skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually more to it than that.

It's worth noting that there is a not insignificant number of people who are poor because they make (financially) poor decisions. I say this completely not in a way that's judgmental or dismissive of the issues poorer people have (in the US in particular). There are a number of reasons for this. Decision fatigue [1] is one of them.

So when you have anything from a moderate amount of wealth, you probably know that time, patience and a little financial discipline is all that's required to preserve and even grow that wealth.

Have you ever noticed that it's mostly poor people who buy lottery tickets [2]? Likewise it's the poor who disproportionately fall for "get rich quick" schemes. Some of this you can attribute to bad judgment but also desperation plays a part. I mean, if you have $1000, what does a 10% return net you? $100? Who cares? But what if it could turn into $100,000? Now that'd be something! I suspect this plays into the gullibility of many when it comes to scams.

So in the Steadman case I imagine there was some of that but I also suspect many (or even most) investors were just trying to invest in their future without the promise of 1000x returns and just got duped.

Don't discount the "get rich quick" mentality though. I've seen this first hand. My father and uncle spent their entire lives trying to get rich quick.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotteri...
My Adventure Migrating Back to Windows
I always loved this portion of The Ellimist Chronicles, one of the companion books to the Animorph Series. If I remember correctly, these god-like beings play simulated games where they develop species over eons and during one game, the catalyst the main character needed to advance his civilization was parting the perpetual clouds so his species could witness the stars and for the first time, look up.
Totally agree. Classic fallacy of test confidence. The question is, why are we confident in the test to begin with...
Well, it means something since the BCH fork is capable of handling wild mining fluctuations, but the BTC chain is crippled by them. It can't keep happening.
Here in Germany the agricultural ministries of the southmost states debate how to deal with harvest loses of up to 70% The soil gets to dry in the heat waves and is then washed away in heavy rain storms and floodings that are now the new normal.

Everything from Chicken to Server farms has trouble with ventilation and AC.

And the list goes on and on. 10 years ago when the last ski lift in my home town closed for good I thought: "Wow climate change is really here" but now my wife and I are really concerned.
For what its worth this captures it well. A processor design in the 30 - 50Mhz range can be usefully simulated on hardware on the engineer's desk (a workstation class PC).
Sailors (the ones that use wind, not the stinkpot kind) have been doing this for years. It's called weather routing and I've successully managed to not hit another vessel or land using OpenCPN (with the weather routing plugin)[0] and qtvlm[1]. Where I can go and how fast I can get there I believe is far more complex than Google maps since I have to work with what's above me and avoid what's below me.

[0] http://www.opencpn.org
[1] http://meltemus.com/index.php/en/
Cute drawings in the page, but a distinct lack of benchmarks.
me to... from scanning current Front-end job market.. react seems to be right up there with Angular in terms of adoption, if not more...
> No byte load/store until, uh, EV56(?).

I believe that you can blame a MIPS patent for that, IIRC.

> And it's big endian, which per se isn't wrong in any way, you'll just be dealing with endian bugs forever and ever

Actually, that was one of the biggest benefits to porting Linux to Alpha. A HUGE number of assumptions got cleaned up. I suspect the current ARM ports of Linux would be almost a decade behind without that.
Thanks for the featuretools project, it sounds really useful. Is it Python 2 only?
+1 for this recommendation.

I would specifically recommend Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach - It is fantastic and helped me greatly start my ML journey last year.

Turi is awesome, I hope Apple is doing something great with it.
I've been using FF sync for at least 3 years now, probably more. And FF 57 is definitely on par with Chrome in browsing speed. Still not quite there with WebGL, though. The debugger is much better now, too, and surprisingly more responsive than Chrome's.
So why ask people to write "code". What are you testing?
I have relatives who are all steeped in public service hoo-ha because they attended a small, private college that upholds that as a primary value. I personally think they have taken it too far: Public service was traditionally not a career path and should not be looked upon as such. You do your service for a couple of years, then you go back to private enterprise. Career public servants are bureaucrats, have become a very negative voting bloc, and need to be reined in if for no other reason than public service pensions have brought this whole entire nation to the brink of collapse.
The problem is non-brilliant jerks are usually a lot easier to get rid of. They can be replaced.

When the jerk is brilliant and necessary (or at least perceived so) management can be much more hesitant. ‘Yes he’s horrible but we can’t operate without him’ or ‘we don’t have the slack to pick up that work’ or ‘it will take too long to train someone new right now’.

