skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems weird that this is considered a good thing. Usually it's celebrated as a highly competitive and mature game when the best players/teams are near each other in skill level. If you wanted the elite teams to accrue a lopsided number of victories you'd remove rules like the salary cap that many leagues impose.
For the record since many people are mentioning Facebook's metadata, the actual name for what it uses is called Open Graph : https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters
This is a cop-out. There is nothing anyone does that couldn't be plausibly cast as an evolutionary imperative. You gave your kid the last bite of your dinner? Obviously you were trying to maximize his chance of surviving and reproducing. You kept the last bite for yourself? Obviously you were nourishing yourself to ensure your ability to provide for your kids in the future. You gave the last bite to the neighbor's kid? You must have been supporting your community because your kids thrive when your tribe thrives. You sent it off to starving children in Africa? Clearly you were trying to cultivate a reputation of charitable giving in order to increase your status in the tribe. This is a parlor game, not a reasonable way to talk about whether whales can display behavior we usually associate only with humans.
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The time question still works because many people will check the time on their mobile phones. I know that happens from time to time in my home area.
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If you can run higan at 100% speed, then ZSNES has more lag than higan does (due to double buffering, polling only once per frame, etc.)

For me, the issue with the OP is a) comparing to clone NES hardware, and b) it's subjective. Different people react differently to latency. The numbers I talk about may be largely estimated, but they're objectively real latencies that really do exist, even if you can't observe them personally.

It's a very good thing if you can't. Makes gaming a lot more fun. Testing myself, I don't really detect a change in latency under emulation alone until I simulate adding about 75ms more than is already there. However, I did notice a problem when I moved from playing Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (I know, bad port) on my SNES to higan: all of my timed moves were failing (it's a game that requires pixel-perfect movements); but I adapted pretty quickly and was able to beat the game. But again, this is all subjective stuff, so it's not really adding to the technical discussion any.
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I think it still causes people to overeat, though. Most people ask for a takeout box only after they stuff themselves really full and realize they won't be able to finish the serving.
Teaching strategies and teachers/tutors have an effect on student confidence, motivation, self-efficacy, attitudes, and performance.

The first link (teaching math in the context of engineering) increases the confidence of female students (along with many other benefits): https://www.aacu.org/sites/default/files/files/tides/Klingbe...

Peer instruction narrows the gender gap http://mazur.harvard.edu/research/detailspage.php?rowid=9

Inquiry based learning in math helps female students http://www.colorado.edu/eer/research/steminquiry.html

and so on

confidence (and related concepts like self-efficacy and sense of belonging) can be taught directly or positively influenced indirectly. See for example interventions that teach 'growth mindset' in math: http://www.aauw.org/2011/05/26/growth-mindsets-and-stem/

This video explains growth mindset the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN34FNbOKXc

And Jo Boaler has written a great deal on how growth mindset can improve girls' performance in math classes: http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/boaler-math-min...
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Yes, that was where I eventually tracked down the meaning (in the footnotes where it was hard to find, although they were good enough to quote the verse).

The thing about pop culture is that firstly it dates really badly, and second is that it doesn't work across cultures. I'd never heard of the song before now..
Are you kidding?

I run 80 servers with custom written daemons and it's always multi-process.

I just finished said infra at one of the worlds largest online betting sites, their legacy was multi-process and the new systems are multi-process.

This is really common
I think it is a good thing for all three groups: facebook itself, because I might start using it a bit more; the users, I get the info I want, friends and family stories; and the news sites, they will be able to concentrate on the open web again instead of giving more and more power to facebook.
yes, notice it is steamVR tracking not openVR tracking.

They likely have a clause you need to make a steam game to get access.
> Just look at how much the majority opinion on dozens of topics has changed over the past few decades

The new majority opinion is held by a largely different set of people than the one from a few decades ago. People born in the 19th century still mostly think what they thought before, they're just too dead for it to matter.
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This is a bad clickbait. There's no connection between Pokemon Go and what happened, or at least the article doesn't really point at one.
> I think a stack trace and an exception would help most people with a modicum of debugging skills.

What if the error is difficult to reproduce in the first place? This isn't too uncommon in concurrent programming.
They were probably the best optical effects ever made.

