skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think soap opera might still be correct.

As you watch a Soap Opera it becomes apparent that all the drama has no real consequence, and thus becomes meaningless. That is why General Hospital can be on for 40 years or something at this point. You can watch for a year, skip a year, then come back. You missed a ton of events, but it doesn't effect what you take from the show.

Once "the ending" becomes detached from the show, it is very difficult to manufacture meaningful drama.

Some shows, like Seinfeld or Simpsons always return to a set point at the end of an episode. So they don't need a real ending. This is different than the soap opera. Because there is no illusion of an ending. You know the show isn't going anywhere and you experience just what it is in that moment.

The soap opera is diabolical. As each episode ends, you are hooked, waiting for the next so you can find out "what happens", but there is no ultimate payoff. Just a never ending sequence of false promises.

Soap operas are the worst offenders, who best illustrate the point. But any drama series without a fixed end point is guilty of the same crime. Take LOST, which began as a brilliant show, but as it was stretched out began to anger many people. When would it have become a full Soap Opera? 10 more seasons? My point is that it already was, just shorter than some others.
Cuba is explicitly organized around keeping the Castros and their cronies in power. Propaganda aside, giving everybody a chance to succeed was never an actual organizing principle.
I expect it largely comes down to them not defining success the way you are here.
Working with streams of data often makes pointfree syntax beneficial, since you can start to see the omitted arguments "flow" through your chain of composed functions. If you write

f # g = \x -> g (f x)

then you could implement functions like this:

f :: Stream Int -> Stream Int
f = drop 3 -- drop the first three elements
# skipEvery 3 -- skip every third element
# sumEvery 2 -- sum every consecutive pair of elements
# map (* 2) -- double everything

This would turn

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ...

into

2 * (4 + 5), 2 * (7 + 8), 2 * (10 + 11), ...

You can find many non-pointfree versions of similar streaming code here: https://github.com/snoyberg/conduit/
IOW, business as usual for any Idera acquisition (see Delphi)
Basically 100%

You need a way to convey the can from the port (or railhead) to the receiver, and that is 100% by road, as you cant unload a can while its on the rail - cans are made to be put into a truck dock like a trailer.
Haha, yea, that is strictly a one-person job.
Baseless hype from Elon Musk!? How dare you! He would never do that...
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Where do you usually buy them from? Alibaba?
Banned raising money through ICOs for securities. It looks like they're taking a more even-handed approach than the article maintains.

The r/ethereum post has link to translated announcements, etc [0].

[0] -
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/734qv4/south_kore...
Why is it weird? Humans don't like to pay for the meal they ate yesterday. Far better to focus on tomorrow.
Really? I'm surprised. Well then...
Also if some scenes are drawn out too long (or the entire 2 hour movie only has 20 minutes of content), I've found VLC's 3 seconds, 10 seconds, and 1 minute skip hotkeys to be highly effective. On Windows it's (shift or alt or Ctrl) then the left or right arrow key. It would be kind of nice if you could watch or download entire seasons with outros and intros cut out, too.
I think most developers who used ExtJS will have love/hate memories of the framework. I mostly used the framework from 2007-2014 at a previous job, and at the time the extent of most developers' JavaScript knowledge was how to manipulate the DOM with Prototype, jQuery or a similar library. ExtJS was a whole other animal compared to that with its own Java-inspired class system that sat on top of JS, a JSON-style declarative approach to design UI layouts and an extensive data model, store and proxy system that was actually incredibly powerful.

This day was always going to come, however. Sencha's commercial side has always had a habit of making bad decisions, and have always focused on attracting companies rather than developers. This led to initial success on the enterprise side of things - they had a large percentage of the Fortune 100 on their customer books. The problem was that developers didn't use ExtJS outside of the enterprise setting. This was primarily due to the decision to use GPL for the open source license and later to completely alienate individual developers by introducing a 5-developer minimum purchase for commercial licenses. Although I was highly competent with ExtJS and Sencha Touch, I never used it on any side projects mainly because of these issues. All of this meant that when it came to hiring developers with ExtJS experience, it was always a struggle, and I believe it is for this reason that it never took off outside of the big corporates.
Couldn't this same train of thought be applied to the current discourse around student loans though?
1. Buy the book
2. Download an epub from somewhere
3. Open it up in an epub editor
4. Find / replace!
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>> how many 34 y/o american doctors are even close to paying down their debt?

I know more than a few successful Americans that age who whinge about their student loan debt too.
It's not just like computer science because those are cheaper to train, their work can be outsourced if their wage rises too much and immigration is not as restricted as it is for doctors. Computer scientists also don't have to do residencies.

