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> Python libraries let me replicate everything I wanted to do with Mathematica: Matplotlib for graphics, SymPy for symbolic math, NumPy and SciPy for numerical calculations

Are the Python libraries precise enough for professional mathematicians? And do they deal with mathematical 'edge cases', a variety of inputs (formats, notations, etc.), etc.?

On one hand, I could say 'the author uses them therefore they must be sufficiant'. On the other, I've seen plenty of cases where the professionals were not careful about the tools they use (e.g, spreadsheets running critical, large-scale financial operations).
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No, it's never a good strategy when the person paying the bill isn't even close to the same generation of the person receiving the benefit. That's a recipe for disaster, for every party involved.
There is another key point to fixing the absurd top N% of pensions that are receiving large payouts: maybe it won't save the budget, however those funds can go toward paying for more pensions (eg in the bottom 50%) with the same capital outlay. The $100,000 you shave off a spiked pension at the top, might pay for four lower level pensions. In these types of scenarios, 5% and 10% optimizations are a big deal over the long-haul.
You saying 4 years is not enough for a senior position?
> So maybe ~13K per tax paying person in outstanding pension obligations alone?

Then that would be an obligation of about $300 per tax paying worker per year over their working lifetime. The average yearly salary in Oregon is $50,000. The article makes it out through anecdote that this is why they didn't have gas to send trucks out for a road repair.

In the last 20 years Oregon has had near 1% per year population growth as well.

The article is focused on outlier pensions for a collegiate athletic director paid partly out of sports merchandising and a medical school head who was an eye surgeon.
"Thankfully, those who are yet to be born will be many more numerous"

The 3rd world will be more numerous, the current citizens of the first world will not. We're already seeing societal strains rising from the introduction of 3rd world peoples intended to make up for the missing offspring of existing 1st world peoples so I highly doubt things will work out as easily (and peacefully) as you assume they will.
And yes, that's the deeper argument :)
The second amendment?
I guess it depends on your definition progress. As far as being the last holdout, they did do something to "deserve" the power... They held out. And sometimes that backfires (see the Up house) you shouldn't be made to give up your property, because someone else wants to use it to make money.

I think there are times when eminent domain should be used, but building a stadium, or a mall, is not one of them.
Based off Eclipse should be considered a disadvantage.
IMHO Eclipse on par with Electron in terms of being a CPU and Memory hog.

But last time I used Eclipse it was about five years ago, so things may have changed.
If/when you do, consider using the ISC license. It is a simple and highly permissive license.

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/isc/
Waymo applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
So Upguard found a vulnerability in AggregateIQ's systems and downloaded a ton of data and are posting a series of blog posts with analysis of the data to determine AggregateIQ's practices?

Are they not worried about getting hit with the CFAA for unauthorized access to a computer system?
http://archive.is/HjvCF
Why? Debt is paid back over time. New debit is also acquired so the balance is never zero. But are you saying you expect T-bills to be in default? That’s a rather big statement.
Pension spiking should be prohibited and all existing instances of same should be rolled back.
Sadly that’s not how money actually works at the macro level. The fed magics the money into existence in return for a promise for the treasury to repay with taxpayer money 10 tears down the line.
Family and friend networks.
Yeah, in the case of pensions I agree having disproportionately high pension comp vs. current comp makes no sense -- particularly bad when a city declines in size.

There are plenty of non-pension cases where debt is an effective tool, i.e. borrowing to make efficiency/productivity improvements which exceed the cost of servicing and repaying the debt. Imbalanced pensions are more like borrowing to pay for operational expenses.
Create a new Facebook and just add the people you've talked to recently and get message notifications from your old account sent to your e-mail. It's like getting a new phone number and only informing recent contacts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835347
If the U.S. is responsible for Venezuela's present condition, then Venezuela never had a hope. "During the 1970s, Venezuela was the richest country in Latin America. With the region’s highest growth rates and the lowest levels of inequality, it was also one of the most stable democracies in the Americas" [1]. (Unfortunately, the economy failed to diversify away from oil before "the collapse of the 1980s and 1990s when global oil prices dropped.")

Not only was Venezueala wealthy before Chavez, it ran proper elections. Its balanced, stable democracy reflected its population's will.

The unfortunate truth is aloof upper/middle classes ignored Venezuela's poor. The latter got pissed off and, on their own volition, voted in a demagogue who then tore apart the country. Many problems in Latin America find origin in American meddling. Venezuela, today, is not one of them.

