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The article did mention the cells grow more slowly, maybe this explains why. They framed the impetus for this experiment as being "why do we have so many redundancies in codons", maybe the answer is that evolution favored generating new tRNAs for the more used amino acids, speeding up translation? This kind of thing could also be accomplished by changing the rate of generating tRNAs, and for all I know that plays a role too. I'd never really put much thought into why the code was set up that way, its interesting to think about.
I visited a playground made of some kind of rubber mulch, maybe chippered tires. The sun was out in force (hot summer day, 10k ft). You could see the haze of chemicals hovering over the chips as they offgassed, as well as smell them.
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well, one may say your mind is battling rigid logic
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> the only difference is the speed

And ergonomics.

The analogy isn't that a qwerty typist can't understand a dvorak typist, but that when our society uses a certain standard, using something else that's only marginally better might be more trouble than it's worth. Would you want your kid to be unable to use the keyboards at school, or the library, or what comes stock on laptops, or (directly addressing OP) the workplace? Sure, many jobs require computer use, but unless it's an office, they're likely shared computers.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
Yes, the assisting crane is a mobile crane where the boom pivots up and down about the base. Some have booms that need to be disassembled piece-by-piece, so you just pivot it down until the top is resting on a flatbed trailer, then unbolt it.

These mobile cranes can reach just as high as tower cranes, but can't carry as much, can't reach out over the tops of buildings, and take up more room on the ground. Hence the need for tower cranes.
That wasn't really my point. My point is that when you are working on a team, it's a collaborative experience and if your superior asks you to do a task a certain way, there may be a good reason why. The exercise here may have been to see what ideas you could generate about the user experience and less about aesthetic polish of a final product. I got the sense from the post that the author spent a lot of detail in making it look aesthetically pleasing, which is only one part of user experience design. A larger part of it is design something easy to use and understand.

Sure, feel free to spend extra time on the take-home assignment to signal to the potential employer you are passionate, but that's a different thing.
In principle you are always selling access to your work. Raising prices reduces access and thus increases exclusivity.

It is question of marketing.
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Not a lawyer, but I assume because the GPL v3 requires that other people be able to modify the program and redistribute their modified versions. Since Apple are the sole gatekeepers of anyone’s ability to distribute iOS apps to users, complying with the license is problematic.
"Upstream oil and gas spending in 2018 rose by nearly 4% year on year to $477 billion"

"The IEA expects oil and gas spending to rise to $505 billion in 2019."
If Kickstarter will not voluntarily recognize the union, then the union should go on strike and remain on strike until Kickstarter recognizes them.
When I was an industry analyst, I did a lot of writing (and still do). We absolutely needed to see writing samples from job candidates. If they had articles and so forth that had been published, great. But there's no way we would have hired someone without evidence that they could write.
> You’re saying you dislike or hate his principles. I get it.

Actually, I was only commenting on the claim that he didn't receive criticism for his 'principles', when he clearly did. I did not pass any other judgment.

> Noam Chomsky is deeply principled. If someone opposes the US he’ll support them, whether they’re the Khmer Rouge or the Serbs in the Yugoslav Civil War.

Think of Chomsky what you want, but this is a tragically misguided interpretation of his stance. He doesn't want the U.S. meddling in other countries, as the U.S. does not really do it for humanitarian reasons, but for geopolitical and resource exploitative reasons, (I mean just the existence of the term 'colliteral damage', or 'double tap' and the fact that drone strikes kill over 90% civilians should tell you enough). The notion that the U.S. cares about human rights, while being allied with Egypt, KSA etc. shows this clearly.

The U.S. has melted down over stupid Russian Facebook memes, calling it 'meddling', while actively supporting an illegal coup in Venezuela in the same breath.

His point is also that he criticizes the U.S because he's a CITIZEN, while he's not a citizen of all of the other places. So he puts an emphasis on where he lives, because there he has the biggest chance of innacting some change, as opposed to somewhere where he has no say whatsoever. I mean that'll be easy to do, because you don't really threaten anyone in power, but it also means you're doing little more than posturing.

As for my personal belief, I am actually not against markets or whatever. They serve a useful purpose for games, books, smartphones etc. But I do believe that they also serve a catastrophically unethical purpose when applied to healthcare for example, so that put's me squarely in a social democratic camp, but that doesn't really change the fact that MF has seen one extreme, so he went the exact opposite extreme.

And extremes, including free market ones, cannot be innacted peacefully, as has been demonstrated every time his vision was innacted, most notably by the Chicago Boys.
I was just using a couple examples. There's room for other speed limits. I think speed limits should be just that, the max speed you can safely drive at. If someone breaks the speed limit they should have their car impounded.

The current system teaches us that the speed limit is actually a suggested speed, and no big deal to break by 5 or 10 mph. It's a stupid system designed for revenue, not safety.
Ok. I'm a populace (even a plurality, some days) that overwhelmingly believes it is not ok for the government to operate a surveillance dragnet.

How does this translate into practicalities? What laws do I want Westminster or London Assembly to enact?

The point I was making earlier is that the distinction between dragnet and regular policing is eroding, as this technology becomes widespread.

Presumably it's ok for police to stand at the station and look out for their man, or ask to look at a store's CCTV. We'll... That kind of thing is becoming mediated by software. Upload your CCTV photo to the app, and it finds matches with your target, or multiple targets, or everyone.
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It's not everyday I quote Ted Kaczynski, but I think he had a valid point when, in his manifesto, he theorise that no amount of regulation is capable of making us safe from technological abuse.

125 - 135 from: https://www.josharcher.uk/static/files/2018/01/Industrial_So....

> It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

> A technological advance that appears not to threaten freedom often turns out to threaten it very seriously later on ... In many cases the new technology changes society in such a way that people eventually find themselves FORCED to use it.

> While technological progress AS A WHOLE continually narrows our sphere of freedom, each new technical advance CONSIDERED BY ITSELF appears to be desirable.

> Another reason why technology is such a powerful social force is that, within the context of a given society, technological progress marches in only one direction; it can never be reversed. Once a technical innovation has been introduced, people usually become dependent on it, so that they can never again do without it, unless it is replaced by some still more advanced innovation.

> No social arrangements, whether laws, institutions, customs or ethical codes, can provide permanent protection against technology. History shows that all social arrangements are transitory; they all change or break down eventually. But technological advances are permanent within the context of a given civilization.
In a science fiction world, those of us who cared about privacy would start wearing make-up (until it was banned):

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeu...

We don't do this en masse now because "The very thing that makes you invisible to computers makes you glaringly obvious to other humans"
It's like when people say anything more than an hour north of NYC is "upstate".

You kind of need to have a "there is no land beyond the beltway" world view to wind up working for most media outlets anyway (not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg) so this is "central Sweden" by that yard stick.
Unfortunately I think changing the category header text to black with the same background may have made that part worse; I'd probably make the text white again and the background the same color as the bar at the very top

The layout is much easier to follow, though
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Every company I see "really would like" to fully automate their build/test/deploy pipeline, to actually have automated tests for most new features, infra as code is a work in progress, et c. Basically most of the Joel-test or modern HN-bubble best practices are still on the wishlist or on a perpetual "we're trying to make that happen" an awful lot of places.

And they are all, all, "fixing their Jira workflows". Constantly. What a time-sink of a tool, as commonly used. I'm convinced at this point they'd be better off letting their dev teams use whatever, and just have human-driven processes for collecting all the (mostly meaningless) metrics they always seem to need to report upward, rather than trying to make one tool do everything automatically. Pretty sure Jira and other heavy PM tools are typically the sort of software/process that Graeber calls out in Bullshit Jobs: adding a ton of work out of proportion with any real benefit, to make everything fit in a computer and on a spreadsheet, rather than reducing work.
I recently published my first JavaScript package on NPM (available as a library on unpkg.com/quadratic-solver) which on one hand is pretty basic in terms of functionality it offers, and on the brighter side, uses modern practices and uses Babel and WebPack to package it for compatibility. It surprisingly reached around 450 downloads (at least according to NPM) within two days of initial release). Coincidentally, this is my first HackerNews post. Show your love and generosity by using it in your projects, sending a PR on GitHub or even star the repository. It would motivate me to learn more and contribute to the community as a whole.
Correct me if I am wrong, but couldn't Google claim this is their IP since they provided the options?
I know it's no Scheme, but Clojure seems to be doing OK (+ has solid multi core threading, REPL driven development, is a Lisp etc).

I guess at the end of the day it's very hard to compete with the JVM.
To get philosophical, a parents' job is more to prepare a kid for the world as it is, rather than engrain your own preferences to the point of impracticality.
Investing in a mutual fund only directly funds other shareholders
For anyone who finds Rat Park interesting, this is an excellent comic about it:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
I wonder why the truck has "Video recording in progress" in _English_ on the front. Wouldn't Swedish make more sense?
I work for a company that expects 6h of focused work daily.

