skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why that's the case for Niger, but I don't think it's totally unique. Mali undergoes the same sort of shift (though less dramatic) in the 1950's and 60's. 1947 corresponds roughly to the beginning of the independence movement in Niger (though France wouldn't acknowledge this until 1958), and the turbulence shown around 1970 (where child mortality briefly increases again) was likely caused by the Sahelian drought.

I would (cautiously) speculate that when an oppressive force (either political or natural) is abruptly removed from a population, that population will tend to experience increased birthrate and decreased child mortality simultaneously. Extreme poverty is such a hardship that it can lower the birth rate (in addition to its obviously adverse effect on child mortality). When the force is removed (e.g. by a regime change, or a period of economic growth), child mortality decreases due to better health and better food security. Simultaneously, people have access to a luxury that they may not have before: the opportunity to start families. So the birth rate can rise as well. It takes another generation before the positive effects (better health, stable food supply, etc.) to translate into better education, higher economic mobility, and ultimately lower birth rate. So perhaps independence from a colonial power that often used military force against the civilian population is the cause of this simultaneous increase in child survival and birth rate, which we see in several of the poorest African nations shortly after their independence.

As for the charts, they're among my favorite data visualizations. They were invented by Professor Hans Rosling, who you may know from this very animated TED talk [0]. Rosling passed away last year, but his book Factfulness was just released (co-authored with his children). It's all about the preconceptions and biases that people in the "developed world" carry with them that prevent them from thinking rationally about poverty and global development. The book is well worth your time.

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...
Are those the only two options? How about a haystack full of maybe-needles, where each answer is subtly wrong because no one has the willingness to go through and vet all of them?
So far I have only spent Bitcoin via the Lightning network. I bought vouchers at https://bitrefill.com.
I also know of a web store that integrated the https://bitpay.com/ API.
https://www.cryptowisser.com/merchants/ also has some links.
I mostly agree with that, but I would change it to “a good tertiary education has the potential to teach people to think critically.

If you look at the bottom half (or more) of the students at most good schools, and maybe the bottom 80% or so of the students at most not-so-good schools, you will find that the desire to learn does not extend much beyond “what do I need to do to get $GRADE?” Often the desired grade is merely a passing grade. If the answer is some variation of “learn to think critically”, expect extremely poor evaluations at the end of the term and low enrollment in future semesters.

The problem as I see it is that many people do not learn the value of critical thinking skills until later in life — typically after they have actually had to use them (and noticed that they were lacking) in critical life situations. In my experience, this is why vets (as one simple example) tend to outperform non-vets with similar entrance stats (e.g., grades, SATs, etc.) at highly competitive schools.

I would prefer to see our society have a reasonable means for people to engage in proper tertiary (and actually secondary) education on a continuing basis rather than just before he age of 22.
> It is utterly insane to accuse him of running this page in an "obvious bid to confuse people" [...]

And what about this?
https://stripe.ian.sh/firefox.png
Minorities part is nonsense in my opinion; apart from that I can see both sides of the problem.

It is definitely an issue the way community treats new users. My guess is that when going through review queues, one gets into that mode.

On the other hand, it would kill the website if it was drowned with low quality duplicate questions and vague questions with no details - which are asked and closed constantly. (Just look at what superuser has become)
I will reconsider the UK as a place to live and work if / when it goes through as I have both British and European nationality.

I believe that it is already having a negative impact on the industry as there has been a definite slow down in projects going to UK industry after the vote.
Weekend Hack: Use Intercom via SMS
Highly recommend this DEFCON talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
You mean something like southern Europe 40 years ago.

Wasn't that ideal, for what concerned family and societal tensions.
“How to Become a Hacker” by Eric S. Raymond
Not only UX, but there seem to be some subtle timing (in non-crypto/non-security meaning) issues.

I ran Synapse on a resource-limited machine, so it had sort of "lagged behind" (or something like that) a little bit now and then. And I saw a number of "error decrypting image" and similar issues. It had self-resolved somehow after a while (saw the message decrypted the next day) but that's still a problem.

Haven't reported this because I have no idea how to collect any useful information.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Released
“intelligent and sociable people who can get things done”
Imagine the title

Unattractive trade jobs sit empty

Not very clickbaity
Same setup as the other reply. Gunicorn and flask in docker. Works perfectly and is speedy.
Can someone versed in ML explain how generating an "algorithmically written crime report" from other features that the network will already be incorporating adds to the predictive performance of the network?
Is a Fitbit a Diary? Self-Tracking and Autobiography
Why are you even discussing tort law? Feelings are not damage. Has your emotional psyche has been permanently affected leading to challenges in how you function and cope in life? Feeling sad or frustrated or annoyed because your question was downvoted is not emotional distress. And what does this have to do with Stackoverflow? What's the duty of a commenter? How do you know the intent? Who's getting traumatized by that site specifically?

