skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The Goths were relatively barbarian, fundamentally hostile to the empire except in the dire emergency precipitated by the Huns, and further, the original Gothic revolt predated the problems you're talking about and the defeat of the Romans in the field

The Goths were a major part of the Roman army for a century before the uprising discussed, and the famine and pestilence were also becoming a major issue around the same time. And the Goths were no more barbarian than much of Caesar's army, their hostility came from the overall problems the empire faced.

>If they had numbered only a few ten thousand, the Roman logistics system would not have struggled so much to keep them fed, nor would it have been a major problem to account for them all.

The empire was struggling to feed itself, even a relatively small number of people in one area can cause problems. And the contemporary sources are dismissed because we know the things written down are propaganda based largely on guesswork. Modern historians realize a million people suddenly showing up would leave a massive archaeological record that isn't there.
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My guess would be fabs take a lot more energy at peak draw- they have to melt the components in a chip, and data centers are trying not to melt them.
Just because it doesn't happen now, doesn't mean that will always be true. Even anonymous accounts are unsafe. ML with writing analysis and known writing samples could very likely allow attribution of even anonymous writings. May we never live in that world!
Yes agreed and of course Experian has now starting using the existence of people's data on the dark web as another revenue stream See:

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/64043/deep-web/experian-...

From the article:

>"By using the “Free Dark Web Email Scan” a user will receive advertisements for Experian products at the e-mail address that is being scanned. The user agreement includes a clause which states that not only will Experian send you advertisements, but “offers for available credit cards, loan options, financial products or services, or credit-related products or services and other offers to customers.”

It's like a vertically integrated criminal syndicate.
how stupid is to measure code in terms of lines?

Make all that a library then you can claim:

A static site generator in only 3 lines of Python

Measuring lines of codes is completely wrong. See the Scala trend were people race to find the shortest way to express something generating hard to understand code.
1) Code has to be written to be maintenable.
2) Code has to be written to be read by your coworkers.
3) The bottleneck while coding is not the keyboard.
> Sure, but nobody said otherwise.

What's happening is what I read awhile back - calling ADHD an advantage in society is presenting a weak man argument. Sure, it seems reasonable since they're adding the caveats... but the point that's coming across is that ADHD is not a real disorder since it's an advantage to have, and people who are on meds who have no real reason to be on them.

Just see how many people in these threads come to say that it's not a real problem, that behavioral therapy is sufficient, that we're overmedicating children, that everybody is "a little ADHD".

Whatever era we may be hypothetically entering; it's not the era we're in now. Being unable to direct your concentration is hinderance, not a help. And I don't think it will help in this hypothetical era, either. Not when finishing works of creativity requires a certain amount of "grit" - concentration on a task that provides no immediately positive feedback.
As someone who had ADHD as a child and now still has it as an adult, I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about. Yes, of course some (many?) kids are misdiagnosed, but it is a real disorder with often awful consequences. It's not about "kids who can't sit still".
Yeah, this can be an example of going maybe too far if they are very strict about it. It's a balancing act
I am going to guess that people secretly like when their gadget breaks because it gives them an excuse to buy something new.
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With 'DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials' the site is broken too.
People signed up to give it to Facebook, and whatever your views on that bargain, this wasn’t part of it.
so basically the more youre in the sun, the darker your skin gets, thanks science.
There are a few reasons.

First, the purpose of a class like this is to prepare students for further coursework in algorithms and automata/complexity. You need logic, graphs and combinatorics for those a lot more than you need linear algebra.

Second, the math department teaches a class in linear algebra. This is a collection of topics that you wouldn't ordinarily find in undergraduate math classes.

Third, there's a limit on how much linear algebra you can cover in part of a course like this. Better to give it its own semester so you can treat the subject in some reasonable breadth.
Avi Wigderson's forthcoming book is pretty great if this sort of thing interests you: https://www.math.ias.edu/files/mathandcomp.pdf#page=1
Can't wait for Sheryl Sandberg to write a new book now on garden soil or something.
Alcohol industry asked by NIH to pay for study showing moderate drinking is good
People can now go spend their afternoon repairing goods to offset the carbon footprint of their lunch hamburger.
The first Ad Sales pitch deck for TheFacebook.com included a slide showing how advertisers can target students based on their sexual orientation, political bend, dating interests, gender, age, education, and social graph. All of which can be used to discriminate based on protected variables, like gender, sexuality, age, mental disability, and race.

This will not be the end, and has been like this from the very beginning. If foreign companies can get access to this information, then intelligence agencies certainly can too.
No, the threat is having rules that are ambiguous and subject to interpretation by regulators with the power to at minimum cause serious disruption through a formal audit and at maximum impose fines that pose an existential threat to a small business.

