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I won't address your second point, as the problem we'd then be discussing is completely different (i.e. we're now discussing resource allocation).

However, in regards to your first point: I said nothing about crippling those ahead. I'm curious what makes you say that honestly. Putting gifted students with "regular" students is not regression to the mean. Regression to the mean, would be putting gifted students in an environment where they wouldn't thrive. However, this said environment would also cripple regular students. So the solution, as I've said, and you agree with is to make education better, more generally.
They were simply too late to the market, but they had to do something, if they stick to the same course they will always have a very small slice of the mobile market as most people don't replace the browser on their mobile

I'm surprised that Google and in particular Apple aren't coming under scrutiny from competition watchdogs as Microsoft did with IE in the early 2000s.
about:performance gives no insights? It could be just one add-on that spoils it all, unfortunately.
The way I would put it is that the key skill is knowing how to manage engineers. It's different from managing other kinds of employees. The easiest way to acquire the necessary understanding is to be an engineer oneself, but it isn't necessarily the only way. In particular, it takes considerable humility, which doesn't seem to be something they teach in MBA programs.
I looked this up a while back out of curiosity. Based on what I read, if you just stop coming in, the company is entitled to come after you for damages although, in practice, this probably doesn't happen.
The same way all contracts work in every civilized country. If you sign a contract and violate it you are penalized in some way, usually that way is specified in the contract (e.g. fined a certain sum of money). Not sure how this can in any way be equated to "slavery".
But it was effective if people and businesses switched to using banks. That could happen even if no black money was trapped. Get rid of petty and unintended corruption, and they you can focus on the truly corrupt whom this change hasn't affected.
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I don't have much experience with specialists, but my experience with GPs has been awful, for every good one you meet, you have to deal with 5 other terrible ones. I will never give up my GP until he retires or an AI replaces him because he is probably the first doctor since my childhood with an actual air of competency around him.

I feel bad for the rest of the people who visit my clinic and have to deal with any of the other garbage practitioners who usually fall into one of two buckets. Foreign (mainly Indian) hacks with zero medical knowledge and bedside manners, and greedy yuppie strivers with a knack for memorization but terrible analytical ability.

Most doctors don't deserve their inflated salaries or social status, and I hope they are soon brought back down to Earth by technology, they have been able to skid by for way too long.
You already have your next job, so that's good.

Write down your thoughts and feelings on how things went with this last job. Then, sleep on it and revisit the next day, trying to remove blame and anger from it. Your goal should be to give your old employer actionable steps on how they can improve. They probably are not fully aware of the way it impacted you. Try to see things from their point of view, be empathetic.

Then, tell the old employer as early as possible that you are leaving. It is better to know now and be able to make plans for your absence than to know the day or week before launch.

Be prepared to be yelled at and offered extra pay, etc. If there is something that could make you stay, write down those things so you are prepared to make a clear choice and not an emotionally driven (perhaps by guilt or obligation).

Be generous to your old employer and to your new one in this way.
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Good idea! We had a beta signup form up there before but just took it down today. We might bring that back for people outside of the states.

We don't predict portion sizes yet. We could try adding that once we do.
What chart were you looking at? It seems like you might have been interpreting the statistics presented incorrectly. The first chart shows the US having ~3.5 deaths per 100k people from firearms.

Each other EU country has somewhere in the range of .5 deaths per 100k people. An eyeball average would be .5 deaths per 100k people throughout Europe. Are you trying to add the bars up? Because if that's the case, your interpretation of the statistics presented is wrong.
Utah. I didn't research it thoroughly but have heard numerous times that it's legal. It was only a week-and-a-half pay at a low salary, so it was more of an insult than significant financial loss.
Basic income is a pipe dream. We need a new economy.
> I also find it funny that people compare him to Hitler.

I've seen him compared to Kim Jong-Un, Mussolini, Putin, the Roman Emporer Caligula, King Louis XVI of France, Emporer Maximilian I of Mexico, and to the leadership of the Communist Party of China generally, as well, among others. Your post seems to be premised on the idea that Trump has been compare exclusively to Hitler, and not or other authoritarians, which is not the case.
It's not like it was before. JIT engines made the situation more complicated. The security problems are hard.
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I looked at the election results and saw a sea of red from coast to coast, with Hilary doing well in high population areas but losing majority everywhere else.

But you understand the part about the "sea of red" mostly reflecting the (much) lower population density (and hence, greater land area per voter) in pro-Trump states, right? And that if you actually looked at map that expanded or contract each precinct according to population size -- that that map would be nearly evenly split between red and blue, right? Such that'd you'd hardly be able to tell which side (red or blue) had the greater share.

