skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One word: Football.

One of my friends graduated with an engineering degree from MIT. I once asked him if he could have traded that to be better at Football, would he? His response was that if there was even a remote chance he was good enough to play in the NFL he would have traded education for that chance.

Humans innately crave fame, and the lack of scarcity that is perceived to come with it. The USA has sadly, and unknowingly groomed that romanticism of fame, towards consumables (this might be the long term effects of Capitalism). Rather than grooming that romanticism of fame towards research/intelligence/creation (the renaissance).

Even local to the film industry, almost 100% of 10 year olds want to grow up to be Brad Pitt or Salma Hayek, not George Lucas or Stephen Spielberg[0]. Even fewer want to be the writer.

Even local to football, everyone knows the names of the player that caught that hail marry, got that big hit, recovered that fumble. Few know the names of the people who create those plays.

Only in recent years have the masses truly started to recognize creators/intelligence with the title famous (Gates, Jobs, Zuck). But again for the wrong reasons, i.e. for their money. Even artists Picasso, Beethoven (adored for generations) have only truly been appreciated by the aristocracy, i.e. the rich and "mathematically" acute.

Which way do you suspect the causal link lies? Are we first intelligent, therefore we appreciate the intelligent? Do we first appreciate the intelligent, therefore we become intelligent?

[0] I mean no disrespect to Brad Pitt or Salma Hayek, or actors in general. Good Actors need to be extremely intelligent, but this isn't why they are adored. I'd argue this part of them is even sadly shunned by the media and populace.
People keep saying Americans stink at math, americans don't understand science, americans are ignorant, etc.

And yet at the same time we have these sorts of track records:

http://www.popsci.com/us-dominates-at-sending-stuff-to-mars

It's not just Mars or the moon, or decades ago, the US also is where most operating systems and software and CPUS are conceived of and designed. As well as countless other things that people who are so ignorant would not reasonably be expected to be able to do.
That G3 was a beast :) Swappable batteries, drives, all kinds of stuff. And so heavy!

Glad to share my thoughts, and glad to help. I can understand the disappointment, too. I wish there were some MagSafe-like feature. I like the larger trackpad. I like the opportunities the Touch Bar provides, though I will miss the physical escape key and the hardware volume keys and brightness keys. Force Touch for the Touch Bar would be great. I'd also like to see more RAM available. But, that's not what's available now, and what I've got is good enough for at least another couple of years.

Hope you can find a good solution for your next system!
It would be darkly amusing- in that "throw yourself from the nearest bridge," sense- if we ended up in another great depression in roughly the same portion of this century as we did in the last. That we have a new generation of robber barons is probably not a coincidence.
It's not the dual or quad, it's the whole CPU architecture upgraded, they are now using intel skylake CPUs.
MIT has a pretty good football team.

https://youtu.be/XnVcaHMsYqM
It's hard to tell, but it can be because most maths research is published in Chinese, while these rankings are little anglocentric. Also lot of Chinese probably migrate to the US as soon as they can. Anyway, I was just pointing out that the ranking is not such a simple argument.
It reads more like a legal document.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_level_geolocator
http://dbbd.sg – a personal fav of mine, utilizes design for better content presentation and organization.
It also misses the actual reason why rich people buy newspapers, which is that they want their opinions to be the newspaper's opinion. They want to become the Voice of the Establishment, which a newspaper can let them be. In other words, they want the op-ed page, everything else is beside the point.

From that perspective Twitter would be spectacularly unattractive to this crowd, as it lacks any kind of institutional editorial viewpoint. It's a newspaper without an op-ed page, which for this kind of buyer is not much of a newspaper.
The entire job of advertising is to trick (or "convince" depending on how you want to look at it) people into buying things. You can be tricked into making the wrong choice.
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Congratulations!

I'm always disappointed when people say "some people just can't learn X".

It isn't that they cannot learn X, they just cannot learn it in the same time frame, and they shouldn't be expected to!
This event confused me. I had a bunch of emotions from happiness to utter confusion.

I love gimmicks and thought the TouchBar was cool. Then I thought about it how I would usually use it, and the answer was "close to never because I touchtype". Then I realized that the ESC key that I use for so many things blindly is now more awkward to reach. Then I realized that the TouchBar doesn't have haptic feedback which makes precision work more difficult. Then I realized the coming version might actually have haptic feedback and force touch.

Then I realized that the MBP is still limited to 16GB RAM max. If I buy this machine I want to use it for 6 years to come. 6 years with 16GB RAM doesn't seem realistic.

