skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“You are more likely to hear from your buddy that he is on Viagra than that he has credit-card problems,” says Brad Klontz, a financial psychologist who teaches at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and ministers to individuals with financial issues. “Much more likely.”

What!? This... Isn't even remotely true. Maybe it's just my peer group and family but complaining about money problems is extremely, extremely common. Other than my coworkers I know more people who talk about lack on money then don't.

It kinda gets old though because I see the complainers complain then go out and make terrible financial choices. I have a friend whose always complaining about money yet he's buying expensive clothes for his wife, bought two brand new cars (one for the wife), and a motorcycle. While complaining he can't afford groceries. Then goes on several vacations. These people actually have enough money to fund a pretty decent lifestyle if they just worked to get out of debt then worked to budget.

Seems people just want to buy the things they want no matter their ability to pay for them. And banks are happy to lend money to finance this lifestyle. So we have more advertising, more credit, and more things to buy.

I think there's a cultural expectation of perpectual debt. Like everyone always has multiple "car payments" and a "house payment." Need something? No need to save for it, just take out a loan and add it to your monthly payments. That's how people get in trouble - leaving no cushion.

I just find it hard to get through this sort of article, making it seem like average-to-good income earners, someone earning $50,000 a year, are victims of some sort. I went without for a long time to get myself out of student loan debt and the get myself to a place of economic security. If I can't afford something, I don't buy it. It's not hard concept, but it does require going without. I also don't think paying these people more would help - they would just spend more.
I play a lot and used to do so on a mac book pro.

It used to be a good strategy, especially after upgrading my MBP 2011 with an SSD and more RAM.

Not so much with my last MBP, a mid 2015 model.

I have heard that the thermic paste used by Apple is of very low quality and degrades over time.
It seems to be the case for me.. this laptop used to be able to run GTAV on windows, now it crawls even when I try a simple compilation.

I have mostly renounced to play on a mac (whether it is on windows or osx) and I mostly play on a switch now.
Supply Chain Blunder Means Cisco Servers Could Lose Data
Yes, this is the crux of the problem. Your state made it illegal for you to build a proper home.
Faraday Future answers mounting challenges with high-profile CTO hire
A sample run with react-native-router-flux and react-redux
I work for a game publisher. We do not suggest developing for Mac. If you're building your game in Unity and can export it in Mac, then great (although now you have to factor in extra support). Otherwise, don't waste your time. Mac accounts for 3% in Steam [1], and Linux is even worse off.

Development time is better spent on internationalization than getting a working Mac build.

And I say this being a Mac user myself. Games actually run really well on my MacbookPro. But from a business standpoint, I wouldn't develop for Mac.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=combined
The best line i heard from a guy in my route is this

When i was 20 i wanted to make 100k by 30

When i was 30 i wanted to make 1m by 40

When i was 40 i didnt care about money

And now in my 60s i want to die $3m in debt.
So get rid of all of that, and I think you will find the problem remains. You can get paid in cash with no loans and STILL blow your entire paycheck in 2 days. Or you can get paid in cash and STILL save 50% of it in a bank and live in your means.

Not that we should not touch predatory lending. But so much of our economy is built on advertising and stuff, just shutting off the loan tap will not fix the problem.
I don't think that's what the original commenter meant. Most people understand that, but don't know how to budget for things that ARE necessary. I myself am terrible at budgeting, yet have a huge safety net so that even if I go past my budget I am safe.
> I've even had someone tell me that paying in full is bad for your credit score

That one I always find interesting. The credit bureaus definitely try hard to make it as confusing as possible, but even then, the amount of urban legends is baffling.

I moved to the US a few years ago knowing nothing of how that stuff worked. 3 years later after getting my SSN I had a credit rating of 760 and got a jumbo mortgage at a pretty good rate. The core of the "formula" for credit rating isn't too complicated. And "keeping a balance on your card and using it regularly" is absolutely not part of it (beyond the fact that many banks won't let you raise your limit if you don't use it, and your total unused credit IS part of the formula)
"It is the first ever numerical linear algebra course, to our knowledge, to be completely centered around practical applications and to use cutting edge algorithms and tools, including PyTorch, Numba, and randomized SVD. ...

This course uses the same top down, code first, application centered teaching method as we used in our Practical Deep Learning for Coders course ... We have been inspired by Harvard professor David Perkin’s baseball analogy. We don’t require kids to memorize all the rules of baseball and understand all the technical details before we let them have fun and play the game."
I'm not picking a side, just delivering info:

You can see the signalling process here: https://coin.dance/blocks

90% are signalling the NYA intent to support Segwit2x. Since the software release 20% have signalled with segwit2x blocks.

