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Why not compare it to better coffee at home, for less TCO, from an automatic espresso machine? That's pretty easy to achieve.
But it has a garage, and in the Valley that's where dreams are born.
> "If your website lets people privately connect with others who live in the same city, some of your user base will start using it to find sex."

This seems like something that would be in a David Letterman "Top 10 list of things to consider for your new website".
One huge point in Sanderson's favor is that he writes fast and consistent enough that his epic series might be finished in a reasonable amount of time. I also get the impression that he plans a lot more in advance than many other fantasy writers, so I doubt he'll add a few more novels to his series at the end.
(1) only needs to be verified when it is not a part of the problem.

"If Jenny has 5 apples and Bob has 5 apples and Jenny gives Bob 2 apples - how many apples does Jenny now have?"

We don't question if Jenny went and bought n more apples to give to Bob and might have 3 Apples or 5 Apples or 5+n where n is the number of apples purchased minus 2 because it isn't part of the problem and isn't part of what is being asked. Maybe she won an apple lottery and that is why she gave Bob 2 apples. Maybe she gave Bob 2 apples and later lost her other 3 apples in a fire.

If you begin by questioning the validity of the question - Jenny can have 0...n apples. Which doesn't do us any good for solving the problem.

"There are four cards. Each card has a number on one side and a color on the other side." These details are taken as facts as a basis for solving the problem.

If you are questioning if there is a color and number on the sides. Are there really 4 cards? What if there is a 5th card I'm not told about? What if we took 4...n cards and I found a card that invalidates the problem? It's ignoring the problem and coming up with a new one to solve.
That's brilliant. Does anybody publish such stats? Seeing salaries measured in houses-per-year for different areas would communicate cost-of-living viscerally.
I grew up in the South Bay, lived in San Francisco for many years and the East Bay for a handful of years...overall I was in the area for 36 of my 42 years. Late last year I realized the Bay Area has become too much...too much money, too crowded, too annoying, too aggressive, too dirty (SF at least). My wife and I sold our house, made a healthy profit and moved to Colorado.

While we can make all sort of arguments and analysis on the cost of living, what did it for me was exactly what you stated..."quality of life". Being in software many of us are fortunate enough to be able to live in the most expensive area in the country. However, it doesn't do a damn bit of good when you're miserable due to all of the traffic, crowds and annoying people who surround you.

Being a native I never thought I'd leave. Now, I'm confident I'll never go back...our quality of life is so much better here in Colorado. I would never suggest anyone move there unless they were single, in their 20's and in the technology space. For that group of people, it'd be a great experience. For us older family types, unless you're a total city person, the area sucks the life out of you.
That's to protect the broker, not the company. They don't want you to bypass them.
I have no idea whether the price offered was a good one, but the reason that both the rumors of talks, then the dissolution of talks, could cause the stock price to rise is pretty simple:

1) Rumors circulate of a pending acquisition. Obviously that acquisition will have to happen at a premium to the current price or it won't happen, so that's a signal that if you buy at today's price, you can sell in the acquisition and make a profit. People start buying on that rumor, causing the price to rise.

2) Reports subsequently surface that a $55B offer, which would have been a premium from the original price, was rejected and that $70B was sought. People think "well maybe the real clearing price is something like $65B" -- and that's higher than today's price, so people buy at today's price in hope of making a profit if/when that transaction eventually takes place. The price therefore rises again.

Again, no idea what the price "should" be today, but it's not illogical that the price could rise both on the rumor and on the end of the rumor (especially when, as here, the explanation for the end was the (possibly self-serving) "the price wasn't high enough!").
>If (1)must be verified then every card must be flipped.

Actually, only the 5,8 and green. The blue is good no matter what.

I saw this pedanticism in a Martin Gardner book originally, IIRC.
Typical block ciphers generally require adding padding, which increases the number of bytes that need to be transmitted. But that's negligible for any significant amount of data. I don't think it would ever noticeably increase bandwidth requirements.
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Huge Krynn fan here too.

My annoyance with the mega-novels are the sheer number of characters and threads which are happening simultaneously. In the Wheel of Time there are three main characters - which is a reasonable number of threads - but in one of the books, one of them was hardly included at all. It's weird coming back to a character after 300, 400, or even 600 pages. They start to feel like afterthoughts.

And GOT is even worse. There are dozens of threads and some of the characters names are similar enough to be annoying.
> And by that I mean the things for which we currently have no replacement, or only early concepts of what a replacement might be for fossil fuels.

