skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are pretty big differences in life expectancy here in Scotland - which given that it is heavily location based suggests that "socioeconomic status" plays a huge role.

"Men in the least deprived areas of Scotland may live 12.5 years longer than those in the most deprived areas while women in the least deprived areas could expect to live 8.5 years longer than those in the most deprived."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-2964...

Edit: Interactive visualization of deprivation in Scotland: http://simd.scot/
W3C Web Components vs. Fancy Frameworks
I'm not sure about sexy...but it sure is nifty!
So far, the only news I have seen about H1B reform is articles such as these, where they are supposedly making it harder for companies who game the system to get the visa. I hope he will change it to a merit based system and free the people from employer dependency completely.
I suspect because if your peer group smoke it is much more difficult to choose to not to smoke?
When you buy the harmony shibboleth, don't be surprised when you get harmony forever, in the form of absence of any opposition to the status quo.
I recall the main computer of the F-22 core dumping when it crossed the international dateline. And an earlier version of the F-16 flight control computer flipping the plane upside down when it crossed the equator in a simulation...
I take offense to this often repeated lie that black america did not support HRC. The numbers were the same in 2012 as they were for 2016. And just slightly down from 2008. 93%

Middle and upper middle class white women overwhelmingly favored Trump.

Black voters are tired of being blamed for the HRC campaign cockup. I believe liberal media is uncomfortable with the fact that their sisters, wives, and mothers may have supported a racist troll for president.
In almost all music software these days, the knobs are actually linear faders in disguise. Displaying them as knobs simply have the advantage of taking up less screen space.
Tech and implementations rarely follow neat architecture and business model maths.
All Code Belongs to the Team
Depends how you fund the investments.

If you fund them by taking on more debt, then higher inflation is a benefit - it reduces the value of your debt compared to your product.
Webpack 4: released today
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I accidentally ended up on a Jabber spam list which regularly advertises various illegal services: credit card fraud, passwords and "dumps". I'm annoyed by the spam and not fond of fraudsters, so I want to make them miserable.

At the same time, I don't want to spend half of my life contacting hosting, domain registries and law enforcement. Is there a one-stop-shop where I can report those without too much hassle?
Sad prediction: overly confident will have better careers and will be seen as geniuses by people who don't work directly with them. They will have more responsibility sooner and even as they will make mistakes inittially (and some entirely), they will he excused and seen as leaders more then their humble peers.

Incentives.
When Shinzo Abe is serving his 4th term as Japan's PM, when Angela Merkel is serving her 4th term as German's Chancellor, surely it is not suitable for Xi to stay in the office for more than 2 terms.
They also make sense from a hygiene perspective, the less (humid!) stuff everyone touches, particularly after they washe their hand, the harder it is for bacteria to spread.
That’s the kind of thing that population health researchers study.

Answers include availability, lack of availability of healthier alternatives, targeted marketing, being missed by anti-smoking campaigns, and peer group influences.

While smoking may be a personal choice, it is not made in a vacuum.
But does this mean that edge detection is also failing?

If the neural network thinks a truck is a frog is it not recognising the vertical edges?

Seeing the intermediate layer images would be interesting to see where in the process it failed.

I keep thinking how kids often learn through labelled cartoon images. There the outline is more important.

Perhaps we could pre-train networks first on outlines of images. Make sure that these are capable of handling adversarial techniques and then build from there.
Smoking is “reward now, pay later”

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
This is misleading. The amendment also added Hu's "thought". Basically the Constitution includes all of previous paramount leaders' "thought".
You'd need tremendous amounts of engineering for all those not to suck. And
engineering that's done by really experienced people. Too bad that people
desiging the "smart" part are from the same IT industry that thinks 3 or
5 years of experience qualifies as "senior".
Are you seriously comparing Merkel to Xi? Or the political structure of Germany to China?
Here's a presentation from one of the mercury guys explaining how to do that kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFqwOho-s

Also, elevated from RGBA should probably be mentioned since iq (https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq) is the guy behind Shadertoy. (Also because it's pretty.) http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938
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Using a standing desk for a couple of months now. Most of the time I'm sitting, but somedays I prefer to stand for an hour to max 90 minutes.

After that the reverse effect sets in and I get the urge to sit again. In this regard I don't get the study. Using a standing desk to be more dynamic and switching the position is good, but standing long and sitting long are both problems in my book.

Mixing it up brings the benefit, which should be observed more closely here.
The standard for pushing papers in social sciences is as low as ever.
"Mr Xi's two predecessors have followed the orderly pattern of succession. But since he came to power in 2012 he has shown a readiness to write his own rules.
...
His photo is plastered on billboards across the country and his authorised nickname, "Papa Xi", appears in official songs."

