skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as societal measures go I was identified as "gifted" at a young age. I was shipped off to special schools and classes, offered grade skipping, started taking college courses while in high school, "identified" by Mensa and Who's Who.

In the shorter term, while I was younger, it did make me arrogant. As I got older that went away.

It certainly didn't result in me learning less. I have always felt lonely, for a long time depressed, then eventually just detached and separate from the world.

I'm almost 40 now and learning is still a way for me to tune out a world that I feel set aside from.
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But it’s not real.
I'm sure there's tax benefits but wouldn't it also reduce fees and increase flexibility due to founding company's control of bank?
Object-oriented design that's highly composable and reusable; small footprint of framework flavored opinionated code.
Maybe we're discussing different definitions of the word "depression" here, but depression isn't simply "walked off" or fixed with a change of perspective. To suggest so both ignores the reality of depression as a mental illness and repeats the same myth that people who are depressed are just confusing themselves.
If memory serves me right, this was added after someone traced down their stolen laptop because the SETI@home screen saver was running on the stolen machine.

Edit: I think this was the story:
https://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/seti-home-claims-its-fir...

Edit2: Here is an interesting thread related to the link above:
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=36985
My guess (hope?) is that jkem was being sarcastic.
I remember reading a longitudinal study that was conducted to see if people could accurately recall the beliefs of their younger self. Essentially, every few years, they'd ask the same group of people to rate their stance on certain issues, and then guess how their younger self would've rated.

Interestingly, what people rated of their younger self was actually much closer to their current self than the actual ratings conducted by their younger self.

Myself, I think I probably had a lot more trepidation about say, Gay Marriage back in the 90s than I do today. But I only believe that because I'm aware my current self might be creating bias to my perspective of what actually happened.
Yes, there are plenty. Here's the first hit on Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/nyregion/for-some-landlord...

> The city’s Department of Homeless Services pays many times the amount the rooms would usually rent for — spending over $3,000 a month for each threadbare room without a bathroom or kitchen — because of an acute shortage in shelters for homeless men and women. Indeed, the amount the city pays.. has encouraged Mr. Lapes to switch business models and become a major private operator of homeless shelters. He is by most measures the city’s largest and owns or leases about 20 of the 231 shelters citywide. Most of the other shelters and residences are run by the city or by nonprofit agencies, but his operation is profit-making, prompting criticism from advocates for the homeless and elected officials.
>but anyone rational, especially "gifted", compartmentalizes it and moves on.

Everyone point and laugh at the idiot who thinks life is objectively meaningless!
This is tremendously surprising. Does this mean that e-cigs that are just nicotine with some flavor and a binding liquid of some sort aren't addictive?
Yes, it has a nice woody quality, "twice" is too tinny.
Mickey
Yes
You are correct. I should have read more carefully. They do seem to have changed their minds. I do feel that WaPo should address the inconsistency

I think my point about the difference between 'is illegal' and 'should be illegal' still stands though. A lot of the debate was confused about whether or not this program was illegal with a lot of people not caring very much about the very specific ways in which the program avoided skirting the law. Nobody examined the specifics, and everybody assumed it was illegal and unconstitutional. This public reaction may have impeded ongoing investigations, and so it could be that Washington Post ultimately saw that it was not in the public interest to reveal the program.
You might be surprised to see the nut things people would do for convenience... but in this case you are probably right as the average computer user probably don't use SSH.
I generally go for the three star review. It suggests I'm fair, and not some crazy, raving lunatic.
I don't think David Graeber believes in gods. Let's try him.
Education is only part of it. I think that we are all generally aware there is some abuse of the budget, but the greater enemy IMO is apathy and/or feeling powerless to change our current situation.
No you were not, what I was referring to had nothing to do with locking down version numbers.

I said "fragile". That doesn't mean something wasn't objectively "my fault".

Yes the bytes don't change themselves, I was the one making some changes here and there so in that sense it's my fault. But that's a very mechanical and shallow way to think about it.

Javascript as a language and ecosystem makes it extremely easy to create mistakes. In that sense a mistake that I make is partially Javascript's fault too.

Some people look at what I said and think "programming languages need to be better" and some think "humans need to be better".

The people in the second group don't help moving things forward. They just blame people for not being "smart enough" until the people in the first group set a new standard for what things should look like.
Time for tech to start busting America’s two-party system
Pretty open ended question. My main advice: make sure you get a big raise between your UK salary and your US salary. In the US salaries are usually higher, but you'll have more expenses.

I'm originally from Europe (not the UK), and I like to say (even though it's not completely accurate) that most countries in Europe are "all-inclusive": high taxes/contributions, but you get good services for free (good schools, day care, health insurance, etc). The US is more "a la carte": lower taxes, but you have to be responsible and pay for the services that matter to you.
The OP you replied to said this, and we're all aware. To solve the problem for good, systemic change is needed, but that doesn't mean we should let children freeze on the streets today while we wait for change tomorrow. You can do both.
No, it's more than that. They're the "Fourth Estate," supposedly to keep the government from abusing its power. They've abandoned that position. It's not clear that there's anything to replace the accountability they brought for a time. The Internet could have been that, but they've co-opted vast swaths of it already.
Unix processes in illumos
I guess we'll find out more soon: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/show/item/announcing-...
You must be new here. HN is for precious snowflakes.
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The information and narratives governments want you to hear will be freely given in press releases.

All other information has to be found via investigation and possibly won't support or at least add complications and caveats to the official narrative.

So the press giving the complete picture to the masses does have a adversarial component to it.
One could argue that the possibility of having such structures in place is exactly what allows such a market to exist. In fact, the fair enforcement of laws and the viability of the laws themselves is perhaps one of the strongest foundations of progress in the developed nations.
It just depends on the field really. If aviation was your thing you would be amazed at the progress from biplanes to space travel in 1915-1965. But if you jumped forwards from 1965 to 2015 you might wonder what progress had been made, or even if we had gone backwards. Where's the lunar colony? In 1965 they were confident that fusion power was 30 years in the future. Right now, we think the same thing!
"The Achilles heel of the MOOC phenomena has been that while enrollments have been huge, the number of students who actually complete courses for credit has remained low."

Of course completion is low, there is no cost to signing up so many people will do it on a whim.

The real Achilles heal is certification, for it to be valued employers need to be convinced you aren't cheating and that the assessment is rigorous.
Indeed, it must be emphasized that Snowden deliberately did not disclose any of the information he had collected publicly. He specifically wanted someone else to make the decision about what (if anything) should be disclosed, and he specifically wanted journalists to make that decision.

For the Post to stab Snowden in the back this way is the worst treachery, cowardice, and hypocrisy that I have ever witnessed.
Anecdotally, it's similar to caffeine. Nicotine on its own has proven a mild stimulant with minimal addictive effect. I like it, I want it, but mostly it is not something I think about.
There's probably also a bit of "Apple and Google have solar and fuel cell covered, where can we make an impact?" involved. Not a bad thing. We need to be investing and experimenting with lots of different alternative energy strategies.

I would like to see someone do a large scale implementation of marine current power (underwater turbines spun by currents like the Gulf Stream).
"In biotech, we desperately need better software engineers." - Yes, but unfortunately the funding isn't there (salaries are too low).
I think that you made a good point. But whenever someone explicitly says they are anticipating downvotes, I downvote them.
There are always two ways to look at things.

In the case of Wikipedia and similar high-traffic websites, it probably takes a bit of the load off. It's probably a considerable saving in terms of serving requests if a user searches for an actor they think they recognise from a movie and see a snippet from Google served from Google's cache rather than a full pageview from Wikipedia.

In the case of physical stores and offices, I would imagine that a check for opening hours or telephone number shouldn't be counted as a pageview -> conversion anyway — they already chose you i.e. converted. Maybe they're a returning customer or somebody who liked the email marketing you sent them.

Is Google Maps stealing traffic from you by showing your business on the map? Maybe, but they're also doing you a favour. Neither Google nor Google Maps are likely to go anywhere anytime soon, and a considerable number of people are only going to check Google Maps and won't bother checking your site for the same information w.r.t. your business's location.

Beneficial in terms of reviews as well — displaying the aggregated score in a rich snippet is arguably preferable to letting the user click through where they can be persuaded against the 4 star average by an impassioned negative review.

Google obviously wants to be the one and only gateway to the web, and they want to keep you on Google pages as much as possible to show as many ads as possible, but unless you're selling ads, counting pageviews/traffic is pointless unless it's new business, and people new to you are unlikely to make a snap judgement based on a rich snippet. If anything, it's more likely to convince the new user to click through to your site.

[IMHO]
Mostly smaller outfits but you can find them. See e.g. http://sunmatesolarpanels.com/content/view/2/31/
It's true, you can't walk it off, you need to run to work up a sweat.

You can outrun your own depression. I don't care who says otherwise.
Bring on the Snow Crash-esque future.
No doubt bundled with Amazon Prime.
Vienna has no homogeneous culture. It is a cultural melting pot comparable to New York City. This roots back to the multicultural Habsburg state. At the moment Vienna grows by approx. 20000 people from all over the world by year. [1]
The last years flat rent raised by 16%.
If the city of Vienna would not build 13000 new cheap social flats every year, it would have problems like American cities.

