skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It does not have much high impact negative publicity associated to it (yet).

A billion compromised accounts seems like it could fill that role. Many people may not understand their online information's privacy/security, but that's an ear-grabbing number.
https://sci-hub.ac/ is always there for you [edit: thanks]
Another issue that drives me nuts with Google Drive is that it crashes Lightroom if I keep LR catalog in Drive folder. I either have to shutdown Drive while working in Lightroom or move catalog out of Drive folder.

I don't think I ever had crashes when I kept catalog in Dropbox folder. Once my subscription runs out, I will probably try out OneDrive or go back to Dropbox.
When I look at software dev career boards most of the jobs are for senior roles. Look at Stack Overflow Careers and Glassdoor, just search "junior" then search "senior". I searched several major cities and they all had far more senior roles than junior/entry.
I agree that a lack of precision with respect to correspondence with the real world is inevitable. I don't think that at all mandates a neural network (and artificial neural networks are only superficially similar to human neurons, and their performance often improves by making them even less analogous.) But the idea that the world can't be fully and accurately described by a simple system of precise concepts, as much as it would pain Leibniz, doesn't necessitate that an intelligent agent couldn't use strictly rule-based logic.
People continue to focus on income inequality and ignore wealth inequality. Income is a terrible way understand inequality and also not a good way to compare how inequality is changing, since the really rich people increase their wealth in ways other than income.

The bizarre focus on income means that we set our sights on a weird slice of upper middle class professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) while ignoring totally the real rich people.
maybe Best In Show, that dog documentary, is a better example.
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while this isnt in any way a scientific observation, it does feel that the quality of elsevier publications has been falling recently.

it seems it was 2013 the last time they were shouting about rising impact factors.

losing all of germany will certainly hit the various if hard.
I agree with you but wouldn't the first element from the right be a[-0], sort of an abuse-of-notation for a[N-0]?
Not really. Globalism allowed management to get rich without having to share much or any of the pie with anyone else by outsourcing and shipping manufacturing to low-cost no-regulation jurisdictions.

Massively lower taxes reduced the redistribution effect, accelerating the accumulation of capital to the top.

A global capitalist economy can't survive 90% crushed labor, 9% upper-middle, and 1% who own almost everything. Those conditions eventually lead to revolution. Or rather it would be more accurate to say those conditions have historically led to unrest, collapse, and/or revolution.

Why would future generations feel any loyalty to their nation or this system if they're barely making ends meet while they watch billionaires cut their own taxes to make themselves richer and shift more of the burden of maintaining society on the poor and shrinking middle class?

None of this is good for the startup ecosystem. Fewer consumers with money to spend means less customers and less advertising targets. That's the problem with capital accumulating at the top: without customers there are fewer and fewer legitimate investments that have any yield so capital is forced to make increasingly reckless investments or do the equivalent of stuffing the money under a mattress. None of that is putting capital to useful work.
From that perspective neither mainstream candidate made any sense.
One of the points Piketty makes in his book is that the rich generally aren't the heroic creative geniuses of Ayn Rand's imagination.

Most wealth is inherited. Wealth grows faster than the economy at large. The rich get richer. They spend their money lobbying for lower tax rates, and they get them. They lobby for privatization, and they get them. They lobby for monopolies and patents and bailouts, and they get them.

Interesting to note that half the population are no richer than they were almost 50 years ago.
That's what MS developer tools are becoming.
If they are universal, what is wrong by using a reall word language?

>"full of awkward inconsistencies, warts, and good-enough-for-nows"

can not agree with 'full'. but Is there a teaching language better? I do not think so.
Yeah, I've never really understood being _offended_ by being asked to do something relatively simple (and honestly, those are actually pretty good problems). I might consider it a little amusing if somebody asked me to write FizzBuzz or something really basic, but I would shrug my shoulders and do it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
"It seems like citizens are no longer awake and fighting for the bill of rights"

Nothing in the bill of rights applies here. You don't have freedom of speech on Facebook - They make the rules and decide what is allowed and not allowed. It's a company, not the US Government. If enough of their users are upset that fake news like "The Pope endorses Donald Trump" (a real example) is surfacing constantly on their news feeds, it is in Facebook's best interest as a company to try to remedy the situation. They make money when people are actively using their site - and if the "Fake News Epidemic" is causing people to stop using Facebook, they'll try to stop it.

Nobody is making anybody use Facebook - it does seem kind of silly to me, but clearly they see value in this (or not doing this was losing them money). What we really need to do is stop treating large corporations like they are a government entity and getting upset when they start restricting "free speech" - they have no obligation to allow people to post anything they want, and can manipulate your timeline as much as they want because you signed their ToS.
Have you tried Alpha-GPC? Some people say it works better than CDP Choline, but it seems to be very situational.

