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I've never really thought much about using schools to teach adults. I love the idea, although in the United States there'd likely be a lot of pushback from people who oppose more subsidized college.

But aside from all of that, I think that the expansion of services that libraries provide would be an excellent way to go about this - many libraries are already getting 3D printers and all sorts of tools, and are consistently adding new programs. And I doubt many people oppose supporting local libraries. Plus, libraries are in some ways better equipped to train people on how to learn on their own (not that they shouldn't also have teachers, but self teaching is definitely a great skill for life long education)

Also, the idea of having many ages all together is really nice - something that doesn't even happen much in colleges. It's the sort of thing that helps foster community across generations and helps give people an understanding of more perspectives. Although luckily that kind of interaction can happen a lot across the internet.
I feel like these types of "free speech solves hate" arguments should be automatically rejected until the author gives evidence that rational argumentation works. I see this type of comment all the time, but there's never any evidence except for historical examples that aren't directly relevant. It's quite tiresome and inflammatory.

There's proof that Reddit is now a happier place. The commenter must prove, using evidence not fear mongering, that the negative effects of deplatforming outweigh the positives.

I think deplatforming is especially good on Reddit. Take subreddits like The_Donald. People who go there are constantly barged with blatantly false information. If The_Donald was banned they would be forced to integrate with the rest of Reddit (exposing them to more true information) OR a smaller portion of them would go to voat, but that smaller portion couldn't be saved anyway.
I was on the inside and wanted to write a book about it, because it was bizarre.

+ BB culture was full of smart people, but we were not hugely innovative. It's like we were the 'greatest toaster maker' in the world. In any other business, we would have dominated.

+ BB was not a 'smartphone' - it really was just 'great email and long battery life'. The underrying OS, features etc. could not enable it to compete with iPhone. BB bought an OS later, but it was too late.

+ BB was way smaller and did not have vast talent pools. Google had a few hundred people in mapping. We had 2. Consider a similar story across other cross-cutting verticals. iOS is basically MacOS-light. That's a massive advantage.

+ When apps came along, Apple just dropped them into iTunes as a new category. BB had to come up with things from scratch.

+ BB was a hugely utilitarian in focus. The 'Tech' CEO did not speak the language of design. He basically had no clue, no understanding of the language. Talking design to him would be like talking about his daughter's shoe colours.

+ BB sold to carriers, and did whatever they asked. That's what made them huge. So we made a new device for each carrier. Apple, because they had power, made '1 device' and told carriers to shove it. But it was hot so carriers did as they were told. BB was 'told' to make an iPhone killer by Verizon (AT&T got the original iPhone deal) and it turned into the BB Storm, which was crap by any measure.

+ BB was sold as a 'solution' not a 'platform' - meaning all of the 3rd party stuff was an afterthought. We never cared about apps. I know, because it was my job to care about apps :).

+ The two CEO's hated each other and never got along. I'm ashamed to say this but they were both narrow, arrogant people. The opposite of thoughtful. One was a NYC style hardened sales guy with quirks, the other a techie from the 1980's. They did not come up with the BB. The BB was originated by a PM called 'Dave Castell' (great man) as almost a 'last resort' 20 years into the startup. It was a pager with email on it. It sold extremely well to execs. Everything was just a scramble from then on.

Indeed it's a fascinating story.

Despite our failings, I don't think we could have beat Apple + Android.
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Does this have an API for repeatable scripted uploads?
I have a friend going through a boot camp, and the financing was eye opening. They are indeed expensive, but consider: what if an applicant does not have the credit history or collateral to get a student loan?

This is a pretty common situation for people looking to pick up a trade skill to get out of the unskilled labor market, or for people looking to transition into a more desirable field of work.
In those days, anywhere you found a Payless, you found kids who knew they were getting subpar shoes, but also knew to appreciate them because they were better than not getting new shoes at all.

Yup. That's exactly it. ( I wore my fair share of really crappy gym-class shoes, too.)
This line of thinking can be detrimental to your mental health. Since you’re posting on Hacker News I’m assuming you’re not in politics — possibly the only career where likability matters.

Just make sure to keep your boss happy, and keep your coworkers and/or reports from literally hating you and you’re fine.

Trying to do anything more than that could lead you to developing social anxiety. There’s no way to truly understand what’s in someone else’s mind, so unless someone comes to you with a specific, actionable complaint don’t worry too much about what they think of you.
What a strange comment. GP wasn't claiming that iOS was the first to add this feature, and besides, does it really matter who added it first? They were just helpfully pointing out its existence for anyone who may not be aware.

