skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I wonder is, if genetics predicts IQ, and IQ predicts your occupation, then why not dispense with IQ and say that genetics predicts your occupation? Perhaps we are only keeping IQ as an idea because it's traditional, or because we like to form our own beliefs about what predicts IQ and what IQ predicts. Likewise, we stopped believing that certain families had "fate" when we learned about genetics.
> there's currently no working mechanism in play for 15 year olds not to be able to play

ERSB seems like a good mechanism.
So the overhead to begin a video stream is due to the size of video data? Would video behave generally more like audio data (could stream immidiately) if the typical user bandwidth was larger?
I'm wondering what's the position of Amazon Lightsail in all of this ?

Is it exempted?
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If I remember correctly, just setting autoscaling based on CPU usages already works fine and does the right thing with T2 instances as well - if you don't have enough credits to drive your load your CPU is going to be stuck at 100%, irrespective of credit balance or instance size. So the common sense method of scaling up at 70% / 80% CPU capacity should already work fine for any instance, no special knowledge required.
I know you just used it as an example, but personally I thought Candy Crush wasn't that bad of an offender as most modern games.

You could play pretty far into the game without spending a dime (except $0.99 after every 20 levels or so if you didn't want to bug your friends to log in and help get you the ticket to unlock the next section...).

I'm pretty sure I got to like level 128 without using any of their consumable items except in one level where I was forced to as a tutorial, and another level where I used one I was given for free because I had replayed the level too many times and was sick of it.

You do have limited 'lives' per day (and then they try to sell you on getting more to keep playing), but I saw that as a daily challenge of how far I could get before the lives depleted, since as long as I kept beating levels I didn't lose lives, and once it did, I quit for the day.

All in all, I got a lot of enjoyment out of that game and only spent less than $10. And that money spent was easily worth it.

That being said, I have heard that the later levels are absolutely brutal, and are nearly impossible to beat without using the consumables or getting damn lucky with the types and patterns of candy that appeared, so it may get more predatory at that point.
People would be using software with or without free software existing but that's completely beside the point. Free software enables people to do computing. The fact that you can do computing at home with state of the art tools is something you can thank the GNU project for.
I think it's just people have more money to gamble.

Baseball cards became a thing because Americans already had too much money. Other countries that got hit by world wars didn't have baseball cards.

New milenium came and now money is more useless than ever and people have much eadier time to gamble it away.
Tableau is named the leader again by Gartner what's so great about it?
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From rfc 3986:

> The rightmost domain label of a fully qualified domain name in DNS may be followed by a single "." and should be if it is necessary to distinguish between the complete domain name and some local domain.

When there is no ambiguity then they mean the same thing.

Anyway, as a sibling comment said, it's not a good rfc to use for this purpose.
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It's a bit of a gray area, but theoretically the provider has a contractual obligation to your insurer, to charge what your insurer requires. Also, they have to do more work for you than for an uninsured patient. By bringing your insurer into this, you've also made more work for them. You could have made it easier for everyone by simply telling the provider that you are uninsured.
It's the same reason people hate vegans or hippies etc. People hate having their comfortable illusions shattered.
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> Seriously, we really need to ensure together that Node can competently handle concurrent multi-core HMAC on 4GB files, or it's pretty quickly going to fade into irrelevance.

I am getting really tired of the tendency of engineers to do this: take an argument that "technology X should behave like Y", get some pushback/criticism about it, and then extremitize that argument to "if technology X does not support this one specific use case which requires it to behave like Y, technology X is completely useless".

Like, I think I come down towards your side on making sensible heruistics for when to offload CPU-intensive work to other available hardware. I can see a lot of potential drawbacks (implementation-wise and operationally), but it would be a useful capability to have. But falling back to "Node will become irrelevant if you don't do this!" when people don't want to incorporate the library he built into core is both rude and not constructive.
> They say their acceleration method, called bottleneck bandwidth and roundtrip (BBR) propagation time, measures the fastest way to send data across different routes and is able to more efficiently handle traffic when data routes become congested.
If smoke is building up from a few candles you have bigger ventilation issues to worry about and fix than light colour or intensity tweaking. CO2 buildup will certainly affect your quality of life (and sleep).
> there are a lot of arguments why we don't write HTML directly between the PHP which still apply to JSX, even though it's not HTML.

Such as? This is the point in dispute, so you need to actually make specific arguments if you think they apply.
Would that make Paul Gram and YC co-conspirators, given they had intimate access to internals and funded LendEDU (YC W16)?

