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People who live in underpopulated states have a valid argument in that, if their votes are not weighted to compensate for the low density, their voices may end up not being heard. This weighting creates a minimum limit for representation.

It, however, removes the penalty for suppressing votes because the remaining votes continue to have a fixed weight.
I never see any benefit to anthropomorphizing companies.

Companies can't care for their employees because companies aren't people and don't have emotions. People in the company may care about you. And you may care about people in the company.

Once a business gets large enough, the people making the policies can't (or usually don't) care about you because they don't know you. The people who do know you can't change the policies.

And that's why I find the idea of loyalty to a company absurd.
blank for me too
Should they get tailored education? Certainly. Does that mean different schools? I'm not qualified to say, probably. I know I've seen programs recently where gifted students ended up mentoring their peers, thereby learning the material even better, and all students are lifted to a higher level. That seems like a pretty cool solution to me. But I'm not a professional educator, so I don't know what all the possible solutions are. But I do think that holding up just one possible answer for just one group of students and asking a yes/no question of whether that answer is correct is probably not looking at a big enough picture for all children.
According to Wikipedia, Aspirin is a trade name for acetylsalicylic acid which is apparently marketed as Ascriptin, Aspegic, Aspidol, and Flectadol in Italy. (Switching language in Wikipedia works great as a translation tool!) Acetaminophen is just paracetamol, apparently common Italian brands are Panadol, Efferalgan and Tachipirina.

It is well known that they can be taken together for better effect, which is hopefully what your doctor would recommend trying before trying any stronger stuff. Caffeine helps contract the blood vessels which is especially helpful during migraines. You should be able to buy combination pills with acetylsalicylic acid which is a tried dosage.

Hope that helps your mother. Migraines aren't fun in the slighest.
How Efficiency Is Wiping Out the Middle Class
Fuses and active cooling.

Each module has six groups connected in series, and each group has dozens of cells connected in parallel, each cell with its own tiny fuse (see the pictures in the article). If one cell shorts, the fuse removes it from the group, while the rest of the cells in the group is enough to keep it working. And the active cooling removes the heat released from a failing cell, so it won't overheat its neighbors.
The standard library in general encourages use of higher-order functions and concepts borrowed primarily from FPLs (see: comprehensions, map/reduce, sort, etc.) I could not imagine seeing them backtracking on this -- it only helps them to go further in that direction.

I don't think the standard library really 'encourages' this in a way that's different from most languages that support first class (rather than 'higher order') functions. If you consider python's evolution, its support for many common programming paradigms was somewhat haphazard and weak and developed over time, mostly pragmatically. OO has become stronger, the 80% use case of common functional idioms is covered by comprehensions, etc. Ill thought out features (e.g. terrible lambdas) have become de-emphasised. The choices are extensively document, even if not everyone cup of tea so it seems both glib and inaccurate to say (re: FP) 'it only helps them to go further in that direction'. How does it help them?
I wasn't commenting on whether this solution is a good one. It seems like a really poor one to me. Your comment that black markets/money will always exist as long as things people find valuable to be illegal is very true! That said, that doesn't mean that their existence (and particularly the size of it relative to the legitimate economy) isn't a problem for governments.
How many people would still use Chrome if Google rebranded it as "DoubleClick Chrome"? :)
There are several stands of genetically-pure American chestnut on the West Coast that remain because they were isolated from the blight. These were trees imported by settlers and arborists in the 19th century—they should remain protected!
> "everything you do is a political act"

That's not shaming, and it's not negative. It's a simple statement of fact.
Why do you think so, if you have the right data with many different algorithms running on it (even the one you are not interested in) i am sure it will uncover those. I am not doubting the hunch your Doctor felt due to his expertise was useless, but with continuous data ingestion and analyses coupled with as granular as the features can get this can only improve

In fact complicated algorithms with so many streams of data that are probably not directly shared by specialists until it is needed may uncover new things even before traditional Doctors spot it
> I'm sure there are similar facts telling us that without smart kids around other kids can be harmed in similar ways

My point is that rather than assuming things we think are probably are true, we should try to argue from data. Especially since people have studied this, both professionally and experimentally.

I can think of plenty of ways that your argument might not be true. For example, per TFA, if gifted kids act up or intentionally tank themselves in "regular school", then maybe it's worse for everyone for the gifted kids to be in "regular school".

Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. But rather than making guesses based on nothing but our gut, why don't we consider the experts' studies and opinions?
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In my experience, better workers rights tend to make your life better regardless of whether you work your arse off or not.

In fact, I would say that setting in place systems that push employees to work unsociably heavily and forsake family and life experience in order to be rewarded is a staple of countries with extremely toxic working cultures, such as japan and china.

