skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if there are 50 million people with anything from $10 to 0.4 trillion in crypto, I reckon that it is on average at the lower end of that scale, the ponzi schemes, freely printed 'Tethers' and 'valuation' boosting that figure up into some absurd number. Plus you always have the guy who mined his first bitcoins on a 386DX 66MHz machine with a maths co-processor and Hercules graphics card, however, he saved his bitcoins onto a 3" Sony drive that is not compatible with modern day 3 1/2" drives.

The main market has had a bit of a tough time, the crypto side show is nothing. However it is a bubble. The bigger bubble in the economy is because of the quantitative easing that has gone on since 2008, this money has caused bubbles of its own, e.g. the crypto lark is a by-product of sorts. Where else do you put your money when banks are no more useful than hiding hard currency under the mattress?

Meanwhile a large part of the world does not have access to printing presses and cannot just print money, as per the USA. These places have to buy dollars before they can buy oil. Yet these other places seem to balance their books. For instance, the Russians, despite the childish sanctions from America are managing to balance the books and not live in deficit. As for China, no deficit problem there despite the boom in development.

The elephant in the room is the military spending and adventures. It would be cheaper for the USA to trade with the world on fair terms rather than have to borrow lots of money to have bases and battleships everywhere.
Geniune question: Instead of printing new money, would it be a good idea for the government to launch a cryptocurrency and raise the money that way? This would be a gov backed coin. Thoughts.
America is a veritable history of black Swan events, which game theory as tight currently tends to not account for...
Going rate for a baby delivery in the hospital was around ten thousand dollars last time I checked. I bet medicaid would absorb it but if you fall between dirt poor and middle class it sounds cripling.
I realized, just today, that the secrets module is new to 3.6 after trying to pip install it. This being provided directly by the language is a game changer, IMHO.
>Learning advanced math has definitely improved my life, often in unexpected ways.

(Emphasis mine.)

My impression is that the arts is about expressing yourself, and about understanding others. It's about understanding the human condition. I think that just like how understanding technology will allow you to see this years technical fads and how similar they were to the cycle a decade back, reading history and literature will allow you to see the same cycles in politics and communication fads.

Also, having a common 'culture' to draw upon aids in communication. Having a common culture of the classics, I think, does this better than most things because the classics change more slowly than most things.
YES! Great point! And having known the business inside and out, plus the tech, plus showing what a hard worker you are - you'll be a triple threat!
Only reading print outs and dictating emails sounds like a sweet mechanism for managing your time.
Do you feel that because you're contributing to the health and wellbeing of a community (as HN's community steward), that provides you with purpose above and beyond the usual monetary compensation?

I think people who work 40+ hours are supportive of doing so when they're contributing to something they believe in, or they enjoy it beyond compensation.
This might be a hard pill to swallow...but it's going to be highly dependent on your app server.

Java EE is just a set of annotations with several different vendors implementing the standard in an app container.

I would look at the docs for whatever your employer is using.

A lot of it comes down to knowing some basic fundamentals about web development. For example: Load balancing/HA can be done in several different ways not tied to Java EE, the same is true of any of the things you're mentioning.

Largely, HA can be done with your app server. An API is just REST which means the jaxrs implementation.

Multi threading dynamics are typically app server specific. Generally "let your container do it" is the right answer though.

Source: Been doing java since spring 2.0 as well as dealing with app servers ranging from glassfish to jboss (now wildfly).
Not only, the visualizations available today replace years of comprehending, ie 3brown1blue , I had a tenured professor who didn't know the real world applications of linear algebra
The core of MacOS is open source. What magic benefit will they gain from open sourcing the GUI framework?
...a HUGE amount of what's wrong with the culture of tech is that we are surrounded and led by folks who haven't studied sociology, political science, even economics, having HUMONGOUS impact on what those fields teach.

Most of those people have educations, nominally balanced by things like Common Core.

Treating the study of each art, or of literature or of each branch of history as the work of a lifetime is as much a problem as treating them as a waste of time. We need a way to be educated without it having anything to do with making a living, so that we can bring critical thinking to bear however we make our living.
The fact that this is true further emphasises the need to delete this paradigm from society. Studying irrelevancies for 4 of your most capable and potentially productive years is a real waste. (My point originally was a little different - it was that a bunch of people go to uni because "it's the done thing" while saddling themselves with a mountain of debt for a poorly chosen degree, often due to pressure from uni marketing, then not getting a job that can really support them or justify the amount spent on their education)
> What's stopping people from self-educating themselves in the humanities you mention?