I'm no lawyer, but making a fraudulent identity for the sake of controlling student lending seems on its face very wrong.
For example, assuming dyslexia has a strong genetic component, and that dyxlexic children have less trouble learning Italian than learning French, you could ensure that they're put in the Italian class and not the French class.
Decided to buy a copy, plus some other cool stuff!
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> That said, Jesus Christ people

Pedestrians aren't going to change, they never have and it's just silly to assume they will. That's why I'm a tedious vehicular cyclist. Road is best, fastest, safest, and least infuriating.

I guess I'd have to be a vehicular scoot. Vrimmm!
I don't support eugenics. The sarcastic idea presented in GP gave me a good chuckle nonetheless.

In similar vein: plan on having the morally handicapped as the admins of the project... that'll not only make it viable, but also will take them out of other projects that need moral leaders.
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Not just Zen. He headed the development of the Athlon, Athlon64, and also Apple's early custom SoC efforts.
> I'm guessing that your username is a reference to Battlestar Galactica. Yes?

No, just kind of a silly joke between me and my wife. Sorry to disappoint!
I think many people (not just FB) have made mistakes on lgbT acceptance, and trans acceptance can be one of the harder areas to get right (many people just don't know what accepted behavior is).

I had no idea about dead-naming etc. I think FB should have done better, but I think their apology did seem genuine.

So I think criticism is valid, but they also deserve some credit. It's not like anyone knew how to run a social network in 2012.
It can determine innate ability which isn't affected by environmental factors. From there we can determine a how much individuals are affected by those factors. For example, Billy and Joey were determined to have the same innate ability. Joey scored 20 points less than Billy on the standardized test. Joey also lives next to a power plant and has lead pipes in his house.
Do you find you sit in stationary far less now the bus lane has been removed?
Your advice should get much much more attention. You got mine, thanks.
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Lets see, my Wordpress install running a well known theme, using Wordfence to alert for plugin updates, with me keeping an eye on it cost about £2,000 to set up and has ongoing costs of about £1,000 a year.

No. Its not cheaper to hire someone to hand-code the site and then hand-code every change.
reacweb may not be a native English speaker (they live in France). I'd assume "sport" translates to "exercise". Like running or biking.

Sport has plenty of (somewhat archaic) meanings. "Sporting goods" stores often carry running shoes, bicycles, and weights, all of which are "sport" even if you're doing it by yourself.
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That's not what the person you are replying to said.
By that definition, everything that has a WYSIWYG editor is an "enterprise CMS"?
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Are you saying CAFO meat is more expensive than grass-fed?
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Ask HN: What has been your most rewarding job or project and why?
Looking for some inspriration and ideas!

What has been your most fulfilling job/project and why?

I've been looking to make a change away from typical enterprise development (full stack web developer) as it's not just about the paycheck any more. Recent events have given me a different perspective. Perhaps looking to join a team of great people doing something worthwhile or start my own consultancy helping people solve problems in a sector I can feel good about. Just not sure what that service looks like yet.

The best bit about being a developer I've found is when working directly with the customer who is in some distress and the look on their face when you solve the problem and make their life easier, even if it was easy to solve. I'd love to find something where every day was like that!
I’m actually not so sure that it cuts commute time. What I am sure is it shows a lower estimate time up front, but at least in my case that estimate is mostly wrong. Plain Google Maps seems to be pretty spot on. Apple overestimates by a minute or two to give you a bit of a buffer, maybe. Waze underestimates by quite a bit and seems to pick the most obscure roads possible even when using the more common ones is not going to take any more time.
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a match(x) {...} to augment switch(x) { ... } would be very welcome indeed. It would also get rid of the function scopes which imply actual function objects/closures which are not actually needed.

It would also remove the duplicity in the first example shown where match(res) matches on the statusCode field (I guess because `200` is declared as a literal ? while the variable is extracted out. Which also means you cannot match against variable content.

It would also retain a level of readability while the proposed syntax has no readability for the uninitiated. Doing that too much makes the language harder to read and learn for beginners.

My basic stance is that a language does not have to be perfectly concise but a good compromise between readability first and density second.

It is always nice to optimize a language for experts but the majority of users of a language such as javascript are not veterans.
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> addiction triggering

Sorry, but virtual flames shooting out of a box and a "here, you lost" screen doesn't exactly stimulate a dopamine response.
> Those websites don't hesitate to pay Twitch streamers to "play" on their site, sometimes even tweaking the odds to make them win more than average to make it even more enticing for the (often very young) watchers.