You're reaching here and if you are more affected than average by comments from other people (on SO or life in general) then perhaps you should work on that instead of claiming emotional suffering.
Expected the top post to be filled with words like ageism, 3rd world, quality of software, cheap labor and rage but all i saw is Optimism, Reality and Stoicism expressed very poetically.
>"Actually, the environment is what gets cleaned up as people are lifted out of poverty (which globalism accomplishes better than anything else). See reforestation of Europe, the post-industrial USA, and now even China tackling a severe pollution problem. People need the ability to provide food before they worry about the rest."

What I was asking is what was the price that the planet payed to bring China to the place it is now? (What has NAFTA done to the earth?) Was it worth it? Next is India ETC. This planet cannot bear globalism for another 20 years. It's rate is increasing, and the pollution output of up and coming countries will drive us over the edge. Why are environmentalists often also globalists? That is simply illogical.

>"If you haven't noticed, goods from there and many other developing countries are no longer "cheap crap", it also means that US consumer dollars go much farther. US citizens get more for less, and can allocate more resources away from spending on necessities (or deal with the rising healthcare benefit costs often depressing their wage growth -- though thats another problem)"

No, most of it is Cheap crap that we hang on our walls of disposable toys we give to our kids. Materialism is rampant in America. Look at the landfills, Look at Thrift stores, Look at peoples garages and attics. People have 5x the amount of clothes, and stuff that they will ever use or need. This is what I am referring to.

>"Nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years"

What does that even mean? Farmers who lived happily off of the land, and had little use for much currency were in poverty. Now they live in a pollution filled death trap and work with no sunlight in a soul-crushing factory job. Is that an improvement in the quality of their lives? Poverty is a very misleading term that is too often used politically.

You aren't answering the moral dilemma except to say that it takes time and that it could be worse. Well that isn't good enough for me. Our behavior is enabling people to be jailed or killed if they want to do things that anyone can do in a Free country. You are downplaying, or not addressing the rest of my concerns. I am not at all convinced that globalism has been a positive thing in the world. All the pollution, all the exploitation, empowering countries that wish to do us harm economically and politically if it benefits them (these are not our friends). Destroying the planet? How can one justify this?
There is a time that arrives for many companies where they stop being from cool, fast, creative, whimsical to... well, just collection of business suits. So first consider the fact that this is written by Jay Hanlon, EVP of Culture and Experience. When you see titles like this for individuals working in full time position at about the highest level of executive staff, you know what I was talking about. To confirm my fear, I looked up if this EVP guy actually has account on Stackoverflow. All I can find is jhanlon with no real profile, no contributions and no real activity. So we indeed have a suit who has no first hand experience with the product, it’s culture or experience. In typical fashion of suits, this guy also stays on the safe side of “be kind” without ever diving in to details, pro and cons, data or real remedies.

If Joel is still running this thing he needs to wake up.
Although this method is pretty, I see 4 loops in this small line. a better way would be to only import the range method from lodash like so :

import _range from "lodash/range";
Model, document and share
I think you mean "expand". "expend" is more or less the opposite of that.
Silicon is the new oil! No, it is by a big extend more important.

Nothing today can throw any country back to a stone age than loss of access to microelectronics:

1. Loss of powerplants and the grid infrastructure - possible to rebuild, and immediate impact is not catastrophic

2. Loss of food supply stocks - unless, you are blockaded, you can just buy abroad

3. Loss of fertilizer stocks - just as survivable as loss of food supply.

4. Loss of hydrocarbon supply - an even more laughable national emergency.

5. Heavy industry - just rebuild, you can wholly rebuild it with pre-industrial tech level.

6. Loss of microelectronics - you fc*ked - to make microchips, you need more microchips, and to build those microchips, you need a ton of other microchips. You achieve nothing if you manage to replicate the technology of the era of first ICs.
Loot boxes which have actually different values should be illegal, but the loot boxes in overwatch don't. They don't change the gameplay of the game at all, having a legendary skin just makes you look cooler and doesn't change your abilities or damage. It also isn't possible to sell/trade the skins, so they don't have any inherent value.

That being said, what about card packs in games like hearthstone? The cards can't be traded or sold, but they do change the gameplay and some cards are inherently stronger than others so gambling and getting "lucky" can give players an advantage. This is definitely closer to gambling than loot boxes in overwatch.

