skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I could share a similar anecdote. I went through most of my school years ignoring as much homework I could get away with while still keeping good grades (the unspoken rule at home was that A-C were ok, anything below was unacceptable). I could learn a lot from just listening to the teacher during lesson and an occasional skimming on textbooks, and any significant effort that I put was just before important exams. This has served me well in some ways - I owe most of my general knowledge as well as the whole career to basically ignoring school and doing whatever the hell I wanted (it happened to be programming).

But then the university started, and by the third year I was in full panic mode, fighting fires. Not because things were hard, but because I've never learned the necessary endurance for systematic work (and powering through make-work bullshit). I ended up just with BSc, because I didn't give my Masters thesis in time. I had probably the most ambitious project in the entire year, but I didn't manage to wrap it up to into an acceptable Masters project (simultaneously working full-time at the time didn't help).

The end result is, I didn't learn discipline. The very things that enabled me to pursue software career are the things that are now seriously damaging my work output. That's the flip side of going for what intrests you - the modern workplace is something where you mostly have to power through boring things. Being self-educated can actually make you misadapted to the society if you don't learn some discipline along the way.

It's funny - most of the people I worked along with were hard-working but struggling to become good programmers. I was already a decent programmer; I was the one struggling to become a good employee.
Capacity to regenerate body parts likely ancient feature of 4-legged vertebrates
Enron defrauded the public, not just accredited investors.
No wonder he was so bitter in "Ghostbusters II".
I'll give them a pass on that, personally. Tsunamis are rare and the sea wall was supposed to protect them against just about any "realistic" tsunami threat.

But what's inexcusable is allowing a reactor to melt down because you don't know how to cut connectors off of cables and do makeshift splices.

How many people will end up dying because someone wasn't willing to take a little risk? I mean, what's the worst that could happen? It'd work for a while and then fall apart? It'd blow up your generators? The worst-case scenario is that the nuclear reactor melts down which is what happens if you don't create a makeshift splice. So you have nothing to lose.

I'm obviously armchair quarterbacking this, but I can't see the argument against just trying something and hoping it works.
> On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate voted 74 to 21 to pass a version of CISA that roughly mirrors legislation passed in the House earlier this year, paving the way for some combined version of the security bill to become law.

Doesn't any version of a bill have to pass both the House and Senate before it is sent to the President for signing? Is there a shortcut to merge two versions without re-votes?

(Edit)

There is apparently a conference committee now according to the EFF.

More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461526
I learned a lot by reading this site http://simplesciencefitness.com
That greed made a vastly superior phone (back then) to anything on the market as it was mocked and ridiculed.
Companies like (Sony) Ericsson were ridiculing it.

First phone with a decent development environment, SDK and App Store.
Consider Linux, MySQL, PHP, and then consider Facebook.
Reading Anathem and trying to figure out the parallels with the real world is quite entertaining.
As you asked.. firstly because doesn't speak to the actual idea being put forward, merely implying that they are—at best—incompetent and at worst hypocritical. It then compounds this faux pas with a tender for work which seems a little galling.
>Will it make journalism honest and trustworthy instead of lies and clickbait bullshit?

You get what you pay for, which online tends toward nothing.
> simply using Android's built-in functionality is not sufficient to block all identifiable data that your phone's apps leak

Do you know happen to know a solution? I know there are many confidentiality utilities and Android forks which emphasize it, but I don't know enough to evaluate them.
Stephenson says in the interview that the fly-bat-worm is from Husserl. I see the link to Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?"

http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
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sucrose = glucose + fructose - water
lactose = glucose + galactose - water
maltose = glucose + glucose - water

Starch and glycogen are basically all glucose.

Based on this study, I would guess that replacing all HFCS with an equivalent-sweetness amount of regular corn syrup (all glucose) would immediately result in significant improvements to the public health, even though the sweetened products would have more calories per serving.
I get the feeling it would have actually improved your academic performance. It worked for quite a few people I know.
From when "Team" page is a standard?
Apple Profit Rose 31% for Its 4th Quarter, Beating Forecasts
Hydrogen cars are probably a dead end. Not enough benefit for the infrastructure costs required. I think the future options will be EV and synthetic gas. As batteries improve further, EV will have a lot of advantages. But it will only be available for those who have personal garages. For everyone else, it makes more sense to create gasoline instead of building an entirely new hydrogen infrastructure. There is already technology in early stages that can create gas from just electricity, water, and CO2 from the air. It seems refining that technology is a much better idea than trying to use hydrogen.
This isn't about you, though. It's about the millions of people who can't afford to pay.
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Yes: "Gottman's theory states that there are four major emotional reactions that are destructive and thus are the four predictors to a divorce: criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, and contempt. Among these four, Gottman considers contempt the most important of them all."
> But many people don't really enjoy their work, it's just work.