I doubt it was only sometimes. I bet it was pretty much every time. A few have actually been caught red-handed doing just that.
We have a Redis+Memcached frontend with an Apache Ignite Backend. Now we can re-use existing functionality in the clients and have new features like read-through based on a MySQL database or an automatically updated near cache on the instances themselves.
Having grown up in a place with constant blackouts, I had too many nights living on candle light. Granted, this was before smartphones...
Bad research!

> Pre-industrial societies such as the Hadza tribe in Tanzania also seem to have a far lower prevalence of sleep problems, like insomnia. “When we asked members of the Hadza whether they thought their sleep was good, they almost universally said ‘yes, it’s totally fine’. That statistically doesn't match up with what we see in the West,” says David Samson, an anthropologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, who has studied them.

This is what they actually found from that Tribe and a second one. They actually got less sleep then people do living with artificial lights.

> The team asked 94 people from these groups to wear Actiwatch-2 devices, which automatically recorded their activity and ambient-light levels. The data revealed that these groups all sleep for nightly blocks of 6.9 and 8.5 hours, and they spend at least 5.7 to 7.1 hours of those soundly asleep. That’s no more than what Westerners who have worn the same watches get; if anything, it’s slightly less.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...

UCLA study - http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/our-ancestors-probably-did...

This was talking about the idea that we naturally sleep a little and wake for a few hours and then go back to sleep as some normal human sleep pattern. The idea is still the same we sleep about the same in modern times. I have had to read a lot of ancient documents and in those documents they talk a lot about bad sleep medicine. If they sleep so well why do we have so many sleep fixes in those documents.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4939-2089-... (Just focused on India documents on sleep from 4,000 years ago.
Bu even have in the worst case scenarios we are not doomed.

Under heavy pressure and possible temporary decline, yes, but doom means extinction to me and this I don't believe. Especially not with all the technology we are going to build in the next 100 years.
I bet we could live allmost sustainable on mars by then. And no matter how devastated the earth will be a some point, it will allways be easier to live here. Even if the whole food supply comes from sealed greenhouses. Those we can (and do) build. As long as the sun shines, I see no problem. (And even if the sun don't shine for some years, we could survive. Related: I will start playing Frostpunk tonight..same topic, even though in the scenario they survive by coal, while I would bet on nuclear)
As a seller this is a good service, reviews really do matter.

As a customer these types of services make reviews unreliable. Only targeting happy customers drives up your rating with no positive change to the product itself. Its also a very slippery slope ethics wise.

For example: Its very common for amazon vendors to gift products in exchange for 5 star verified purchase reviews via discount codes. You will see a knock off product magically jump to the top of the search results. This results in products with real reviews getting pushed off the first page of search results.

My father had an internet busi ess for 10 years, and he lost many hours of sleep over this.

It is also commmon for services to offer negative reviews on competitor products. The review scene needs regulation.

Nothing against OP personally, I just have pretty strong oppinions on selectively encouraging reviews.
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This makes me want to rediscover game development again.
Can you make money off the app? How?
> One thing I have noticed is Google Maps will suggest going off a main street for a few blocks then merge back into the said main route.

That's a jerk thing to do in uniformly bad traffic, but it actually makes sense if traffic clears up ahead.

If everyone does it, it's just using available capacity. I get that people don't like spillover traffic coming through their neighborhood, but maybe that would be incentive to improve the main road.
Maybe because other countries do not play baseball? (Except japan Canada Cuba and a few other island countries)
It's not an alternative implementation. I've been on the alpha and some of the bugs were actually bugs in the OSS redis.
Are you saying that upstream is actively stopping you from submitting patches adding kqueue() support or refactoring the codebase to be more portable?
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I'm unconvinced.

Color blindness is easy to test for, as soon as it matters. We can do the tests where figures pop out with baby chimps right? What would change if you knew this earlier?

Are we even sure that dyslexia is something more than a catch-all term for kids who have more difficulty learning to read? And either way, do we know that starting earlier, or later, would be an effective intervention? The error bars on our knowledge of such things (even for the largest samples, all kids) seem huge.
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I don't think the problem of poor education is going to be solved through genetics. Other commenters noted that testing can determine anything needed to tailor education, and I agree. I think the root of the problem is cultural, and three fold.

