skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternate theory of how this effect is occurring.

Imagine there are two classes of human - high quality and low quality, and this quality is hereditary (likely genetic). Low quality humans have a lot of unplanned births and their children are also not very good at school.

The bottom 20% of humans will always consist of low quality humans, plus a chunk of the remainder high quality humans (assuming low quality humans make up < 20%).

Previously low quality humans had a lot of children - say 15% of children were low quality children. Now if low quality humans have performance 1, and high quality humans have performance 2, then the performance of the bottom 20% would be (15% x 1 + 5% x 2) / 20% = 1.25.

Now suppose condoms reduce the number of children had by low quality humans. Then the number of low quality children is reduced to 10% - so the performance of the bottom 20% of people would be (10% x 1 + 10% x 2) / 20% = 1.5. That's a 20% improvement even though no group has improved their quality at all.

This effect is rather more plausible, given what we know about intelligence/adult outcomes being hereditary, and given what we know about the uselessness of "enrichment activities" (e.g. google how ineffective Head Start or early childhood education is).

Such an effect would also have a significant eugenic [1] effect, i.e. massively positive long term effects as well.

[1] The word "eugenic" is overloaded, and means both the opposite of dysgenic and also human intervention into genetics to improve them.
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There's a GitHub version that is better-updated.

https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib
Just curious, what did that cost?

Also the owner responded elsewhere in the thread that they had some issues and you should try again.
If you're unemployed and looking to retrain then what savings? You've probably used up most of it while looking for work in a field that was quickly shrinking.
"practically speaking I can't; they're in Silicon Valley and I'm in the Midwest."

Planes exist. This is a trivially-solvable problem. Yes, they cost money - but the time savings from improved communication will amortize that cost very rapidly.

If what they're paying you won't cover a plane ticket in a week or less but they're expecting you to ship features solo, GTFO. There's a clear line between "internship that pays below market because learning" and "bullshit job that pays below market because interns don't know any better".

On a final note, the whole "I need to learn how to work without a mentor" thing is really odd. That style of learning, IMO, actually becomes more important post-graduation...
If the OTA updates is something customers want, it will be straightforward for other car companies to follow suit.

As for luggage space: I was talking about an estate/wagon class car, so this is the correct comparison:

http://cars.axlegeeks.com/compare/1525-17575/2013-Tesla-Mode...

Also, just counting cubic feet with two luggage compartments is only helpful in some situations. You wouldn't be able to fit a washing machine in a Model S, for instance, or a dog cage, nor most baby prams (without significant disassembly).

Tesla does own some patents on the battery pack assembly, but Musk famously declared a while back that these are free for all other car companies to use in good faith. (He "open sourced" them.) Also, Tesla is the only electric car manufacturer going for the 18650 cell as the basis, all others are going for much larger individual cells in their packs, so most of Tesla's battery pack IP doesn't apply to others since it's specific to the cell form factor.
Samsung will begin sending out new Galaxy Note 7s as early as next week
hmm.. point
How will travel be sold and consumed in the years to come?
Since the inception of travel through natural waterways in the 1800s to the advent of trains in 1900s till the present 21st century, travel has undergone radical changes. http://customtravelclubs.com/how-will-travel-be-sold-and-consumed-in-the-years-to-come/
I love the way Germans use that word, which is the equivalent of Small and Medium-sized Entreprises in the U.S. (I'm from Algeria, it's PME here).

I was watching a segment on these companies the other day that addressed the importance of small companies, which constitute the backbone of the German economy. They took one such small company and chatted with its founder. He started talking numbers and I believe he said his small company builds tunnel boring machines and had a turnover of about 5 billion euros.

They also mentioned how they're not worried about China because Chinese companies mass produce stuff using German machinery. And how German companies make "the thing that goes into the thing that goes into the thing". Anyway, it was of course an oversimplified CNN-MSNBC-like segment, but it's interesting to see what they consider small company.
Unfortunately that doesn't work either. I have seen libraries with 5 (five!!) levels of wrapping because each developer that wrote a wrapping level didn't understand the layer below/thought it could do a better job with the interface/was prematurely generalizing.
To get the key ideas behind many of these topics, you could try reading Evan Chen's Infinitely Large Napkin: http://www.mit.edu/~evanchen/napkin.html
Indeed, this is the latest article and it does link back to parts 1 & 2.

Each part of the series is designed to cover the "typical" modules on a UK four-year undergraduate Masters of Mathematics degree.

However, it can be challenging in the latter two years to include a broad enough set of modules to cover all interests, so I have had to stick to those "core" modules likely to be found in many degrees, as well as those more specifically related to quant finance and machine learning.

However, it is my hope that individuals will be motivated to look at other areas as well, even if they're not directly related to career paths!
> OTA

You don't understand. Most car manufacturers have agreements with dealerships that will prevent OTA updates from being possible.