(Android user btw)
How did you manage to fund this? Or was it just a side project your team worked on?
The Fallacy Fallacy
> old age and that population is very unlikely to be working counting votes.

Why do you think so? Here, election committees are stereotypically composed of retirees that have nothing better to do...
I wasn’t making a value judgement; just stating that my land vale does affect my taxes
Netflix, though well-meaning, risks undermining existing video rental companies by offering a quicker way to watch movies.
You are misinterpreting the grandparent: Their claim is comparing an event of running a red light vs speeding once. Your statistics have the incidence of both behaviors already baked in. So with your numbers, you could say that all the speeding your average driver does in a year is riskier than all the red light running they do in a year.

It's precisely the difference in the incidence of the behavior that matters here though. I don't have specific numbers, but I think it's a very safe claim that most drivers speed far more often than they run red lights. Many a commuter will be speeding a large percentage of the time they are not in a traffic jam. On the other hand, I don't see of any people in the US that just run any and all red lights as a matter of course. And why does it happen that way? Because we realize that running a red light in most circumstances is crazy dangerous. People tend to try to avoid extremely dangerous behavior if they can help it, so you will find few fatalities per year, but that's because almost nobody does it. How many Americans die each year to Russian roulette? Probably fewer than either red lights or speeding, although I'd say playing Russian roulette is far more dangerous than either.

Given the numbers you found, running a red light would be just as dangerous as speeding if people ran a red light 13 times less often than they speed (for whichever time definition we choose for a unit of speeding). I suspect that people speed far more often than that, compared to running red lights.

We are in a similar boat regarding people killed in traffic by cyclists. How many cyclist-hours do we see in US roads, vs cars? There's also probably very few people killed in the US by being killed by T-35 tanks running red lights, but that's not because T-35s are safe and we should just use them and then ignore traffic signals. Running someone over with a bicycle while running a red light is still probably far less dangerous than acting the same way in a car, or an old T-35, but we can't tell that just by looking at fatalities alone.
That assumption is false. Things like racism aren't motivated by rational arguments, so they cannot be cured through a rational tool, like free speech.

Racism stems from fear, hate, and deeply embedded cultural tools. You can't "cure" racism through argumentation. Maybe, maybe, you can make people less racist in person -- but on an anonymous forum like Reddit, not a chance.
I am not sure even de jure the situation is clear. I think the following is the case (but I'm not a legal scholar, so please correct me if I'm wrong!)

When Japan lost the war, Taiwan was governed by the Allied Powers, who appointed Chen Yi from the Kuomintang (KMT) as chief executive and garrison commander of what was called "Taiwan Province". The Peace Treaty with Japan (Treaty of San Francisco) and the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) both did not specify that Taiwan was a part of mainland China. I think formally/legally Taiwan was Japanese until 1952 but Japan was under allied control at the time. The question of Taiwan's legal status was left open in the aforementioned peace treaties. This is the legal/technical root cause for the problems with Taiwan's legal status even today.

So, as far as I can see: de facto Taiwan is an independent nation. And de jure it's ... unclear.

Finally, let's bear in mind that in a very real sense there is no such thing as "international law", much of what is called international law is really just voluntary consent of states.
What if your network is mostly in a different industry than the area that you want to contract within?

Would you then use a recruiter or something like that? I don’t think I would get any gigs using my network.
The best way to get rid of bad ideas is to not give a megaphone to the people who want to spread them.

The fundamental fallacy you're making is that you're conflating the act of judgement with the act of sentencing. What a fine world it would be if your justice system were forbidden to sentence people under the expectation that the purpose of a trial were simply to convince the accused to never do it again.

It is irrational to declare that some behavior is 'bad', yet forbid anyone from suffering meaningful consequence for engaging in it.
Most real internships pay under market rate, but not insanely low. A few years back, going rate for an undergrad CS internship was ~$25/hr or so.

If you’re recruiting on campus, you’re competing with other companies for the most promising candidates. If you come in with an unpaid internship, you’re going to get the leftovers.
> Turnaround time for exams was sub-one-day.

What's the current status on accurately grading mistakes? From the exams I remember (Fall 2015), the exams autograded perfect answers well, but gave similar marks to nearly correct, but still wrong answers as complete gibberish. I felt that unless I had the answers exactly correct, it was hard to demonstrate my knowledge of the topic.
My understanding of European feudalism (which is sparse, and comes from https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XTAXZAU/ ) is that it is characterized by the following features:

- The owner of land owns it outright. If you own land, you don't pay taxes on it to anyone. It's yours.