We have communities of many types that prioritize other things (money, hard work, toughness, etc.) above education. We need to educate people that a good education is the cornerstone of success, and should be prioritized perhaps second, after health. I think we shouldn't expect real results for 3 generations. This is a long term problem that will require major cultural shift, and thus a long term solution.

Defining the concept of 'a good education' is a complex topic. I don't think it should have to include colleges though. My dad was a self-taught successful writer, who didn't go to college. I'm a successful software engineer with only two years of college (I'm defining successful in my case as job I like, working with good people, and a decent 6-figure salary). I am not an expert on education, but I have three ideas I think might work if done together.

First, a massive investment in free basic computers in every house and free online education.

Second, a resurrection of the master-apprentice system, not just for jobs like electricians but for all jobs.

Third, an overhaul of colleges to make them state-run, not-profitable, and ideally free. If necessary you could charge a same cost fee for all colleges of something like 10% of your income for 10 years after college. Or, perhaps, colleges could make money off of research performed there, though that might be a rabbit hole not to go down.

These changes though would require an immense shift in the way we perceive education and being educated, and that is going to be a steep uphill battle.
I'm not sure why you think GitHub ought to take down code for a proof of concept.
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> Because the Bank of England controls the pound and everyone one who works for it are answerable to the electorate in one way or another.

The head of the Bank of England is appointed by the UK government. The head of the ECB is appointed by the Council of ministers - ministerial representatives of member states. How is is this different, conceptually, in terms of answerability to the electorate?

The ECB sets interest rates independently, the BoE does the same.

Most of your arguments appear to be about the difficulties inherent in having a single monetary system across disparate economies, and I agree with you - but there is nothing inherently anti-democrat in the way that the ECB manages its affairs.
That can change.
> Essentially it's a switch variant that is (a) confusingly named 'match' (bad)

You seem to have quite strong opinions with regards to what's good and what's bad considering you don't have enough experience to recognize language features which have existed for decades outside the JS environment.
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Here[1] is a court opinion mentioning at least one type of evidence that was excluded: testimony regarding OfficeMax's accounting of rewards that would show that the rewards were not "property" that could be stolen. Not sure if that's what OP is referring to.

Incidentally, looking at all the different court opinions from this case [2] and the motions they refer to, I can't imagine how expensive it must have been to litigate this. Probably much more than what they had to pay back to OfficeMax.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=444697524394189...

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=6,33&q=us+v+...
Well, you can't really solve high availability problem by testing how long replication and restoration take. It's a lot more nuanced than that and requires real expertise in distributed systems. Usually it means getting rid of PostgreSQL/MySQL completely in favor of distributed solutions, as it's cheaper and is a better investment into the infrastructure, than attempting to build high availability on top of it.
"Say goodbye to the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., to Mexico and Central America, to the middle third of South America. In Africa, Mozambique and Madagascar are gone; Asia loses much of the Indian subcontinent, including all of Pakistan; Indochina is abandoned, as is most of Indonesia."

This is from a scenario where the world warms by 4 degrees. Other parts of the world, e.g. Western Australia and Canada, would benefit. See http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/what-the-world-will-look-li...
Conjunction Junction by Schoolhouse Rock and Psycho by Post Malone are both songs, yet they are also different implementations of the song concept.

Do you believe that all implementations of a ledger with distributed access are equivalent?
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A number of companies licensed the rights to that code (it's in their credits as "Spyglass, Inc."). I just assumed that Netscape had a relationship with NCSA, but the browser that kept the "Spyglass, Inc." credit longest was actually IE, as far as I know.
What makes a framework self-referential? What does submission of ... mean?

What is this framework? Or which one is this?
Currently, the only available version is 3.2, so that's a no.
I would agree, BUT code needs to be readable first. The proposed syntax applied to e.g switch would have just braces which would not look very readable.

Having less lines can make extremely unreadable code. Readable code with an error is easy to fix, unreadable code is not.

At the very least the ambiguity of doing TWO things (matching AND destructuring) should not be allowed since it changes the outcome based on whether a value is a literal or a variable with the exact same literal assigned to it (at least that's how I understand it from reading the examples)
From the first essay, a word that should be reclaimed.

"The use of “hacker” to mean “security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean, “Someone who loves to program and enjoys being clever about it
When I got my Advance licence there was definitely more to it than that I was sure.
why would it be illegal?