That's because the threat in our economy is "If you don't work, you don't eat and you will go homeless." And that's a strong motivator to put up with shit at the workplace. Most people aren't wealthy.
Market share is not really the number that matters to Apple, although it definitely seems to matter to people who want Apple to fail.
I'm not surprised, it's hard to break Apple bias (and I own an iPhone), also some people don't see the difference between 60 fps and less.

Regarding the performance degradation, I assume it has to do with Metal. Apple said iOS9 will feature Metal as a replacement for OpenGL throughout the system for better performance. Well we didn't see any of that. The stutters have been there since Beta 1 in June.
You can’t pay your rent with “the unique platform and reach our site provides”
I don't think market share is the best metric for measuring iPhone success, or even necessarily one that Apple cares about (save for when it breaks in their favor). As with the Mac, they seem content to let their competitors fight over the high volume strata while staying in the upper tiers and banking the lion's share of the profits.
Infrastructure costs money. Does this mean it should not be built?
And if not boom, you're burned alive by an invisible flame.
Wait - gas as in gasoline or some other gas (LPG?)
I'm aware of the application you're describing, but aren't you saying that you don't know of applications where they track individuals?

Perhaps that's a bit conspiratorial, but it's hard to believe that people who otherwise have been unscrupulous would suddenly hesitate to use information about individuals. What about job applicants, competitors, the guy dating your daughter, etc.?
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> best results with Triangle also known as bilinear interpolation

Just no. Use bilinear only when you need very fast resizing and don't care about quality much. Lanczos and sinc [1] filters are considered "best" for wide range of images (no visible blurring or sharpening, almost no moire effects), but they are also among slower ones. Use Catmull-Rom when images need to be sharpened a bit. (See [2] for comparison and scripts) There's also faster and less buggy fork named GraphicsMagick [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinc_filter

[2] http://www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/filters/result.html

[3] http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
ADP drops lawsuit against Zenefits
That's why you have amendments.
Disagree entirely. Despite the fact that batteries are getting worlds better there are big wins for the environment when we eventually implement a hydrogen infrastructure. Batteries are an evolutionary win while hydrogen will be a revolutionary win.
Unfortunate how people tasked with protecting information so often still use Windows.
You're welcome, have fun! I only found out about it by luck myself.
It's refreshing to see the development and activism cropping up in Africa after decades of mostly war, misery and poverty.

I don't know if it's because of their young demographic but I find there is a vibe reminiscent of North America's 70s.

See for example some of their online publications:

http://trueafrica.co/ (Notice the startup focused section: http://trueafrica.co/category/innovators/ )

http://mg.co.za/

Industry and manufacturing seems to be picking up too. I notice more "made in <african country>" labels here in Canada. For example I recently bough shoes that came from Ethiopia ( from https://www.oliberte.com/ )
24 years isn't that long compared to what the The Nobel Committee for Physics usually waits for to make sure there are no controversies about who did what...

(I've heard they also do try to keep track of the health of expected recipients when they are old...)
pretty much all the UK exchanges support LLU compare that to the USA where there is a cosy monopoly or duopoly (if your lucky)
accounting fraud, not "optimism" (various definitions of optimism)
Profit-share is STILL a stupid, vanity metric. This is the metric that says, "If a well-funded competitor steals your market-share at the cost of running a loss, that is actually good for you."

Edit to add: This is the metric that says that life is awesome for taxi companies because Uber runs enormous losses. Profit is a useful metric (and Apple has awesome profits). Market share is a useful metric (and Apple has a small minority of the smartphone market share). Profit-share is something that somebody made up to make Apple's market share not seem as small.
I don't believe managers operate the company. I believe engineers do. As you said we don't want to deal with all the extras which consist on dispatching tasks and making sure everyone does the job. For that we have project management tools and meetings... lot's of meetings.

These 2 things can easily be handled by the engineers (e.g. agile methodologies, etc). You always need a boss to make a big decision like getting rid of someone for example or picking up the next big thing. %99 of the decisions made at the 1st level, maybe even the 2nd level of managements are usually not relevant. Again, they only dispatch the work and approve your vacation requests. You have to go higher to start seeing people making real decisions for a company.
I agree, Managers are extra layer & expensive but in reality without them, there would be chaos in the company. I think it would be better to either hire the best or fire & re-hire.
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I agree. That's a great little writeup - thanks for posting it.
As a programmer just getting into Drupal, would you guys recommend jumping directly into 8 or should I start at 7?
I'm from the "watching TV" to "playing video games" transition generation and I must say that I owe more to both of them than to most time spent in school.

