skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that that part is completely wrong and dangerously misleading.
I agree with the "weird gaps in knowledge" part, but I would want a school covering leap years. Leap years are an excellent introduction to astronomy and our solar system.
I always love reading your comments because they are so insightful thus it's very depressing to read this comment and have to accept that this is probably who you really are.

Your comment (and assumed mentality that comes with it) are what is wrong with our educational system. I went to school with people that could not add and were functionally illiterate - they graduated too so I can assure you this is not fake news.

Outside of your "Catholic college prep high school" is the world that the rest of us live in and in that world this is a reality. A reality that can not be addressed because the well off people like you say: This is fake news because my kids are fine. If you have not please educate yourself on things like: White Flight and the correlation between property taxes and education. I have posted one link below but you can google to learn more.

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-school...

Note: My father is a social worker who deals with these uneducated people for a living. For the first 17 years of my life I heard story after story like this, I also have spent years tutoring kids and adults in prisons and jails so I do not consider my experience to be anecdotal.
We have bad conditions for sure in San Francisco and poverty elsewhere in the US that all Americans should be ashamed of. Frankly the state of poverty in America is unacceptable. But the poverty we have is nowhere near the scale and absolute horror of Mumbai slums. I've traveled extensively through South America and seen horrific conditions there but nothing was as shocking as Mumbai slums.

I find posts like yours are misguided and demonstrate total ignorance regarding human suffering.
Are these particle.io kits completely soldering-free? I've been looking to experiment a bit with some embedded projects purely for fun and I don't mind low level programming at all (if it has a C compiler or at least a decent assembly manual, I'm good), but soldering (presumably, the smell of the flux, but I've never cared to investigate and would rather just avoid it) is a strong migraine trigger for me.
I think it's dangerous to fail give any benefit of the doubt at all, and to assume they pulled a number completely out of their asses.

I am giving them the benefit of the doubt, I assume it was based on more than a guess.

Now, instead of assuming, I'm going to look it up.

It turns out they described what they did, and it seems that it was based on some actual data:

"So what would be a useful metric for gauging customer loyalty? To find out, I needed to do something rarely undertaken with customer surveys: Match survey responses from individual customers to their actual behavior—repeat purchases and referral patterns—over time. I sought the assistance of Satmetrix, a company that develops software to gather and analyze real-time customer feedback—and on whose board of directors I serve. Teams from Bain also helped with the project.

"We started with the roughly 20 questions on the Loyalty Acid Test, a survey that I designed four years ago with Bain colleagues, which does a pretty good job of establishing the state of relations between a company and its customers. (The complete test can be found at http://www. loyaltyrules.com/loyaltyrules/acid_test_customer.html.) We administered the test to thousands of customers recruited from public lists in six industries: financial services, cable and telephony, personal computers, e-commerce, auto insurance, and Internet service providers.

"We then obtained a purchase history for each person surveyed and asked those people to name specific instances in which they had referred someone else to the company in question. When this information wasn’t immediately available, we waited six to 12 months and gathered information on subsequent purchases and referrals from those individuals. With information from more than 4,000 customers, we were able to build 14 case studies—that is, cases in which we had sufficient sample sizes to measure the link between survey responses of individual customers of a company and those individuals’ actual referral and purchase behavior.

"The data allowed us to determine which survey questions had the strongest statistical correlation with repeat purchases or referrals. We hoped that we would find at least one question for each industry that effectively predicted such behaviors, which can drive growth. We found something more: One question was best for most industries. “How likely is it that you would recommend [company X] to a friend or colleague?” ranked first or second in 11 of the 14 cases studies. And in two of the three other cases, “would recommend” ranked so close behind the top two predictors that the surveys would be nearly as accurate by relying on results of this single question."

https://hbr.org/2003/12/the-one-number-you-need-to-grow
Teachers and chefs I could see, but nurses?

My wife earns a six-figure salary as a nurse here in San Diego, CA and she works at one of the the lowest paying hospitals in the area.
Wouldn't you get points deducted from various classes starting even in elementary school?
> The 90% case here is "second", "third", etc.

In addition to first and rest, Lisp has provided second, third, fourth, etc since the 70s, as well as the more general nth/elt which just takes the index as an argument.

> there are other naming conventions that would be more readable. You could use "h" and "t" for head and tail, or "l" and "r" for left and right

Why would you bother replacing names with 60 years of precedent with h and t so that instead of cdaddr you could write thtt? I think cdaddr nonsense is illegible and very bad style, but I don't see how someone could seriously suggest writing thtt as a good solution to that readability problem. The real solution is to use named accessors instead of ad-hoc pointer chains.
theoretically, are there any regulatory issues on a piece of aluminum sold (and marketed) for this purpose?

if not, why aren't there cheap and effective such designs on alibaba - why have to DIY?
Agreed. Not a perfect comparison, but this type of thinking reminds me of the history of Fermat's Little Theorem. "I would show you, but I don't want to ramble on too long" and of course it was almost 100 years before a solution was published.