Lately I've had more issues with staying focused and refocusing after distractions and I've started looking into nootropics. Unfortunately they seem to affect everyone differently.
Well, yeah, I didn't want to go that deep into it, of course there is a reason why they are linked. But none that links them inherently, which is what I wrote. And the accident really simply is that "zero" wasn't an accepted concept yet when ordinal numbers were invented, which led to the first ordinal number being called "first" and not "zeroth". Meanwhile, humanity largely has accepted zero as a useful and coherent concept, but just didn't bother to update the names of ordinals to fit better with that, which is where the confusion comes from.
This post has a lot of details about it: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2016/12/12/why-i-still-wont-r...
Unmoderation = infinite spam.
To be honest, it's also a good filter for people like, well, the author. I don't want to work with an arrogant "rockstar" who's "too good" for FizzBuzz.
George Dyson acknowledged (about 8:38 in the video) that although the IAS itself was founded in 1930, the first idea for it was expressed in 1916 by Thorstein Veblen (at about 12:10):

"Academic houses of refuge . . . a freely endowed central establishment where teachers and students of all nationalities, including Americans with the rest, may pursue their chosen work . . ."
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I wish they'd just put the data online for us to look at.
No, but they do, demonstrably, have trouble running them without community's support, for example: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=28545

I don't think they disappear, or anything, but I think the idea that they would get away scot-free is dead wrong.
No this article talks only about taxable income. Wealth inequality is far more important and for some reason nobody talks about it.
This recent post talks about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161538
"You're depressed? Here: instead of fixing the problem that's causing your sadness, take this pill and it'll all be fine!"

I find this attitude perplexing. Instead of facing the problem(s), drug your mind so you're less aware of the sadness it's causing you. Reminds me of the soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

And yes, I recognize that there are certain people who suffer from major clinical depression. By all means, prescribe then anti-depressants. I just think that our brains experience sadness for a reason: it's a signal that something is wrong in our life and that we need to change it.
I wonder if this is specifically to address MonkeyBrains hanging antennas on building roofs. Are there any other local ISPs that would need building permission for subscription?
To expand on my comment below, I assumed zero-based indexing was a natural extension from binary. When using bits (in this case three bits) as a representation, you start with 000. Naturally that would be referred to as 0.
Yes these Journals without the Internet would just sit in boxes in Libraries (They still do this with print journals) WHY is it cost more to have OLD Journals then they did when they were first published. It is such an anti-Education, anti-Science corporate plan based on selfish Win for them and loss for Science and ideas.
> Based on my experiences over the past year, the real shortage seems to be in competent contractors, plumbers, and electricians--at least in areas with growth.

Would you seriously say that our modern electronic indoor water closets - with automatic, tempered, toilet seat, cleaning, back-washing and drying while playing music - have to be repaired by a human ? Not seriously, or ? the "Supermario"-thing... wasn't only an insider gag? confused
Yeah, well the problem is that while Trump campaigned on change, the actual changes he plans to implement will just centralize wealth at the top even more.

America had a chance with Bernie, but due to some combination of media attention, Clinton's ambition, DNC's corruption, Russian interference, increasingly-polarized news, and the generally anti-socialist slant of American political discourse, they threw it away.

Bernie was the "fuck this, change everything" candidate that actually had the disenfranchised's needs at heart. Trump claims the same but doesn't substantiate it.

EDIT: And honestly, I don't think Bernie would have been able to accomplish much, or that Obama has done much objectionable. I get the sense that Obama actually wants to improve things for the middle class, but is realistic about what he can accomplish with Republican houses shutting him down at every turn simply because any policy that helps the middle class appears anti-capitalist (i.e. socialist) when capitalism is increasingly synonymous with centralization of wealth as efficiency grows.

EDIT Again: This whole "campaign for the poor but systematically serve only large businesses, then tell everyone that the democrats -- who actually systematically care about humans a little bit -- are the devil" thing is kind of the GOP's M.O., and, as an outsider, I think it's disgusting. Trump is only an exceptionally bad example because he amplifies some of the standard GOP stances while mixing in his own crazy brand of narcissism.
How about we split the difference and start at 0.5? That sounds like a fair compromise.
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I think maybe this is something that can only be solved by elected officials being pressured by the public. Expecting companies to go up against the government is not reasonable.
logical but still useless.

if a measurement like time remaining can change at random based on load and the load can change at random based on user behavior then why show time remaining at all?

if it jumps from 90 minutes to 10 minutes, what's the point of even showing it?

