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yeah, I hated math in school. Once I started self-learning programming and moved into machine learning and actually saw real world use cases for stuff I actually started enjoying it.

Teaching for the lowest common denominator is horrible. Imagine if the US spent as much money identifying and helping high potential students as it does for special ed students.

It sounds cruel but at my school there was probably a 10x better student to faculty ratio for special ed as opposed to general student population. Most of those kids will only ever work a minimum wage job, if that.

Think if that was done for high potential students instead. Tremendous waste of financial resources and talent in the form of kids from poor families who could achieve so much more if put in the right environment. I know a lot of smart kids from poor families who fell by the wayside and are working dead end jobs instead of reaching their potential.
I just did the same. Linkedin came up, and then fantastically 192.com lists my previous addresses along with previous occupants. This includes an ex, three people I shared university accommodation with, and fantastically my parents names: including my mother who kept her maiden name.

All those were done before I really understood opt-out on the electoral register, and my parents registered me without telling me. And I have no way of removing the information, despite the fact that mother's maiden name is still bizarrely used as a security question.
You still have fatigue after eating even after avoiding gluten - is that from residual damage?

I'm curious because I have similar fatigue symptoms. But I had stopped eating wheat, so I had assumed it wasn't celiac. (Can't test without doing a gluten challenge)

But I completely agree that being self employed is the best way to handle this, and also that it is a major setback to productivity. My symptoms have improved in the past eight months or so and it's felt like an incredible blessing to simply have some normal days.
I agree with you. Root cause analysis should be informed by an understanding of complex, dynamic systems. The article's assumption, however, that RCA and systems thinking are somehow at odds is incorrect. Root cause doesn't necessarily, as the author implies, mean a single, isolated cause. It can designate the linking of "multiple contributors" as the author advocates.
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Github badly needs a prototype/alpha/beta/rc/production tag, like Sourceforge and Pypi have.

It should be set to prototype by default.
I would be somewhat annoyed, but I don't think much can be done about that. Turning away porn actors probably isn't an effective way.
I wish the State Library would stop blocking VPNs, though.
I agree some people seem to say these things with an unrealistically short timeframe in mind. But I think when most people say a very large company is in trouble, they're talking much more meta, because they understand that 50+ billion dollars takes decades to burn through.

Alan Mulally, arguably one of the most effective modern day leaders, has a great quote about his [former] company: "We have been going out of business for 40 years." This is what most people are talking about.
This is not only an important point in itself, but could be an interesting way to look at medicine: to model it as a process where something overflows. (I don't know what I mean more precisely than that.)
Anything published by Pearson is very expensive, as are a lot of textbooks.

Librarians are also teachers and education is your best hope for fighting misinformation.
My 2 reasons -

Libraries are designed specifically to be distraction free environments where one can focus. The internet might have all the info ever produced, but it is also the most distracting place ever created. And as more and more people get overloaded with info they aren't trained to deal with the craving for more focus and less distracting spaces is going to increase.

On the internet any half baked article passes for information. In the library the neuroscience floor doesn't have shelves and shelves of books written by kooks, that you have to wade through and filter out to find quality. This is huge advantage if you are doing any sort of serious work.
Ok, I have 6 years, so that makes me feel better.
I wonder why this happened.
> Well Intel has faced Nokia and Kodak moments literally 6-7 times in the past and survived.

It's ironic, Kodak invented the Kodak moment but in the end the real Kodak moment was not the positive kind of thing they envisioned when they coined that term in their marketing.
Is that why I always hear “O Christmas” at the beginning of every anime?
Indeed, but we are talking about the lower end of the spectrum in terms of documentation (ie the arguement of what takes priority). If someone is considerate enough to include examples as part of their testing suite then you can probably bet they'd be equally thoughtful with their documentation.

In fact the main open source project I'm working on automatically generates it's documentation to help ensure its accuracy - and I know for a fact that I'm not the only person to do this.
Think in computers. It may be possible that there are alien computers that use the binary numbering system? Think on it as the DNA (oversimplifying, of course). Now, there is any possibility that they use python as their programming language or the intel processors instruction set? That chains of DNA are interpreted in the exact same way, specially the very basic ones (i.e. how to turn sugar into energy) is what makes very improbable, or at least easy to verify, that something from here have in fact alien origin.

Maybe we had 2 waves of incoming DNA from another specific planet, one that bring here the basic building blocks and another the octopus branch (that had the same way to read DNA as it have the same origin), but if that evolution could happen somewhere else, why it couldn't had happened here?

