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For something meant for designers, I felt that the site was poorly designed. The main menu makes it hard to see who each picture is of, and it's hard to tell at times if we're reading the editor's opinion or the subjects'.
So the question then is, if an institution has a policy of affirmative action as part of an effort to address structural imbalances in access to opportunities prior to college, don't they then owe it to those students to not then use 'weed-out' classes to weed them out before they have a chance to catch up?
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Some cities are growing a bit, but far more people, proportionally, are heading to the suburbs, which is where all the fastest-growing places in the US are.

For example, between 2000 and 2014, SF added about 75,000 residents. In that same period, Irvine, CA added about 150,000 residents, and one quadrant of the Dallas suburbs, Collin County, TX (the northern suburbs) added about 400,000 residents. All of NYC put together in the same period added 500,000 residents, slightly beating out this one part of suburban Dallas.

I personally like living in dense urban areas, but for there to be a sea change in that direction on the scale of overall American trends, people need to be moving into cities in much larger numbers. Here's a modest goal that would represent an undeniable change, even if still only for a small minority of the population: over the next 10 years, 2-3% more Americans live in dense urban areas than currently. That's ~6-9 million more people in dense urban areas. As far as I can tell, we're nowhere near being on track for that to happen.
I agree that there's certainly money to be made in fitness. I'm just saying it's closer to AppleTV money (people who want a more advanced media hub) than iPhone money (people who want the internet in their pocket).
In the year 2015(35 years ago now) anthropologists are still trying to work out why there was such a reduction in profanity. The great indecency purge of 2020 had lead to the systematic removal of any site deemed "backward", "profane", "explicit" or "not politically correct". This was before people willingly checked their privelege. People used the internet, not as a tool of information as we do today, but to debate different points of view and exchange insults on the internet.

As we know, tumblr lead the crusade against these heathens who subjugated minorities and women with their jokes about things like the r-word. As we know this spilled out IRL and lead to a 3000% increase in sexual assualt and violence which was underhandedly covered up by the patriarchy.

With the age of goodthink, we are free from such horrid viewpoints and equality has been spread to accross the globe. Silicon Valley was relocated to Arkansas to rebalance housing prices in the region. Hiring procedures were moved to blanced and equal demographic system, finally, people were judged not as engineers but as numbers filling a quota.

Everything has become ++good, and we may never know why or how profanity was eradicated, but it has lead to the stable society we know and love.

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By "a heavily optimizing JIT" I mean "the specific mode of a larger JIT-enabled engine that compiles slowly but emits good code". So IonMonkey, Crankshaft, SpeculativeJIT/FTL are all JITs that live inside a larger engine that switches between them as needed. In JS land we usually call the individual modes "JITs" even though they may (or may not) share a bunch of code.
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Thanks for the reply. On editing, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but posts on HN become uneditable at some point.

I came across this post[1] and bug comment[2]. If I'm understanding correctly, Red Hat will not follow the OpenBSD upstream on this! So I would guess CentOS and Fedora will also keep allowing root login, with password, by default.

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2...
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89216#c26
Is this more of a niche complaint, or something that will hit a practitioner pretty quickly?
Should add, a problem with `rsync-auto` is some files in node_modules (bcrypt, among others) are compiled at runtime, and produce different outputs for Mac/Linux - you can't just copy them from Mac to Linux and expect it to work. Probably some things we could do to hack around this but it didn't seem worth it.
10 feet visualisation @ http://geology.com/sea-level-rise/ (select 3m and 0m, and compare differences).

Sounds like the Dutch are ahead of the game. How does one bet economically on long term seawall futures? :)

PS. Related blender art @ http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?375956 + http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?375246 + http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?374471
I can agree that the car is not shown at a full stall in the video, however it is the case that the driver reports that they are unable to control the vehicle during the test. I cannot agree that this would matter regarding the idea that this is "[beep] dangerous" as was stated by the driver, because that is supported by the driver's own statements as well as observable facts.
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I guess it depends on what counts as a "pass." I think that the state mortally wounding someone is always a failure. There are different severity levels, to be sure, but there's a reason that they're all investigated.

Even in the (in my estimation) relatively small fraction that are in fact truly, expressly legally justified, it's a failure on a different layer of the stack.
>> Even if you don't believe they're all psychopaths, even normal people act according to incentives, and no one does anything without some sort of (perceived) benefit to themselves.

> I really don't think people in local government are any worse or better than people working in X, for any X. If you think otherways - your choice, but would be nice if you show some proofs.

You're not really addressing what I said there.

