skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, I would happily teach another kid something if that kid was generally smart. It was an investment of time. There was the possibility that they could teach me things.

For a given pair of students X and Y, it may be a poor investment for X to teach Y anything, if X will almost surely dominate Y within the problem domain. It would be stupid to force X to teach Y in this setting.
Sounds like a simple lie to me.
I started hearing about this several days ago via a subreddit. There had been some confusion//discussion about what was going on regarding the group deletions.

I'm glad to get more of the story.
There's a specific qualification called a Masters of Engineering Management. Maybe it needs to be more common.
Well for me a similar dream came true when I moved from third world city where people defecating in open all over, kids playing in overflowing garbage and folks living on sewage pipes to a Chicago suburb.
Trump orders wall to be built on Mexico border
Why not just make schools better for all, rather than replicating the educational resource hoarding that takes place in private schools?
Systems that outperform doctors in some specific area of diagnostics aren't new. One of the earliest examples of such systems is Mycin [1], which also was developed at Stanford, but around forty-something years ago. Never went to production because of practical issues that have nothing to do with its accuracy. It's interesting that all of those "practical issues" are no longer relevant, and yet we don't see a widespread use of similar software.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
It's super clean already with CDK. You just issue a single command from your laptop, something like: `juju add-unit k8s-node` or `juju add-unit -n 10 k8s-node`. This will provision a new machine wherever you're running Kubernetes (AWS/GCE/Azure/Rackspace/OpenStack/VMWare/Bare metal/locally), install kubelet, configure the SDN you've chosen, and have it available to schedule workloads.

As kubectl moves to ready status, we'll look to use it more under the covers to help conform to upstream's recommendations.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/ubuntu/sca...
Totally this, but also it's a misnomer that money can be "stockpiled" and not benefiting the economy.
Dang. Okay yeah we need to fix that... All of that! In respect to what differentiates the two users.... Not too much (except my grammar). Sorry for the confusion.

These are all awesome points. Would love to hear people's thoughts on the testimonials link as well
Of course, the reasons for it taking a while to get done are completely reasonable. :)
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They are very protective of the Firefox trademark. They don't even put it on their own nightly builds. If you want to sideload unsigned extensions, there are first-party unbranded builds that let you do that. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...
Oh, that'll be fun, can't wait :-)
The ability to script without the need of rebuilding/reflashing the whole firmware is often fairly useful.
The most value is not in JS per se, but in the ability to script.
Denormalize by Configuration
So how is that better? You're not actually getting days off. You're still having to work. So you're not getting the benefit of vacation.
I think much of the time what we have is "gifted parents".

Some thoughts:

Can school administrators reliably identify "gifted" students? Gifted in one subject? Averagely gifted?

Should we remove the better able students from regular school, leaving the average ability much lower?

If there aren't very high quality teachers available to teach "gifted" students, then what's the point? Conversely, if we had more very high quality teachers, wouldn't that go a long way toward fixing our education problems anyway?

Affluent and/or highly educated parents can easily skew the finding that their child is gifted.

Source: I went to a highly selective, private school outside the US (the inspiration for Hogwarts, fwiw). My kids go to public school in the US - one has been identified by the school as gifted (but doesn't want to participate in the gifted program), the other has not. Our school district receives something like 0.5% of the funding they get for special needs students, for their gifted program.

I have also taught coding in middle school. In my time in the class room I saw several students who came from higher income/higher educated households that performed well. I saw a big middle group who did ok. I saw several students who didn't care to do any work. I saw one student from a lower income demographic who showed uncommon promise in the subject. Given that evidence what am I to do with a gifted student budget assuming I have one? All I could do at the time was to approach the parent of that one student and give my feedback, ask that they consider encouraging his talents. I have no idea what happened after that. The other thing I could do is help the smart motivated kids from affluent families achieve even better results than their peers than they were already able to. I'm really not sure that would be a good use of my time and money..
It is equivalent to the (a -> Bool) case. In Haskell at least, all "negative type parameters" are ultimately generated by the left side of a function—but this is more a concern for how ideas are modeled (perhaps partially) in Haskell then a fundamental one. If you're writing code that's

forall p . Profunctor p => ...

then `in` and `out` aren't generally valid.

I definitely hear the argument that ergonomically it might be a good idea to use a sort-of-appropriate model to drive better terminology... but at the same time I think there are drawbacks. I think it helps the early part of a learning curve but then hinders the latter part. An expert doesn't care what they're called since they're just mentally erasing the names as appropriate anyway. A non-expert will try to carry the metaphor further than it can go and gets stuck.