Also interesting is the way they echo and expand on the imagery of the scenes inside HAL 9000.

http://metaspatial.net/conferences/io/hal9000.jpg

Kubrick was a genius photographer before he was a genius director. It's well worth hunting down the images he took in his pre-Hollywood career. E.g.

https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/photograph...
Reserves are deposits with the central bank or cash sitting in the vault. Reserves are created when the central bank makes a direct loan which is typically to the central government or through the discount window (where they buy a loan at a discount from a member bank).

Reserve requirements essentially mean that each bank has to have some amount of deposits at the central bank that is proportional to the size of it's balance sheet. In theory that limits the total amount of money to a multiple of the amount of base money which is controlled by the central bank.

In practice central banks have been moving away from reserve requirements as a way to influence monetary policy and some countries have eliminated reserve requirements entirely. In the US cash and reserves doesn't pay interest and so acts as a tax on the banking system. When market rates are high like they were in the 70's and 80's this tax can be significant and at some points lead to banks leaving the Federal Reserve System all together and the creation of non-bank competitors for deposits such as money market funds.

Today most banks balance sheets are limited by regulatory capital ratios rather than reserve requirements.

A history of reserve requirements can be found here that lays it out in detail. I highly recommend it if you find yourself unable to sleep on a plane. Skip to the end if you are interest in current history:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/0693lead.pdf

Unfortunately there is a lot of bad information (and conspiracy theories) about fractional reserve banking on the internet which in many cases is outright wrong and in the best cases no longer relevant.
Right, but why is that unhealthy? If the cost of advertising on facebook is zero or near it, users suffer very badly (as on any platform). Someone has to force the cost up to make the platform livable, and the only party that realistically can in this transaction is facebook.

Like, I get why other things named in this thread are unhealthy. Particularly twitter pulling the rug out from app developers (which facebook also did, and I think was also relatively unambiguously unhealthy). I am not saying that all control of a platform is necessarily healthy, but you seem to be saying that it is unhealthy because it made an action that most see as undesirable unprofitable (thus causing businesses to fail).

Thus, you seem to believe that these businesses have some kind of inherent right to succeed on the good graces of another business allowing them to. I'm asking you to explain how that's in the public good.
Ahh, that's interesting - I didn't know of the Powerpack, that definitely seems more intriguing.
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I have changed opinions on certain topics, for example my thoughts about gun control and libertarianism are more nuanced than years ago.

I can articulate many viewpoints extremely clearly which I don't happen to hold, which means if I am in a debating mood I can much more precisely debate someone, rather than simply dismissing them.

I repeatedly realize my own opinions are sometimes based on unexamined assumptions, which no matter how many times I realize it and try to root it out, keeps coming to my attention over and over.

I repeatedly am reminded that almost everyone believes they are acting morally, and it is humbling to try to understand the morals of the person who seems so "immoral."

I often am floored when I realize just how different my lived experience is from the person who has formed such a puzzling belief, and it massively broadens my perspective to learn about those narratives.

These are just a few things off the top of my head, I bet I could think of many more.
> The ISP business isn't exactly a gold mine and margins are pretty thin.

Whoa, who told you that? Lets think about this in simplified terms, if you could run a coax cable to houses around you without caring about it being buried or hidden and start earning $50-$100 a month would you do it? I would be doing nothing else until I collapsed. I would go up and down the street with cable spools of cable putting posts in the ground to split it to people's houses. In one long day you could be earning what you would get from a minimum wage job. In a week you would be middle class. In a month you would live like a lawyer, in two you would live like a doctor, and you would never have to work again to make the same amount of money. Gold mines don't even do this well.
That piece is just hilarious. First it argues

"selling, general and administrative expenses (SGA) are predominantly fixed figures in regards to units sold."

but four paragraphs later it explains away Tesla's losses by saying

"The increase in SG&A is to be expected considering Tesla's ramp up of the Gigafactory and its massive growth in general."

Look, either it's independent of sales, or it's dependent. You can't have it both ways.

Also, saying "we don't lose money for each car because I want to deduct the cost of administration, marketing, sales and other general expenses, since those don't really count as expenses" is just disingenious.

What that article might have a point in saying is that Tesla won't lose an additional $20 000 if they sell one more car. I.e. their marginal loss is not $20k. But marginal loss is a completely different quantity from the actual loss per car; it's actually related to the derivative. If we say the loss/profit function has a given value at some point in time, the derivative can of course be completely arbitrary (positive or negative).

