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Machine learning predicts psychosis w semantic density&latent content analysis
So, several years ago, I was working for SAIC on a government contract. This was shortly before the SAIC/Leidos split. Our head-honcho was an otherwise decent man, but SAIC HQ decided...something. I've no idea what they thought they were doing. What happened was that the daughter or niece of one of SAIC's original founders came in as the co-head-honcho. No one liked her, although no one particularly disliked her. No one knew what she did. She would show up at meetings, be irrelevant, and disappear again. The customers were very confused.

Shortly before Christmas, she and one of the administrative assistant types went around the office with a cart, giving out name plates. She had to ask who everyone was. Then she expressed how valuable you were and how you were doing a wonderful job. She eventually disappeared again, back to wherever she came from, very shortly before the SAIC/Leidos split.

I still have no idea what the hell was going on. And I worked at IBM for several years.
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So Douglas Engelbart did all his work in LISP?
Think about this: all mammals have the same number of neck vertebrae, 7, from giraffes to humans to mice, with the exception of (some)sloths and manatees.

That being said, dogs will have between 6 and 23 bones in their tails depending on length.
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I think the parent post is talking about something more like a carbon tax, which we don’t have in place.
Don't poor people usually have more kid in developing countries as that's basically the retirement plan? That's how I read parent's post, I'm assuming wealthy citizens have closer to western levels of offspring also in India.
These numbers seem off. 4ms to store something in memory ? Even if it include network latency it should be able to improve further.
Building is quite a risky proposition, mostly due to the large investments required, the time to recoup them, and the uncertainty of the costs. Delays and unforeseen issues quite often turn a construction into a money-losing venture. Once those risks are factored in, despite the large return on successful investments, the profits aren't great. So, it doesn't take much to make a proposition unattractive.

Luxury apartments tend to be more attractive to builders not simply because they can make more money, but because the increased profit result in lower risk.
Would be great to find some definite information.
The CEO? butterfi

Sorry, couldn't resist :-)
Do you think people have a right to photocopy an entire book from the library? What about part of a book? What if I copy a paragraph by hand into my notebook.

Where is the line?

Also, companies are forced to serve people all the time. That was a large part of the fight for civil rights. At some level we do have a right to the service of a private company.
I saw people here discuss about WAR.
The fractal brain, from a single neuron’s perspective
So does this mean that containers will be able to run on mobile devices?
Don't worry - I have it on good authority that it will only be used against Bad Guys.
you can have both as long as productivity is growing, increasing labor's bargaining power and wages

unfortunately productivity is pretty stagnant across developed economies, including japan

if capital and business owners have no need for new/enhanced labor as is the case in many developed economies where offshoring/new hire cycling is rampant, then a housing affordability crisis definitely builds up, unless:

(1) the municipal/federal government steps in to regulate rent as it has done in Berlin

(2) there is a good architectural/geological/tax incentive that prevents NIMBYISM

(3) cultural/work factors allow the younger gen to live at home/work remotely
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What are possible use cases for a proxy in a client?
I agree. I tend to see the "I'm smart enough to solve any problem, even if I know nothing about it" personality trait expressed much more in software developers than I see in other people.

It's one thing to have self confidence in your reasoning abilities - it's another to think that, where other very smart people have struggled with finding a certain solution, you can just drop in out of no where and cut the gordian knot.
Has anyone in EU asked themselves if those banners have accomplished anything besides being a giant waste of time and space having hundreds of millions of people not read the text and automatically clicking x?

I’m not even from EU and I’ve had to click them countless times. And I don’t think I’ve read a single one, even though I’m pretty hardcore when it comes to privacy.
The biggest is the likelihood that they, and their networks, are already using Facebook. And they're far more likely using Facebook than any of the other services you mentioned.
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Bingo. It is not exactly better targeting ads. You can sell the same ad (from the same supplier) to the same customer (the person viewing the ad) and the supplier will pay more if they are convinced the ad actually has a higher return rate.

What is the quote again from John Wanamaker "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."

