skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in fourth grade at the time, not a university. And it was a math test, not a phys-ed test. At no point did anyone in school ever sit me down and teach me what a "single" or a "double" was in baseball. And phys-ed classes never had quizzes or lists of sports terms to memorize, they just told me to get out there in the outfield and wait until it was time to come back in.

My point is to give but one concrete example of some trivial cultural knowledge that was actually required in a real mathematical test, which some people (like you, for example) assume everyone knows the answer to, but that other people (like 9-year-old me, for example) don't, which could cause someone to fail to understand a mathematical question which they were otherwise capable of answering.

I learned a lot about software development from my Gesture Drawing and Rock Carving classes at university (they complemented each other: one was additive, the other subtractive). Gesture Drawing taught me to get something bold and energetic down immediately that captures the overall flow, then iterate quickly and fluidly to incrementally refine it. Rock carving taught me to imagine something hidden deep inside that's solid and tangible, and keep chipping away at it with little nicks and scratches over a long period of time, until it finally reveals itself and becomes smoothly polished.

(And the comment about "scrum" was a joke. Can you imagine a team of rugby players standing up together in front of a dry-erase board before a game, sticking post-it-notes with user stories about tackling and passing scribbled onto them? Isn't that how it works?)
The Safest Way to Constantize
He is saying "contains implies report". You are saying "not-report implies not-contain".

These are logically equivalent.
I think Hacker News has a shorter max length.

The HN staff also rewrites titles in cases where a title is perceived as too sensationalistic; even if the title in question is the original title of the article!
But then you should also expose people to education and career choices in a personality type neutral manner. School was a pretty tough ride for me because I am shy and introvert although I am a white male. Gender and race are not the only dimensions along which people can get discriminated. There are also looks, being outgoing or not, athletic skills, fashion tastes and many others.
> This is why I dislike Damore. I don't care what his manifesto says ... Playing games is pathetic, dude.

Well, according to his statement he was a top performer at Google, so we can assume he was not afraid of being replaced by a woman. Besides he just started a discussion in a response to, according to him, shady moves in regards of equality performed by Google.

It is worth to listen to the other side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU
Although C usually has manual memory allocation and deallocation (malloc and free), some C programs embed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
In my experience, people that understand databases and personalization tech (mail merge and more) are jaded and harder to sell to. But we in IT are a minority , so I don’t doubt it works well for many demographics.
I think it's meant to imply the reasoning behind it. "Standard discrimination" is done out of fear or hatred, and "reverse discrimination" is done out of ignorance and a misguided desire to "help."
even if we could 'perceive' them... how many are stupid enough to broadcast their location... I mean what if there IS some sort of galactic predatory species that beat everyone else in the timeline? What if they're just waiting for signs of life - to squash the competition.

I think it was Carl Sagan who once said something like: it doesn't matter how 'well-meaning' an alien civilization is... it usually doesn't end well for the less advanced one... case in point: American Indians. (paraphrasing)
As far as I know, the people behind thegrid.io have put a lot of thought into constraint-based design, they may have some insight into ‘the rules’.
Pre-sales have always been a thing. Tesla is a $60B company. Can they not presell the Model 3? Calling it crowdfunding is just a new branding of an old idea.

I would argue the opposite—as a consumer I am considerably safer putting my presale funds into a product of an established company as they are more likely to honor the arrangement. They can’t just go belly up and move on to the next big thing.
Why Small States Are Better
A diet full of starches and sugar, a diet of almost only fat and meat, and a diet of mostly the two combined could all lead to obesity. Are they equally likely to lead to diabetes? Is it obesity, or a correlation between obesity and drinking your own weight in Coke every week that is the highest risk factor?
Growing into Non-Deterministic User Interfaces
It's correct; you've misread it — in fact, you're agreeing with it. What it's saying is, if the item is in the set, the Bloom filter is guaranteed to report that it is in the set. What you're saying is, if the filter says the item is not in the set, then it is guaranteed not to be in the set. Those two statements are equivalent (being contrapositives: "A implies B" is equivalent to "not B implies not A").
The lack of any mention that the DPRK is a murderous dictatorship that is starving its people to death is disturbing. This piece makes it seem like the DPRK is just another country with a quirky culture.
> It can be argued that this also makes sense to group together areas that have similar concerns -- in an extreme example, separating primarily agricultural districts from primarily urban districts. This is relatively uncontroversial.