I am not a negative person and absolutely love my Mac. I love the apps that I own and I can't wait to get my hands on the new Final Cut Pro. But I don't know if I want to buy another Mac. Remember when everyone told you the 15" MacBook is effectively a desktop replacement? That's what I want. A desktop replacement for work that I can also put in my pocket and carry somewhere else.

I absolutely don't mind buying 2 Macs. One portable one (12") and one semi/non-portable one for the heavy lifting. But right now that doesn't seem to be the option.

For example: The new FCPX is amazing! But it requires a lot of specs to deal with the ever increasing resolution. It's highly possible that phones can soon record 6k footage in <6 years that need to get edited somewhere.
Yeah but at Twitter everyone but the ads team is going to be a cost center. You could make the exact same argument about the operations team.
I can discuss and hold and opinion then voice it in this thread, which I did which has given me useful advice and perspective, you can just say i'm wrong and point out why possibly anchored by pointing out your experience.

Don't go low and pick on grammar then imply the person you're in discussion can't have an opinion in this hacker news thread because I'm not as serious as you and even previously calling me a lair due to my grammar not being satisfactory.

You've clearly got experience that can help people, instead of trying to make people feel small, hows about using it as an anchor for real points in a discussion and then people like me can learn something good instead of learning how to inspire this torrent of vitriol bouncing back and forth.

Good luck on your coding endeavours.
US society/culture in general is the main cause of this problem as most people here do not value math. Math requires deep, creative and original thinking and thinking is rather difficult to perform act. It seems that the US culture derides analytical thinking in general, with many popular public figures flaunting their "inability to do math" as some sort of great achievement and sending out a loud and clear messages, like, "don't analyze just enjoy your life and avoid math as math means analysis". This paper titled "Student Apathy: The Downfall of Education" [1] is a good read in this respect too.

The bad effects of such societal level bias against math can be seen in public spending in schools also. Enormous amounts of money are spent on football coaches/teams[2] in schools whereas not enough money for math teachers/students.

The society seems to equate success only with one's ability to earn money. Then you can see that many such popular public figures "getting successful" without math as they can be seen to earn large amounts of money.

This is sad as such people even if are successful on money front, cannot understand any of the complex aspects of modern societal/business/political structures (be it, things like privacy issues, or many public policy issues like taxes) and of course cannot understand any of the modern technological/scientific discussions (be it discussions regarding global warming or genetically modified food or statistical significance of some tests).

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1968613

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case...
They're explicitly cherry picked:

"With Halloween just around the corner, we asked top analysts around the world for charts about things that go bump in the night — and we're not just talking about the daily yuan fix. Here's what they said scares them."
2056 After decades of touch interfaces, Apple releases, "Button" a revolutionary device that connects the physical world with the digital. FEEL the movement. HEAR the keypress.

Old millenials gesture wildly and swipe back and forth on VR forums saying how amazing it is to actually use senses of touch.
Old Media has a Twitter problem. They don't have the solution.

NY Times is barely profitable. Some mainstream publications are in a similar situation, most are hemorrhaging money all over the printing floor.

Money is one thing, but what the established media are really frightened by is the loss of power they have been witnessing over the last few years.

They do not like it one bit.

"The country’s pre-eminent newspapers, including this one, have long been controlled by families who have understood that the press is not just an ordinary industry, but a civic calling."
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It can be prevented through the use if a secure proxy.
Twitter is not infrastructure. An LTE network is infrastructure. An optical fiber cable is part of infrastructure. Amazon AWS is perhaps infrastructure.

I don't get these weird redefinitions of common words that don't convey the original meaning at all.
Long way to go yet...it's still missing a mobile strategy...and a future car effort...
My favorite would be https://www.remotepixel.ca, which is both beautiful and full of high quality and useful work.
Long time Mac user here (done accelerators, clones, and hacks)

Save your sanity and money - you can get some nice specced refurbished/used MacBooks that can just run the latest Apple stuff for a good price and save a lot of frustration with foreign hardware issues now and down the road.

Things will "just work" and you will really appreciate it.
That can be said for any genre.
they'd probably lose 80 pct of their "user accounts". which they use as a nice inflated metric.
That doesn't mean people can't be upset that there are limitations placed on how you can use the software. Imagine if you were told you couldn't use Microsoft Word to write about certain topics, for example.
That's a pretty useful analogy; it made me think of a chess game where the author isn't sure of how to write a strong AI, so the higher difficulty still has you play against a relatively weak AI but you have to give up some of your pawns or pieces.
And this is based off of?
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> cassus belli

Should just be one "s": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli
I am not a lawyer, but these tickets look like a pyramid scheme to me. If I were an attorney and worked for American Airlines, I would consider claiming it was illegal for them to offer that to get out of it. I know that courts tend not to let companies out of bad deals, so that might make a bad situation worse.

It reminds me of the guy who has a life insurance policy that allows him to invest the amount covered in stocks at prices 1 week in the past knowing what the future performance would've. The insurance company that purchased the one that issued that really wants to get out of it, but they have been unsuccessful. I recall that it is estimated that by the time he dies, his estate will be worth more than the insurance company due to that policy.

At least American Airlines can take consolation in the fact that the total losses from their mistake will be limited by the ticket holders eventually dying naturally. In that insurance company's situation, the policy holders dying will ruin them.
You're probably right. those rankings have a lot to do with the research papers published by those schools from non Americans.

Relative to the US population, the primary and secondary education do not produce a high level of capability.

Looking at the fields medals per capita[1] you can see that the US doesn't have as much as the UK, Russia, or France. You can also see that the university with Fields medals recipients [2] for more details, and indeed you can see that of the mathematicians associated with Princeton are not Americans.

As a specific example, in [1] you can see that France is generating more than 4 times more fields medalists per capita than the U.S. Why is that?

It probably has to do with the more rigorous Math education.
Look for instance at this translated Math final[3] exam for French high school students. This is for the "Literary" students, those who focus more with the worst level of Math.
You can see examples of the "Scientific" math test here [4]. It's in French, but it's Math, just by looking at the symbols it's possible to understand. It has some differential equations solving, probabilities, geometry with vectors/planes in 3D spaces, Series analysis, etc. Integrals and derivatives are also part of the program. In Physics these concepts are applied to calculate velocity/speed/radioactive decay etc.

[1] http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_fieldsxcapita.htm

[2] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FieldsMedal.html

[3] https://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/a-look-at-one...

[4] http://www.letudiant.fr/bac/bac-s/corriges-et-sujets-du-bac-...
https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0509027
The % of GDP invested chart gave me pause [1].

Silicon Valley'a bedrock was laid when we invested 12¢ of every dollar of GDP. Now we're down to 4¢.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/these-are-...
As a former philosophy student, I disavow philosophy for its uselessness. Save for ethics and a few niche topics of inquiry where it has practical utility, its only function is to add epistemlogical detail to science's study of nature (historically known as natural philosophy).

To paraphrase what John Locke said to Newton: "Sir, it is the lesser duty of mine as Philosopher and under labourer of the Natural Philsopher, to remove the debris and furnish detail that the latter imparts to our Knowledge."
How can any list of cognitive biases be complete without the end-of-history illusion [1]. Given the number of young people I see with tattoos it would have to be the most common illusion.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-history_illusion
During the 2008 recession, Monthly Review put together some scary 1960-2008 charts on economic indicators not mentioned in this article ( http://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and-... ).

Often overlooked is the capacity utilization rate - at what rate is capital plant being utilized. This number has been falling since the early 1970s. On the latest dwindling bounce of the ball, it hit a peak in November 2014 with 78.9%, and has since fallen to 75.4% ( http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/revisions/Current... ).

So the 2009-2016 industrial capacity peak was 78.9%. I don't have the data in front of me, but my recollection is from World War II to the early 1970s, the industrial capacity of the US never dipped as low as 78.9%. So the modern capacity utilization peaks are less than the old historical lows.
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I got several of these calls. Transcript of the voicemail. It's comical. Sad that some fell for it. I'm just glad the local cops didn't show up and take me into custody.

>>>>>
Mission team of IRS we have just received a notification regarding your tax filings from the headquarters which will get expired in the next 24 working hours and once again expired after that you will be taken under custody by the local cops as there are for serious allegations pressed on your name at this moment we would request you to get back to us so that we can discuss about this case before taking any legal action against you
> charging cable is already dying ... How can basic manufacturing quality tank this hard in such a small timeframe?

You just lucked out with the original adapter.

The cables are delicate now, but the original version was actually worse. Since so many customers broke them, Apple revised the design with a slightly longer piece of rubber shielding.
Yup, seems like the consensus, no matter how you try, not much will change. Nice to know they did eventually pay you out. It sucks for me that everyday traffic is increasing, but I can't monetize it.
If they approve it to be on the AppStore...
That could very well be true, and I'm not stating it as proof of anything, other than to claim that Europeans score 'ballpark the same' on either side of the Atlantic.

I suggest your theory is probably very true for Asian Americans - the one's who came here are 'la creme do la creme'.

But not for Europeans. Europeans that came here were the poorest, the least educated, criminals, fringe religious types etc.. Europe was 100x more civilized than America during early history - why would anyone with any social status leave London in 1800 - to go and live a million miles away, a very, very hard, back-breaking life?