Thus knowing more about their users and what they buy and the ad is successful 1 day, 1 month, 1 year in the future allows Facebook to get paid more.
Sometimes abusers wear a black turtleneck instead of a wife beater
Sarcasm has to be the least effective way to communicate anyone could choose to use. You’re begging to be misunderstood and quoted as an idiot by using sarcasm these days.
1) easier p2p transfer built into apps they have already installed on their devices

2) international transfers are instant and low-cost

3) applepay, venmo and paypal are made for the developed markets. this one targets similar markets where Vodafone has its m-peso
I think you replied to the wrong comment. I'm guessing you meant this to be a reply to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20216673

In any case, thanks for the kind words.
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The blog post does explain a lot of the vision and its promises but can someone from Lyft (preferably) explain the practical use cases?
For me, all the time. But the two points about "write, profile, optimize" that people usually leave out is that profiling/benchmarking is mostly useful as a comparison tool (are your optimizations actually doing anything?) and that part of profiling is asking the question, "how fast can this go?" which is usually a difficult question to answer, but when you get really granular you can usually reason about it.
No. I have a Model 3 and there are several games in the arcade. I've played the old-school lunar lander while waiting to pick people up. The racing game is new, I'm guessing the software update will be pushed out soon.
Took a quick look at your product - looks neat - and unfortunately your description of the infosec space lines up with my experiences. I'm excited to give it a go.

Any chance of a self-hosted offering?

And any ETA on when the .NET integration (presumably support for .NET as well as .NET Core?) will be available/in beta?
How is this different from what Solarflare (https://twitter.com/Solarflare_Comm/status/11134717313798430...) is doing with Cloud Onload? From what I understand they don't require any application changes and they work on any networking application.
Pork is probably even less popular than beef among Indians. At least a lot of the Muslims eat beef, but they don't eat pork. A majority of the Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs eat neither.

For real, any corporation employing a significant proportion of Indian people (hell, even non-Indian people too) should be culturally sensitive enough to know that any offer of a morale dinner must feature vegetarian options. This is basic cultural sensitivity and anyone who doesn't understand this has no business managing people.
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> "The sound of thoughts being transformed echos late into the night"

Kind of a haunting last line from the video. They make them repeat the same formulas, presumably praises to the party, over and over, endlessly.

I have always wondered how effective that is and if some end up internalizing it and are actually brainwashed. I have recited many of those in the Soviet Union. Learned poems praising Lenin and the workers and whatnot but never believed a bit of it. How do officials test that their methods are working? "Will you follow the party's commandments?". How many would say "no" knowing they are buying themselves another yeah in the camps.
I meant: "lose general usefulness"; i.e., lose generality.

Also, "HN's".
Ha! That's great. I forgot the AT passes through right there.
Works fine for me with select all. Maybe it was a temporary thing.
Alright. You are right, I re-read my reply to you, my tone indeed looks indignant (wasn't my intention), you haven't said anything that merits such tone, I apologize for that. But I stand by my words: Slack app is impossible to work with without a mouse for people with disabilities. The very first reply to my original comment confirms that.
It wouldn't be possible to send a message literally today, using existing structures. If we had a reason to, we could certainly develop and build new systems that could bridge the distance.

The main key difference is that the send/receive ends would be symmetric. DSN has to counterbalance the incredibly small size and power limits on the other end of its connections.
Look into carbon tax proposals if you’re interested in learning about it.
Ease of use will be the first hook: FB will likely leverage their install base across insta, FB, WhatsApp, messenger, etc to just upsell this constantly. Lowering the barrier to send to drive adoption.
Well that just cries out for a quote :)

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H.P. Lovecraft "The Call of Cthulhu"
If there are literally hundreds of competitors why would we need you also being a jerk?
If you use the client's timezone preference to store the date and then use the client's timezone preference to recover the date at a future date, you might still mess it up (from the user perspective).

It depends on the user's intent. If they book something at 4:00pm 2 years from now, will that become 5:00pm if the timezone rules change or stay at 4:00pm. I'd argue that for most future-dated items it should stay at 4:00pm. The only way to guarantee that is store the local time.

Storing UTC doesn't relieve you of timezone problems.
Otherwise known as "property tax".

Something neat I've noticed locally is that condos with high property management fees have proportionally lower selling prices.

If all 2 bedroom units in an area/city are $3000/month and one building had property management fees of $1000 instead of $500, the unit's value is $500/month lower (approx. $100,000 selling price).

I'm not sure how that would be implemented on a city scale though.

For density: If you drastically raise property taxes to be proportional to square footage instead of appraised value, you instantly incentivize higher density building. If you're paying $1000 tax per square foot of ground floor, you can spread that over a single floor, or 40 floors.

Was that your thought?
Note this is a first order effect, what I explained above.

The 2nd order effect is that by making more money for the same ad, while your competitors would make less money from the same ad...you can either sit on that profit.

