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because high IQ magnifies a lot of issues in ways that people not personally concerned or untrained may not be able to grasp.
Amazon workers sleeping in tents
Teaching has a low salary because we have too many teachers. It would be strange to pay them more when there are already way more people who want to teach than there are jobs. The only reason to pay more would be to try to get higher quality teachers but I doubt an increase in pay will really increase quality much.
Someone I know was tested at an IQ of 145. She placed #1 in her city (the capital city of the country) for high school entrance exams among tens of thousands of students. She is now a VP in her mid-30s of a Fortune 100 company and on track to be CFO. However, her goal is to be a CFO in the next 5 years, and I have no doubt she will accomplish that.
IQ means little if you do not have the ambition, drive, and courage to be more.

I have known many people with superior IQs working in brainless jobs. They would not leave or consider another way of life. Actually, one did. I was her best friend. She loved kids. I planted little hints that she would make a great teacher. She watched me go through college. Once she saw me do it, she decided she could do it to. She went for two years, took on a double load, and graduated at the top of her class. She is now a middle school teacher. Not making great money, but she loves her job.
Ah, I hadn't realised that!
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I do not mean this comment as a brag. Far from it.

I am one of these people - I tested with an incredibly high IQ (nearly 200 at the time, though I know that fades). I graduated with a 4.2 GPA, and a 3.9 average (because on semester I chose to 'punish' my mother who was taking credit for my high grades, and got a D just to prove it)

I have a very hard time with life in general. People bore me to tears. You have to repeat and dumb down everything for them all the time. Most jobs are mind numbingly dull.

Unlike the people in this article, I had support. My grandfather was similar to me, and taught me some basic coping mechanisms. They have largely worked, and I've learned how to survive with a nearly perfect memory (oh god the horror, I wouldn't inflict it on anyone) and what I like to call an incredibly high idle.

I make enough to get by, and the company I work for seems pleased with me. Been there 16 years so far, always resistent to anything beyond a simple lead type position. Thank god my management usually recognizes that I am VERY bad at dealing with people, and lets me get back to solving problems in my very quiet and dark office.

The coping that works for me is split attention. If I'm simultaneously listening to two or more musical pieces, working on different problems on different computers and screens, and fiddling with something (like a pen or something), I can get through a day.

If for some reason I'm restricted down to a single source of input (like just a laptop), I basically go completely mad. My mental energy level is far too high, and the frustration of waiting for the computer to keep up causes me to get angry beyond reason.

My life is a fucking hell, and I also spend a lot of time contemplating suicide. The imaginative and interesting methods help occupy some cycles.
I daresay not. The problem was that unless we're talking hardcore science/engineering, there is always a political shade to things that affect the real world. But as a non-american, I wouldn't have minded if the experiment continued since a lot of the political discourse here is extremely US-centric and repetitive.
I was on my initial training there, I quit halfway during my training, so I didn't get a chance to work on a real big project in that company.
Startup that makes other startups for 10K USD
Same as my experience. I've had four awesome experiences with Microsoft support.

1. Microsoft Band, a month after its warranty expired (bought in the USA), they still replaced it for free because of plastics wear, a common issue for that version

2. GF's Surface RT: faulty touch screen 1 year and half after she bought it, replaced for free, no questions asked, they even sent the replacement before I shipped the faulty one

3. GF's Lumia 925: she thought the pictures taken by the back camera were yellow-ish, she got it replaced with another brand new 925 for free. Six months later we bricked it trying to install a Windows 10 Insider Preview, replaced for free with a Lumia 830

4. My Lumia 1520, sent it in for repair because the battery was wearing out (it lasted a little more than a day instead of 1 and half/two), got a Lumia 950 XL instead

A friend of mine also got his Surface Pro 3 replaced for free.
In that case you can report them to the FTC.

Under CAN-SPAM they must:

-[Have] A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.

-Honor all opt-out requests within 10 days.

Failure to provide either of those on any automated business email is a violation of the act. A number of these startups (and tools) are in violation of the act with this 'illusion'.
Same here. When my database server died two weeks ago it was shit for me. Until I fixed it, it meant no email, website hosting (not much static content) or telegram bots for me, but at least I can fix it myself. No risk of getting banned or being included in dragnet surveillance when the NSA decides to ask Google for something (I'm not American so protection laws don't apply; I might be a terrorist). Of course that's putting it all too strongly, but there's just no chance of that happening, plus I can help myself. It's like moving out of your parent's place: you have to do more shit, but at least you get to do it your way.
You're just kicking the can down the road with respect to switching from a Mac to a Windows/Linux setup though. That's the the parent was saying. They are are a point where it could make sense to make the switch. Why buy a laptop that will just push this cost a few years down the road?
Thanks for the command, but I have already done it myself :-D :-P
I love the minimalist approach. It would be nice if there was a sound effect when a player is defeated. Not as an aesthetic thing but as a way to keep track of the match without having to constantly check the scoreboard.

