skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working hard certainly doesn't guarantee success, however it defiantly makes you luckier and exposes you to more opportunity. I like Kevin Systrom summed it up (not word for word):

Everyone gets lucky at least once a week. You might find a dollar on the ground, you might meet someone, be somewhere, whatever. What sets you up for success is:

1. Are you alert enough to know you're getting lucky?

2. Are you talented enough to run with it once you get lucky?

3. Are you resilient enough to stick with it once it gets hard?
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LTE band support isnt great for the US market. Its supports exactly zero of Tmobile's 5 LTE bands, for example. 3G should work fine just about anywhere though.
This effect of tiny changes having massive impacts is why Gordon Brown’s smash and grab raid on the private sector pensions, coupled with artificially low interest rates was so damaging and lead directly to the property bubble and the financial crisis in the UK.
Given the state of data management throughout the US and the world, I welcome some draconian rules if they actually protect people's data.
Google has billions of lines of code, a non-trivial amount of which is Python. Moving to Python 3 would require an all-hands-on-deck massive effort.
I'd argue that it's the citizens who forget (often thinking that the Bill of Rights Constitutional amendments are positive rights).

The government is quite aware - and works within the framework established for it. It's up to us as citizens to challenge it (or remove it) if we feel it isn't abiding by the rules.

Sadly, most of the populace can't even be bothered to vote, let alone stay engaged on these issues.
Looking at shooting silver iodide pellets up in the sky or painting deserts black? Lots of issues with weather modification. Virtual water is the most cost effective way to transport water, by far, unless you have some crazy new product
US? It is far more disturbing to China's neighbors than to the US.
Why? I'm speaking of a completely autonomous truck, not some level 2 adaptive cruise control. The 'driver' could be sitting on a couch or at a desk in his sleeper cab the whole time.
The app places the acryonym "VPN" on the phone and instructs users to turn on the virtual private network.

I'd say users aren't totally out of line thinking that an app providing virtual private networking functionality would use a layperson's definition of private (as opposed to a techie's definition involving network protocols).

I'd argue that a VPN app that isn't private should be required to put something like the warning on cigarettes: >

> WARNING: This app monitors and records for all time your every action on your phone and only protects you from 3rd parties who haven't paid us enough money to get access to your data.
I don't see how it could "damp", yet in such good condition after such a long time. Ah right; ingress of moisture began just days or weeks before discovery. Very likely!

Hoax/fake, I think.
While fussing over every misstep of the administration is a distraction, this is an unfortunate time to have a US President who seems uninterested in global politics.
> On a related note, could someone explain to me how Russia manages to stay a threat with a military budget that's about 6% of the US budget?

Total speculation: the US may spend more on R&D to develop unproven ideas into functional systems (with a lot of failure and trial and error). Then Russia can follows those now-proven development paths without needing to spend nearly as much on dead ends or original research.

Kinda like this link that another user posted here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-experiment-proved-that-anyone-c...

AFAIK, there has always been a lot of Russian copying/mimicry of US technology, from the Tu-4 to the Buran, but little in the other direction.
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SCGI is even simpler, and often enough for low traffic purposes.
Can you elaborate more on why China's increasing military budget is a disturbing sign to you?

China spends a mere 1.9% of its GDP in 2016 and that number is smaller than from Vietnam, Korea, India even Singapore [0]. To me China is only trying catching up its neighbors.

BTW Japan's PM has just submitted his 2018 Military Budget and if approved would be the 6th "straight annual increase" [1].

[0]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?end=2...

[1]: https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/whats-in-japans-record-2018-...

Disclaimer: I'm Chinese.
There is a significant segment of American society that believes that if you are poor you must have done something to deserve it, like not work hard enough. Because of this, to help poor people is to subsidize (and hence encourage) laziness, and that is unacceptable. On the other hand, we can't just shoot all the poor people (though we can shoot some of them, as long as they're black and threatening) and we can't just have them loitering in the streets because that's bad for business. So the best we can do it run them out of town on a rail. Out of sight, not our problem any more, that's good enough. We don't need a long-term solution, we just need to stave off disaster long enough for Jesus to return, and that will be Real Soon Now.

Sadly, this is not an exaggeration. Tens of millions of Americans really do believe all of the above.
> On a related note, could someone explain to me how Russia manages to stay a threat with a military budget that's about 6% of the US budget?