Or you can use your market share and guaranteed profit to make ads less profitable to competitors and this creates a positive feedback cycle where Facebook Ads get more and more market share but other competitors and platforms of Ads gets less and less, which in turn actually allows Facebook to charge more per Ad in the long run (but in the short run Facebook may want to decrease the price per Ad.)
I think it's written for other writers. To help communicate the pain and process. It's easy to feel like it's "just you" and everyone else just shits perfect chapters, one per week, and hits publish.

I enjoyed it.
I realize I'm over-defining a silly term, but I'd consider that a "hack", not a dirty hack.

You understood exactly what was going on and were wholly confident it would be reliable. And more to the point, you wouldn't have counted it as a mark against the product's reliability.
So, I was born in the USA, but my parents are from Poland and left a few years before the collapse. They shared many similar stories with me over the years. Generally, when the environment is bad, the local people are good. But the reverse is true too. When the environment is good, people tend to suck.

It's weird to be honest. A lot of books/movies think utopia arises in the land of plenty. But I guess a real utopia is where we all suffer against a common threat/enemy. That's when we're most human?

But when it comes to communism, it does have it's upsides. Like now in Venezuela, almost everyone is equally poor as shit. Thus, criminals don't rob people. Bullets cost too much money compared to how much they can rob from people, if they even have anything. That's a win... I guess. Great way to stomp out crime. Make everyone too poor to even bother robbing.
This is totally wrong!

The government should never intervene market!
All of global aviation, passengers and freight, constitute around 2% of humanity's CO2 emissions. I know it's a great pincushion--who can avoid hating airlines?--but it's a staggeringly tiny contributor to climate change.
I got the job of my life, paying 2.5x my previous salary, after being cold-contacted on linkedin.
> This is false actually. Cryptocurrency's "selling point" is being regulated by mathematical rules and not by potentially-corrupted policymakers.

You're being unnecessarily pedantic. If one uses the term regulation, I think we can all presume it's about a centralized governance structure (e.g. policymakers).

The "regulation" in crypto is not a set of mathematical rules. It's a set of rules created by humans (see every crypto white paper ever) that uses mathematical models to abstract away a direct democratic process of trust to facilitate the exchange of currency.

If crypto was just about "mathematical models" then why wouldn't we just use those "mathematical models" in today's fiat currency?
It’s not that simple. Being the reserve currency also puts weird pressures on the US economy when other economies have issues. The total effect of which is probably not well understood.
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Voyage's self-driving technology in action at The Villages retirement community
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Actually I'm pretty sure Hiro also lived in a shipping container at least at one point during the book. Though it's been years since I read it (something I need to correct).
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There are a lot of factors at play here:

1.) Supply is inelastic because construction work and building approvals are limited by current capacity. It is not feasible to expect the market to react as quickly as 600,000 new inhabitants over 10 years required.

2.) A lot of policy is still considering this to be a fad before cities become less popular again. Berlin's plans had for instance foreseen falling demand for schools due to demographic change and now rising birthrates (good economic situation) and influx of young people into cities are causing a trend change (for how long?).

3.) Current ECB rates are causing a housing bubble in Germany where many people are buying property for the first time. Because these properties are mostly rented when purchased but renters can't be terminated in Germany, the only way to evict is by raising rent until renters give up. Putting a rent freeze into place makes sense to prevent this and the rampant luxury renovations which don't create more supply.

4.) Berlin at its peak (1944) had still more than half a million more people and is surrounded by mostly empty countryside. It could easily grow to 10m as Paris or London.
Freezing rents is not meant to be a solution for a lack of housing. It’s a solution to the explosive increase of rents of existing ones.

There are lots of people where the rents of their current apartment have increased so much, that they had to move out. This solution is trying to fix that.

Also freezing rents doesn’t mean Berlin will stop building new houses. If there is big demand for housing in a city one needs both:

1. make sure people currently living in the city are able to do so in the future

2. make sure new people coming to the city have available space

Freezing rents is aimed at problem one. These solutions are not exclusive.
This is bad. Facebook will bake this into their software, even if they claim they won’t do it, they will. It’s no problem because you can always just use fiat right? How are you going to do that when the hoard of idiots out there adopt Libra without considering the long term implications? It could be that if you refuse to use libra, you’ll be left out in the cold. It will be like Facebook all over again. Facebook gets popular in 2007 — hoard of idiots dump all their personal information on it without a single thought about whether or not that’s a smart thing to do — hoards of idiots make Facebook intertwined with life itself without considering how messed up it is — people like me are left out in the cold because we refuse to engage — ten fucking years later people wake up and I’m vindicated — two years later the whole thing apparently is starting again and people are too dumb to see it.
Police drive around neighborhoods with the ALPRs and keep that database. WIFI and bluetooth beacons are setup at major events and along interstates. SF Bay area tracked their Fastrack for years.