You can see business support here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support#Businesses

I'm not sure if you consider Coinbase a major bitcoin company yourself, but I think they qualify.

If I was to make a prediction, everyone will be running segwit2x or another client faking segwit2x support, to get segwit passed by Aug 1st. Then once October comes along we'll have another fight over the actual blocksize hardfork.
Conventional Current vs. Electron Current
A Beginner’s Guide to Progressive Web Apps and the Front End Web
You basically can do exactly that. Unless the companies involved want to run on a minority chain with much less hash power, which means they are exposing themselves to a 51% attack as soon as their difficulty drops significantly behind the majority. Hash power is a very big stick.
Many altcoins attempt to solve the confirmation time problem. Litecoin is an early fork of Bitcoin that reduces the target block time to 2.5 minutes (probably still too slow for your coffee purchase). One that I see as having a lot of promise for retail purchasing is Dash[1]. They claim 1-second confirmations with InstantSend. I'm intrigued by the masternode network because it seems like the best compromise I've seen for gaining fast confirmations while maintaining most of the distributed and decentralized aspects of a good cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin is the largest and most prevalent, so it has become the currency most often used to exchange to fiat. Usually the transaction fees are still mostly negligible because these are larger transactions than the faster altcoins when they're used to make purchases.

[1] https://www.dash.org/
Speaking only for myself, I'm a poor decision maker.

I could easily teach a class on financial planning for young adults, but it's everything I can do to keep my own financial house in order. It's certainly not because I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Sure, let's go through that cycle again:

"People shouldn't be able graduate high school until they can understand the financial implications of a loan!"

"Schools and teaching are ruined because they blow all their time teaching to the test! My little mini-me is held back from graduating because he can't calculate compound interest!"
> name me one feature of declarative puppet language that definitively rules out possibility to classify it as functional language?

Out of order operations? IIRC puppet is free to reorder operations, and thus you need to explicitly declare any dependencies between operations, and the runtime has a solver to decide what order is appropriate.

But it's kind of a silly dichtomy. Your article screams "I wish I had used Chef." It's technically a functional language, but looks very declarative:

acme_certificate site do
crt "/etc/apache2/ssl/#{site}.crt"
key "/etc/apache2/ssl/#{site}.key"
chain "/etc/apache2/ssl/#{site}.pem"
wwwroot '/var/www/website'
end

There's two general options for creating a DSL: define a formal grammar (Puppet) or extend an existing one to needs (ruby+chef). The latter gives you easy access to a community of existing developers, but ties you heavily to the language and runtime you extended. A formal grammar is more work to create, and more work to learn, but allows for multiple implemenations in languages and runtimes other than Ruby.

When you're courting the likes of Apple, Google, and Facebook, suddenly the scalability of the solution matters. Chef Server is in Erlang, which is neat, but chef-client will basically always be a slow ruby app.
But that's not what you were talking about.

> Frankly, with current stats of disadvantages women experience in society, it seems a miracle they still marry at all.

If you'd said "it seems a miracle that they get into romantic relationships at all", I probably would've still disagreed, but I also wouldn't have commented. The way that you wrote the comment seems to state that the change of marital status is the important transition point, in terms of danger.

If your point was just meant to be that male-on-female violence is much more common than female-on-male violence, then we're in full agreement. I'm also not going to open the can of worms of weighing physical harm against discrimination within family law.
They do but in order to run those programs people pay with Ether, the Ethereum coin. And for mining Ether you solve the random hashes.
If you're convinced it's going to fall, then it's stupid to hold. You can sell and rebuy at lower price.
It is uninteresting for those who know :)
Mint was a pretty big game changer for me in the world of budgeting. But it's not as if that is rocket science. It's just good to see spending trends. You make X dollars per month, don't spend more than that. That's a basic budget everyone should adhere to for starters.
Your credit card utilization is a snapshot at a random day in the month. I pay off all my CCs in full every month, every credit report I have seen of myself show 1-90% utilization of all of my credit cards.

(The 90% is my Target Redcard with a $300 limit, pretty easy to max that puppy out... in fact its bad for my credit to even use, as the 90% utilization makes me look in trouble, but it can be hard to pass up 5% savings..)
I can't wait until compilers can start auto generating GPU kernels. That will be when GPGPU really takes off for most people who's applications aren't critical enough to spend hours writing these by hand but would benefit from the significant speed up.
Numbering of banknotes is mainly a meta-function, to see how long the banknote survives in the real-world. No idea for USD, but GBP 5 pound notes last a surprisingly short amount of time, less than a few months, before wear-and-tear destroys them.