What's stopping me from building my own rocketship to Mars? Absolutely nothing, except for the fact I'm unlikely do it right (or at all). It's a terrible idea to look at a problem and say, "what's stopping this poor, under-educated person who has to work 10 hour days and feed a family of three from doing self-education?" Um.... a lot. Motivation, for one. A guarantee that the education will be worth anything when they're done, for two. And three, can they actually do it? Maybe they have enough self-control but that isn't all that matters.

Many people can't self-educate - it won't work for them, as education is inherently a social process for some people.

> Formal education is far from the only way to learn.

Of course not - but it's great for a lot of people, and suggesting people just learn on their own shows that you don't really understand people. There are so many benefits to a formal education environment being accessible to you even if you don't want to use it - it helps far more people than you know with the basics of getting a real, useful education.
Notice that every time someone writes an article about how some people are not cut out for higher education, it's always other people's kids who should avoid it.

I'd like to know what Bryan Caplan's (the author) kids are up to these days. Are they welders? Plumbers? That credential inflation is a topic of this article really shows the author's hand: someone keep these people out of higher ed, they don't deserve it and they're just making it harder for my offspring to differentiate themselves in the job market.
Sounds like a brilliant idea. I'd use it.
Yes, thanks. Last I checked, you still lose features if you use manual memory management, betterC or no. Has this changed recently?
Non-determinism comes from randomness in the hash function. I don't know the details of the Python implementation, but generally you want randomness at the very least when processing potentially hostile user input. Otherwise your code is susceptible to a denial of service attack where the attacker sends data that was crafted to maximize hash collisions, to break the expected performance of hash tables.

From a theoretical angle, the only way to build hash tables with some kind of provable runtime guarantees is to include randomness.
Case-insensitive password comparison in a very bad idea because it strips a lot of entropy from the password pool.
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Surely this is tautological? People don't obey the speed limit because the speed limit doesn't match the speed they're going at?
It seems to optimise much more aggressively than clang or gcc.

The other thing worthy of note is that icc seems to be far less aggressive at exploiting undefined behaviour than e.g. clang (which it is extremely notorious for), contradicting their notion/theory that exploiting UB is necessary for good optimisation. From what I've seen, icc's main strength is in instruction selection and scheduling.
The thing about moving out of the country if taxes are not reduced is pure bravado that is spread by Republicans. If a company moves out because of taxes, they will lose a lot of the advantages of being headquartered in the US: privileged access to research, infrastructure, favorable laws, natural resources, and so many other factors.

Another point that is not understood is that high taxes are good for companies: it forces executives to reinvest most of the money they receive in the business, so that there is little money left to be paid in taxes. In a low tax environment, on the other hand, there is always high pressure from so-called active shareholders to return most of the gains. This is one of the reasons why modern American companies are run so much focused on the next quarter. I expect that this tax break will make matters much worse, and public companies will be forced to return most of the money they make immediately to shareholders.

It is not a surprise that the best times for American industry happened when taxes were very high in the 50s and early 60s.
I'm not quite as enthusiastic about their choice of funding target. There are plenty of other worthy languages and tools out there that could use that money better in my mind. It's the C++/Java thing all over again, but stepped up several notches; to the point where it's creeping me out since I can't even mention C online without being attacked by the Rust Brigade; and they just don't give up, it's like one of those shitty zombie movies where you have squirting body fluids and jaws chopping at you from every angle. I don't think they need any more money; more like therapy, chill pills and rooms with soft walls/locked doors for a while.
Imagine if your professor worked in the field and you were his apprentice. Could that not have had a similar impact on your life? Perhaps it would have made you even better at applying the knowledge he imparted to you. Perhaps, it would make you additionally capable of teaching and transferring that knowledge to others in a very practical manner.
The adaptability of Venetians, and their ability to live a full, happy life while accepting their lack of control over the environment, changed me a deep and meaningful way.

and those dark back streets, too narrow for GPS signal at times, distant foot steps, no addresses.. wonderful!
Perfect, thanks for the summary.
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It is simply that a python dict is not a list (read array).
As said in an advanced driving class I once took, “speed doesn’t kill, its change in speed that does.”
Thanks. My first question was "Government? Which government?"
Intentionally slashing revenue for political gain has consequences.
I find this fascinating.

> the government should strive to spend the least amount of money necessary to guarantee the services that it promises its citizens.

I am of the opposite opinion. The government should spend an excess of funds to do these tasks, and should strive for that excess as a goal. To me, your solution would result in roads that fall apart after 10 years instead of 100, would result in infrastructure failures daily, would leave most people out-in-the-cold when there is a disaster in their family or in their community.

