skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty common for math majors to go kick ass in the LSAT and become lawyers. Switching to medicine is a bit less common, I think.
And yet, other European people are so tired of the British way of being half-European that joining back would come with much harsher conditions than the ones they had before leaving... Europeans have come to terms with Brexit, and the economical loss of Brexit is counterbalanced by the political win of not having to deal with UK's always seeking a special treatment within Europe.
I still don't understand what the parent is talking about then. Could you please restate the explanation using math notation/terminology?
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Thanks for the long-form article. That was an interesting read.
Is their hybrid cloud a real thing now? I remember them touting it around 5 years ago, but for years it just never arrived, till I gave up waiting. Just seemed like a bait and switch actually.
My favorite feature of pytest is pytest.mark.parametrize, which makes it easy to do table driven testing.
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Is this supposed to be some art related to bitcoin?
I've worked with a lot more math and physics grads than, say, poli sci or sports medicine grads. Not to disparage fields that aren't math or physics, and I don't have a degree in the fight in any case; just that I have noticed something of a preponderance over the years among those who do have degrees not actually in the field.
Re: "Worldwide, animal-borne infectious diseases that jump to humans are on the rise."

Is that true? Or is this due to detection methods? (I presume it's the latter.)

I'm also curious, would similar things happen in developed countries if the factor farm food supply (e.g., chicken, pigs, etc.) if there wasn't such high use of chemicals, meds (abx), etc. Why isn't the rain forest of Brazil a hot bed for such things?
I think this is meant to be a neat little experiment and/or "useless machine" type thing. Like the "Yo" app. I don't think it's meant to be malicious.
Apple's claim to fame was always that "grannies and other tech illiterates" could use their stuff without having to go to any help resource. Apple has lost its advantage there. Good luck getting many of them to talk to their phones.

For example, my wife, my daughter, and my sister are all really smart but not tech savvy. They love Apple, but the "upgrade" to iOS 11 is bothering them quite a bit. (Too bad Android isn't any better.)

My mom is still on Windows. She hates Windows 10 and really misses XP, but she can get by OK without too much help. She's 84. I'm thankful she never went to Apple, frankly. She would never talk to a computer. That is in the ridiculous range for her.
Even more interesting projects here:

- https://awesome-python.com/#data-validation
It did the same thing on my handheld device. Yeah, crap really.
Me, too. Just so ironic how the responses of Silicon Valley/Media proved his point exactly.
> Chats with my friends are littered with addenda where they correct what autocorrect corrected

Survivorship bias: You cannot see the (usually much larger) number of words that were correctly autocorrected.
termbin seems to be a classical pastebin. it only gives you a URL after it received all input. seashells gives URL immediately, and streams the terminal in real-time.
I think there's a bit of perception bias here based on when people 'convert out' of mathematics. People leaving after undergrad are both the most common, and pretty unlikely to be described as 'mathematicians' outright.

There's also a relatively small number of people majoring in math compared to many of the fields the math majors switch into.

My current team of SWE's at BigCorp for a while was >50% phds; I did a math postdoc, we had another MIT math phd, and a physics, bio and EE phd off the top of my head. So I guess it depends what you're working on?
> "What is statehood?" By any accepted definition transnational corporations are not states. Even if you modify the moniker with the prefix net- it still feels wrong to me.

A childhood friend was exiled/expelled/told to fuck off from Zimbabwe for being white and his family had to move to Chile. He was a political refugee. I understand a lot of that was made possible by the international mining company his dad worked for.
If the group on the train could band together, show the kid some love, and actually help him, that would be amazing. Unfortunately, "countering" behavior in these situations often involves a kind of adversarial mentality that just pushes the real problem deeper. The same action taken out of love versus enmity can lead to vastly different outcomes.
Are you sure? You can still declare a short field on a 8b micro.
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I really like 'voluptuous' (and its' ungoogleable fork; 'good')
Now how do I convert these points to bitcoins?
That’s the issue I’ve had with Apple’s claims about FaceID being X times more secure than TouchID.

Your facial features are very likely to be similar to people who live around you. I don’t believe this is true of fingerprints.