There is no regulatory tracking of bank note number to who withdraws it. None. An incredible and incredibly pointless mess. ATMs do read them however,for the just-in-case scenario.

In bank robbery stories, sure "A million in used notes" sounds nice, but that's because a net would have been thrown down, or specific attention drawn to a serial, but in most cases, no. The regulatory burden would be far too surreal.
Not true, the miners are heavily vested and do their research. Speculators who just buy and sell go wherever the market is which is wherever the miners are.
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Parse in 2017 – remembering the forgotten, using PostgreSQL, and some benchmarks
Yeah. Liquor consumption is crazy when you dig into the numbers.

From [slate](http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...), 11-drinks-per-week is the national average, but it's so top-loaded that hitting that average means you're in the top 20%.

And given the top 10% is more-than-10-per-day, given it's also on the sharp end of the curve, I kinda don't even want to know what the numbers are for the top 5% or 1%...
This was heavily predicted around here, and seems like a natural direction for Amazon (with very little effort.)

It'll be interesting to see who else steps into this market. Hopefully there will be a focus on local pick ups to eliminate even more of the footprint.

Ideally we'd see something similar to the CSA shares where you get a rubbermaid bin once per week with everything packed in something similar to Mason jars (with an initial deposit to ensure people are playing along.)

This is a fantastic opportunity for local supermarkets and grocery stores to dedicate a section to 'What's for dinner?' -- where all of the ingredients are grouped together with a small recipe card and a link to a video, or something along those lines.
I can play Civilization VI on my Mac. I'm good.

Personally I haven't bought a Steam game that hasn't had the Mac symbol on it for several years, and I used to be a heavy Windows user (still am at work and on my 'get work done' laptop). Generally requires me to get mostly indie games, but that's okay, I have consoles for the rest.
Your thesis leaning on the reality of social pressure seems plausible. And not wasting doctor's time with trivial complaints clearly has social value.

But what about the opposite case: Serious complaints left effectively untreated while the disease progressing under "homeopathic treatment"?
http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html

Wouldn't even one such case have to be weighted more heavily than a hundred wasted 15-minute doctor's appointments?
How can I compile my scheme? What are the tools available? (doc for libsnark is not very good I need to say)
As a current Goldman Strat I can confirm that the hoodie-wearer is certainly out earning the majority. Only the traders are paid well, everyone else is on a less than competitive wage based on an illusion of how it "used to be". Historically (10+ years ago) the total compensation was accounted for by a big bonus but these days it is non existent.

Almost every VP I know in NYC/LDN makes less than a fresh grad at Google in the bay area.
> Also cannot scale this way infinitely (you need to keep all the transactions on a disk forever).

The whitepaper itself mentions that the Merkle tree can be pruned so that doesn't need to be the case. Do you know why there hasn't been more effort towards implementing that yet?
Microsoft wasn't all that different in the mid 2000s -- at one point the graphics group was getting RIFfed, and many of the principle engineers had to move to the XBox group. Apparently execs in the Windows division thought that the gaming scene was over or something. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple execs came from the same mold.
Unfortunately I find this a reality of working, no matter it be in development or not. People suck. The best thing I ever learned to do was leave my work at work. Don't take it home with you. I do bring a journal home, in case I have a brilliant idea but outside of that I don't think about work, I don't talk about work, I don't do work outside of work. If I do happen to have a brilliant idea at home, I write it down then forget it. Flesh out the idea when you're working.

It may seem small, but it's one of the only things that has kept me sane.
I second what wlamartin said. We have pipelines that do integration tests that spin up 30 instance clusters in AWS. Trying to spin up something similar inside a concourse worker just isn't worth trying.
This is why Amazon purchased Whole Foods. I've been trying to get my regional WF competitor (New Season Market) to do these meal kits and have them delivered with Amazon Prime for the past 18 months. They could have killed this game and without all of the wasted packaging. I am going to continue to chip away at them.
This underscores the need for legitimacy and best practices around ICOs. I think CoinList (angellist company) will end up killing it in this space.
That's is a great and pithy characterization. To expand on that a little:

If there existed an underlying model with a finite number of parameters, then you could potentially find it will a finite number of measurements. But if there is no underlying model, the only viable approach is using non-parametric estimation. If you try to truncate a non-parametric model to a finite/fixed dimensional model, you are introducing a strong source of bias. (the "bias" of assuming that there actually exists a not-crazily-complicated underlying model)
This also may allow high quality educational videos to be created. (Think of all those smart people who are bad presenters)

And high quality entertainment.