Edit: marginal loss equals loss per car only if your loss is linear in sales with a proportionality constant of one. No-one argues this is the case, in fact, everyone agrees (and Tesla is betting heavily) that the second derivative of this function is greater than zero over a large interval (thus it can't be linear). That article is a textbook example of a strawman argument.
I don't deny that she was "doing work" during 130 hours a week, but I question what she was doing or how productive it really was. I don't see why this is a thing to gloat about. And my take on Yahoo is that it has been lacking a strategic thinker and had unfortunately been saddled with numerous scattered-brained ideas that sound good over a lunch discussion, but cannot be tied to a central plan for the business with a straight face.

The hours she is working immediately says to me that she is not capable of hiring good people and delegating responsibilities. Now, I don't expect a CEO of a large company to work a 40 hour work week, but 130 hours is ridiculous. Out of that 130 hours of work, none of that could have been delegated? Is she really that special that only she can handle it?
I think it depends on how you define "better".

The situation is better in that the listener has a more empathic, more thorough understanding of the speaker.

In that sense there was a positive exchange of information and understanding, which is great.

Beyond that, though, what has been accomplished?

I know that sounds hopelessly utilitarian, but in the end, when it comes to issues like, say, abortion, I fail to see how this kind of understanding is valuable unless it further leads to a coming together of minds to form agreement or compromise.

Now, you mention that "wouldn't it be easier for you to work out something if you don't think the person you are talking to is actually just crazy or unintelligent"?

My claim is that it doesn't matter. That whether or not I understand the other person, the very nature of the disagreement and the very fundamental principles upon which the two positions rest, makes compromise impossible.

After all, how do you compromise with someone who believes, run down to their toes, that abortion is equivalent to the murder of a child? You can't. That belief system doesn't make room for even entertaining the idea of compromise.

And the clever thing about modern politics and rhetoric is that they've taken issues that you wouldn't think would be wedge issues, and transformed them into wedge issues by building entire moral edifices around them.

The result is that when you debate someone about something as dull as, say, tax policy, it's no longer about debating facts and ideas, but rather debating values and culture and beliefs. And when you debate those values and beliefs, what you're actually doing is attacking the very things that define who that person is.
comparison to lzturbo possible? (Unfortunately also closed source, sich).
Size of serving vs actual serving sizes

In many countries they have smaller servings - but it's typical to eat 2-3 servings. In the US we often have larger servings (equivalent to 2-3 servings) but only eat the one.

Having traveled quite a bit, the largest discrepancy in serving sizes I've noticed is that the US really likes drinks. Especially sodas and especially 60oz sodas. Everywhere I go gives me a "kids sized" cup of water to down with my meal...
Fair enough, but that doesn't answer the core question -- was she actually productive during that time or was a lot of that playing with her kids, reading the news, having her brain go in circles because she's exhausted and not thinking clearly, thinking about her next bathroom break, etc.
You know, I'm somewhat skeptical of the idea that "the best" actually does always float to the top around here.
>If this guy had dialed back the scam level by about half, he'd probably still be in business.

He is.
I'd echo that request, I love reading about things like this - that era of computers from my youth, and forcing them to do some useful work today. I have an Olivetti M15 that I plan on connecting to the internet via a pi at some point...
Which time period specifically are you talking about?
Of course. But supply/demand economics means as wages/issues rise in China (i.e. trade war) the rest of Asia, which is rising quickly, picks up the slack.

China has scale, and the right value chains for certain things. But ultimately they are commodities. It's that hard to build simple factories and provide reliable electricity and cheap workers.

Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Vietnam etc. - there's a lot of people there waiting to pick up the slack.

The US does not import a lot of meaningful things from China.

China imports a lot of critical goods from the West, particularly Germany. Also - the trade balance is very lopsided.

A 'trade war' with China would be very painful for China, but the West would hardly skip a beat.

A) Consumer prices would rise a little bit.
B) Some plants (smart factories) would open in the US
C) Mexico would boon, and so would other areas in Asia.

In the long run, if other places pick up the slack, it would permanently damage China's competitive advantages - whereas Western nations would do just fine, save a few German tool makers.
http://imgur.com/gallery/n1VdV

I'll call your attention to "Should the US formally declare war on ISIS?"
> “The most important next step with Safeway is huge sales out of the gate. This will ensure we stay on the shelf to put an end to Hellmann’s factory-farmed egg mayo, and spread the word to customers that Just Mayo is their new preferred brand. :)”

Wow! :) Shady! :)

As far as displacing Hellman's, good luck with that.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uWZnLEm...
Is ethereum classic (etc) under attack?
Ethereum Classic (etc) decreased value and lost hashpower since yesterday. Could be influenced by the 51pool.org (which is no longer coonecting)?
Actually this isn't true at all then. By your logic, China also have an extremely high standard for human rights. Just a cursory look at the Chinese constitution shows how much they value equality.

And surely, the rich and connected people in China have those rights. They are treated fairly by the system and society.

It's just those poorer people that are hurt, but hey, the framework for it still exists.
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I think it will be difficult to bring some of these technologies into mass production with subtractive manufacturing like lithography. We really need additive manufacturing techniques instead.
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Who owns the conduit or pole? If the HOA does, it's not too bad.
My experience is different. Anecdotally, in New York City, I know dozens of people who used to be uncomfortable with same-sex-marriage who now consider it a great thing and a right.
"Charlie on the MTA" isn't really "pop" culture, it's Boston (area) culture, originating over 60 years ago. Not surprising that it ended up in technical literature around Scheme.
I think there's even more value to it than this. Consider the whole pursuit of philosophy. You must be able to leverage your intellect to deeply contemplate things you don't believe are actually true in order to determine the root foundations for what you believe, if in fact you still do believe them after honest and critical analysis. If you close your ears to anything you disagree with then you may miss a small but important detail that in overlooking has lead you to a premature and incorrect conclusion. Or on the other hand be able to further whittle away to the true core of your beliefs. Whether for this cause or the one in the article the result is probably the same however, understanding and love.
Just look at how much the majority opinion on dozens of topics has changed over the past few decades. Marijuana legalization. Gay marriage. Mass incarceration.

Joeboy beat me to it, but I'll reiterate: that's not compromise. It's just change. Don't confuse the two.

And for those on the "losing" side of that change, there's an incredible amount of consternation.
It's unhealthy when they allow it for a long time, benefit from it, and then pull the rug out from under them once they believe it is in their financial best interest to do so. It's exactly the same as your Twitter and Facebook developer examples.

Developers were monetizing the Twitter platform until Twitter pulled the rug out. Facebook has similarly neutered their API to the point where it is nearly useless, and many businesses were crushed in the wake of the changes. You seem to be saying that it's only unhealthy when developers are affected, but that isn't the case. Developers have no "inherent right to succeed on the good graces of another business allowing them to" either, yet you see that as unhealthy.

Publishers and developers are just users of the system, getting crushed when Facebook doesn't believe it's getting a big enough cut. I would also argue that Facebook actively blocking the sharing of external content that its users choose to share with each other simply because they aren't getting their cut is different than the affected businesses believing they have an "inherent right to succeed on the good graces of another business". Businesses that don't directly do anything on Facebook will be affected by this, because if their visitors wish to share their content, they will likely attempt to share it through Facebook.
As someone who can barely remember faces, i find this quite amazing.

Another thought is - how long before AI recognition would eliminate this job. 20 years they give sounds like an enormous over-estimate.
You can look at the code, see why you can't prove it correct, or work backward to see how the code could have gotten to such a state. Like I said, debugging skills.
Valve makes money selling software. The more accessories on their system (SteamVR) the more software will be sold.
> While this specific move may turn out to be a net positive for users, they are sending a clear message: pay us or we'll kill your business.

I mean... facebook needs to make money too. These clickbait companies are making money of of facebook's audience, facebook's hardware and software... it's only fair that facebook gets a cut, isn't it?
There are multiple reasons for this behavior

Most of these reasons are listed in these set of storified tweets https://storify.com/AnonDesi/conversation-with-peegeekay-mad...

I urge everyone to please read the tweets in the link I posted, as it gives you a totally different perspective as to why people behaved this way.

One other reason, is the fact that a plane flying from India is filled with people who speak at least 10 to 15 different languages (native langauge).

Its possible that those who didnt get the passenger safety instructions in the language they are comfortable with, just didn't even know what to do under such distress!
As much as I want to love Monkeybrains.. 20mbps for $35 is way more expensive than Comcast, and their weird coverage map is unclear where you can actually get it. I tried to contact their customer support and didn't manage to get a reply. At least comcast tells you you're getting screwed, and doesn't ghost you.
> Similarly, a standard for how to change settings for devices would be useful.

I wonder if OPC UA could serve this role. It's something I only discovered recently due to a work project, but it seems pretty relevant to IoT and also is used in the industry (as in, industrial industry, not the shiny startup cloud party).