"okay now i have 10 minutes left"

it would be more accurate to say "you have 90 minutes left at your current level of cpu utilization" but i don't think that can fit in the menu

help me figure it out, i don't get why a user would need this functionality ever.
The example you responded to isn't a "What If" scenario - it actually happened. The headline and body of the article claimed Donald Trump was endorsed by the Pope with no evidence. It's fake news no matter how you look at it.
Were you talking to your psychiatrist about this at the time? If you were prescribed medication there should have been a doctor involved in the process at some point that could consult you about possible side effects of the given drug and addressing them, probably by changing medication.
>has somewhat odd syntax

says the programmer using significant whitespace

runs for cover
Mortgage payments are bundled into securities called RMBS. By shorting these securities, you are not shorting the mortgage company, but the assets themselves (the mortgage receivables).
Well, the three visualizations in the article all use Tableau Public, and you can download them yourself and play with the data.
adding "magical" in front of everything isn't a good argument either.

I rise to the level of my competition.
If you're going to use that service, I recommend using the TLS link https://sci-hub.ac
My recommendations currently for this sort of thing come down to two.:

Amazon Lightsail https://amazonlightsail.com/

Nearly Free Speech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

There's also the s3 / Route53 / AWS Lambda solution mentioned by "ryptophan" which is inexpensive but a bit more complex.

There's also Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/products/ which could, especially via https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher give you for example click-to-launch phpList or LetsChat up through SuiteCRM or Mautic and on to Redis, Cassandra, or a whole OS.

There's really more than one axis of "simple". Do you want to manage a single app? Do you want a simple way to launch a whole cluster of servers? Do you want a full OS VPS with a single app on it to start?
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that you have a typo in the word "Caution"?

I'd be very suspicious of any failure avoidance system that relies on "user caution".
Dijkstra mentions Mesa offering all four options.
Mesa's interval notation was

[0..5] 0,1,2,3,4,5

(0..5) 1,2,3,4

[0..5) 0,1,2,3,4

(0..5] 1,2,3,4,5

This reflects the concept of closed and open intervals in mathematics. It might have been useful when porting FORTRAN programs to Mesa. In FORTRAN, arrays start from 1. Pascal required a range in the declaration. When C started consistently from 0, that was considered radical.

For programming, as Dijkstra mentions, a consistent start from zero seemed to be helpful.
My experience with diet exactly matches yours, due to health problems I had to start eating the fodmap diet, improvement in mental state and focus was incredible, I felt like I was back in my twenties again.
On the other hand, when they are used properly, they have an absolutely aazing impact.

Show me any other medicine that removes almost all the symptoms, has so few side-effects, works within 30 min of taking it, and is effective in 90% of cases.
I have to offer a counter view to this. Using letters of the alphabet as an analogy isn't accurate to me. Each letter we accept as an element... so a true analogy would be to put a Space as the first character of the alphabet, to indicate the absence of a letter.

Zero indicates the absence of a value in our numbering system. If I have a single apple, I have 1 Apple, not 0 Apples. Thus if I have 1 element in an Array I have element[1], not element[0]. It is more natural for us to use numbers not by their cardinal position in a set, but by their inferred value... because they represent quantities.

I am one of those who feels the confusion around zero bounded indexes leads to countless issues because it is counter-intuitive to how we use numbers in real life. I agree it is beaten into developers that this is how is should be, but to me we would have been further ahead to let developers accept what comes intuitively.
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> You'd be a fool to turn down unlimited zero-interest credit.

Maybe, but this guy served half a year in jail. You could probably do better if you could show the court that you're not a hapless kid buying sports cars, but it seems rather risky.
Interesting reply, it seems you've misconstrued the intent of my post.

I was merely sharing my observation that certain areas in the South Bay tend to have more stuff to do (i.e. a downtown). Not sure why you took that as me denigrating parents and families. Perhaps I was being vague.

I agree that culture is something, as you put it, that is kept inside of us. However, people don't exist in a vaccum. We are very much influenced by the environment we live in. Most people don't exist in a cultural vacuum where they don't interact with the larger cultural forces in their environment.

My (admittedly anecdotal) experience has been that the South Bay is primarily a work culture. Having lived both in SF and the South Bay, I can tell you that both are offering very different answers for the same question, regardless of whether or not you are single, married, or have kids.
I feel the same. Even as a .net developer, I'm really struggling to care about .NET Core.
My experiences trying to use it have been bad, and the communication around the whole project has been worse.
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A few years ago when I began to use Grubhub more exclusively to order food, I realized that I was effectively being shut out from other establishments that weren't on Grubhub, simply because I hadn't checked to look at what was nearby, and because the options on Grubhub were usually good enough on their own. It was "post-Google," in a way.

