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Perhaps if one has a doctrate in model theory and has never strayed outside of the abstract algebra/group theory realm, they might not be qualified to speak on statistical problems. However, my experience has been that this is almost never the case. The mathematics people I've known have been, for the most part, extremely well versed in various forms of analysis, algebra, probability and, yes, statistics. You might be surprised how a lot of the deep mathematical concepts tie into statistical methods. There's more to it than performing t-tests.

Comments like yours are more or less exactly what I was speaking about. What makes you think that somebody with an advanced mathematics degree wouldn't know about statistics? Because it's not in the title? Go kick down the door of your local university math department and spring some statistics problems on them. You'll probably come out with the answers.
The JVM also doesn't (I'm fairly sure) have an indirect JMP instruction, which means you can't compile a polymorphic source-language method call into a JMP inside of a single generated method. Instead you have to use a call to a method. That means that tail-calls to functions passed as parameters (rather than functions that can be statically bound at compile time) can't use JMP.
i took undergrad music theory classes at two american universities. they both used fixed-do solfege.
The discussion here reminds me of the longstanding debate over editors like vim/emacs vs (whatever you want to call the other editors). Or semicolons vs indentation, to make a slightly more "reading" oriented comparison.

There's obviously a difficult learning curve for many people, but others who are already proficient argue that the rewards of learning standard music notation are worth an extended effort, if that's what it takes.

The thing I've noticed most about sheet music as I'm learning it is that it's compressed. It uses different symbols and techniques to say the same thing in a smaller space, and reuses space and symbols more efficiently by applying modifier symbols at the beginning of the staff and elsewhere. It allows notes on lines and spaces instead of just spaces or just lines. Tighter, smaller, more on the page. Changes in pitch can also be indicated by modifier codes next to the notes, sharp and flat, allowing further combinations with only 2 more symbols.

So I have to learn to decompress the information at the same time I'm interpreting it. Tricky! I do stop and wonder if this compression algorithm is the right fit for humans. I don't buy the argument that continuity with the volume of existing sheet music is a good reason to never develop an alternative. But any alternative needs to be much better on some metric that outweighs continuity. Otherwise we should just keep hacking the learning process with color coding and mnemonics and whatnot.

It's funny, I was talking to a friend about my struggle to learn sheet music and music theory, and he said "It seems hard at first but you'll start to get it pretty soon." And I said "Yeah, it's sort of like math in that way." To which he replied "oh, I don't know about that, I can't do math. I've never been good at it."
Gold is a very significant part of electronics manufacturing, especially high end/high rel work. A couple of examples are plating on connectors and switch contacts (corrosion resistance) and ENIG PCB finishes, but there's a lot more where those came from.

So while you may feel its value is higher as jewelry etc., its utility is still quite high in electronics.
Whether or not this is a good solution (I haven't examined it closely yet), there are certainly a lot of problems with traditional Western notation. For example: you're limited to 12 pitches, you can't precisely represent bends, you can't precisely represent note lengths, many of the symbols are cryptic at first glance, some of the words don't get translated (tempo markings), some of the symbols are imprecise (again, tempo markings), it's annoying to write music in non-traditional modes, it's annoying to write music with syncopation, etc. Sure, this has worked fine for musicians over the past few centuries, but music has changed a lot since Mozart. I think Western notation could use a little rethinking, so I'm happy that someone is at least looking into it.
Ok, here's one idea - unfortunately it's an altered product: I'd like to pick up a driver, take him to the terminal with me (where I get out), then have him drive my car to a flightcar parking lot. Instead of renting out my car, I'd rather simply pay a reasonable daily rate. When I arrive back from my trip, I get picked up in my car and then drop off my driver back at the lot.
That tweet is from more than a week ago. Any confirmation that they were under a massive DDoS today?
I suggest "chain y" instead of "return y" so that the compiler can verify that a TCE can indeed happen.

I think the rust syntax for this was `be y` instead of `return y`.
Start by asking for a raise, a 15 minute conversation can usually net you a decent chunk of change.

After you get your raise phone some recruiters, ask for more from the new company.

If you get a raise and another offer you've probably got your 30k.
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Neither detailed nor comprehensive. Most of these are just random pieces of jargon with 1-sentence explanations. They also forgot to add a bunch of really fundamental data structures too. Where are range trees? They are in like every database in existence.
GCC C++ ABIs are unstable enough that cross-platform C++ libraries usually export a C-compatible interface already.
I prefer my hypothetical.
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I think you need to go back to the premise here a bit. The scarcity of taxi medallions was not a feature of their original purpose (to protect riders from unsafe drivers), but a corruption of it (to provide risk-limited profit to the existing holders of them).