If geography is the most important concern to voters, then surely voters would be able to handle grouping themselves according to geography in at-large elections with proportional representation. There could even be an explicit urban party and rural party if that is what matters most to voters.
I am curious what approaches can be taken to make education more approachable for people who learn collaboratively and have a social focus. If anyone has example curricula changes or teaching approaches that they could share it would be greatly appreciated.
I know plenty of people from other walks of life... none of them have time or interest in junk mail or unsolicited calls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
Trump constantly points out the case of Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren.
For the citizenship, a British University degree is also accepted instead of an English test. (Or at least was ~3 years ago)
This doesn't sound like a real problem.
The simplest thing to do there is to issue a read if you have less than 4 bytes remaining to decode. This guarantees that you always have at least one well formed character, or an EOF coming up.

Mmap doesn't work with pipes, which hugely reduces the utility of this kind of program.
Unless they’ve been lead to believe that it works, and it doesn’t? Or maybe the way to sell fraudulent pills doesn’t translate to how you sell many other products?
Nah. Advertising mostly moves spending around. It doesn't create more spending. The US savings rate is so low below the top 10% that essentially all income is spent.

This is one argument for taxing advertising heavily.
The conclusion is not well founded. The fact that bitcoin does not correlate well with macro factors could just mean that the bitcoin ecosystem is too small. It is instead more responsive to internal developments than external pressures. However as the ecosystem grows larger and more stable that would presumably change.

People arguing that bitcoin is digital gold are saying it has better intrinsic properties in service of a store of wealth goal than gold has. That doesn’t mean the market treats it that way, yet.
I agree that typography could be an exact science, but I think starting with mathematics would be the wrong choice. Rather, it would be better to devise perceptual experiments and back fit a mathematical model to the results.

The excellent LAB color space was created this way. Scientists used experiments - for example the MacAdam ellipse to measure what colors are distinguishable - then backfit a model to that. It involves a bunch of cube roots and funny constants, not something you'd reach from a standpoint of mathematical purity. But it works really well.

So if you were looking at rigorously defining typography, I'd look at quantifying how spread out a pattern of ink needs to be before it looks smaller (aligning I and L might not be the leftmost pixel). I'd also look at quantifying some of the gestalt laws of grouping.
>Concequently people believe they're going to be fine with diabetes, as long as they love their bodies.

You make a giant leap here from 'I have value as a person regardless of my physical shape' to 'medical science matters not to me because my self-love gives me magical powers' ... Just wondering what that is about. It seems uncalled for.

> its fat little knees.

Oh. I'd like to gently suggest you may have a chip on your shoulder about this topic and maybe it's interfering with your analysis.
rr does support multithreading[0].

"rr doesn't record shared-memory multithreading, so it forces your application's threads to execute serially. Your application can see an additional slowdown if it takes advantage of multicore parallelism."

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/rr/wiki/Usage#recording-an-execut...
Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth?
The designs remind me on 1950-1960s US advertising styles.
Define “Jewish”.

Most Russian jews are not that.

If fact, it is accepted in Israel that about 30% (beyond doubt) of the economical immigrants dragged into Israel by then right wing prime minister Shamir, in order to manipulate its demographic composition (20% Arabs both Christian and Muslim), are Christians.

Nothing wrong with that, only no need to pretend. Whatever the Eastern European jewery is/was, is mostly a hated group with its origins never fully understood.

What does a Russian or Eastern European jew has to do with a group of people from the Middle East?

They don’t “look the part” ie “Jewish”, and very likely that even if they do descend from Jews, they’ve assimilated to a degree which makes their origin completely anacdothal.
It surprises me to see this downvoted.

One fundamental of investing is that stocks represent an economically productive asset. In contrast, commodities just sit there. If I buy a chunk of a company, that company is working to become a bigger, more effective, more value-generating company. If I buy an ounce of gold, it stays an ounce of gold.

Index funds represent a broader bet still. Because they're composed of many things, volatility is lower and you're betting on whatever the common factors of the index are. So buying an SP500 index fund could easily be said to be a bet on the American economy.

And in many ways, Bitcoin is worse than gold. The historical value of gold is known. Bitcoin is new. Gold's floor price is set by the practical use value of it, both industrial and decorative. Bitcoin's floor price is that of bits. That is, zero. The gold market is broad, with producers and consumers all over the world, and open markets in many countries. Bitcoin is effectively controlled by a relatively small number of people and requires careful long-term cooperation of those people.

So it seems pretty obvious to me that Bitcoin is much higher risk. Which can mean higher reward. But as anybody who has shares in a failed startup knows, higher risk doesn't guarantee higher reward.
Think about the market for those teachers. Anecdotally, I took one physics course in my secondary education, and about eight math courses.
MySql fixes autoincrement bug after 14 years of users complaining about dataloss
You’re not paying for the sins of your ancestors. Being a white guy gives you an advantage in the world whether you want to admit it or not. Instead of complaining about how unfair the world is to you as a white man, go do what black men in this country have had to do for centuries. Suck it up, work your ass off and make something of yourself and stop fucking complaining about how unfair it all is.

