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:( This post rubs me wrong. Maybe because it's so centered on author while purportedly under a parenting blog. Maybe because it's screaming that the author is the type of "smart" person that gives them/(us?:)) a bad name.

To anyone nodding along to the post, because you are so special that you don't have friends: "smart" people everywhere have gone through feeling isolated from their age peers. Smarter people figure out how to navigate the shortfall rather than increasing it. Feynman anyone?

As an aside, I have a kid starting kindergarten this year who's been reading/writing for 2 years now. At home (and at pre-school by request) we make it a point not to over-praise this.

Because I don't want one innate attribute warping his whole identity.
Wind and solar are competitive with coal and natural gas without subsidies.
There has been a XSS vulnerability in the USPTO site since 2008 I reported. It still worked in 2014. Meatspinned quite a few coworkers using it.
Netty was first released in 2016?

HAproxy was first released around 2001.

Probably irrelevant to the question of speed, but there is a comment in another thread about hype driven development on HN first page right now where a commenter states they prefer Netty to the alternatives apparently because the alternatives are older or more cumbersome to use, although I may have misread.

Edit: This was a hasty, dumb comment. Please accept my apologies. Netty is not new and I should have known better. For whatever irrational reason, I have a bias against Java and deliberately avoid it. I do know it helps professional programmers get things done easier and faster. I'm an HAproxy user and have probably developed an HAproxy bias.
You're not alone! I think pandas made some design decisions around their transformation functions that make it a lot more cumbersome to use than R's dplyr. It's not obvious from the documentation, though.

As an example from the pandas docs [1], in dplyr you can do

> gdf <- group_by(df, col1)

> summarise(gdf, avg=mean(col1))

In pandas this is similar to

> df.groupby('col1').agg({'col1': 'mean'})

But dplyr's summarize it's much more flexible than agg, as you can do all kinds of things to any number of columns. E.g.

> summarise(gdf, some_name = f1(col1) + f2(col2))

But in pandas you can apply 1 function to 1 column with agg.

[1] http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/comparison_with_...
Sure, but the wash out in engineering school is 2/3, and that's the "kid who is good in math". So that does not describe "anyone", according to the original post.
Any far-away technology looks promising, as long as you don't think too much about who's going to pay for it.

If you think it's hard to persuade people to drive electric vehicles, imagine telling them to pay up enough $$$ to buy several Teslas per person, so that the government can run a carbon-capture plant somewhere you've never been to.

Because it's safe to assume that atmospheric carbon capture will remain more expensive than not emitting it in the first place. Maybe somebody will invent a unicorn technology next year, but I wouldn't bet my planet's future on that.
The problem with Reddit is that it's impossible for anyone to mention in any way that they are more intelligent than average without a bombardment of "this belongs on iamverysmart".

My theory of why this is is that most Reddittors have a bit of an inferiority complex and when someone says they're intelligent they feel a need to prove that they are better than that person somehow. This is just a theory mind you. I'm not trying to analyze your behavior.

In any case, I hope we can do better than Reddit when discussing people who claim to be more intelligent than most. Saying "iamverysmart" shuts down the conversation completely without adding anything meaningful. Even if OP is bragging (a sense I did not get), there are still things to learn from the post.
I also find them an eyesore, audibly irritating[1], and the documented bird deaths are awful[2]. But, I'll take them over coal any day.

[1] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[2] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-many-birds-do-w...
It is never ending bad news about this company.
There are a lot of duplicates on LibGen...
It was possble to enable the JIT before. They are light on details how the JIT was changed so that they enabled it by default.
The battle lines around orphan works are interesting because they don't really follow the same contours as do a lot of the other disagreements about copyright law. From what I've seen, the main opponents of freeing orphan works are individual content creators and the organizations that purport to represent them like ASMP.

The fear I gather is that large content users won't make much of an effort to contact rights holders and will use orphan works legislation to just take it for free.
The best book out there is still Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang. It isn't quite current, as it lacks both the advances in hardware (superconducting qubits) and algorithms (quantum/classical hybrids & the sampling benchmark that this article is talking about). It's still the best way to get started as it introduces everything from the linear algebra all the way up.

I work in quantum computing and it's the book I always recommend.
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It's an IBM commercial product, if that's what you mean by "IBM only". You can install it on any hardware though, we run it on a combination of SuperMicro, Dell, and DDN currently.
Sure would be nice if the new lights increase the accuracy of the drive-by'ers so fewer innocents don't get caught in the cross fire.

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There are many things that could be said, I guess, but a good and concise summary would be, "Trust your gut reaction."

