skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the key word is 'at the top'. For example it is way harder and much more rare to bribe a police officer or a teacher to get out of a ticket or get better grades in the West. The difference is the pervasiveness and acceptance of corruption. This matters for innovation. When everyone doesn't respect the rule of law, then stuff like investing in intellectual property gets completely thrown out the door. In China's defense, the West is going the other extreme which isn't good either
By that reasoning we should eliminate public mass transport and someone will fill the gap. However, I think it would be an error too.
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And, as he mentions, release as much as possible without writing a single line of code. Code gets expensive quickly. Expensive to scope, expensive to write, expensive to change, expensive to maintain.

Write code when doing it manually is too painful.
Another article that basically says "quantum and consciousness are both poorly understood; maybe they're related" in thousands and thousands of words.
Right, because transportation land use is largely zero sum. If you have ample parking everywhere and wide roads for cars, every other mode of transportation is automatically worse.
This reminds me of Ursula K. LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea," in which all things had a name, and knowing a thing's name granted power over it. At the same time it also seems weirdly suggestive of The Matrix.
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Their contemporaries were certainly able to call them such and worse. However, I do not see that we can compare these figures to Clinton and Trump. Neither has the accomplishments or the potential for accomplishments that could compare.
The last sentence (grep for "since this essay was written") suggests that the article was written before the 'B' typecode was added to the array module.

This typecode was added in Python 1.5.
I guess I am of the camp where I don't want my software changing very often.
It sounds like you're romanticizing American history to a great extent. As a reminder, the founders wanted to create a class based empire resting largely on forced labor, both through slavery and indentured servitude. They certainly didn't intend the rights they granted themselves to trickle down to lower segments of society.
As if one is always able to influence a lousy technical culture, especially if they just walked through the door...
Parent was saying "you don't need to do this in react-native" regarding the following sentence:

> With React and React Native, your web app can share most its logic with your iOS and Android apps, but the view layer needs to be implemented separately for each platform.

This is referring to web vs apps, in other words React vs React Native. That's the context of my reply. They are not talking about the (optional) differences within a React Native app to fit different platforms.
Companies have a range they are willing to pay. Surprisingly, most companies in an area (and domain) usually have very similar ranges. Finding the top has a lot in common with binary searches.

I am not sure I understand your second paragraph.
This article reminds me of experiences I have with job applicant candidates.

There will be some folks who can talk really really well - talk a big game and throw out buzzwords, but when it comes to probing into depth, they crack and fizzle.

Others have a hard time explaining things because their vernacular varies. But they can do.

And then, the intersection of the two - is ideal. But the second category can be great too.
That's funny, I thought congestion charges were how to prevent traffic jams.

Could someone parse out 'The Grand Tour' chart for me? I have no idea what it is trying to present.
Freedom of movement is not a luxury, and i never said it was. But travelling in a personal vehicle is absolutely a luxury.

If you truly believe that freedom of movement is a right that should be applied to everyone, you should be arguing in favour of improved public transit and any other solution that isn't a personal vehicle, because personal vehicles aren't accessible to everybody. In addition to being financially out of reach for many, they cannot be used by the visually impaired and by people with certain motor function impairments, the young, or the old. Something as important as freedom of movement should be serviced by something that is accessible to all.
You can import all symbols from a package with "use" or explicitly import specified symbols with "import" on a package by package basis.

I am not following your actual use case, can you explain further?
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> experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know

In statistical learning, to learn about the world in general P(X) is much harder than to learn specific aspects of the world P(Y|X). It's hard to know what you don't know.
Almost certainly not...

http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/chauffeur.asp
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That was a really fascinating perspective, becoming so infantile and less of a constant conscious that cares about anything, yet emerging from that state over years and having the recollection of it and the comparisons to a more relatable form of humanity.
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The article is about performant python, not idiomatic python.
This subject has been beaten to death by a lot of smart people.

I think it's well understood how consciousness works, (on a higher order level) the answer is just boring and somewhat demeaning to many who believe that they're something bigger than a sack of nerves.
> it was not predictable

How do you explain the fact that this exact scenario was predicted in advance then? E.g.: https://news.usc.edu/86362/fukushima-disaster-was-preventabl...
There's a hello world in the samples directory https://github.com/microsoft/reactxp
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In my opinion github isn't quite ready for more complex things:

- Lengthy reviews yield PRs that measure many megabytes, become unusably slow

- There's no reasonable way to do PRs based on other PRs, without closing and reopening then when the underlying branch is merged

- large changes can't even be displayed

- doesn't work offline. I do a fair amount of review while traveling, and not being able to do reviews while offline would prevent me from doing so

Then there's political issues: there's absolutely no guarantee github will be around in a few years. Postgres is old, and will hopefully live long into three future. When it started there was no sourceforge, and now there's again no sf. I very regularly look back into old development discussions...
I'm not familiar with any books, but the docs really are excellent and have various sections for beginners and getting to know the system.