And as I said elsewhere, if you think that threat is imaginary, please look at how many different national tax authorities have started large numbers of incorrect claims procedures against small businesses who had done nothing wrong just because the officials made mistakes with the new VAT rules and got their own records in a mess.
But why not take it a step further and present the standard KB? That would be a slight inconvenience, with a massive gain in confusion for anyone trying to guess their way in.
You do it by making the activity costly. Mandatory opt-out for any persistence of data. Require regular re-enrollments for anyone who opted in.
So... If I were in Cambridge Analytica's position, employed to influence the US election, one of the first things I'd do is match this data with any data I could find on voting patterns. Which reminds me, didn't some of the Russian APTs hack into state voter databases?
Was definitely part of the modular series, a small dark blue book.

It’s this one as the previous poster said.
"Quantum Phenomena (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8)".

It’s referenced to by many other books from what I recall. So I decided to go hunting for it — and found that the explanations in Datta’s book were better than many of the books that came after it. I’ll see if I still have the book someplace.
One example of the increased costs due to GDPR are that data subject access requests are now free to make. In the UK they used to cost £10. A small amount which never really covered the cost of fulfilling the request, but enough to deter frivolous mass use.

Now that such requests are free, there is no deterrent and companies must introduce a scalable process for dealing with them (or risk being swamped and unable to meet the 30 day deadline).

This will actually be easier for companies like Google and Facebook to comply with, as they are digital natives.

Financial services is an industry struggling with a burden of legacy systems, and even paper-based processes still. This one GDPR provision alone is causing much expense and heartache.
>So a few white dudes (such as myself) might not get a job because of a quota. Big deal.

It is. You're either racist or you're not. You can sugercoat it with comfy terms such as "diversity" or "inclusion" but as soon as you positively discriminate for one race, you negatively discriminate against another and that is racism, even if it "only" affects white males.

Or stated differently, would you be for quotas if it meant a POC doesn't get the job, because there are already too many? If not, why?
You want a lighter, more resilient bridge, you put the concrete under tension. You want a lighter, more resilient bicycle wheel, you put the spokes under tension. You want a lighter, more resilient company, adding a little tension to the teams because you know the company will have to weather diversity-related issues.
> In practice, simply “allowing” for diversity doesn’t work. The only way to reach diversity goals is to actively include people.

What makes you say this? Doesn't this kind of assume that there aren't other reasons why such gender, racial, or cultural imbalances exist?

> So a few white dudes (such as myself) might not get a job because of a quota. Big deal.

There are large areas of the country still recovering from the recession. It's not like everyone is living in an economically prosperous area of the country. In those areas, not getting hired is a _huge_ deal.
This does not seem to me like a big hurdle. Surely this is the sort of thing that should be hidden in the Integer class?
We don't let you start a medical practice without licensing either.
I took a look at the first four or so chapters and I'm not really a fan of the organization. But I think you could self-study the material and be fine. The introduction of the book explains that it's very focused on proofs, and it feels to me like it's more of an applied mathematics book than it is discrete mathematics (i.e. computer science) book. That's a subtle distinction, but I'd summarize it by saying this book feels as if it was written more for math majors than computer science majors. That doesn't mean you shouldn't read it; rigor and formalization are important! It just means that (as I interpret it), the authors are focusing more heavily on mathematical formalization and foundations than most "discrete mathematics" treatments.

For the context of my opinion: my favorite math textbook for computer science is Chapter 1, Section 1.2 of The Art of Computer Programming ("Mathematical Preliminaries"). That's pretty dense though, so I usually recommend Concrete Mathematics, which was also (co)authored by Knuth. The benefit of Concrete Mathematics is that it spreads the information out with more examples and better exposition. It also includes an expanded section on probability. But in my opinion, the failing (if you could call it that) of both is that there isn't a dedicated section on set theory. I really think that should be covered alongside the introduction to various types of proof.

Which brings me back to this textbook...I personally think it spends too much time building logic and proof machinery in the first chapter. Sets and functions have sections that are only pages long, but there is a large focus on logic. I understand it's a mathematics for computer science treatment and not a pure mathematics treatment, but that's actually pretty dry in my opinion - I think a treatment that focuses more on sets is more intuitive. One of the things I like about Knuth is that he covers these topics in a slightly irreverent and humorous way. He also engages the reader by jumping more directly into arithmetic operations, functions, basic number theory, the binomial theorem and combinatorics, etc.