If/When you get into such meetings, if you feel uncomfortable -- not that you have goals to meet, but with respect to the natures of the goals, measurements, and feedback, itself -- trust your reaction.

In my corporate experience, all of this ultimately goes to serve Human Resources (HR). And, contrary to the impression some newer employees can have and that HR itself often fosters, HR DOES NOT serve the interest of the employee. They are there solely to staff and to protect the organization.

Much of the performance review process serves to produce documentation they can subsequently use to justify whatever action they decide to take. Note that such actions may not actually correspond or respond to your real performance.

Hopefully, you'll end up with a good manager that will help you grow and understand the system. But, that is your direct management. THAT is the critical decision.

I had one manager who was like that. Things were good, until they early-retired him out. I basically consolidated the work of a 5 department team down to one person -- me -- as we continued to go through layoffs. Done in substantially less time and with substantially less errors, more flexibility, and a complete change-over, with much greater complexity and variability, in the underlying data.

I received an award. And another time, that manager, before he was retired out, just showed up at my desk one day with an unsolicited 12% raise, because "I was doing the work." In the midst of a company-wide pay freeze.

But when they were done with me, I received a very cold stare from our HR manager as I passed her in the hall one day, and the next I was out.

Trust your gut. Not any "performance review" process. You need to respond to and manage the process, as it unfolds. But you trust your gut.

P.S. Yes, I should have gotten out a lot sooner. I had basically become a "workaholic" to avoid a lousy home circumstance and personal life. Another lesson to learn and avoid.
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REIT investors aren't the cause of high rents. Actually the opposite. Every dollar they put in lowers the cost of capital for property developers and encourages the construction of new housing units.
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I studied math & computer science at university (15 years ago) that was quite selective in CS admissions (probably filtering out ~80% of high-school graduates).

At least half of these already self-selected and 80% filtered students were not really able to program (and eventually flunked or transferred to other departments - although some people who could program flunked and some who couldn't graduated, I think the two groups were quite well correlated).

I'm sure you can do better at teaching (and filtering) than the CS program at my university, but if such a focused group had a 50% failure rate I'm sure the general population is at the very least not better (remember that it's not just about 'raw' ability but also about interest and motivation).
Get yourself educated and watch the relevant CCC talk please.
When something is cheap, people buy more of it. If you are someone who wants more wind power to be produced, you want it to be cheap. You should be rooting for cheaper wind prices, which come with increased efficiency (including less employees per unit of energy produced).

Of course, less employees per unit of energy could equate to more total employees if the increase in energy produced is greater than the increases in efficiency.

As far as I can tell, the types of energy policies we have in the US do a pretty good job of incentivizing increased efficiency in all types of energy, including renewables. I'm definitely not knowledgeable about this though, so maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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I have heard good things about Quantum Computing Since Democritus, by Scott Aaronson. I'm not sure how rigorous it is, though.
You mean, like Hackernews?

Well at least some time ago this site ran on a single box.

My company has a Magento webshop. The amount of money thrown at it to keep it 'fast' is amazing.
Wish they trew it at me to build a fast webshop. Unfortunately they think Magento is the standard.
Whatever happened to parallel NFS/pNFS? I know Panasas basically uses this + some of their own special sauce, but hasn't been clear to me if there is an open source implementation of pNFS that could approximate performance of Panasas on the right non-proprietary hardware.
I used to volunteer with meals on wheels in Harlem, and I swear the people in those buildings were 10x nicer and friendlier than the people in my own lower manhattan apt building.

In the projects, people always make eye contact and say "good morning"; in my building, people pretended like the other tenants didn't exist.
hmmmm? Did see a library lol
Wow, the Emacs website is really pretty. But I like vim's one too - I feel they symbolize the internal ideals: vim being lean and small with just the essentials (at just 230 kB) while Emacs is more fully loaded (930 kB).
Worst case (?) scenario, they were abusing the system themselves or were being pressured to allow others to do so.

It's unlikely, but my point is it's a hole in their system which would allow this to happen and it seems like they've deliberately let it continue. :(
The grandparent comment touches upon the reality of working in most large organizations. There tend to be silo'd teams, which in more concrete terms translates into the "application/website" team and the "networking" team. Sometimes, there's a "system administration" team sandwiched in between.

HTTPS everywhere reduces the number of teams that used to, in the old "HTTP-only" world, serendipitously pitch in to help troubleshoot tickets. Now, instead of anybody within the network capable of sniffing HTTP packets, only one or two groups are limited to troubleshoot.

