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Whether this works or not depends a great deal on the size and geography of the city you're talking about. Where I grew up outside of Seattle, we could get from our very suburban home in Bellevue into downtown Seattle in about 20 minutes, close to your range. Where I live now in London, on the other hand, it takes 45 minutes to get into the center and I would still consider my zone very urban, with few or none of the benefits (space, isolation, safer neighborhoods, etc) that suburbia brings.

When I have children, I fully intend to move back into the suburban ring around a mid-sized city where I can regain those benefits without cutting myself off from civilization entirely.
>Most doctors I know still advise not eating after 6pm

That sounds pretty sketchy. Do you mean "for people with acid reflux"? Because that's perfectly valid. I've never even heard of a doctor recommending that in general.
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>If a company's "owner" is mainly short-term money, then any publicly traded company is vulnerable to takeovers that destroy long-term value in favor of extracting cash in the short term.

That just means companies have to be valued high enough so they're not vulnerable to the 'raiders'. However, if that's not the case then there may be a fundamental problem with the long term prospects of the company. It may be better indeed to use the capital of it for something else.
This article feels a little confused.

> But today, iOS and Android have redefined the app installation experience, and packages seem like a step backwards.

I'm no expert on iOS & Android internals. But surely there are packages and a package manager hiding behind the app installation process.

What is different is the UX. The package manager has been given a very different interface.

An important part of this involves cultural assumptions about what users can be expected to know. That a user might be asked what to do with an sshd config file is not a problem with the concept of a package manager, but with the (increasingly incorrect) assumptions made in the Linux world about the technical expertise[1] of the user.

In any case, yes, I'm all for improving the interfaces we use to install & manage software.

[1] Expertise and interest. I'm perfectly capable of making decisions about sshd config files. However, I don't want to.
But that isn't what was eventually designed and built, it was made into a fighter-bomber which required a much heavier airframe, sacrificing supercruise among many other things.

Given that the original concept was strictly a daytime fighter I'm not at all sure the decision was incorrect.
I thought this was relevant given the subtext of a clash of values between a CEO with Silicon Valley pedigree and existing staff at a media company.
Accidentally commented on the main post instead of the comment where someone said Derrida is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century or something like that.
I took a course on this stuff in uni, it was so fantastically fun to play with.

Simulated annealing has less cachet than GAs (and other evolution-inspired approaches) but tends to perform well enough on lots of problems that you might as well skip GAs.

I haven't dug much on the linked GA, but it looks like it converges too quickly. That's a classic problem (exploration vs exploitation, aka coverage vs convergence) in optimisation problems. The problem I practiced on was Ackley's Function[1]. Even in 2 dimensions it's really good at tripping up algorithms that converge too eagerly.

Some GA methods actually make the parameters of the system part of the genome, but as I recall it doesn't make a huge difference overall. Fun to think about though.

Mind you, the No Free Lunch Theorem means that there's a place for everyone in the heuristic computing tent. And simple random sampling (monte carlo method) and/or graphing can be very helpful for looking for the contours of a solution space. There's still room for humans too.

[1] https://github.com/jchester/ruby-ackley-genetic-algorithm
So every time you read "over" you think of overlord?
I agree with you. I also find it a weak argument because companies aren't obligated to provide great (phone) customer service. I wish everyone had great customer service, but market forces make that a secondary or tertiary priority for many companies. For Uber, I bet they're growing at 10x/year while losing maybe 1% of customers to weak customer service. Why spend resources trying to shrink the 1% to .5% when you can instead try to grow the 10x to 12x?

A tangent: I think you meant "segue" instead of "segue way". I just learned that a few weeks ago.
I have the same problem, at some point you stop having time to read all that, you just collect the information for the sake of collecting it. It's actually a kind of hoarding disorder, and in my experience the similar measures can be applied:

- Learn to prioritize important vs useless info

- Impose yourself a limit on time/amount of data daily

- To support the above set some offline time to do something else, something useful and relaxing

- Organize your data and just delete all that you know you will never have time to read

- Learn to accept that you will never know everything, it's impossible, so it's not a big deal if you miss some info. No, really, no big deal at all. Relax :)
I feel like if you're going to base an image format off a compression standard made for video, that animation is probably a short way off.
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A plane designed by a renegade Colonel for a single goal, which just happens to be something other than Close Air Support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_...
I'm not willing to say that dynamically typed languages are more expressive. It's hard to compare two languages and just say "A is more expressive than B." Usually they just express different things with different degrees of conciseness. (In particular, Brainfuck is not concise. It has a small grammar, but an equivalent print statement has much more room for error, since it takes a longer string of obfuscated code to produce.)

