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harryjoon Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (1997)

That would cost more CPU for the same result.

harryjoon Stanford scientist searches for answer to his son’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

The lack of an objective test is more problematic tan the lack of a cure.

The same argument leads a rational person to stop obsessing about the supposed morality of killing humans. The touchy-feely appeal to "think about the suffering of the _humans_" is likewise species-ist

harryjoon Memories of Kurt Gödel

Yes,

harryjoon A tech billionaire blocked public beach access

HN has rich chronicle of Vinod Khosla's long-running war on the people of California:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Vinod%20Khosla%20beach&sort=by...

harryjoon Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex

Since the USA does not have a long history of legal segregation against Hispanics, there are no Hispanic colleges.

However, there are Hispanic Serving Insitutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic-serving_institution

I also wonder how much you cared about Hispanic schools before you heard about someone helping a Black school. Why the sudden interest?

harryjoon Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex

big cities on the coasts, and the Southwest, and the Southeast, so, everywhere except the Plains states

Also, Palo Alto is a big city on the coast.

harryjoon Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/14/to-diversify-work-fo...

harryjoon Diaspora-common: does 'rm -rf /' on purge

interactive commands should abort the command on unset variable

harryjoon Diaspora-common: does 'rm -rf /' on purge

That doesn't solve the problem that parent incorrectly explained.

    echo "$(false)"

swallows the exit code from $(false).

    $ cat /tmp/test.sh
    set -euvx
    export SHELLOPTS
    echo "$(false)"
    echo "echo of string with failed subcommand does not kill script"
    $(false)
    echo "but consuming exit code does"
        
    $ /tmp/test.sh        
    export SHELLOPTS
    + export SHELLOPTS
    echo "$(false)"
    false
    ++ false
    + echo ''
        
    echo "echo of string with failed subcommand does not kill script"
    + echo 'echo of string with failed subcommand does not kill script'
    echo of string with failed subcommand does not kill script
    $(false)
    false
    ++ false

harryjoon Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2011/03/jordan-lloyd-bookey-k-12...

Examples of Google’s programs include:

● Google’s Computing and Programming Experience (CAPE): This four-week experience is for 8th graders to gain exposure to CS. This summer we will have around 130 students, and we hope to further expand this content to organizations and schools around the country. We are looking to test this new model with MS2 in Washington, DC this summer.

● LEAD Program for Computer Science: This is a rigorous and exciting summer residential program for underrepresented minority students in grades 9-11, held at four universities in its upcoming inaugural year..

● Trailblazer Award: This is an award (in Europe) that is given internationally for participation in national science fairs. Winners are all treated to a 2-day Trailblazer retreat with fellow winners to learn more about the possibilities of a career in CS.

● Counselors for Computing: This program trains counselors to teach their fellow guidance counselors the benefits of CS degrees. Through our partner members at NCWIT, we are hoping to scale impact through these critical influencers.

● CS4HS is an initiative sponsored by Google to promote CS and Computational Thinking in high school and middle school curriculum by hosting CS teachers at campuses worldwide to learn about leading edge practice in the field.

● Computer Science Teachers Association: We are an ongoing supporter of the CSTA and, in particular, recently hosted their CS&IT symposium for 200 CS teachers at our Mountain View campus.

harryjoon Howard University opens a new campus at the Googleplex

Google is doing that (not exactly for HBCUs, but for underrepresented subpopulations) https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/engres.html

harryjoon A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic

"Two body problem" refers to a married couple. It is p^2 as hard to find good jobs near a potential home.

harryjoon A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic

If NYC was such a bad idea, why is it a massive portion of the US economy?

harryjoon A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic

Small city has 0 or 1 employers that are larger than local in scope. It's fine if you are an accountant or dentist or carpenter and there aren't too many like you in town already, but what if you work in a specialized industry?

harryjoon The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely

Financial Times has nearly no ads.

harryjoon The Wall Street Journal to Close Google Loophole Entirely

Why is a full feed of quality news worth less to you than Netflix?

harryjoon Software Engineering at Google

Is section 3.1 "20%" time still true?

harryjoon Software Engineering at Google

> would/should

There are billions of dollars of difference between "would" and "should"

Who is "they" who act like it's super-awesome?

harryjoon Software Engineering at Google

Then you have to run a tool that processes .go source files in order to perform dependency analysis. Consistency is a virtue.

harryjoon Dow Hits 20000 for First Time

Let's see which regulations get cut first. So far, it's not the government contracting regulations.

Bonus: when Trump "freezes the size of Federal employment" do you think that will be match by a freeze in contracting, or a boost in crony contracts?

harryjoon Dow Hits 20000 for First Time

He's promoting _jobs_, but also promoting pollution and cuts to healthcare, wages, and job safety.

harryjoon P vs. NP

Yes. The post you are replying to said, essentially, "lack of macroscopic quantum behavior => P != NP, because macroscopic quantum behavior => P=NP", which is obviously flawed logic.

harryjoon P vs. NP

How does "polynomial" imply "practically tractable"?

If P = NP, the exponent may well something like x^100 or x^(# of atoms in the Universe)

harryjoon Why won't biologists say that animals might be conscious?

you just gave two vague definitions and also said it has shades of meaning -- that's what "ill-defined" is.

harryjoon Why won't biologists say that animals might be conscious?

Not just animals robots, humans will project emotions onto other humans. We see a photo of someone's face, or look at someone who isn't making any particular expression, and imagine an emotion based on transient artifacts captured at a single point in time. See also: "resting bitch face" and all the memes featuring baby's faces.

harryjoon Google studying ways to deal with offensive search suggestions and results

> This reminds me of the time Google manipulated their SERP to hide holocaust revisionist information.

It reminds you of .. the article you are commenting on, today?

harryjoon A Few Billionaires Are Turning Medical Philanthropy on Its Head

OK, who should it be driven by then? A monarch? Democratic vote?

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

harryjoon The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript

> The manuscript is two hundred and twenty-five millimetres tall, a hundred and sixty wide, and five centimetres thick.

"met_re_s" in an American publication?

In this case, it's obviously just the New Yorker spelling out words and mixing scales just to increase word count/diversity to give the article a more mysterious pseudo-intellectual feel, as is the style of the magazine. The New Yorker spins articles through a thesaurus before publication.