This is why there's endless debate about calling Monoid "Appendable" or something like that. For the commonest cases that's the right idea... but the first time someone questions why there's an Appendable instance for Bool (two, actually!) you're fighting with your own inappropriate metaphor.

"Oh, Appendable actually means Monoid but we didn't want to say that straight up."
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Using the word "unconventional" instead of a more accurate word such as "counterfactual" or "intentionally ignorant" is a poor start.
Almost; I think it parses correctly by substituting 'if' with 'for'.
Honestly, I can't wait for deep learning and computational methods to dethrone doctors and upend the medical profession. In the next five years, expect a computer to be able to predict most diseases a lot better than doctors can -- and with none of the attitude, high cost, or inconvenience.

Mind you I'm not talking about researchers, who will always have a job. I'm talking about practitioners. I've had a medical condition from birth and I've had to deal with my share of doctors. Outside of the insurance system, they are easily the most unpleasant part of the whole ordeal to deal with. There are some gems, but most you will encounter are pompous, arrogant, and "commanding" -- when they enter a room, they are flanked by "residents", "assistants" and generally give off this air of superiority which is really just because of their route experience. The whole thing comes off more as a performance than anything else. Worse, they often get mad when you question them or ask them to explain themselves, or how they arrived at a conclusion.

Good luck finding work when an algorithm can do your job better than you. It's only a matter of time.
>"most people aren't [facilitating/celbrating LGBQT], and find differing sexualities repulsive"

I believe most people in the US are accepting of homosexuality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_attitudes_toward_homo...
Very cool! I shared a small project to demo and explain how I used convolutional neural networks to classify food images: http://blog.stratospark.com/deep-learning-applied-food-class....

I'd be curious about the calorie detection. I'm wondering if it's using some kind of weighted sum of image segmentation proportions, or doing end-to-end deep learning.

Anyway, cool product, love to see where it goes!
> Actual alternative facts do exist because we often select the facts we represent based on our tribal affiliations.

There are no alternative facts, only additional ones.
Where were you? A company I worked for once tried to rescind vacation I had received, turns out it was legal where they were based, but illegal in my state!

I got it returned with a few choice emails.
You're correct. AFAIK all those pot shops in Colorado for instance are cash based only. And have vaults built to store all their cash because the banks won't touch it. There was an episode on Vice TV that touched on this I believe.
> We can all agree that "too clever" is bad. We can't agree on what "too clever" is.

Of course we agree. Too clever is "stuff I'm too lazy to understand". What we don't agree is on the definition of I; everyone has their own binding for that symbol, which carries a context for different types of stuff we are too lazy to understand.
You can't have self-determination if you can't keep (at least a good part of) the fruits of your work.

Wikipedia is a fine source of knowledge, but I would take a look at what happens in every actual nation in Earth. If you can't work hard and save a portion of what you earn, you are living in a tirany that also disregards the rest of human rights.
> So, have you ever noticed there's never any dialogue about encouraging men to be stay at home dads, or reducing the overall household number of hours worked per week?

Actually, I've noticed dialogue on both of these points, and even some modest, narrow policy progress (e.g., states that have adopted gender-neutral paid family leave, and some expansions in overtime coverage [0].) But, yes, it doesn't get enough focus.

[0] overtime rules mandate extra pay, but their fundamental purpose isn't to increase pay as much as to incentivize employers to limit the use of hours over the cap, and expand the size of the workforce in preference to longer hours where ongoing needs and available skills exist.)
Ah, I can see how that is useful. Way up in the web dev world I don't often have to think of things like that :)
Those that are well prepared, or those that belong to a particular religion/denomination?
I'd love that. I'm still irritated that the FDA forced 23andme to remove the Alzheimer's/Parkinson's report (though I completely understand why). Now I have to run all my 23andme data through promethease, which is significantly more complicated to understand.
Comparing apples and oranges here. Mycin is an expert system dealing with changing rulesets with A LOT of manual teaching. The current papers deals with computers discerning visual patterns by itself.
The unresponsiveness might be memory related, though it's impossible to know for sure. Have you tried altering the 'swappiness' sysctl setting? The default it 60 out of 100, where higher means earlier swapping to disk. Another culprit might be too high dirty page thresholds. There's also the drastic step of deleting your firefox profile folder and starting over...

Here's some links that might help:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap#Performance_Tuning

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sysctl#Virtual_memory

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks#Performa...

