skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But funding for classrooms has been shrinking for years [...]in what some Oklahomans consider a cautionary tale about the real-life consequences of the small-government approach favored by Republican majorities[...]"

Well, I'd argue that reducing budget is the only way some of these programs can ever be taken out of existence. Then it's no surprise that republicans are trying to reduce budget. Small-government means that people pay for their own things if they're not absolutely essential. They've managed before, they can do it again.

Of course, this is the horrible adjustment period because people have gotten accustomed to certain things being given/paid for them. How about we slash some ridiculous foreign expenditures, and divert them instead to these poor folks who can't afford an interim solution to their education. That's what we should be talking about.
Granted, the phrase has some comedic exaggeration, but in our worldly experience, communism may have reduced some extreme inequality(emphasis on may, since the ruling class in communism is always pretty rich), but it did so by decimating the middle class.

For all the comparisons of Cuba and other capitalist countries i will make one argument that encompasses all the other: "See how people vote with their feet". How many people move TO cuba and how many people move out OF cuba.

That should be enough to measure the relative expectation and standard of living of Cuba and the US.
The ancient Greeks -- do you have anything in particular in mind that they did? They certainly knew combinatorics at a level not guessed at until pretty recently (e.g. Schröder–Hipparchus numbers) but I haven't heard of any evidence for probability.
A couple notes:

(1) You can use JSX with Vue. https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/render-function.html#JSX

(2) By "Angular style templates" do you mean Vue's Single File Components? Because from my POV they're glorious, and the primary reason I'd be reluctant to use React instead of Vue.
There are interesting pieces of information, but its very long
Re: production ready, it would be good enough for me with:

1. WiFi

2. LTE

3. Phone

4. SMS

5. Browser

So I'm optimistic :)
I highly doubt,given the current political dynamics of the USA, that Mr. Z could carry the silent majority of Middle America that delivers the electoral vote.
The best feature of vim is its ubiquity; I feel at home on almost any computer.

I find myself shying away from anything too specialized that could become a crutch, maybe to my detriment.
I don't know how good it is, but there is a company called RemObjects Elements http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/ which cross compile Windows (.NET), Android (Java), iOS (Object C / Swift), Linux/Android (C++).
Are your running containers healthy?
Actually the opposite for me, and the original reason I went with Vue (tho after using it more I like a lot about it). I just do not get the appeal of JSX. Directives are meh, but I still prefer it to JSX.
I mean react-router is almost a 3 year old library trying to handle a rather complex problem. The first three versions were largely the same with no major changes that I can think of except for switching from context to higher order functions.

I think everyone is a little dramatic about the number of versions of the library, especially when they are going to continue to support v3.
It's a good question, given Oklahoma has a median income equal to Sweden.

Their top tax rate on income is 5.25%. And given their energy boom, there are only two possibilities: they're not taxing enough (they could clearly boost the top income tax brackets slightly), or they're badly mismanaging the spending. Their sales tax is 4.5%, while I regard that as regressive, they could probably afford 6% without any problems given their state income level.
Wow how is that not cheating by the house?
This article is talking about the state budget. States don't buy missles, that's federal.

And there is enough money to send kids to school. Oklahoma's per student spending is at the OECD average. If it were a country, it'd be between Spain and Italy in education spending per student.
>"I don't think that reflects as poorly on the budget as it does on the school boards and administrators."

Of course, they can't ever solve the problem because the only viable solution involves reducing their own salaries or admitting that they are redundant and only cause unnecessary overhead to an already-strained system.
Nah, today's hotness is tomorrow's tech debt. Always.
Date, 1995.
At the risk of sounding like a shill (I bring up Riot a lot), check out Riot.js. It's a bit rough around the edges in terms of docs/presentation, but it's by far the most minimalistic and most productive "react-like" ui lib I've used.

It's all very very expedient and you can pick it up in a day and be churning out advanced applications with very little mental load. It also supports in-browser compilation so you can get up and running instantly without having to set up Webpack/Browserify/Whatever, which is great for testing it out. Later on you can easily transition to using its offline compiler + whatever packager you want.

The main downside is the community is small. But it's very close to Vanilla JS so I've practically never encountered an issue where I needed riot-specific help.
I don't necessarily disagree, but I have a hard time squaring your point with the fact that the poorest children in the US are the most obese. How can they be calorie deficient and obese at the same time?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/51-100/db51_fig4....

[the lower the PIR (poverty income ratio) the poorer]
Most miners are in China. Most power generated for those miners comes directly from coal. https://bitcoinworldwide.com/mining/china/
I wonder how practical ReactOS could be as a small business server?