My point is that the _goal_ of expressiveness is still there and still valuable. We need languages that express our intent safely, clearly, and quickly. The better this is achieved, the less debugging you have to do -- because, by definition, the code will express what you want more clearly and with less room for error.

>It's not what language you use, but /how/ you use it.

How you use a language is determined by the grammar of that language. So I don't see any value in your point here, save for trying to dodge specificity and feign wisdom.
Yeah, I'm the same. It stresses me the hell out.
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My honest answer? I ended up dating someone who was constantly on my case about being forgetful, forgetting names, details, being scatter brained, blah blah blah.

Miraculously, that didn't drive them away and, now, just over a year of dating later, I've noticed I've developed new mental habits to train myself to remember details, in order to avoid the negative reinforcement of my S.O. nagging about my forgetfulness.

And, in practice, these days, I'm quite a bit more effective at identifying what details are relevant, reliably persisting them to memory if needed, and identifying/purging/ignoring irrelevant details, which actually end up getting in the way of storing the important ones (this, of itself, was a problem that, when solved, yielded lots of forward progress for this issue).

Sorry, I'm not sure if this is something you can very effectively optimize for (and maybe shouldn't!... 'seeking partner to help fight scatter brain'), but it's a true story, and one angle, at least. :)
This looks more like hill climbing rather than genetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing
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> Ive also thought about making an algorithm that would breed JS programs to solve basic tasks

When you do, a useful tip: in the literature, Genetic Algorithms are distinct from Genetic Programming.

GAs evolve collections of parameters into a function or group of functions.

GPs evolve actual executable programs. Mostly as interpreter trees, though some experiments have been done with evolving strings of machine code for real and virtual machines.

So in your case, the place to start is Genetic Programming.

ps. it's freakishly slow and the GP literature is really fixated on favouring one evolution step almost to the exclusion of others (I can't remember if it's the crossover step or mutation step).
I humbly request you make D-I more user friendly and predictable for automated installations first. In particular, partman is nearly inscrutable, especially on modern systems with EFI, GPT, LVM, and so forth.
I'd imagine that "devops" would be beneficial.

(To whatever extent it's similar to what you do now, both "devops as a discipline/practice," and "devops as a boardroom buzzword spoken by people holding the purse strings," are important.)
That's not fair. Daniel Dennett and Thomas Metzinger have said interesting things.
I wouldn't hold myself up as an example to follow, but I tend to go in cycles ... spending some time obsessively skim-reading lots of technical writing (to the detriment of my wife and children) ... then bashing away at work and trying to calm my stress enough to be productive (also to the detriment of my wife and children) ... then spending some time in an exhausted stupor, then waking up and beginning the cycle again. It's not a very organised life, but I do manage to get some things done (although not as much as I should/could/might).
I recently realized that I was taking in a large amount of information every day but retaining very little of it. Between HN and Reddit, I would "learn" dozens of things each day and end up not getting a lot of value out of it. While this is tangential to the problem that you're having, I can definitely empathize.

Two things that I'm trying out now:

1) Write down things that you learn each day and review them weekly. I find this helps me to filter out a lot of the extraneous information and focus in on things that could be useful in the future.

2) Monthly or bi-monthly focus on one specific skill or area of knowledge. Out of all the things I could read/watch/listen to, I try to concentrate on things that relate to one thing that can make me better. Bookmark or save interesting things that you come across, but limit your attention to just books or articles about one topic for the rest of December and January. The other stuff will still be there when you come back to it.

The tl;dr is to write out your goals and come up with a plan to achieve them. Focus on one and set aside time each day to make incremental progress. Everything else will take care of itself.
For me: Pick some system for dealing with stuff. I dont think it much matters which one you do as long as you have one and it isnt based on stuff actively being in your brain. Mine is inbox 0/4Ds whatever you want to call it, with me allowing myself to put tasks for me in there.

Most of those systems focus on aggressive prioritization and removing lists of tasks from your mind and moving them to paper.

Be aggressive about not storing stuff anywhere else. I used to have 10+ items that I semi-actively thought about - now I've reached a point where I have nothing at all loaded as "I must think about this/remember this/do this" - that stuff is all written down.

After that its just practice and repetition. Any time "I should do X" pops up, write it down in your system, or say "thats ok, I have it written down in the system" if you already have.