Opening 20 loot boxes in overwatch and getting no legendary skins feels bad but isn't frustrating, you don't need the skins. But opening 20 card packs for a new hearthstone expansion and getting none of the strong legendary cards feels super frustrating, you're at a disadvantage to players that did open those cards.
It's very difficult to be optimised for people Googling in their hour of desperation, while also being a community between the rest of the time. I have to admit that I'm somewhat hypocritical, in that I get angry when I see Wikipedia-style policing of content, but I also appreciate when I land on a well-edited, general-case answer to a problem that I'm having.

I don't think I've generally ever been disappointed with the Google-optimised workflow, but I've never cared much about scoring points on the site itself, and I only very rarely have to ask a question.
> I'd say EV worked perfectly.

Ian run a legit site, not phishing, so what's perfect in revoking his EV cert and not giving back cash?
A green security badget is easier to sell then SSL/TLS/encryption .
I have been learning a lot about OOP while studying CLOS, so I am not surprised. Will look into scoping in CL too. Thanks!
Even Windows revenue is up in Microsoft’s $26.8B 3Q18
Coincidentally,I had my PhD defense yesterday. This trend is the primary motivation for my work.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/phd

The research project is http://invasic.de
YES!! Thank you!

This made it click with me, finally. I can't yet put it into words nicely, but I do have an intuition for the concept now.
How to use project management software to boost productivity
While I disagree with a lot of the specifics of what tajen said, I can definitely say that I have a lot of female friends and acquaintances who conflate “men they can casually date due to dating apps” with “men they have a chance of marrying”.

They always wonder why they seem to get ghosted or why their dream guy ends up “cheating” on them. It’s not really a mystery from my point of view.
The source code of AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer) written by Margaret Hamilton and her team. Clean and obviously it worked well. Comments are also interesting to read. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
You don’t think he’s involved in this process? You don’t think many of the employees are? Who do you think hired the EVP of culture. Joel is currently writing about this same issue.

There’s a problem. Data backs this up.
Random idea: replace the terminology of "duplicate" questions with "similar" questions. Add a mechanism where, if an answer could apply to two very similar questions, show the answer in both places. Rather than closing a question as a "duplicate", add UI to group "similar" questions, eg, rather than filtering out "duplicate" questions from search results, instead show "similar" questions as groups, with the "best" questions and answers shown first in that group.

The "best" way of asking a question may well not be as it was written the "first" time.

Or phrasing another way, remove the "older is better" bias.

Another example: currently, a new user, unfamiliar with the site, comes along, asks a basic question that has been asked a hundred times, and they ignore the "related questions" prompts. The community reacts by down-voting and closing their question, pointing to a better question. How about instead of "related questions", the question was immediately responded to with "related answers" instead? Rather than being snubbed for asking a simple question, new users would be encouraged by getting a quick response. As the questions would be grouped and the answers shared, low quality questions just wouldn't get much upvote attention, and could likely would get filtered out of searches and lists of "hot" questions, as they wouldn't be the best in a similar group of questions.
I pretty much agree with the sentiment, but it seems to me that what you're condoning (i.e. showing what was done wrong and then the culprit will try again and improve) is problematic for many newbies. Think of the many students in math class who fear the idea of being told they're wrong more than the actual problem. I enjoy building a work environment where I can be expected to be corrected and I can safely correct people, but that is not a given in a public forum. I think the answer is to enable newbies to partake in a try-fail-try cycle but in a much more forgiving/inviting environment. The difficulty is in improving/designing that without sacrificing the overall quality of the forum.
For this use case it seems the export feature that allows you to take a snapshot of the database at any given time might fit the needs. We will definitely consider this feature for the general availability release.
So am I the only one left without compositing WM?
That’s possible, but intel’s 7nm is likely to be better than TSMC’s 5nm regardless
Well that certainly makes me feel a lot better about cheaping out on non-EV certs. Thanks for sharing.
Internet Explorer 6 has over 30 times more marketshare (0.31% vs 0.01%.

So unless you support IE6 users on your website too I don't think there is a particular reason to support an even smaller, less significant userbase.

(If your SSL/TLS settings on your website are even remotely modern and you use SNI, which everyone in the internet does, IE6 won't even bother opening the webpage at all)
But the goal of SO is not for you two to have a chat - it's to produce quality questions and answers for future visitors. When SO's moderation team does its job well, you only see them "harassing" you. When they don't, you google your question and get vague, poorly-worded questions answered by incorrect one-liners. SO's moderation is an effort to balance three parties with conflicting interests:

- the people asking questions just want a solution for their specific problem, which may or may not be useful to SO. This can include homework problems, RTFM problems, vague and unclear questions, etc.

