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I wonder what movies of this last year would have won under the old voting regime? Personally, the Oscars agree with my taste more than ever.

Given the evidence we have, I don't think we can say whether success -> college or college -> success or both or neither.

Just a random anecdote, but I spend 10 years working crappy blue collar jobs after going to pretty good East Coast private dayschools, and while my blue collar compatriots had crappy study skills, they weren't really any smarter or dumber than my fellow students. Guess who did better in the long run...

I used the first edition, but I think all you need is this:

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

That's five elements -- nitrogen and carbon are different elements.

As I understand it the Arduino libraries are big, but I have never tried. What are the advantages to not just using the AVR libraries if you are embedding the chip in the circuit and using the programmer?

Two reasons for me:

Real product versus toy: The arduino libraries are not the standard AVR libraries you would use to program a real product. In a real product you would also never use an arduino, too expensive and bulky.

Also, the arduino ties up a bunch of pins and space compared to just the chip, for not much payoff in a typically sharp focus microcontroller use case.

I think the cost for a programmer is a wash when you consider that you only need to buy bare chips after you learn how to use the programmer.

Yes, but there is less install with the IDE

I suggest you try programming the AVR chips directly. I use Atmel studio to compile, notepad++ to edit , and the following to burn a chip:

https://www.amazon.com/High-speed-TL866CS-Universal-Programm...

Tutorial :

http://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/programmer-minipro-tl866-howt...

I have completely ignored Twitter since some guy told me about it 10 years ago, and I have not once thought "wow, I wish I had paid more attention to that."

It would be nice if there were a visualization of this. Perhaps watts on the x-axis, distance on the y-axis, and baud rate of specific technologies or wavelengths as dots connected by contour lines? Probably on a log/ log scale.

(Sorry I don't care enough to make it, but I promise to look if someone else does ;)

I would love to hear other applications of optimization techniques to HN readers.

(I used constrained quadratic optimization to fit transition matrices to population data for my dissertation, and for some other demographic estimation projects.)

If I were building a model, I would estimate my customers average hourly income and figure that is how to calculate break even in a time vs money calculation for a flight. I make 60 an hour (low for regular flyers I bet), a flight change adds 4 hours, so a $240 cost difference for each direct flight is realistic. That might turn into real money if you scale it.

I wonder if Free Geek can refurbish and donate some useful parts?

Maybe Toki Pona could be adapted to boatswain whistle?

Does anyone have a single, basic book recommendation that would describe chip fab all in one place?

Also, it seems to me he or people like him should try to make microcontrollers rather than "full" computer chips. I would buy something to drive blinky lights for $5.00 that ran 1/5 as fast as an Atmel chip to support a free chipmaking movement, but I can't see doing something for a general purpose computer chip (with the same ratios at least).

I wish we had real data on the population. I bet a non-trivial percentage in fact could pull a resume out of their pocket and get a job, though probably a working class thing (warehouse / restaurant) not "middle class" (whatever that means). A non-trivial percentage are probably batshit crazy and should just be taken care of nicely for the rest of their lives. We just don't know, and talking in generalities just exacerbates the partisan bullshit wrecking the country.

In my mini-Portland (Olympia WA), I observe the 100 or so "homeless" who hang out downtown. I bet the percentage is about 50/ 50.

P.S. : To be honest, I wish we cracked down on anti-social behavior in public generally, and funded a lot more public housing.

You shouldn't have written "dismissed" either -- the OP just posted a link and noted that they were conservative. Maybe "implicitly dismissed", but even that is pretty paranoid; though, to be fair, that is probably what the OP meant. (I think the partisanship in this country is shameful, dangerous, and rather silly -- just saying.)

Axlers book is lovely, but my (amateur) opinion is that determinants are pretty damn intuitive and useful in the applied world. They appear quite naturally in the systems of equations I have worked with.

Furthermore, some would argue that mathematics has lost its way as it becomes dedicated to abstraction alone.

2030 is only 12 years from now. so we should assume it will be about as different as 2006; which was about the same as today except for smart phones everywhere. Yawn.

Maybe a better game would be -- what single technology will become ubiquitous in 2030 that is at the first adopter stage today?

I have never tried it, but I am interested in the Grinnell field notebook methodology:

https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/mnh/grinnell-journa...

Is there a hacking genre in which one replaces the "brain" (e.g. the microcontroller) and the "neurosystem" (e.g. the wires running to relays controlling power) in already extant machinery? Like this fan? I would love to read about that. Maybe help the right to repair.

SAS actually combines several useful things in one seamless environment : statistics, plotting, ETL, and data management. For any one of those functions, there is some better system (R, R, perl, sql respectively), but integration can be hard. Also, it is a single purchasing decision with a standard product. Plus, a good SAS programmer can build fairly big processes and avoid brain dead IT bureaucracies. Not that I love it, but it's a niche no other single environment serves.

I work as a SAS programmer for state government. I find it funny that anyone would set out to emulate the jumbled late 1960s hodge podge of yuck that is SAS syntax.

(I use SAS because I like data analysis and my pension plan and governments don't do open source, not because I like SAS...)

Did this thread get flagged? Seems premature.

While the premises may have been superstitious craziness, the Christian Church in the West developed an astonishingly successful and huge range of social institutions. I believe this infrastructure has been a huge driver of our political and economic dominance in the last 500 years. Even the science that is overthrowing religious superstition would not have been possible without Church supported universities and general education.

Also, as a social service bureaucrat, my job would have been within a religious organization until 1875 or so. And probably better executed than under modern "scientific" paradigms.

I just hope we throw out the baby but keep the bathwater...

> Today, chaotic dynamics are widely regarded as the third great scientific revolution in physics in 20th century, comparable to relativity and quantum mechanics.

Really??

While nobility is bullshit, better nutrition as evidenced by height and tooth remains is true, only catching up in the 20th century, except for the rich of course. Sorry I don't have a source. (The benefits of civilization may have only accrued to a small proportion of the population for most of history. )

> A few generations ago inner cities were too dense, filthy, undrivable and morally corrupt to allow civilisation to flourish.

Wrong, due to an specific Anglo-American cultural meme. Civilization has flourished in cities as long as there has been civilization. In the U.S. (uniquely), we ruined cities post WW2 by subsidizing highways and cars and low density suburban mortgages, due to said cultural fetish. Plus a whole lot of racism.

In France, to my knowledge, there was never a time when the central city was considered lower class than the suburbs (ahem, Paris, ahem). And I think this is generally true.

If you are getting TANF, they generally kick you off after a year of training, and disallow getting an AA much less going to college. It takes a lot more than that to make up for a semi literate, etc., growing up.

I said "invest time and money", nowhere did I say it would be easy or cheap or fast. The only reason I am upper middle class is because I got an enormous amount of investment growing up, from books to nutrition to upper middle family friends/role models to just plain good adv8ce. If you took my talents and plopped them in a working class family in rural wherever, I would be driving truck and getting high until it all apart, just like the people in the article.