All the usual ingredients of a dictatorship are in place.
I wonder what Dropbox is using. Of course they mention 'custom' software and possibly hardware, but I'm pretty sure it'll be some sort of Intel-based setup, maybe OCP, and Linux. The might be some hypervisory things going on, possibly Xen, maybe KVM. Then there will be some sort of firmware/OOB management as well, and perhaps some non-standard connectivity.

Those are mostly given. What runs on top of it, that's what interests me. Some orchestration/
private cloud software, some container platform, and perhaps a storage platform, which/what are those for Dropbox? Would it be standard OpenStack, Kubernetes and the true in-hous stuff: dropbox object storage?
Only if those common people only read the headline. One of the first sentences of the article is:

"Yet only now, after decades of gradual progress, are researchers finally close to building quantum computers powerful enough to do things that conventional computers cannot."

And there are more parts of the article that make clear that it's definitely not possible to buy a quantum computer any time soon.

Granted, it's not the best headline ever, but it's a decent article.
One of the benefits of working from home is you can adopt any position you want. My favorite one is being reclined in a chair with my feet on the desk and keyboard in my lap; it doesn't help with the lack of exercise but it completely solves back pain.

But in most offices it seems to send a strong "slacking" signal; people go out of their way to come to you and laugh or ask if you would maybe need a cocktail as well.
> Honestly I can’t wait for the day when this cancer for the whole humanity will disappear.

I have bad news for you, we will probably all end up using cryptocurrencies eventually. Even banks are starting to see the writing on the wall. It is just a superior technology to fiat https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/bank-of-america-worried-abou...
> Stackoverflow to fill in the gaps.

That's what juniors do. Please don't use Stackoverflow professionally like that. You should consider reading a book on the subject which provides more context and better practices.
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I had a look at his. The problem with this (and similar seen) is they pick very specific things, and attempt to make this as an argument against the whole.

In this video for example, they mention a few times the 'missing satellite data' conspiracy from the 70's. You know we only put a man on the moon in '69 right? And they were using slider rulers still then. While I acknowledge this be wrong it seems entirely realistic to decide systems before then were inaccurate and focus on reliable data from '79.

And if you look at longer sea ice data below, you can see this increase during the 70's is still part of a long term decline. So this video is selecting a small upward increase and making it out NASA avoided this period when the video creators could seem they are doing the exact same thing, avoiding previous period data to make theirs agree with a point. See below longer data.

Arctic sea ice data: https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-piecing-together-arct...

I find the more interesting skeptics look at holistic weather patterns at geological time frames. Something like this article which seems to have some merit to my limited knowledge. Thought the weakness (flaw?) seems they merge geological time frame to the current short term as though changes were this rapid. So sure a 4C temp swing doesn't seem much against millions of years of fluctuation, but our change in happening in 100 years and we dont have a clue where it will go in 10,000 years type thing. Very different. Example article here: http://joannenova.com.au/2010/02/the-big-picture-65-million-...

Overall I've considered this a bit. So many people write climate change deniers off as a bit stupid or religions fanatics. I've found many climate change deniers to be intelligent people but they have a tenancy to focus on the specific, not the broad. If you are going to push climate change denial first ask yourself why have sea levels gone up 8mm in 35 years. Why are we getting record warm years again and again. Why are glaciers that have always been know to exist disappearing across the globe. Why is ocean acidy up 30% and what happens when this reaches saturation.

And if there is a scam, whats the motive of the people saying protect our climate? To me it seems there is much more motive and resource behind people who dont want the world to change behaviours.

And truly, I acknowledge I'm not an expert and there is a limited probability it could be larger weather natural patterns creating this rapid shift. Here is the key question; can we take the chance?
That should be the sign for the sane investor to get out of China. Rulers that want to stay forever usually get to a high level of stagnation, corruption and suppression rather sooner than later. The status of a supreme leader can only be challenged by revolution, uprising and/or violence. The communist party already has absolutist power - now they get insane. Good luck with that.
The Python code works for Python 3 and pandas v0.22.0. There are some rows that are mangled, but my assumption was this was an artifact of reading Excel files, and I didn't go back and fix every single row in the dataset.

ACTUAL_DATE,ZONE_NAME,HOUR_ENDING,MW
1993-01-01 00:00:00,AE,1,855.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,BGE,1,2358.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,DPL,1,1150.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,GPU,1,3772.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,JCPL,1,1632.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,METED,1,929.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,PECO,1,3015.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,PENLC,1,1211.0
1993-01-01 00:00:00,PEPCO,1,2137.0
There are many, many companies outside of SV where a decent fresh grad (maybe with some co-op experience in SV) will be better than the "senior" developers at those companies.

