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Wait for it, somehow JavaScript and magic PWA's will save the world.
Python Community Still Unwilling to Learn from Mistakes Made in Python 3 Transition
That's a bit deceptive I think. It's the only lasting permanent structure that we know of from that carbon-dated time period. But different parts of the world advanced at different rates, and central asia is one of the oldest hotbeds of civilization, so it makes since that neolithic structures in this region are older than elsewhere.

There are other structures that seem to have been built by hunter-gatherers. Stonehenge comes to mind. The construction dates of Stonehenge aligns with the absolute dates of civilizations elsewhere in the world, but in the British isles it was still a time of hunter gatherers.

There is also much archaeological evidence for large, permanent "meeting point" structures built with wood columns and dirt fortifications. What makes Gobekli Tepe interesting is that it is stone (albeit a very soft stone that didn't need complex tools to work with) and therefore we have more than just holes in the ground and oddly shaped hills to look at.
Spoken like someone who's never maintained a M+ line monolithic codebase.

Of course you should upgrade, but an armchair admonishment that papers over the actual costs is just a lot of hot air.
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For processing the legitimate transactions.

Businesses with high fraud numbers will get axed by Visa.
Thiel’s 1517 Fund Is Stalking the Next Zuckerberg
It depends on the 5-7 people. It only takes one person clipping their fingernails at their desk (yes, it happens), chewing with their mouth open, and talking loudly (all the time) to ruin it for everyone. Yes, I'm talking about the same person.
It's too easy to blame Facebook in this case. Fake news has a market because people seek it out. Some may want to believe the fake news to confirm a world view they hold and others may see it as entertainment.

The real problem here is why do people want to believe things that are obviously not true? Maybe some of it is that the world is increasingly more complicated. You can't explain most issues without researching current events and having a firm grasp of history. Perhaps it is comforting for people who do not have the time or the ability to understand complex problems.

In my opinion, the easiest thing for Facebook to do to fix the problem is to just bring back the chronological news feed. If a friend of mine shares something Facebook assumes I don't agree with then I should be the one to make that decision, not an algorithm.
This will break the "bubbles" by forcing people to talk to each other again.
Patterns for Synonyms in Elasticsearch: Keyphrases
Facebook is giving $20M for Menlo Park, East Palo Alto affordable housing
I think in this example the slowest gazelle is the sucker that has to pay exorbitant international calling fees for a service they did not receive.

The companies themselves have little incentive to change things if it costs them money to do so and there's limited downside for doing nothing.
This sounds like a great idea, and reminds me of the days before compulsory public education when the upper classes hired a variety of tutors to teach their children. Seems like a great way to do it! Another way, especially if you have well-educated friends with kids, would be to take turns teaching your specialities.
Premonish: a library for predicting what a user is going to interact with next
Whats the contribution of 1. to climate change? Insignificant?
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For me, it brought on tinnitus....
The biggest problem I see is (and there may be other biggies, but this is the one that has bitten me), is that device support in Android kernels never gets upstreamed to Linux. Not necessarily due to GPL violations, but because even though the device source tree is published, there's no one willing to shepherd the changes upstream (and many vendor changes are low quality, so it would be a lot of work). Typically even a Nexus device is stuck on the specific kernel version that it was released with.

Google is a little better on the kernel side, but in other ways, AOSP is even worse. There's lots of good stuff done in Cyanogen and OmniROM, for example, but there's no way to get stuff into upstream AOSP. Google just pitches something over the wall once a year and ROM developers have to rebase or re-implement their ROM features.
Thanks. Even so, they still compute the full value of the move, right? Queens are 9 points, pawns are 1 etc, this position is worth X
> This is not a view shared by developmental psychologists.

I was curious about this, so I searched for developmental psychology on the difference between mixed-age and same-age socialization. But what I found (from a very brief search) didn't match what you said. An example study is this - Children’s Social Behavior in Relation to Participation in Mixed-Age or Same-Age Classrooms:

"Findings suggested a significant positive effect on children’s prosocial behavior as a result of participation in a mixed-age classroom context. In addition, fewer children appeared to experience social isolation in mixed-age classrooms than in same-age classrooms. Aggressive behaviors were significantly less likely to be noted by teachers in mixed-age than in same-age classrooms." - http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v1n1/mcclellan.html

But that's just one study. Is it an area of ongoing debate in development psychology? What sources would you recommend for the other side?
Same here. Hadn't been active on it for years, basically since college.
Healthcare.gov is the absolute worst. They had a button "End coverage for 2017" I clicked it around the end of November because I chose a non-marketplace plan for 2017, and the end result of that click was Cigna my current marketplace insurer for 2016 received a transmission from them, and interpreted it incorrectly, which made my 2016 plan inactive and retroactively terminated me back to 08/31 despite having paid all my premiums and processed claims up until end of November.

