skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't understand how percentages work.

Ask people these questions:

1) I'm going to sell you a TV. It's priced at $300. I'm going to give you a 10% discount. What will it cost after the discount?

2) I'm selling you a washing machine. You're paying me $500. It's already had a 10% discount. How much did it cost before the discount?

Most people can get an answer for (1), but they do it by mashing buttons on their smartphone calculator app. They don't know the method; they would not be able to talk through the method on paper. Most people can't give you an answer for (2) even after some time mashing buttons on their calculator.

People can't spot misuse of percentages (eg, the "politician's bridge" (also called the Mexican Bridge from How to Lie With Statistics))

This isn't just the general population. We find some scary lack of understanding of percentages in doctors.

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

> In one study, physicians were asked to give the chances of malignancy with a 1% prior probability of occurring. A test can detect 80% of malignancies and has a 10% false positive rate. What is the probability of malignancy given a positive test result?[3] Approximately 95 out of 100 physicians responded the probability of malignancy would be about 75%, apparently because the physicians believed that the chances of malignancy given a positive test result were approximately the same as the chances of a positive test result given malignancy.[4]

> The correct probability of malignancy given a positive test result as stated above is 7.5%

Gerd Gigerenzer's book Reckoning with Risk has many examples of this.
Removing WSL from Windows 10 S is going to extinguish Linux? And what was the extension?
I hate the fact how Windows S is shaping up to be a completely walled garden. Not even CMD and Powershell?? I hope they still spend enough time on actual versions of Windows which are used by power users.
Google authenticator only stores its data locally. If you lose your phone you're screwed.

Authy replicates data so you can have your 2FA on multiple devices and easily restore them if your phone dies.
Start the trail? The desktop vs. Metro/UWP fragmentation started a long time ago.
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This is like Surface RT all over again.
They do all sound harsh!
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Thanks, appreciate the feedback! Others are pointing me in the same directions, so I'm working on adding stuff like filters to push it more in the "canonical" direction.
70 USD, but thanks to large institution which massively ditches 5 years old computers (which costed 1k at the time) for 30USD.
* Street

Doesn't need shops, this is the default word within any built-up area (even a village centre).

* Square - With a road/roads encircling it

No, this would be a paved area usually outside significant buildings. Often contained a market.

* Market - the market square, or the streets at its sides

* Causeway

That's a road to an island that floods at high tide.

* Mews -- houses that used to be stables

* Circus -- roads joining with a circular "square" (Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus).

Boulevard, avenue and parkway tend to suggest imported American terms for places under 80 years old.

* Parade -- small shops in a 20th century development

* Hill -- obvious

* Gate -- either a city gate, or cognate to the Norse word for street (c.f. Danish gade).

* Terrace, drive, crescent, esplanade, villas, walk, approach, ...
I second this. Prolog is extremely well suited for combinatorial optimization, and combinatorial tasks in general. There is also significant overlap between constraint programming and integer programming: Many tasks can be easily solved with both approaches or a combination of them, and sometimes one of them is more suitable.

Several Prolog systems ship with great implementations of both approaches.
I love how you believe that the government is standing in the way of you making a fortune investing. That's precisely why the laws exist. How quickly we forget average peoples buying million dollar homes without understanding the basics of interest rates.
I really love the Windows 10 S page, which almost off the bat says "Microsoft Edge is your default browser since it’s more secure than Chrome or Firefox." with a footnote, referencing a study that focused on social engineering and phishing attacks.
It's on my todo-list! But as I understand it from other devs, the market for commercial audio software on linux is pretty small.
Still fairly buggy,some terminal issues should be fixed now but reloading has race conditions still.
Yeah I agree it isn't the best way, just one that I find comfortable to use since I am always on Studio.

What about using Windbg with the sos.dll extensions?
I'm wondering if part of the anxiety is about the used market spilling over into new - a distinction which to most is about the way a book looks and feels rather than its commercial provenance. Nothing really stops a book dealer to list a used book as new if it sufficiently looks like one. And as long as they have enough reputation clout on Amazon, they will short-circuit the publishers' sales chain and win the Buy Box.
Have you looked at RxJava/RxKotlin for working with streams?

This can get you started: http://reactivex.io/intro.html
But all the power users left at either 8 or 10
> The first thing that came out of my mouth was no wonder you don't know how to handle complications because you have been running around like a headless chicken.

I daresay you drew the wrong conclusions from this incident.
All things being equal, a doctor with more experience and a lower rate of complications should be your preferred choice for any medical procedure.
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Code reviews by a dude who codes only a little and has formal power are pure hell. It is tricky when he is wrong, he can force you to do things that cause trouble and so on and so forth - all that because writing and reviewing code are much different and he is gradually out of touch.
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Two weeks post launch there will be jailbreaks.

Happens every time.
>Btw, by "wire" I just meant "a direct means of sending information". It doesn't have to be a mechanical wire and pulley. I'm just saying that there ought to be a way of cutting out the flight computer's automated decision making and just letting the pilot's control inputs drive the control surfaces.

This exists already in Airbus aircraft (Direct Law).
In my experience older physicians (internists in American lingo) and pediatricians trump younger ones any day.
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Not being able to run arbitrary external code is kind of the whole point when building a security-oriented system.

You remove (not just hide or disable, but remove) everything that's not absolutely necessary, and the ideal result is a system that cannot run anything but a very small list of whitelisted binaries.
>A friend of mine from childhood became a top expert in formal verification, and got a contract many years back to help Airbus perform formal verification on their control software. I don't know many details, but according to my friend's father, he would never fly on an Airbus jet after this experience.

There are safety anecdotes about all of the major airplane manafacturers. If Airbuses were actually unsafe, they would crash more often.

>who told them to take a hammer to certain fuses or breakers

There would be an incident report about this if it happened. No need to rely on your friend's story.
They are still required to pay the difference if wage + tips is less than minimum wage. If an employer violates any part of wage laws, state and federal departments of labor loves to take these cases in my experience.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
I have about 30 years coding experience, never had a manager that was still writing code after earning the position, other than a few Office macros.

It was never an issue to us and they were always respected by the team, except for the few ones that never should have been managers to start with.

Any manager that wants respect from the team needs to support them, specially against stupid decisions from upper layers. Have good social skills and specially important, how to raise morale in darker times.

Knowing to code is irrelevant.
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And I thought using regex for parsing HTML was bad.
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The emotional side of management goes so much deeper than what's covered by this list. Develop a vision and a strong sense of purpose in your engineers and they'll develop a mindset of building the future instead of maintaining the present. Foster a "we're all in this together" atmosphere and your engineers will develop a fanatical drive for success - either we all succeed or we all fail, it's not every man for himself.

The deep emotional drive is also what causes startups to succeed where big companies fail, despite their massive resources.
I had great managers who did not coded and had respect. They managed politics out of department, managed to find good trade off between autonomy and controll, made decisions where the team could not.
So long xvfb and thanks for all the bugs.
I didn't leave yet. I think Windows is fine. Runs pretty stable. In the last decade, I had like 2 bluescreens on windows, and one was caused by accidentally bumping really hard into my PC, causing a kernel panic because of a voltage drop, and the other was a broken driver. Linux still has a long way to go when it comes to UI, drivers and video games.
They offer no conclusion on how sellers can materialize thousands of copies of a book out of thin air.

"Not a single cent goes to the publisher" can only be true if they are selling illegal copies printed somewhere else, which I imagine would be extremely easy to spot. If they are buying 1) "slightly used" books, the publisher and author have already been paid, 2) "not for resale" copies, why on earth would the publisher print _thousands_ of promotional copies? Such nonsense.
How do you run bash inside Chrome?
.NET/Java/C++ developer happily using Windows 10 to type this message.
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I think the takeaway (along with the lucky discount from the university), is that the consumer needs for CPU/GPU power has not increased that dramatically in the last five years. VR, 3D gaming, deep learning, 4K rendering, etc. are all edge-cases. The MacBook Pro 13" is likely designed without these uses in mind.
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They usually do increase stock prices though, or at least announcements that would be released in places as large as national news channels.
that may be the 'ideal' result but judging by the number of 0-day exploits it will not be the reality.

Even Apple let you side load apps onto an iOS device if you're a developer... Microsoft is definitely setting it up for a stumble (again) similar to WinRT.
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I agree, having good social skills and being good at moving things forward (often in a political landscape) is more important than coding skills.
How are you establishing causation here? Of course, older generations are far more likely to have only high school, if that. It seems likely that older generations are less likely to be participating in the workforce. I'm not sure if this data includes beyond retirement age, but certainly early retirees would be included in the participation rate.

More interesting would be to narrow our criteria down to ages 25-34 to see how the rise in postsecondary schooling has changed the employment landscape over time. My opinion is that the unemployment rate is on trend[1], and while participation is unfortunately skewed from the 60s to the 90s due to rising of women coming into the workplace, since the 1990s there is little change in participation despite rising rates of postsecondary attainment[2]. If the workplace valued college, shouldn't we see a more obvious change over time corresponding with rising rates of postsecondary attainment?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000089

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12000089
> most likely UNIX developers who want the Linux Subsystem

Fixed it for you.

Use Windows since Windows 3.0, never missed having a POSIX shell.

In fact, I am yet to install WSL on my Windows 10 machines.
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It's worse linkait than that as he includes as 250GB SSD for 5$.
You can probably side load uwp apps if you want to.
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And also that US law propagates through the world by trade deals and such.
That search is just going to get you people trying to scam you.
You forgot "Read everything Orwell wrote as a starter", specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...
Awesome! You might find interesting my 250 lines python jpeg decoder, it uses only vanilla python.

https://github.com/aguaviva/micro-jpeg-visualizer
What is the fundamental difference? The pitfall that makes it possible to decrypt is that the key which is needed to decrypt is not cleared from memory. Your proposed strategy has exactly the same problem.

What would work is hardcoding a large number of public keys in the binary. Then upon paying the ransom the attacker could give the private key to the victim.
Illegal copies are also a rampant problem on Amazon, though, so this increases the odds that the big Buy Button ships you a counterfeit.

https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256

https://www.ft.com/content/5dba91b0-e1c7-11e6-8405-9e5580d6e...

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch...
42 inch or about 1.06 meters when waves can be as high as 62 feet http://www.cbsnews.com/news/massive-wave-atlantic-ocean-smas... ....even common waves of 10-15 feet will more than enough....he's much braver than me.

Maybe he knows that he has a safety valve, he can survive in that bubble for x days until rescue comes. I'm claustrophobic (not actually diagnosed but IMO) so unless I could save my children's lives, I wouldn't even try.

Maybe all the stars will align, but if I had to bet, for his next attempt, he already has his food supply.
too much love normally leads to sacrifice, you are confusing between love and lust.
It's a Pro feature and Microsoft tends to ship a lean distribution tailored to the customers needs in order to provide superior user experience.
This is a fine list and there's nothing too controversial that people would disagree with.

That said, I only counted 6 items out of 44 that's specifically "engineering" related. (5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15)

The other 38 bullet points are universal lessons that also apply to non-engineering managers such as a director of a creative team in an ad agency, or project supervisor of a construction crew, or a showrunner in charge of scriptwriters for TV episodes, etc. Empower your team and make decisions when necessary, etc.
I don't even care about harsh, fwiw I've barely suffered through maybe some 40% of The Fountainhead when I tried. What caught my attention was that most of these posts look like mindlessly repeated viral meme. Not that it's anything particularly unusual of course, but boring.
Do you know of any template based macro systems which are more powerful than syntax-rules, but without going to the other extreme of full turing completeness? As I understand it, syntax-rules doesn't even let you concatenate strings to create new identifiers - everything in the output must come verbatim from the input or the template.
Of course, these are well-known examples. Recently it was claimed in a Dutch newspaper that a soccer player paid over 100% in taxes (but still received money).

The particular students I met did not understand the idea behind percentages and could not calculate 10% of a given price.
You can also sideload app all you want, just upgrade for 10S to home/pro/..
Thanks for your response. My issue here is not so much that Kotlin borrowed features but that it appears many credit Kotlin now for those feature, when in fact most of it has been already available under Groovy a decade before Kotlin came out.
This article reads like a poorly researched PR piece for the publishing industry.

They're not really saying anywhere.the books by third party sellers are fake. Then they must have come from the publisher legitimately one way or the other and hence the publisher must have been paid. The only difference is how much he was paid. It's likely some country branch of the publisher cut a deal to unload some books for cheap to a distributor and that's coming back to Amazon. So the publishing executive in that market made lot's of revenue in his scorecard at the cost of cannibalizing Amazon account seller's business.

This sort of thing is quite common and perfectly legal.
I recently quit a job where I was in practice the tech lead. I did probably 60% code reviews, and made sure the architecture as a whole kept moving towards a coherent view and quality. But it was boring as I don't particularly enjoy teaching new developers basics of coding production ready systems every few months, especially when tied down as a consultant for a government organization. I ultimately had very little to say in what tech we could deploy. I therefore decided to go somewhere I might get more freedom to build quality with a bit less politics.
Income based repayment can be way too high. Think two or three hundred when you are already living paycheck to paycheck.
Backpedaling is Microsoft's favorite pastime. Promise a huge convergence in platform support, alienate a lot of developers in the process, then artificially refragment it again.
There's a potential of grey market imports. If a publisher has a lower quality, but much cheaper, product for one market, and a higher quality more expensive product for the US market, buyers should have the choice, but should also know what they're buying.
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Lifeboats of the kind that are sent to sailors in distress, or lifeboats of the kind carried by large ships in the event of having to abandon ship?

One compromise made by the 42-inch yacht is speed. As a general rule, speed is proportional to hull-length: the longer the boat, the faster it can go [1].

In the case of the lifeboats carried by ships, they need to be space-efficient enough to be carried, and have enough capacity to take passengers, and although it's very stable, I'm not sure the 42-inch yacht would be practical as an emergency lifeboat.

[1] http://www.boats.com/reviews/crunching-numbers-hull-speed-bo...
It's two separate clauses; the trees run along the road, the avenue is perpendicular to a street.

Avenue in the UK, outside newer built suburbs, means tree-lined, explicitly. I used to live on Avenue Road in London, which gets a double take from people used to American naming conventions.
I think it would not be that hard to counterfeit a Harry Potter book, print a few thousand copies in China and put them on Amazon. Or is there some way of counterfeit proofing in books?
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It is worth noting that this is a subset of the educational environment.

Primary and Secondary schools may find this of limited value due to existing licensing agreements. I used to work in a province which licensed much of the educational software used by public schools and first nations schools (and the scope of licensing ranged from school computers only, to teacher computers, to student computers). While this would probably be addressable with time, the transition would be a rough one.

Post secondary education is also a mixed basket. The majority of students may get by with a restricted range of software, yet many departments depend upon specialized applications. This would create barriers for students regardless of whether the software is Windows native (but not approved in Microsoft's store) or Unix software that can run in WSL.

While this isn't a huge issue for students with their own computers, who can upgrade to for the nominal price, it is likely going to create many issues for institutions.
Exactly at the simplistic start:

> This person is male. Could we please avoid the biologically nonsensical charade of referring to him as"she"?

What is your definition of male? "Has the XY chromosome pair?" "Was born with testicles?" "Was born male-looking?" All these have complicated causes and effects, and you will get contradictory answers for some individuals.

Are you aware that fetus development is driven by hormones as much as by genes? "This person is male" is a generally useful simplification. Prevalence of people with out-of-ordinary combinations of genetic and hormonal developmental factors strong enough to get into the intersex category is so low that it's normally perfectly sufficient point of view. That does not mean we should dismiss people with these minority genetic/hormonal makeups.

Refusal to respect another person's body/personality mismatch and insistence on calling them something they do not identify with is hostile and petty.
Sweden. I love it, but it's my home country so I'm biased. I lived in the U.K. for about five years.
It's a matter of flipping a few circuit breakers. It's just not something that pilots are trained to do.
Mrs May, tear down this (fire)wall.
>But the Windows Subsystem for Linux is very specifically targeted at developers, who should be using Windows 10 Pro. And because of the way it’s implemented, it’s almost certainly not in keeping with the reliability, performance, and battery life advantages of Windows 10 S.

The stratification of users like this always irritates me. I don't think "developers" should be a special class of users; today's curious kids are tomorrow's developers! But if you lock them out of their own systems, they won't even have a chance to get started.
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kids who get these in schools will never get to tinker. this whole trend is a tragedy
Second this a lot. In fact I am gonna steel exactly this and feed it back to my org
Or the more experienced doctors got the more serious cases
Don't know about the world, but working on a project that will change my life for sure ;-) and that is also a reasonable goal I think. OMMV.
That is not how async crypto works. If you only provide the public key (as opposed to creating a keypair locally) you could print it out to the victim and it wouldn't matter, as it can only be used to encrypt.
the education is "do not compute without permission of the company"
My workplace Windows 10 Pro doesn't support it either. I use cygwin and VM's so I haven't bothered to ask our IT about it.
Describing the Americas Cup yachts as "modern sailing" is akin to describing F1 as "modern motoring" or the Cray Titan as "modern computing".

They're amazing feats of engineering, but not really representative of current usage.
I think this is a sound, critical review of the Black Swan & Taleb in general. Funnily enough, the criticisms of him are more relevant/prominent now than nearly a decade ago when this was written.

http://falkenblog.blogspot.com.au/2009/03/review-of-talebs-b...
My pet theory is based on evolution:

A harsh competitive environment forces commercial entities to develop ever more effective means of extracting value from their workforce, while labor fails to adapt in response because its corresponding entities (chiefly labor unions) are not subject to the same harsh competitive pressures.

Eventually you have an accumulation of durable local wage minimums which in the aggregate appear as a global decrease.
Why? if its a realy serious case maybe a junior doctor might pass it on to a more senior one