In your example, terminating SSL at the LB, or adding a proxy in front of the app, would either be an annoyance or major project, respectively. Small firms wouldn't think twice and would jump into action; but large organizations have too much internal inertia.

I see your point too, but the USPTO probably: a) is underfunded; and b) exhibits all the average capabilities and organizational "effectiveness" of a large bureaucracy.

Perhaps a better question is whether the USPTO would object to having their site content mirrored by a 3rd party better capable of offering features that users are complaining about (HTTPS & better search). Google has their own version[1].

[1] https://patents.google.com/
It's possible to do Functional Programming with an OO language these days using anonymous methods/Lambdas.

The GoF patterns either need updating or perhaps we're on the verge of calling this hybrid environment something completely different (?)
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169797
This article is from February. Some process possibly involving random inputs, led to OP posting this article today. Yet, I've observed a lifetime of such randomness as anything but random in my little perception of the universe.
And some annoying interface decisions, like d['x'] is a column but d[1:3] is a row slice.
Well, at one time it stayed full of coal trucks. Not that I disagree with your point.
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So how is this different from Airflow, other than Windows compatibility and a lack of dashboard?
Since the link posted leads to the Emacs home page, the changes made are here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.25.2
So how many jobs is that per kilowatt of power? Or vice versa?
You can spoof referrers, you just need some browser extension (or, if using python and requests, doing requests.get(url, headers={'referer': my_referer}) )
Get that water-carrier outta here.

As a passenger, I am not there to solve a problem for the airline. Their failure to have a crew somewhere else is not my problem to solve.
> I am still trying to figure out how to clearly, effectively and consistently communicate on the internet when I am being straight up serious and when I am kidding. I have yet to figure out an internet version of The Dripping Sarcasm Voice. That fact sometimes gets me into all kinds of trouble.

This is what /s is for.

I agree with the comments saying that this is quite self-congratulatory and does not have must useful substance.

> With that incident in my past and still weighing heavily on my mind, in high school, I was painfully aware that many of my classmates simply did not have the background knowledge I had and this gap in knowledge about the world was growing with every single passing day as I continued to take yet more advanced classes.

I think that by the author's metric I would be considered "very smart". I've taken and done well in many fancy classes. However the type of "smart" that comes from classes is worth a lot less than one would think, and I think that a lot of us learn that lesson much later in life than we would like.

There is a great scene in the movie "Captain Fantastic" where the eldest in a homeschooled family lashes out and says "I don't know anything! If it doesn't come from a book I don't know it at all!" This character was accepted to all of the best universities, had a strong grasp of physics and philosophy, etc. But, after a series of awkward social encounters, realized that they had some deficiencies.
Office dress code has a no sneakers clause, so I have a pair of used Allen Edmonds I got on ebay for pretty cheap that I leave there. Out of the office, I've been rocking Adidas Campus for a few years now.

Disclaimer: I'm probably not a representative of "the tech community" who's opinion you seek, but the office dress code and leather oxfords probably gave that away.
I think this might be gutted out already though as big companies use proprietary databases which have enhanced data on the patents. Also google patents...
Personally, I use 70s tube-effect memcpys() for that vintage sound.

Re cables etc - there was $1m dollars offered to anyone a few years back who could disprove the audiophile nonsense:

http://gizmodo.com/305549/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-au...
I came here to say that! The bonobo is an an indigenous ape of the left bank of the Congo river in the Congo rain forest in the DR Congo. They look indistinguishable to chimpanzees to the untrained eye.

Gorillas are a whole different species and you have at least 4 subspecies of gorillas, none of which look like chimps or bonobos.
Some tenants find a way around "no pets" policies by getting their pets classified as service animals under the ADA for "emotional support" or similar. While some people have a legitimate medical need the system is widely abused.
Turn off your cell phone. Go take a long walk in nature, away from a city and the related noise and distractions. Try to make it a regular habit. You will benefit and find it enjoyable.

The Santa Cruz mountains, redwoods, Point Reyes, etc, are all great for this right in the bay area.
Yes, but in the U.S. case we don't have theoretical free markets like that. There's too complex a network of government subsidies, unequal taxes, and corporate lobbying putting many things on the market that would not survive normally. I'm not saying this is inherently bad, just that we shouldn't think we can just let things run its course and the less efficient things will be weeded out.
Ironically, the site appears down (I am redirected to google)
TL;DR - They decided to give the job to Jared Kushner.
I remember reading how rare and expensive blue LEDs were, then found one being used for the high-beam indicator in my 1985 Volkswagen. Made me wonder what all the fuss was about.