So it seems it’s far more likely that the 1 in million chance of an overlap will be around your phone than the 1 in 50000 chance in case of TouchID.
Are you a developer? I've run into at least a few math majors working in software dev/netsec.
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I'll tell you why such a breakup will probably never happen. Break those companies up and the individual services they offer will probably end up being worse than what the combined entity could offer. Couple that with large companies who effectively do the same thing in protected markets (China) who'll use the opportunity expand into the rest of the world and you'll end up in a situation where you neutered the companies you have some control over in order to open the playing field to companies you don't.
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These cowards don't link to the original: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

Instead, they link to the heavily edited Gizmodo hit piece, that has the sources removed. Dishonest
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Not all OLEDs are made equal...

You haven’t used faceid yet are not convinced... Maybe wait until you’ve used it? I am using it right now, and so far there are very few times I’ve missed touchid, and I’ve been reminded of all the times that Touch ID would fail, like getting out of the shower etc...

I don’t understand the longing for an underscreen finger print scanner, does the computer in Star Trek require thumb print? Does the UI in minority report? If you imagine futuristic computer interfaces the computers just know who is using them, this is one of the first steps along that road...

As to the price, Apple price there phones where they want to price them to make sure they have high profit margins. I’m not sure why people complain about this. If they don’t do this they don’t make as much money. I do believe this phone costs significantly more to make than others, and the price fairly reflects that, though it is only £200 premium over the 8+...

How do you think Apple should price there products? A lower overall cost?
It's not hard to list the sizes specific to different countries but that research is usually left to customers.

It's also annoying when their international shipping policy is "Free Shipping" which usually means $30-$50 flat fee to any international destination no matter how small or light the package is.
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> learning Category Theory

There is a level of abstraction which for most people is the wrong end of the stick to start from. Category theory is one of them. (and I'm a big fan of category theory and Haskell).

Category theory may occasionally lead to elegant, orthogonal and consistent solutions, especially if you are building new abstract tooling (LINQ in C# is a good example). It gives you tools to reason about structure.

However in most situations, it doesn't give you anything you can directly use. Most of them time it serves to clarify and enlighten rather than generate. Categorical thinking [0] may be more useful than the actual theory.

If you seek to apply category theory without first getting your hands dirty with conventional "inefficient" programming, you will end up with abstruse solutions that are potentially overly complicated and unmaintainable. Applying theory without the requisite real-world experience (to temper the tendency toward heavy abstraction) is a problem of youth. The world is not full of highly-intelligent people who can work with highly abstract code. One needs to learn to work with the inelegance in the real world and with other people in the system. A larger coherent system, though weak in parts, may produce a better result than a few bright people.

[0] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/applied-category-theory/
What I don't understand about this comparison is that there's actually an awful lot of "knowing what" involved in math and science too. You won't get far in solving math problems if you try to derive everything from first principles. You could make fun of historians for learning lists of dates, but you could also make fun of mathematicians for learning lists of trigonometric identities.
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Wow what an incredibly difficult way to live, even stranger that the person you share a brain with you will never physically see with your own eyes, because of the join angle. Hopefully one day scientists figure out a safe way to separate them.
He made sizable list of claims, criticism of any of them is not evidence of what he was saying.

My belief that you are wrong about Damore doesn't make you right. This should go without saying, but you made a new account to say that.
I'm a little more skeptic.
There are substantial access provisions for "navigable waters", I would take some convincing to believe this includes hunting adjacent to lakes.

This document discusses it pretty well I guess:

https://dspace.nmc.edu/bitstream/handle/11045/10614/Public-A...

(It's focused on tribal fishing and hunting rights but covers public access nicely; just skip all the quoted text to get an overview)
Absolutely!

btw Fontainebleau rules! I have a couple of friends who are avid climbers earning money by programming, or like me, born with a VR headset on, and only getting back into the body by bouldering.

Good climbing and good coding require / nurture similar skill sets: choosing a problem wisely, working slow and steady, recovering from setbacks.
It is interesting and important to think about ways to support open source project contributors, especially when the projects are being used in commercial organizations. It would have been better to see this license change idea through an RFC before a change though, and with an attorney’s advice. If he does really want this to be an experiment it would have been good for him to have a better background on the types of license models available and an attorney’s help with license language changes and implications.
Right, but there are other fields of work where poli sci grads would be more common than math and physics grads.
I would say yes, otherwise we're stuck with enumerating and testing innumerable edge cases.
So how about Gopher for documents, and HTTP(S)+HTML+CSS for apps? I think we have the tools already.
The great thing about python is it's so easy to roll your own. And people start thinking they are a genius or something. Ha :-)
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Real estate is one of the biggest intergenerational scams ever. Be smart and just buy a cheaper house and then work less. pretty simple
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> far from the central finite curve of human experience

Do you mean anything in particular for this, or are you appropriating a TV show phrase to mean "unusual"?