Right?

Then she lost rather dramatically.

Actually in historical terms, she lost the electoral vote rather narrowly (specifically in the bottom quartile of loss margins, throughout U.S. history).

Yet somehow you settled on the belief that she lost "dramatically." How so, exactly?
As a dedicated FF user: It feels significantly slower than chrome, it's hard to figure out what tab is killing things, and they keep making choices that I consider highly questionable.

I do love FF, and it is the browser I use everyday. But it's not without it's own warts, which Chrome is much better at hiding.
Thought experiment: do you think some part of your job will be automated before or after hospitals automate away 50% of their medical staff?
I hope someday soon we'll develop systems that allow us to "ask" a ML algorithm what factors led to a decision (diagnosis in this case).

It would be interesting to compare that with the current state of the art in the field, and see if ML can contribute new scientific/medical theory as well.
OK, so if you are all learning the same material, what happens when someone learns all the material months before everyone else?

Do they just sit around and do nothing? Is that really a productive use of their time?
A studious freshman is usually on par with his calculus instructor (Math PhD) in the domain of textbook college calculus.

Being advanced(PhD) or gifted usually means pursuing more open-ended type interests and research. The foundational skills, which form the majority of K-12 curriculum, won't be out of reach for someone keeping pace in non advanced tracks.
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This is going to be part of a greater trend of automation starting to affect fields considered to be white collar and paths to prosperity. I think the same is going to happen with financial analysts, entry-level lawyers etc. It'll be interesting to see the political response, especially given how charged the atmosphere has become around "preserving" jobs.
I was curious and installed Firefox on android with adblockers and everything on my Pixel XL. I was decidedly underwhelmed. It's performance was far below my expectations.
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> Type systems (e.g. TypeScript) expose complexity well. Maybe I don't understand your comment - are you writing only simple apps which don't use objects?

Yes and no. With Typescript, js developers tend to write js code like they would write Java code, in all its verbosity. They don't need to, but they do.
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I've read your piece, and unfortunately the overall tone sounds like a rant. I'm sure it wasn't your intent, but tone is hard to convey in a purely textual medium sometimes. I fall victim to this often, and have been actively working to try to avoid excessively negative tone (even if I feel that way).

The ranty tone of the piece obscures the rest of the points you were trying to make - many are good, but a strong tone will immediately put people on the defensive rather than trying to open up and understand what's being said.
Also, the stock market isn't the economy.
I suppose it is naive of me to expect 18 year olds to have the maturity to understand the differences between people.

I'm just hopeful that the poor kids would understand that the merit of their hard work has at least placed them on equal footing with the rich kids when it comes to educational opportunity and resume credentials.

I hope that there is a mentor on campus who can show them that this is something to be proud of.
My biggest issue with the pricing page is the sheer amount of stuff on there. There is WAAAAAYY too many features listed to cross reference between four different ones. I feel like you'd get a much greater response with simplification. Less is more.
> Funny that I had very nearly the same experience in Texas. I had even been moved into a "Gifted and Talented" program which segregated us from the regular kids. While we did occasionally get to do something above and beyond the vast majority of the time was spent in a prison like setting where all we did was focus on standardized testing.

Exact same situation here, but Florida. Elementary school was alright, but middle school became pure FCAT preparation and nothing else. My parents withdrew me from them at that point and put me back into regular classes.

They also used a "block schedule", where each day, you would only attend half your classes, but for twice as long, alternating which classes on which days, and then rotating the order of the classes. (So of your 6 classes, you attended daily: 1,3,5 then 2,4,6, then 3,5,1, then 4,6,2, then 5,3,1...).

Here's an calendar I found of a school currently doing this, tell me this isn't confusing as hell:

http://ponce.dadeschools.net/blockschedule.asp
I honestly don't notice the difference between chrome and firefox. What do I want my browser to do? Block ads and stay out of my way. Both browsers do that just fine.
> once multiprocess is done and modulo a 2 or 3x rendering speedup that Servo may be able to bring (which will probably be the last advance of that size)

That's what we said for years about computing power and the Moor law's : "transistor can't get tynier than xxx nm". It happened anyway because there used to be that much economic incensitive to improve computer. Now research in micro processor is so expensive that the gain in computationnal power are found elsewhere. But there is always ways to improve things. The question is : "is there people eager to fund research". As long as the answer is yes, we'll find ways to improve web browser.

In the web there is so much money involved that the answer will still be yes long after servo shipped.
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Same here.