A good way in is to look at external tools like barman which manage dumps+streaming replication along with point-in-time restoration automatically for you rather than manually invoking all the stuff directly.

Mostly, postgres just works.
The number of robots sold in the U.S. will jump nearly 300 percent in nine years
Ah, resting state functional connectivity. Still not sure I believe most of the broad-stroke conclusions, but an interesting area.

For those unfamiliar, a healthy brain has what is called neurovascular coupling where the amount of blood flow into local clusters of neurons (order of millimeters) is adjusted based on demand (order of seconds). Simple optimization strategy. With MRI T2* imaging we are able to measure blood flow because the ratio of oxy-/deoxy-hemoglobin subtly alters the magnetic field. So if you take a picture of the brain every 2 seconds you get "blood flow" and if the average signal in 2 areas have a similar shape, we say they are "functionally connected." Just good to keep in mind because it's an area of research particularly prone to misunderstanding.
One historic method of controlling protests is by shutting off public transportation to the area.
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> >So if technological change were going to cause elimination of jobs, one presumes we would have seen it by now.

> ...considering this statement was delivered while the US Workforce Participation is at 30+ year lows w...

You cropped out "around the world" which was a prominent prepositional phrase in his sentence.
The oldest reference I know (but can't cite) is that in the 60s researchers tried to teach cats, who had EEG electrodes implanted, to change their brain waves. The cats seemed to achieve that through being extremely still.

The prefrontal cortex has been linked extensively to executive functions and inhibition of motor pathways. For example inhibiting a movement in progress. Children with less developed PFCs, mainly those with ADHD have huge problems sitting still and concentrating. Even beyond ADHD, PFC development is associated with academic performance, willpower and not being aggressive.

In Zen Buddhism, sitting still, "just sitting" is the primary means of training the practitioner's brain.
Maybe it's not a full time job. Maybe it's something you're just really interested in doing, but isn't economically viable. Maybe it's a hobby or craft that you're able to somewhat monetize but not fully support yourself with, at least at first, but it can grow to fully support you if you're not scrambling to keep yourself alive for the first couple years.

Many people are not going to just sit around the house and play video games all day. People have a natural desire to do productive things.
VR with eye contact will end commuting as a standard for information jobs. Eye contact is the main reason why teleconferencing doesn't work.
For all we know, our brain can be just an interface to something else we don't know yet. Like when nobody knew what radioactivity was, miners thought some monsters resided deep inside Earth, illuminating caves and mines in green, and anybody that got nearby died soon afterwards. Quantum theory spawned a lot of scientism at the beginning of 20th Century, attributing consciousness properties down to atomic level, and this seems to be the case with each new generation, falling into the same though a bit more refined scientistic trap.

Just for fun:

If we play with the idea of Platonic Theory of Forms as a super-set of what we can perceive with our sens-es(-ors), under assumption philosophy/math is above reality, we can simply be plugged into some kind of a virtual machine with some API of sorts (of course undocumented) that is called by our brains when we think. Those who figured out some rare API calls on their own or by a secret tradition we call magicians, conjurers, gurus, Neo etc. Maybe words/thoughts could invoke some of those API functions, hence magic Harry-Potter-esque words and generally prayers in many religions. Similarly, what we call angels could be simply API services with highly intelligent behavior, preferably operating outside time, providing verifiable and expected outcome. Demons then are some intelligent services gone completely wrong, messing up with the rest of intelligent services that depend upon them, playing eternal asynchronous byzantine generals (by e.g. trying to upgrade all services to Windows 10 or flat interfaces with telemetry /s).

I think I should write a dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi "Services and Daemons" about this ;-)
For a while it was common for folks to speculate that consciousness was self-organizing behavior of a chaotic assemblage of electro-chemical relations within the brain. The problem with that has been that self-organizing behavior adds nothing new. It merely reorganizes existing behavior/properties. This article proposes the existence of the fundamental "thing" that is organized in consciousness, that thing that is the primitive element possessing the property of awareness.