Well - those tenant farmers who could get cheap land and get out from under the thumb of their landlords etc..

But it's a good point.
Not sure how math helps you deploy instagram clones. I mean set theory, logic, computable functions but that's a big stretch.
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Sure. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#conce... and the pieces of that spec that use it is the main place so far. There is also discussion about maybe using the same switch in https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/278 if it turns out that too many pages assume "not webkit" means XMLDocument.load exists.

It could be worse. When the ECMAScript committee discovered that parsing for function-in-a-block differs between browsers and that sites sniff and do different things in different browsers such that none of the browsers can change to each other's behavior, they went ahead and specified a "compatible subset" of behavior such that if you follow those rules you will get the same behavior in all browsers. That's fine, but if you _don't_, as web pages do not, then you're back to square 1: pages sniff and do different things. And the details are not written down anywhere, so a new implementation has no choice but to try to reverse-engineer the sniffing somehow and then also reverse-engineer the actual runtime behavior of function declarations of whatever browser's sniffing response they decided to fake. The good news is that this function-in-a-block thing is literally the worst situation I have encountered in web standards, so all the other ones suck less. ;)
This idea that we will end up with some super-AI that for some reason has baked into it our irrational self-preservation instincts is so silly to me. I think one day we'll chuckle at its quaintness.
I find this website is much easier for that:
http://choosealicense.com/
The touch bar doesn't have haptic feedback.
I went to school for Software Engineering, in the engineering faculty. My school also had Computer Science.

The difference was somewhat ironically that the CS degree had more practical, hands on coding, and engineering was more theoretical, plus we had to take all the physics/chemistry/math courses to meet the requirements of the Engineering board.
True. But does it need to have those to be "Apple-ish". It's innovating at the very least. And they have LinkedIn :D
Slight spoilers, but: https://www.amazon.com/Airborn-Kenneth-Oppel/dp/0060531827/r...
From the article:

>Though lesson study is pervasive in elementary and middle school, it is less so in high school, where the emphasis is on cramming for college entrance exams

I think the implication is that kids are supposed to be taught to play with math in addition to the rote memorization, not that rote memorization is evil.

Many of the more "fun" math techniques rely on knowledge acquired through rote memorization, just like dynamic programming uses the results of inefficient calculations to speed up subsequent calculations.
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They start with letters. It takes a lot if ignoring before they seize your assets.
What many people don't realize is that you can put the paper in front of potential users and have them interact with it. You can draw/move the results of their actions to get an idea of how they will use your software before you have to write a single line of code. Getting inside the mind of your users and seeing their assumptions and desires in action is incredibly valuable.
Oh yeah, remember Linkedin? :)
Adapters and dongles are pretty much unavoidable these days. There are simply too many semi-modern ports still in use for each type to be included on a laptop to cover everyone's needs. It makes sense to move towards modern ports that provide more functionality and better backwards compatibility via adapters. In that sense I'd argue they do make people's lives better because it's a solution to almost every potential problem. Back in the USB2 era it was simply impossible to connect many devices to a laptop. Now we have multi-function ports that can accommodate multiple external PCI-E enclosures.
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This is also Apple-specific hardware, which kind of flies in the face of becoming a "standard".

I hope it doesn't get adopted by other laptop manufacturers. Imagine it does. Then we'll need desktop keyboards to support this standard. I like my wireless keyboard's battery life, and I don't see any benefit in buying a more expensive keyboard with decreased battery life in order to support UI I don't intend to use.
There are third party magnetic connectors for microUSB and Lightning. I'm sure someone will make one for USB-C if it doesn't already exist.
Yeah. Abuse is a problem for high profile people for the most part, who are an infinitesimal fraction of the user base. For the average Joe with a few hundred followers it really isn't much of an issue. And for the most part public figures continue to use Twitter, despite their grumbling.
> why not keep the scope of Servo focused in building a standards-compliant engine

It depends on how you define standards-compliant.

> Replicating other engine's bugs sounds like too much effort towards the wrong direction

Well, web pages depend on those. So your options are either to standardize them or to have a standard that, when implemented, gives you a non-working product.

In practice, they're being standardized (just like XMLHttpRequest was a non-standard thing that ended up getting standardized). See https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/ and https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#conce... and the bits of the HTML spec that reference it, the bits of https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom/ that mention "webkit", and so forth.

So in the end, a "standards-compliant" engine will implement those standards, which are themselves to some extent a codification of old implementation bugs; pretty normal for standards...
I see where the confusion comes from.

The example in the middle is in Swift, regardless of which language you've selected.

But the API list at the bottom does reflect your current language selection.