skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you put in 4 years dedicated to learning math, I guarantee you that you will get at least as much knowledge out of this as if you had done this when you were younger.

This is... not the majority view? But I am attempting to teach myself math right now, as an older (late 30s) person with a job. The best tools I've found are Serge Lang's books (Basic Mathematics) and Khan Academy.

I would be super interested in recommendations for better tools and resources; Money isn't really an object, at least at student scale, but time is limited.

Khan academy, for me, is useful mostly in that it feeds me problems to solve, and I think that's the important part? At least for the 'give me problems and grade them' part, Khan is way better than a tutor, from experience. I think for the "explain things to me" either Lang's book or talking to a friend works well; My problem with local tutors is that most of them couldn't really help me with proofs for the basic math I was learning, and I think that's essential to actual understanding. I've had much better luck imposing on friends for that.

But I don't know. I'm only 60% done with Khan's "world of math" and that is somewhere near the end of what my co-workers did in 8th grade, as far as I can tell. I've been putting a low level of effort into this for about a year, while working full time, so that's not quite as embarrassing as it sounds? Still kinda embarrassing. I certainly have improved my arithmetic and attention to detail, though.

But that's been the hard part for me; most of the other things I've learned, I could just go and read the books. With math? I mean, books are fine, but it seems like I have to spend a lot of time writing things out, doing problems.
Does The Alta Empire ring a bell?

https://www.worldcat.org/title/alta-empire-the-story-of-conq...

Otherwise, I'm trying some keywords:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kw%3A+fresno+water+canal+h...

Author or date would help a lot.
I can say that the older colleagues I've had can definitely have better conversations than what you're describing. One of my coworkers and I talk about skiing form, mountain climbing, and some of his experiences growing up in the 60's.

I think your experience is a byproduct of the ageism in most of the web-development companies in the bay area. You might want to consider getting in to embedded development, or some similar field that's totally unsexy and where the tools haven't changed or lost their usefulness in decades. It's a good living and none of your coworkers will talk about video games if you don't want to.
I'm with you. I'm a car nut, and I'd love a bare-bones performance EV. The instant torque sounds amazing.

Just give me something that's affordable, reliable, as light as possible and all-weather capable. It's fine to cut corners on interior materials and gadgets. Keep the electric windows, just give me the torque!
Exit to what? It'll be really hard to get paid anywhere near what software jobs pay?
http://www.3blue1brown.com/ I think you meant? But thanks. I'm filing that away
I thought we would get stagflation after 2008. Then I thought Janet Yellen was going to actually unwind qe without inflation or high interest rates. And now a goofball pseudo president could screw it all up.
My solution is to use an isomorphic static-site SPA hybrid, as generated by https://github.com/fiatjaf/sitio, for example.

The idea is to load only the React components and the data needed for each route at load time. An example of a page generated with this technique: http://inflacao.org/series/
Perhaps not a solution, but wind assist [1,2] for shipping seems like a way to chip away at that problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind-assisted_propulsion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Beluga_Skysails
And the performance is pretty much the same, just a lot nicer syntax

In [1]: x = {1:2, 3:4}

In [2]: %timeit x[3] = 5
48.6 ns ± 1.18 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

In [3]: %timeit y = x.copy(); y[3] = 5
189 ns ± 3.23 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

In [4]: %timeit {**x, 3: 5}
182 ns ± 3.3 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

Edit: It also seems to be pretty constant time if you're just merging:

In [16]: %timeit {**x, **y, **z}
180 ns ± 1.29 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)

In [17]: %timeit {**x, **y, **z, 3: 5}
278 ns ± 18.2 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

In [19]: dis.dis(lambda: {**x, **y, **z, 3: 5})
0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (x)
2 LOAD_GLOBAL 1 (y)
4 LOAD_GLOBAL 2 (z)
6 LOAD_CONST 1 (3)
8 LOAD_CONST 2 (5)
10 BUILD_MAP 1
12 BUILD_MAP_UNPACK 4
14 RETURN_VALUE

In [20]: dis.dis(lambda: {**x, **y, **z})
0 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (x)
2 LOAD_GLOBAL 1 (y)
4 LOAD_GLOBAL 2 (z)
6 BUILD_MAP_UNPACK 3
8 RETURN_VALUE
actual article title 'The scientists calling Tom Brady and Gwyneth Paltrow's bluff'
I haven't gotten that far yet, but I'm planning to use their minimal built-in one: https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/docs/en/router.html
Few countries have unrestricted jus soli (birthright citizenship). Among those, only US and Canada are desirable countries of citizenship. EU countries who have any sort of jus soli have severely restricted it. See some examples:

Germany: Children born on or after 1 January 2000 to non-German parents acquire German citizenship at birth, if at least one parent has a permanent residence permit (and had this status for at least three years) and the parent was residing in Germany for at least eight years.