EDIT: and one more...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Profile_on_RAM
This sounds like a variation of the broken window fallacy
Absolutely. I just had the pleasure of being lectured on how Macs don't get viruses yesterday.
It causes enough damage to browsers market however, which shows that their influence is sufficient to hinder competition. This should be a subject to Sherman Act or something similar. But I'm NAL either.
1Schema = Visual Schema + Formulas + configurable Denormalization Engine

Later, we will include benchmarking, profiling, and dynamic recommendations in schema designer.

Make NoSQL accessible to everyone!
I know why I personally stopped using FF, and switched to Chrome.

Because FF has been ridiculously slow compared to Chrome.

Because FF crashed when one tab crashed.

Because I didn't care about higher RAM usage - RAM is cheap.

Because I used so many Google services, and Chrome is (obviously) better integrated.

Because Google's update cycle has been faster.

So even if FF fixed all these issues (it didn't), the only argument that remains is privacy. And I don't care. I just don't give out the information that I want private.
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Edited to clarify that I mean for my description to be understood to occur at a 'gifted school'.
Eye-balling the chart, I think the answer is that the EU vs USA is pretty even (maybe the EU being more) and they have stricter gun laws. I did that by guessing percentages for all the EU countries in the first graph. So based on my interpretation of your statistics, the an answer is it legality does not appear to make a difference.

I do believe that splitting the EU into constituent parts for the purposes of statistics comparing the US is disingenuous. The EU has the same issues that the US has. It has multiple countries with different policy just as the US has different states.
This is specific to TSX [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_...
Not your problem. You didn't change your plans, they moved the deadline. When that was discussed you should have been sure to mention that is after your planned/announced departure, if you didn't voice this before be sure to re-iterate it now. Make your focus on supporting your team in knowledge transfer and making sure they are confidant they can continue without you, not so much helping them hit that date. If they ship a few more weeks late but are successful that's much better than if it blows up and they end up scapegoating you, but either way you're already out the door.

You can submit a letter of resignation now with your planned end date. That helps remind that it's not a negotiation.
This is an unbelievably biased story. Reading the title you might assume as if there were widespread protests e.g. the term "begins to bite". In fact on the contrary banks have noticed a decline in use of digital payments due to remonetized currency notes. It appears that NYTimes really wanted a story about large scale panic/riots but not having found any it is now left with bunch of anecdotes while keeping a ridiculously click bait headline.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.livemint.com/Politics/uJnq2fp...

Edit: Also the image used clearly shows Indian Congress party supporters (identified by numerous flags with the hand symbol) yet they are termed as generic "activists" rather than supporters of a specific political party.
Scripting is rarely about syntax. It's about being able to load code dynamically, being able to create ad-hoc data structures, quick changes and distributing executables as source rather than binaries.
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I have used Chrome since it's inception. Before that I used Firefox. After feeling some nostalgia recently and having some romantic feelings about using and supporting OSS, I decided to install Firefox (on MacOS) and give it a try as my primary browser again.

I had three primary complaints that caused me to go back to Chrome after a couple days:

- The UI feels old and clunky compared to Chrome, although this is likely just a personal preference issue for me.

- Performance felt lacking. Pages seemed to take longer to render. The browser UI itself felt slower.

- Stability. On a few occasions within a couple day period, it seemed like one tab would lock up the entire browser. Firefox would pop up a vague message telling me that "one of your tabs" is causing an issue (not telling me which one) and then I would need to randomly close tabs to try and get things working properly again. This seems insane and archaic and is not something I ever deal with on Chrome.
Oh joy. We get to work ourselves to the bone, neglect our families and health to make someone else rich.
Europe to require app developers to guarantee privacy?
Definitely.

First off some context for this rant: a lot of people don't realize it but we are a lot closer to a post-scarcity world than the world would have you think. Check out this chart which shows GDP per capita since the 1950's. The productivity gains since the 1950's have been absolutely incredible, and the quality of life back then was pretty good.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA

So, have you ever noticed there's never any dialogue about encouraging men to be stay at home dads, or reducing the overall household number of hours worked per week? Never. The dialogue is always about the "wage gap" and "women have value too" and "rape culture" and "microaggressions". Men who are stay at home dads still get shamed just as much as they did during the 1950's. This is how you know it's a sham - there is never any serious dialogue about actual equality. Income has in no way, shape, or form, kept up the with the GDP per capita shown in the chart above. There's never any explorations of policies that would actually increase equality, like restricting the number of "investment properties" a man or woman can own, behavior which is clearly parasitic. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_productivity_and_...

