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Yeah it really looks like their algorithm is not doing something so fancy as considering the forest roads which in theory are motorable (but may not have seen one in years), so much as measuring from drivable roads and park boundaries which are quite jagged, with significant amounts of park outside the drawn circle... I wonder how much larger the circles would be if you allowed for roughly 1 radian of the circumference to cross outside park boundaries

Is it really a problem to be solved? As the article mentions, there's no negative association with the word tsundoku in Japan. It seems like having a reserve of reading material is a good thing; you'll always have something new to read and learn when you * do * have unexpectedly free time. The material will be pre-filtered to subjects you care about and it will be close at hand, minimizing the friction of using those random gaps.

I guess one downside is queue prioritization and management, but maybe the piling gives you an opportunity to test the strength of your interest in a subject relative to other items in your queue.

For those who missed it, the Reddit thread detailing the "expectations gap" on launch: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no...

> "[But] if we hadn’t released No Man’s Sky when we had, and I was sat down talking to you now after we delayed it for two years, we would not have a game as good as it is right now"

It seems like Murray's argument is that misleading customers before the initial release is justified because the sales money allowed them to finish the game after launch. It's commendable that they didn't abandon the game afterward, but that doesn't really excuse/correct/justify the deception--which continued even post-launch. It's really unfortunate that Murray / HG get the "underdog" narrative when what they really did was a bait and switch.

Since everyone in the control group and the test group applied to the VPK program and was randomly placed into either the test or control group, we have good reason to think they have a similar background and needs... But maybe the kids who didn't get into the program then had a parent at home, engaging with them more meaningfully than at a state toddler farm?

> One possibility is that, contrary to conventional wisdom, some children may be better off academically if—instead of attending public pre-k—they stay at home at age four (which is where two-thirds of the sample children who did not enroll in VPK ended up).

I wonder if time at home equates to time with parents, and perhaps more direct social engagement with them?

> Another possible explanation is suggested by the fact that the VPK group had a higher rate of special education placements than the control group from kindergarten through third grade. This higher rate appears, in part, to be a result of children in the VPK group receiving special education designations during their pre-k year that carried over into elementary school. It is thus possible that VPK results in the identification of some pre-K children for special education who are just developing more slowly but who would otherwise catch up by kindergarten. Such identification may then lead to lower educational expectations and levels of instruction for these children. In addition to the above explanations, there may be others that could plausibly account for the study’s findings.

Amazing how these special designations tend to backfire on our best intentions... How do we effectively target resources at the people who need them most, without affecting either the way others think of those recipients or the way they think about themselves?

As with most bible passages, earlier texts may or may not line up... The twelve-and-a-half rule is from the Babylonian Talmud: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU-nBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=one...

> The relationship between the Gentry and Elite is one of open rivalry, and that between the Gentry and Labor is one of distrust. What about Labor and the Elite? That one is not symmetric. The Elite exploit and despise Labor as a class comprised mostly of “useful idiots”. How does Labor see the Elite? They don’t. The Elite has managed to convince Labor that the Gentry (who are open about their cultural elitism, while the Elite hides its social and economic elitism) is the actual “liberal elite” responsible for Labor’s misery over the past 30 years. In effect, the Elite has constructed an “infinity pool” where the Elite appears to be a hyper-successful extension of Labor, lumping these two disparate ladders into an “us” and placing the Gentry and Underclass into “them”.

This is the most interesting piece for me; the idea that there are several social classes, with distinct values and their own internal tiers, is not exactly a new thought, so let's proceed with the idea that everyone is on a ladder, and everyone struggles towards the top of their ladder--occasionally jumping between ladders, but not very often. Given that view of life, this is a nice synopsis of how, even in a democracy, the privileges of ownership and control of such things as media networks and financial institutions allows the elite to stabilize the class structure at the top by obscuring the true distribution of wealth and playing the cultural/educational differences of the lower classes off of one-another to create strife and political inaction.