> Musk famously declared a while back that these are free for all other car companies to use in good faith

Yep, but 'good faith' means opening up their IP in return, more or less, so not many companies are taking that up. Anyhow Tesla still own the IP, so your original statement is incorrect.
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Why? They've already decided how badly they want to attract talent and set their salary budgets accordingly. You're asking them to pay more than is good for their businesses?
Great article. Thank you. It says the Kochs are using criminal justice reform to gut corporate executive's criminal liability for environmental violations.
I don't have the stats, but I suspect it would take a lot of new people in the trades to replace just the natural attrition as boomers retire. One of the unfortunate consequences of a lot of the unionized industrial environment is that in many cases seniority ruled, and the young workers got pink slips every time there was a round of layoffs. Now the old grognards are retiring, but there is no one in the mid-level to step into their places - there are huge amounts of institutional knowledge evaporating.

I wouldn't argue against an engineering degree, if you've got the chops and the discipline to finish it. Generic liberal arts fluff? More of a liability than an asset - particularly if you don't actually finish it. Hope you like bartending or waiting tables...

We may be coming from different places. I grew up in a very rural area, and especially in my parent's generation, but also mine to a large degree, the military was a way to get out of crushing poverty, learn skills, see something of the world, and maybe get a subsidized education.
Thankyou for the necessary feedback!

I'm actually in the process of overhauling the design of the site, particularly with regards to mobile, as the current Bootstrap-derived design pushes all sidebar content to the top on mobile/table.
I think the reverse becomes true when you replace "writing" with "speaking" -- most people love to talk about things they have a lot of experience in. So the solution would be... videos and podcasts?
CIA doesn't have these problems, for better or for worse.

Thanks In-Q-Tel
You might be seeing the effect of millions of JavaScript programmers. What other language has so many developers?
What about a rings of trust system? Tap your phone to someone you know etc, and your devices know to trust each other. Add a level of trust to that, so the apps can act accordingly. Also, make it so messages can be stored until a PtP or relay over internet can be done.
It would be a problem for many of those engineers, if they were unable to find, on their own, commercially viable applications for their skills.
There are a couple problems I see here:

1) The biggest one that jumps out is having an intern working remotely. First, I am surprised your school would even allow this to happen. To be honest, this almost sounds like a favor from an alumni CEO to the school and he/she could really care less about having an intern. Internships are supposed to be learning experiences. You should be immersed in an environment to give you experience. In another post, you said something about the company is in Silicon Valley and you are in the midwest and that you can't spend any time with them. To be blunt, that is a lame excuse. You should ask them to fly you out, or even cover your own travel expenses if they won't, to even spend a day with the team. Meet them, work with them in person.

2) Most startups themselves don't always have a clear path and they still may be working on defining the tasks that need to be done. Are you the only one working remotely? If not, you should see if you can be involved in their meetings. See what they are working on, how their tasks are defined, and what their deliverables are. Find ways to work with them or emulate their delivery process. If you are the only one working remotely, the company probably could care less about you as an intern. I don't mean that rudely, just that they look at it as they will give you a project, if you get some done great, if not oh well nothing lost.
Here's the perfect article for IT folks being burned out and looking for a career change.
Emulating something as humble as an NES authentically takes way more computing power than that. We're talking about trying to faithfully recreate the characteristics of a digital computer with multiple CPUs that are highly sensitive to timing delays as well as a good amount of analog circuitry on top of that.

The emulators that exist today don't have to emulate a single CPU, that would be trivial, but the surrounding hardware.

Here's an example of someone trying to emulate a 6502-based computer (BBC Micro) and the problems they encountered when trying to run Elite, just one game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiE5pTisEd8

Older games used any optimization they could get, and they'd often exploit quirks in the hardware if it made things work better. Elite flips video modes part-way through the rendering of the screen since it was made in an era of CRTs. Trying to reproduce that effect in a frame-buffer type system is hell.

So most of the emulators out there have to fake a lot of things in order to get software and games to run properly, or at all.
In Germany there is a distinction between citizens and non-citizens.

The most important basic rights are enjoyed by everyone.

Only citizens enjoy some basic rights (freedom of assembly, for example).

But there is a "catchall" basic right (Article 2, paragraph I) that can be used by non-citizens to claim those rights, as well.

The difference is that this catchall basic right is weaker when weighing it against conflicting basic rights (practical concordance) and it has imminent limitations (statutes can override it – although that must be useful and proportional).
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Yea and its good for when it works, but i was talking more of a true mesh, where the message is passed between phones directly until it finds a path to the net or destination.
The fundamental issue for male contraceptives is that men have a far lower incentive to follow the rules and take them properly. If a woman gets pregnant, that's a very serious life event with serious consequences and potentially choices to be made. If a man gets a woman pregnant (possibly anonymously), there's much lower cost and stress. Thus, no sane woman would ever trust a man who said "I'm on the pill, don't worry".
> Tesla can push it out over the air.