Their escalation process is useless, 30 days to resolve (if I'm that lucky). Will try not to get injured in the meantime.

Glitches and data sync issues are unreal, this is not an isolated incident. Every year it's been something. 2014 I was on Covered California and had to take them to administrative court to resolve data and tax form issues (canceled then due to a move and it completely wiped out my 2014 enrollment). Then in 2015 on HealthCare.gov they had me enrolled in the same plan twice and the insurer wanted double the premiums until they could resolve it.
Well, sort of.

Pilot wave theory, if simulated, still requires you to run all the same calculations as (say) the Many-Worlds interpretation, in order to know what the pilot wave is doing.

In fact, the pilot wave will still contain everything that MWI does: Multiple timelines, vast assemblies of nearly-independent universes, Earths beyond counting, etc etc. What PWT does is add in some nearly-epiphenomenal particles, and declare that only these count; that any observer described by the pilot wave is a philosophical zombie.

I have objections to this concept. :P
The signal to noise ratio tends to be poor though. So many will insist and swear and beg and threaten about what they think they need, or what they used to do, or what they won't pay for but would like to have if it's free and maintained indefinitely. There's often a background noise of "all change is bad" and some improvements are not as clear as helicopter vs rush hour traffic, so the benefit will take time to appreciate.

The trick, of course - and rather old news - is reading between the lines and not becoming arrogant in response to the lower quality feedback. You probably don't know better than them AND they probably don't know what they want.
>I've heard a great saying once: "Happiness is the difference between expectation and reality." The more time I think about it, the more I agree.

In a similar note. I believe that it is has been shown that happiness is believing that the future will be better.

So it more important to have positive expectation of the future than your present reality. Because you adapt to your present reality whatever it is but you always need to know that things will be better.
> The fact that so many people hit adulthood without this basic self-determining ability is apocalyptic.

We lost a lot of our traditional rites of passages. Some of the traditional ones goes against contemporary notions of childhood and would be considered child abuse.

In some cultures, for example, failing the rite of passage is fatal. Those cultures may consider that the spirit inhabiting the child was not serious or ready about being an adult. Try against next time.

I'm not suggesting we lost our way and we should go back to traditional practices. Rather, there are wisdom we learned with our modernity and there is wisdom we lost when we left behind traditional wisdom. There is some sort of way where we can have those teachings of self-reliance that's expressed natively, and emergently from our modern sensibilities.

I don't know what that is, though it's something in the back of my mind for a while.
Quite right.

Another distinction worth making, almost its own axis really, is the difference between "a tech business" and "a business that uses tech".

Companies like Cisco, Facebook, Apple, Google, Canonical, and so forth are companies that are tech companies--without their technology, they wouldn't be in business at all. They provide a service or product that is IP in its own right.

Companies like Chipotle, Subway, Uber, Lyft, AirBNB, DoorDash, Dollar Shave Club, and so forth are companies that use tech to achieve economies of scale and growth that wouldn't be as easy otherwise but could still be done. You can imagine a way of making something that to the user is substantially like the Uber today without a complicated backend, even just using call centers and massive dispatch. The key part of their business is part-time contractor drivers, which is a business and not tech innovation.

It's easy to assume that all startups are tech startups, but that's not quite true and it also can limit and slow developing a good business model.
Facebook is an easy way for my friends to call my attention to a piece of external content that I might otherwise have not known about (and vice versa).

For example one FB friend follows whitewater racing closely and is constantly posting articles and videos from local websites throughout Europe. I would never get to see this content otherwise.

Sure a lot of people on HN don't like Facebook or don't use Facebook, but about a billion people do. And they do it for a reason: they like it.

The question is what obligation does Facebook have to those people--and to society in general--to avoid fooling or exploiting them. I'd say it is at least "some".
Ultimately somebody involved has to make the decision of what is needed. The customer often doesn't know exactly what they need and even more often does not know what is realistic. The developer often doesn't understand the problem(s) and even more often has little idea of why the customer is doing what they are doing.

There really is no substitute for having someone (or a team) study the area in detail who has the background to be able to understand the problem(s) and is able to translate this understanding into a development plan. For anything but the most trivial problems this requires a large investment in time, money and effort.
I don't think it's a fad, but a new causal link that's helping us understand the root cause of various ailments better.