[1] http://americasquarterly.org/content/venezuela-chávez-anatom...
There's such a double standard, but no one is ever called to back up a claim like "small government is better for the economy" which I believe is just empirically false. You can plainly see states/countries that spend more on pensions and social safety nets have wildly better outcomes for their citizens. Yet don't see conservative making any reasonable arguments just well wore platitudes about "fiscal responsibly," but they never are forced to elaborate on what they mean by that or flagged or down-voted because this is a highly conservative that serves to reinforce the beliefs as opposed to challenge them.
I wonder how many points you lose from your social credit score for being gay?
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>It is a better system from a larger society perspective (nothing is "loaned") but may result in few actually being able to afford retirement.

We'll see how this plays out with baby boomers retiring to give some indication as to what the younger generations may be up against.
If you or anyone can suggest an accurate, neutral title that is 80 chars or less and preferably uses representative language from the article, we'll happily change it again.
1. Physical self-defense.

Don't leave an open avenue for bullying to set in.

Also, don't let your kid become a bully. Be sure the knowledge and skill come with that counter-point.

Bonus: Physical fitness. Mind and body are one. Oh, and regarding the mind, make sure the training doesn't involve head blows nor untrained, unguarded falls.
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> The tie-breaker is social, not technical.

The tie-breaker is financial. Jupyter is winning because it's free, not because it's social. It becomes social because of widespread adoption, and it get's widespread adoption because it's free.

I love Jupyter, love love love. But there's a lot of hyperbole and opinion here. Mathematica is just a for-profit business, it's that simple. And it wouldn't be fair to deny the example that Mathematica, Maple & Matlab have set for free solutions like Jupyter.

There's nothing dishonest about a for-profit business. And if Mathematica wants to keep PDF export for themselves, so be it, that's their right. What's dishonest is expecting technical software and service for free and calling people names like vandals if you don't get it. Just celebrate Jupyter and enjoy that people are doing great work you get to use without paying. I don't love Mathematica or it's founder, but there's no real need to impugn Mathematica in order to make this point.
I generally enjoy reading but I had a lot of trouble with reading books in high school and it has pretty much killed my ability to read separately for about 5 years or so.

The problem, as I recall it, was twofold:

- I had no context, and no reason, to care about a particular work. It would be from some time period I know nothing about, regarding a subject I have no stake in;

- my opinion on the work was irrelevant, and the important opinion was that of literary critics. There was generally a fairly specific interpretation of the work and what it was saying, and one had to figure out what that interpretation was and arrive at it. Is it that surprising that everyone went for Sparknotes?

So it all felt rather disconnected.

In contrast, in college, I took a military simulation and gaming class. This was a programming class. But our initial assignment was to... read a few books on WW1 (i.e., Guns of August). There were lots of other materials, as well. We were engrossed in the WW1 period, which made all the reading we were doing much more relevant and interesting.

I generally found that background information, or some sort of hook (I.e., why I would care about it) is very important to my enjoyment of the book. And, over time, this also develops a sort of respect for books (and other forms of text, such as, hehe, video game lore), where even reading material from an unknown time period can be interesting.

But I am not sure why this would all be present for a high school student who's probably not getting enough sleep and has no idea who Emily Bronte is.
Easier to get dusty, but easier to clean up as well. I guess if you intend to leave it as a piece of art or display it is a decent trade-off.
This is great! I'm not sure if I'm missing it somewhere, but it would be nice to be able to see the resulting HTML without having to view the page source.
Funny, the bottom of the article recommends this[1], a more recent article saying the opposite. (I don't bring this up to discredit your post, I just find it funny. Your article actually says, "Various studies, using different methods and different sets of data, have reached widely varying conclusions.")

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/04/11/...
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011...
A dollar can only change hands so many times before it's worthless unless it's going towards actual value-adding goods/services. Considering how deprived the general population is for funds to spend on value-added goods, I don't think taking $6,250 from every person in the state just to support a tiny, tiny fraction of the population is doing much good.

That and a large portion of pensioners flee to states without an income tax or at least states with a better climate and lower cost of living. The statistics of state employees leaving my home state for such states alone are shocking.
Texting and chat applications being instant is a downside sometimes, in that people have questions that they want an answer to, but won’t send an email because of the reasons you listed. Instead they send you an instant message, and the expectation is generally an instant response.

I’m trying really hard to get people to use email again for questions that they need answered but not immediately. But I seem to be losing that battle.
I think a cap on private sector workers income would save more money, there are many more of them and many of them have unimportant jobs. If the government just capped their incomes at 100K a month we could pay off all national debt in months.
Art was the best thing to come out AM stations going talkie. And some of the stories, like the bottomless hole in central Washington, were hella fun.
> Scribbled into Kubrick’s copy of a book by Kafka, Mr. Abrams finds his marginal note: “The tower of Babel was the start of the space age.”

Probably "The Great Wall and the Tower of Babel"[0], right?