Why does someone work hard to get into a position of political power, if not to use it to his benefit? Not using it would be like working hard to be able to buy a BMW and then just letting it sit in the garage forever.

> As a programmer you are making decisions how to use others people money (your code will, and you decide what it does).

That's far-fetched, considering the programmer is being paid with private money, to do whatever the company wants him to do.

In other words, it's not even really the programmer deciding what happens with other people's money (to the extent it's even his program deciding anything, and not its user), and you can't be honestly suggesting you don't see a difference between that and a city official using other people's money.

As for the rest, again, you can't legally mandate people to have good taste. Apparently they just don't.

You also ignored my last point. If the building quality is fine because people want good quality, why wouldn't the other stuff be fine too, considering it's guided by what people want (instead of legislation)?

If Polish people want ugly buildings, then that just shows they have bad taste. You can't just command them to have good taste, and whatever Polish central committee would be in charge of new buildings would probably have bad taste too :P

They'll get better. In the meantime, move out if it bothers you enough.
WMATA is improving in some spots but there are still A LOT of problems with the metro as it stands. There are regularly major delays, they still haven't fixed the automated control since the fatal accident in 2009, there have been more reports of smoke in the tunnels since the fatal incident this year, and they're having to deal with a a bunch of financial irregularities.

I hope things improve but as of right now it doesn't look like they've turned the corner.
> On fitness

I think that's going to come down to insurance involvement. And God knows how that ends up given the innumerable potential deals that could be made.

> On notifications

I do agree on that. Maybe another way of phrasing it is "It enables you to not take out your phone." Which is no small thing in a lot of circumstances.

The only issue here is... doing that well is UI. I think history teaches us that if there's one thing third party software is terrible at then it's interface.
It's part of your compenstation. You're owed it. Do you feel guilty when your pay is direct deposited?

If they make you feel guilty for taking what's owed you, leave and work for human beings.
So funny, what's old is new again. I remember Encarta Factfinder back in the day did something similar. Of course, it didn't have any NLP, but the core of the idea is there.

http://www.activewin.com/reviews/software/apps/ms/encarta/20...
In case anyone else is wondering, the referenced chapter is
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/dining-philosophers.html

I don't have enough Rust experience to see the issue.
I searched the bug tracker to try to find the mentioned bug but couldn't.
So... the early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me or being sarcastic, but the number of coauthors is not indicative of a broader consensus. I've published many papers with 20 or 30 coauthors - a handful of famous professors from one or two schools / modes of thought, and a bunch of postdocs, researchers, and grad students. We still had to go through peer review.

The thing you have to remember is that this is all speculation. If they're right, 16 authors can say they were the founders of a new model. If they're wrong... Well there's always another model to publish. The fact that a bunch of friends and colleagues can agree on something doesn't mean there is a wider consensus.
The building featured here seems like a false example of blight, since it's in an area that's seeing major redevelopment. The same is true of the mall alongside it, which has been reckoned as a 'dead mall' in other articles, but only because it's being rebuilt into a urban neighborhood:
https://b256ec319b64095c3d1d-e19f06f73efdb5028989d1916204cd7...

I would guess that the owners of the office buildings in question here are warehousing it until the area becomes more desirable.
Looking forward to the review! I'll keep an eye out.

Health gamification is a shift, but I don't see it being a major shift without incentives being tied to it. As the story went on the Prius, one of the biggest impacts in testing was putting an instantaneous MPG display on the dash. And driving habits suddenly change.

But there's a short term financial incentive there. I'd argue that people just don't fundamentally think about their health that way. That this soft drink today will cost me $x on average 30 years from now by increasing my risk for something? Does not compute.
Let's not get hung up on the wording of the title. Obviously no one is claiming to eliminate all health care costs. The intention is clearly to spare employees out-of-pocket expenses. We'll change the title in an attempt to make it less ambiguous, but please let's stick to the substance from now on.
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While I really appreciate your cleverness, I would argue that this is an example of so-called overengineering or, an analogy from architecture - redundant decorations. Why do I need all this complications instead of a predicate?

OK, in some statically typed languages which perform type-inference, there is a restrictions for homogeneity of conditionals and aggregates, otherwise all your type inference falls apart. So, to address this problem we could use data simple structures, like tuples, or we could create a new data-type. The canonical example that Nothing or Just T type. Because different branches of a conditional must be of the same type - this is the type. Also for the sake of type-consistency, it is parametrized type. In old-school languages we will just return nil, or (values ....) Semantically there is no difference.

Ideally, types and semantics should not interfere. Complicating semantics in order to satisfy a type-system is a controversial idea.