Because Russia: (1) has ICBMs, which makes it a strategic global threat, even though they can't directly control territory that way, (2) because Russia has a large and capable conventional military than makes it a strong regional power threatening US interests and allies (it can't challenge the US on global force projection, which is the real driver of US military cost.)

> Or does it only seem to be that smaller because their soldiers are payed less?

Soldier and suppliers being paid less is a factor, too, but the big factor in the fundamental asymmetry between what is necessary to be a regional power and what is necessary to be able to respond to threats by regional powers everywhere in the world.
That's zero-sum. If you're going to put more of that money into services to support vehicle-dwellers, what about the other areas that lose out? Road maintenance?
Sorry, but there is no comparison.
None of them were elected by saying: "Vote Reagan (or Trump). It can't get worse than this".
My guess is you'll get more traction if you describe some of your affiliations to establish credibility. Personally I never fill out non-random sampled online survey because the resulting studies aren't likely to be valid.
some hypotheses:

80/20 rule - 20% of the budget gets you 80% of the capability. ofc these are not accurate percentages

not to say this doesn't happen in Russia, but everyone talks about how much excessive waste there is in the US military

like you say, cost for soldiers will be much less there
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No. That is not a response; that is not a rebuttal; that is a nothing comment. You have added less than nothing to the conversation.
I'm sorry, but I simply don't think that's true.

Nothing compares to the visceral experience of seeing a live animal first-hand in the flesh.
Not just shenandoah[1], it's also getting zgc[2], so the low latency future looks bright for the jvm.

1. https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/shenandoah/Main
2. https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main
Thanks! This is super interesting -- I'll definitely take a look.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/03/gro...
> but Mongolia is much more likely to (with Russia as the opposing major power.)

Russia gets expansion in Europe. China gets expansion in Asia. They agree to try to stay out of each others way. It certainly wouldn't be unusual, historically speaking, for very powerful authoritarian regimes to reach agreement on annexations of territory.
I would definitely expect Japan to have completely developed plans for a nuclear weapons program, with contingencies for getting it online in the shortest amount of time possible.

I would not expect them to have actually created a device, unless they are keeping deep under the stadium somewhere below the Akira project.
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If that were the case, they would have been dying of it over the last couple of hundred years.
I got one from Dometic. I don't think they run on natural gas though, just propane.

https://www.dometic.com/en-us/us/products/food-and-beverage/...
I imagine these trucks would phone home immediately and warn an operator that they had unexpectedly stopped. And I'm sure they continually log their GPS location with a server somewhere. They likely have some level of video feed being logged as well.

You probably won't be able to steal the truck and get away with it any easier than you could a human-driven truck.
Python 2 was the norm when they adopted Python internally, but I think it's inaccurate to say that Google is "adamantly opposed" to Python. They've done a good job in making their most popular open-source projects 3.x compatible, such as Tensorflow: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1
No, clang offers precompiled headers as well.

It's literally things like "parsing large numbers of pragmas is slower in clang because nobody has bothered to optimize it".

This is not uncommon for very different codebases.

Clang was, for a long time, many times slower at compiling the linux kernel, for example, because the linux kernel headers have a huge amount of inline assembly and nobody ever bothered to optimize the parsing paths for inline assembly.
(now somewhat fixed).

This is just the very typical "hey, when you change the use cases dramatically, you may need to retune/rethink how certain things are done"

I think people just may not realize how wildly different these types of codebases are in what types of statements/things occur.
I'm not buying any phones anymore unless they come from Google or Apple. Even manufacturers that do update their phones can be very slow getting security fixes out.
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Yes, it's happily becoming less common, but it was and is common for all options in a 401k plan to have high fees, and be set up to benefit the company

http://time.com/money/3959942/401k-bad-choices/

http://www.pionline.com/article/20170927/ONLINE/170929858/ge...

http://time.com/money/3991604/401k-funds-bad/.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=188571
that's exactly what happens, couldn't agree more!
There there, never mix up their and there.

Don't write lead when you mean led. (I see this a lot in exec and other bios on company sites.)
I've also read that China spends more on internal security than on it's own military.
I strongly disagree. I believe what matters is, or should be, whether the current arrangement that has been "agreed to", is objectively fair or not.

What is in the best interests of wealthy influential people and corporations may not be in the best interests of overall society. Maximizing GDP is not necessarily in the best interests of overall society.

I think this article makes some good points on whether "what we've agreed to" is actually "fair", and there are numerous other articles like it, but if an alien from another planet was to come here and listen to public discourse on the topic, they'd be left with the impression that there is no debate to be had.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/business/trade-chin...