With Microsoft's changes in Licensing, it seems there's a demand for an OS as straightforward as Windows, obviously with some degree of compatibility, but without all of the telemetry garbage. Could ReactOS (or a distribution derived from it) plug this gap?
true, modern ones are electroplated - can still be called tinning in practice although that's inaccurate. It doesn't need anything like the same maintenace as old style.

The point was more that nobody really cooks directly with copper, and did not historically.
Why did you say "wasted" instead of "used" ? We put energy in, we get value out.
Oklahoma per capita spending is $5,637. United States average is $5,711. [1]

So Oklahoma isn't spending a lot less; they're just spending a lot less on education. And ridiculous foreign expenditures is federal not state. Education is primarily state funded.

A better idea is for Oklahoma to fully fund education.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Total_state_government_expenditures
Interview with the author regarding the book, http://www.npr.org/2017/02/13/514322899/aisles-have-eyes-war...
The crossover between car simulations and autonomous vehicles
They are electing insane republicans/conservatives who actually believe the crazy nonsense peddled on talk radio.

It's really sad. My uncle was a big republican in a more moderate state, county committee chairman, etc. He switched because the party degraded into something that doesn't stand for something that a civlized society should stand for.

Ultimately, the fundamentalists and lunatics will implode the GOP. Demographics always win, and these flyover places are going to be ground into the dirt when the people they are hurting rise up.
So is this the beginning of the next internet mob to take take down another Silicon Valley darling?
Neither, mostly. Or both. Let me see if I can usefully elucidate.

In the short term, the stress originates in the fact that the pay sucks; even if you work as hard as you can all the time and get all the hours you can handle, you still barely get by in the best of times - and one serious medical issue, for example, is more than enough to wipe you out financially for good.

In the long term, these jobs entail extensive physical labor, and it takes very little time to realize that there's eventually going to be a hard limit on your ability to continue to do such work - especially if you work as hard as you can all the time and get all the hours you can handle. Sooner or later, you're just going to be too old and too beat up to continue, and the longer you do this kind of work, the higher your risk of the kind of injury whose repair costs will wipe you out as I describe above.

And even if you beat all the odds and never get sick or get hurt, what happens when you can't work any more? Funding even a minimally feasible retirement runs to the mid- to high six figures at best, and doing this kind of work all your life, you're lucky to top out at fifty thousand a year - and that's if you can get such work at all, when illegal day labor is so much more cost-effective.

So you're pretty much screwed both ways, when this kind of work is the best your abilities enable you to find. You don't make enough money to provide a stable life for yourself and your family, and when you run up against the physical infirmities that come to us all but most quickly to those who use their bodies hardest, you cease being able to make even that much, and then what the hell do you do?
Not much newer, but I like the in-depth slides that cover how it was done:

The effect: https://29a.ch/sandbox/2012/terrain/

The slides that explain: https://29a.ch/slides/2012/webglwater/
the old way of doing it involved cupping your hand around the card and trying to look at the card discretely. The issue is someone could be standing behind you and get a glimpse.

Not to mention with the old method the dealer would actually see their hole card. Let's say the dealer shows a 10, then when they check, they see they have another 10 as their hole card (face down). The dealer could intentionally or unintentionally give away what their card is, causing someone who normally wouldn't hit on, let's say 17, to take a hit, since the dealer would beat them anyways.

With these little windows, the dealer only see IF they have a blackjack, not the actual card itself.

This happens because the markings for 10s (10, J, Q, K) are all offset slightly to the right. Then the Ace is offset slightly up (the dealer turns it before sliding it into the window).

I use to be a casino dealer.

(edit: typo)
If a school has designed its programmes so that operating for all of the days in a school week is infeasible with their budget (which doesn't make sense to me, since I don't think they could reduce teacher salaries by removing a day, and I can't imagine any other cost making it worthwhile), then they have done something wrong.

Wouldn't it be great if, at the cost of children playing latchkey for a day during a school year or two (or however long it takes them to fix this), they finally get their act together again.
That's the problem with mining, it does not rely on skilled labour and leaves a few people very rich and the rest very poor. How did Canada escape that trap, even though logging and petroleum make up a great part of the Canadian economy society doesn't have a large underclass.
I haven't done this with Vue yet, but it looks pretty easy to do both prerendering and server-side rendering[1].

A more complete solution, Nuxt.js[2], appears to be gaining in popularity as well.

[1] https://ssr.vuejs.org/en/
[2] https://nuxtjs.org/guide
For vuejs, https://nuxtjs.org is straightforward and easy to get started with isomorphic apps.
Yeah, I'm in about the same fitness boat as you. Just very different outcomes regarding salt in sweat.
Typestyle: Making CSS Typesafe
Do you think that your preference is just from your previous experience? JSX feels like uninhibited templating to me, which is great when it is done right (and a little crazy when done poorly). I also feel like it gives cleaner error messages.
KVM is QEMU. QEMU is already listed there.
It’s time to fix the startup funding landscape in Kenya
"An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth." -Stephen Jay Gould
>"There are lots of discussions and explanations of what it means to be "Bayesian," but I think the best thing to do is jump in and start building models."