Seems good to me. In fact, it seems necessarily true.
This name is _really_ confusing in the presence of ReactOS
It seems to work remarkably well, though.
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I think this subject is too deep for some people to understand. Rather than find fault with themselves, they find fault with the subject.
They are not mutually exclusive.
About redirection of write queries to the master, from 10 on, you will be able to specify all members of the cluster in the connection string and demand to connect to the master (like "postgresql://host1:5432,host2:5432/somedb?target_session_attrs=read-write"); libpq will do this automatically for you then, see the parameters "host" (now plural) and "target_session_attr" in section 33.1.2. here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/libpq-connect.h...

About raft-based leader-election, I believe the current recommendation is to look at patroni ( https://github.com/zalando/patroni), which has been built for docker and is now being integrated with Kubernetes; however, I don't think there is an inherent limitation that it couldn't be run on bare-metal.
How is that a 100% tax rate? If you earn 10k, you keep the entire 10k, plus get a 15k credit. That is a negative tax. The government is not taking any of your income, it's giving additional income.
The Economist likes to be clever with their headlines. It's definitely hard to parse but that was probably deliberate on the part of the editor.
You say that like it's some crazy idea. It's not.

http://www.bbc.com/news/10385853

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson

Several dozen amateur physicists have accomplished it.
> >I don't know about UK laws

> Probably best not to comment then?

Quite the contrary.
Why?

All of those could be feedback/computation systems without any experience.

Your answer only argues for why the system would have certain computational features, not a subjective aspect.
One of my fears is that the first impression is so important. It's very hard to make people try your product for a second time. Reviews get written and it's not like people are gonna update their reviews when all the issues have been fixed.
Yes but here's the problem. Consider common scenarios like:

Master goes down. Slave takes over. Master comes back. Slave goes down 10 minutes later. Repeat.

This is common in e.g. multi data center replication and is often due to transient network failures. Netflix has a great open source tool called chaos monkey that can induce lots of random failure scenarios like this or much worse. Don't get me started on transient partial failures due to latency and packet loss spikes.

The manual nature of pg replication setup makes me really nervous here. What happens when it finds itself in a state where manual intervention is needed? You are now down.

This is tolerable for big companies with dedicated SREs and DBAs and enough of them that it's easy to always have someone on call, but it's a nightmare for smaller ventures. Even for larger ventures this adds a lot of cost overhead.

Like I said elsewhere this was really the true killer feature of the more successful NoSQL document store type databases. Everything else was largely hype.

We switched recently to RethinkDB for this reason. We miss the richness of SQL (to the point that we still use PG too for warehousing and analytics) but in return we got incredible robustness across three data centers. Of course our app does not need rich queries or strong consistency 99% of the time so YMMV. For some jobs ACID and complex queries on live data are not optional.
The BUFFERS count is more for row count info as it operates on large chunks of data, instead of index optimization that needs to count how many times index structures are accessed. Counting IOs directly would be more useful for tuning indexes.
I wonder how these changes would affect Clojurescript libs built on top of React, e.g.: Om.Next and Reagent
Most of the benefits you list are eaten up by the simple fact that encouraging car transport has the net effect of an encouragement and subsidy for living farther away from density.

When you live farther away from density, you need those things. So in effect, driving more people to car ownership just exacerbates many the problems that they ostensibly solve.
I don't think children exhibit willpower when they sit still. They might be afraid of the teacher, or being ashamed in front of other kids.
I religiously order from The Spice House and the quality is noticeably better than Penzey's and local spice merchants. Their Szechuan Peppercorn in particular, is as good as what you can get in Szechuan which is rare.
The way they're set up is not very useful. First, the ones I've used either have a wireless control panel mounted somewhere you have to flip down a little panel to use, or little controls attached to the seat, which require that you turn your body and operate the controls with one hand. Depending on how you're impaired, if the hand you need to control the toilet is not functioning, you're kind of hosed.

Second, if you have any mental impairment, are you really going to go through menus with small icons to control the temperature and pressure of a stream of water directed to your nether parts?

Finally, the auto-clean/auto-dry toilets still generally require one last wipe to clean up. Think about it this way, if you're baking a cake, and if you smear frosting on your arm, are you just going to rinse your arm with water and call it day, or are you going to rinse it and then wipe the area dry with a towel?
> The idea that children 'do homework until midnight' is similarly stupid.