Doing this isnt all good - there are times that I miss having a long list spinning in the back of my head. It means you need to load the list actively if you're actually going to have discussions about what you are planning to do. Its weird in the start to go "Uh I have no idea, let me check" if you're asked what you're doing today/this week or asked if you have some great ideas about random topic X. But its overall a lot more effective to be focused on whatever you are actually doing rather than what you could be doing.
Negative, but I do plan to set up a sort of homepage for my research sometime in the future. When I do, I'll link to it in my HN profile.
On the flipside, this type of greedy setup actually may be much better or easier for smart companies focused on innovation and research to operate in, as long as they have trained their shareholders they can invest and innovate while others have to cut and slash.

Apple, Amazon and Facebook to name three have really set the precedent that they use their money to stay in the game. Amazon invests nearly everything back in. That is actually valuable today more than EPS/P/E Ratios in the best innovative companies. Innovate and win and the shareholders will follow, follow your shareholders only and go right off the cliff to mediocrity.

Companies should be run with stakeholders as the focus. Shareholders being one, but the products/employees/customers/economy they are just as important to success and real growth.
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Totally agree one reason why it converges so fast is because independent solutions are unlikely to produce a better offspring when crossed, so basically my feeling is that it ends with a very similar population and most of the evolution happens just because of the mutations... that's why I eventually switched to SA. Another funny thing is when the improvement you get because of the algorithm is not compensated by the drop in performance: working with just a set of triangles that fit the cache can be a true boost.
Turning off my phone between 8pm-8am forces me to look elsewhere for entertainment/reading. I've been using my kindle more and sleeping better.
Sometimes the simple things work.
Regarding the .so configuration: can you show other examples? I find this technique fascinating, as it combines speed, expressiveness and actually ease of use.

About the alternative heap implementation: can you point out who else has described this aggregated-heap data structure? I don't even know if it has any name, but sure as hell it is a good idea.
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Meditate every day. I like the Calm app.
Also keep in mind the historical context: The lyrics where written as a poem in 1841 and go on like "wenn es stets [...] bürderlich zusammenhält" (if it always sticks together brotherly), to encourage the German states (Austria, Prussia, Bavaria etc.) to unite as they will be "über alles" and survive against France only if they do so.

Nevertheless the first verse describes the old borders, and the second mentions German women along with wine and singing, and would therefor today be killed by gender activists anyway :D
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When it comes to taxes on lower incomes and dividends, an earner in the US under $36,900/year has a qualified dividend tax rate of 0%. (From what I understand, at least)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend#cite_ref-4
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> For the CAS mission an Apache would be just as good. 16 Hellfire missiles along with strafing with a 30mm chain gun

The A10 has triple the hardpoints (11 to 4) and 10 times the payload (7200kg to 770) of the Apache… So it's just as good if you have 4 or 5 times as many systems in flight.
Regarding your [5] the slides from "Art of Deception" https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/02/24/art-d... slides show that GCHQ was training 500+ analysts in convert manipulation, specifically around internet conversations and relationships. That is just one year alone.

So there are hundreds of highly-trained Western agents on the internet swaying conversation, many who have this as their full time job. Combine that with agents from every semi-sophisticated country in the world...east or west, including thousands from China's "50 cent army" alone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

If you didn't believe things you read on the internet previously, now might be a good time.
This is actually a great answer. The same thing happened to me, and I think it was almost natural based on how our opposing personalities balanced. This balance has turned out to be greatly beneficial to the both of us—she helps keep me focused and improve my skills in the scatterbrain area, and I help her branch out and be more spontaneous and creative at times. Works great.

It doesn't have to be a romantic relationship that does this—I've worked with people whose personalities balanced out mine, and together we had a similar good thing going on. Creativity and ability for the mind to wander is a great thing for inspiration and discovery, and then bringing in the focus is great for making ideas real.

So, seek out other people who balance your personality. The fact that your mind works the way it does is not necessarily bad, and there are people all around you who can compliment you.
Ah, good point about crossing. Each individual actually faces enormous local selection pressure, so once a given triangle converges closely enough, offspring just aren't going to be selected upon crossover with a (possibly very different) neighbour.

So actually I think this demonstrates a kind speciation in a very sharply divided landscape. It'd probably work better on simple images with smooth gradients and the like.
Thank you for your kind words. I do plan to set up a homepage for my research and thoughts; once I do, I'll link to it in my HN profile.
> I can't for the life of me see how something could be terrible and not also be bad.

Terrible doesn't necessarily imply bad, it can also imply fear or awe, in which case it's perfectly possible to be terrible and not bad. It's similar in that way to 'awful', which these days is used almost exclusively for something that is bad, but occasionally you'll still find the old usage (awe-filling) appearing.