Coming from a large corporation with highly diluted responsibility - among other disincentives to actually work - it took some time to adapt to this model, but I think it's a fair arrangement.
Why would it crash hard unless interest rates go up by a significant amount? The financial industry is filled with tons of money that is looking for returns - it's just not going not sit in a bank and let inflation rot its value. If there's a downturn, it will be very temporary as Wall Street is so anxious/trigger happy. They'll immediately get greedy and buy any dips.

Everyday, there is new money flowing into the system automatically, without any conscious decision. It's coming from 401Ks, IRAs, etc. That money needs to be put into action.
I'm referring to Takikawa et al (2016), who reported performance 50-100 times worse performance numbers by mixing typed and untyped Racket code together. Actually 100 times slower execution. They used type annotations on the module level. Would be interesting to know if Racket developers have proven them wrong and if so, how.

http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/home/types/publications/gra...
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I'm afraid this won't be useful in the real world. API consumers who continue to use legacy endpoints after being told not to are unlikely to update their code to listen to a new HTTP header. This strikes me as a great idea in theory, but unlikely to be useful to websites actually looking to deprecate endpoints.
Brain fart, sorry!
What surprises me the most is people making 6 figure salaries complaining about making 1k investments into themselves.

Absolutely worth it if it gets you the right job. Hell, most people pay multiples of that through recruiters and referrals.
You assert that people simply define the term in a way that allows them to claim it exists, but then you simply define it in a way that allows you claim it doesn't exist. Wouldn't the obvious conclusion be that there is a semantic disagreement, rather than "no, you're wrong and I'm right"? Your post seems very dissonant to me.
>A later question asks the user what year the Declaration of Independence was signed “just to confirm you aren’t a robot.” This is an unorthodox anti-scripting technique, and a generally ineffective one, given the relative simplicity of automatically entering a number.

A twitter user reported that any 4 digit number will be verified.
The 2009 fiscal stimulus gave us negative interest rates which fueled high equity valuations. Add in 2016 US tax law, and that’s why we’re where we are today.
The studies do not show that.

>In order to figure out whether selfishness leads to wealth (rather than vice versa), Piff and his colleagues ran a study where they manipulated people’s class feelings. The researchers asked participants to spend a few minutes comparing themselves either to people better off or worse off than themselves financially. Afterwards, participants were shown a jar of candy and told that they could take home as much as they wanted. They were also told that the leftover candy would be given to children in a nearby laboratory. Those participants who had spent time thinking about how much better off they were compared to others ended up taking significantly more candy for themselves--leaving less behind for the children.

Trying to take a single minor difference in behavior in a controlled setting and apply it to an entire demographic is bad psychology. Imagine someone doing this with a demographic distinction other than SES.
> This is a great insight which unfortunately doesn't get much attention in the inequality debate.

Doesn't it? What else motivates things like progressive taxation?
There's definitely a design component there, but I do wonder how much of it is in culture and enforcement (which can change the culture over time).

For example, the roundabouts in my city (Kitchener ON) all have a sidewalk or multi-use trail crossing each vehicle entrance and exit, and without fail, every single crossing is marked with a paint ladder, stopping teeth, and a "Yield to Pedestrians" sign. I've also confirmed with city engineers and law enforcement that people walking are supposed to have right of way at these crossings— like, you're waiting to cross, and drivers see you and stop, and remain stopped until you're fully off the roadway.

But it's not like that at all. I have dozens of helmet cam videos of me walking my bike through these crossings and being buzzed by cars who don't see me at all, or don't see me until it's too late, or see me but don't think they need to stop for me. I send these videos (many with clearly visible license plate numbers) to the local media and contacts I have at regional police, and I get a collective shrug back.

I met with city engineers in the winter to ask whether they thought it was safe, and they said that yield compliance to roundabout crosswalks was 70-90%. They said this like it was a good thing. Literally one in ten cars doesn't stop for a person walking in a marked crosswalk, and that's somehow acceptable.

I'm not sure how to change a culture, but camping some cruisers there for a week and handing out a few hundred tickets for $1000 each [1] to non-yielding drivers sure would be a great start.

[1]: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/pedestrian-safety.sh...
Your assumption is that the government is not controlled by the very wealthy already, so that their disapproval of the very thing they are engineering is possible. It's not designed to target them. It's for their benefit. There's no downside for the wealthy with this tech, it's all upside since it gives them greater control.
We know the medically "sitting back, and enjoying your retirement" results in a quick death. Doctors now tell people entering retirement to "stay busy". It doesn't matter if you build birdhouses, play chess, or any of the other million things you can do, but don't sit back and relax.