A government that strives for quality and care for its citizens, rather than for lowest cost, will actually save money in the long run. The more economically efficient way to allocate money is to spend potentially more than the minimum required up front to increase the likelihood of success for a project and to reduce the chances of things falling through the cracks.

Do you think the FDA should "strive" to spend the least amount of money possible in ensuring that our food is safe to eat? That sounds to like we'd have a lot of false positives/negatives in their testing, and we'd have a lot more sick people and we'd have a less productive economy for it.

I do not, and will not ever, understand the idea of a government being cheap to save money. It will not work. It produces low-quality societies that leave their poor to starve and die of sickness rather than help them heal and be back in the workforce making money and paying taxes.

Have a nice evening.
I found tiles a great ideas on Phone (I owned some WP and developed apps for it) but always hated it on desktop. The ever moving parts were making difficult to find information by catching the user attention. Also the 2D layout also posed a problem to scan entries, especially as most were cut after a few characters. That was a pain to found the good Visual Studio command prompt for example.

And now some of the Win8 area remains such as wierd black squared background behind software icon.
>Studying irrelevancies for 4 of your most capable and potentially productive years is a real waste.

By what measure are 18-22 your most capable and potentially productive years? The brain doesn't stop maturing until 25-30 [0]. College is a great time for that to happen: a place and time to make mistakes without severe consequences; to explore what interests you, fall in love, try drugs, travel abroad, meet people from outside your comfort zone.

Calling these activities a waste because the person is not contributing to some economic output indicator is brutally myopic. In the age of AI and rapid automation of labor, we should be considering more than ever the importance of putting human minds first.

This is why college should be free. Let people take the courses they want, drop out, go to a trade school, do whatever. We can afford it.

[0]http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24173194
I'm more curious now as to how often they dredge the mud/sludge out.
- buying assets - reduces flexibility. Apple can play one supplier against another. Apple already strong arms mall owners to get lower rents.

-TVs are low margin and even if Apple could increase its margins, TVs are bulky and not replaced that often - much less often than phones and even less often than computers.

-Routers - Apple can't do much to make routers easier to use than the tightly integrated model of ISP provided routers.

- the places that don't have good internet are probably poorer regions that couldn't afford iPhones anyway.
I've made the same argument as the writer, and I have children. Frankly, I'm not sure how to advise them when the time comes. It may well be that for some, I'd suggest a college education, while for others, I might suggest learning a trade and getting ahead in it while they're young. That is to say, I think your comment makes a conclusion based on your assumptions about people who question the universal value of higher education, and you don't have anything real to back it up.
The grass is always greener on the other side. Goes both ways, but I think the data is stacked against you. Plenty of people just don't fit the college mold and should go work or study in a different way (vocational school, certifications, boot-camps, self education, etc.)
Beyond providing employment for a few folks involved in implementation and systems maintenance, in what way does launching a government-backed cryptocurrency benefit over the existing state-backed currency?
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>Notice that every time someone writes an article about how some people are not cut out for higher education, it's always other people's kids who should avoid it.

Well, yeah. That's the problem with positional goods in general. It's not that they aren't valuable to acquire or are bad for the recipients. It's that the competition is zero-sum, so we should be using our coordination mechanisms to reduce the total amount done.

Like, someone advocating a yacht tax wouldn't turn down owning a yacht. They simply think society is better off with fewer and less luxurious yachts in general, compared to the other things we could be doing with our effort.
nvidia gtx 970. My setup is pretty diy with an external 200W power supply. Today I would get one of those nice enclosures mentioned in the article. You loose around 10% performance compared to an internal GPU.

BTW: Windows 10 also has pretty solid eGPU support on my MBP at least.
If nothing else this event sounds like a good opportunity to do some inspections.
I hope not, it will probably be all about blockchain this and that.

https://i.giphy.com/media/qmfpjpAT2fJRK/giphy.mp4
Why? Who really needs most of the functionality of iTunes? Make an app that just does music, one that does Movies.
Yeah my bad for the ambiguity. I meant normalize the input into the database, i.e., into the backend.
it was a step in the registration process that I could not skip
Or the river in San Antonio.
I think that's a habit you need to shake. If something is undefined, you should intuitively shy away from expecting things from it. If I found myself wondering why some undefined behavior was not consistent, I'd question why I even believed it should be consistent in the first place.
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> I pointed to the laws of two states which seem to say something different than what you just wrote.