On the other hand, 'terribad' is the kind of word that fills me with dread (combining latin and old english roots like that? The outrage!). I know language is arrived at by consensus but even if there were consensus on 'terribad', I'd not be joining it.
Scary! I just pulled my money out of ripple.
I don't think information addiction has anything to do with a particular Meyers-Brigg personality type. They seem like an orthogonal axes. If anything, I would imagine INTP are less likely to have this issue, because they are interesting in meaning and not just information. I would think the more social personality types would be more addicted to news or e-mail, but that's just speculation.

One thing I do is take notes on most things I read. Just a couple sentences. This helps in several ways:

1) If you're not willing to take notes on something, it's not worth reading. So you read less.

2) It limits your rate of consumption, because writing takes time. So you read slower.

3) Having it written down and organized reduces the burden on your brain. It's like the GTD system. You want to relieve your brain of holding information. Your brain will know it is one click away if you have organized your notes properly.

4) When writing notes, you are relating it to things you already know. It forces recall. This prevents your brain from being just a jumble of useless disconnected facts.
They do, but that's a very short term logical thing. If you reason about the long term, the stock that pays a steady and steadily increasing divident is obviously worth more than one that doesn't.
For a long time I felt (and now feel) the same as you. I just wanted to share an experience that, while completely anecdotal, is perhaps atypical, and has been one of the defining experiences of my life.

I got the Internet as a birthday present on my 8th birthday, and pretty much disappeared from normal society for the next few years. The Internet was (and is) fascinating - I could learn anything, interact with people I'd never met with, and, notably, do adult things without anyone doubting me because I was young.

But as I got older, the Internet, and therefore my mind, just got busier. Eventually it was not only random articles and a few chatrooms, but dozens of apps and sites that are programmed to give us a dopamine hit. Being online to me feels like walking around in a casino trying not to gamble.

I don't think I concentrated on one thing for more than 20 minutes for years, and outside of school I didn't have to. So I just convinced myself that school was archaic, skipped as much class as I could, and ended up a mental butterfly. It was working for me.

Except for when I wanted to get stuff done. I probably started learning to program 100 times, but I would get distracted with cat pictures or something, and even though I loved computers more than anything else, I couldn't do much to create with them. I was diagnosed with ADHD, but I didn't really care; I don't think that experience is unique to either me or people who have been diagnosed with ADHD.

Then, all of the sudden, I went on a Mormon mission in eastern Ukraine. Two years with 30 minutes of Internet a week (at an Internet club 45 mins away from my apartment). My entire life was structured in a way I never would have structured it in order to get me to concentrate on the things I considered most important for that period of time.

My mind slowed down - in an almost literal sense. I had only finished a couple of books in my entire life before the mission, and on the mission I could easily read the Old Testament for hours on end, paying attention to intricacies of text I never would have realized before.

Then I got home. I jumped on Facebook, and right back into my old habits. My mind was gone for weeks. Not gone in the sense that I wasn't learning anything -- I would pick up tidbits here and there, but I never got deep enough into anything to make any of that learning useful. It terrified me.

So now I spend a lot of time on very strict information diets. I severely limit my time on HN, Reddit, Facebook. I try to keep my reading on a Kindle so the Internet isn't even an option. I would love for someone to create an app (that works) that limits what sites I can use so I can go into "wired in" mode when I'm programming.

In short, don't be afraid to place restrictions on yourself. Let your mind slow down.
Exactly the opposite. Soft money through breaches of trust are the problems that Bitcoin solve. That is why Ripple/Stellar is particularly absurd, because we have now solved the problem and these systems don't integrate that knowledge. Ripple Inc printed money for themselves - they reserved 80% of the initial distribution, and changed the money supply (which is why Jed left AFAIK). In the cryptocurrency community nobody takes these projects too seriously. Look at the forums, they are empty, and the feedback on the main forums have always been very negative - for good reasons.
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It makes sense to me that a Manhattan-based company (über) would want a .nyc domain and a global company like Uber would not. Wouldn't it be confusing for Uber to have different domains in different cities?
The company is valued at $40 billion because people have forgotten what happened in the last bubble.
Derrida spoke of the absurdity of deriving meaning from an infinitely recursive and self referent system of language. Pureness of axiom isn't detectable in a mergable feedback loop. However, his critique doesn't show the shortcomings of how we neurologically handle symbols, it shows the incompleteness of human cognition. Derrida is to political epistemology as Turing is to serial bits or Godel is to arithmetic. Keep this in mind for compiler design and neural network structure.