Maybe it's just me, but I find that terrifying.

I don't want there to be any possibility of my car changing its behavior unless I take the deliberate action of bringing it into a dealership for that purpose. It's one thing if an update bricks my laptop, it's quite another if it bricks my car. Let alone if one day a malicious update somehow gets pushed out.
The advantage of this option is clear. That is why people will jump on it. Yet the challenge of having self hosted products is providing continuous development, support and maintenance.

This challenge is not just for the client it is for you, the developer too. You must make sure they have a way to update their product and you to continue to develop in one place.
O.k. I've heard enough of this skills gap from Mike Rowe.

I haven't figured out if he's "thick" pretty boy who honestly doesn't understand why a company in the middle of nowhere is having a hard time finding a non-union pipe welder, who's willing to even pay union wages, for a two month job; or Mike is just trying to promote himself as some Skilled Workers Guru so he won't have to work for non-union wages when this money making gig dies out?

1. If you pay a decent salary you will have a line around your union hall with applicants. For example, try to get into local 6 in San Francisco. It's the electric union for the city/county. I believe those guys are getting over $100 hr. including benefits. Most of you will just not get in.

2. Try to be become a union Plumber in New York. There were guys camping out in line just to put their name on the list to take the union test a few weeks ago.

3. I have two extreme examples, but every union that treats its members right; there's no shortage of eager apprentices.

O.k. how about the rest of the trades? Where are the workers? Let's look at Mr. Sparky, and Benjamin Franklin brought up as expamples in this piece. Both mainly hire non-union help. Mr. Sparky pays $14.00 hr, and I believe they expect state licensed electricians to apply? They offer lousy working conditions. No wonder they can't get qualified workers? They do charge customers union prices though. Someone has to make a good living?

We don't have a shortage of qualified individuals. We have employers/companies that don't pay much more than retail.

(I won't be back to argue. I a licenced general contractor, union electrician, and went to automotive school. What I see is a lot of overqualified guys, but are being exploited. I see a lot of foreigners doing these jobs at very low wages.

In many cases, they do a good job with the right supervision.

So, I'm a hypothetical shop owner. I hire a guy who knows what's he/she is doing, and pay that person just o.k.; and they delegate to a bunch of low wage foreigners. This is how you get rich as an owner in the trades. And you don't hire union if you can avoid it. And you don't hire union help. The point is not hiring union. Did you get it? See your company seems to make more profit without unions? And you have guys like Mike scratching their heads over the lack of eager beavers lining up to fill these jobs.)
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If you compare a Model S to a S-class Mercedes, you have never driven a S-class or be driven around in one. Just because Tesla is overpriced for hipsters doesn't mean you can compare it to other cars in the price bracket.
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So, doesn't that suggest there's a Planck length for time? So the distance between two points in space-time is sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - ct). If you try to find the distance of a point in space at two different times, does the Plank length dictate some type of Plank interval?
LuaJIT by Mike Pall, one of the fastest, even compared against compilers by commercial teams. After 10 years as a one-man project, it is being migrated to a community effort with stewardship by CloudFlare. Over the years, companies sponsored Mike to add new features to the open-source codebase.
Driverless cars will kill the most jobs in select US states
This is a great idea. I don't think community colleges can do this, at least today. Having a focused night time set of classes in practical methods of running a business would be required.

Edit: typo
The French constitution references the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen which covers "all men, French, foreign, prisoners and enemies".
No internet in swiss tunnels? I'm a bit disappointed now.
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I agree with one of the posters below: this is a population heatmap, exactly as identified by XKCD (https://xkcd.com/1138/). Florida, which you mention, is highlighted in red only because this is a small-scale map with poor density representation. Here is Florida with the exact same data, as plotted by me in R with a little more resolution:

https://imgur.com/a/WU3JI

A population map, in other words. As a very basic demonstration of the capabilities of R, this is OK, but as a visualization, this is 100% useless. You would need something like "percentage of expected fatalities for a given stretch of road, given the type of road" to actually have something interesting. And that takes a lot more work.
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I agree. It is possible to have too many engineers. People are complaining that there are too many lawyers, for instance. There is no reason it can't happen to us.
I would really love to see an adapter layer on top of Mosh, so that it can be a drop-in replacement for an SSH client. Currently even after you install it on your servers you have to change your scripts and learn new CLI options. I know that there are reasons for these differences, but inability to alias `ssh` to `mosh` or hypothetical `mosh-ssh` hurts adoption.
That's a weird setup! Why wouldn't they use a single port?
Using the paleo diet/lifestyle as my true north has led to the nitty-gritty knowledge and resources I need to learn about being healthy, mainly: cooking ability, mindfulness/meditation, doing more with less (more whole foods, less ingredients), using exercise to accomplish goals other than “look good naked”. I get this info mostly from books, podcasts and pubmed, very rarely from blogs since the “truths” you find in these sources tend to have a half-life of a few months…
have you actually tried writing highly optimizer cuda? its really hard. nothing is "for free". a lot of the caching (not all) has to be hand coded. you can see how much attention to detail scott gray puts into his kernels eg at https://github.com/NervanaSystems/maxas
BMW sold 2,247,485 (+ Mini) cars in 2015. 100x the numbers of Tesla. And with making money not burning money.

I'm not saying Tesla isn't the next thing and car companies shouldn't be afraid. But it's still a far bet.
One set I've been casually collecting is a sample of feral vs. pet dogs visible on city streets worldwide.
Correct! The list of relays (both exit and non-exit) is public. There are several tools with web frontends available as well. There are also relays that are not publically advertised but available by special requests if someone needs a "secret" entry point to the network, they are the so-called bridges,
I don't think so. The suggestion is usually that questions which used to be in the realm of philosophical speculation are now being addressed using empirical scientific methods. That would amount to more than just a change in terminology.
Would you rent out your car to make money?
I don't get why people with reasonable intelligence don't just use fertility awareness. It is free, it has no side effects, and any time you decide you want to have kids you can use the same method to increase your chances. I get that dumb people often think you can always get pregnant. But people capable of passing high school biology should grasp the concept of ovulation.
I think it's a bit more complex than that. I'm pretty sure that LLVM does use more optimisation passes and techniques than LuaJIT's backend, however LuaJIT optimises with knowledge of the semantics of Lua, whereas LLVM optimises as if it was optimising something like C.
As a side note, Keith Winstein (https://cs.stanford.edu/~keithw/), the creator of mosh, is an interesting guy (e.g. he used to be a WSJ reporter among other things).

I had the pleasure of seeing him speak at a conference last year on the topic of TCP congestion control algorithms. I admit, I expected it to be a boring presentation, but was then thrilled as it was one of the most dynamic, informative, and funny technical talks I've ever seen.

That particular presentation isn't online, but he links to several others on similar topics. I would check them out. They're probably pretty good!
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time
I don't understand how blockchain applications can ever be considered "anonymous", when there's a public ledger and everyone knowing your wallet address can track all your transactions.
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They are working on providing a set with Qt Quick Controls 2 - the Android part looks more ready than iOS.

https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/10/qt-quick-controls-2-0-a-n...
My only complaint with Leaf really is that it has more torque than its bobbly chassis can handle. Traction control has to kick in way too often if you are not accelerating carefully.

The i3 interior is.. bizarre. Two tablets in a plywood holder? But I guess it can have its own novelty appeal. Still I'd suggest the electric Mercedes over this, if one gravitates towards premium German makers. Just my two cents.
this is really old, and intel sponsored. so intel research states that gpus are 2.5 times faster, nvidia says two orders of magnitude faster. presumably the truth is somewhere in between. in any case, it depends on the problem you are trying to solve, but in machine learning space, using convolutional neural networks, gpus are clearly the dominant mechanism recently.
CUDA is pretty neat; I worked with an early beta (0.7?) and have tracked it on and off over time. It's not magic, though. The point is that GPGPU is really great for some things and pretty ordinary for others. 'Embarrassingly parallel' algorithms do well, as do things that are heavy consumers of memory bandwidth. Like you say, anyone who needs frequent transfers to/from CPU may not do as well.

Highly optimized C and CUDA are, to me, the same concept - to get the best results, you have to understand the underlying machine to get the best results. While your resources are different, it's a very similar skill - to codesign an algorithm with the deep knowledge of how either a modern CPU or a GPGPU actually works. I'm no longer current as a GPGPU programmer but it wouldn't surprise me that the same 10-20x that an expert can get with astute design for modern architecture is available on GPGPU as well (i.e. the difference between a naive and a sophisticated design on the same platform).

Personally I regard that kind of algorithmic codesign as one of the most fun things you can do with your clothes on, but that's probably just me.
That's how IT closes skills gap, and pretty efficient at that.
You or I don't enter others' homes because of ethics, but I think lock companies bear out my point. There are a lot of technically questionable lock products out there, but people still buy them and companies produce them.

Because most people feel even a bad lock changes the ethical calculus. Because ease of transgression has a direct bearing on the actually realised ethical result.

The issue with the original "that's not ethnical" comment was not "Yes it is" but rather "You're right, but how is that relevant to this discussion?"