Not that the fresh grads are awesome in any absolute sense, but there are so many awful developers out there who made it to "senior" level at their clueless company just because they stuck around for more than a year or two (really, because they were unable to find better work).
This sounds interesting:

"Furthermore, it injects invisible garbage code into the page while also “mutating” the content (again, invisibly) so that you could load it a thousand times on the same computer and although it would look the same to you, any resulting digital fingerprints like hash, payload size and so on would always be different."

Sounds like they have an advantage over a VPN in having traffic analysis countermeasures.
I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure that when they started AWS is the only remotely reliable game in town.
Just got myself (an expensive Nobo) glass whiteboard for brainstorming my side projects and, with all the technology, laptops, tablets and gadgets I'm constantly surrounded by, it turned out to be a very fun and useful thing to have. There's something immediate about it that motivates you to do quick brain dumps, where it's always at hand's reach and it takes zero time to erase anything so you don't feel too committed.

// Blackboard in this case would have been be far less practical as everything around it would be eventually covered in chalk.
Haha, Moodles, have you not heard about Merkel jailing the opposition, executing people in the thousands, censoring the internet with the (very much known to her) Big German Wall, and the corruption in everyday German life?
He certainly has a fair point.

The problem, however, these days, is the way a monetary policy hyper-focused on eliminating inflation swindles the wage-earner.
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Reminds me of the people who couldn't send email farther than 500 miles.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
I used to belong to a model railroad club. There were two members who argued about nearly everything; didn't get along at all. Eventually, one of them resigned from the club. I thought: Finally, things can run smoothly now, without that nonsense. But from that point, the club slowly died. It took over a year, but that was the inflection point.

The conflict had been part of keeping things moving forward, but I didn't recognize it.
You are right, as a demonstration there is a trade-off between using a real dataset and making the data large enough to demonstrate the performance gains. You are proving the other part of my argument though, in that you don't need to add an index (though, the comparison between using a window function in Postgres is fair, since that would be the canonical way to write that query)

As far as the "big/expensive toys", I'm using the Community Edition, which is FOSS.
Of course not, Merkel will be politically gone in a few years, she will be slowly forgotten just like many previous German leaders. There will probably be a couple of words about her in the book of history but do you believe she is going to shape the future of this world? ;)
It worked good enough. I pressed a button and said Pizza and it immediately called my local pizzeria. For some reason I’ve never got that to work smoothly with Siri.
Even if a punitive approach had been taken, it would have been a very different post war period. Germany was utterly destroyed, beaten and occupied. In WW1 that wasn’t the case and while there had been massive loss of life, Germany was intact.
> You're up to a surprise.

That implies I don't have a clue what I'm talking about, which is discourteous.

> I've seen it happen.

Perhaps we don't use the same definition for "professionally". I meant being "senior" in that field. Of course anyone can learn 6 languages to a certain degree. My original post was supposed to be "I doubt you are senior with 6 languages".

> And you overestimate the differences between the runtimes and frameworks.

Just because all VMs have a GC and a JIT doesn't mean they work very similar to one another. Not to mention unmanaged languages.
Agree with most of your points. But I suspect building a quantum infrastructure will be easier (and therefore occur earlier) than building quantum computers.

>Not to mention a small initial secret

This is interesting, what are you referring to here?
People have been saying that for ten years now.

If inflation ticks up, the Fed will raise rates, which will dampen inflation but increase the interest on new treasuries, which will presumably compel the administration to cut spending and raise taxes, and borrow less.
In a context of _constant_ high inflation that's not true: the interest rates will already be discounting the future inflation.

You have a positive gain of that type in case inflation grows more than expected. Enough to offset the negative impact given by the delay costs-revenue? Probably not in most cases.

In fact the positive effect applies to debt made in the past which precisely because of inflation is likely to be lower than the new debt you need to take on (on which the negative effect applies).

Of course also the opposite could happen: inflation grows less than expected after you took on a lot of debt.

So for a capital intensive business it'd just be better to operate in a context of constant low inflation.
An Introduction to Information Security (2017) [pdf]
I was already sufficiently impressed... and then I realized that by default it's in "VERY_LOW_QUALITY" mode. Select "HIGH_QUALITY" using the #defines at the top of the file if your machine can handle it :)
Do not confuse these web sites with TV journalism or journalism at all. They don't even have an "About" page. This is a consumer magazine and that's all it is.
the engineers that I need allocate to infrastructure I rather have working on user facing features and improvements.