It still doesn't answer my question about efficiency.
mg is even smaller and has emacs bindings
Why isn't Canada considering the needs of big money and special interests?
Let my thoughts randomize, about 2 hours before going to sleep. It's the only way to attain the capability of falling asleep...
That's my question too. I've come to heavily rely on Airflow. As an Apache project now it's becoming mature.

From what I can tell browsing the site, Bonobo looks like it's designed to do data processing within the framework. Airflow insists that it's really a task coordinator/scheduler...however, tasks can be Python function calls. So it seems like Bonobo is a specific use case, where Airflow is the more general case (tasks can be SQL queries, bash commands, etc).
> Compared to ripping the tops of mountains

Or consider nuclear, which is much cleaner, safer and lower coast than all other energy sources
Yep,I second that. I'm getting redirected to google.
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You misunderstand the "No True Scotsman" fallacy to apply it to this situation. There's a metric for success (graduating), and no one claimed that the only possible way that someone didn't make it is "work harder". I said that perhaps that's the reason since by the time people make it to medical school, they're on a fairly even playing field.

NTS is typically applicable when someone expresses a goal like "being a good Christian" and then continues to redefine what that means, never admitting that some are good Christians because of endless redefinitions of the metrics.
Of course - obscure as it gets, session state based navigation and top of it off with username/password form over unencrypted HTTP.
Not an expert, but the last BIG-IP LTM I saw a couple of months ago didn't support TLS acceleration without a dedicated hardware module (and the accompanying license); this would usually mean upgrading to a more expensive model.

Plain old TLS termination isn't license-limited as far as I know.

EDIT: to answer your question, yes, you could probably do it with haproxy, but the added value in these appliances is iRules (TCL hooks for all network events, you could augment request processing etc) and vendor support.
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Thinking about this demonstration as an experiment could be a little misleading. It's somewhere between an experiment and a benchmark. Nobody has any reason to expect new physics between 10 and 50 qubits, but actually building and controlling the system is complicated. Quantum computing is in an interesting place right now where engineering milestones and scientific milestones are happening together because the technology is so fundamental.

That doesn't happen that often and it's one of the most exciting things to be about being in the field. If that interest you, then you might want to come work at Rigetti Computing: "The Tiny Startup Racing Google to Build a Quantum Computing Chip" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600711/the-tiny-startup-r... We're hiring.
F5 has some secret sauce to it but it's mostly performance related. They have a good chunk of hardware offloading, all the way up to the TLS layer.

I seem to remember even the entry license includes full TLS offloading so I doubt the poster above is correct that it is a cost issue.

As to if HAProxy can do the job, well, that depends. F5s are complex beasts and they can load balance application specific protocols that can be hard to find elsewhere, with the support contract that goes with it.
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The flip side is brushing off everything new or unfamiliar as just hype.

Everything we use now, all our old shit, once upon a time was the new hotness. So, were the people who used it then going off of hype? When did the decision to use Java (for instance) switch from being hype to being wise? At what point is the reaction "ah yes, this person made a wise decision based on their deep understanding of the right tool for the job" instead of "you just like shiny things" and eye rolls? Perhaps sometimes people choose new technologies because they understand the potential and they don't think everything we have today is necessarily perfect.

It seems that for most, the answer to the question I posed above is: everybody who switched to the thing I like before I did is a hipster. Everyone who switched after I did is a dinosaur.
className is a small inconvenience when porting over an existing app to react (e.g. pasting in existing html), as is the requirement for style parameters to be objects. className is a quick find replace, but style is a more lengthy transpose process.

These are small frictions, but in the same way that every ounce/gram counts to a hiker, minimizing process frictions makes a big difference in productivity during times you already have a high cognitive load.
You mean excel?
Well, it is possible your email client is doing prefetching. I wouldn't rate it as probable, since you're unlikely to have a client with the same cookies than your web browser, but still.

You could also abuse Firefox and Chrome prefetching links. I'm not sure Gmail for example remove prefetching attributes in spam links. They do block images though.
I don't know what the perfect method is or if there is even a perfect method performable by all instructors and applicable to all medical students.

I do know in my personal life that the "trial by fire" method of education makes a huge impression and can be very successful. The military uses this method as well to great historical success.
Does F5 do any special secret sauce that can't be replicated with an equally powerful set of hardware and a good HAProxy config?

Not unless you think "extract a lot of money from clueless execs" is secret sauce. That, and support contracts - you know, throats to choke when it all goes wrong.
case-in-point..
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The key qualifier here is "mainstream languages for professional development, in 1997"
People, in general, are terrible.

Landlords, in general, are the worst human beings alive.
One of those things that are possible but still shouldn't be done.