It’s because it’s a federal law, not a state law. See 23 USC 101 if memory serves.
I had no idea stuff like this goes on. I am nieve.
Yes, my Chinese colleagues were also surprised. Apparently the requirement seems to be a new thing.
More relevant would probably be the net increase in the cost to service the debt?
Please don't make college free, it just forces people to spend even more time in education or else look lazy and unmotivated. It'd turn a Bachelor's into the equivalent of what a high school diploma is today.
Zero contrary posts pointing out where I'm possibly wrong but them vote-brigading remains.

Hackers News '18, folks.
I already switched years ago to Mac. Even Apple didn’t make such a bold/foolish move as forbidding 3rd party app to run. If Windows takes this road no problem for me, erasing my bootcamp partition* and installing Win 7/8.1 would take a few hours and problem solved. But that would be a real problem for non technical people doing real work with their PC.

* which can be booted in VirtualBox from OS which is the way I use it most of the time.
The window is so far to the right currently that you are voting for corporatism or more corporatism. Don't expect democrats to roll any of this shit back.
> How do I know this? Because it's the only logical thing.

As a somewhat libertarian person, I will give you my opinion why I think that low taxes are better.

As history shows, all known forms of government eventually become very ineffective at spending money. Firstly, on the "macro" level, funds more often end up being allocated to useless projects (e.g. google trillion dollars useless plane). Secondly, on the "micro" level funds more often end up being allocated to work that does not produce any value - e.g. "paper pushers".

On the other hand, I see that my logic stops to work when the government ends up borrowing money anyway.
And on the flip side, in the states that use lottery funds to provide college for all graduates with a specific GPA.....we are seeing a tremendous number of students losing their scholarships for poor grades or simply delaying entering the workforce to have a semester or more of playing at college.

Accessible to anyone qualified does not equal a good choice for anyone.
That might be a kind of extreme position, but I think you're right that they would be looking for slightly higher population densities in general. In Japan it's kind of forced on people because the country is so mountainous. You only have so much flat space to work with and you have to balance the needs of living, farming and manufacturing. People who want to live all by themselves can move up into the mountains where you are basically surrounded by nature.

For me, I live in a small town. There are about 20K people in this area, although the official city is quite a bit bigger (it encompasses 3 towns and the intervening mountains for efficient administration purposes). I live in an apartment building, but that building is literally in the middle of a rice field. The whole town is a mix of farms, tea fields, manufacturing plants (including some very famous ones, even though we are in the middle of nowhere) and houses. Even though a lot of people refer to this town as being sh*t rural (literal translation -- kuso inaka), it actually has a population density of a typical suburban neighbourhood in North America. Even with that population density, I can walk for 20 minutes or so and be in a nature preserve where nobody lives.

This is pretty typical here. Farms are small. People live in towns and villages that are fairly tightly packed and surrounded by mountains. Even in fairly large cities (say around 700K or so), it won't take you more than about 15 minute of walking from the inner city to hit your first farm.

I know a lot of people love big city life, but I'm not one of those people. I like living in a neighbourhood that is self contained and has a local flavour. I like knowing my neighbours and seeing them daily as they walk or bike to work (again fairly unique Japanese culture -- most people never change jobs, so they can easily live near their workplace). Even more, I like travelling and exploring my surroundings because there is something interesting in every nook and cranny. Ironically, the difficulty in travel and the geographical separation of towns makes it possible to to "travel" 10 km and be a tourist.

I personally think that the people advocating the "modern city" are on the right track, even if I don't always agree on everything. However, I can understand why it is a hard sell in Canada and the US (I shouldn't lump in Mexico here, because I know nothing about it).
If college is part of a signaling arms race, if we conceive of education purely as a labor market good, why are we asking the laborers to stand down from that race and not the employers?
>>(all database query result rows, for one)

What? No. SQL does not return results in any consistent ordering unless specifically instructed to.
I think it's because the remaining python 2.7 users are mostly people using the packages that were unsupported in 3, which I think were mostly packages used in data science afaik
If you want to go back to the climate Earth had before the carboniferous era, then sure, burn all the coal. However, I'd suggest doing it over a period of a couple million years to give the biosphere time to adapt back to global rainforests.
Obviously if you're allergic to the compound it doesn't make any difference, but it might not necessarily be made from crushed bugs --- it was synthesised in the lab 2 decades ago:

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1991/C3/c39910...
It feels odd that the current owners say "we did this, we launched that" in reference to the years Marco ran Instapaper as a sole proprietor, especially given that Marco explicitly uses "I" as the prounoun for Overcast: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq
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