I would expect that the profit stream off a medallion is effectively greater than that of any other risk-limited or risk-free investment in a government asset (bonds and such) or they wouldn't be in such great demand even at their vastly inflated prices.

So is, perhaps, the decades of extra profit not compensation enough? Maybe recent buyers have some claim to have had the value of the instrument disrupted, but anyone who's been leaching this system for decades should frankly be happy that the government (and by extension society as a whole) propped them up for so long.

At any rate I expect there would be a gradual expansion of the number of medallions on the market until it was an unrestricted license just like any other, at which point trading or transferring them would become illegal. This would provide some ability for holders to get some of their value back as it lowered.
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Job hop to a larger company and get a more senior title.
write a HFT bitcoin bot
What is your full-time job? How long have you been there? Does your boss trust you? Is there a way you can contribute more value to your current employer? For example, is there an important but difficult project waiting for someone to step up and take ownership? Or do you have an idea for a side project that if you successfully implemented it, would improve your efficiency or even that of your entire team?

Promotions and raises are more likely to come when you "step up to the plate" and show how much value you can create. And then you can simply ask to be rewarded accordingly. If you really did your boss a solid, and he's a good manager, he will recognize it and might even give you a pay bump without you even having to ask.

If your boss shoots down your ideas, or lets you implement them and then doesn't recognize them or takes all the credit for them and rewards you with nothing, then update your resume and move to another place where your value may be appreciated.
I don't know about the downvotes, but using anything non-default in MySQL is dangerous because the devs don't test well enough.

I've had enough troubles just with transactions to never consider MySQL for a serious project ever again.
Note that this doesn't say "concision of ML", although clearly they're aiming for that wherever possible.

(Is concision really what you lose when you need explicit looping constructs? Maybe "abstraction capability"?)
"If you look through the scientific literature, especially on India and China, they irrigate their crops with raw sewage effluent and untreated industrial effluent," he explained."

...

"Dr Tongesayi also said that the increasing practice of sending electronic waste to developing countries - and the pollution it leads to - exacerbates the problem."

This is seriously scary!

I had no idea that the delicious Indian and Pakistani basmati rice that I buy from my local asian grocery store might have been grown in sewage!

They certainly don't advertise this at the grocery store. And this article mentions that high levels of arsenic in rice was a "well-known" problem, linking of FDA's advice on the matter:[1]

I had no idea about this either. Why isn't there more publicity about this?

What happened to the FDA's mission to protect the consumer? Why aren't rice imports tested for heavy metals?

If not an outright ban on products that fail to meet basic safety standards, at the very least the FDA could require clear labeling of these products, so the consumer at least has half a chance of avoiding them if they are concerned. And who wouldn't be concerened about accidentally poisoning themselves on sewage-grown rice?

[1] - http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm319827.ht...
> (like Manticore, which I work on)

Nice! I have had envious eyes for Manticore as a modern replacement for Concurrent ML. Are you guys intending for it to be available for general use or more of a research language?
It's an IFrame, so no credit card info is ever actually on Twitter.com. In fact, the entire Ribbon card interface is served on a different host. Because of that, Twitter doesn't actually have to be PCI compliant-- they never see credit card or payment information.
"I can talk technology to non technical folks and talk business to technical folks."
This sounds like you haven't chosen your base yet.
The CME (and other futures exchanges) avoid "DDOS"-like situations (basically, I'm talking about hyperactive algos taking up too much bandwidth) by penalizing them monetarily when they go over a limit. The penalties are large. The same could be applied to Bitcoin exchanges and would definitely improve performance. I'm not a buyer of cryptocurrencies, but if you're discounting the concept because of these events, your not considering the system's potential to evolve beyond them.
The difference between "editor wars" and a new musical notation is that choosing a particular editor does not limit you in reading or writing things that people have already done. If I learn to read music via new notation, that's great, but I'll still have to learn traditional notation if I want to play a piece by Chopin (assuming someone hasn't "translated" it to the new notation). If I use vim, I can still read a program written in emacs. Editing it may be a different process, but consuming it isn't.
I am well aware that Western notation is not the only one, however, I cannot see how music theory works without any notation. Whatever form of notation you choose to encode information in will still have to be decoded, i.e. read. The reason why some notations have been more durable than others is the relative amount of information that can be stored.