It's not an idea. It's commonplace fact (at least in the US). When I was in school, it was very commonplace for teachers to assign an absurd amount of busy-work to take home, and for kids to have several extracurricular activities immediately after school.

The average schedule for a student at my high school consisted of a 7 hour block (including 30min-1hour lunch), then 2-3 hours of whatever sport (or other organized activity) they were a part of, then (if they actually did it) 2-4 hours of homework.

It may be about education, but the totalitarian system that has been created is very controlling, and very stressful.
"... In a discussion of the earthquake and tsunami that produced the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Taleb writes: “Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not.” And in the case of the Fukushima disaster, authorities seem to be responding appropriately: not by developing better predictive models, but by building smaller and less vulnerable reactors."

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Accepting Uncertainty, Embracing Volatility

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/nassim-nicholas-t...
> luxuries

Well that's your opinion, at least I find the framing and connotations of that word problematic here, but I agree to let the market sort it out.
Zen Buddhism is voluntary, school is compulsory. You need to compare with compulsory Zen meditation. /s
That's exactly what I mean. Children without ADHD are able to sit still and focus at the same time, building that muscle.

Managing ADHD seems to be (from my non-medical non-professional perspective) all about training and using that capacity to focus.

Even for ADHD children, sitting still trains the brain, it's just that they can't stand it for very long, and there seems to be no benefit in forcing them much beyond what they feel comfortable with.
I love public transportation, so let me disagree. :)

a) near zero latency to take a trip
I can take the subway and go home at any station. If I go by car I have to go back to the place the car is to be able to return home.

b) proportional penalty for leaving late: if you miss a bus or a train by 10 seconds, you have to wait for the next one, which can be an hour.
This is true if you favor private cars over public transportation. The more people uses the bus, the more buses there are, and they come more often (in rush hours you can take a subway each 5 minutes). The problem solves itself.

c) availability: a personal car generally provides the same service during the day, at night, and can be used in rain and mild snow (heavy snow, if properly equipped).
Yes, at night there is less public transportation. But at night there are no "traffic jams" either. When your needs are completely different that the rest of the population then a private car makes a lot of sense. This should be the main use.

d) flexibility/directness: a personal car can drive to almost everywhere, and can generally take a fairly direct route.
But usually, people don't want to drive everywhere. Most people wants the same route that everybody else. That's why you have "traffic jams" in the first place. It is the same case that c), if your needs are so different that the rest of the population a private car makes a lot of sense.

In all cities I have lived (Barcelona, London, Stockholm) by far the best option was to use public transportation.
You are grasping at straws.
Huh? It shows you the number of io operations.
I'm reminded of people talking about tripping. we don't really have the vocabulary or knowledge to talk about certain things and they end up sounding wishywashy.

but I don't think it means we can't try, or hypothesize...
And yet somehow this doesn't seem to be that big a problem in the rest of the developed world that has functioning public transit.

Children and the elderly are, unsurprisingly, more than capable of riding on a bus or train. And taxing a taxi (or Uber, Lyft, etc.) when the occasion requires.
Great article. I've read a different figure for blockage deaths in Germany in WWI. After factoring in the notion that most deaths from malnutrition end with a disease that healthy people could fight off, the figure was 11 million, believe it or not. In part because nutrition was badly understood (the shrewd Mikkel Hindhede aside), and many popular erzatz foods were unhealthy or not food at all.

The same is true of Vietnam War American prisoners, they actually had longer lifespans than average (whereas the truly starved prisoners from WWII Hong Kong had much shorter lives.) This may in part because the Vietnamese prison did not include artificial light, however.
There's no reason to believe so.

Advancements in CS, AI, biology, and general models of intelligence are slowly bringing us to the point where consciousness is no longer a mystery to the enlightened. One of my favorite researchers in general AI is Professor Schmidhuber, who has pioneered some of the (currently) more practical areas of machine learning, too: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/

Even when we create self-aware machines that can demonstrate generalized intelligence, I think most people will struggle to come to terms with what consciousness is (or more so, what it isn't). My spin on it: consciousness isn't real; it's a necessary perceived byproduct of 'everything else.'

I believe Schmidhuber said it more elegantly, describing consciousness as a result of data compression.
Sometimes you'll have a really good product, that no one wants ... See Silicon Valley TV series.
Then remove the regulation that requires developers to bear the cost of building parking spaces and simply let merchants choose to pay to build them if they want to. Some merchants may feel that the additional cost of a parking structure is worthwhile, others may not. The market will sort out which ones are correct.