Employers in countries with good workers rights tend to react mostly with abject terror if they discover you've been, say, working weekends. They know what happens if the government or local unions get wind that unpaid weekend work might be some kind of defacto standard in a workplace.
And honestly, sometimes I don't know if code is too "clever" or the reader is just too "dumb".

This is not an absolute, and needs to be answered in the context of the question: "Does my team work?"
If you're talking about Flipkart, then it's not really a tech company as much as it is a retail company these days. So it is expected to have more MBAs in important positions, or in places where they can prioritize like an MBA.

No wonder Amazon is kicking their ass, and their last few product launches were nothing short of a disaster.
Ideas word spreading....

Sugragation is never a good thing, besides how you can prove that your kid is gifted. Moreover, it will open the door to so many more prejudice and biased toward certain race and ethnicity.
Gets publicity and $$ over to a good cause. I'm loving it.
What the article is missing or did not say is that cash is now coming back. It's not like they took cash out permanently without any alternatives.

In reality, the 500 and 1000 rupee notes were removed, being replaced with notes of lower denomination. The time period in between the two is where commerce took a hit, no doubt. But it is also true that with cash back, things will return to normal.
I've reviewed a lot of people and been subjected to a lot reviews, including stack ranking at some pretty big companies. Mostly I thought they were not only unproductive but also could send the wrong signals and hurt morale.

I can also offer a few suggestions:

1) Don't stack rank, it doesn't help anything.

2) Make self assessment forms short, like one page if you have to do them. Some companies just schedule checkpoints with minimal paperwork.

3) Read what you can from Joel's companies (stackoverflow), he's always had a knack for creating productive and healthy environments. One post is here: https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/blog/3-ways-to-rethink...
PCRE in ctypes
A paramedic could see the same things on the EKG. It doesn't take much training to see bad rhythms on the monitor.
More explicitly, you have to be using the Steam Overlay to get controller support.
The browsers on iOS are little more than skins over Apples browser stack.
Learn how the language works and what all the basic pieces are.

After that, the standard library is the best source for idiomatic go code.
The flexbox bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=flexbox... E.g., "Firefox slow to the point of hanging when rendering nested flexbox layout with overflow-y: scroll", which is trivial to reproduce, and which all other modern browsers handle fine. In fact, anybody who visits our product's site using Firefox is given a warning to use any other browser: https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/issues/1314
Please don't complain about downvotes, the guidelines ask us not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Additionally, this account has been posting mostly political or ideological comments. That's not what this site is for, and eventually we ban accounts that abuse it in this way.
About to embark on a potentially large Ionic project. What were some of the issues that you had?
This is mainly what I was referring to. Obviously black markets are essentially impossible to eradicate without the elimination of any sort of legal restrictions. But it seems like a big problem for India is that otherwise legal transactions are happening in cash, and off the radar of the required tax authority.
My first meetup, I just sat there and watched the presentations, had a few drinks, and spoke to a few people. Felt almost uncomfortable. Now I go at them with gusto. People are there because they love the tech. They want to talk about it and want to tell you what they are doing with it. Meetups are usually filled with people who do not look at coding as "their day job". It's very obvious to me that it's more than that. Great place to meet kindred spirits.

Some groups though are just for fun. That's how I ended up attending a regular board game group for a while.
Snide comments aside, this entire response is jaded, accusatory, and presumptuous.

I don't know how much money Ben has nor do I care. I responded, paid the $20, and my message was a simple "Thank you!"

You either choose to see the good or try to tie in your own negative narrative. I choose to assume his intentions were noble and supported the cause.
>What about the social benefits of being around people who are on a different intellectual level?

I'm wondering how you feel about "smart" kids like Terence Tao.[1][2]

At age 14, he was in enrolled in college instead of attending high school with his "less smart" peers. At age 17, he was a graduate student at Princeton instead of being a senior at high school with other kids his age. (And working backwards from those 2 points in his timeline, he was in highschool when he should have been in middle school, etc.)

Should the young Terence Tao regardless of intelligence be denied the ability to "remove" himself from the school he is "supposed" to go so that other kids can benefit from his intellect? If at age 8, he's pulled from regular school to attend high school instead, are his parents selfish?

Is there a political movement to force all geniuses to stay with their age group and normally assigned school to fulfill a societal goal?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

[2] http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Tao.h...
> Importantly also - nearly all people will not offer a substantial reward unprompted. If you want something for working your ass of, you need to explicitly demand it, in specific terms (ex., don't ask for "a bonus", get a firm number).

This is a really good point.