Ain't all bad.
Actually, `bundle exec` is way easier to use than virtualenv.
Reposting my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14716912

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There is a strongly utilitarian argument to not allowing such false statements.

It devalues the products of people that aren't bullshitting you. Say with fake-unlimited the "real limit" is 4TB before they start terminating you, but a different provider provides 5TB of capacity.

Because the former is allowed to outright lie, there is no way for the latter to effectively communicate that they are in fact offering a better product, instead they too have to make a bullshit "fake unlimited" claim to compete. Now because nobody has to actually back their claims with anything, they are infact massively incentivised to cut the "real storage" limits, because it will cut their costs, and they can still keep making the same claims.

Its a market for lemons[1] race to the bottom, and everyone loses, producer and consumer because scamming liars cannot be reliably assessed beforehand. So consumers lose faith in the entire market segment, and providers offering actual legitimate services become unsustainable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

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If you allow sellers to lie about information-opaque things like this, you drive the entire market to a shittier equilibrium, it should absolutely not be allowed.
It's nowhere near that uncertain. "Memory safety" is hardly a subtle property and it's been well-understood since we figured out how to enforce it in garbage collected languages.

The only uncertain part is which rules unsafe code has to follow to maintain it- it currently comes down to "whatever LLVM optimizations won't break," which is in practice what C and C++ programmers deal with already. Things like your link are work to improve the situation beyond C and C++.
Monopoly really shines in electronic versions, where book-keeping and rule enforcement is easy to do. There's no "free parking money pot" nonsense that just makes the game unnecessarily long.
It was also called WebTV (later renamed to MSN TV).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV
> I would make it as easy for you as possible.

I'm pretty sure you're an exception.
Ground temp is lower than 90 so thermal mass can still help. You just need to design for proper insulation, exposure, shades, etc.

Evap at 80% humidity is about half the rate at 50%. Still functional.
Understanding "don't actually have money" is something that requires education.

With the way things are, it's very easy for someone who hasn't been explicitly educated otherwise to look around and just assume that buying all you can and making minimum payments is just how things work.
I greatly admire Elon. I have to disagree with him.

Unless he is aware of something I'm not, Moravec's Paradox points to a future of increasing employment for blue collar labour (builders, nurses), a minority of jobs for information manipulation labour (programmers, designers) but unemployment for huge parts of the traditional middle class gig: architects, lawyers, accountants and engineers.

Geoff Hinton's inventions and observations are intimately tied into that. The likely disappearance of radiologists excepting an elite few specialists (search for "hinton radiologists"). If your work can be represented by a 2D photograph that is not good news for you.

The self driving car doesn't change this view (short-mid term), the driving of vehicles is a particularly constrained environment in comparison to other blue collar tasks. People have been trying to build houses in factories for centuries without succeeding because it turns out people with upgraded hand tools are flexible and fast (see Toyota), it already costs next to nothing to frame a house, prefabrication exists but is most often for high spec builds: a clue to the economics.

As Elon has said, it takes about 20 years for autonomous cars to become normal.

Bluntly: Can you put a robot into meatspace alongside people, pets and make it do useful work. Boston Dynamics has them walking, just about, under constraint. The robots in Fukushima have been something of a disappointment.

tldr; As of yet: Robotics != AI. Advances in AI do not automatically imply robotics. AI is hard, Robotics is insanely hard.

Now please tell me I'm wrong.
Hiring a developer is healthier for your startup than working with freelancers
Wrong. Coinbase is on board.

They were an original signer of the new york agreement, which is how segwit2X was created.

If you want a link, just read the new york agreement announcement.
I want a Unix-like Facebook homepage.
Mostly by keeping your ego out of it. Identify and mitigate risks, including emotional ones.
"We have again the popularity of "Wouldn't it be nice if our machines were smart enough to allow programming in natural language?". Well, natural languages are most suitable for their original purposes, viz. to be ambiguous in, to tell jokes in and to make love in, but most unsuitable for any form of even mildly sophisticated precision. And if you don't believe that, either try to read a modern legal document and you will immediately see how the need for precision has created a most unnatural language, called "legalese", or try to read one of Euclid's original verbal proofs (preferably in Greek). That should cure you, and should make you realize that formalisms have not been introduced to make things difficult, but to make things possible. And if, after that, you still believe that we express ourselves most easily in our native tongues, you will be sentenced to the reading of five student essays."

E. W. Djikstra, EWD952 [1]

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd09xx/EWD952.PDF
Bitcoin Core does not have control over the software users run on their machine. If you believe differently, you don't understand how Bitcoin works. You might be confusing network effect with control.