France: Children born in France (including overseas territories) to at least one foreign parent who is also born in France automatically acquire French citizenship at birth.

Portugal: A child born in Portuguese territory to who does not possess another nationality is a Portuguese citizen. Also, a person born to foreign parents who were not serving their respective States at the time of birth is a Portuguese citizen if the person declares that they want to be Portuguese and provided that one of the parents has legally resided in Portugal for at least five years at the time of birth.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
> if you don't fully understand something, that makes studying that thing that isn't fully understood

I can't speak for WB but I think the point is that even the art professors and art experts also "don't fully understand" it either. If it's the "blind leading the blind", how do we measure the value of _formal_ classes?

(Self) study of art is great. I think we can agree. But why is _formal_ study in a very expensive _formal_ classroom better? Are there any studies of improved brain performance or expanded lateral thinking that's specifically correlated back to college art classes?
Which European countries do this? This is more a new world thing as far as I know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
People do not like have kids in a high population density environment. Humans have a trigger that suppresses fertility when there are too many people around.
I think way too many people rather enjoy the DINK life style rather than have economic issues.

If anything birth rates are higher in the lower end of the socioeconomic scale than in the middle and higher end currently.
Perhaps the most simple and trasparent solution to seamless navigation: http://instantclick.io/

As long as your backend is fast enough, it feels like navigating a SPA.
I think computer programmers won't understand this problem since i made enough to raise a middle class family at my first job out of college
That's why we gotta boycott this future big brother/nazi government. It already has a concentration camp setup for its minorities.

"More than 100,000 minority Uighur Muslims are reportedly being indefinitely detained in overcrowded “re-education” camps on China’s western border."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/26/thousand-uighur-m...

People, reduce your purchases from China!!! Stop supporting this abomination!
A digital cross of gold? No thanks.
The title depends on which region you are in
It's interesting for sure, and I'd like to see where it goes, but right now there isn't much to it: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.6/Lib/secrets.py
Part of that is the upper middle class expectation of owning a house and investing heavily in your child's education. People wait until they are established to have kids, and higher housing prices push that date back.
Right, and there's an argument to be had that corn (or what have you) is a poor solar panel, but it makes up for it by being quite good at reducing CO2.

I think the research in TFA is very important -- I'm quite sure we'll be able to beat nature at this game in the long run and projects like this are how we'll figure it out -- but it's worth mentioning we have workable air-to-fuel technology right now but it has been largely abandoned because of the renewed supply of cheap oil.
Indeed, if everybody knows that a college education is empty signaling, then how is it possibly still effective?

The best and biggest employers should have the best information on the value of college education (in whole and in terms of its parts, such as humanities courses). They could expand their potential labor pool and make better or cheaper hires by adopting different hiring standards. If there's an information arbitrage going on here, somebody should be able to make money from it.

In my view the elephant in the room is that maybe a college education is valuable after all, but we haven't put our finger on the precise reason.
Especially since some of the events are listed with links to Marco Arment’s personal site.
> And a team of economists have now crunched the data proving that zoning and restrictive land-use regulations–forces that contribute to making housing so expensive in cities like San Francisco and New York–are actually driving fertility rates downward.

Are they actually preventing couples from having children, or are couples simply moving away from those areas in order to have their children elsewhere?

And on top of that, are the kind of people who move to NYC or SF already the kind of people planning not to have a kid over the next 5-10 years, or ever?

Taking a quick look at the original paper, the authors don't appear to address these potential factors at all.
Why would counterfeiting have anything to do with what you take away from a painting? As you say it has nothing to do with the art itself. The price of a piece shouldn't influence your enjoyment of it.

Counterfeiting to me is fascinating because there's a lot of diligent work that goes into producing a good fake for collectors. And skilled counterfeiters have to study the painting and the context of the painting well enough to reproduce it using period materials, period techniques, and the technique of the specific artist they're counterfeiting. That's a form of art study which you're deriding here.

When you actually get down to the business of enjoying and appreciating art, it's a deeply personal thing. For most people the price attached to the art has as much relevance to it as the cork does to the flavor of wine. Being able to talk about what you see in your favorites, why they make you feel the way you do, and what they communicate to you is what studying art is supposed to do.
It is cheaper for us to down-size to a 2 bedroom unit and have one partner working full time than it is to pay for day care for the little one. Even with all the reduced childcare here in Australia the difference at the end of the week comes to $20.

Granted I'm all-ways amazed that in the West on one hand the news proclaim and medical professionals to have children when the women are in there 20's. Although the support and service's such as cheap day-care and family centered activities are completely lacking to support that mind-set.