We've found a new root cause and that's very important. What you're saying is akin to someone in the 19th century saying that the new germ theory "fad" is being applied as the root cause to various diseases/deaths.
No, it doesn't. Many "homeschoolers" get together in groups where parents and/or other individuals share the teaching load according to the subject areas in which they are most skilled.
Stellarator designs already use superconducting electromagnets.

The newer kind are just a lot more powerful and versatile.
Well, at least we don't have to worry about Fidel anymore unless it somehow becomes retroactive.

Immortal of course doesn't mean impervious. A long, unaged, productive life span would still require food, water, shelter, and some amount of safety.

One of the most common (and usually loudest) arguments I hear against general species-wide immortality is the resource limitations of Earth. Well, if we can live for a thousand years or ten thousand years, what's the purpose of not traveling interstellar distances? The major limits are mostly the lifespan and related issues after all. The rest is mostly engineering. We're good at engineering our surroundings.
Well the Labour party in the UK brought in the National Health System in the late 1940s.
In my experience as an educator I observed that homeschooling was excellent for kids at both extremes of the bell curve. US public education does a pretty good job at the bulk.
This thread and all its anecdotes doesn't speak for the general public. Everyone here is a techy, many of whom are probably anti-social even as adults.

People in this thread discrediting homeschooling for being anti-social, when they're probably anti-social 20 something programmers. You may have been social in high school, but as an adult you chose an anti-social career.

Yet the solution for homeschooling socialness is the exact fucking same that people on HN recommend for anti-social 20 something techies. They're called clubs. (Not the nightlife kind)

Homeschool parents get their children in sports clubs, music clubs, dance clubs, etc. 20 something programmers who want to be more social should get into a club also.

Let me ask you this, if with your current anti-social adult brain you were transported back in time to your teenager self and given the chance to be more social at youth -- would you spend time conversing with other high schoolers and their typical teenager talk or would you seek out clubs with more mature individuals and activities that could lead you to success in adult life? Intelligent people would chose the latter, but kids aren't smart enough to make that decision at a young age, so adults should give them that guidance and direction.
It would just adjust the criteria from things Facebook thinks they'd want to see to things that powerful people think would tilt the users' political views in the right direction. That's a major change, and one that - by design - transfers a huge amount of power and control from individual Facebook users to the centralized approvers of permitted content.
The goal of technology is to be so flawless that it dissapears into the background of our lives. When healthcare.gov was crashing the technology was extremely important and it made all the news and became a political controversy. Now that the technology is fine people like you can finger wag engineers and tell them that their work is unimportant.
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>can it be related to pets? they bring along bacteria we don't handle well

wouldn't that have killed the human race long go? I think it is other way around - the much lesser exposure to pets in modern society seems to correlate with the rise of auto-immune and immune related diseases.
< plus the requirement that you own /usr/local

no, this is not required anymore... https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/a2f19f0a675f7cb384b4...

> You can't have multiple users able to use homebrew

what i did is i run Homebrew as a user i called Admin and when logged in as another user i simply do a 'su - admin' to run the brew commands..
Simple is not easy
My jq killer:

function ruby_json {
ruby -e "require 'json'; require 'active_support/all'; puts JSON.parse(STDIN.read)$1"
}

Performs/prints arbitrary ruby over a readily available representation of the JSON object coming from stdin.

Example:

curl the_endpoint | ruby_json "['funnels'].map{|a| puts a.to_i * 2 }"
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A parser that would walk all web document elements, exercise keyboard access functions, then report back on what is or is not accessible via keyboard, touch, or click.
> One more thing; The article should have mentioned "pointer increment" which has nothing to do with "+= 1".

What do you mean? ++ptr is perfectly equivalent to ptr += 1, for any pointer type.
Face exploration dynamics differentiate men and women
He did get screwed. It's not the author's fault for not knowing the behind the scenes due process that isn't televised.

I'm just shocked by why the background checks come after the the pitch and not before. It's not the author or audiences job to know and protect Mark Cuban or any of the shark's reputation or financial well being.

I'm also wondering why there are so many Koreans circle jerking Mark Cuban in the linkedin comments. As a Korean myself, wtf? Did he pull the Incheon Landing or something?
Amazon extends AWS IoT with offline processing
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I intend to bootstrap my way through the inital stages, and not take up a seed capital. What are some things you did as working on a full time job, helped develop your firm.
> This is downright deception and he got screwed. Period.