Me too. I spent a lot of time watching educational TV programming when I was a kid. I remember the day I made the sad realization that I had seen every episode of Mr. Wizard's world and there would be nothing new to learn from the show.

I think that there is too much emphasis on standardized testing but I do think that some testing is necessary. I think it's important to have some way to measure if teachers are imparting any knowledge on their students or if they're engendering a love of learning.

My favorite teachers(with some of whom, I remain in contact) are the ones who inspired me to learn more about the subject matter than was taught in the class.
I'm sorry I don't get it, doomed why? Honest question.
The network itself knows your location because your signal is usually visible to multiple cell towers. They can triangulate your location from that.
There was an episode where the Simpsons held a wedding in their back yard, and an elephant was involved. That was the day they died.

I still watch every episode multiple times, but Im just chasing the dragon.
Now imagine if McDonald's or Walmart got these same earnings. A large contingent would be calling for Tim Cook's head for earning billions while Apple's lowest earning American workers who assemble their computers earn "poverty" wages, even lower than Walmart's own minimum wage of $10 per hour. I do find it befuddling how some companies are given a pass but others aren't.
I've wondered the same, as I really like Ractive. Briefly what I found is:

Vue seems using "magic mode" vs the Ractive.get/Ractive.set.
Ractive uses virtual DOM, Vue does not.
What computers are Apple assembling in California? They assemble the Mac Pro in Texas.
Of course, react minified is something like 137mb... and that's not including any other libraries like flux.
I have this one[1] and it seems to be extremely well written.

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-G...
DI usually means Dependency Injection, and I don't see how I could do unit testing/mocking without DI (especially constructor based DI). IoC containers such as AutoFac, those are from my perspective more of a fad.
And to compound this pressure standardized testing is putting teachers under the thumb. There's an obscene amount of paperwork required and it takes the focus away from students. In today's environment standardized testing is a step back, in the 1950 it would have made sense. A better approach would be to emulate the Finnish curriculum which is ridiculously fluid. And it works, they're currently one of the highest achieving nations.

To be frank I suspect the standardized testing methodology was employed as a part of a conservative agenda to ensure private schools have an advantage. It seems to have spread globally under conservative governments in suspicious circumstances. In New Zealand it's called 'National Standards', and was introduced at the same time charter schools started receiving government funding.
> Either those biologists also deny that dogs have breeds and are painfully stupid, or they use "biological fact" differently than I do (I use it in the sense of "genetics").

Or, they recognize that the phenotype variations on which humans assign labels of "race" have less to do with the real genetic variations in the population than you (and many others, to be fair) assume. Traditional concepts of race have some correlation with genetic reality (in that both are correlated with geography of ancestry), but the idea you raise of a "biological fact" of "distinct races" is inaccurate.

Or, as one paper put it:

Genetic variation is geographically structured, as expected from the partial isolation of human population during much of their history. Because traditional concepts of race are in turn correlated with geography, it is inaccurate to state that race is "biologically meaningless." On the other hand, because they have been only partially isolated, human populations are seldom demarcated by precise genetic boundaries. Substantial overlap can therefore occur between populations, invalidating the concept that populations (or races) are discrete types. [0]

[0] Royal, Charmaine DM, and Georgia M. Dunston. "Changing the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation." Nature genetics 36 (2004): S5-S7.
You'd be amazed at the seemingly minor misrepresentations that a federal prosecutor can turn into a fraud case. That said, whether or not it gets that far depends entirely on the how the investors feel about it, exactly what they were told, whether they choose to report it as a crime to the FBI, etc.
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> EFF also won an exemption for users who want to play video games after the publisher cuts off support. For example, some players may need to modify an old video game so it doesn’t perform a check with an authentication server that has since been shut down

I think this is the real story for many HN readers.
Google tried this in 2000, it was an absolute disaster.

Managers also:

1. Handle administrative concerns like requests for leave, vacations, illnesses, deaths in the family, etc.

2. Understand each of their reports' career goals and try to put them on projects where they can grow & contribute best.

3. Handle personality conflicts between individuals on the team.

4. Make sure that individual contributors get recognition for their work.

5. Encourage their team to keep going in the face of obstacles.

6. Protect their team from interruptions by handling many of the external inquiries themselves.

7. Connect team members with relevant collaborators in other parts of the organization.

Now, there are good managers and bad managers, and typically good managers will do more of the activities on my list while bad managers will do more of the activities on your list. But that isn't a reason to get rid of managers entirely. Rather, it's a reason to invest in manager training, make sure they understand their role, and ensure that you've hired good managers and fire the bad ones.
Well.. considering AAPL has about the same P/E as IBM/HP, which has about -10% growth, I would personally say the growth is not priced in at all.