Can you expound on this? Biofuels will (hopefully) be used for aircraft (best case, algae produced at airports, converted into biofuels), and we can already create plastics from corn and other crops.
Well software isn't like a lot of businesses. A plumbing supply company will probably be just as successful in 3 years as it is now, but a software company might be worthless. Three years is a long time in software.
The way Microsoft handled being a monopoly is admittedly different but feels relevant. The consequences years later of their actions didn't slow them down much.

Perhaps cigarette companies too?
The proposition:

Which card(s) must you turn over in order to test the
truth of the proposition that if a card shows an even
number on one face, then its opposite face is red?

The rest is given information, not the proposition.
Energy is not the problem. Enough sunlight hits earth every 5 minutes to power the entire world for a year. Energy storage and energy density are the problems.
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It's from newspaper-blog articles about the $15 minimum wage increase.
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I don't think that anyone looks to pay $55B for talent acquisition. No talent is that hard to acquire.
I've completely given up on reading multi-volume epics. Either stick to a defined 3 or 4 novel series (ie. call it a trilogy from the start), or go with a series of interconnected, but standalone, novels like Iain M Banks Culture books.

The major problem I find is that I just can't be bothered to re-read the previous books. Yet inevitably, I will have forgotten a lot of characters and plot (particularly with character dense fantasy), and must re-read or be completely lost when reading the new book.

This isn't really a problem with trilogies, usually I don't need to re-read at all for the final book, or even if I do it's relatively quick. But the moment you start writing huge, 5-6+ novel series I get very annoyed with authors.

Take George RR Martin for example. I still haven't read the latest book, simply because there was a 5 year gap, then a 6 year gap between publications of the last two. During that time, I've nearly completely forgotten what went on in the books. I re-read after the first gap, but I'll be damned if I'm doing it again...

There are successful authors who manage to write large, interesting worlds/stories without needing to descend down into the muck that is the mega-novel series. Like Iain M Banks with his standalone Culture novels that form a coherent world over time. Or Terry Pratchett, with the Discworld.
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Do you think i'd give you 50e out of the blue if you refused to do the job ?

I feel this area of langage is one full of implicit meaning and shared context. Because in your example it is indeed a non exlusive if, while mine is.
The reason fantasy (and also much scifi these days) needs the length is partly because once you've gone to all that effort of establishing a world, you'll want to stick that world.

A short novel with a completely unique setting would turn a fantasy story into something closer to a fairy tale or fable, or be entirely about the setting (as is often the case with scifi; Lem's "Solaris" is a great example).

Of course, you can still tell completely separate stories set within a single world. Which authors do: Banks with the Culture books, for example, and I rather prefer that form of non-serial storytelling. G. R. R. Martin himself has written spinoffs set in the Westeros world. Gene Wolfe's novels are often set in the same universe.

The second aspect of serial, "long-form" storytelling that everyone enjoys is the continuity; you may have lots of small stories told over the course of several seasons of a TV series, but it's the same, familiar world, and you don't need to be introduced to a completely new setting every time. As someone who greatly enjoys books (though not so much fantasy) but has a huge problem getting past the opening chapter or even the opening page, I completely understand the attraction.

(That said, there's no excuse for bloat. G. R. R. Martin seems to have entered into a kind of narrative tailspin as a result of having plotted himself into several corners. Rather than chopping away at the narrative and making some shortcuts to get the characters in the position he had planned for them to be in, he apparently decided the solution was... more plot. The end product was the long and tedious boat journey that was "A Dance With Dragons".)
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sytse, our deployment system is completely different from yours - I think the best idea is that you leave your email at our site http://getmeat.io and we'll send you an invite next week so you can check it out for yourself.

I think that comparing Meat! to GitLab is more like comparing Star Wars to Star Trek (choose whichever you like best) than, say, choosing between the the Lannisters and House Targaryen :)

Cheers!
What mobile (or web) app would you develop if you had the time and funding?
What mobile (or web) app would you develop if you had the time and funding? What is the world missing?
Ok - sure. That is a reasonable explanation (at least that I can not fault with being self-serving for a particular group).

But is there any proof for it that makes it more than a hypothesis? Is there any example of a company staffed by minorities that is more successful at serving those minorities?

Because all we really have are counterfactuals - I can't think of a single SV company that did well because it made a point of hiring from the underrepresented groups.
Brandon Sanderson is a truly unique author though, his output at the moment is phenomenal.

I'm not entirely sure what the point of the original article was though, mega-novels, otherwise known as series to normal people, are a common thing in sci-fi and fantasy and always have been.
Unprofitable still, right? Pretty much sums up the Berlin scene... Them and Soundcloud, making about as big of a profit as my beer and club habit.

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And FF forks will gain traction, and so the cycle continues.