I imagine this effect would be even more pronounced with "the everything store" encompassing an ever-larger portion of total commerce.
Could you point me to your fork? :)
A single person reportedly did consider it more important: "According to two of the former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKC...
actually the MPG-style indicator would be more appropriate in this case i think. they're similar but aren't they different?

one shows rate and the other shows the amount of gas left? it might be accurate to change it from "time remaining" to watts per hour or something idk.
> It's anandtech, it will be accurate.

There are 87 benchmarks there. I do not believe they re-do all 87 each time someone releases a processor. It's more likely that they are reusing old 8370 results and comparing with new 6600 results. I question whether all variables (OS, drivers, minor version numbers of software, etc.) are the same. (I'm not saying that re-doing the 8370 tests would favor AMD, just that it would give more accurate results). They don't mention what settings they used for the software, and what exactly each program is stressing. Splitting the PhotoScan results into five seems very arbitrary. Two decimal places in each result with no error bars, no indication of how they performed the measurement, no indication of the number of times they performed the test leads me to think that it's not a very well conducted set of tests.

> > They're evenly matched on other tests (e.g. Handbrake & "Agisoft PhotoScan

> No. We don't seem to have the same benchmarks.

We clearly have the same benchmarks. "evenly matched" was a poor choice of words, but I don't see a ~23% advantage for the 6600 to be very significant, when other results have the 8370/6600 100% faster than the 6600/8370.

> They mean get an i5: Way better in single threaded workloads which is what counts for 90% of software, faster in realistic multi-threaded workloads.

For browsing, office and most games the 8370 and 6600 are close enough that the average user won't notice a difference. Most users don't spend any time waiting for software that eats 100% of <= 4 cores, which is where the i5's advantage lies. What you find "realistic", I may not, and vice-versa. It depends on the user, and what he's using his computer for.

The i5 may well be the better choice for most users. It certainly has a number of advantages: less power-hungry, newer chipset/features, more upgrade options. My point is simply that the FX cpus are still price and performance competitive with new i5s. Which is better depends on the needs of the user.
Have you checked here? http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/capital21c2

Not sure if that gets you what you are looking for.
The readability, unintuitive, and "odd syntax" comments are somewhat subjective, though I'd curious to hear what parts are odd and unintuitive for you.

I linked to a perspective on where Pyret fits in in another similar answer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187379

We also may have different definitions of what a "beginner" needs for community and help.

Pyret is used in middle and high school classes (along with the undergraduate level). Those students, nor their teachers, are likely to know what IRC is or how to seek help on it. We do a lot of curriculum development, and professional development workshops in the summer are a major way we interact with these teachers and set them up with a high-bandwidth way to communicate with us over the year (which is direct email or mailing lists).

Prompt and detailed help is certainly available for teachers (who then help their students), and it's coming from the folks who designed the curriculum and the language together. Those mailing lists are public (pyret-discuss [1] and bootstrap-teachers [2]), and anyone is welcome to ask away.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pyret-discuss
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bootstrap-discuss

Of course, Pyret doesn't have the huge community, Stack Overflow presence, documentation maturity, etc. of Python (or other major languages) for general programming. That takes time and consistent effort, but the lack of it doesn't negate the reasons Pyret is good for its current use cases.
ORMs are almost always a bad idea. They add an unnecessary layer of complexity which will result in both speed and space inefficiencies. If your project is small just use SQL, it will be easier. If your project is large you will end up writing a lot of customized SQL anyway, so just use SQL. If your project is in the middle, will never become large, you won't have to support it later and you already know the ORM tool then you may benefit from ORM.
That reads more like a bucket list than a todo list.
Because "you have x minutes left at your current level of cpu utilization" has always been implied.

If user have forgotten that, it's no reason to remove it.

In fact there's rarely a reason to remove a feature if it doesn't cause issues.

Taking your own exemple of video rendering, if I begin a render and After Effect (or similar) says it will take 50 minutes to render, but the remaining time says I only have 20 minutes left of battery (implying "at the current load"), I know I have to charge my laptop if I want to render the video.
well it explains something, but a comic only goes so far
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It is far easier to get data about income (through tax records) than it is to get data about wealth.
>> Maybe Pyret isn't for beginners, and it's intended to teach people who already have some basic knowledge more advanced concepts like functional programming <<

I often hear people say that functional programming is advanced concept. I think students are able to learn functional programming as their first model of computation, before they are even exposed to Turing machine computing. It's not like you have to first learn C, then some java and only after you become familiar with OO, you have enough knowledge to grasp functions as first class citizens.