Still, it was jarring someone would not push back on some of this crap that I see as "Bircherism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Absolutely; use a password manager. This is the least bad way to go for these types of "security questions": give a plausible, but wrong, answer.

Correct is too easy to guess.

Obviously wrong will be recognised by the customer service representative, who is a kind person, and will help you out by just disabling the question (anecdotes galore for this, to the point we can call it data).

Lie, in a believable way. Put the answer in a password manager. Open your password manager up before calling any CS rep. Be a star in the security theatre. :)
MH370 was near SIA68 when it disappeared, and SIA68 was near the northern arc when MH370 should have been there. It's possible that MH370 could have hid from casual radar by flying near SIA68 until it was in quieter airspace.

That's almost irrelevant though. The cost of investigating the northern arc would be a hundred times less than what has been spent in the ocean.
I tend to eat the same meals on the regular (although I'm not strictly dedicated to doing so or anything), mostly because it eliminates the need to spend any time on meaningless decision-making.
Show HN: Handcrafted gradient folders for your computer system
There's no fundamental right for a corporation (which, to remind, is a separate legal entity) to be of a certain size. This doesn't have anything to do with freedom of speech. And if you trim them down to size by splitting them, the original owners would still own the fragments, so it's not a seizure, either.
Google Open-Sources Lingvo Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling
I used to do this and I did grow resentful of it, after about 6 months. I've switched to having the same thing for a week and cycling between 4 options. It's hit that sweet spot of variety and familiarity for me.
Why are there are so many "fake trend" articles? If you find 2-3 groups of people doing something weird is that a "trend"?
Alright slow down there, chief. I'm making a comment on the internet, I'm not trying to sell your firstborn or something.

I said that the US _lucked out_ in that China didn't industrialize first. I didn't say that industrialization was a product of luck.

If China were to develop to the extent that the US has, which it's on a path to do, then population will absolutely matter. An American company with a market of 650 million potential customers isn't going to hold a candle to a market with 1.4 Billion.

I'd absolutely divest in the US and invest in China if I were going to be alive for another 100 years. Africa wouldn't be a bad bet either... which is why China is already making significant investments there.
How's this better than https://twitter.com/climagic?
You pass it in as a string, and the standard library does strtol() on each component. The problem is that strtol() is "smart" and tries to autodetect the base of the input. So you could specify your IP address as 0xc0.0xa8.0xa.0x1 if you wanted, but who the hell does that?
> They're in the business in shipping real cars to real people and there was never any possibility of mixing that with LIDAR.

Can you explore that a little? We have consumer products that contain LIDAR already (e.g. Neato Vacuums). The sensors no longer cost thousands of dollars, and could supplement other types of inputs to provide a broader picture of the road.
A company that is not profitable now that is going to make a profit down the road is a good investment, since you'll be buying it at a discount on the market now.

Why not also just hand wave that Lyft is a mere messaging app company that provides communication between people who need rides and drivers willing to give them?

You can criticize the company many ways, but whatever they're doing is working because they're making $2.2B in revenue and growing rapidly. They're positioning themselves as a demand-provider to service the upcoming self driving markets, which is smarter than vertically integrating like some other hype machines out there.
> It was 50/50.

1) The fact that there are two possible outcomes does not make the odds 50/50.

2) As others have pointed out, he has a history of winning the bets he makes, well above 50/50.