It's not in corporate interests to have people have actual equality. Increasing the labor pool without discussions of actual equality makes it so that people can be kept in debt, wages go down and the nexus of power moves away from the family and towards the corporation, which is what is happening.

There's also the constant screaming of "women have value too". The implication here is that if you are not working for money you have no value. Despite common belief, in fact it IS possible to generate value outside of a money context. Many of the world's greatest achievements have occured outside a money context, eg. the discovery of calculus, wikipedia, linux, countless famous works of art, literature, and philosophy. By saying that you only have value if you earn money is throwing many of the world's most accomplished people under a bus. The reason why "money is the only form of value" is such a horrible mentality is that it leads to people like Mozart dying in poverty and being thrown into a ditch, which actually happened.

Check out charts of combined household numbers of hours worked, you'll see it's going way UP not down, despite the GDP per capita chart shown above. There is clearly something dark in that picture.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/working/chart17.pdf

I don't think these are idle complaints - feminism in its current form (money above all) is an ideology that's on a direct collision course with the whole 'robots are about to take all the jobs' reality, which I think is going to come a lot sooner than we realize, and when these two phenoma collide, what's going to happen is that it's not going to be equality (sorry folks) it's going to be Brave New World, an immensely stratified society.

What's incredible to me is that someone predicted this nearly 100 years ago. Aldous Huxley, you are a genius.

I should just buy a ticket to Iceland already.
Comedians were almost completely united against Trump and a lot of good that did. (I recall John Oliver pointing out, self-deprecatingly, how effective his repeated eviscerations of Trump had been).

Before I moved here, I remember thinking that Americans must be too stupid to understand "The Simpsons" because it takes apart and laughs at all the obvious flaws in American society, but discovered instead that Americans can cheerfully laugh at Homer, understand why they're laughing at Homer, and be Homer all at once.

Bear in mind that a Christian Conservative is already managing epic levels of cognitive dissonance "the love of money is the root of all evil.... mmmmm tax cuts" so a bunch more is barely going to have an impact.
1. Children come from the rich and poor and from all ethnicities. The way to reduce income inequality is to take students from across these diverse groups and help them achieve their potential.

2. False dichotomy.

I've read the book you're referring to. It doesn't make any of the claims you're making, in particular:

> Regular students cannot benefit from compacting the K-5 curriculum.

If I'm wrong (and I may, it's been a while), feel free to reply with a quote and a page number. I have the book.

In any case, the "compacting" of the K-5 curriculum is just a hack. The real solution is to get rid of such constraints to begin with. That way, students who are "gifted" will naturally just go to the next level.

The reality is this: schools for "gifted" children just tend to be better schools. The same better schools that would lead to better outcomes, for everyone. Mind you, this isn't the same as putting, for example "special-ed" students in separate classrooms.

Case and point:

> The major finding of this study is that third and fourth grade classroom teachers make only minor modifications in the regular curriculum to meet the needs of gifted students. This result holds for all types of schools sampled. It also holds for classrooms in different parts of the country and for different types of communities. Implications of these findings for researchers and gifted education specialists are discussed. [1]

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0162353293016002...
It's difficult for browser makers to differentiate themselves due to web standards. Thus it becomes a money-takes-all game where the diminishing returns on performance investment can be afforded only by the richest (Chrome). Maybe Mozilla should differentiate itself in another way - politically? It already fired Eich on progressive grounds. Why not go all in and become the explicitly-progressive browser? See women's march/trump protests for market share potential. Nurture add-ins that do stuff that stock-price obsessed corporations are too scared to do. Skate to where the puck is going....the anti-capitalist browser.... supporting things that corpos can't.

As an aside, as a Linux-all-day dev I use Firefox almost exclusively. I can do Chrome, but something stops me. One of those things is the idea that we need browser diversity. Also chrome just isn't "better enough" than Firefox for me - in fact I find the difference very marginal now.
I also hate this, but what rule does that violate? Perhaps 4.5.4?

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes or to send sensitive personal or confidential information.

It's a should and not a must... I'm not sure if they enforce all "shoulds." Also, from a review perspective, how could you tell? These sort of notifications are typically triggered after days (or hours) of inactivity, and I don't think they observe your app that long.

If you, as a user, complained about an app doing this to Apple, I wonder if they'd pull it.
"The graves of investors have been dug with political shovels." awesome quote! hadn't heard that one before. reminds me of the old 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent' line.
This can also test for N-key rollover if you can get more than 10 keys (6 standard + 4 modifier keys) at once.