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> people who are used to UHT don't notice the difference, or notice but don't mind either way.

Being french, I'm used to UHT, but I notice the difference and mind very much. But maybe it's also due to what kind of pasteurisation is used (there are apparently several), and whatever is used here in Japan for the milk sold refrigerated makes it almost tasteless to me. No supermarket around where I am even sells UHT milk (they call it long conservation), but I can fortunately find some online.
These trades are not difficult to break into, except if you want to make a livable wage, and that requires a union.

I guarantee anyone of you here, if remotely physically fit, could get a non-union job in construction. Good luck making $10-15 an hour. Even being a non-union electrican is not difficult. The contractor, will many times, train you, but it just doesn't pay more than retail.

You will see a lot of Contractors. It's not that difficult to get a licence. C-6 electrical being the exception. They are checking experience lately, and elevator mechanics--forget the number.

It's difficult to get into a good union, like local 6 in San Francisco though.

Why is the pay so low in construction, even field like Electrical, and Telecommunications? Partly it's because jobs are just hard to come by. And you gave a Huge swath of people who will apply to that job.

A couple of guys just got out of prison on the 70's. "What should we do now? Most jobs like will check out backround. Yes--they could check background then too. Convicts, "Let's start a landscaping company, or work in construction?" Good idea. Many could do these labor intensive jobs, and pull themselfs back into society.

They can't do it anymore, because there is just too much competition. I won't touch that debate.

If anyone reads this, and want to get into construction, apply to a union. How do you know this? Been non-union, union, and Contractor.

If you have some training, getting your Contractor's license is not that difficult. You will have a hard time making a good living off it. Most of you will fail, but the ones that really market themselfs, and have connections will make a living. You will find most people want to pay you the least amount for your labor, and knowledge. The wealthy are the worst. You will be one of those people who pay minimum wage. I have never hired a guy off the sidewalk though--it's just something I won't do. Why will you just pay minimum wage? You can't compete paying livable wages.

United States has had a huge problem with low paying jobs for a long time.

I have known something is very wrong for a long time. I stopped listening to those employment numbers, they just don't add up to what I see, except the "able bodied workers, but gave up" number".

And as my dad said, if you fall into construction; Electrical is still the best, but it's all backbreaking work. Look into being an elevator mechanic--it's a high paying, interesting field--believe it or not. It's basically a union apprenticeship, and unions are only in big cities. A lot of guys want to get into Carpetry because they like woodworking. On most commercial job sites, you won't see much wood. It's all metal studs, and "get it done." If you do custom homes, yes--you will be able to do some woodworking.

You can teach yourself to become an Electrician. Getting licenced by the states is kinda difficult. You can even make over $100/hr. on certain markets like San Francisco. Union companies will hire you now, because the economy is so hot there. You will be called white paper though, and when the good times end--you will go right back to non-union shops, or another low paying job.
.NET core itself is actually very very stable. The TOOLING for .NET core is what's in flux the most right now.
I wonder if different definitions are at work: i.e. 5-6 days assumes you open it the moment you get it home, while 3-4 weeks assumes you drink it within a few days of opening.
Interesting, I'd never heard of that process before, sounds very clever, does it taste just like ordinary pasteurised milk? (as it sounds like they use a filter, then pasteurise)
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Excellently put! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
Trump will not engineer any international agreement on corporate tax, or increase taxes on capital in general.

I am expecting a deal later this year or early next year for US corporations to be able to repatriate their overseas cash piles in exchange for significantly reduced taxes on that cash. I'm guessing a majority chunk will end up in share repurchasing and M&A activity rather than job creation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joeharpaz/2017/02/06/inside-tru...
Employers don't want to own the problems of the workforce. They just want to make more profit by reducing costs. It would be ideal for them that people spend lots of money on their products while they pay as little salary as possible, by automating jobs.

Of course it won't be possible, but nobody wants to be the first to make a sacrifice for the common good. It's a game theory problem - how to convince them to think more long-term and inclusive while they also compete and are selfish.

I think we should move towards helping people become more self reliant, since there are fewer jobs. Maybe we could bootstrap communities of unemployed to take care of their own needs. Even with all the automation, we still have a job left: taking care of our own family and community.
In America the sell by date is usually 2 weeks out plus you can go another 5-7 days after that.

I wonder if our distribution chain across the pound is faster.
I'd suggest that you read about the Overton window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Good writeup but it talks about a symptom, not the cause.