Also, the screen you show when a match ends seems like a good place to stick another ad.
> Although you don't say it directly but by saying that "The open drivers (nouveau) were slow and far behind in features." and then that the situation improved because of Nvidia involvement you are not being honest.

> Nvidia hasn't improved performance or contributed features to nouveau.

Fair point, I didn't realise it could be read that way. Thank you.

Nvidia has contributed enough fixes to make their hardware sort of respond out of the fox. Yes, primarily for devices on mobile space, and occasionally on non-mobile when the same fixes happen to apply. I believe this is directly a result of same hardware designs being used across the board.

I didn't mean NVIDIA were being particularly nice, although I didn't know about the active hostility against nouveau. (IIRC their driver employees are contractually prevented from contributing to nouveau, but I can't find reference. At least there I can understand the reason.)
https://twitter.com/vlasovskikh/status/801720613312364544
There's a surprising dearth of research into the challenges faced by gifted people.

As a topic, it does get some - not much - attention in both psychology and psychiatry. But it's considered a specialised field far out of the mainstream.
Every time there is a scientific study, someone responds saying it has confirmed their worldview, and is therefore pointless, betraying a deep misunderstanding of the purpose of scientific studies.
Restoration Hardware is similar.
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I mean with deliberate intent to provoke a military response from Japan.

It wasn't that Japan wasn't up to no good, because they were, absolutely destroying large swaths of Asia and committing atrocities so horrifying even German observers were concerned, but that the US leadership needed Japan to attack to get on board versus Germany.
Can you filter by genre? I know that you could do something like ./Genre/Artist/Year - Album/Track - Title.mp3 but there is possibly other elements that are useful in mp3 tags... and what if one song could be classified in multiple genres? would you keep multiple copies?
> And I also use vim.

As another vim user, it's probably better to get in the habit of using Ctrl-[ or Ctrl-C (though Ctrl-C has caveats in certain situations).
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I'm not sure what I'm looking for here, although I trust the advise this community has to offer more than most.

It's 2 weeks until Christmas, and about 3 before I lose my house and almost everything else I have.

I worked for 5 years with some company, and got let go on the spot. 5 years of my life, no one even said goodbye. I'm told that's normal.

I've worked hard since I was 15. I've been working on startups since high school.

You know how it is, I thought I was going to be a millionaire by 21, then by 21 I realised how much of an idiot I was in high school. But I'm not sure I have any hope left now.

I read, I try to better myself, I do everything I can to make something of myself. I feel I have so much experience for my age. I've written a book and I'm working on another. I've worked on countless projects (all failed, but still), and I'm obsessive about learning by nature.

I feel like I have so much to offer, but no one care's because of my communication skills. I'm autistic, shy and depressive - which translates to toxic for any "positive team oriented" companies. Or more simply, all of them.

Companies seem to like my applications. I haven't found it hard to get interviews, but I find it impossible to get replies after that.

I know I'm running out of time, and I'm getting scared because I don't have anywhere to go after Christmas.

My family keep telling me I should give up and find a retail job or similar because this has been going on for months. And perhaps that's all I'm worth honestly. Communication is important. Perhaps there isn't a place for someone like myself in this industry.

I'm exhausted. I've worked non-stop for 10 years, and for what? I'm in a worse position than most my friends who dropped out of school. It's a joke. A Christmas story void of all moral and meaning.

Rant over.

Merry Christmas everyone. Truly.
I had a high school computer science instructor who did a really good job of this. I had already learned C (on DOS) by age 11 or 12, and thus the Visual Basic course in high school was pretty easy for me to do. I took the class pretty much to boost my average and have computer science credits on my transcript.

Anyway, I get my first assignment back, 10/10. Awesome, just like I expected. Get my second assignment back, 9/10. What? Oh, he didn't feel like I had commented my code very well. Ok. I'll do better next time. Next assignment, 8/10. I had used "x" as a variable name, and another pickier detail. Next assignment, 7/10. Even pickier details; things like UI spacing. The worst was that my peers, who struggled a lot more and their code was often pretty bad, they were doing better than I was in the class!

But I kept at it and kept improving, getting better and better at nailing down every possible detail. Managed to get marks back around the 8/10 to 9/10 range, but never 10/10. Nearing the end of the course, I started looking back at my grades and came to a brutal realization: "I'm significantly better at this than most of the people in the course, but my marks don't reflect that!"

I went and talked to him and raised my concerns. He gets this big grin on his face and says "Oh, I've been recording those as 100%s the whole time. I just wanted to keep challenging you, within the scope of what the curriculum gives me. I really wish I could have given you better projects, but that gets pretty complicated pretty quickly. You're doing fine, and I think you've improved a lot since the start of the course."