It may be difficult to determine what is "objectively fair" in a complex globalized world, but it seems to me like there is a coordinated effort to avoid a conversation on the topic getting any kind of traction.
both of these users have better content in their comments than I have in mine.

and sharetea was on to something in 2016... even if the account got banned.
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Probably the whole nuclear aresnal thing.
There's not even a term of comparison between the two. If nothing else, Trump is an evil and stupid, Jinping is evil and smart.
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this sounds like you're projecting something, honestly. I'd stray on the side of being wary of China, not dismissing them as "insecure" and "fragile." Just a dangerous mindset imo.
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Assuming dividend reinvestment, the S&P 500 has returned an annual average of 10% nominally (7% real), over the last 100 years or so.
Relative vs. absolute gain?
Talk with showing off some basics of XSS, also livecoding with Flask, selenium, and pytest.
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One of the many pitfalls you run into when the institution enforcing your rights and the institution being enforced against happen to be one and the same.
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having used androids and always getting frustrated at them getting super laggy, i finally took my friends advice and bought a used 5s for $80. runs like butter for the last year.

unbelievable to me we still can't keep garbage processes and excessive ui down enough to have a budget phone run like crap
It has been my suspicion that Singapore has been a model for China over the last three or four decades, perhaps since the end of the Viet Nam war.
> Did they drive from their 20s, or did they pick up truck driving as a 2nd or 3rd career?

Just one data-entry point (and it's from Eastern Europe, not the States): my brother picked up trucking in his mid-30s, that is 5-6 years ago. Until then he had been a farmer, but as the agricultural subsidies in my country can't rival with those given to French farmers (for example) there was no way for him to earn his living just by raising cows (even though he loved the farming work). Until this trucking job he had never been out of the country, in the meantime he has seen almost all of Europe up to Western Turkey. It's not a job for everybody, though: a month or so ago he was robbed of 240 liters of diesel fuel while he was in his sleep-pause somewhere in Bulgaria, he had just been waiting for 20 hours a short time before that at the Turkish-Bulgarian custom point, and he's usually gone 2 or even 3 weeks at a time.
A software engineering team in California write the code, then it's clear that nearly all of the value was created in Californi

Code by itself is valueless. If the code is to show an ad then the value is created when and where is ad is viewed.
> I have been to a real jungle safari recently and it struck me how obviously different animals are in their own vast natural habitat than in a zoo.

Having worked as a naturalist-guide in the Peruvian Amazon back in the 1990s, the main way that they differ is by being for the most part - invisble. “Here that sound? That’s a large group of spider monkeys moving off, nearby... now look at these leaf cutter ants”
Hiveway changes direction with respect to funding ... is it dead already?
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Two things give me some hope.
1. I don't think totalitarianism lends itself to economic prosperity, long term. Sure, the right authoritarian can move much faster and implement beneficial changes much more quickly than a democratic government can. But that knife cuts both ways.
2. The entire government system in China, and it's culture, heavily values stability and collective unity (hence it's desire to squash and eliminate anything that may lead to extreme reaction or departure from consensus).
But this will lead to calcification, or, if the dictator changes too much or is too heavy handed, instability is inevitable, which leads me to think that the dictator will be changed out.

Ultimately, I think that the power of any society is in the hands of the citizens, and that Chinese culture is extremely pragmatic. They may be able to be kept peaceful for a bit, but if progress starts stagnating or even reversing, changes will happen.
I agree. It is the best approach. Your right to not be killed doesn't require that I supply you with anything, except protection of your rights from those that would violate them.

I see rights as those things that most people would not give up in order to have their rights protected by society. The right not to be hit for no reason is valued by most people. But having a right to hit anybody you want is not more highly valued by most people, as it also means you will be hit a lot.

That doesn't mean people shouldn't help each other or accept help or participate in mutual aid associations. But such voluntary aid has CONDITIONS. You have to be a decent person to get it. A right to help doesn't require good behavior.

And compulsory help is not practical either. Eventually, costs of providing it rise until quality has to be sacrificed and options have to be limited and often the opportunity cost of the free help is greater than the cost of paying for it yourself.
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The missiles involve more economic productivity.
Intelligence cannot exhibit a Gaussian distribution, not unless you make certain assumptions about what intelligence is.

Is the OP's definition of intelligence limited to academic or intellectual intelligence? If so, that's the problem.

There just isn't a single kind of intelligence. Nor is intellectual intelligence superior. It's just unique, like other forms of intelligence.