No one is disputing that. But the author's post title was (and still is) "Mark Cuban and Shark Tank got Royally Screwed". => https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mark-cuban-shark-tank-got-roy...

Mark Cuban and Shark Tank didn't get screwed. It's the author and his investment company that got screwed by a greedy founder.
So how do you go about actually fixing it? I've had that condition in a minor form for pretty much my entire life, getting worse when I was a teenager. I've gone to many derms and they all end up just giving me some form of corticosteroids.

I've tried vegan diets, various supplements, probiotics, natrual paths, salt baths, oatmeal baths and on and on, and it doesn't do much other than treat symptoms. I haven't tried to fix it any further because it's just a minor annoyance in my life, but I'm all ears if there is something that explains it better and some measurement that I can use to help understand it.
Late edit: This is a serious question. I can't find any information about Chromium dropping support for Hangouts. What happened?
I don't like the fact that a significant percentage of page views on the Internet can be intercepted by a single organization either, but I think it's a bit weird to be concerned about privacy while arguing they should pivot to monetizing the traffic they see rather than continue to charge for the service they offer.
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How Much Equity Do Founders Have When Their Company Gets to IPO?
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What is the best tool to track search engine results for multiple domains and keywords over time?

Everything I can find is either free and scummy/scamy or really expensive. It seems like there should be an open source solution somewhere, since it seems like a simple and common problem.
if money solved the public school system problem, chicago would be cranking out nobel laureates left and right (rather than sinking under the economic burden of insane pensions and accompanying property and sales taxes --- AND mass exodus of high earners).
I agree that everyone should learn more about crypto. It helps people understand what is actually going on, and what they can count on and not count on.

Engineers working around crypto that will be responsible for anything important, even doing seemingly simple things like feeding the entry point a password, need to either have their code audited by someone with experience here, or be a person who could audit it. This is because there are so very many ways that seemingly inconsequential things (function timing, hardware behavior in the face of voltage manipulation, nonzero-ed memory in deallocated buffers... and these are the more obvious things) that can lead to a break.

And that's really only a starting point... this stuff is hard. I won't try to write it other than for my own amusement.
If it costs less after accounting for construction and decommissioning costs, then the EROEI is in all likelihood quite good. Cost can often be used as a proxy for energy invested, since energy isn't free after all.
Or, you could simply stop chasing after shallow, selfish women who demand these things. Trust me, you'll be a lot happier if you avoid them and look instead for a woman you can respect (because personally, I can't respect a woman who has this mentality). Marrying someone you don't respect is not a recipe for long-term happiness.
Medical lab technologiats are in an ideal place to start delivering this sort of information. If information and tissue/food/etc could be condensed on to small disposable chips, it could convey a lot of information.

Get sick in the stomach? Put a sample of your food on small chips before you eat and now we know that Chinese restaurant you ate at had high levels of E coli.
Erg. It's true that complex numbers model a rotation operator in 2d geometry. But I think it's harmful to say that it's better to think about 2d geometry in terms of complex numbers rather than, well, 2d geometry (vectors and rotation operators/matrices/geometric algebras). This kind of thinking doesn't extend to higher dimensions, obfuscates the actual discovery under the 'magic' of complex numbers, and requires knowing 'one weird trick' to figure out yourself.

(edit: added reference to geometric algebras, which are cleaner than rotation matrices for intuitively modeling this.)
"I agree SQL is not perfect but I don't know of many examples of alternative languages (that are not completely proprietary)."

That's the point.
Vuejs site in red? :)

I dont want to bash, just thinking maybe there should be some universal jsframework theme (even playing field). I feel like one of the big reasons vue became popular is because it had proffesionaly looking design from v0.01. Compare that to for example mithrill and many people will just pick vue straight away.

Its good idea to have nice page.
Very true. The helicopter vs. rush hour example is kind of like finding the holy grail, and that's what you strive for. In practice, the majority the improvements you can extract from these conversations end up being much smaller. But many small improvements compound and also help create the invaluable customer feeling of "Hey, I feel like the team behind this product really gets me!"

Also, well put: "You probably don't know better than them AND they probably don't know what they want."
US House Science Committee Tweets Breitbart Climate Misinformation
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Thank you Bryan for the correction, I did after all ask for it :)

One final question while I've got you that your response didn't seemingly address. Does the cyclic subsystem allow turning off the cpu timer entirely ala Linux's nohz_full? If so, I stand corrected.