My biggest problem with the US is how out of control whiny we’ve become
Exercise increases your metabolic rate so you burn much more calories throughout the day, its not just the number on your treadmill.

I still agree with your main point though, that weight loss is mostly about diet. Just saying questions about fitness and nutrition are incredibly nuanced because the body is a complex system.
Or it could have been that he only gets paid if that very specific project would make profit, etc.

There’s many way to write such a contract.
Its probably more efficient to just hand over money and let the organizers pay people to do the work.

Unless the work is highly modular and distributable. But it depends on the product being worked on, some things work well (open source software development), other things don't (design, hardware, physical stuff).
No, it does not happen in US universities today. "Select applicants" are not given trick questions "distinguished by having a simple solution that is difficult to find" in the US.
Maybe my verbosity got the better of me. I'm a programmer now. I'm not the best. But for web dev and certain crawling and automation I focus on, I can more than handle myself.

Programming isn't my only hat, but that is part of what I do now. And for some time I exclusively freelanced as a programmer.
"why don't you exercise?" is always a valid question tho; unless you are physically incapable of doing so, you should, and you're unquestionably damaging your health if you don't.
> That's a nice sentiment, but it's not actually very true.

It's literally textbook science. Like, if you pick up a university psychology textbook on sex and gender, you will probably find that statement in it.

It's based on evidence, not sentiment. That pattern is exactly what you see when you look at graphs showing the distribution of results broken down by gender on a whole bunch of physical and psychological tests.
'The raids — which led to 680 arrests nationwide — were the first in an ongoing series of mass enforcement operations ordered by the Trump administration. Last week, more than 450 people were arrested in a similar sweep the agency dubbed “Operation Safe City.”'

Then you read the linked memo[1] and find that eight of the nine actions mentioned took place during the Obama administration, and given that the ninth occurred less than 3 weeks into the Trump administration, it had to have been planned and scheduled by Obama appointees.

Note that The Intercept failed to report on any of these ICE operations that went down while Obama was in office.

[1] https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/factsheets/pdf/facts...
Yeah, well, the Army can make anything boring, painful, and stressful.
(2) LEST WE FORGET,?
Bypass Slack mention Restrictions
What? The compression from the JPG and the ways the edits do not affect said compression is not undone by a simple conversion.
Are they common? The examples are largely given without context including the general rate of this condition in similar populations. Is this cherrypicked data, or real? Who knows...

Edit: If I missed the relevant information, could someone please point me to it?

Edit: I don’t mind downvotes, but I’m curious about what’s drawing them.
It is a spectrum not an absolute magic rate. As rates rise, different individual investments will be foregone.
Where in the C standard are memory access violations specified as a language feature?!
> The image in the article shows nothing of the kind,

You are right in that the comparison was only between the group of three layouts in a row. From the image no conclusion about the performance of the layouts in different rows can be drawn.

However, in the same study, they did a direct comparison between the grid and and the circular layouts and here are the numbers:

KEYING TIME PER CENT
(SECONDS) ERRORS
THREE-BY-THREE PLUS ONE 6.01 2.5
TELEPHONE 5.90 2.0
SPEEDOMETER 5.97 3.0

The study concludes that the differences are not significant. So my point still stands: The grid was not chosen because of superiority in the human factors study but because, in the words of the study: "the rectangular arrangements [..] offered certain engineering advantages".
If you're actually interested in drilling algorithm exercises - in which you map a problem statement to a particular algorithm and time/space complexity, then implement the solution - competitive programming websites are the best way to practice. There's a good number of them now, including TopCoder, LeetCode, CodeForces, SPOJ, HackerRank, etc. You can typically sort the problems by difficulty or solution acceptance rate. Working through these problems requires:

1. Breaking down a problem statement into a heuristic pattern,

2. Analyzing the best, average and worst case complexities of possible solutions,

3. Mapping the heuristic(s) to the data structures and algorithms with the most optimal complexity,

4. Implementing the code and having it successfully run, with runtime performance feedback.

I think the aforementioned competition websites are better than things like Project Euler because solving the problem requires running actual code instead of just giving a correct answer. That makes them much more interactive (and harder, in my opinion), because you might have to obey particular performance or complexity constraints, and you can receive feedback about how efficient your solution is.