They get extra excuses that a medium or low performer wouldn’t.
Thanks! Was trying to hunt these down.
The Story of a New Brain
Did you try the nightly or Beta version? If not, you weren't experiencing the new changes. These will drop on the stable channel within the next day or so.
Here's a good article on the recent situation:

https://fee.org/articles/a-beginner-s-guide-to-bitcoin-chaos...
"During which time, apple was only able to spend 5% of their normal security expenses"
Half of the success of these altcoin projects is based on hype. The other half is on someone known in the space (not necessarily respected, just known) attaching their name to it to give it credibility. This particular fork is endorsed by people of dubious credibility.
The Wonderful Proposal
Java's garbage collected heap is not the full extent of memory used by Cassandra. Cassandra can use as much memory as you can throw at it.

File system cache, in process decompressed page cache, key and row cache, off heap memtables etc. There are several different mechanisms for using memory that isn't on the garbage collected heap.

^
This is not a qualitative assessment of how Cassandra uses memory.
They're doing well now, especially since Electrolysis. But they can't beat Chrome being bundled in literally everywhere. Most average Joes will never switch from the bundled browser. Firefox needs to cut some deals to get bundled in as well. Sadly I doubt they have resources for this...
That's totally fine.

But if using water requires "grit and patience", and this is something you do regularly, it's reasonable to want to replace "grit and patience" with a solvent.
> A Firefox instance can only run one at the same time, making it useless to run e.g. a work and a private profile together.

I may be misunderstanding what you mean, but I believe you actually can do that. If you navigate to about:profiles, there should be a "launch profile in new browser" button that runs multiple profiles at the same time, each in their own, isolated Firefox process.

To make this a bit easier, you can create desktop shortcuts which launch a specific profile like `firefox --new-instance --profile Work` (on Windows, use --no-remote instead of --new-instance).
A decentralized news sharing platform based on a quality metric and crypto token
Chinese aluminum company drops bid for U.S. firm after US gov't opposition
Everyone has their sacred cow, deal with it. I'm bitter because it took me until age 30 to even earn any decent income and now that I've "made it" in life, I have a tax burden that causes the goal posts to move further and further out. Ours is a system in which the regular man or woman can't win.
You can just pass 0 to while, and ditch the break. ;- )
I am really curious to know why there are businesses such as hired.com build around "interview" tools that rate software engineers only ?
What tools are available to evaluate other professions :
1) Doctors ?
2) Engineers from other disciplines such as Chemical engineers, mechanical, civil , electrical engineers ?
3) Lawyers ?
4) VPs / CEOs
5) Financial analysts ?
> 1. Are there any specific extensions you need? Happy to add them to our outreach list.

LastPass please. I'm sure it's on your list already, and I'm sure they know about it too but every little helps.

I am happy to use pass/keepass (whatever version) but the family says only LastPass is acceptable.
I think you're getting caught up in the tittle tattle of 'why people voted' and other fear-based narratives.

Why not focus on the core issues here? Is the EU founded on solid principles? Is it functioning well / showing good judgement? Is it democratic in any effective way? Does a superstate make sense in the 21st century? I answer no to all those four questions. If you think differently then fine but we got a vote each.
It also really depends on your delivery. You can shoot down ideas and make counter-arguments in friendly & supportive ways, or smug & arrogant ways.

I can see why you'd think that, I made the same mistake earlier, but see there's this problem here...

vs

No, that's obviously wrong, why would you even think that? Let me show you the right way...
To my knowledge PCBs aren't a significant concern in wild-caught fish. They may be somewhat more prevalent in farm-raised fish, which typically have a lower concentration of vitamin D anyway (and would therefore be of less benefit). Suffice it to say that I don't believe it's accurate to argue that eating "more fish" will result in "high levels of toxins" — if someone is eating little to no fish and integrates some quality fish into their diet, that's very unlikely to result in the consumption of unsafe levels of toxins.

Of course, when it comes to fish, and especially with concern to mercury, over-doing it is very possible.
There were 2 documentaries produced by famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman called High School and High School 2. In one, a group of average students are followed through a typical high school in a middle class predominantly white area. In the second one, a group of students are followed through an experimental high school in a predominantly impoverished area with mostly a Latino population. The 'experimental' nature of the school was that every single class, every last one, was completely restructured to center around one thing: critical thinking. Teaching by fiat ('this is how it is because I say so and I am the authority') was banned. Every bit of teaching was through asking questions and having them answered, students challenging teachers on an equal intellectual playing field (unequal in specific knowledge of course, but equal in capacity to reason and challenge assumptions).

The experimental school produced the highest proportion of students to go on to receive college degrees (not just attend college, but finish) every seen in the country. The results were absolutely amazing and tremendously good. But... it's harder for teachers to teach that way. They can't plan ahead. They have to know their subjects inside and out, not just read off of a lesson plan. If a student asks a question that the teacher can't answer, the teacher has to admit it and try to figure it out with them, which many teachers are not emotionally mature enough to participate in alongside an adolescent. It gives a great deal of power and agency to adolescents, and our society is obsessed with stripping adolescents of every iota of control over their own life and denigrating them as much as possible. So widespread adoption of such schooling cannot gain much support at all.

The documentaries also did a good job showing how the "traditional" schooling methods broke the 'spirit' of adolescents and sucked the love of learning and figuring things out right out of them, turning them into disinterested husks of human beings, while the experimental school left them as vibrantly full of a love of life and learning as they entered it. Such things are of course difficult to measure and generally distrusted by our "pleasure is a sure sign of hidden dangers" mentality.
It is not the strike price or the exercise price. It is more-or-less the fair market value of the options when they vest, but if you need to compute your taxes, consult an accountant. (Yes, this rule is terrible for planning, because you don’t know what fraction of your shares are ISOs until they vest).

Today, ISO’s are commonly given to engineers at pre-IPO startups. Nothing says they have to go to execs. Those engineers end up holding them for years before they can exercise, so $100K is a small fraction of a normal Silicon Valley startup, when you divide it out. Many startups take 6-10 years to IPO these days.

Source on $100K cap: stock plan admins at work, and also this article: http://help.capshare.com/knowledge-base/what-is-an-iso-100k-...

Please do not comment on technical nuances of the tax code you do not understand. Misunderstandings around this stuff bankrupts people all the time. (especially the type of people that hang out here!)
I love type hinting! Also using it quite a bit. Although, that's part of my desire to work with a stronger-typed language... I'm putting in all this effort to annotate Python, I'd probably get much higher application performance and I'd assume it's more efficient for the IDE to introspect a typed language than a loosely-annotated one.

And, playing around with things like Swing or Play, the whole ecosystem feels much more mature right out of the box.
Children losing the ability to hold a conversation because of technology
I'd second this. I'm not a "math person" so to speak, and they provide a great education that doesn't dip too deep into the math.
I would change “save face” to more like empathize with the other person. Discover why some choices were taken.

Nearly most decisions that seem wrong were taken due to time constraints. Something had to get out the door. Software can be patched later.

So instead of saying “Bob’s team isn’t producing a good product” look into why. Maybe “Bobs team was in crunch time due to 3 people leaving the group and decided to use their own queuing service instead of working with IT to use the company one and that’s causing some problems that I think we can address by spending time on X”
>They've found product/market fit, they know what they have to do, they just have to do it, and the correct 10,000 characters of code input into a computer would solve all their business problems.

Or they can get a huge team of pleasant and great-looking people that will leave a very good impression and raise tons of capital to keep burning through cash for years without fixing any of those problems. As long as the investors are OK with this, people will keep on using it.
What has this proven exactly? Has an study been done to show a strong correlation between these test scores and ACTUAL programmer productivity? What two metrics are you correlating here? All I see is a score. Is this score valuable? I see nothing outside of pure speculation or opinion to suggest that's the case in the link. And anyone who wants to rebut and say, "that's an impossible task" or "but we know what it takes to be a good programmer" is full of it. We don't. We actually have no real, documented objective way of determining what a good programmer is. My definition is creates a program, to spec that is acceptably performant. Even that has tons of subjectivity and bias to it. Guess what, everyone has a different definition or bar. And frankly they are all full of our inherent biases.
The post says to hurry and sign up, yet I'm not sure where I'm to be signing up for access at.

Just looking to be put on the list so I can try it out once it's released to a larger audience.
> ten thugs steal thousands of pounds of iPhones and iPads

so, one iPhone and one iPad
three.js is quite well suited to things like terrain generation. There's actually an example in the official docs - https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_terrain_dynamic.html - it wouldn't take much effort to swap out the noise generator for a heightmap.
NoScript should be released either today/tomorrow or soon. The dev was planning to have it ready for 57, but I don't know how far exactly he got.

It won't be quite full-featured yet, though. He's planning that for Firefox 59, which will be the next Extended Support Release and what Tor Browser will be based on (which needs NoScript).