Tabs for guitar and bass are just one example of a deficient mode of notation, since they cannot provide all information necessary to play something.

If you want to forego all notation, however, understanding theory becomes even harder than with a deficient notation. For that, you'd have to solely rely on somebody's ear in order to explain roots, scales and afterwards more complex topics. The only other option is teaching visually, which ist somewhat possible with a guitar, and somewhat possible with a piano, but is not transferable to another instrument afterwards.
"Choir", by the way.
I predict that Bitcoin will be banned in the U.S. before it would be adopted by any countries.
>"Impossible" trumps "illegal" every time.

Indeed. Making something that could be made impossible (or extremely difficult) "only" illegal will tend to make people complacent. If the expectation is that bad people won't do something because it's against the law, good people may fail to ensure that they can't. And then bad people do it anyway, leading to outrage, panic and harmful reactionary legislation. Not to mention bad people getting away with doing bad things, which could all have been prevented with sound engineering.

This isn't to say that every problem can be solved with a technical solution -- but when the technical solution is extremely effective, a legal solution is surplus to requirements.
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"My Econ 101 understanding"

Go just a bit past Econ 101, and you'll discover that economists do not universally agree on these things. That being said, here is one popular view:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

From wiki:

"[Knapp] argued the state could create pure paper money and make it exchangeable by recognising it as legal tender, with the criterion for the money of a state being "that which is accepted at the public pay offices"."

Or in other words, taxes, torts, and other laws give money its value.
:-). I lol'd at this
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This is the easiest and most foolproof option. But reverse fleitz's chronology: first get another offer, then go talk to your boss.

Edit—To imsofuture's point below: Yes, come to your employer with another offer that you would actually take, but with a real preference to stay (otherwise, just go). Ask for a raise, and if the discussion doesn't go anywhere, describe the decision you face between more money elsewhere and a preference to stay if the money were not a differentiator.

This is not extortion, and a reasonable employer will not treat it as such. It is the way you find out what you're worth and get paid commensurately. Changing jobs is not the only way to get a raise, and it's certainly not the best way—for you or for your employer.
It's the way that I remember it. Memory is funny. I read that G. K. Chesterton would off-handedly quote lines which he attributed to Shakespeare even though they are nowhere found in Shakespeare, "yet they should have been."
I agree. If you sign an agreement with UPS that allows it to simply give your package to the government upon its request, then you've effectively waived your Fourth Amendment rights.

But, absent that, the government cannot simply compel UPS to hand over the package or relay its contents without a warrant. That would be a violation of the Fourth.

OTOH, if the UPS employee simply looked in the box, it wouldn't be a Fourth issue. It is only so if the employee did so at the behest of the government. In other words, you are correct: in that case the employee is acting as a government agent[1], which triggers the Fourth:

[1] http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/legal-division/podcas...

Edit: Key clause:

Miller: Can private parties ever trigger the 4th Amendment?

Solari: Yes, as we discussed, if a private party were to be acting at the behest of the government -- if a government agent were to ask that FedEx person to open up a package and look inside, or to ask someone’s girlfriend to go through their things looking for evidence to turn over to the police, then that would be government activity. That would be the actions of a government agent because government agents can’t ask private parties to do something they themselves couldn’t do under the 4th Amendment, so in that type of instance it would be extended to that private party.
We could go back to talking about Aaron Swartz if you'd prefer.
It's interesting to see how Google is approaching this, very different to some of their other efforts. The active recruiting of developers, strict guidelines for apps, deliberate seeding of journalists and enthusiasts with advanced access, and now this - seeding the venture capital market too (and I bet Google hopes what really happens is they start a race among VCs to fund Glass projects).

If you compare to other launches where they just lobbed things out there at launch this seems very deliberate, planned and cognizant of the challenges Glass faces in getting off the ground. It will be very interesting to see how it works out.
reminds of the old days at EA when the coders were the rockstars and in the lime light. loved the ads with photos of techies.
Agreed with pash. You make it seem like the OP should ask for a raise, get it, then ask for another raise after getting more offers. No employer will look favorably upon asking for two raises in quick succession.
You misunderstand me. I meant it was an uphill battle to argue to all the paranoid people that the U.S. government has yet to outlaw trading in Yen, Euro, etc, even though it doesn't control those currencies either.
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I applaud your efforts to update something so anachronistically designed. I think it looks very cool, I like the duration symbols.

On the down side, I am very surprised you decided to redo music notation, but keep to a 7 tone diatonic graph structure.