I wouldn't say that practicing these problems will make you a better software developer, in the sense that you can develop maintainable software to solve business problems in a team setting with a large codebase, and I make no comment on whether these sorts of problems are optimal filters for tech interviews (that's a dead horse). But much like mathematics, programming (and specifically algorithm analysis) is not a spectator sport. You can't efficiently learn the material just by reading it, you have to do it, just as mathematical maturity comes about by solving many mathematical problems in different domains. To that particular end, I would say that competitive programming is about as perfect a formulation of practice as you can get for improving algorithmic problem-solving skills.
Hi gang! The "discussion: comments" numbers on the site are the combined total from the original article discussion on Hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478 plus Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/6ov9oc/200_solar_self... – at that point I unfortunately didn't have comments on the site yet (...or the site itself, for that matter). Yes, they're currently just hardcoded :P

The comments on the burningman thread are from this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15216650
Being depressed might prevent you from exercising.
Excellent point.

I am really impressed with it as a technology. It's absolutely brilliant.

But when I put on my business hat, I'm still not seeing it. For quite a number of years I've been asking for proof of daily use among significant market segments. For just as many years, I've been getting, "OMG THINK OF THE FUTURE!!!" as an answer.

I have some hope that we're at peak BTC hype, though. A lot of the enthusiasm (and the bigger scams) seem to have moved on to smart contracts, ICOs, etc. It's much harder now to ignore Bitcoin's years of not being very useful.
I just seen it, guess someone forgot not to trust user inputs.
Relevant (fascinating!) talk from another thread[1]: https://overcast.fm/+FaTQX2SRE

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15424339
and before 70s there were other reasons for this sort of discrimination. As most of the Jewish kids were much better prepared for entrance exams than the kids from rural areas (90% of Soviets at that time were coming from peasant families) - the state had to limit the number of Jewish students to give others a shot.
The internet has never been a “digital commons”
Tools won't make people care, but they can help produce consistent documents.

Atlassian Confluence is a horrible recommendation; it has few tools for typesetting, PDF export is very mediocre and hard to control (there is a plugin that allows you to control pagination), and I once found something that was impossible to produce in its markup (my workaround was to insert a zero-width character and hope no one copied it into a terminal).
ADP Reports Overall Job Losses at Small Businesses for First Time This Year
I see what you did there..
JIRA could benefit from this. After their big fancy redesign, I was shocked to see that they had re-arranged the old pile of shit into a new pile of shit.
It's not starving its people to death though. Many people are on the edge of poverty, sure, but you will find exactly the same thing in USA, South Africa, Phillipines etc. I have been to Pyongyang and driven though country areas in North Korea so I've seen how good and bad it is.

The human rights abuses are what is truly shocking but again some of the things that go on in China, USA, Phillipines, Israel/Palestine for example are also truly shocking.
Morning exercise specifically? How about lunch?
You might want to append a (sic.) to the quote. I assumed you made the typo until I read the follow-up.
What? I don't pay attention to Trump's speeches, but my question was asking about acceptance to top programs as a different race. Not a politician elected who claimed partial racial heritage.

Can a White guy apply to the top CS program as a Black female, simply because he identifies as one? Where is the line drawn?
Oh God #10. I currently work for a project manager like this. He asks for LOE, and he rejects it, saying there's no way it could take that long. Then we'll be halfway through development, then told that in a week we're gonna go to production because that's what he promised to the stakeholders. He basically lies is ass off about delivery dates, then blames the devs for not delivering on time.
This made me think of the Central Limit Theorem. (If 'non-contrived' independent observations with random variability are summed and normalized, they end up exhibiting the standard Gaussian "bell curve".) All kinds of natural "real world" phenomena end up neatly obeying a function that seems odd:

f(x) = K / sqrt(exp(x*x))

(The above characterization assumes N(0,1), and re-arranges terms a slight amount to highlight the interesting nature of the function.)
To compare the DPRK to first world nations such as the USA is beyond the pale. I can't even comprehend this.
TLDR: a cache with LRU eviction, but only storing the keys, not the values.
If you're worried about the actual C standard then you hit undefined behavior the moment you dereference a uint32_t* pointing to data that's actually char.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a judge in the case noted last year that the firm has argued that Attia gave Google rights to his technology “without a condition of later payment.”

This is why, when you visit Google, you should never sign the overreaching NDA for a visitor's badge. You still get a visitor's badge; it just has a warning on it so Googlers know not to tell you too much.
So is long distance running natural?

Periodic fasting?

Yes, and yes[0]. In fact, the one competitive advantage in early man hunting game was endurance -- humans could outrun almost any game (including fast sprinters such as kudu) over long distances, partially because humans shed heat better.

[0] http://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-t...
I disagree completely, typography is an artform and therefore completely subjective. I actually preferred the unaligned header example. Sometimes there is a lot of white-space that makes people perceive things to be aligned. Often perfectly aligned text calls for something unaligned to stand out.

There may be a scientific approach to finding the best typography to convey information to a specific group of people but it will never be an exact science or a mathematical formula that will work universally.
Yield spreads are at extremely rich levels. happy now?