I personally switched over to Pale Moon when the whole UI "update" happened, and it's looking more and more as though I made the right choice.
I believe that's why they replaced him at the negotiations with the lenders.
I imagine the insight would reveal the disparity in the commitment to the area versus the "gold rush" aspects of the Bay Area. It has many implications on the housing market, corporate recruiting, local politics, and infrastructure development. I imagine people would behave much differently if there more space and a strong belief that they could actually raise a family in the area or if it's just a career kickstarter. There are many competing and complicating factors, but it's still very interesting information.
For what? Most of openmp is useful because you can slap a pre-processor directive on a for loop and make it parallel. Rust has the ability to provide ergonomic fork-join parallelism at the library level. Right now collections that can iterate provide a .iter() method that can provide an iterator. I see no reason that equivalent functionality couldn't be provided by something like a .par_iter() or similar.
I think that particular argument is pretty weak. Uber notifies the drivers of a pickup opportunity and they have the option of taking it and doing what the customer says for a while.

There's a lot of things that suggest Uber to be an employer, but the rides themselves seem very contractor-y.

Taking a percentage fee for putting driver and customer together leans away from employment, in my view. There are a lot of types of middlemen that are not employers.
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I'm not an employee at Famous, nor have I ever worked for them in any capacity whatsoever.

In fact, I found Famous via working on a personal project that heavily utilized the Three.js CSS3DRenderer.

While I love Three (and by extension MrDoob) very much, the experience left me with a healthy appreciation of what the Famous team is going for. I've tried to do the very same thing myself (fuse DOM and WebGL), and quickly realized all of the pitfalls involved.
Most fracking expansion in the US has come to a screeching halt due to Saudi Arabia's production rate (which they're using to try to kill fracking). This is only prolonging the oil pain though, as the capital expenditures have already been made and the wells established.

You'll see consolidation in the tight oil space over the next year as company's default on their (excessive) debt, and wells come back online as the price of oil heads back up to $100/barrel (futures markets are already predicting ~$70/barrel by the end of the year).

So you'll see these erratic price movements in the oil market (death throes?) while this transition to electrification continues; renewables investments aren't directly affected by the price of oil due to them not directly competing with oil (oil = vehicles/airplanes/trucks, renewables = electricity market).
I've already Stripe for a former startup, but I think they have asked me for a EIN.
I guess the similarity to me had nothing to do with timing, but that when someone actually sat down to look at the problem the solution turned out to be relatively easy.
The parameter Karpathy call 'temperature' seems not dissimilar in effect to a psychoactive drug, low temperature corresponding roughly to sober and high to being a bit, well, high.
SkimHN is a desktop application to skim hacker news articles and decide if you want to read an article fully

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It even has a cheesy 'Time saved' feature to help you see how much time you might have saved by not reading the full comment thread :-) Not sure how useful it actually is, but it was a lot of fun to develop. I used C#, edge.js, ideas from natural language processing, tree algorithms etc.

Unfortunately it only works on Win 64 right now (although I built it with node-webkit so making it cross platform desktop app should be feasible in the future)
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I think the assumption that white board coding is the worst way needs a bit more evidence.

Certainly it sucks from some people, but also, some developers would be very very uncomfortable casually talking with their prospective employer about things to prove they are smart.

We do white board coding, but failing a white board coding isn't an automatic no, it just goes into the pool of info we know about the person. But what I look for in a white board coding isn't someone remembering some obscure coding or that they write perfect syntax, but just to see how they can take an algorithm and turn it into code and whether they can step through their code.

All this bias against white board coding is kind of like a violinist saying I hate auditioning because the pressure of auditioning is nothing like playing in the orchestra. Yes its not, but its not unreasonable to have someone hear what you sound like live.
Nice to see someone finally formalizing what to me seems pretty obvious. Adding account recovery inherently lowers security.

1. Additional vector of attack with lower than password threshold of security.

2. Questions may have common answers.

3. Few possible answers.

4. Publicly available answers.

5. Social engineering can phish for answers easily.

6. Answers may be easily known or guessed by social proximity (family, friends, coworkers).

Transient information questions like "favorite food", unknown strictness rules like capitalization or character exclusions cause users to pick consistent answers that do not necessarily relate to the question.

This along with inconsistent passwords rules across all sites, and none of them showing the rules on the login page to remind you, piss me off to no end. Please can we start using public key cryptography, and just have our own private keys? Please!!!!