One of the most counter-intuitive things about sheet music is it assumes a 7 note scale, making the graph inaccurate: the space between B and C are displayed visually as the same as the space between C and D when that is not the case in any physical realm, and it makes transposition harder than it needs to be.

In my view, the 7 note scale assumption is a horrible, frustrating, legacy, like having to learn DOS before being allowed to operate an iPhone.

7 note scales are a misleading assumption not only for any "modern classical" composers, but also for any blues, rock n roll, north indian classical music ...

There may not be an easy solution to address all this, but I am curious about the reasoning behind your approach.
How is "counting lines and spaces" not reading?
Well man, nice job. If only we didn't know this stuff....
No they can't, at least not without compromising on several points laid out in TFA. Mainly these two:

- Tail calls also "play badly" with assumptions in C
tools, including platform ABIs and dynamic linking.

- Tail calls require a calling convention that is a
performance hit relative to the C convention.

See other posts in this discussion for examples of the impacts of some alternate calling convention choices.
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I don’t think acquiring a sense of key signature is a dispensable part of the music learning experience, unless you plan to stick to twelve tone music.
> Simple: the number of cabs at which taxi driving is no longer profitable is far, far more than the optimal number of cabs.

Do you have any evidence of this claim? As with anything, there isn't some magical shut-off point where everyone is selling something and then no one is after the price increases another dollar.

Your analysis strikes me as too simplistic. It ignores opportunity costs and the possibility that it might decrease personal car ownership outright if a viable taxi system were to exist.

At any rate, even if it's taken as fact it doesn't justify a fixed number of medallions revised once every few decades. A price set on them, adjusted regularly, would achieve the same cause and be less limiting and more responsive to growth (something cities tend to do a lot of between the issuance of new medallions).

Creating artificial scarcity does nothing but enable some people to profit with little risk.
This a fantastic idea. We should encourage Lulu to give away free t-shirts, so that men know who to avoid dating :)
The exchanges charge 0.5% per trade. This isn't feasible once you look at the numbers.
In that case you can clone the function. Internal linkage calls can use the fastcc calling convention while you leave either a whole clone with the non-fastcc calling convention or a non-fastcc wrapper of the fastcc function for calls from external linkage.
Glad to see their marketing team caught up with the quality of their product.
"it doesn't have any meaning for dollars, unless it were to mean that the gov't would exchange it for gold, which of course is false."

It means, "The government will accept it for tax payment," and for the payment of various other debts and fees.
Don't do this. Well, do this, but don't use your offer as a negotiating chip -- use it as a backup plan if you don't get a raise.

You will be the first up against the wall if you accept a counter offer to stay.
Someone is making out like a bandit on this deal.
Sure and I'm not suggesting that Tesla should pursue such a goal. My point was merely that Tesla has its own interests at heart, just like most businesses.
You didn't state your current salary. If you are making $40k and want to make an extra $30-50k the answer will be very different than if you make $250k and want to make an extra $30k.

My suggestion. Hire a maid. That will save you 8 hours a week. She (yes I'm sexist it will be a she) will make $15 an hour and work 4 hours saving you 8-12 hours. You can work at Radio Shack and earn $22 an hour. Working 12 hours a week that will make you $13k. Use your discount to buy things you were going to buy anyway save another $4k a year. That is 17K and you will have only spent $3k to get that. Netting you $14k for the year. If you want $30k double your hours to 20 hours a week.
> Case closed

You overvalue the importance of your analysis.
Poll: How do you rate your coding skill compared to your peers?
Based on the current post about top coders getting agents, I was curious about how many of our users consider themselves top coders. More generally, I'm just curious how the users here evaluate their own skills. Do we all feel we're better than our peers? Do we all feel unskilled comparatively?
I'm better than 75% to 100% of coders
I'm better than 50% to 75% of coders
I'm better than 25% to 50% of coders
I'm better than 0 to 25% of coders
Thanks Ed, I appreciate that.

Looking forward to hearing back from you tonight. Would love to take you to lunch (on me), if you have time, and hear you out on improving the process.

Cheers,
Shri
No matter what people come up with and who the target audience is, there needs to be a good bridge between the traditional and the new. Staff or not, great for beginners or not, this will only fail because of the total lack of sheet music and other materials with nothing in sight to automate the translation of even a limited subset of music and materials.

(Of course, caveat, I've been playing piano for 20+ years as a hobby. Maybe the ties to the traditional are really not a big deal.)
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