Cloud services still need configuring and managing. You're saving on 2-3 days upfront on racking and cabling, on boxes that will last at least 3 years, probably longer. So if this is your only reason, you're making a false economy, eventually the costs of an undermanaged cloud will bite you (e.g. VM sprawl, networking rules that no-one understands, possibly-orphaned storage, etc).
No, it's not suitable. Merkel's tenure in not restricted by law, mostly because chancellor is appointed by majority party/coalition in the parliament. Every election cycle there's a very real chance CDU alliance and CDU appointed chancellor would have to go. In fact, it's a certainty Merkel isn't going to hold this post for life and then pass it down in her family.

While in China, there's a 22nd amendment inspired safeguard in the constitution, specifically to prevent another Mao-like figure from coming to power. The safeguard is being removed specifically for Xi: you can't seriously argue he's irreplaceable across the population of 1.7 billion. The country turns from being run by an authoritarian committee to a personal dictatorship.

And thus begins the decline of China.
I often wonder about the value of outsourcing and a lot of the deals I see are related to generational change whether it is management, technological stack or lopsided age structure. Not all are acknowledging the realities injecting conflicting targets into the execution.
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The ShaderX series is probably a good start: http://www.realtimerendering.com/resources/shaderx/
I think the best place for an Indian to be an entrepreneur is, surprise, surprise -- India. I faced this problem a decade ago and decided that it was better give up a green card than to give up on entrepreneurship and returned to India. I really cherish my decade in the US, and in many ways that country defined my liberal political views. But returning to India was the right decision. Still I feel sad for the this generation of smart young Indian graduates who may not be able to get the experience of working in a foreign country and really understanding its culture.
Yup. I’m only an armchair CEO but I’d never do business in China if I could afford it.
The government is going to use them to finally start decrypting all of the VPN traffic they've been storing all these years.
You might wanna try activating the #ignore-gpu-blacklist in chrome://flags

But be aware that it can cause some collateral damage like broken websites (if you have it and it bothers you, you can simply turn the flag off again). For example, with my Haswell Intel GPU I had never any problems, but with my Radeon it results in some strange textures on some website. FF has no problems with neither of them.
The consequences of a falling dollar isn't "a nasty chain reaction of consequences", it's to import less and export more, which increases employment and leads to increased tax revenue.

> After Japan's savings rate hit near zero, and the people of Japan could no longer finance their government's reckless spending, they had to turn to Yen debasement to manage their debt interest problems

What? Japan is notorious for struggling with deflation, not inflation.
Who's writing demos in rust?
So you’re saying the Linux kernel would get better if we overthrew Linus?
Even if you think there is a 20% chance climate change exists, wouldn't it be a good strategy to try & fix it? It's a 20% chance of massive, horrible problems. Especially given that you are a technologist & the solution here is better technology.
Climate works slowly when there aren't a billion cars and other industry. A visible analogy is the reduction of animals and plants due to human activity.

A warmer weather is an 'unknown'. We have trouble with EVERYTHING. We hardly know anything atm with the stable environment so a whole new challenge of future planet might be just to much. It is already to much.
Could the tech companies run *everything* better?
She can explain the topic really well. I attended her talk at SHA2017[0].

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-361-invitation_to_help_build_...
If anything, investors will be encouraged to invest in China due to this news. Xi has been a stable leader for the country. This news simply means more of the same.
Rapid Genetic and Developmental Morphological Change Following Extreme Celerity
My landingpage is ugly – does it matter? – Part 1
Could you?

Sure, we can all think of cases where someone said something was impossible and then eventually it was achieved.

But are there any cases where the expert consensus on the physical possibility of something wasn't established until it was achieved in practice? I can't think of one off the top of my head.

Nuclear energy? No, the physical possibility of this was understood in the thirties; the objection was that, as one scientist put it, you would have to turn a whole country into a uranium refinery. Which wasn't exactly wrong; the Manhattan project took engineering resources in the ballpark of a small country.

Supersonic flight? No, artificial objects had been going supersonic for centuries.

Spaceflight? No, the physics of this was well understood long before it was achieved.

Any that I'm missing?
I think, taken to the extreme, all programming languages would then "just" be syntactic sugar over lambda calculus
An operating system kernel and the lives and destinies of more than a billion people are very different things to manage.
Some might argue that she indeed shaped the future of this world by accelerating the demise of Europe as a modern and heavyweight force in the world.
Probably, at least from a security point of view.
Xi's name "Xi Jinping" will appear in the Constitution, whereas Hu just gets his "thought" without his name into the Constitution.

Besides, Hu's thought is to be put into Constitution after he had stepped down for 5 years. Xi's thought will appear in the Constitution when he is in the middle of paramount power.
The unpaid plan might be useful in this case ... the history would become hidden very quickly ;)
Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenGL ES (2016) [pdf]
So progressive. So ahead of the curve. Meanwhile the US is stagnate here with its term limits. /s
Judging a book by its cover (2015)