Assuming something is obvious is dangerous.
I see what you mean. I think it's because NN is driving much of the research in the ML field. I wanted Data Prism to be a newsletter about where the industry is headed. About startups, new projects receiving attention (and funding), things that are really working and topics that the (non-technical) media is talking about. That's the difference between Data Prism and other (excellent) newsletters I receive, which are a bit more technical/academic. But still, I agree we hear a lot about deep learning and DNN lately. Maybe because people are fascinated by this new, "mysterious" technology? Or because companies claim they use it even if they're using simpler ML models?
I come from Iowa, which is by a large margin the largest egg producer in the country. It could be partially a locality thing (very little transportation).

Also of note, this last summer was very very rough for chicken production. Prices were very low compared to input costs, and chicken farmers were losing their shirts. Chicken renderers (mass killing of chickens when the price drops too much) were backed up for many weeks.

http://www.aeb.org/farmers-and-marketers/industry-overview
Tesla to make pickup truck after Model Y crossover
Marketing? I have ZERO association to those companies. This is a question anyone aware of industry incumbents will ask you.

What's shit here is YOUR response.
> Speaking of which, why don’t WORM SD cards exist since there aren’t write protect switches on MicroSD cards?

Also "normal" SD cards are not write protected even if they have a switch that is in the write protect position:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Secure_Digital&ol...

"The presence of a notch, and the presence and position of a tab, have no effect on the SD card's operation. A host device that supports write protection should refuse to write to an SD card that is designated read-only in this way. Some host devices do not support write protection, which is an optional feature of the SD specification. Drivers and devices that do obey a read-only indication may give the user a way to override it."
someone wrote an comment about this subject and I want to share with you.
"I am curious about Americans view on legal immigration - especially the ones against it. Immigrants have been such as asset to this community and I feel the backlash towards legal immigrant community has been due to other systemic factors and govt failures wrt to education and healthcare. Economic distress leading to populist uprising. Some facts we all know are true
1. US is an aging population (like Canada and other Western Europe countries) Demographers are freaking out as it reached its historic low in July this year. It means US needs immigrants and productive young workforce so that it can sustain its taxes, medicare & social security benefits (meant only for citizens - very conditional for immigrants). Legal immigrants fill that gap well. If that is stopped, quite obvious Greece will happen in 20 years. Do you want your SS and MC to be screwed in 20 years?
2. Legal immigrants contribute upto 1 billion of social security and medicare taxes. 37% of silicon valley workers are immigrants. Not only do they pay high taxes but also contribute to trickle down economy since they call US their home.
3. The best and the brightest get attracted to American dream. How will US benefit if they give the message “well US doesnt care and you are not welcome”?
4. 40% colleges have already seen a dip in their international admissions this year. Reasons being anti immigrant sentiment coupled with competition from Canada & Australia. Is that good?
5. How will stopping/curbing legal immigration create more jobs? Why wont profit mongers like Fb/Google just move jobs to location outside US with better talent and low pay? We see that, dont we? When an employee’s visa expire in big companies, the employee is transferred to Canada/China/India, have never seen that position being backfilled in US. US loss - point 2 above. Also, there are enough jobs for everyone and unemployment rates are dropping.
6. America has been the country of immigrants and has benefitted tremendously. Do you want that definition to change with protectionist and non competitive policies?"

For this, I disagree with the Trump's Immigration policy .
Benefits of immigration are always seen in the long run but the government and most companies are looking only at short run benefits.
https://us.teamblind.com/article/Immigration-Cxut7fL8
The jaded geek in me says just run some ethernet this WiFi is too much hassle
There's nothing new in the PPG. Maxim's chips give exactly that, all the rest all derived quantities (except ECG of course).
Are the systems you’re describing the same ones talked about in the linked article?
Anecdotes don't prove anything other than exceptions exist. The article and all the comments are anecdotal in favor or against the analysis, but there's been no actual data presented.
> I often said that, in my experience, out of a class of thirty students only about five would normally possess the minimum requirements for a college student

The question is what to do with these students... What should a teacher do when half of his students don't have the prerequisites to follow his class?
hi, nice project, thank you. i'd like to create an emacs mode with it just for some fun.
Or nobody wanted to respond to the professor contemptuously ridiculing their grammar skills. Students can smell it on you.
Presumably he could have afforded a new (to him) car albeit he'd pay a lot to do so quickly. Car prices in CA are perfectly reasonable.
Is there no way, to just take a normal residential building, tear everything down inside except for the exterior walls and fill it with japanese sleep coffins?