As for Monads - it is just an Abstract Data Type, nothing special, in which Semantics and Type information complement each other. It has been created to keep types consistent - a parameteized type along with two procedures.

As an old-school programmer, I used to think about types as tags, the way it is in Lisps. (Of course, I know that these tags could be arranged in categories, hierarchies, and so-called "laws" could be defined). So, in my view, this is nothing but nested type-tags. It makes it easy to view Semantics and Types separately.

In Haskell a Monad has another "function", which is, in my opinion, is the reason why it was created. Along with satisfying the type-system, it also ensures an order of evaluation in a lazy language. The semantics is obvious - you evaluate an expression, and lift (type-tag) the value back into Monad, so the whole expression has type Monad T.

OK, this parametrized type is justified in Haskell, but in other languages, in my opinion, it is a redundant decoration, not a necessity.
That's not really a threat, if copying requires taste and wisdom.
I recall a group of coworkers. Some had been there a while, some were new. One of the new ones was trying to do something but was having some difficulty understanding the systems.

A couple of the workers who'd been there a while were having a conversation and apparently something funny came so they giggled and laughed. Their laughter coincided with the new person's struggles...

The new person took offense at the laughter asking, are you laughing at me? You all are laughing at me!

It was furthest from the truth. It was just coincidental timing but that new person fully believed they were being laughed at.

So, just because someone thinks something is being directed at them or is being malicious doesn't make it so.
One of the rules I live by: if I have to lie to a bank in order to accomplish a thing, I do not do that thing.
How much is Google paying the KickStarter backers?
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Writing it on paper helps though. Generally it's a bad idea to let tomorrow's actions cycle through your brain endlessly. Writing it on paper has this effect of transferring the mental responsibility to another medium. Instant relaxation. As always, your mileage may vary.
I've felt guilty about it. I've done some type of work during previous vacations.
Consider if you took two copyrighted pictures and combined them in some way in photoshop. We can lay claim to the combined work, but we may not have consent of the original authors works to distribute thier work.

Now consider if you trained the NNet with the same two images, such that it was highly overtrained and basically produced a combined replica of the inputs. This is essentially the same as doing it manually in photoshop. That a computer done it does not take ownership away from the creators of the two images.

A NNet isn't trained with two images though, but millions. Do we abandon copyright because of scale? Should the NNet operator not be required to keep the entire training set such that copyright can be traced? Do we invent an entire new industry on determining the probability that a particular image was used to train a NNet (and by how much it affected it), such that it's owner can claim royalties on anything the NNet produces?

The question isn't about google versus operator, it's about whether or not we're going to continue investing in the madness of copyright for machines designed to mimic human brains, and if so when will it apply to ourselves - for we can't archive our own training set.
I immediately thought of an unlocked firmware update (or boot over CAN) in some entertainment computer component that can then spoof other subsystems. The security model in modern cars is broken, esp with regard to control and data.
If you are going to be pedantic, please explain how anything in the Heisenberg Uncertainty-bounded universe can have a transcendental size.
Alt+D sadly doesn't work in every language, Ctrl+L is independent of the UI language.
If only banks had such a compunction.
Interesting charges. Are they ever applied to companies that allow money to be wired or otherwise transferred between banks?
"Here is an example. Say I'm a software developer and I need some money to pay my bills, buy a car, rent a house, and enjoy my life."

You are only a slave to your job if you allow it. You don't need a car, a house, or the latest gadgets. These aren't necessities. They are things that you want.

It's also pretty laughable to compare it to actual slavery. You do have freedom. If you have a bad job, you can choose to go elsewhere.

If you don't want someone controlling your schedule/time/vacations/life then you need to start a business and be your own boss.
Need a really good reason to read past "equal to π (3.141593)".
I'm interpreting your comment to mean that because an engineer won't be able to pick a successful company anyway, it is useless that they follow any career advice.

If that's a correct interpretation, then no, absolutely not. Most engineers (you see this if you sift through linkedin) make far less optimal (I believe) choices than they would by simply picking a Series A/B company backed by a tier one firm like Sequoia/A16Z/Greylock/Benchmark.

And surprisingly, people take very little time to think about what they want, what they care about, what they believe the world needs, what they enjoy, and so on. Doesn't seem like a good idea given they'll/you'll spend 50%+ of your waking hours at work.
Also, by switching from Java to Ruby ecosystem is one way to improve your selenium tests. For start, use watir-webdriver and page-object gems.
Are Linux users going to completely disregard Microsoft?