I think the question it poses to us now is if some of these new technologies we're creating--global financial systems that allow instant transfer of cash, social networks that both connect and isolate, personalized content which fulfills marketable desires but also beguiles rational thought--are these tools of the creative class, and infrastructure which will raise up the labor class? Or rather tools of the elite? And the challenge to us is to create tools which provide the same freedoms and low transactional costs, but are very hard to be used as a corruptive force.

according to CNC? The machines are aliiive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control

They want you to clone all of the repos belonging to https://github.com/androidhardening, for some reason... I suppose they think it will be taken down by GitHub lawyers?

(he means a subscription with http://www.pnas.org/)

The scribd links aren't working for me, here are the Senate committee PDFs

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Zuckerberg%20...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Zuckerberg%20...

There is a connection to the Starbucks incident where two black men were arrested while waiting for a friend; that's certainly why it's a headline in the NY Times. In both cases it 'feels' like the people in question were excluded / marked out for reasons which appear silly or superficial, and in both cases those people were non-white. The way that people model threats is complicated and hard to pick apart... One might be perceived as threatening for all kinds of reasons which change in weighting depending on context. You and your friend may have received threat bonuses for features like tattoos, being male, being young, etc. Those features may have received different threat bonuses depending on setting, such as a darkened city alley vs a college campus, or a mall. Our threat models also get more aggressive as risk increases--smaller threats are taken more seriously when we think more is at stake. It's hard to comment on the factors at play in your experiences without all the details.

Perhaps these kids got a threat bonus for being non-white on a college campus. This is a valid question to pose, if you think that race could be over-weighted in our unconscious threat models--and the NY Times certainly draws our attention to race as an over-weighted factor in similar, recent incidents. But then again, perhaps these kids were scored as high risk because of the unfortunate parallels to previous Colorado school shooters who liked metal music.

I think your question may be more why it's in the news and here on HN: because some people care to reflect on their own threat models and consider how they might be biased--whether or not that is the case here. NYT's gotta eat, after all.

Why Journalists Should Stop Calling Themselves Writers

East of Eden - timshel "thou mayest"

Another bit about the practical usefulness at this point:

> The TCP checksum provides a series of additions and a comparison at the cost of hundreds of machine cycles to send and receive messages, which makes it computationally inefficient. To make the model viable, the computation-to-communication ratio must increase in order that the computation exported by the parasitic node is larger than the amount of cycles required by the node to solve the problem itself instead of sending it to the target. However, it is important to emphasize that these are drawbacks of the presented implementation and do not represent fundamental obstacles for parasitic computing. It remains to be seen whether a higher-level implementation of a parasitic computer could execute in an efficient manner.

The author is reflecting on opportunity costs and the dysphoria generated by an anxiety-inducing rewards system which pays out randomly huge amounts to people who don't seem to deserve it, while inflicting a lack of control and ownership on others. The title reference to the "uncanny valley" points out that working for a Silicon Valley startup is marketed as a fulfilled lifestyle, providing a sense of accomplishment in solving real problems and just about everything you could imagine if you work hard enough. But it turns out to be an illusion, eerily close to the real thing yet ultimately unsatisfying and false.

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

To make things worse, the startup life is so seductive and demanding that it excludes a lot of other potentially rewarding life choices which the author's peers enjoy. The author feels that startup workers are victims of operant conditioning and lack real independent agency in their lives.

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

It's been pointed out that unpredictable rewards really screw up brains, causing them to obsess over the payout despite the overall returns being low. The author feels that startups and gambling have a lot in common.

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

In the author's case, the conditioning is so strong that, when she thinks back on her experience with the startup, she's still seeing herself as part of it even three years later and she still feels the same compulsion.

There is a lastpass extension, including the binary version, for firefox:

LastPass Firefox Toolbar Version: 4.2.3 Built: Mon Dec 04 2017 13:51:36 GMT-0500 (EST)

Binary Component: true (Native Messaging version 4.1.44, built Nov 16 2017 23:33:27)

Is it broken upstream in the nightly build, but not in the stable build?

So more specifically, HTTPS on pages where you log in is important, not necessarily on your landing / homepage? I am not disputing that may be a good idea, but it seems like the main complaint is that users are submitting credentials on an HTTP page?

In Firefox private mode you will always see a purple icon with a white face mask in the top right corner

If you switch from Worldwide to United States, you can see that most of it is Texas