I highly agree, just play with Stan or JAGs and you will figure it out. The prose descriptions just cannot convey the power and flexibility of Bayesian stats.

PS, you shouldn't be trying to do a "bayesian t-test" or anything like that. That whole way of thinking about research (asking "is there an effect?") is flawed and can't go away soon enough.
If we move away from only spa appications vue has other use cases. For a Rails / PHP site that only needs small amount of javascript vue feels like a natural choice to replace some of the existing jquery
I second that, this is what i would consider "production ready" - This is all i need!
MateBook X, from Huawei
The missile is almost a good point, the OECD average is not.

Oklahoma's median income is well above the OECD average. It's nearly 40% higher than Italy. Teacher salaries in Oklahoma are accordingly higher. They're going to have to spend quite a bit more than Italy and Spain.

Regarding missiles. If we spent... $200 billion less on defense, which we easily could afford to do, the Federal Government could kick that money down to the states for other purposes (infrastructure, education, healthcare). And or the Federal Govt could lower taxes and the states could raise their taxes.
* Headcount: 2368 people*
* Hired in 2015: 1160 people
https://www.quora.com/How-many-employees-does-Airbnb-have-1

I worked in a company with similar growing speed. And things went from good to bad.

Everything starts with the size of the company. Upper management stops being related with what most of their employees do. So they start to take bad decisions promoting the wrong people. That didn't happen when the company was 500 people, as upper management knew most of them and knew personally the people that they were promoting. That is lost way before getting to the 2000 employees mark.

First-time managers promoted ad-hoc to fill the ranks are not able to deal with the company complexity.

So now you have employees used to voice their concerns, to be pro-active, and demanding explanations from management decisions. But management is now mediocre and is not able to attend the needs of high performing employees. The company tries to play cool, but the people that believed in that way of working is long gone.

Silos start to pop up everywhere. Departments try to protect themselves from the chaos.

The first to leave is the leaders of the company. Those people were the ones-to-go when you had a problem, they maybe never became managers and just wanted to mind their business. For them is easy to find new jobs and they are tired of fighting the new bureaucracy.

I don't know what happens next. The company I left is at this stage. Maybe things get better, maybe they just fail. But I guess that this "best company to work" just becomes a normal big company, and that's all.
I'd say that this is a matter of personal taste. After having worked extensively with both, I still can't get used the JSX-way of doing interpolation or conditionals and find the infamous Angular style template easier to reason about and work with.

Having said that, you might be interested to know that there's an official Babel plugin that lets you write your Vue templates with JSX: https://github.com/vuejs/babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx
It's a red state, go figure. Austerity politics at its finest.
This just political trolling, either you believe vouchers and private education are the solution or you support public education. In this state they are seeing the intentional death of public education system.
It's actually there simply to speed up the game. In blackjack, the house plays by a fixed set of rules: If cards are A, do B, if cards are C, do D. So there is no benefit to the dealer for knowing what his down-cards are. It saves everyone time: If the dealer has blackjack everyone loses anyway so there's no point to having everyone take the time to play that round.
Artificial Intelligence Through the Eyes of the Public [pdf]
Did you miss the part where I noted that the median income in Oklahoma is among the highest on earth (not the average, the median)? It's equal to: Sweden, Belgium, Denmark; higher than Finland, the Netherlands, Japan. Their cost of living is far lower than it is in eg Sweden or the Netherlands as well.

The people in the middle in Oklahoma, have high incomes compared to other developed nations.
I love Bruce and his music, and this book gave me way more than I bargained for. This is a good review.

Bruce is really thoughtful about his own psychological issues, workaholism, teetotalism, obsessiveness... definitely give it a read if you're into surprising biographies of high-performing nutters who will hustle to get the job done.

As a biography, for me - a programmer, musician, and fan - it's up there with 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' (especially in terms of surprise) and 'Steve Jobs' (in terms of brutality).
Leaving this here for anyone curious like me.

>I received an offer of $20 per hour, no benefits, to work 40 hours per week.
Because the rules in a casino about what a dealer does are independent of what the dealer holds.
@ pron

This is a great write-up I learn quite a bit from but way, way, too long. There's a lot of redundancy in here much like my first sentence. You should try to condense this since the redundancy might make a chunk of the modern crowd think the rest of what they see in the scrollbar will be the same and move on to next article. The last write-up you sent me didn't have that problem.