Governments and people have been living on credit for decades. Governments borrow from retirement funds to meet current obligations. Many people have failed to save enough, or even worse have large debt.
Maybe you were leaving it for too long before drinking it...

That said, I had a colleague who was mad keen on getting absolutely the perfect traditional milk. This meant the proper kind of high-speed machine had to do the shaking. But it also, apparently, meant using old milk.

He would actually ask servers whether the milk fresh, and walk out if they said "yes".
The JSON standard is completely silent on date types, for example.
Akka, akka.net... Erlang/OTP.
Shame is indeed what this is all about.

> Healthy people do not commit suicide, and they certainly don't over issues as ethereal and inconsequential as some religion's disapproval.

You don't really seem to think your religion's tenets are "ethereal and inconsequential".

> If the argument is that it's about the typical human response to homosexual conduct being so negative that it drives people over the edge, I don't see how the Mormon church [...] could have any culpability for that

Then I encourage you to read more about the phenomenon.
Very few mediums are totally ad free, and Netflix is no exception. If a movie or TV show on Netflix (including their original stuff) has product placement, the product placement remains a part of the media and is not altered. That would be generally prohibitively expensive. I notice this especially with criminal investigation shows, where for some inexplicable reason the whole division is using iPads, or every monitor you see features a prominent Dell logo, etc etc.
I expect that there are tax advantages to holding individual stocks rather than an index fund.

Is finding a subset an active strategy? Depends. Do you do it every day, or do you figure out your subset and then buy and hold for fifteen years?

Is it passive when you rebalance against your target quarterly?

I think we can all agree that it's not passive when you are doing HFT, and anything which involves picking new stocks daily or weekly is active -- but having an algorithm do the rebalancing against your existing target daily and executing when a threshold is met? You're not making new picks, just readjusting against what you've already picked.
For me, the math is always easier when I'm writing something myself, than when I'm reading about how someone else did it. Rather than just a description of something that someone else tells you works, you've got lists of approaches that you came up with, your own opinions of positives and negatives of each, and an intuitive grasp of why you do something a specific way.

Work your way into a problem until you don't know the answer to something. Then keep experimenting with half-ideas and hunches. If you're still stuck, read some about how someone else did it; the math will be easier to tie into your own experiences, and you'll get more out of it.
It's not nice to post a URL that will crash someone's browser when they merely click on it.
I'm not saying this didn't happen and that that can't be overwork, but they are trying to paint it as a company culture issue, or at least an X issue --where this might have been one manager and one team. I think unless they have more evidence this is a very isolated incident. Google is not known as a company which works people to death, most of the accusations, even by VB is that people at Google have "first world" problems and overwork is the least of their issues. VB is peddling this as part of a larger "tech companies are bad and foster bad behavior in their ranks, to an extent it's noticeable and worse than industry in general" meme.
As an alternative I want to mention the very convenient Dubai Internet City, which is a free zone next to the Dubai Marina district. I was there, left a good impression on me, and the also have no big problem when you trade with other non-freezone companies in the UAE. Microsoft, Oracle and IBM all have a place there.
According to wikipedia:

When Yevtushenko first visited Babi Yar he was shocked to find no memorial. Instead he saw a garbage dump, right on top of thousands of dead bodies, with trucks coming in to dump more garbage.

He was so moved by the sight that he wrote the poem in a couple of hours in his hotel room.
I also noticed a ton of Windows phones in the latest House of Cards season.

I'm not sure why they'd have used so many if it weren't a paid product placement. The phones were much more numerous in HoC than they are in the real world.
Then people will just make novelty websites to point out that 1/7 + 2/7 ≠ 3/7.
CRISPR, Gene Drive, and IPSC biotech is incredible.

Right now I'm killing time until my residency starts and I've been reading recent journal articles relating to each of these.

One of the weirder journal articles I read was about this one group taking fibroblasts from XX and XO (Turner's syndrome) females and XY cells from a male and de-differntiating them into induced pluripotent stem cells. They then re-differentiated the cells into germ cells. Sure, that's not controversial just yet, but then they decided to put the XX female germ cells into a teste. The female germ cells (XX and XO) and the male XY cells all differentiated into cells that could succesfully undergo meiosis. And these cells, could terminally become sperm. That means an XX skin cell could be induced to become a sperm and possibly fertilize an egg from another woman. Of course all offspring would be XX female. This process totally bypasses males.

Anyways, very interesting to me, maybe it will be to others. Here's the journal article.

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep06432

I know this article I'm posting under is about CRISPR, but I feel like new/controversial biology research could be posted here too. Hopefully anyone reading gets the same feeling of discovery/wonder/incredulity that I had when reading about it.
Definitely not totally ad free. Love s2 had like 5 uber placements.

Their licensed stuff does but they can't rightfully edit it out since they didn't create the content.
Base 2 floating point is perfectly OK. The problem is people using floating point not knowing that IEE754 floating point representation is binary, and not decimal, so most decimal constants will not have an exact match. Said that, many implementations do buggy binary <-> decimal conversions, not because of the limit accuracy in the conversion, but because of "creative" rounding criteria.
Getting Our Heads Around a Brain-Electrode Project
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I agree. Maybe the solution is starting a city from scratch, on cheap land on the middle of nowhere, while building rules that will keep prices low.

EDIT:it seems that it's possible legally to start a city with your own rules(as long those doesn't conflict with US/state/county laws):

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3bnzp3/e...
Investment income depends on a functioning, growing economy.

Even just maintaining stored retirement wealth depends on this. Think about prices for services when there are large numbers of rich retired people with needs, but few young people willing to provide them.
Multifactor model
If you really believe you've created a bot that your users want to use then put it to the test.

Advertise that they can get connected to a human by typing 'human' and see how popular it is. I would be impressed if a bot could get to 10%.

I don't think you need a confidence metric, the humans using the bot will be happy to signal to you that they're not receiving value.
Not everyone is motivated by more money. I like what I do, I have great work-life balance, and I get paid enough that I don't have to think about money. I wouldn't take a stressful job that I didn't enjoy doing for anything short of an obscene salary that allowed me to "retire" in 3-4 years.
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For those who perceive such issues as likely in their future, for whatever reason, I would recommend an alternate strategy of becoming familiar with the social, cultural and legal ramifications of living in or retiring to a developing country. This can be a very effective means to mitigate costs and is widely used by the French (eg. large numbers move to Tunisia for months of the year), and in South and Southeast Asia everyone from old hippies and alcoholics to bitter divorcees and religious retirees.

The point is, think outside the national box. This is easier to do if you properly comprehend the challenges and limitations while younger. For US citizens, just leaving the country pretty much guarantees cheaper access to medical care.
> If it's so easy why not to identify directly which stocks to invest in?

It is not easy. Both to set-up, and the problem itself (you won't get a very high accuracy, but you will get much better than random guessing).

> If you can predict which investors will perform well, then just try to predict which stocks will perform well directly.

This won't work, because you don't have access to all the information that the stock pickers have access to, just their advice, and some features about the stock / the company the stock pickers work for.
Then you haven't been keeping up with the Marxis--uh, feminist rhetoric of the last ten years.

>All we need is to reduce barriers to that opportunity which I agree to close to complete in America.

That's the way: enforce equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. Now all's that's left to do is to figure out how. What's that? Women inherently need more encouragement and support than men to succeed in a given field? Okay, we'll skew the system to favor them slightly more than men so that it's a net balance of opportunity. What's that? That's not fair to men, and the assumption that underlay it was inherently sexist? This sure is hard.

Either way, we must still be doing it wrong because at the gender gap in field 'x'!
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> How do people who think a feasible UBI future is possible square with this?

That's backwards. How do the people that run todays pension funds expect to own up to the fact that they've been technically bankrupt for quite a while?

The only reason the pension age is pushed upwards is to mask the fact that the money in the funds required to fulfill their obligations simply isn't there. The easiest way to do that is to start paying out later, a number of folks that would have otherwise been eligible will simply die in the intermediary and those that don't will pay into the pot for a couple more years.

UBI is a scheme that does not involve pension funds at all.
Author doesn't know history. XDR pre-dates ASN.1 by a long while. Then there was NDR. ASN.1 is an utter horror that crawled out from under the festering corpse of the OSI stack. Many, many recent CVE's are bugs in ASN.1 parsers. Look up DER/BER but they are only some of the shitty ways ASN.1 has of creating complexity enough to hide CVE bugs in.

I hate ASN.1.
I agree, it's a little over-kill for your particular use-case, but it works well, and it can be run in -dev mode, so you don't have to use the whole distributed, HA and datacenter part(s).

I don't have much experience with it on windows, but I use it regularly on *nix platforms and it works wonderfully.
But in decimal floating point this is also solved: 1/7 + 2/7 = 3/7

Please research decimal floating point first..
> I expect that there are tax advantages to holding individual stocks rather than an index fund.

None that I am aware of. Mutual funds can force capital gains realization, but ETFs do not.[0]

IMO there's no reason to roll your own index fund when you can just buy an ETF with a very low expense rate. If you have enough money that rolling your own (costs a fair amount to manage) is cheaper than the public fee, you might be eligible for a special shareclass rate anyway.

[0]: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/090215/compar...
The rules back to the Conputer Security Initiative & Orange Book said that high-assurance, security systems should be used there or at least at interface points. Currently called a Controlled Interface IIRC. Numerous products hit market under Orange Book and later Common Criteria that passed 2-5 years of pentesting each. Most of that was killed off by NSA and DOD acquisition policies about getting more shiny COTS in full of dangerous features and lockin. All kinds of problems resulted. Certain orgsnizations still use the high-assurance stuff, though, at least for cross-domain.

So, it's provably not going from what we have to paper. They could reduce a lot of risk using high-assurance products (esp compartmentalizing ones) that are on market right now. Plus port them to those secure CPU architectures NSF and DARPA funded. Hell, given CHERIBSD, NSA would get really far just paying for it to be put on an ASIC as is with ATI doing custom, MLS firmware. Boom. Immune to most attacks plus POLA for security-critical components. They just dont care enough to do it across DOD.
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Uganda is almost as bad, youth unemployment is 84% and many graduate students leave university with little chances of employment. Families expect money after paying their university, so graduates are too shamed to return to their home without money in hand, thus end up living in one of the Kampala slums with a group of other graduates.
Ask HN: AI winter coming in next few years for AGI research?
It seems that today's state-of-the-art in AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning/etc has some useful practical applications for multiple industries (image/face recognition, language translation, youtube/music recommendations, stock trading, etc)

However, for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) research, I think we are nowhere near something that approaches the final goal (mimicking the general intelligence level of a human across multiple tasks). Current approaches (such as RL or Deep RL) are very brittle, not well suited to multiple tasks, too slow to learn, and do not scale to real-world-complexity problems, among the various issues they have.

As a result, it seems to me that all the recent AI research hype will die down, people who are using AI for practical applications will continue to do so, but the funding and hype about AGI will die down, leading to the next AI winter.

Not sure how long it will take but I think it's coming in the next few years, depending on how deep the pockets are of the current front-runners.

Your thoughts?
Ask HN: I want to get through university, help?
I'm 25 studying math in university, I have 4 years left, I took the semester off because I lost motivation, I have really bad study habits, if you go through my post history I ask for similar advice.

I want to get through this math degree, not to become a mathematician but to learn to think like one. I then want to combine it with programming and go the startup route.

How can I build the necessary habits, skills, etc, to get through university? School just always felt like a slog, I never did well, and I don't attribute it to my intelligence but just really bad habits.

What got you through school? How did you do it?
Unless you're playing with a million dollar, the fees for rebalancing are more expensive than any returns you might make. Especially if you have to trade hundreds of funds separately.

Don't rebalance quarterly either. Index funds are long term, meaning years.
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Yes, every Turing complete language can build integers and other types of numbers atop floating point numbers if necessary. That doesn't make it any less broken.
Hasn't the Aladdin system been doing this for a long, long time? Or was it actually semi-automated?
I don't have a lot of love for node.js or depending on npm but debugging? I have not had a problem using webstorm.
What is your proposed selection mechanism for pre-existing indels, given CRISPR treatment?
This doesn't strike me as having anything to do with data volume. This is much more about exploiting cognitive biases. This is not a new thing. If anything, the subject is a classic one.
The times article states that education doesn't meaningfully affect income inequality, because rising inequality is mostly driven due to the rise of super wealthy. It is my opinion that we should be more concerned with the welfare of the bottom, not how high the ceiling is.
This is clearly why you should price everything in picodollars :)
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I'm not sure why the round-trip formatter is used in the C# example (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110)....). If you omit it then you get the hoped-for result of 0.3.
If you want to read further, this is a part of network delay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_delay). A highly interesting field.

By the way, one thing I have forgotten: an instant-forward has much less latency (obviously), but it cannot retract packets that were corrupted during receiving at the ingress port - simply because the checksum can only be calculated when the whole packet is in the buffer.

So basically you choose between safety (corrupted packets do not travel as long, because they don't even reach the final station) and latency (e.g. 10 hops a 0.12ms = 1.20ms delay on 100MBit/s), and also for the cost in buffer memory.
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Wish I disagreed with you more than I do..

Still I think mostly that's just what the system rewards. Hardworking and skilled people with disdain for office politics will either get exploited or never get their foot in the door in the first place.