This may be controversial to say but I suspect that this sort of assertive and open negotiation for future reward is part of the reason for the gender pay gap in software. For better or worse, I find that in most cases my male colleagues tend to layout more detailed expectations for compensation in advance of any salary renegotiation (promotion, raise, bonus, etc.) and to make themselves heard when they're not satisfied.

In the interest of full disclosure I am male so it could also just be that I am inexperienced with other biases relating to gender.
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> Chrome is ahead on things like Web Components because these are features that Google has wanted and pushed.

It's a feature that Firefox wanted and pushed as well, in the past. They've stopped being leaders on this particular feature though (partly because some of the proponents left, i imagine).

> It's not due to lack of implementation effort that they're disabled in Firefox, it's because Firefox wants to wait for the standardization process to continue for a bit.

You're talking about the old v0 specs that they implemented and disabled. The v1 specs are already standardized and in Chrome stable, shadow DOM is in Safari stable.

That's my real point, not that Firefox is behind Chrome, they're usually in 3rd place on most things.
That's cool. Does that mean they ported the HLSL to OpenGL and what would be the obstacle stopping a Linux Port?
>It took about 5 thousands rules to be on par with a junior infectious disease doctor if I remember my studies on this subject.

IIRC, MYCIN had several hundred rules. The researchers in this article had to pre-process 130,000 labeled examples. If you see a misclassification in an expert system you can at least backtrack and identify the individual rules that contributed to the failure. AFAIK, systemic errors in training data are much more difficult to detect and fix.

I think people tend to overstate the practical issues with expert systems and understate the issues with deep learning, partly because we have decades of experience with real-life deployments of the former and relatively little experience with the latter.
I could assume the opposite but it would spoil my joke.
Out of every 100 notes in circulation, 85 were either a 500 rupee or 1000 rupee denomination. Per Govt. report most non-reported (black) transactions were done using 500/1000 notes (black money - not reported to escape tax). The 500 also happened to be the most counterfeited one.

By removing the 500/1000s it is now much more difficult to do cash transactions involving large amounts (imagine the cash one had to carry now becomes 5-10 times).

But when doing the above, the govt. also affectively removed 85% of cash from the market - banks did not have enough cash to remit their users. However since then there is increase in cash printed and things are beginning to come back to normal.

Decline in commerce is true, but is also expected short term. As others have posted, things are coming back to normal. The daily cash with drawl is increased from 4K to 10K. People like me are hopeful about a system with more transactions happening online and black money being more difficult to hoard.
It kept pace with Chrome up until a few years ago, probably around the time that Eich left. Not saying that's causal, I don't know if it is.
But if they truly understood the risk, shouldn't they have had a handle on how many citizens (and more importantly, how much of the economy) depended on this?
> https://github.com/[github name].keys

Didn't know about that, thanks!
I truly believe with smart algorithms and big data we can change the way we live. Smart medicine, proper diagnoses and early detection of disease we can improve our lives
But there are a lot more choices than just 4 payment processors.
You have a good point at the end there; I'm wrong, there is a contingent of non-religious people who vote Republican because of the fiscal conservatism stuff (though that's pretty suspect considering how they spend like drunken sailors on the DoD budget every time they're in power).

But my main point stands: if you're a scientist, and not spouting a bunch of religious stuff, you're simply not going to get elected on the GOP ticket. The majority of GOP voters simply will not be interested, and you need a majority to get elected; the only way around this is if you're running for some office where there's no challengers so you just pick up the (R) votes from GOP voters who blindly vote (R) no matter what. But you're not going to get very far doing that, just local office.
>but when you're a young woman who needs access to family planning birth control...

I don't think a lot of poor minorities would agree your issues are more important than having spending your life in prison, your life possessions taken by the state by an unjust drug war and police state. Nor the millions of lives completely and utterly destroyed by our foreign wars. None of these people have any kind of privilege.

The progression of government power increases in the same direction with each administration. It was the other side who massively increased drug related incarcerations during Clinton's administration.

How quickly we forget how alike the sides are:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-...

You can't see that trillions spent on all these wars, domestic and foreign, leave you with less support for the exact things you mention.

The privileged class is the government class. They exempt themselves from the laws we have to follow and will they continue to accumulate wealth and power.
You overestimate the data gathering capabilities of the medical system by a huge margin.
Even in seemingly objective parameters, you will see: missing data, reporting details dependent on the gatherer, a substantial amount of inaccuracy, etc. etc.
Plus, you are describing people who barely know how to use a web browser. And you should also take into account that people driving the system don't even see the value of expert, scientific educated consultancy in those matters. For example, I was just asked to perform "data mining" on a dataset of 150 observations, 400 variables, and ~20% missing data by a renown professor. He told me I was bound to find interesting things in view of his ~400 back-to-back t-tests.