- the people answering questions want interesting questions that stimulate them to keep using the site. SO really needs those people to feel happy answering questions, otherwise no one will visit the site! You need experts providing quality answers, who can find something interesting.

- the people visiting the site after-the-fact. Those people are (usually) just googling a problem they have, but aren't willing to commit to a question. They need both the questioners and the answerers to have done their jobs, otherwise either the questions are too poor a quality to be sure it's the same problem, or the answers are too poor quality to be of use to them.

To all those groups, effective SO moderation looks antagonistic, because they wouldn't go to the site if it had awful moderation - it would just be "that useless place where no one answers your questions and you keep getting the same question over and over".
People are not claiming they are being treated worse than less marginalised people. They’re claiming they themselves do not feel welcome. It’s definitely all about perception, but that doesn’t mean it’s invalid.
What I'd really like to hear about is Feynman's thought process for arriving at this...
That mindset seems mostly in the bay area, so they can cult the young into their world changing mission while building their next Snapchat.

Senior engineerings/developers accumulate experiences that goes beyond just implementing a feature, they can make better decisions, work better with people, manage stress better, more consistent in their work etc. And those who want to stay technology make the transitions to emerging tech relatively easy.

But if the person is lazy, don't invest in their career growth, then yeah, just like any other job, they'll soon find themselves stagnating.
Let me present you other side of the story. I have been user of SO and significant level contributor for as long as it’s been there. Virtually every day there is onslaught of people asking questions that are trivially answerable by simple search or not well formed or not even legibly written. Everyday lot of people end up spending their time in answering these rathar than focusing on questions that are far more worth their time. You may say, well, leave it up to folks to what they want to answer. The problem is that it doesn’t work that way. Spammy question often ends up overwhelming limited screen space and good questions gets buried like a needle in the haystack. Even worse, lot of people go after trivial stuff just to get more points. Even more worse people who ask bad questions get encouraged to keep doing same things. You can see where this is going.

In nutshell, current system is not ideal but it has been put in place after lots of thoughts. No one is going to disagree with being more respectful and kind however the solution to this problem is much more of a technical challenge.
Visiting Chernobyl 32 Years After the Disaster
SQLAlchemy can run on PyPy, but you have to use pg8000 (pure Python) or psycopg2cffi (cffi port) instead of psycopg2 for pg.
Hands on for MNIST(recognize your handwritten, understand conv layer with image)
> how would you like it if the only way you can get treated with respect is to allow others to assume you are something you are not?

Fair enough if you call people out when they know something about the person they're interacting with. But you're suggesting people are prejudiced because they thought the wrong thing.
No, it isn't. Gender neutral / non-binary people exist, and "he" is not the correct term.
And on that note I'll be cancelling my dating site subscriptions immediately.
I expect you get convicted for not turning over the keys I assume, unless its clear that some other service provided made that technical choice for you in which case hopefully they get convicted.
Verify that a request is from Google crawlers using Google's DNS verification
The Fed doesn’t calculate CPI, but CPI ‘adjustments’ are indeed fundamentally cherry picked to lower the rate. There are a bunch of crazy mechanics like “hedonistic substitution”, min() functions, and adjustments that by definition can only adjust the rate down and not up (eg ‘quality increase’ in basket of goods = adjust CPI down by the ‘quality increase factor’, but quality decrease does not adjust CPI upwards).

People use the million prices project to argue CPI is correct, but misses the point that the project uses a regresssion model to automatically multiply their index by an adjustment factor to match CPI - and that adjustment factor has only gotten smaller and smaller (ie their index reports higher inflation growth than CPI) as time went on.
Review of Bryan Caplan’s the Case Against Education
My experience is pretty much the same as yours, and I largely agree with everything you've said.

One thing I'll add is that one of the reasons why branding is hard is because there is often a surprisingly large disconnect between how users perceive a brand/product, and how the creators perceive it.

My favourite approach to coming up with a brand structure is to go through archetypes with both the client and a subset of users. Archetypes are a great way to get the initial planning of brand perception down, but a lot of designers will do it purely with the client. Nearly every time I've had the fortune to work at an agency that does it for both sides, the perception of the brand has been very different.

I think the agency have done a good job, but I do wonder whether they took the time to see how users perceive the Go language. Based on the comments on here, my guess is that they didn't.

https://smashingideas.com/behavioral-archetypes/
Works both ways, they are inventing some insane light sources to use for EUV Litho - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTARacBxHI