skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP: Government is actively participant in creating this issue.

You: Well we should just wait for them to fix this very serious problem they're causing.

I'm sure the party that's held social progress at bay for 40 years now is going to suddenly realize they're w... oh wait you're a fool and a coward.
I wonder if some manual bookkeeping is necessary to develop a habit and give room for introspection/reflection?

Currently, I use Wunderlist and I have weekly lists. At the end of the week there is the manual process: create list for the next week and move everything left from this week over. Then I quickly look through the done items of the week.

I also have lists for long term and recurring items, but the process does not really work well. I forget them, they get outdated, etc.
> anything - I bet you just don't know how little aptitude you have at things you didn't happen to spend time with.

As compared to other people trying things for the first time I'm usually a very quick learner. I think being a quick learner is innate. I've had the ability to learn things quickly since early childhood.

> Reading is not understanding - maybe you just enjoyed the attention that you got from it.

I didn't get any attention from this, I tried to hide it from other kids so I don't stand out too much. When I placed first in the math Olympiad they kind of resented me and said "oh, he studies like a grade ahead of the rest of us". I was actually much further ahead. Calculus is NOT that hard. It's not a super power to be able to understand calculus. It's just a little bit more abstract (limits and so forth are not intuitive for some people).

> This contextually implies you consider yourself talented

I think I'm talented. I just don't actually do anything useful with my life. The last course I had to complete to finish college was a technical writing course. It was 100% busywork and presentations and posters and BSing. It was the worst.
Amazon, by mistake introduced the iPhone 7
>Should someone be allowed to sneak into a company's building, or pretend to be an honest employee, just to investigate potential wrongdoing? That's the government's job, not private activists'.

It was legal for the entire history of the Republic, albeit it was also grounds for civil litigation.

The GOP decided to criminalize it.
It's quite safe to drink, there's just not really any standard for flavor.

So if a town gets water from a well, they may not be doing a lot to remove an off mineral flavor or whatever.
Yahoo Open-Sources Pulsar, Pub-Sub Messaging at Scale
I think you hit the nail on the head here. The "gift" of the genius seems to be the ability to spend hours and hours ~focusing~ On literally anything.

Problem solving ability and comprehension levels will only take one so far if they can't bring themselves to bury their head in a book, or sit in front of a piano, or shoot hoops, for the time necessary to master said subject.
Water itself is a good trend. The bottle, not so much.

For me anyway, if I drink from the bottle then I feel odd afterwards — as if I got a dose of something I shouldn’t have. Fortunately, pouring the water into a glass solves the problem.

I try to avoid bottled water anyway. Part of it is the principle of the thing: I used to get water for free when I was 12 and these days it averages $3 or $4? To hell with those companies, they know it’s a ridiculous scam and people just pay it.

I would say most of the time I drink filtered water from my fridge, occasionally from the tap and rarely from water bottles. If I do have bottled water, it is only after searching in vain for a simple drinking fountain.
Two within the last 12 months and a couple last year. I just had an Adsense issue last month that was fixed same day. For apps, I had to merge multiple business accounts several months ago and they assisted us with the entire process.
Malala calls on UN to take notice of Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir
This is why antibiotics use in livestock should be a top question in international trade. Not only should every country stop using antibiotics in healthy livestock, all imports of meat and animals from such countries should be banned, and to take it one step further - stop importing umbrellas and calculators from those countries too, in order to apply economic pressure.
Maybe true. May also be a nocebo issue.
Heard many people claiming that "tap water in XY is terrible" while every study shows that it's not true. Often tap water quality is better than bottled water.
> Nobody gets MRSA unless they are in the hospital.

You might want to read about Community Acquired MRSA.

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/camrsa-eng.php

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/6/01-0313_article

> To estimate the proportion of community-acquired MRSA, we analyzed previous hospitalizations for all MRSA-positive persons in Finland from1997 to 1999 by using data from the National Hospital Discharge Register. Of 526 MRSA-positive persons, 21% had community-acquired MRSA.
I sort of agree with you, but the laws overstep what I consider acceptable.

I'm fine with an operation banning employees from filming, for example, and employees getting fired for doing so, or for arresting people for trespassing.

The laws referenced by the OP go further, though, to criminalize recordings that were taken by individuals who were allowed on the property by the owner, and who were documenting what happened. In my opinion, owners have the right to fire employees who violate their policies, and to sue former and current employees for libel, but not to sue former and current employees for distributing recordings of things that actually occurred, when there's no reasonable expectation of privacy (which almost by definition is impossible in a workplace, except for maybe things like medical settings).

I agree with you, though, that if there's a public health interest, the government should create laws regarding that, or at least give authority to DPHs to do that.
Not if they use lasers instead of cameras to read the environment. Plus, lasers work in day/night while cameras and IR will have issues.
Ah, didn't know about it, nice.
> Are actually there studies that claim a special ability is due to genetics only?

Not "only", but yes, there are studies attributing variation in intelligence in significant part to genetics.

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/intelligence

> These studies suggest that genetic factors underlie about 50 percent of the difference in intelligence among individuals.
> You're probably one of those who also insists that India has the best teachers.

No, I'm not ^one of those^ (whatever that's supposed to imply). I think our education system is a mess and I also cannot claim to be 'well educated' in any kind of academic sense.

> You also probably believe India has the most powerful supercomputer
> and the best space program (for its budget).

Don't know about the supercomputer but as far as a space program is concerned, as a matter of fact, yes indeed I do -- for its budget, ISRO is has an amazing track record by any measure. So, it's not so much of a belief than a fact.

> I'm more interested in the masses of Indians not having to shit on the street
> outside where they live, and having access to clean drinking water and
> refrigerators.

wait, what, I, wait, ...what ? Seriously ? Yes, dear fellow Indian, the majority of us are also concerned about those matters as well, but what you declare so passionately is so completely orthogonal to the context ! Well, I shall yet attempt to bring the conversation back on track by saying that inventions tend to be created to solve local problems and that's why we possibly don't have a whole lot of innovation happening that is used by the rest of the world but we surely have guys like these:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978

> Also, could you name some Indian makers who can create a steam engine, or
> internal combustion engine, or electrical engine from scratch? Or any that
> have innovated in that sphere? OK, I'll make it easy for you. Can you name a
> single invention at any of the IITs in their entire history, an invention that
> is used by the rest of the world?

I'll do better than that. I'll teach you how to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_inventions_and_...

Of course, going by previous similar conversations with others who would look at ^India^ only from the limited perspective of their immediate and personal experiences, I assume that's not going to convince you. In anycase, I'll leave you with a few passing thoughts (and that's all I'll intend on engaging further):

a. The reasons for lack of 'world famous' innovation extends beyond lack of tools and infrastructure. The hierarchy of needs or social attitudes towards failure play important roles as well.

b. Despite that there is a community of people who do enjoy to tinker and build stuff. Just for the heck of it. Not with the intent of making something that would be 'used by the rest of the world' but to solve local problems. Most of these do not make it big. They are inventions nonetheless

c. Often times these people end up leaving India to go settle abroad. And finally yes, here is where the lack of resources and infrastructure tend to weigh in on the decision.

d. About this:

> HN has moderators for that purpose

No it doesn't. At least not in the reddit sense. No, they don't 'let you know'. HN is largely community moderated.

Have a good time here, cheers !
Grain is in fact noise. Noise: Things that are not in the actual signal.

> If you go down to the microscopic level film goes way beyond the resolution you can ever hope to achieve with the best digital cameras out there.

That simply isn't true. At the microscopic level film pixels look like "clouds" of colored ink. The pixels are not square, but they are there, and they are not the size of atoms, but much larger - you can see them in a typical microscope (I know, because I tried it).

Digital is cleaner not because of filters, but because the actual capturing technology produces a cleaner signal.

A couple of years ago there was still an argument, but these days the argument is over. Digital clearly won.
Tip for the frugal: if you go to catering wholesalers you can pick up bottled water still or sparkling for 0.10c - 0.20c each.

It's a good way to reduce a waistline.
Edit: Regulators have started to take lead testing more seriously during the Flint crisis. Stricter testing is starting to show a lot of problems. This is about 20 miles south of where I live http://nhpr.org/post/manchester-schools-shut-drinking-founta... and this about and a bunch more, with actual numbers at the bottom http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/17/drinkin...
"Serverless".... hah!
Plato's dictum.
Because la croix tastes amazing, their bubble size is different (and better) from soda stream with no work, and I can put an entire case in the fridge to be ready and cold on demand.
Well this will be interesting. When are we going to see native binaries written in JS? After that will we see Operating Systems?
As an in-demand software engineer with oncall experience at a well-regarded company, I will not consider jobs that require me to be on call.

Jobs with oncall don't offer more compensation than jobs that don't.

Scheduling my life around being able to answer a page is inconvenient, and waking up in the middle of the night is something I'd rather avoid.

Operational work is often not considered as important as feature development for promotions, so you feel like you're wasting your time when doing it.

In my experience, system quality is completely independent of whether the developers do oncall or not. But I'd welcome objective data that proves otherwise.

There is no upside for me as an individual to take a job with oncall responsibilities.
Hm, I use Wunderlist and I am frustrated with recurring tasks. Will try Todoist.
Of course there are cultural differences, but this has nothing to do with "work behavior". The average work hours in the US, for example, is 34.4 hours/week.
No. You need dual quaternions to encode rotation and translation at the same time.
> Intercepting a B-52 sounds like just about the easiest job in combat aviation.

Not particularly. A rough rule of thumb is that an interceptor needs a maximum achievable speed twice that of the cruising speed of its target in order to close the geometry of the interception. A Su-15 couldn't quite achieve that with its full complement of missiles against a Mach 0.9 B-52, but a MiG-25 could do so. [0]

The second problem is basing the interceptor in a location that the long-ranged incoming bombers can't just dog-leg to avoid. The Mach 2.8 MiG-25 barely had enough margin to intercept supersonic bombers such as the B-58, Mirage IV, A-5 and FB-111 but those all had much shorter endurances than the B-52 and V-bombers, and so ironically made easier targets; they had to follow much more predictable direct ingress routes and weren't equipped with air-launched decoys.

~~

[0] flip the actors around and you can see why the US abandoned the Mach 3+ YF-12 interceptor. The F-106 and F-15 were fast enough to intercept incoming Tu-95s that slipped past the SAM belts, and the faster Soviet bombers didn't have the range to threaten the USA.
A PhD doesn't show that you get to the bottom of problems, but rather that you can influence, and be influenced by, group-think.

Edit:

Looks like it is still a while before my speech ban is up, so I'm pasting my response to kevingwang's response (below) here:

>To a particular degree, anyway. Convincing a University, or being published in peer-journal, for example.

>I think some are more or less ignored, though I guess I can't say that has no influence whatsoever and I'm also not sure that you can entirely avoid the influence of others.
I have to disagree a bit.

I've been labeled a genius as a kid and e.g. loved to beat the best chess computers at that time, Mephisto III on the highest level in the 80ies. I loved to play blind also, but stopped that when I couldn't get to sleep or would not stop dreaming about tricky moves.
But I never had a chance against humans on lower levels.

The problem was the time constraint and nervousness.
In tournaments and chess clubs deep thinking is not valued, only experience. Folks in the chess club mainly do train speed chess, and simple tournaments limit the time to 30mins.

But the good parts of my chess start when I can concentrate deeper than that, to the 2.5 hrs mark. As with playing against the computer those times. With time constraints I got nervous, didn't calculate through, took too high risks, or when playing against girls just made stupid mistakes. I usually was the last or 2nd to last in club tournaments (30min). I didn't like playing chess against humans at all, that's why I stopped playing it. And nowadays I could never beat a good chess computer. Because they are too fast and force me to play too fast also. It's not fun anymore.
Well... you talk about video games as if they are a high art. You might be in for more than one wake up call in the near future.
Now, you're not planning on designing your own chip, your ISA, your OS, your toolchain and your applications. are you?
There's a lot of pseudoscience in water filtering devices.
And Democrats are powerless to prevent the GOP from "criminalizing science"?

How about having the mainstream media news talk about it, and then some kind of general vote on whether "ag-gag" laws should be repealed immediately?

You think the public might support the idea?

Of course. It would be simple to get it repealed with massive public support and outrage. So why don't they do it?

Might it be that shafting the general population is a bi-partisan effort after all, just like with SOPA / PIPA / CISPA / NDAA / TPP / TTIP and so on ad infinitum?
I mean, it's not serverless. It's just somebody else's server.
Handbook of Computational Social Choice
That the government is failing to investigate something cannot be a license to trespassing or lying your way to a private investigation. If you want government action on something, then you have to win in the political process. Taking matters into your own hands and assuming the powers reserved for the government is not acceptable.

===================

Replying to swashek below since I'm rate-limited: what are you talking about "thought crime"? None of the laws here concern thought or the freedom to publish your thoughts. They ban conducting suriptitious investigations on farms, which necessarily involves either trespassing or deceit in gaining access (e.g. an activist getting himself hired as an employee)
Scott Adams speaking through Ratbert is a sage, Scott Adams speaking with his own voice, not so much.
Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks
I don't think the article is implying there is one for anyone but soda makers.
So just vote to outlaw antibiotics use in healthy livestock and make sure there is a rigorous inspection apparatus?

Farmers are few, people who get diseases are many. Shouldn't be too hard.
People need to realize their authority comes from regulating sale. They couldn't regulate the device because it was not for sale. At the point that they began selling tests, they could regulate the nanotainer because it's a consumable, essentially sold to the customer with each test. I think they were probably involved as early as they could be.
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I was self-taught. It was actually very frustrating asking my mother for an explanation because what she told me was technically correct, but not useful in explaining why the textbook said what it did. What we both missed is that the textbook said it was a UNIT circle which meant that the radius was one.

After this I didn't really rely on her help anymore.
The .cn strongly suggests it is on the right side!
That's not exactly how it works.
The website isn't even loading. The influx of HN readers must be overloading the low-bandwith servers.

Edit: Finally made it on.

Clicked a few icons (for which I believe represented personality traits) and then I was asked to pay money. Who would actually purchase this unintuitive random name generator? Chinese are absolutely delusional for using this, then again they'll eat anything up that comes from the Western World.

Imagine if your son or daughter asked you how you came up with their name. Your response, "bought it for $11.99 on the internet".
I agree with your gist, but also Cincinnati has a really good water system:

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/water/news/platinum-award-for-u...
the only issue seems to be mozilla not taking the appropriate step of revoking WoSign.
Pivotal Labs Case Study: Indian Railways – Improving System Performance at Scale
Here's a comparison on Amazon. Branded water is $.02/oz and branded soda is $.03/oz,
https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Life-Purified-16-9-ounce-plastic...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZYDW5E/
I don't think they take into account that chlorinated water tastes like shit.

Unless you filter it at home with some effort.
I don't understand either, I am not American. Perhaps their water is swimming-pool ready and not human consumption ready as in civilised countries? Everyone has his own priorities.
There was an article a few years ago about the fall of the medical autopsy rate. Because it's unclear how we fund it, and most people aren't in a position of knowledge to request it (or in a financial position to pay for it), the rates of autopsy to find a considered cause of death have been dropping precipitously.
Who pays or the reasons why she travels so much isn't really relevant, is it? She gets to do it. She travels more in two weeks than most people do in a year. Whether it's her cushy job, her rich husband, rich parents - she gets to experience all of this. And of course they're highlights, but the point is that she has so many in such a short time span while keeping a job.

My point is that she's detached from the reality as 95%+ of Americans have it, and judging by her $100k undergraduate liberal arts degree and growing up in SF, maybe she's never been attached to that reality.
> > In Europe, support for research and educational programmes for gifted children has ebbed, as the focus has moved more towards inclusion.

Actually, that is the one part of the article I was rather skeptical about. Certainly in Germany there's an abundance of programs designed especially to nurture gifted pupils. They range from extra-curricular activities in school to summer academies and "early studying", where pupils take university classes one day a week instead of going to school.

Yes, we also have a lot of inclusion efforts, and that's a Good Thing, but we definitely don't neglect the other side of the intellectual spectrum.
> it's easier to do that estimate on something following basic physics

Cameras and microphones follow the exact same basic physics as the op-amps in in the OP's circuit.
Agreed with this. It's possible she lives really cheaply in order to be able to afford to travel.
Well, yes, but unfortunately, of the billion+ people here in India, I doubt if a significant percentage has even heard of a VPN, leave alone the matter of knowing what it does or knowing how to go about getting and setting one up.
>oh wait you're a fool and a coward.

I shouldn't feed the trolls, but the irony of calling someone a coward while posting from a throwaway account is too funny.
The internet is an innocent fraud
Kennedy repeatedly dismissed other opinions and had to change his positions after being proven wrong. He accused Eisenhower of allowing the Soviets to accumulate more missiles than the USA, and found out he was wrong after getting elected. Kennedy then supported the Bay of Pigs assault, but pulled back at the crucial moment when the rebels needed support, and the whole affair was a disaster. Kennedy even refused to admit that he had agreed to all of Kruschev's terms in relation to de-escalating the Cuban missile crisis, and pretended that it was a victory of American diplomacy and intimidation.

Castro was also a troubled character who actually advocated using nuclear weapons against the USA, and had to be persuaded that it was a bad idea because the fallout would hit Cuba.
Its similar to why East-Coast companies Fail to Scale? Perhaps scaling isn't great. I think its largely that investors don't throw money at companies with a dream and little else.

I'm not convinced the Valley in 2016 will turn out successful as the previous few decades. Maybe the East Coast & Europe are the smart ones.
I have been working at academic institutes the last few years, where maybe a third of the staff are PhD students. The ones that have gone on to more senior positions are like you describe, but I wouldn't say its the majority. A fair few of them decide to quit science after the PhD.
I didn't have lazer focus, in fact I spread myself over many different subjects. I studied zoogeography, physics, chemistry, history, etc. because I thought those things were interesting. This didn't stop me from finding calculus to be approachable and easy.
The tooling and engineering required for a modern car (even just a refresh of an existing model) costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Ignoring that cost automation might be cheaper, but if you expect to produce thousands, not millions, you're almost certainly better off using old-school machine-shop equipment and processes.

Going that route also lets you do manufacturing closer to the intended market, vs. requiring supply chain, power, and other infrastructure that could be in short supply in the developing world.
> The quality work/better marketing tradeoff is all about making someone money by providing negative real-world value to others

I don't think a blanket put-down of all marketing as negative value is really true.

Of course there are instances where marketing is dishonest or harmful, but by and large, how do you expect people to discover goods and services if there isn't someone who's willing to pay for the cost of dissemination of information, whether it's a marketer, or Google's search algorithm, or the consumer?