0) http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/wallandbabel...
That's interesting. But you still have to file a US tax return, right?
Things were bad, but I had some hope for the future. Then physical changes (health) took away that hope.

I went from stress and anxiety to existential crisis.

Maybe this is too simple.

Maybe it's precisely this simple.
Ummm no, private sector should be able to pay whatever they want. The only reason I am suggesting a cap is because these pensions are taxpayer funded. Socialist Hacker News strikes again.
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I've completely lost faith in our judicial system.

Judges do whatever they want, and even when things are blatantly corrupt nobody seems to care. Laws are twisted to suit their purposes and a Judges decision can't be questioned.
Eminent domain abuse is much more than just multinationals. Far more people have lost their homes to politically desirable highways and reservoirs than to Evil Foreign Actors. Most of the time, even, it seems like a good trade in hindsight.

I don't know anything about this particular situation. But personally, as long as there's a reasonably justified need (a new factory seems like it would qualify) and the evicted are appropriately compensated ("fair" can be hard to quantify, of course), I don't see that this is something we need to be outraged about.
False. Government employees are paid poorly. (edit: and that's bad for the country: govt does a lot of important things - FDA, science support, health stuff - and good people are essential.)

First, any senior skilled tech employee takes a big pay cut to work in government. Programmers, doctors, scientists, engineers.

Second, the bulk of the federal workforce has been squeezed down on pay over the past 15 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/01/05/...

federal unions and their Democratic supporters point to data released by the Federal Salary Council. In 2016, the council, using Labor Department surveys, determined that federal employees are paid 34 percent less on average than private-sector counterparts — a finding in line with previous annual reports.

Note that Republicans argue with the above quote, of course -- we know that Republicans argue in bad faith (aka they lie) on any issue relating to their main goal - tax cuts for the rich. See (amongst many stories)

http://theweek.com/articles/766632/liar-paul-ryan

Paul Ryan cruised to national prominence on the realization that there was no longer any immediate penalty for a Republican lying constantly, about everything. (Donald Trump would later take advantage of this fact.)
A design tool better be impeccably designed, and Figma is just that
Honestly that is a reason to not use proguard. That is how bad SFs reputation is.
nobody who cares
Here are the top government earners in SF county:

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2017/san-francisc...

I don't immediately see examples of 'pensions in lieu of salary', but those are some pretty substantial total packages, with benefits alone reaching ~$60k+/yr for many public officials.
I think you should clarify what liquidity means in your anecdote, because liquidity is a function of time and volume. Definitionally speaking, shares in a private company are not as liquid as shares in a public company. So what does "completely liquid" mean? Could every owner of private shares find a buyer if they wanted to? If not, what subset could?

That these figures are not public is a very important discussion point, because it does introduce some level of anecdata and arbitrary speculation into the discussion. That's not to say you're wrong, but it's certainly imprecise and questionable.
Money too!
Only year-of-move (and year-of-return, but I an uncertain if the US will exist in 2036.) If you have no US liability, because all of your income is PR-source, no need to file US returns in the intervening years. It's possible I'll have some US source income, though, but obviously the goal is to minimize that in favor of PR source income. There are a bunch of complex sourcing rules.

This is different than the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), where you get a $100500 (indexed) deduction, but have to file to claim it.
Compensation is a vector. Government employees are much more difficult to terminate than their counterparts in the private sector. That is, government employees are compensated in part in strong job security.
Loved the essay! Thank you for sharing!
The greatest argument against socialism is the condition of countries (Venezuela, Cuba, USSR, China before capitalism, North Korea, etc.) that try to adopt it in some form. Socialists will forever argue that some implementation was flawed. But I see many varied implementations of capitalism and each is functional.
Yes, professionals take big pay cuts to work for the federal government. The exact opposite is true for less skilled employees (the ones most likely to be lifers who draw a pension).
I think the fact that they're phenomenal is pretty clear, but I think a more important question is how reliable the returns are. They might be reliable, but that doesn't seem obvious to me from the comments in this thread, and it's still not clear to me that YC is capable of catapulting an arbitrary company in their set to wild success ("kingmaking") or that they're capable of repeating those successes over the long term.
I'm almost afraid to ask:

What's the FLOSS analog to Turbotax?

Just to be clear-- I'm talking about a wizard that asks laypeople a clear set of curated questions and ends up with a set of tax forms that are very likely filled in with the correct answers.
Has anyone said they aren't making fair market value offers to property owners?
Qualcomm only releases source code because the GPL requires them to. If it wasn’t for that, there would be absolutely nothing.
An aquihire is not always a positive exit. More generally, not all liquidity events are positive outcomes for all parties involved, including investors. Many exits are agreed to by all parties to cut their losses and recoup some amount of the original investment.
I've been using Mathematica since 1995 and Jupyter/colab for 5+ years. Most recently I've been using them both in parallel. While Jupyter is probably the future in terms of mass adoption, there are still some areas where Jupyter is lagging.