(Just pointing out that the 'central finite curve' is something that has meaning to Ricks but isn't really a stand in for 'usual' in any meaningful sense in the context of the TV show -- I'd hate for what's potentially a cool sci-fi idea to turn into a euphemism for "the shell of a high dimensional normal distribution".)
It's common for people from lots of fields to go to law school, AFAIK. I don't see why a math degree specifically would be helpful in making that switch.
I still believe that Netflix stack is way too complicated for what Netflix needs. It's a CDN with a recommendation engine that is completely garbage ( the 95% stuff I'm interested ). Also comparing Youtube and Netflix speed, Youtube is like 2/3x faster to load any content.
I've always wondered, in such cases where you have an open core and plan to monetize on extra features and plugins; what do you do if the community just goes ahead and adds those extra features? Or someone forks the project and adds the features?
Fell free to review my code and suggest any changes or improvements. The goal of this project is to provide a generic and decoupled Paxos algorithm implementation which can be imported from other projects and used for distributed consensus.

For example, if you are building a key/value store or blockchain, this could be of interest. Networking and agents are outside of scope for this project but I have included a simple RPC agent system for testing purposes.
Thank you for this. I agree that they are cowards. Damore is completely right, certain members of our society are shaming others into silence for supposed psychological safety.

I also feel that money and political power are on the line too, which just heightens the needs for shaming others into silence, in their minds.

Let's see what happens to our posts.

EDIT: also Damore was attacked non-stop during his interview with Siliconbeat if I remember correctly.
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A little surprised to see my hometown, Bloomington, IL on the list. There's two universities in town, so I know they bring in a lot of young people, but unless you want to open a restaurant or work at State Farm your whole life, there doesn't seem to be a whole ton of opportunities there, especially now that the Mitsubishi plant closed down.

It is still a very affordable place to live, that part is certainly true.
No one's thinking that. Oh wait. Look at the username !
I think the answer is to delay upgrading till you have to. I'm on iOS 10.3 on the phone, Mavericks on the Macbook, both gadgets >3 yrs old and have almost no issues. I may have to upgrade Mavericks in a bit as things are starting to become incompatible but will prob go to 10.11 or 10.12, not 10.13.

(edit - I'm on iPhone 5 which doesn't get iOS 11 which may have saved me)
An MIT professor can be naive. A history major learns how to read and analyze documents...and how to write. An art major learns how to create art. An even more significant difference between these and many contemporary STEM subjects is that an undergraduate is expected to know how to create original work...there's no copying art homework especially not in an advanced class.

These days I think that the creative element of programming is why software is eating the world at the pace it is. Undergrads can look at each other's code and say Wow! while one titration is fungible with every other.
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The charactetization is incorrect. The liberal arts do teach “how.” Creative writing or political philosophy or history teaches you skills you can use to analayze scenarios and communicate with people in different ways to different effect.

Where the author is correct is that in those fields the output isn’t falsifiable. Your math skills allow you to construct proofs that can be verified. Your study of history allows you to write accounts explaining and putting in context historical events in a way that is pursuasive to other people. But they are not falsifiable.

I agree with holding the former in higher esteem. Being able to communicate with people is important, but it’s an impoverished basis for an education. It’s terrifying that many students manage to graduate without much exposure to the world of objective reality and truth that exists around them (and which makes their lifestyles possible).
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Same, any issue I had resolved (several) with AirBNB was done by credit card dispute or directly with the host. If you tell the host the issue they will change the reservation and let you leave with a refund, or they will make a payment through Airbnb to you to compensate.
Always go through the platform so things are recorded to avoid later dispute of agreements.
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I wasn't impressed. Couldn't figure out how to do complex validation of a JSON object, based on the input of another JSON object.
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The difficulty I have with Webpack is that there does not seem to be any unifying principle of how things work.