- Ownership of land is inalienable. Your land is yours, and you can't sell it or otherwise transfer ownership (except through inheritance).

- Land generates revenue through the collection of dues from peasants who would like to work it.

- The feudal dues associated with a stretch of land are fixed by tradition and, like the ownership of the land, can't be changed. This is why European peasant reform movements emphasized stable measurement units so heavily -- since lords couldn't change the nominal amount of feudal dues, changes were actually implemented by messing with the size of the units those dues were measured in.

- The king has no tax authority. He gets his revenue from the land he owns, just like every other noble does.

It is a radically decentralized system, even for the rest of the world at the time, and it reflects the very low level of societal development in feudal Europe.

The US property tax system is nothing like this. The government owns ALL the land, and no one else can ever own any. The government has tax authority over the land and many other things.

The proposition 13 system does look like it's trying to move things in the direction of feudalism, as far as I can see. It's even trying to make sure land can't be sold, in that when you sell your land, all the tax benefits are lost.
3G is going to turned off very soon in Australia also
Absolutely. £20-30k per year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28983924

When I did my engineering degree I believe they said they'll spend up to £1m/life saved on safety for the rail network. I think the threshold was lower for roads.
I don't think it's fair to compare an arrangement at zero up front cost risk to the student to a full up-front cost risk to the student (where the loan also hurts his credit rating) dollar for dollar. Are you also factoring in the NPV? Inflation?
Then get someone to help you run the team, instead of a boss.
> people often try to rationalize either their lack of experience with a platform or a broken architecture as a problem with the language in question.

I didn't see anywhere in the article blaming Erlang as a language - it just said Python was better for mixpanel.

From the article: "After two years of iteration, the code has become difficult to maintain. No one on our team is an Erlang expert, and we have had trouble debugging downtime and performance problems. So, we decided to rewrite it in Python, the de-facto language at Mixpanel."

The impression I got from the article was that they only wanted similar performance (hence intern), and that they got a suitable result.

I think that recently a similar service GetSentry changed their ingress code from Python to rust presumably for performance and security (although I might be utterly incorrect, I can't remember why I think they are using rust).
I'm not making the case that sexual attraction is a necessary pre-requisite for love. I'm making the case that in a love where sexual attraction is the pre-requisite, that love is not unconditioned.

I meet a woman. She's beautiful. I'm attracted to her. She's attracted to me. We do the deed. Multiple times. Girlfriend. Boyfriend. Get married. We keep doing the deed. Multiple times.

Eventually, we stop doing the deed, grow old. Now we say we love each other unconditionally. But how can we say that, do we now live in a vacuum that we're going to ignore the entire history of our past and that our sexual attraction (or simply, our enjoyment of each other) caused the dominoes to fall the way they did?

I can't say to this woman when I'm old: "I would have loved you even if you weren't hot when we were younger" because this is an untestable claim and ontologically absurd since the "you" (from my perception of her) she was when she was younger is inseparable from how "hot" I found her.
Moto Guzzi V7. Might end up being simple ECU reset or fix. I’m just glad I was tooling around in a neighborhood getting comfortable, and letting the failure percolate. Otherwise would’ve been much worse had I gone straight to the highway.
>Seems like a lot of comments here don’t want to do anything because it won’t completely eliminate the idea.

The nirvana fallacy seems like a very popular defense for gatekeeping changes to something.

>we don’t need to raise bad ideas to the same table as good ones. Just as we shouldn’t be covering “intelligent design” alongside evolution to our kids as an equal alternative.

If you don't find it surprising that people can be influenced by their social environment (spoiler: you shouldn't), this seems like an unavoidable conclusion.

The "marketplace of ideas" is an idea that puts a little too much faith in rationality. It seems as dysfunctional as other markets in that a lot of people make irrational decisions, which have consequences, without caring about (or noticing) the externalities.
No. It is in a discursive style appropriate to the topic. Not what you find in textbooks, but not everything needs to be like a textbook.
My point is that you should ignore advise from people that shrug of millions of dead.

Of course you can finally come to the conclusion that the cause is worth the price. But considering the cost it should be carefully weighted.
In what way do you think China is not fascist? To me China seems to fit the definition of facism to a T.
In Australia you get paid. We have a federal election in a few weeks. I think it's around 300$ for election day.

I wanted to sign up to work at it, but their password reset form won't send me the email, and the number it says to call just leaves me on hold indefinitely.
There is strong overlap between religious affiliated politics and zero tolerance for many things.
> If you want to "enforce a physically correct relationship" between etc you're going to want AI-constrained additive or physical modeling.

I was thinking of relationships like these:

1) Decay time of nth partial falls as a certain formula of n.