Some of this is admittedly my own bias. I've never enjoyed staring at things like e.g. truth tables. It's important to know, but this actually seems excessively formal for a discrete mathematics course. Reading through the algebra of propositions isn't exactly riveting. I think that, for self-study at least, exposition and organization of topics is just as important (probably more so) than complete coverage of topics. All of the material you'd want to know is there, it's just that the treatment might be a bit suboptimal for self-study. It probably depends on what you find interesting and how quickly you'd like to do interesting things with what you're learning. It would probably also be beneficial if some people who have actually learned from this textbook for their first encounter with the material could chime in, because that might be more relevant to your question.
I'm lugging around an ADD diagnosis from my teenage years, complete with years of taking stimulants, followed by years of rejecting stimulants, and embracing self-therapy, so I have plenty of opinions, as one could imagine. But I'd like to describe my own experience of what having ADD is like.

Imagine a scheduler that has many tasks to schedule, and more incoming work than it can schedule in a timely fashion. The scheduler is designed to consider all tasks, but will give a higher priority to tasks that provide immediate feedback.

A consequence of this design is that tasks which require a lot of time to complete, but provide little to no feedback until after the task is completed, are typically starved for resources. Often, they will never complete, or even start running.

Well, that's basically how my brain worked before I started exerting control over it. I would flip from thought to thought, lingering on things that provided immediate feedback, like playing musical instruments or video games.

Planning is a difficult task when your brain works that way. I had to consciously focus attention away from things that I was seemingly wired to fixate on. Even determined concentration was hampered by constant context switching, which I felt I had little control over.

ADD is a chronic condition, and I still have to deal with this on a daily basis. But it has gotten easier. Luckily, I've been able to develop enough coping techniques to at least take care of myself.

Most people who know me assume that I am very high functioning. As a software developer, I am pretty successful, and people equate that with intense concentration and process-oriented thinking. My own, inner world is far more chaotic than others could imagine!
We are capable of succeeding in modern corporations. I have met plenty of other people with ADHD at Netflix, Google and now Apple.

Edit: I was diagnosed with ADHD by neurologist and psychiatrist.
> In any case, they should have been able to figure out that someone using their own car to deliver a $7 burrito from Chipotle is probably making next to nothing.

I expect that they did, but if they committed from the start to spend a day (or however much time) on the project, then they had to complete it, for the sake of the story.
I can confirm this, at least generally. Given access by a user, you had access to all the data the user could access, including the user’s friends’. There may have been exceptions, but, for example, friends’ likes were accessible.
>So, being incapable of working in a modern corporation is a... good thing?

I'm not on the "ADHD is a good thing" side of this, but the argument you're implying has some serious problems. First of all, who says that people with ADHD are incapable of working in a modern corporation? Secondly, you're examining only one side of what is asserted to be a tradeoff. There are certainly other ways to be successful in life than working at a corporation, and if ADHD provides an advantage on those other paths, then it could clearly be considered a good thing.
Curious to know the ways in which your ADHD is your superpower. It sounds like you benefit from Vyvanse (which you get because of and ADHD diagnosis, presumably), but you don’t mention any other benefits. And plenty of neurotypical people take ADHD meds and benefit from them also. Perhaps you also have other direct benefits from ADHD, like increased creativity?
The concrete jungle is only a dystopia to those who are constantly in a whirlwind of inconvenience and don't have enough money to throw at it.

If you're rich you cover the inconveniences with nice condos, taking cabs, and eating out.
> It used to be that the workplace, church, neighborhood or union meetings were the place to socialize and discuss these issues and take collective action

People still socialize and discuss issues in the real world. Having a Facebook group for a church or neighborhood doesn't preclude anyone from going to church or physically interacting with their neighbors. People also still take collective action in the real world - Antifa, BLM and the Tea Party are three modern examples, but there are countless others which simply don't get media attention.

And, all else aside, social media is still perfectly adequate for enabling communication between most people.

I'm sorry, but your comment seems more rooted in hyperbole than reality.
For many, this incident is a metaphor for the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam: thuggish U.S. soldiers came to a country they didn't understand and killed everyone. This view lacks the context of the war. The U.S. and its allies were fighting the Cold War, a war against Communist Bloc hegemony. We were fighting against the expansion of Communism in South Viet Nam, trying to prevent The Domino Effect.

The primary reason we lost the war was micro-managing by Washington bureaucrats, and overly-limited rules of engagement. Keep in mind, our mission was to assist the South Koreans in defending a guerrilla war. For this reason, we never invaded North Vietnam, and initially refrained from going in to neighboring countries to attack the Viet Cong revolutionaries staging there. Nixon started bombing these countries, but by then, it was too little, too late, and he ended the war.
Tipping is also used to help the worker avoid paying taxes, since many service workers don't report 100% of their tip income as required.