Even if zoning laws would forbid this- life should find a way as they say.
Slight nit there's no amplification here just focusing to make the field more directional.
The person they're talking about is a CNA. According to the US BLS they average 24k/year. Nowhere near six figures.
It's actually the percentage of (+1) minus the percentage of (-1). 7-8's are literally not being counted (as you said 0's).
Imagine if 990/1000 give 7 or 8.
Out of the remaining 10, 7 give a 9 and 3 any number below 6.
The count would be: 70%-30%=40 (which would be a good outcome).
But only 1% of everyone that participated ended up determining the actual NPS Score.
The things people get pedantic about are never the things which are the actual rules of English. In simple terms, if something were an actual rule, nobody would need to be pedantic about it, because everyone would follow it unconsciously, like they follow the rule that adjectives precede nouns in the simplest possible case, not the opposite, or in any other order: "The big red ball", not "The ball red, big", or "The red ball big".

The things which pedants go on about are best seen as a failed attempt to "improve" the language, an exercise in conlang construction using an extant language as the base. This is how it was with the prohibition on splitting infinitives: A split infinitive is perfectly good English, but it is impossible in Latin, where the infinitive form is one word. So, operating on the dogma that Latin was more fashionable... more correct than English, the pedants attempted to modify English to be more Latinate by insisting that splitting infinitives was ungrammatical in English. It was only ungrammatical in their little conlang, which never quite caught on.

The pedants did have one victory: The Latin word for "debt" is spelled with a 'b', "debitum", whereas the former English spelling was fairly phonetic: "dette", or similar, with no 'b'. The pedants got most English speakers to accept the conlang spelling, "debt", as "more correct", as part of their larger, largely unsuccessful, program to Latin-ify English.
agree, I didnt go to an affluent school and I had to write at least 6 major papers. the only shock i had was going from dos word perfect to ms word. the grammar check was infinitely better in the former.
>> What the people who designed NPS did...

> They didn't do anything like that.

Now I'm really confused by your statements. I just read the link to the original source that you posted on hbr.org. What Reichheld described is exactly what I said above, he correlated survey responses against actual growth rates, and drew the lines between negative and positive growth rates. Not only that, he asked the question multiple different ways, and found out which question statistically landed the most accurate answers.

Why are you claiming they didn't do that? Are you saying the article is lying about the data they used to come up with NPS?
Finding the "nearest matching pattern" is part of just about ANY pattern matching. The devil-of-the-detail is dealing with noise, precision-loss-for-speed, generalization (compression), tuning, etc. This attempts to break such down into staff-digestible chunks.
My last tinder dates would disagree with that, but they're just normal middle class women.

The amount of people renewing luxury bags as fast as you say is very tiny.
I think your scope of college students is too narrow. You do not have to do well in high school to get into some kind of low tier college. Low tier colleges will take anyone with a pulse who can get a loan.
I recently went back to school (a nearby state university) after a 15 year absence from academia to get another degree.

In one course, a number of my fellow students were pursing their ME. None of them were there out of a zeal for knowledge. Rather, New York State requires teachers to obtain a master's degree in teaching (or a related discipline) within five years of the completion of their initial degree. Without exception, the literacy and critical thinking skills of these students (several of which were already teachers), was absolutely atrocious. I was astounded at the total inability of these teachers (and teaching candidates) to read and write coherently. Granted, this was a state school and not a respected Ivy League university, but the lack of even basic literacy among these graduate students was shocking. Most struggled mightily to get through the class. Several dropped out to take courses with less demanding professors. To my knowledge, they all got their degrees, and are today teaching in our schools.

How can we expect our children to become literate if those who teach them are not? The most important facet of education is teaching a child how to think. It is far more important to teach a child how to absorb the thoughts of others (reading) and express their own thoughts coherently (writing) than saturate them with information that they cannot retain or process properly. We are depriving our children of the tools they need to be thoughtful, and our society is suffering as a result.
base_type::draw()

analogous to Java's super.draw()
Tried to send bitcoin yesterday ($120) to an online retailer, the fee was $31.50 which I did not have. So I went to buy more bitcoin and realized it would cost additional $31.50 to transfer the new bitcoins just to cover the other network fees. Had to do it, then for whatever reason my account was put on 72 hour hold. So I just gave up, literally out $200 with nothing to show. Bitcoin is a complete joke if you can't actually use it.
Its time for tech firms to take responsibility for their creations
A practical guide to getting started with cryptocurrencies
What the New Tax Bill Means for You
That's a great idea, but please not in my neighborhood.
Thanks for the tip.

What I have to figure out forexample how to power this thing with semi-prolonged burst say through a cap. I was looking at the specs briefly it's like below 300mA but 3. Something volts for "load draw"
People will still complain about anything more expensive than living in a car or tent.
There are no "better" ads. The only good ads are the ones I cannot see. My computer, my rules. Lately now blocking coin mining in addition to all ads, trackers, beacons, pixels, etc. I have the right to surf on my terms. Traffic to websites is a cost of doing business; don't try to recoup in ways that I never agreed to (mining), selling my data w/o my permissions, etc.