2) Frequency of nth partial is slightly different from n * fundamental, by a factor which is a formula of n.

3) Spectrum of nth partial isn't a delta function, but a hump whose width is a formula of n.

All these ideas come from physical effects, but you can use them to generate sounds directly, without any physical modeling or AI. My hunch is that could be more such ideas and they could play together nicely.
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Many places around the globe "democratization" carry a negative connotation because it usually arrives with aircraft carriers and involves several hundred thousand civilian deaths. Loathing few people in HK or Taiwan as a real danger to Beijing is like saying an ant can be real threat to an elephant. Not sure if you are just underestimating the Chinese leadership or overestimating some guys in HK.
Lambda School doesn’t currently look at credit history or require collateral.
I believe the conclusion is basically true, but I also feel that sampling from the Github project showcase list induces a selection bias that is going to support it. The analysis would be more convincing if the authors had gained access to some enterprise codebases whose contribution graphs were more evenly distributed than their open source counterparts.
Or... interest?
Man, what a waste of world resources. Not just all those abandoned bikes, but whole brand new apartment buildings as well.

Reminds me of this article from last year on the abandoned bikes, which has some incredible photos: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...
I think the prices for bike sharing are absolutely unsustainable and so I'm not surprised about the collapse of the market for rental bikes. A bike that is kept outdoors needs 0.5h per week of maintenance and I don't see that possible at current prices and with bikes not being in a central location.
> we might need to take drastic measures to avoid the default outcome

If you think there’s a “we” that could make such decisions then you’ve either missed, or are not addressing, the point of the essay.
The difference is that Trump knows when he is lying but doesn't care, whereas Musk actually thinks he is telling the truth. Musk's pathology is more serious, which is why he probably will never get elected to public office.
Will you be adding vue support?
I surmise that effective fusion power would completely alter the space race forever, even before we figure out propulsion from this energy source. The scientific benefits from a potential large scale space platform with that kind of energy input would have enormity beyond measure, I'm sure.

Even if we don't leave the planet, the amount of energy that can be produced from a fusion plant would still offer tremendous benefits. You could run massive technological infrastructure directly around such a power source.

While one could say that humans themselves have little use of such a thing, I argue that fusion power could usher in a new age of humanity, despite the cost.
Where I am in the UK we have a large city bike program. The majority of people I see riding them are riding 'liberated' ones, which are now more numerous than ones that can be paid for. Whether you consider this to be a failure depends on your viewpoint, but from a commercial standpoint I suspect they will be running at a loss.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/10/nutriti...

While it's not literal death from starvation, it's as close as you'll get in a country with agriculture subsidised in the way that it is.

That's not to say it's as melodramatic a situation as maybe the word 'starvation' presents itself, but do not delude yourself; people really are actually poor in real life. It happens. A lot.
> we racked up hours roaming fluorescent lit aisles, inhaling the smell of off-gassing pleather.

Funny. And if I had to bet on one term that could completely change the materials of which consumer products are made, possibly sparking a consumer materials revolution, "off-gassing" would be it. Once you learn about it, it's always there, nagging you to ventilate or throw out.

In fact I'd say that along with terms like "gaslighting" and "toxic relationship" enjoying recent prominence, times have never been better for terms capturing the psychological rejection of toxins driving humans headlong toward life change.
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In larger projects, each module or discrete functionality works like what's being described in the article. There will always be a handful of programmers, most likely coordinating other programmers, that intimately know that module. That is OK and in many occasions development and intervention, from concept to implementation and then test and release to production, can be sped up, but it must be taken into account that it also lowers the so called truck factor (I like to call it lottery factor, in which a developer wins a lottery ticket, becomes a multi millionaire overnight and leaves the project, rendering hopeless all those parts he had exclusive knowledge)

I guess then the goal is to find balance between having heroes and increasing the lottery factor of the team.
You could fire them or you could just help them understand something that they don't. Sheesh.
>regression

how? it's just another way to communicate a thought/feeling/idea.
I'm afraid you completely missed the point, probably by trying to read it too fast.

The author is pursuing flavor, not expeditiousness. Re-read it as a thing that tries to convey the pleasure in the activity of reading, beyond whatever value there may be in the data being propagated.
I think it is mostly a funding issue. In Sweden there is municipal adult education. About 4% of the population ages 20 to 64 attended last year, with the median age (at least previously) being around 30. It is however tuition free and grants you a government student loan for living costs. Of course soon enough that loan might not actually cover rent.
Can't seem to figure out how to edit my comment on mobile, here's the link: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
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