More should be done to speed up the supply of new doctors.
The real question is (and this is serious): how is it working out for them?
The ethnicity of Hiro and Raven are rather relevant to the plot (as well as other considerations within the novel - many Burbclaves are ethnically-divided), and given the amount of whitewashing Hollywood is prone to, it's a legitimate concern.

If Hiro ends up being played by a blonde Norwegian, it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it also wouldn't be Snow Crash. At that point, why make him a swordsman? Does YT have to be so much younger than him that the possibility of a romance is excluded? Can we tighten up the plot by ditching all the boring religious stuff? Is there any way we can work in a Transformer? etc., etc.
Suppose that I’m a vegetarian, but I really like sausage (maybe I acquired the taste before becoming vegetarian), but there are, for some reason, no makers of vegetarian sausages. Should I then accept whatever sausage is available which has the least amount of meat in it? Of course not; I’ll simply go without sausage.

Even if a sausage maker came along and tried to attract the vegetarian buyers with a new kind of sausage which had no meat in it, just a little bit of gelatin in it. They say they can’t currently make vegetarian sausage without any gelatin in it, but they’re working on it. Should I “support” them and buy the sausage with gelatin in it anyway? Of course not; I’m a vegetarian; gelatin means it’s off the table.

(I’m not necessarily really a vegetarian, of course; it’s just an analogy.)
PPS - it is probably too late for this, but one of the last things I worked on at Google was Gin:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/lkgr/gi...

A bindings layer for v8 that was specifically intended to make implementing web-style APIs outside of Blink easier. At the time at least, refactoring things like SW out of Blink was ~impossible.
The core assumptions I make are threefold: the cost of basic necessities (food + shelter), of land reclamation, and of protection (law enforcement and national defense) fall to 0 with AI and robotics.

- I guess I don't buy any of those assumptions
50% is a lot...
Companies try to do that in America where they justify your income based on the fact you live in an area where you have high PPP. (Urbana,IL vs Palo ALto,CA)

That doesn't make it right to do or that this behavior will get the high quality talent pool every company says they will hire. So why do you think that it will work in this case?
The reason the video shows a sea launch is that you can use a high-speed ferry to get to an empty area from the city center in less than an hour. Inland cities like Berlin aren't targeted.
"The business generates a gross margin of about 90%."

Well, I can see why they would have to cut costs associated with employing customer service representatives to handle requests for copies of credit reports from consumers.

Faced with such financial pressures, they probably had no choice but to make private consumer data accessible via public internet and use a "web app" in order to scale back their costly customer service headcount.

This has all the hallmarks of sound business judgment.
IQ being highly hereditary doesn't mean that it isn't also influenced by environment.
I volunteer for UK cycling charity Sustrans. Whenever I've helped out at a stand at a local fair/festival, the number one question is always parents asking "Where can we take our kids to ride without traffic?".

Fortunately the UK is very slowly catching on to what has been standard practice in the Netherlands and Denmark for years, but outside London progress is still glacially slow. As an example: the cycle track mentioned by awjr in Oxford (along Marston Ferry Road) was put in in the 1970s. It's outstanding, and a huge success. Yet Oxford hasn't built anything like it since.
They can keep running and developing on the old version they use. I think my synology uses ExtJs 3. As a user, I could not care less - still works....
And yet those Cuban doctors would give up their entire way of life, access to family members and the country they grew up in to move to the evil capitalist United States.

Weird.
Where did you learn about this? I'd like to investigate in more detail.
That assumes the person in question wants to live in India, not save to leave India.
Let's not bring "disparity" into the picture after Nov 8, 2016 :P
> It's a neat idea, but I don't see this funding the Mars colony ambitions, at least not in the short term.

I think you misunderstood him. Musk doesn't plan on founding a mars colony. He plans on giving a solid business plan for a big, fully reusable rocket capable of transporting hundreds of people. He believes transportation is the main obstacle to people building a city on mars.
I guess you mean something like Compose or Kubernetes.
I think it's weird these things force you to use the docker runtime, personally. I would really love a more flexible definition in kubernetes of what a "resource to be ran" means.
I know they support multiple container runtimes now, but what if I dont want a container runtime at all?

Nomad supports raw executables to be downloaded and scheduled,
which is nice(https://nomadproject.io) but then again, kubernetes seems miles ahead in what it supports (autoscaling, volume claims, RBAC etc)

Otherwise, more traditional means of managing your services can be employed. I've got a lot of leverage out of systemd myself. Which by the way, supports all the features of a proper container runtime. You can namespace your executable, Chroot it, limit what devices it can access, etc, which is kinda awesome. Check out `man systemd.exec` and `man systemd.resource-control`
Makes me think of this IKEA job interview comic

https://jobmob.co.il/blog/funny-ikea-job-interview-cartoon/
Everyone is ragging on American Gods here, I must be the only one who liked it. If we're talking about painful tv adaptations how about preacher?