The message most young people receive is `It is healthy to have children when you're younger`. The reality is `Yes you can, but I hope you like living in a studio apartment counting your monies well all your colleges/friends are having fun`.

That and in today modern world having a child in your 20's is more or less considered social suicide.

The only to maintain a life-style and support structure for young women would be to find a partner who can support them and their child well at the same time maintaining their quality of life. Something such partners are very small so there is a lot of competition for this type of partner.
>I can't speak for WB but I think the point is that even the art professors and art experts also "don't fully understand" it either. If it's the "blind leading the blind", how do we measure the value of _formal_ classes?

Sorry, I made an edit after the quote, which I think makes my argument way more clear.

I'm suggesting that there is value to studying a thing where nobody has the right answer.

The professor doesn't have the right answer, either, but the professor does have a set of methods, tools and traditions for studying those problems for which society doesn't have the answers.
I wonder which numbers he demonstrated. All straight vertical lines are strongly marked 8 for me and all very 2 looking curves with a straight line at the bottom are clearly "3".
"...farmers in the Central California Irrigation District near Los Banos (Merced County) paid $17 per acre-foot of water used..."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/California-drough...

Via GNU units:

You have: 17/(acrefoot)
You want: /litre
* 1.3782124e-05
/ 72557.755

Your Israeli desal source is 42,083.499 times more expensive.
> This is ... not the majority view?

The majority has never learnt math properly, so their view doesn't count ;)

You should forget about all of that high school math and start directly with university math. It's actually easier in that it really starts from the beginning.

And limited time is really a problem. That's the reason why it is more difficult to learn math later in life, it is not because your brain is rotting, it is because you can usually dedicate much less time to it. You need to do the exercises, and think through the problems yourself.
MIPS is not vulnerable to either Meltdoown or Spectre.
Cities have much lower fertility rates than suburban and rural areal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12288643
Your career plan sucks
Maybe to this day, Zombo.com is just an SPA that nobody every gave enough time to totally load. I mean after all, it was written in the late 90's and SPA technology wasn't that sophisticated back then.
Absolutely. Even leaving aside less tangible benefits, broad education of this sort allows for broader range of lateral thinking, more frames of reference.

And on the argument: yes, the degree is "signaling". That's why there's a filter at the 4 year mark, because those who dont get there are less likely to have the same traits as those who do. But folks who should know better throw around "it's signalling" as though nothing was under the signal, just the signal itself. Saying the impact of senior year is disproportionately high also ignores that its when students tend to take the most advanced topics and add a capstone to their undergrad career. It's like saying the last quarter of a of a game is way overated and athletes are over paid for winning because most of the work was done earlier in the game. I. just. can't. even.
Not sure if you made it to the end, but he relapsed and is back on the streets.
The Ems of Altered Carbon
I have visions of problems coming from both ends of the political spectrum. I can almost hear a far right commentator talk about how giving out free money is an insult to paying customers who work hard for their money and got ahead by their own mettle. At the other end of the spectrum, I can almost hear a far left commentator talk about how this is the same old crony capitalism, dressing up marketing in generosity's clothes.

Edit - I should note that I highly doubt recipients would be anything but grateful. My concerns lie with an often very vocal minority who do occasionally create massive PR problems.
Thanks for the tip. I asked my wife and she said that Mercari doesn't allow sellers outside Japan (or at least didn't use to).

According to my wife, this seems to be quite common for platforms to insist on sellers operating from within Japan, and buyers expecting local delivery. Since we live in Berlin, and sell from there, it makes those things tricky some times. We'll look into it though.
Going to university is more important than ever but the financial return falling
Traveling in the third trimester isn't comfortable or recommended. Premature mile high birth sounds like something people are wary of.
> Coming from having studied philosophy (at an elite school) and where most of my old classmates are lawyers now, it's kind of a bummer. As an aside, startup people/founders/investors tend to be much more eclectic, but tech, at the ground level, is an intellectual wasteland.

Now my eyes are rolling. It must be contagious. I'm sure the famously fascinating and well loved folks known as Lawyers will be better to work with.
No, that doesn't ring a bell. I can't tell you the author or the date.

I read it in the Sunnyside branch of the Fresno County library system. Sunnyside is an unincorporated community on the edge of the city of Fresno. The Fresno County library system could probably help you find the book. It had a light blue cover.

I remember the name as being something very boring and straight forward but open to misinterpretation, like "The history of the normal canal" where normal sounds like a description but was really the name of the canal (but normal is probably not the actual word in question and it may have been irrigation district or similar instead of canal).

Consolidated district is a vague possibility, where it sounds descriptive but is actually the name of the thing in question.