But even though it's priced as if the company is dying, analysts are still expecting it to grow 20%+.

The disconnect is almost funny.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Investor fraud isn't the only thing we're talking about here. There are questions about the accuracy of the blood tests themselves.
Fortunateyly the software in your 2015 honda civic is nearly or completely identical to all other 2015 honda civics, though.

I agree that its unfortunate, but being able to inspect the software in your car is nearly as good as being able to inspect other's or have other's inspect yours if you have the same make and year.
Also thank you for using "begging the question" correctly.
memset_s, at least in C++, is guaranteed to run for this reason
Consumers don't always choose based on price. There would be many consumers that would choose Android equipment even if Apple lowered their pricing. Then Apple would be competing, but without the war chest that allows them to, say, buy some chip companies and start designing their own chips or being able to pay in advance for parts and get a steep discount. Plus, as you note, if they achieved 92% marketshare, they'd fall under heavy regulation. This way, they're able to get 92% of the profit, but there's still significant competition to the point where Apple isn't even the largest by number of devices. It means that Apple doesn't have the market power to dictate terms - most people don't buy Apple equipment. It must continue innovating and producing great things. But it also means a lack of anti-trust attention since consumers have highly viable alternatives - alternatives that the majority of consumers worldwide use.

Similarly, there are certain industries that seem to be "cool" and people will try and compete in them regardless of profit. Smartphones seems like such a market. In a market where Apple and Samsung are the only two profitable makers and there's little innovative new features coming out, people still want in. I mean, Apple joined the smartphone market with a completely different design in the iPhone - no keyboard, capacitive multi-touch screen that dominated the phone, etc. Today, it's mostly polishing that formula introduced in 2007. Why would you want to enter an industry where you'd just be taking a display, a chip from Qualcomm or MediaTek, and a pretty standard body and camera, pair that with Android, and ship what everyone else is shipping? Are you doing anything better? Unlikely. And yet people want in even in the face of zero profits. So, even if Apple wiped out the current competition, it's likely that people would want in. And companies like OnePlus have shown that it's not terribly hard to join in the party.

Lowering margins probably wouldn't help Apple over the long run. Companies have shown a willingness to enter unprofitably and anti-trust attention on Apple could break their ability to continue profiting.
Enormous multi-national corporations should not function as an extension of our Government. This is the separation of church and state debate all over again.
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i assume you meant kb ...
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82^5 is for just one word. Combine 7 of them and you will have strong master password, much stronger than one made from 7 common words. My master password contains 16 random characters, but it still easy for me to change it when needed. I can make it twice longer without problem, but it is hard to type already.
Yep. I can answer questions on this if you'd like. I also clarified what's legal in a comment below.
As abtinf pointed out, market share != profit share.

What percentage of smartphone profits does the iPhone garner in Europe?
I disagree. My friends and I played video games for fun. We learned by having "cool" ideas and trying to solve them. This is how you get freshmen learning, nearly deriving, some very basic calculus and juniors doing basic ODEs, not to mention programming to solve things like building a website to allow users to submit and edit content, converse with each other, and search the content. TF-IDF isn't complicated, and almost naturally gets derived when you start to think about "what can I do to make this search better than LIKE '%term%'?"

Games can definitely help with strategical thinking, "people skills", and even learning, but to say they're the future is misguided. Supporting children who have interests is the way I think is best followed, and that can be incredibly resource intensive.
I could imagine that a source of hydrogen could be medical institutions - after all, a hospital consumes large amounts of pure oxygen, and electrolysis provides lots of it.
Where did you get the 4% data? If that's true then it's absurd that the watch is on track to become a TEN BILLION DOLLARS business in its first iteration.

People forget that 4% of AAPL's revenue is about $10 billion.
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My eyes must be getting old, but I don't see anything here.

But anyway, show me that test with a full battery. How do you know the phone isn't coming in and out of a power conservation mode when you're doing your test on a 12% battery?
My kids (in preschool) _love_ Bedtime Math (the book) and often request it instead of bedtime stories. It's hard to tell if it's having any pedogogical effect --- my oldest is starting to be able to add, sometimes, if both numbers are less than or equal to five. But maybe that would have happened anyhow?
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