You have to love the tripe in the article: "Better ads experience..." No one enjoys the experience. No one except those in a position to make money from same. Everyday IT people and others find ads intrusive, annoying, and dangerous. Ads are a major vector for malware. Again, my rules, my computer. I've not seen an ad in many years, but I do keep up with the tech and means to keep blocking all newcoming means to circumvent my own security.
Ok, every time they refer to "coins" in this article they really mean wallet addresses right? Is this a common way to refer to them now? It really took away from the point of the article for me.
Suslov Nikolay: Curved Space Explorer for Squeak
Yeah, I just saw that. The headline is misleading. Nursing assistants are not the same thing as nurses.
No there is no reason for the SD card to have to be writable. You can put / and other filesystems into RAM discs. You can disable swap or run it over NFS and you can get other filesystems over NFS as well, so lots of options.

If you pass the correct options to the mount command, you get read only mode (funnily enough it is the ro option)
GitHub's “Squash and Merge” Doesn't Squash or Merge: Trade-Offs with Merging
That's true, but why should that color someone's decision on what they buy?
Yeah, but lots of devices people might want to use on their home network are inconvenient to tie to ethernet. There's a good case to be made to wiring what can be wired, though.
English is my second language. I'd say it's due to the fact that when you learn a language in school, by listening AND writing, it'll stick in your head visually. I never mistake its/it's, they're/their etc., something I can frequently see native speakers do on the Web in their comments.
SqueakJS by Bert Freudenberg
Actually, I used VIM on Windows while editing the files. My VIM is set with fixendofline or something. The files with the extra line ending change did not have \r\n at the end, so my VIM added it. I usually prefer to the have the extra line ending at the end of every file, so I kept the change in the PR.
BTW: Downvotes are for intellectual cowards; instead try using your big people words.
The Buffett Family Tree Branches Out
I don't know how safe it is to enter my password into a site I've never heard of before... Not that I'm accusing them of it, but this is the perfect setup for a phishing scam.
Famous philosophers, writers, painters, inventors, explorers, religious visionaries and rulers are also remembered over millennia, as long as something about them is transmitted faithfully to succeeding generations.
Thanks. Interesting.
Sounds like prolog or minikanren would suit this - built in search is great as long as you don't accidentally make it exponential tine complexity
Is there any available data on how blood pressure is sensed with these devices?
It's a joke site. This is what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/Sm1IaZO.png

Some people just don't have a sense of humor.
That comment thread was gold, if only for the link to the most secure password in the world site... [0]

[Disclaimer seeing as the original joke was missed by many - this site link is totally tongue in cheek too. DON'T use the suggested password]

[0] - https://mostsecure.pw/
This makes me want to get out of EU
I think you missed the point of my comment, which was not about how good Catholic schools are.
Now good luck with students who were homeschooled, that's yet another huge can of worms waiting to explode (and it's bigger than "just" not being able to spell correctly). Next to no quality control, plus parents are free to "teach" their kids by religious rules.

Poor kids.
What's the mathematical formula that describes a text box GUI item? Languages that look like math might be great for... mathematical problems. But programs are much more than math.
Seems to me that Netflix, Sony, et al should be paying FreeBSD, not the users. Why would I subsidize FreeBSD so that mega corps can leech off the hard work of volunteers, and by extension leech off my donation?
Arduino Create Expands to Support Linux on Intel Chips
If you read the article, it's about someone else using that passport to create an exit record, even though the original person is remaining in the country.
>No taxes above the age of 55.

Lol, is this a joke?
They seem pretty easy to understand to me. Mostly namespacing to hide things so that a container appears to be a separate instance of an OS. Hide the parent filesystem, process list, network interfaces, etc, so it "feels" like a separate instance of an operating system.

There's value in this, of course, but it isn't really complicated.
Well, if there was some reasonable way to predict the negative prices ppl could do laundry, dishes, perhaps crank up the hot water heater (which is a form of energy storage), or charge the car in full.

Yes, all minor but at scale hardly negligible. Certainly better than nothing.
No, it wouldn't come close to doing that. It would flatten and burn cities, military bases, and missile silos that were targeted, and irradiate places downwind. But there's much more land that would not be targeted and isn't near those sites.

For example, what would be the reason to nuke the Amazon, the Arctic, or the Himalayas? How much of Africa would be targeted? What percentage of the US Midwest or Siberia do you suppose would actually be irradiated? What about islands in the Pacific? Is Easter Island going to dosed in lethal radiation from fallout tens of thousands of miles away?
Alpha Release of Numericcal Platform