I keep Chrome on Linux only for its developer tools, which are clearly more performant, and for its updated and sandboxed Flash.

But I only bring it up for those two features. Otherwise Firefox with a ton of extensions, including Tab Center, is my default choice. I don't see in what way it would be inferior to Chrome.

In fact, it has several user-level features that I miss in other browsers, such as column / rectangular selection of tables, automatic saving of form input, Ctrl+I dialog with a list of pictures in the current page, and so on. Don't tell me these are "power user" or developer features!

Firefox for Android is also very good, IMHO better than Chrome, and it supports uBlock, Stylish, and so on.
> A fact is generally considered to be a proposition that is true.

Where do you get that idea? A fact has to be "established." As in the trial, in front of a jury.

Now in science, the jury are qualified scientists. Others simply aren't qualified. Even unqualified people can invalidate something that is believed to be a fact. But they can't do by just being loud. The jury has to acknowledge that that unqualified guy is not speaking nonsense.

Read about the testing of EmDrive as an example. The guy who made it and can't explain it will still be accepted to be the discoverer, if his claimed effect gets to be really proved. The jury was skeptical, but they will still accept the results, if the measurements demonstrate it "beyond any doubt." At the moment, what was measured is far from that.

Another example: global warming is a scientific fact. There are some loud persons claiming that it isn't so, but what they bring to support their claims is truly and utterly worthless. Who says that: the climate scientists, all in the world. How do we know it's true? Because that's how science works, the specialists are trained the whole life to recognize the valid claims. The valid claims would become a new facts. The deniers don't have them.
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> We don’t predict portion sizes yet. At the moment we give a sane default and ask the users to adjust it.

This is a serious problem. Research suggests that one of the main causes of obesity in children is lack of ability to identify portion sizes or understand how much to eat.

Obviously there is a market of people who understand this well and want to track what they eat, but you are very likely going to be misleading a very significant amount of your userbase into making worse decisions for themselves.
you seem confused. Please explain how lambda and performance are "notoriously" unlikely to go hand-in-hand. They're orthogonal, yes. "Notorious"..what does that actually mean?

Also I will disagree that stdlib and core are "very different problems". Exhibit A: Go delivers stdlib and core language together, hand-and-glove style, with out-of-the-box huge functionality. It's one reason why it's killing Python. Stdlib is a key part of language functionality and is intricately linked to uptake. Just ask Ocaml.
I'm not interested in the closed- or open- source aspects of the issue. I'm interested in allowing other browser extensions to access my passwords. The issue is whether or not passwords should be stored in a browser extension, not about access to the source code.
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> Don't most distros use it now?

I'd submit that, in order to use systemd, you must have to give up the term "distro" to describe yourself.

With that in mind, there are only 5 distributions left:

1) Devuan

2) Slackware (including Slax)

3) Void Linux

4) Gentoo (including Calculate Linux)

5) systemd

If you wanted to vote with your feet, and wanted to keep .deb compatability, you'd move to Devuan. Otherwise, there are four other choices, two of which have LiveCD/LiveUSB install options.
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That's just not true.
You often use channels for messages of various kinds, or for returning values in async code.
I think it will be both. They will start with software for doctors - who will use it because the computer never forgets to ask some critical question that could discover a 1 in a million disease and not the common cold (with similar symptoms) that the everyone else in the office today has.

Eventually urgent cares and ER will install them for people directly. No reason the machine can't prescribe antibiotics for the latest form of strep that is going around. That leaves the doctor for the hard cases where the machine doesn't know.
It's an incredibly safe assumption to make, though. This isn't enough of a problem in practice to amount to a negative for elixir or a pro for erlang.
Nope, that doesn't logically follow. Different ideologies have different impacts on the world. If you group people just by ideology alone you'll be missing the bigger picture.
+1 for integrations. I would use this if it could send data over to Google Fit or MyFitnessPal or Fitbit etc.
This reminds me of a talk that I saw about wavelet based algorithms in the 1990s for detecting tumors in mammograms.

The algorithms found most of the tumors that humans had missed, with similar false positive rates. BUT humans refused to work with the software!

The problem was that the software was very, very good at catching tumors in the easy to read areas of the breast, and had lots of false positives in more complicated areas. Humans spent most of their effort on the more complicated areas. Every tumor that the software found that the human didn't simply felt like the human hadn't paid attention - it was obvious once you looked at it. The mistakes felt like stupid typos do to a programmer. But the software constantly screwed up where you needed skill. The result is that humans learned quickly to not trust the software.
That's the difference between a manager trying to be the grease between all the gears of the team, and a manager who wants to provide a little extra force himself on every gear.