Over the last few years a lot of people have taken themselves out of the Microsoft 'eco-system' by getting an Apple PC or by installing a flavour of Linux on their once-Windows PC. There are also many users who 'use' Windows PC's (because there is one on their desk) but no longer care for how Windows works, if they can read their email, open documents and search the internets then why bother involving oneself in any 'computing'?

With this audience I cannot anyone getting zealously excited because Microsoft has a new browser. Nobody is going to switch to Windows from whatever they have migrated to - which can also be Android or ChromeOS. It will be like Windows Phone, sometimes some people might use it but that won't be what most people will do. Why go to the effort?

We are lucky that there have always been browsers that do operate on different operating systems, e.g. the original Netscape, Firefox and Chrome. I am so glad I can move between Windows PC, Chromebook, linux PC and Android phone to have the same browsing bookmarks/experience/history everywhere I am. I wouldn't get this with Windows/Edge.
Why, it is mere an ADT. If you think it is useful - you use it. If you think it is redundant - you use something else.

I've tried to explain my view in the comment above.
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> If you're going to be pedantic, do it right.

Let's do it.

> The true sinuosity of any given river is almost certainly irrational as well, since irrational numbers vastly outnumber rational ones in a very relevant sense: if you pick a real number uniformly at random between 0 and 1, there is literally zero chance that you will pick a rational number.

Apparently you have access to measuring devices that can spit out irrational numbers. I'm impressed. No other scientist has ever seen such a thing. Unfortunately, because the computable numbers are countable, the set of irrational numbers that you will almost surely see in your setup will almost surely be uncomputable. In other words, not only will you almost surely select a number that cannot be the result of a measurement of finite precision, but you will almost surely select one that has no finite description at all.

So you will almost surely never get a measurement of the length of a river. The average of an empty set is undefined, and oofabz's objection above pertains: rivers almost surely lack lengths.

(Less pedantically: matt_kantor's pedantry was essentially correct, even if in an unintended way. Irrational numbers do not exist in the world of physical measurements. Abstracting from this reality, as StefanKarpinski did, can lead to ridulous models, because the real numbers are wholly artificial. Make probabilistic assertions about physical realities modeled with real numbers at your own peril.)
I don't consider it so, not as a white person. IMO however, being white trash is not about poverty, its about ignorance and a lack of a desire to know more about the world.
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I think another factor has been the university-campus or "research lab" type of aesthetic that companies have cultivated for engineering, especially the more prestigious parts of their engineering organization. For example the old Amoco had its clerical, business, and "regular" engineering workers in the Chicago loop [1], but the PhDs in the research division were on a separate campus, with lakes and stuff, out in Naperville [2]. I think things like the Bell Labs [3] and IBM TJ Watson [4] style of "campus" have also influenced companies like Google, who idolize the environment/culture of those research centers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aon_Center_%28Chicago%29

[2] http://grummanbutkus.com/assets/uploads/projects/232/bpamoco...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Cent...
I'm curious to hear -- why is the optimal career for most people to be a lifer at Google?
I've done similar things with Org-mode. I particularly like Org-mode because I can view all of the tasks I've written in my agenda and know I won't lose anything.
Unix clones are fantastic. Ubuntu and Desktop projects are disasters.
One thing to note, Moves was acquired by Facebook a while back. I believe they changed their privacy policy after the acquisition to something a bit more fishy.
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I don't think so. Who says that the "duplicate" AIs will share the same goals? They'll probably start arguing with one another and form committees. Just like people.

I am poking fun, and I'm not discounting the possibility that AIs could be dangerous (as could people, viruses and earthquakes). But it's very hard not to notice how the singulariters' belief in noncorporal-intelligent deities is a clear, a bit sad, reflection of their own fantasies.

Yudkowsky and friends like to argue for what they call "rationality" (which is the name they give a particular form of autistic thinking imbued with repressed fantasies of power -- or a disaster only they can stop -- which is apparent in all of their "reasonable assumptions"), but their "larger than zero probability" games could be applied to just about any dystopic dream there is. I can say true AI won't happen because a virus epidemic would wipe out the human race first; or over-population would create a humanitarian disaster that will turn us back into savages; or genetic research would create a race of super-intelligent humans that would take over the planet and wipe-out all AI, and I could go on and on.
Exactly. It's similar in the Tri-State Area of the Mid-South. Most people in middle class to rich live in the suburbs. Reduces crime, headaches, property costs, etc with only a bit of commute on good Interstates and highways. I paid $550 a month plus $100 utilities for a good, 2-bedroom house that was 20 minutes away from city jobs or fun with 30-40 min away from downtown. Not a bad trade.
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