The stream model of gulp and the resulting highly structured code that most often results means that I can generally find and fix bugs quickly, this is even possible in the horribly convoluted gulp file that we use at my current working place. In my experience when you have even a bit of webpack and there is a problem somewhere it can be difficult to figure out the cause because it seems every capability of the system works in its own way.
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I've somehow managed to avoid most of those issues on a iPhone 7 and iPad Mini 4. However, I am having issues with audio playback and with Bluetooth, as well as WiFi "forgetting" passwords (I get "password incorrect" prompt, re-enter password, it is rejected, Settings -> General -> Reset -> Network Reset, reboot, and it's back to normal for a few days).

With audio, it will occasionally hiccup or skip. With video (especially Netflix), it will skip or become choppy for a few seconds. With Bluetooth, my car stereo will switch from another source to Bluetooth Input whenever I receive a text, then it will not revert to the original source input (CD, terrestrial radio, etc). All of this only started happening after the iOS 11 update, and all of the above issues persist across both devices, so it's not a hardware thing.
Shells are supposed to inherit a ton of state from their parent — [e]uid, groups, working dir, env vars, nice, umask, chroot, ... This takes zero effort in unix, but would all have to be (securely!) re-implemented to be able to send code to a shared execution daemon...

And I expect the right implementation for many of these params will be running separate daemons anyway (eg. you clearly want one per user).
I deal with this every day when writing lock free data structures. If you want to really make use of all those cores you can buy now, someone has to pay attention.
While doing a CrossFit workout, we were using the native iOS timer (because our favorite timer app from the app store doesn't work on iOS 11) and saw the time skip ahead by 8 seconds. It was confirmed by my Casio watch that was running in sync with the iPhone's timer.
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It may be relevant that the author held dual chairs in Mathematics and Philosophy (phenomenology, I think).
Used to be the case that if you didn’t leave a review then the other didn’t get posted to yours.
In any case I recommend negotiating with the host to something agreeable to both. You can threaten a bad review or Airbnb complaint if they won’t listen to reason.
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Seems pretty malicious.
If would be nice if people read his memo in the original form, and then made up their mind - whatever the outcome, it would be an improvement. But the chilling effect of collective outrage means no dialog will happen, so it's futile anyway.
The article was great, and I get your point. I was not presenting J as comparable to Mathematica as CAS or WL vs. J, but only showing its expressiveness. You are correct in that it will error out with your examples without writing catch code. I too dream WL goes native. Until then, I will stick with other PLs. How do you like Clojure for mathematics?

I still use Maxima on my Android phone along with J. Wolfram Alpha is nice to have too on it!

Also my example was missing the * even though it was explained below. It should be: gm =: #%:*/
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Looking at the poster's history, I imagine this was "laziness" rather than "cowardice".

For an example of cowardice, take note when this thread is almost certainly flagged and buried within the next hour or two.
there's not much examination of why people return items.

better sizing info would help, but some people just return a lo of product: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37711091

> "I return half of what I buy," says 30-year-old Alex Demetri, who spends £500 to £700 on clothes each month.

> She also admits to wearing some of her clothes first before returning them.
There are several Sidekiq features others have added but I never trust them. If I am an enterprise I value reliability over price. I would pay a premium for something the Sidekiq owner worked on rather than a random contributor
No, I'm not sure. :) I may have incorrectly assumed that the definition of M:N threads includes movable application threads (e.g., Go's scheduler can move goroutines from one kernel thread to another).
Which breaking changes are you referring too? I remember updating some configs in the jump from 1 -> 2, but none since then
Webpack is terrible to use. Very inconsistent and results in a mess of code for your configuration. I suppose part of that comes from the 10+ loader interfaces it uses under the hood. But most of it comes from organic growth (I assume) and the fact that there are no JavaScript standards (e.g. no filesystem or pipe like interfaces, the competing module systems and no standard library)

This is a nice guide to starting with webpack that I think describes it very well: https://what-problem-does-it-solve.com/webpack/index.html
I'd recommend this guide to anyone who is trying to get started with webpack.

I wish there was an intuitive way to chain JavaScript file transformations together, but it doesn't seem like there is one yet. Webpack is close, but I think it has too much baggage to get there.
I found it quite surprising actually.

Is there something special about the Odyssey that caused it do be only translated by men until now?

I think we still see more books written by men but that's something like 2/3, not 99%.