No, I am quite confident in that ML will really take off when data fed to those systems will be automatically gathered.
From what I have heard, engineering management is neither engineering nor management. :)
now they are reading it?
what about reading it in 2013?
Intellectual bullying is also a thing. Having the social intelligence not to be bullied or to form strategic alliances with bullies is useful and less likely to happen for these precious gifted geeks if they are placed together in an unrealistic safe haven. We are all in this world together. If anyone on this thread believes IQ determines social value they need to be bullied a bit more.
That's true, but is there any way to reach that group?
> You can 'discover' a place or thing that other people already know about or populate.

But you can't discover something without recognizing that it is new (someone else can discover it from your descriptions, however) and Columbus went to his grave insisting that he had reached the East Indies.

Even by the standard by which one might "discover" a populated land, Columbus didn't, he merely encountered it. Other people recognized the value and significance and the opportunities itmade available given the technology of the day, which is why his voyages (unlike prior ones) led to prolonged contact between Europe and the New World.

And his failure to recognize the novelty of what he had encountered is why Europeans ended up naming the continents of the New World after a map maker, and not Columbus.
Especially as we become evidence based vs. eminence based.
The dopamine theory of schizophrenia is one possibility. Pot use used to be considered a drug model for schizotypical thinking as well. Why wouldn't spending a long period of time thinking in a schizoid manner have something to do with the etiology of a mental illness involving extreme schizoid thinking? Certainly seems to be the case with downward spiral of some forms of depression.

People are reacting to this as if it is personal, which is a mistake. I've used more than my share in my youth. Obviously correlation doesn't imply causality, but simply dismissing the possibility because it makes you feel bad is weak minded thinking.
Nobody wants to get sorted into Hufflepuff.
> web client.

No thanks. I will keep using Thunderbird as long as I can.
Hmm, I can definitely see that. JIRA can be the slowest, awkward, non-intuitive piece of crap web app out there.
Ask HN: Do you know of any cyber security startups in SF Bay?
RSI?
> From a legal standpoint Apple don't have a monopoly in the phone market comparable to what Ms had on the desktop.

Microsoft didn't restrict what software you could install on Windows. That creates a different market.

Someone who is buying a phone can reasonably choose between iOS and Android. Someone who already has a phone and is buying an app can't reasonably choose between the iOS App Store and Google Play. And someone selling an app can't reach iOS customers via Google's or Amazon's store. They're different markets.
There is the Steam Controller Database at http://www.steamcontrollerdb.com
>>I would be curious to know how other folks hide/protect Python code?

With lawyers.

Most of the commercial products that are written in python come in with a EULA that says "don't touch".
> One of the most popular frameworks - Spring Boot - includes many of these now. It's fairly light, contained, works well in Docker. Maven is pretty straightforward for simple things, IOC is optional. I haven't exercised it heavily though, but what's wrong with those things?

It's hard to pinpoint one single thing that is the problem, but I suppose I can summarise it with that I don't think java is especially productive.

The language is rather verbose in modern terms (compare it to something with type inference like swift or rust).

The startup time of a spring-driven project used to take an age (used to be XML-parsing, then annotations), especially if housed in an app-server like jboss or glassfish, but also tomcat, jetty (compare it to how quickly an express-app in nodejs starts). This in turn affects development time.

Dealing with (somewhat) modern dataformats like JSON is is incredibly verbose (GSON, built-in, etc nothing compares to languages with what swift calls "subscribe", i.e user defined obj.blaha accessors instead of obj.getJsonValue("blaha")).

Dealing with older dataformats like XML is incredibly verbose (never mind the gazillion XML <-> Object mapping frameworks with source generation pre-compilation stages, insanely long namespaced method calls, etc).

The static type system is actually just making the code very verbose without helping much because pretty much anything can still be null (again compare with rust/swift where static types + optionals means compilation actually provides some level of security).

It had massive corporate backing (Sun/Oracle) to instill the idea that pretty much anyone can learn programming as a trade (I've worked extensively in India with outsourced java-programming, and the quality of code produced by some people labelled "senior" is absolutely shocking. This is not unique to India however).

Things like ORMs (Hibernate and EJB) meant most people just forgot how RDBMs work and threw crazy hardware at the persistence layer to compensate for lousy performance (ORMs are typically fine, users not understanding how they work are the problem).

It's owned by Oracle.

I could probably go on, but it's bed time.
checkout "tabs outliner" on chrome.
nice! more surveillance opportunities.