[1] https://www.wien.gv.at/statistik/bevoelkerung/images/bev-ent...
Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery, It’s Matter
Being called gifted only made it worse. I was not. None of them were. I'm still not. It was a lie. Why couldn't people just give me credit for working hard? That was the truth. Why was my success some magical unexplainable innate attribute?
It's probably because there's no single printer model that seems worth the effort. The printer landscape is basically hundreds of shitty cheap models. New ones all the time. A moving target. The more I think about it, it's probably intentional.
30mg instant release is a pretty high dose of Adderall as opposed to 30mg extended release.

I can't think of a single upside of IR over XR unless you use it recreationally and want that steep curve.
Took me a while to realise you were saying this because Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
So does Go (use the first form).

Saying "loop variables are scoped outside the loop" is incorrect.

All the gotchas noted stem from the fact that people are using _closures_ in the form of go and defer statements, which capture i by reference unless you pass it as an argument.

I think it's more an issue with closure gotchas (or the fact that go and defer statement aren't viewed that way) than with scoping.
in my experience, it's still habit forming, though it really helped me to get off of cigarettes. I don't vape anymore (switched to snus) because it was ridiculously inconvenient. Too much gear to purchase and maintain and the products available in my city are either low quality or overpriced.
I'll weigh in from a basic income perspective...

I've held for a while that a homeless person getting into housing solves one of the biggest time sinks they have. Once the time is freed up, they are more comfortable, safer and can therefore sleep better, and they can think and make a plan to get re-integrated into mainstream society.

Commenters note that 'housing first' does not work in larger cities like San Francisco and New York because of the cost of housing. Were a basic income in place, homeless persons would be more mobile and could afford basic accommodations in many more places. Therefore, they'd not be so attracted to more hospitable climates or cities with more homeless services. That would increase the options they'd have to move to less expensive housing.
"This is not to deny that our time traveler would find the Internet, new medical imaging devices, advances in molecular biology and gene editing, the verification of gravity waves, and other inventions and discoveries remarkable, nor to deny that these developments often required leaps of imagination, deep mathematical analyses, and hard-earned technical know-how. Nevertheless..."

You have to be enormously jaded to list off a bunch of huge advances and then basically say...meh. How doesn't this line invalidate everything that follows it?
A similar service exists for Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom, for those interested: https://www.theyworkforyou.com
New open source project (C++/ELF/testing) – review if interested
It's on the internet. It must be fact.
That needs a whole lot of [citation needed].

It got the basic idea right, a nicotine patch will give the benefits of nicotine. And there are some, it's pretty much like caffeine, very harmless on its own.

But of course you can get addicted to it. Theres not necessarily a physical addiction, but if your ape brain connects a nicotine patch with some perceived or real benefit, that is all you need for a habit right there. You can get the same from chocolate.

So sure, withdrawal will not kill you, but it can still be habit forming. And you just need to look around to know there are plenty of people with difficulty to get rid of those.
I reinstalled BOINC after 4 yrs, after watching SETI on cosmos series
Only C and its direct descendants.

There are saner alternatives, more human friendly, to systems programming.
Redundancy makes it pretty indirect
The OP's point is a bit off topic but this statement deserves a response.

> You shouldn't need to compromise your basic values to write software.

If you believe this then you must also believe that Brendan Eich should still have his job at Mozilla. And that his believe that the state should not grant homosexual marriage licences is of no consequence to his participation in software development. Brendan Eich should not be forced to compromise his basic values to write software.

Basic values does not = (your values). Within the 7+ Billion people on this planet there are quite a lot of conflicting 'basic values'. If you can not embrace them all in your programming community (or better yet exclude values altogether) then the core assertion is disingenuous and false.

Society is multidimensional. The separation of vectors is out of necessity to ensure the integrity of each vector. Without this integrity you have abandon the possibility for any vector to move towards enlightenment and progress. Politics, Ethics, Values, Religion Sciences and the Arts are all different dimensions. With a wide spectrum of ideas and beliefs in each one of them. Many of these ideas are contradictory and in conflict. That is the healthy and necessary state of an enlightened society.

You separate Software development from beliefs for the same reason that you separate Mathematics from beliefs. The progression of Mathematics has no political or social bound. If you can not accept that Mathematics is distinguishable and separate from your beliefs then you have truly embraced an intellectual and cultural regressive ideology.

Likewise if you can not accept that people who you do not share beliefs with can and are advancing the breath and depth of programming and computer science then you have embraced an intellectually and culturally regressive ideology.
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An attitude which turned to be unrealistic and unachievable and was quickly recognized as propaganda bs.