1. Mathematica has an easy way of sharing notebook. I just run "deploy" command which turns notebook into publicly accessible webpage, hosted by wolfram, here's an example -- https://www.wolframcloud.com/objects/user-eac9ee2d-7714-42da...

2. Mathematica has more active community. Mathematica-specific questions are likely to be answered within an hour by experts on https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/

3. Mathematica has better tools for simple interactivity. I like to throw in "Manipulate" for a simple graph with a draggable constant, or go to http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/index.php for an idea for more complicated demonstration to use in a presentation

4. Mathematica has more options for advanced visualization, and interfaces are more uniform since graph drawing, 3D drawing, and other kinds of visualizations are developed within a single system. Some examples https://www.wolfram.com/language/11/new-visualization-domain...
> A government committe doesn’t have to compete with anybody

In theory, a failing government is replaced by a different government. In practice, whether voters successfully identify problems and pick a better winner is an open question.
in particular I'm curious if sympy is really as good as Mathematica. I haven't used Mathematica since doing physics hw as an undergrad but it's symbolic manipulation was amazing most of the time
Isn't reading the kind of thing that should be taught by parents before the kid even goes to school?

I have no idea how kids manage to learn how to read at all in schools, American or otherwise. Reading is... difficult. The school environment does not promote the study of difficult things well. If you haven't been prepared, you'll have trouble.

Sometimes I'm not sure what we're measuring, education quality or just how good someone's parents are. Pretty much everything I knew that helped me at school/college did not come from school/college.
And would also improve the chances that somebody looking at the sql in 5 or 10 years would quickly understand it as well.
I'm not sure it was 'populism' that Chavez brought so much as revolutionary socialism

>... Cuba, where he met Castro and became friends with him.[144] During his stay in Colombia, he spent six months receiving guerilla training and establishing contacts with the FARC and ELN terrorist groups, and even adopted a nom de guerre, Comandante Centeno

He may have sold it as populism, but once in power switched to dismantling democracy. It seems tricky to get rid of that stuff - the system in Cuba has been stable for years if not so good for the residents.
"Famouse Faces" at https://www.testmybrain.org and http://facememory.psy.uwa.edu.au/ are both good.
Provide an argument about why government workers are worth less then private workers? Defense is taxpayer funded should we cap pensions at Boeing? They make much more then government workers too, why aren't you suggesting that? I think it's just simple realism, not ideologically driven.
Who is flagging these articles?
Yeah, this resonated with me too. I can recognize faces, but I'm terrible with remembering names, or even remembering whether I ever knew a name. I can know someone casually for months and have their name just disappear from my memory, or I can see someone I know I recognize, but have no memory of whether or not I've actually been introduced to them and learned their name. Those are the worst—not knowing whether I've just seen someone before, or if I actually should know their name, so not knowing whether to introduce myself.

I find that if I learn a little bit about someone when I meet them it can help a bit, as it anchors the name to something in my memory. Otherwise, just being honest feels best: "Hey, I recognize you, but I'm terrible with names... what's your name again?" Works alright whether I've been introduced to them in the past or not.
We could split hairs all day, but a more detailed mathematical model like relativity is still just a model. We don't know with certainty why it works, what the underlying mechanism is. I would rather say it's unacceptable to tell people what questions they can't ask than to criticize a particular model.
No, that's not right. Less skilled employees often get paid peanuts, and so it's hard for govt to retain people. Title 5 (GS) employees have gotten squeezed over past 15 years, so much so that agencies have tried to push people up the pay scale. But that is at best an incomplete solution; it distorts the GS levels and it cannot completely compensate for low pay.

If you said that there are problems with federal recruitment, retention, and removal of poor employees, that would be a largely true statement. But a large number of fed employees are underpaid.
private sector is not paid from public tax dollars.
Exactly. It may take a ton of time to properly review code in certain complex cases, which would be super costly. That kind of specialization seems too much for an average "Code Review as a Service" engagement.

Aside from that, I'm not sure if the employee developers will get annoyed with having a third-party come in and "tell them how to do things" or potentially mistakenly point out non-issues. I see why management may want to do this, but I wonder whether the developers will be pleased having a third-party put on their turf.
Some aspect of it must be innate, or it wouldn't be possible for people to have face blindness.
That and practically every economist agrees that taxes on businesses are pointless. Tax the people working for said business and then you won't have the cost of taxation merely passed on to the consumer. You'd also likely be able to pass par higher tax rates on the highest levels of executives that way.