Ended up getting the "Best grade in Computer Science" award that year. Thanks Jeff!
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Thankfully I had some teachers, like you, who thought I was fun to work with. When I exceeded her class, she had a college professor friend of hers slip in work for me, and occasionally supplemental tutoring.

It was awesome. Being able to challenge myself with upper division calculus while stuck in state-mandated algebra was probably the only reason I survived those courses.
Japan didn't care about words. Japan cared about things like the US selling Japan fuel even when they were doing all these things, preferring to stay "neutral", then abuptly cutting that off and leaving them scrambling to keep their military running.

Japan did bring doom on themselves, but America kept poking the tiger with a stick until America itself got attacked, which was the goal.
Compare this to buying a Samsung TV (exactly the same product only the screen is larger) - they answer the phone right away and are at your house with a friendly service guy in 1-2days.

They should obviously just take the phone and give him a replacement. If they saw obvious signs he dropped it they could just send him the bill.

This is a premium product (on the sticker). The service doesn't feel premium.
Dark matter hasn’t been proven to exist. Here is another hypothesis[1].

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161129-verlinde-gravity-dar...
This is one of the most practical reasons why I always intend to own an iPhone. If I have a problem I can walk down to the Apple store in my local mall and get it fixed.

Recently, the battery in my old iPhone 5 was starting to swell. I got it replaced in a few hours. If I had an Android phone, I have no idea the hoops I'd have to go through.

A cell phone is an essential at this point and it's not worth using any brand but the most reliable and easy-to-get-fixed.
Dragons and Gridirons – Fantasy football meets collectible card game
Extra info: there may be some confusion here because the above announcement is about tablets/2-in-1s/laptops NOT smartphones. The headline is (with my emphasis):

"ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs!? Hell Yes!"

So if you recompile Win32 programs to run on this version of Windows 10 on ARM, they will be able to do all the (good and) bad things they can do on the x86 version....
> Nothing to do with `strings`. The purpose of domain generation algorithms is simply to prevent bot loss from domain suspension/C&C takedowns.

The purpose of DGA is also to make it harder to identify the domains the malware will use. One of those ways is to run strings on an executable and look for domain names. As they made no attempt to move off their main domains, we can assume that wasn't the goal. Rather, the goal of this is pretty clearly to add a few new domain names which are not as obvious and thus less likely to be blocked. Certainly not the perfect solution, but see my previous about premature optimization.

Also, I think you're overestimating the ease of taking over someone else's registrant account. Possible? Absolutely. Easy? Well, that depends on a great many things, but typically not easy without a court order.
High IQ creates barriers that can prevent one from experiencing the social situations that enable the development of social skills. And when you are left behind in social skills, past a certain age, people show much less tolerance for your quirks, and basically think that if you are that way, you must be weird/ have a problem and will not tell you honestly what is the issue with you. Giving somebody with subpar social skills social cues serve no purpose, as they don't get any benefit out of it.
So you get a catch 22, as you don't have sufficient social skills to know / get the help needed to develop your social skills.
They pay a single parcel tax instead of one per home like the rest if us.
Has anyone played this? Thoughts?
One way to do this would be the Reality Editor from MIT.
http://fluid.media.mit.edu/realityeditor
I can definitely believe that – but windows has basically lost[1] and a much worse text model to boot. Like Java and unlike python 3, they at least have the excellent excuse that this was not obvious at the time. And under unix the impedance mismatch has definitely increased. Not a good trade.

[1] I wouldn't count them out, but they're definitely on the back foot as bash inclusion shows.
Sure, they could afford to hire support personnel, but they would be deluged with inquiries on day 1, even if less than 1 percent of Google's users contacted them every 5 years.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13145121 and marked it off-topic.
It was attitudes like that, that the US couldn't engage first, which forced the hand of the US leadership. They needed Japan to attack first, so they did everything they could to bring that about.

After Pearl Harbor everything fell into place. Germany and Japan could be tackled not from a diplomatic perspective, or via proxies, but directly.
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It's not that the teachers _dislike_ him, it's that they are frustrated that he is not following the curriculum and conforming to the lesson sequence and timeframe planned for.

I found US public school education was not about learning and mastery. It's about conformity and obedience. Learning the subject matter is secondary--the key to succeeding at this institution is to do things in the expected way, at the expected pace, even if it is mind-numbingly verbose and slow. It's a hack: You learn the expectations and do the bare minimum of what is precisely expected, because both less than and greater than the bare minimum will be penalized. I had a rough time in school until I grokked this hack.

Do your homework. It's easy of course, just takes a long time to do since so much gets assigned. The point of doing homework is not to learn, it's to show obedience--you were told to do the homework and you did it.

Show your work. It doesn't matter if you can do division in your head, kid. You're expected to write down the specified intermediate steps so just turn your brain off and do it. The point is to follow the prescribed process, not to master the subject.

Class participation. This is a gift to the outgoing/popular/sports kids to inflate their grades. Just figure out how many times you need to say something in order to get full credit, then raise your hand and say something (anything, it usually doesn't matter) that amount of times.

Public schooling is a series of hoops that you need to jump through at no slower or faster than the prescribed pace. The smart kids figure this out. The REALLY smart kids tend not to figure it out unfortunately.
I completely agree. I think that one of the big problems, aside from someone cooking a family recipe while also modifying it slightly so its diet appropriate, is somehow going beyond just making and delivering this food. My grandfather is 89, his wife is 17 years younger than him so she still cooks for him and makes sure hes eating. On the flipside, once my grandfather died on the other side of the family, my grandmother fell to pieces and alzheimer's rapidly set in. Is there somehow a cost effective way of creating these dishes either at the client's house or maybe delivering the meal and providing an hour of genuine conversation? I mean I guess it'd be a specialized home health aide at that point or something. I guess just sticking with the family recipe modified for dietary needs is the smart way to start off. You could follow this up with partnering with old age communities/nursing homes and providing this custom service en masse.
Voat seems to be geared toward the stuff that got banned or reddit. Gab.ai is people who got banned on twitter. I don't see any reason to look for tech stuff there.
For the past year, I have done a little bit of arithmetic with my son every day. Mostly from the Kumon series of books.

It's been a great activity to both spend time together and give him a handle on something most kids fear. I don't push him too hard but I am absolutely consistent here. We do a few add/sub/mul questions every day, and even though he gets to pick the number of questions, I pick that they are asked and eventually answered.

I don't want to humblebrag about how he's doing, but this was the best choice I could have made as a parent.
It still needs cleaned up, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway. Been fiddling with it, but I find it useful.

[2016.12.10 12:38:13] - ottoflux
Linux has supported separately compiled kernel modules for decades. If kernel developers are not expected to maintain this code, it need not and should not be merged into the kernel source tree.

Windows presents an API to drivers that's very painful for them to change. This is a problem that Linux can avoid by not treating drivers as black boxes.
Thanks for the appreciation and lesson learned, I will carefully format my future articles. :-)
With the benefit that you don't have to use an additional module/command (brew cask) to get functionality like "install Google Chrome".
To be fair, I've had the opposite experience with Google Play Store support for my Nexus 5. I'm on my 4th Nexus 5 chassis, the previous 3 were taken back by Google (one broken glass, one sticky power button, and one water intrusion taken back due to a one time courtesy replacement policy). I don't feel great nor terrible about the phone, but clearly Google has spent substantial resources supporting my purchase. My phone calls with them were always very fast and to the point. (Their new hardware division in charge of Pixel may be doing things differently though.)
I wonder if we will ever see a challenge by an NSL recipient with a gag clause who willingly discloses the NSL and thus generates standing to challenge it before the Supreme Court. Sure you might wind up in Gitmo, but without standing you cannot challenge and by following the NSL to the letter all of us lose.
apologies the only "CSA" I know is the Credit Support Annex between counterparties, which seeks to minimize risk on mark to market of derivative contracts. Is this what you are referring to?
By the way, although my wife and I are fairly intelligent, neither of us are as intelligent as our parents. For instance, my father apparently taught himself to read and write at around 2 and started to teach himself logic and algebra soon after. At 3, he wrote a math / philosophy paper detailing a complex cosmology and metaphysics in which he used logical arguments to disprove God.

He never did much with his life - got into a lot of trouble as an adolescent and eventually settled down as a laborer. For the past 20 years he's been a recluse and sits in his studio apartment playing FPS games all day.

It's an issue of resources. As a kid, he also lived on a large rural farm, so he had no resources to do anything else. Many of my other family members are intelligent too, but they all grew up poor and ended up being poor later in life. It makes me sad.
I think you've come upon the laziest conclusion possible. I was one of those smart 'lazy' kids & my poor performance in school wasn't in any way due to being lazy, rather it was due to not caring about school. By middle-school I'd figured out grades don't matter. My parents made too much for me to qualify for college scholarships and honestly, I didn't need scholarships anyway since money wasn't remotely an issue in my family. I simply needed to ace one test.

Because I knew grades didn't matter and that college was covered I didn't do the work, not because I was lazy, but because it was busy work & I had better things to do like running a regional BBS, cracking software, and writing demos in 6502 assembler.
So far 25% of players I've encountered have had genitalia-related names.

This is the internet, I don't know what I expected.