People from the "socialist" countries saw through the bs relatively quickly and adopted the attitude "you pretend to pay me and I pretend to work"

When such a person moves to an environment where a real chance exists to reap the rewards of their labor, they get the proverbial wings.

The puritan/religious seem to be unconscious of the oppressive programming and see it as their own "values"

I wish there were easily accessible statistics for startups "making it" vs failures. People should be able to know what the odds are for the lottery ticket they buy with ~5 years of their lives.

Maybe someone can create an app for calculating your startup's chances.
Curious to know, what works for you?
Well, when the comment is on the side of caution, it's at least not clearly bad advice.
It could just be a hedge against future taxes on fossil fuels which seem inevitable if we are going to meet the Paris commitments on climate change.
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With Prime, local food and beer delivery I haven't needed to leave Mom's ^s^s^s^s my underground lab for months at a time.

I buy a lot of electronics parts from China, etc because of the super low cost and free shipping. While they quote 15-20 days, most stuff shows up in a week or so.
So what's stopping a setup like this becoming standard? It's obviously generally superior, at least for new construction that's well-insulated. Right?
Is there a Ham radio comeback happening right now? I'm hearing about it more and more. Can anyone recommend a post or series of posts about the process of obtaining the license?
>the UK mortgage industry is technologically stone age!

Very interesting. Would love to have more details!

May I also ask if Virgin money has services that integrate with their other business, like say virgin airlines, as well?
The worst. Really? Are you sure you don't mean "the most cognitively available"?
Schema.Org is an OpenDomain!

This is the story of how I got a $20,000 T-shirt:
I received a call a few years ago from a domain broker offering to buy the domain Schema.org. I tried to tell her that I do not sell domains, I let people use them to support Open source or charities. They must of thought I was negotiating, because they kept on raising the offer - all the way to $20,000! I admit - I am not rich and I was tempted. I could have used that money to help send my kids to college, but I wanted to do the right thing, so I told her no. She then told me it as GOOGLE that wanted the domain - I think she was expecting me to make a demand for $1 million or something, but she was very surprised that I gave it to them for FREE. A few weeks later, I received a box in the mail from Google with a very nice T-shirt. Every time I wear it, my wife calls it the "$20,000" Tshirt.

Proof:
http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#17
Which is why most simple languages created as a reaction to complexity, end up with complex codebases full of workarounds to fill the lack of features.

In Go it is already visible with developers using error handling libraries and code generators.
> on the part of libreboot

One of the main contributors to Libreboot points out that only Leah has commit access to the website, and

"(the contributors) are not consulted about any of the views expressed on the libreboot.org website when they are hastily published by Leah."

http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html
Highly selective colleges are the mother ship. When the handful of isolated gifted students are plucked out of their widely dispersed high schools and collected in one institution, one dorm, it's incredible. People feel home for the first time.
US: http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed

UK: http://rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/for-students/foundation/
Possibly, due to a lack of long term stability and job security. When every round of financing results in a different VC installing its own people in the company and shaking things up, I don't feel comfortable betting the life and wellbeing of my family on the fact that some 24 year old "product manager" is going to act rational.

In other words, they'd really need to pay me a lot more than an established company in order to offset my risk.
But that doesn't really matter, because in terms of politcal capital, UBI is never, ever going to happen.
> If you take the opportunity to express your right to visit the House of Commons when it is normally sitting (i.e. during office hours, not during recess and not during PMQs) you'll see very measured, fairly productive and often entirely non-combative debate.

It's also all on TV and live streamed on the internet, every day. You don't need to take time out to go and visit it, if you didn't know that.

http://www.parliamentlive.tv
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbcparliament
It really does feel like at least half. I went to buy an iPhone 7 case and they all had 50+ 4.5 star reviews... before the iPhone 7 had shipped. I filtered one case with 40+ reviews to "Verified Purchases" only, and only a single review was left.

In some cases it feels like 90%.
There has to be enough former HP engineers to find one willing to answer this one definitively.
The Post is in dissonance. Their comments are in conflict. They are speaking for the public's right to reasonable privacy that is not susceptible to what occurs when you exploit technology to gain an upper hand.

The game theory around government is that it thinks it has the right to "protect us" at some X% cost to trustworthiness between them and the public. Driven by that value, they will continue to rationalize higher levels of untrustworthiness.
If you are using floating point numbers, you are using rationals. You cannot represent an irrational number using a floating point variable. There is no getting around the fact that the real number system is an abstraction, and floating points model a very small segment of the reals (the rationals are of measure zero, and hence so are all the reals representable as floating points). There are only so many bits with which to do computations, according to the IEEE 754 scheme.

Edit: addendum

How exactly does one do ordinary calculus with only rational numbers?