Both management styles help the gears turn, but with the latter method you end up with more friction between the gears.
It's a bid from the bank that holds the mortgage -- mostly symbolic. In effect it's a transaction to write off the loan and take possession of the property. There were no real bidders, as the bank could raise the bid all the way to the amount they're owed without any real effect on their bottomline.
Yes, I'm in the United Kingdom and getting the same message.
> Remember when we prosecuted Microsoft for bundling a browser with an OS? Imagine the future we'd live in if we'd be willing to let one tech company amass that much power.

> Thank God we nipped that in the bud.

https://xkcd.com/1118/
I think I see where you're coming from...?

First - I'm straight up not talking about only the headline.

Strawman'ing is a real thing, and Mikeb85's comment is doing it. The article has six sentences, and then a bunch of Orwell links.

Only one of those sentences is about anything other than Orwell, and that sentence is a link to an article about Orwell, and how "alternative facts" sounds a lot like Newspeak.

At no point is either the original article, or its sole political link, making any kind of comment of argument on any of the things in Mikeb85's comment.

Context is great! Establish some, and then present your points, arguments, and comments.
It's self correcting. That's the point. When it is wrong scientists admit it, and use those examples as case studies for future generations.
its easy to say that as a rich white guy but when you're a young woman who needs access to family planning birth control, a kid who can't afford school lunches, or someone with a pre-existing condition, or any minority really, it really does matter. funny you mention stuff like drug wars, when most likely the incoming administration will crack down on states with legal marijuana when the other party would never do that. not to mentioon, you will see the police state militarized like never before. remember, the current guy is going to reinstate torture as well as stop and frisk and talking about sending the 'feds' into chicago already.

but yes, if you're a privileged white male the only things that affect your life are the ones that affect your pocketbook.
There is a lot of escorting on Fetlife, a quick check of the site will reveal plenty of prostitution which is why I didn't apply there for a job when they were once advertising for Rails devOps people with a gigantic salary(for Canada) and I went through the site to check it out. Too risky to end up like Redbook people who got arrested.
Hedging is about protecting your downside. 100% long funds like your index fund may do well in a rising market, but when the market declines you may find yourself wishing you had a hedge fund instead.
> None of them have been attacked...

Calling people's fear of guns "unscientific" based on them not having been personally a victim of gun violence is nonsense.
Despite failing at execution (let's run gobs of JS on barebones, circa ~2008-equivalent hardware), the Firefox OS project brought light to the problem that a mobile OS increasingly a portal to the Web and a parallel set of proprietary services. Both the Free Software Foundation [1] and the EFF [2] consider mobile OS as a crucial frontier.

It's little comfort for desktop-users to be able to dodge Google's browser logged into Google's services and serving Google ads, or Microsoft's browser on Microsoft's OS-and-apps-as-a-Service which surfaces Microsoft ads, when one can only meaningfully avoid it on mobile by switching to the premium devices offered by Apple, who runs an equivalent walled ecosystem, with the sole exception of not monetizing your browsing habits and content.

That being said, it's a hard problem, and if Firefox the Desktop Browser sinks into irrelevance the battle will be completely lost.

On the desktop, Firefox faces mounting challenges from having to appeal to distinct demographics [3][4] who have conflicting needs and wants, and having to simultaneously compete and cooperate [5][6][7][8] with Google, an entity that uses its position in controlling both the client and the server to rapidly further its goals and advance the Web in a way that promotes their interest [9][10][11][12][13].

[1] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/ [2] https://www.eff.org/mobile-devices [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425956 [4] https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2013/08/firefox-user-types-in-no... [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12338170#12338445 [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042767#12044962 [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13390846#13392833 [8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129691#12131403 [9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296616#12299230 [10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12453646#12454524 [11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383006#13386719 [12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12174503#12175561 [13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12863565#12867493
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We plan on adding healthkit integration soon. Not sure if we could do anything to provide deeper integration with MFP.
The point of that discussion was that everyone had plenty of opportunity to say what exactly the problem was with immigrants, other than that they have a different ethnicity and language. They didn't.
Ah, I'm Canadian, many developers take some time off between gigs to recharge. Our health care is somewhat tied to our employer but it's not as bad as the US.

I'm more concerned about the scenario where a developer has been working 12+ hour days on a release and then 50 or so hours later is now trying to ramp up on at our company.
But schools are made up of the children that attend them.. If a gifted child ends up in a bad school, he can certainly boost their esteem and encourage competition among intellectual thoughts.

One good seed can really foster a lot of inspiration.