Big Brother is here and has matured into Big Daddy ;)
How about fixing this by sanding the door down so that it doesn't rub against the frame, replacing the hinges with big greasy new ones, and possibly lowering the door knob? Seems to me like the author chose this solution for the aesthetic / gesture of it.
I keep a log of "stuff I had to look up how to do". Mine isn't "stupid errors" so much as stuff like "what are the flags to get the compiler to show you the assembly code it produces".
Interesting, thank you for the information. Though, from your link:

> It nonetheless imposes some pretty firm conditions on vacation rentals and makes the penalties for ignoring them far more stringent. All landlords seeking to rent out their home will only be allowed to do so if they get a general permit from their borough, even if they intend only to rent their property out for occasional short stays. While landlords applying for a permit at their primary residency will likely be approved, second home owners may face a more rigorous process. Landlords who leave an apartment untenanted, meanwhile, will need a special permit from the borough to do so after three months of vacancy without having a permanent tenant registered, cutting the current vacancy grace period in half. Most strikingly, the maximum penalty for breaking the rules has been multiplied by five, to a potential fine of €500,000 ($617,000).
to quote my argument:

> All of the following is process, business and design failures

none of this is really about tech, its about process.

Your point:

> We don't want to let people grow beyond the cogs we hired them to be

No, The business wants the product to be built as quickly and cheaply as possibly. That is literally what you are paid for. When you hire a cleaner, you don't want them to spend all their time mixing their own blend of cleaning spray, because they read on a blog that its 15% more efficient. You want them to clean.

The very reason that this team were allowed to repeatedly make stupid decisions was because it was dressed up as personal growth. "I'm going to let my team do what whatever they like in what ever tools they like so long as they don't leave, and they hit these moveable targets. Those targets affect my bonus, so lets not make them too hard." Cue a mountain of tech debt, neatly partitioned by age and fashion.

What is so shameful about using the tech you have to finish the task at hand, reusing stuff where you can, so you can spend time on other things? To reference the grain silo analogy again if they all used the same connectors, material, it'd be build by now and could work on designing a better one.

this point:

> There is literally NO reason (other than time, mentoring and desire) that the jr. Java developers couldn't pick up Elixir in a short amount of time and be fully productive.

Yes if they are given the correct time and support. When you have to learn, elixir, scala and nodejs all whilst still supporting production legacy as well, its not a nice environment.

Dumping your legacy on bunch of juniors because you were making services to furnish your CV is unforgivable.
What happened to Lisbon in the 90s?
For quad-trees and oct-trees--they are fairly common in gaming and not a particularly time consuming to implement.

For Red-Black and B-Trees, I've never heard of anyone being asked to implement the entire thing from scratch, but significant portions sure. Also explaining the implementation of significant portions.

Here's a similar post from 2015 by tptacek

>You're a 55-year old engineer who graduated from school in '81. You're being interviewed by a 24-year old engineer who graduated 2 years ago. You're asked, in an "algorithm interview", to explain some detail of the implementation of an AVL tree.

>In reality, despite the fact that they're covered in CS courses, virtually nobody uses AVL trees in industry. In fact, people barely use balanced binary trees at all, and when they do, they use red-black trees, and they use someone else's implementation, because they're a bear to debug.

>The 24-year old has an advantage with this question because they were recently taught about, and perhaps had to do exercises/homework/tests based on, AVL trees.

>That this happens is stupid, because it's very unlikely that conversance with AVL trees is going to make much of a difference to your on-the-job performance. Almost all the narratives you can come up with about this involve reading tea leaves and are shot down easily by better selection/hiring/interviewing techniques that answer questions more directly.

>This line of questioning can go too far; I don't, for instance, think knowing the big-O characteristics of an AVL tree is unreasonable (it's a balanced binary tree, and you should have the complexity of operations on those in resident set throughout your career).

Here's another coment from tptacek in the same thread. If you don't know who he is--you definitely want to hire him if you can. Him failing out of your hiring process would be a travesty.

>I was asked to do Bellman-Ford. I bombed that question, and was so shaken that I bombed the rest of the interview as well.

>The irony was, I'd just spent the preceding 2 years writing multicast link-state routing code. I could have coded a decent C++ Bellman-Ford in a couple hours, but couldn't pull it out of my head on the spot in an interview without babbling. (I tried to dodge by describing link-state LSP forwarding and then Djikstra, but wasn't given credit for knowing the more sophisticated algorithm).

>Algorithm interviews suck. We should stop doing them entirely.