I'd love to see a culture mini series, maybe of Player of Games or Use of Weapons
Where to start? They don't allow anyone to attend medical school in Cuba. They accept a certain number of foreign students based on some standard of financial need. As for Cuban medical students, they're stuck as practitioners in the Cuban medical system which isn't a particularly great success from the perspective of financial reward. Certainly there are many problems with the US system of medical training and treatment, but at least it's still a financially rewarding occupation in the US.
Upvoted. Thanks for this perspective. I've had similar observations and thoughts, but haven't sat down to find words for it.
wow glad that a comment promoting actual eugenics "science" in 2017 is the top one on this post
I think you hit the nail on the head there. In non-communist countries, it is possible to pay off your education debt, and profit from your hard work thereafter. In Cuba, it isn't.
That is exactly what Vuetify provides. There are other component libraries for Vue, but so far Vuetify has all the components I've needed.

https://vuetifyjs.com/
Yes Ubuntu GNOME will be discontinued as determined by the developers. They decided it was better time to contribute to making Gnome better in the Ubuntu distribution itself. There will an additional package you can install to enable standard GNOME configuration.
Wanna know how we run without going down at upday?
I can believe that. I doubt anyone in the industry is so blind as to think this move would not anger people and hurt the long term.
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Antique ≠ obsolete
You're actually using the wrong words here too. When you take a function and map it to this style, that's called "η-conversion" (pronounced "eta" or "eee-ta").

"Point free style" is the name for the results of writing code where you do not introduce many new variables. You lean on function composition, currying, and often times this style benefits from partial application (famously with (.) and (.).(.) and others, but in general even with folds and traversals).

It's not really a problem to introduce a description for the style?
Of course they didn't. But that's not the issue.

What is the price/income ratio now compared to long term average? How much of the 60% can be explained with prices rebounding to long term normal.

ps. I'm almost sure that house prices in Toronto are exceptionally high compared to income. I'm not arguing against that. I'm arguing against people using wrong numbers to measure things. Find relevant numbers and use them.

https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings.jsp
That would be your pension fund, said bag holder.
And?

The provider can request a lets encrypt certificate for the same domain already, and then give Let's Encrypt a wrong IP.

This allows the same provider to get a fake certificate, and MitM only specific users.

I don't see any additional attack surface.
SRE: site reliability engineers (notorious at Google) ...
This seems like it has a ton of potential. I'm already thinking of the possibilities for my own Cloudflare-proxied sites.

I hope it's not priced too harshly. Hopefully an added monthly flat rate rather than per-request pricing?
I guess you could also use that money to buy a diesel generator so you don't suffer from the daily power outages and you can buy a great water filtration system so you don't have to worry about ever drinking unclean water either.
The article has one false assumption, "that IDERA is a company that focuses on SQL & other IT performance tools". It's not. They started focusing on developer tools in 2015, acquiring Embarcadero (Delphi and C++Builder.)

Disclosure: I work there. So I know that they are more than the article says ;)

I personally would suggest waiting and seeing what happens. Usually when there is an acquisition it is a good opportunity to correct mistakes the previous owner made. I'd suggest the author of this article actually contact Idera, let them know his thoughts, rather than posting a blog only. There are real people at the company and they'll read feedback, and now is a good time.
Unfortunately these companies/institutions have no experience with, and no concept of the challenges involved in approving a totally novel medical device in the US.
Weird how they do it after they became doctors and not before.
Right, but maybe I wasn't clear, by "pulling this hack off," I meant the initial intrusion, not what happened next.
I have disliked the default Gnome experience for a long time but really like the new Ubuntu Gnome experience.
Exactly, but as I pointed out, they've failed to reframe it so that the company is at fault. It's still the same thing under those 2 names. They're putting all that work into a new name that doesn't do what they want.
> This overall reduced cost to a company is significant enough to invest in the market.

Tech companies are especially inclined or incentivized to offshore work because their highest cost/liability sinks are their employees. Other sectors, a significant portion of their costs/liabilities are equipment, supplies, etc. Tech industry is unique in that their employees are their biggest liabilities.

I know that tech companies have been struggling the past decade+ on trying to rein in their employee costs. HR departments have trying hard to lower employee costs.

The move to bring in more women and minorities into tech is a commendable goal by FB, GOOGL and the tech industry, but it's also driven by rising employee costs. It's not spoken about widely and openly but these companies are desperate to get control over rising salaries/costs in the industry.

Diversity is a great way to maintain and lower employee costs that have political/social benefits. Another way to lower costs is offshoring, but that has a lot of political/social costs.

But profits are profits and costs are costs. The industry isn't going to stop offshoring because of bad publicity given how much they stand to gain.
Perhaps some amount of repayment for education is reasonable, but not this amount.

How many American doctors are paying >75% of their AFTER TAX income to pay down those debts ?