There's a handful of compatible user-agent switchers already...
If alien life were discovered within our solar system, I wonder what the implications for the Drake Equation would be. Assuming panspermia is ruled out, the fact that abiogenesis occured twice within a seemingly ordinary system would imply life is incredibly common.
from what I've heard, .Net Standard 2 should be stable for a while and should fix the random missing stuff that was present in the various versions of .net standard 1.x
I can't see this meeting ending well. Better in parallel look for a job opportunity with less than three layers of management above you.
The funny thing is that it back fired. People were sick of these kind of expert opinions and interference. This pamphlet probably turned people over to the leave side.

I think it would have been better to make an emotional argument instead of relying on facts. People don't vote objectively. This is rubbish propaganda.
Wild guess but maybe it’s easier to sell quantitative tools to industries that are already used to making decisions based on quantitative measurements in other parts of the business?
I've been digging the Frontiers Saga.

http://www.frontierssaga.com

Too many of the books/episodes had me going: well i can start reading the first chapter of the next book and it'll be fine at 1am.
This Reddit post by a struggling Phd student has some great advice on catching up on maths.

https://np.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/d_co...
Alice is so vaguely portrayed here that I think it's impossible to draw conclusions, let alone call her a brilliant jerk.

As you mention, pointing out when things are wrong isn't being a jerk, it's doing your damn job. "Having little empathy for others" isn't describing behavior, so it's meaningless here. OK, "browbeating" might be bad, but what does that mean anyway? Is she repeating the issue a month later after the problem got ignored, or is she micromanaging it, or what? There's no indication here. Whatever it means, Equifax could have used some browbeating on security issues.

There's no indication about why people try to avoid working with her. Does that refer to other developers, or does HR try to avoid her they go around asking for donations for girl scouts or something? I don't see a real problem with the latter. If somebody had reputation for pointing out problems in code, I wouldn't be avoiding her, I'd be seeking her out.
> "a brilliant jerk the nurses have to put up with, or a nice guy/lady who screws up sometimes but will feel really bad about it afterwards and will write you a hand-written apology."

The brilliant jerk will have set a precedent in the operating room that leads to people not questioning their decisions, even when they are wrong, leading to uncaught mistakes.

The most brilliant jerk will sometimes slip up. [0]

See also Crew Resource Management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management

0. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-gloss...
the latest release is for python 2.7 only. we have a pull request [0] up right now for python 3 that passes all the automated testing.

[0] https://github.com/Featuretools/featuretools/pull/16
> This is one reason why most interviewing is a subjective clusterfuck (not just software, I suspect).

This is why I get a laugh out of people complaining about whiteboard-style interviews. Far and away tech still has one of the most intensely meritocratic hiring processes. Not perfect, sure, but better than almost every other industry. The majority of high-skilled jobs rely heavily on pedigree, education, social standing, references, sociability, etc. I'd much rather reject Linus for flubbing a BFS traversal than hire him for attending my Alma Matter and knowing a lot about golf.
Yeah. I just commented it to avoid confusion. .NET history is more complicated but also more rational than often seen
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I admit you're right in the sense that it wouldn't be necessarily worse than the situation now. I just don't think it would be a whole lot better.
Grab an app like dminder. There's a lot of variables, some you can control and some you can't.

In a bathing suit in Mexico in summer, a fair skinned person will produce their entire daily allotment in just a few minutes.

But that same person with pants and short sleeves might need an hour or more in Michigan in spring.
This happened with a fresh install with nothing else installed, I don't know how much that would help.
It's not really a Yimby movement though, this is more of a YIYBY
I understand the concern about the extensions/addons changes, but FF is still a distinct browser.

Several things immediately come to mind:

* Mozilla is a more trustworthy company than Google, so all things being equal, I'll take their product.

* Container tabs (or multi-account tabs now) are a killer feature for privacy and greatly improve the "multi profile" use case

* Firefox Mobile allows extensions, where Chrome doesn't support it.

The only negative for me with FF is that in the enterprise, FF Kerberos/SSO function seems inferior to Chrome, which "just works".

But for it being closed source, I think Vivaldi is a better experience than Chrome. Sure it's "just" a reskin, but point is, Chrome is in 3rd place in my opinion.
A collision-avoiding drone that can be flown with minimal practice and no formal training that takes 4k stabilized video was science fiction a year ago.
Imagine how many people stuck in shit jobs with abusive bosses might be able to quit. Just as Obamacare enabled many people, especially those with existing medical problems, to quit the job that tied them to their health insurance.
Clickbatey title.
https://dqydj.com/household-income-percentile-calculator-201... puts that at almost 75%th percentile; i.e. your household is better off than three quarters of Americans. Puts you roughly in the upper middle class.
I think the only popular ecosystem with a positive trending history is JavaScript. But... Na I do not start there :)