And although companies would be able to deduct salary expense to reduce their own tax bill, they still benefit from the tipping scheme. If the worker receives, say, $10 in tips, the company would have to pay them $15-$20 to give them the same after-tax income, since a large portion of the wages would go towards income tax and social security. So, if the worker makes the same take-home pay through tipping rather than wages, the company and the customer both pay less! The real cost is borne by the taxpayer, who has to pay higher taxes elsewhere to make up for the loss.
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The capacitors in TVs and monitors are easy to fix. Just look for bulging caps, desolder those, then order replacements and solder the new ones back on. I’ve fixed a couple with no real knowledge other than basic soldering skills and some googling. I’ve also fixed a dryer by soldering two contacts together. It’s amazing what a little soldering know-how can accomplish.
No need to use such a bloated tool as "touch" to create a site. Your shell can do it:

> index.html

And there's ofcourse:

<<eof > index.html
<html>
<p>hello, world! from
$(whoami)</p>
</html>
eof

See also: m4.
Your first paragraph is just flat wrong. I know quite a bit about the Fed, and I'd like you to cite your source on both the "public-private hybrid" part and the "purely symbolic" part. Neither are true, unless you consider 6% of trillions and trillions (after expenses) "purely symbolic". I have no idea where you get the hybrid part. No government owns shares of the fed.

Also, for your information, the GAO audits are anything but accountability. After finally getting the GAO audit part passed in 78 there were so many limitations on thier audits as to make them so piecemeal they are more of a rubber stamp than anything. (Not to mention a few times when it got out the Fed destroyed source documents)

Don't call something a common misconception when you don't have a more solid understanding of the subject please. The common misconception is that they are federal, not the other way around.
The problem with the concept of psychiatric diagnoses having advantages is that they generally are defined by their disadvantages. So if having ADHD has advantages, it must be directly caused by the disadvantages, because you can't have ADHD without the latter.

Saying that "ADHD is good because it makes you restless which makes you more adaptable to change" is therefore questionable. You could be restless and adaptable to change without having enough issues that it would warrant an ADHD diagnosis.

A correct argument would have to include the properties separating people with ADHD with those with similar traits, but aren't hampered in their daily function because of it: It could for example go like: "Having ADHD is good, because if you are too unfocused to keep a job, you get a lot of free time".
But a rectangle as traditionally defined can have equal dimensions. Consider the rectangle whose width slowly grows to be longer than the height. Surely it does not skip a value because it happens to equal the height?
To the victims the political colour of one murderous child rapist probably doesn’t matter that much.

A more neutral viewpoint could see the whole war as a series of gross violations and crimes.
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We'll get this fixed right away -- thanks for letting us know. (should be fixed)

"So this is basically Slack but public URLs and not everyone can comment, right?" -- that's a good way of describing what our website is right now. We are mobile first -- in our app you can subscribe and follow these channels all in one place. We just whipped up a web landing page for each of the channels to give you guys a preview. We hope to have a fully functioning web client soon.
The biggest challenge with my ADHD symptoms has to be relationships and giving sustained attention to my partners in a way that makes them feel valued.
> That was not a peaceful transition.

Indeed, it was the only election since I've been alive that the losing side rioted in the streets calling for the overturning of the election results.

> He called on gun owners to shoot and kill his political opponents who he has also been trying to jail for the past many years.

Fake news much?
I bet it'll be sooner than you think, probably part of the robot revolution that's being constructed in Italy and Japan and so on.
A lot has changed. Now a team of security experts hired by governments or large organizations write their viruses to look like they originated from someone else when the victims disassemble them and look for clues.
I assumed the person I was responding to was referring to building race tracks where the noise could affect others.
Please don't use the number of lines as a metric for simplicity, it really doesn't mean anything
Frankly, you are ignorant.
Intentionally causing conflict and lowering the quality of life of your workers just so some diversity quota can be met seems kind of sociopathic to me. I really don't see how intentional conflict would benefit a company.
I expect some people may take issue with "In the current US marketplace", including me, but I don't have enough info at hand to comment, so I won't!

But, I will note, according to https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_minimumwage.htm, the current minimum wage in California is either $10.50 or $11.00 per hour, and so yes, that's pretty terrible.

Note to mention…

>We scraped together only about $9.00 per hr for our eight hours of work, even before accounting for the cost of gas and the time we saved by working as a group.

Note the "we" and the "even before accounting for the cost of gas". I think they meant $9 per hour for the group, which means that's less than $9 per hour per person. Also, that doesn't include the cost of fuel or wear and tear on the car.