I am seriously bad with names and titles. My mind is a sieve for such.

Edit:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/kings-river-and-irrigating-di...

King's river and irrigating ditches is not the book, but it is some of the same subject matter.
Surprisingly, you're offtopic here - and your votes reflect it. It doesn't seem like you read the article.
The perspective of losing everything in a divorce when kids are involve would be a factor as well.
Awesome work! The community really is what makes SCBW great, allowing the use of the EUD maps again is part of what makes that tick. Now if Blizzard would just let ASL5 happen...
Ghost: A beautiful, Open Source, markdown blogging platform in JavaScript
I think people aren’t having babies because there’s too much interesting stuff to do, and the world has never been as accessible as it is today. Technology has made nearly every corner of the globe accessible for prices that would seem magical a generation ago. As far as our ancestors are concerned, we may as well have invented teleportation.

Then entertainment, wow, the entertainment that’s available at the push of a button. Every song, every tv show, every movie, right in your own apartment! Massively multiplayer games, message boards, Wikipedia; the sum of human knowledge in your pocket.

And you can create stuff, and share it with millions of people without even leaving your chair. Code, music, art, whatever — make it this morning, 100k views by lunch.

There is SO MUCH to do, to make, to share, to learn — our world has gotten so so big just in the last generation that I think I’d be surprised if the birth rate didnt go down. There are just too many other things vying for our finite attention.
Not the result set, the rows of the result set.
That's not the case in Silicon Valley anymore.
Speaking for my self, my partner and all our late 20s to mid 30s friends it’s not the money.

We rather rent an apartment across the street from Hyde Park have 2-3 big vacations each year and do a weekend in Europe every other weekend or so than have kids.

And this is not even that much of a conscious decision kids were just never discussed other than the odd “vasectomy commercial” remark when an air raid siren in a trolley passes by.

There is just something different about this generation and it’s not just the socioeconomic issues that some millennial mostly those who were born in the mid-late 90s onwards are having (80s “millennials” are in a pretty good spot IMO).
Whether it’s selfishness or infantilism or something less I don’t know but this isn’t about money.

Poor people never had problems having kids, heck they never had problems more kids than the average.
Educated people also didn’t had a problem having kids my mother was pregnant during Uni with my older brother gave birth and was back after 2 weeks, when she had me she was teaching and basically had birth came back and we’re going home to breast feed me between classes, I don’t know of anyone who would do this today not saying they don’t exist but all my relationships never were with someone that would be willing to sacrifice or work as hard to have a kid as my mother did.
If the Right cared about how corporations used their proceeds in the public sphere, they should have taken a principled stand on the abomination that is Citizens United v. FEC.
That was an early cut that leaked. Apparently the official cut removed that scene. Understandably considering it overwhelms the whole documentary.
Where did you live?
This is a helpful warning to travelers, but doesn't necessarily mean the nation isn't doing fine (for Somalis). Also, at different times most nations (or regions of nations) have different events, of course. Many of these warnings can be compared with warnings for other popular travel destinations, such as Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, etc.
Be sure to read "Make it stick". It's a real eye opener about effective learning. It's written by a bunch of scientists, and based in scientific evidence. Basically, the most common study strategies are the most effective.

Also, a "A mind for numbers" is another book with a slightly different take. It's less general and more focused on how to learn math and other hard science subjects.

Edit: Basically, the most common study strategies are the least effective. Least, not most.
Also, it doesn't "prove" anything . . . no statistician would ever make that kind of assertion. Correlation is not causation. The conclusion has an error margin.
Anybody interested in this might be interested in CyberChef [1].

[1] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
Central NJ
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If you could afford a trip like that, you probably already have health insurance in the US.
I'm submitting this here because I'm in the process of switching to Ghost and I absolutely, absolutely love it. I had no idea it existed.

* Was kickstarted in 2013: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a...

* They have an open blog: https://blog.ghost.org/

* Their company metrics are public: https://ghost.org/about/

* Fully open source: https://github.com/TryGhost/

They are decently expensive (https://ghost.org/pricing/) but self-hostable if you wish. I was considering switching my company's blog to Medium and hit a bunch of pain points doing so in ownership of our own posts... Ghost solved everything and is still a beautiful platform.
Yes that's a real challenge for double income families. That it's self is a big change that's not that old. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying women shouldn't work. I'm saying society is still adjusting to that change is all.

For me I chose to get my education and start a career before even thinking about starting a family. Now I'm in my mid 30's I'm really starting to think I may not have played this very smart. I'd have been better off spending more time looking for a partner in my 20's. I'm a man, I hate to think what this looks like for a women who has a more limited fertility time span than I do.
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