Also, different people excel naturally in certain fields, or even when it comes to learning in certain fields, or learning through certain methods, such as through watching something happening, doing it practically, listening to an explanation, or even just reading about it, and so on.

Because of this, I'm skeptical that there's even an element of randomness. There isn't, not when you take into account all of the life circumstances that shape individuals and their ability to cultivate and make proper use of their innate skills and abilities.

Many people are hampered by society from ever discovering their true calling in life, so to speak, in various ways, whether it be bias towards intellectual intelligence, bias towards what suits the needs of our corporation-dominated society consumed by the need to work for money almost all the time just to survive, etc.

In a work-orientated society that takes up the majority of people's time, stress them out, etc, most people never get the chance to discover their talents, to cultivate them, etc.

Just a bit of unstructured rant, because it's early in the morning and I haven't yet had my coffee, but had to type this while it was still fresh. :/
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Opioid vs. Nonopioid Medications on Pain-Related Function
The iPhone is a flagship with excellent software support, it just so happens it’s also Apple's only phone line
It has to do with global nuclear war because saying that one will not break out over 'x' ignores the fact that there's historical evidence for unimaginable carnage being triggered from seemingly minor events. Many scenarios put forward by military thinkers on what might trigger a nuclear war involve escalation – it's not limited to a country deciding to just fire off some rockets.
I agree that a VPN service implies it's protecting privacy, but let me nit pick a bit: the "private" in virtual private network is not about privacy, it's about a network with a private IP space, the virtual part is that it operates on top of public IP space.

With that said, anyone could make the assumption that private means privacy here, and most common use cases for consumer VPNs are for privacy, so, I guess it really matters that they are explicit what they service does, and I think the description above is pretty clear.
Just another one of those fun ways that being poor in America is ludicrously expensive.
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The 1.9% figure you're quoting, is almost universally regarded to be an undercount, aka a lie. At best their actual military spending figures are very fuzzy.

"The Chinese, for example, do not count their research-and-development expenditures, the considerable amount they pay for foreign military purchases, the huge subsidies for their defense industry (which is composed mostly of enterprises owned by the state), or their spending on the Chinese coast guard despite many of their “maritime law enforcement” ships being in effect naval vessels"

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/united-states-defense...

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/hy-chinas-military-budge...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/23/5-things-the-pentagon-is...

https://chinapower.csis.org/military-spending/
In my experience with SEO work on a large data driven website, they ignore canonicals if they don't actually point to the same content.
> We'd probably know if they'd ever tested a weapon. We wouldn't necessarily know if they'd actually built one. If I were them, I totally would have.

What's the point of having nuclear weapons and not telling everyone? The entire point of nuclear weapons is to deter attacks.
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I wasn't aware that Python3 was pre-installed on major distros, I don't believe it was by default on my Ubuntu 16.04. It is possibly I removed it, though. It does look like 18.04 is going to bundle Python 3 [1]. I agree with you that adding JVM is an expensive decision and the runtime requirements can make using them in real projects a big pain.

Thanks for the video, I'll check it out. It is exciting (and I would also say a bit worrying) to see a lot of competing tools in this area.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/Python36Transition
It's hard to understand that they could think Python 2 to be the valid choice for this, as though Python 3 was "the future" and things are heading there.

Python 3 is the present, we are there, Python 2 is the past and in 2 short years it will be unsupported and whatever you learned from this resource will need to be re-learned for Python 3 pretty damn quick.

Recommendation to those learning Python: avoid this Google resource and instead use Zed Shaw's "Learn Python 3 The Hard Way" https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/

Or you could do things Google's way and then follow up with learning how to use DOS http://people.uncw.edu/pattersone/121/labs/L1_MSDOS_Primer.p... because I believe things are heading that way.
There are some who claim that it does not. In particular they claim that there is a longer tail on both ends of the curve than a normal distribution would predict.

http://www.abelard.org/burt/burt-ie.asp

But there are others who refute that claim. Their analysis shows there are actually fewer supernormal outliers than you would expect for a normal distribution.

http://www.ncurproceedings.org/ojs/index.php/NCUR2012/articl...

Either way it's a pretty close fit and the argument is just about whether there is a small variance several standard deviations from the mean.

And, yes, there has always been disagreement about what IQ really is, what do IQ tests measure, what forms of intelligence aren't measured in IQ tests, etc. I've always settled for the tautological definition. IQ is what an IQ test measures.