I'm glad I saw this, too, as I recently watched your video citing all the mathematical evidence that correctness may not decompose. I got one or two counterpoints to email you later but overall want your data peer reviewed by people highly experienced in abstractions in large, verification efforts and making VCG's given their output will have to compose, too. Let all the pro's duke it out with arguments, proofs, and attempts at actual projects. I'll reserve judgment until the dust settles. :)
First of course do some research on your own don't want to give wrong advice, but generally I would say:

Start by making sure you're eating enough. Adequate salt quantity starts by getting it from your food and getting enough to eat. Second just (slowly) add small amounts to your food and see if that addresses the problem. If you're exercising or doing physical activities and sweating a lot while also drinking a lot of water, you likely need to add some salt to food. As others have said, it should not be such an amount that tastes overly salty. Start really small.
Oklahoma has the 4th lowest state per pupil spending.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-...
That's not entirely true. Players might (stupidly) still choose to play, including doubling-down and/or splitting. In that case the player would lose more, so the hand should be played out.

It depends on the house rules as to whether that's an option.
> demonstrably don't care about sanitation, and are easily sidelined by superstition.

Exactly, thanks for making my point. There are such fundamental problems in India that privacy laws are the least of the layman's problems.

Do you seriously think someone who doesn't have basic ameneties (that we take for granted) cares about this? Get real, they don't.
Didn't Microsoft release the .NET API and also Wine can be used?

https://www.winehq.org/

I am really impressed with what ReactOS is doing, but what is the practical reason for it? I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) they're cloning Windows XP, which happens to be my favorite Windows operating system.
Because it's the rule and everyone knows about it. You could play the game without this with the exact same rules and the same odds, but it would be much more complicated to settle the bets at the end of the hand.
Well, you can be divided at the high level of individualism in the US - but even if you're not believing that everybody deserves a minimum standard of living, the belief that everybody should have a decent chance at it if you just work hard enough runs deep within the country's DNA - and that very belief gets hollowed out and violated every day.

For a small refresher:

The American dream
phrase of American
noun: American dream
1.
the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved.
Because the cheapest food is also the unhealthiest.
Converting React ES6 Class Component to TypeScript
not every iphone user. magic UX like that is not very discoverable.
Ruling on patent trolls expected to help Bay Area companies
This is what happens when people dank meme about taxes IRL.
And you forget what we get for those taxes / lower salaries... Things like better social security (what if you loose your job? Get I'll? Etc.) , Retirement funds, heath care, and maybe most important free time, like 25 to 35 paid days off a year without having to feel guilty or limiting your career by using them.. Very good parttime and flexible hours possibilities (work 4x9 hours, or 4x8.5 + 1x8 hours and have about 12 extra days off)
And way more relaxed work climate.
And you forget what we get for those taxes / lower salaries... Things like better social security (what if you loose your job? Get ill? Etc.) , Retirement funds, heath care, and maybe most important free time, like 25 to 35 paid days off a year without having to feel guilty or limiting your career by using them.. Very good parttime and flexible hours possibilities (work 4x9 hours, or 4x8.5 + 1x8 hours and have about 12 extra days off)
And in general a more relaxed way of living / working (better work/life balance)
I'd say that using "base stations" or "turrets" like in airports wouldn't make a autonomous-self-driving technology.

I guess I prefer a fully independent car capable of driving anywhere without the help 3rd party devices.

Ok maybe just gps.
The Oklahoma state government is grossly incompetent (I grew up here). A few years ago they cut the oil and gas production tax down to as low as 1% for the first 3 years. After a new well has been in production for 3 years the tax rate goes back up to 7%. The problem with that is that most of the production happens in the first 3 years. When the normal tax rate kicks in the wells are mostly dry!

And yet to this day, with the school system falling to pieces, the state government is still debating [0] whether to re-impose this tax on oil and gas producers. Keep in mind that this tax cut directly benefits companies like Devon that have an $18B market cap, as well as other larger out-of-state producers. As a comparison, neighboring Texas seems to tax oil and gas production at 4.6% [1]. It's a very shameful situation.

In my opinion this is the crux of the problem. Law makers have messed up priorities. In an ironic twist some oil and gas producers are even asking for the tax to be raised [2]. Even they know it is too generous.

[0] http://newsok.com/article/5548887
[1] https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/crude-oil/
[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/20...
> * What did we spend it on*

It was spent to make the share prices of private companies go up.
"...and with no money for new textbooks, children go without"

Would printing out a CC licensed textbook help at all?

"And the number of positions filled by emergency-certified teachers — who have no education training (or, in O’Brien’s words, “are upright and breathing”) — is now 35 times as high as it was in 2011."

What is the actual percentage of qualified to non-qualified in most affected schools? Is anyone monitoring that? You can absorb some non-qualified teachers in most teams but there is a point at which the team support gets thinned out.

UK: Free school dinner percentage is a standard metric of local poverty in UK. 88% is very high, 60% is remarkable.