If you ever create password based web apps or work in security please at least watch this MIT lecture.

https://youtu.be/M2gc6b1hmk8?t=5m15s

(cued to start of lecture)
Most compilers, including clang, will try to vectorize loops. The OpenMP pragma is a step beyond and is telling the compiler, "hey, you really, really should try vectorizing this."
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Eh, that's reasonable from Athens, GA (I spent ten years in Atlanta, and have some familiarity with the market in GA). Moving from Atlanta to Seattle doubled my total comp (and definitely did NOT double my CoL). Staying in Seattle and moving from one giant tech company to another doubled it again, so another part of it comes down to who's really willing to pay for talent.
I do agree with your final sentence. At least, I think he knows the privacy/surveillance problems with SAAS and so has turned away from the Web (I heard he doesn't use browsers?) but would still like to see software as a liberating path forward. If you work on a self-contained computer, I suspect he is right.
Until last year all uk addresses were in the format of domainname.x.uk, where x mimicked the US tlds, .org.uk, .gov.uk, .co.uk (instead of .com.uk), etc.
The Silicon Valley lifestyle, and the long commutes it engenders, aren't remotely 'urban living'.

Charlottesville, VA is likewise more of a small city than a small town, where it's perfectly practical for people to walk and bike to commute and do errands in the older neighborhoods. Probably more so than in much of Silicon Valley, in fact. That's because walkability is as much a consequence of development style as urban scale, and much of Charlottesville was built out before than automotive era.
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You didn't mention Wheel of Time - the poster-child of an author's inability to end a series. I'm proud of having lasted through just 3 books, and amazed by people who have slogged through all of them.

I'm surprised that the Amber series hasn't been developed into a film (someone surely has the rights). Swords, sorcery, inter-world travel, dysfunctional royal family. It's got it all.
Fixed, thanks for pointing that out!
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In SV, there's a huge range of prices depending on neighborhood. There are many cheap neighborhoods close to tech companies. Mostly, what you pay the big bucks for is living in neighborhoods with other rich people, and sending your kids to school with their kids. In the cheaper neighborhoods, many of your neighbors will be blue-collar.

Real-estate agents will of course extoll the benefits of living in a neighborhood with people who make more than you, since they get 7% of what they can convince you to spend. Obviously, lots of people consider living in an affluent neighborhood worth paying for. But you can live a nice life in a cheap neighborhood too.

You have to consult your values to decide what's important to you.
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3x doesn't seem bad at all. It's like an investment that generates 33.3% annually. After 3 years it's all free money.
The best reason I can imagine is so that it can all be wrapped in your portable Go binary. Because of the portability aspect, there are a lot of use cases for Go similar to Java where there is an incentive to do everything "in Go".
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This was apparently a record sale price for the size in our area just a few weeks ago:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Albany/815-Santa-Fe-Ave-94706/home...

Granted, what was there was nice enough (all 1100 sq/ft of it), but over $1M for a 2/1 ... it's just insane right now. It was listed for $749k. The overbidding situation seems to regularly bring in multiple (as in 10-20) offers for a house.
I hadn't seen that before. Good point. The purpose of a rewrite is usually claimed to be that progress can't be made with the code as-is. So one would expect that the rewrite would quickly show some progress beyond the old version.
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Looks as if you are looking at some different data set than we all are. Check out Netflix, Google, Twitter etc. - these are more than competitive rates.

Unless you went into bodyshop companies like TCS, Infosys etc. to make yourself feel angry.
It looks like we killed it. Here's a text-only cache/mirror from Google:

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The major problem I find is that I just can't be bothered to re-read the previous books.

Agreed. I've found this happen a few times. For example, in one series, I read about 6 books and then didn't have time or for some other reason didn't continue. I thought about going back and finishing the series maybe a year and a half later, but didn't feel like rereading the previous 6 books but felt too lost without doing so. This happens to me with TV programs too.
There's regular quantum mechanics which underlies all chemistry and that you can use to calculate molecular properties and then the woo woo kind which Penrose seems to propose as behind consciousness on the basis that both are a bit mysterious so maybe one causes the other.
I realize this doesn't really address the core of your comment, but I heard an interesting argument that aircraft will never become electric because lose fuel weight as they fly. This is a huge efficiency gain over carrying a battery the entire way.

That said, maybe biofuel (algae?) can replace fossil fuels for aircraft.
I love myself some big epic fantasy, The Malazan Book of the Fallen series was a huge favourite of mine, followed closely by A Song of Ice and Fire, but this is a pretty real logistical problem even for me. I have gone and read the Ian Esslemont books in the Malazan universe though, precisely because they are disconnected from the main plot. Maybe I'll go back and re-read these series after they're complete.
You're a bit behind current affairs.
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Profitability has nothing to do with determining copyright infringement. For example, if I made a soda called Coke+ and gave it away for free, I'd still be infringing.