I think most CEOs - used to working extra hours/hard have the least idea what they would do after they retire.
I feel like this is a bit gratuitously negative. This short flight is the product of months or years of work beginning to come to fruition. Let them celebrate.
"It can hold a gigantic amount of invaluable information."

Which can only be extracted by somebody hand-copying it down. Possibly we can work up some sort of photograph-based system to just graphically copy it to a book or something, though. Which is also the only hope you have of extracting the map data, too.

This is the sort of thing I mean; things you take for granted as being valuable have huge chunks of their value chain hacked away.

Audio content would be the easiest to deal with; cell phones would output master-quality recordings of whatever music you may have, because 1960 cables are still bigger than your phone's little jack, but at least they can fabricate a smaller one, electrically compatible with what they already have.
Even if the kid has a laptop like many do now, how easily will they learn Dvorak when qwerty comes stock?
Teach them to use QWERTY first. It's the layout that almost everyone uses and it's one of the skills that will make them relevant in the modern workforce. The last thing an employer wants to deal with is some sap that shows up pissing and moaning that they need a new keyboard.

Teaching them DVORAK first is like raising your kids to speak Esperanto as a primary language. Sure, maybe it's an objectively better language, but at what cost?

If they actually get to the point that they're typing enough that they're interested in pursuing more efficient/ergonomic layouts, that's a choice that is best left up to them.
What sense does it actually make to do that? The product - rice - can be locally sourced with a lot of human effort gone into the production of it. This keeps people in Japan gainfully employed in agriculture. Japanese consumers also prefer the local product, it is more to their tastes.

Then the Japanese rice producers have nothing to fear from free trade. If Japanese consumers don't want it, there will be little shipments of American rice anyways. This of course ignores any subsidies that may artificially effect the market prices of rice in either Japan or America, but free trade is as much about consumer choice as it is about big business selling it's products.

I live in Canada. We have a supply managed dairy system that's managed by quotas that farmers own. Part of the management of that system is brutally high tarrifs on foreign milk products, including cheese. The farmers have high income support, but Canada also has among the highest milk prices in the world. This effects poor people as well as limits choice. I'm a cheese snob, and while Canada (in particular around Quebec) can make some very delicious cheeses, I'm left paying exorbitant prices for some of the unique cheeses from Wisconsin, France, Switzerland, etc. The result of this protectionism is that, under WTO rules, Canada exports absolutely zero dairy products. Our cheeses don't compete on a fair market leading to stagnant products that compete on tariffs as high as 800%.

Now you may say "great! farmers deserve a good living!" but they're benefiting from protectionism while the rest of the economy is relatively free. If the entire Canadian economy was run on this model, Canadians would have to pay a lot more everything, which would make our standard of living much lower.

Farmers just happen to be politically well connected, which at the end of the day are the people who tend to benefit from "trade deals" that restrict certain elements of trade.
I do not understand the point of this paper. Say, deep reinforcement learning also encodes perception/state into a large vector. Combining perceptions into a large vector doesn’t seem to contribute much?
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I did, and I still enjoy it at 63. I occasionally find it frustrating, and now and them I'm bemused to find out how much of a day can be spent writing

for thing in thingsource:
thingsink.process(thing)

but yes, I want to do it.
I wouldn't cargo cult everything leaders like Jack Ma propose just because they're highly successful.

Sure some 996er's at a company at say, the senior management level can be worth it since you do actually get more work done. Abliet incredibly inefficiently while getting paid the entire time.

I don't see how its efficient to have the core of your business being nothing but employees who are working at decreased efficiency yet are getting paid the same wages. Theres some benefit in cutting down on communication/management overhead but more employees seems like a better idea overall...

It's also simply a practical reality not everybody in society CAN work like this.
Am not in the USA, Netherlands actually.

For my internship I first had a good conversation with the lead developer. After it was determined that I was a culture fit and didn't bullshit them, I got a small simple assignment which I had to do on a whiteboard. Later found out it wasn't really meant to figure out whether or not I could write a simple function, but more to see what my thought process was. Like, did I instantly start writing one big function that did stuff - or did I break the problem down into smaller steps.

Anyways, the interview for my second job (for a fairly big consulting firm) was purely focused on culture fit, and questioning about stuff I've previously made.

Third and current job was the same as the second - only on my initiative I came by on another day to check out what the other developers were actually doing and trying to help them out.

I don't think a test is really useful, if I'm not up to par (or they don't meet my expectations) either of us can decide to end the contract in the first month. This focus on tests strikes me as silly, especially in the USA, since you can just be fired for no reason anyways.

edit: I do have an (outdated) github repo with some code, but not much else.