None.

How many Cuban doctors agreed to the arrangement of being restricted to a country controlled by the Cuban government, and therefore only offered a pittance for their services ?

None. They were born there.

What would happen if a bank offered such a deal to a US citizen ?

They would be persecuted, as this falls under "usury" and is a crime. Note: it's a crime. As in, if a bank does this and gets convicted (which happens regularly) people WILL go to jail for doing this.

What would happen if I did the same, organising a job for you in a foreign country and in return I get 75% of your wages in a contract that couldn't be broken ?

You could go to a judge and get the contract annulled, as this clearly violates labor laws. The article seems to confirm that this indeed violates even Brazilian labor laws.
Have you found a replacement clock like the old Unity? Only thing I miss.
Racism isn't based on facts. BUT, Indians and [insert third world country citizens] do great--in a country like USA.

Question: Now IBM charges probably $300/hour per programmer. Even if it is $100 and I understand that not every hour is billed, but why isn't IBM making way more money given Indian wages?
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Thanks so much for pointing me to that. If I had an always-air-gapped ORWL, I'd probably put a generator on it to be able to quickly generate them; I generate an absurd number of accounts each week, since I don't tie into SSO offers over public sites.

Only concern I need to solve for is sifting these lists for confusing words like homophones that are difficult to clearly say the words over an audio-only connection. This drives down the convenience and increases the time to call out the passphrase, since I then revert to the phonetic alphabet. Unfortunately, I've only found various lists [1], but not something that grabs the list, looks up the ExtIPA pronunciation [2] for each word, then applies rules to rank the clarity of each word when spoken over the phone.

That last part is where I am stumbling. I can't find the rules that govern what we know about clarity over telephone links, though AT&T must have has studied this at some point. I can come close, with this article [3] about factors that explain why the sounds “f”, “th”, and “s” are difficult for hearing-impaired to hear. Ideally, a ranking of not just individual words in a selected Diceware list, but also ranking of the clarity of a selected passphrase as well, would come out of such a systematic categorization.

[1] http://www.stlcc.edu/Student_Resources/Academic_Resources/Wr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensions_to_the_Internationa...

[3] https://www.hearingaidknow.com/words-difficult-to-understand...
I was excited by Snowcrash (the first chapter is awesome) but the plot kind of dissolves into a lukewarm mush by the end. AFAIK, people tend to love Snowcrash for the ideas and the world building rather than the plot.
How much better do the 32-bit versions run?

I still use my old second-hand Samsung N220 Plus occasionally when I'm travelling, as it's lighter than my main laptop and I can't afford a light + performant one.

I'd never actually considered whether to run 32-bit or 64-bit OS on it, and just installed the 64-bit by habit.
I think the point is probably this:

> But the doctors get a small cut of that money,

If the Cuban government were taking something like 10%-20% of salaray, you could see how that would wash. I presume they are taking much more
Have you tried Lubuntu?
High intelligence does seem to negatively correlated with fertility rate -- one study here, but there are plenty in Google Scholar.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289607...

But "intelligence" / "IQ tests" are tangled up with a lot of correlating factors and biases so it's hard to say what this means. For instance, simply being poor affects cognitive ability considerably -- https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/08/29/poor-concentration...

We also know that low fertility is also associated with high education levels -- http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137845 -- and income -- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=838227

I think one key here is, now that infant mortality / childhood diseases are much lower than it used to be, a much larger portion of families really want to use family planning methods to keep family sizes low, globally. This is not necessarily a bad thing. http://www.economist.com/node/14743589

So I would take a statement like "the stupids are outbreeding the smarts" as more that, for multiple reasons, access and knowledge of family planning is not as good for those with less education or income. So rather than making this a moan about dysgenics and Idiocracy, it seems a call to action to absolutely ensure these people at least have the access to the health care they need. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835625/
Perhaps a phone call is a better way to sort this but I'll give it a try. If you want to get on the phone let me know, I'll rope in our business guy, between the two of us we got this.

Consultants come in two flavors, they can be just like employees but they get the crap work, or they are domain experts.

If you are going to be a 1099 "employee" you need to be aware that you are paying all the extras: social security, payroll tax, health insurance. I believe all the extras are about 30% but it varies based on your income.

Charging, I'd go time and materials almost every time. Stuff like this is hard to price, you just don't know how long it will take. So take whatever you think is a reasonable salary and I'd double it. Gutsy but see if they go for it. If you are good they will pay.

Good luck!
Also, until recently mortality rates used to be a lot higher.
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That’s a really nice addition.

Hope to see the same with Emacs lisp packages too.
how about the fact that IQ tests are bullshit that measure literally nothing inherent and are used to ossify racial and class disparities and you can improve your IQ score just by taking IQ tests multiple times.