The idea that their evolution could had been triggered by an alien virus still have the same origin requirement. You still have DNA that must be interpreted in the exact same way as ours to work. Occam's Razor would be useful here, just push the moment of the split from our branch closer to the point when we went from unicellular to multicellular
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I think one factor that is not usually appreciated is simply the effect of working harder at it. My experience is with South Korean education, and if the North is similar, those students work harder at whatever than you would think humanly possible.
I think that was exactly the point :)
If you're going to require cars simulate speed bumps why wouldn't you just enforce a digital speed limiter?
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> This is literally an extremist statement (i.e. either you cannot get loans or you can) and as such an impossible oversimplification.

I find that most times when people say, "You cannot," or, "You can," what they're actually saying is, "The probability of you being able to is very low/very high." Surely this is the case for my claim. If it helps, please read it as such.

> Students received loans before they couldn't be discharged in bankruptcy.

Other variables were different then. Particularly, the variables of cost and expected compensation relative to the baseline. (Cost has, infamously, been rising, while the expected compensation of graduates relative to the baseline has been falling.) You may be right that under current circumstances banks would be equally willing to lend. That strikes me as absurd, but I've been wrong before. Shall we roll the dice and find out?
Are the messages stored on your own servers or on the users' own devices?

If they're on your servers, it should not be necessary to keep multiple copies of the same message. You could make it so that if the sender deletes a message, it is removed from the database and becomes inaccessible to recipients.

If the messages are stored on users' own devices and not on your own servers, then that is a different situation and is more like email.
The first paper is almost 2 years old, and text-to-speech seems to be a relatively small component of Duplex.
Here is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pittsburgh&action...

Note all the editors messing up the correct Pittsburg(h) with and without the h in various settings. Lot's of +/- 1 edit lengths.

Now, did some how instantly validate my point? No.

PS: But it does illustrate the situation something is popular enough that many people see it, complex enough that it takes a little thought for someone to notice an issue fix it in good faith and then get reverted.
> They’ve all come back without a single scratch, just a beard of barnacles

Solution:

https://wyss.harvard.edu/barnacles-and-mussels-wont-stick-to...
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As with many things in life, I think the takeaway is that it's all about balance and moderation. The classic "deathbed" list is illustrative of one type of lifestyle "out of balance", but the author makes a very good hypothesis that these themes could very well be correlated with generational differences or circumstance.

> I’ve met quite a few people who are very concerned about living an authentic, carefree life without having a lot of other things figured out first.

This is a pretty accurate description of how I was in my late teens and most of my twenties. What's interesting is that looking back now, if I think about my "regrets" regarding that period of my life, some are actually polar opposites of the items on the classic Deathbed List:

1) I wish I had worked harder and challenged myself more instead of coasting / resting on my laurels. I was so worried about being one of those people who works too much that I overcompensated and missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth.

2) I wish I had relied a little less on my established group of high school & college friends as I got older, and instead was more open to forming new relationships as well. Keeping in touch is important, but clinging to the past and refusing to move forward isn't healthy either.
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This sounds really great. I'm on my phone so I haven't signed up, but I plan to when I get to my desktop.

Are these files public, or private? A great thing about GitHub gist's is that being public I can just wget them whenever I need them.

Is there a command line tool for uploading? (or an api for others to build one?)
You’re right but you should have included decent sources in your initial comment.

Sadly the vegan crowd overlaps too much with the pseudoscientific new age/alt med/antivaxxers crowd, so skeptical types are quick to dismiss any suggestion that such a diet is healthier.

And people generally don’t like to hear that eating meat is bad for them anyway.

If anyone is interested in why you instinctively react so negatively to the idea that your diet is unhealthy and unnecessarily wasteful/harmful, there’s a great Ted Talk on it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=o0VrZPBskpg
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>The researchers said their exercise programme "does not slow cognitive decline in people with mild to moderate dementia".

> They were recruited through memory clinics – specialist services that help people who have problems with their memory – and GP surgeries. Carers were asked to take the decision on behalf of people whose dementia meant they were unable to.

I think we have to be very careful about what these researchers characterize as "mild to moderate dementia". I would contend that people who are forced to seek professional help - let alone those who are unable to make decisions for themselves, are beyond the point of "mild to moderate dementia". A good argument could be made that the vast majority of people with "mild" dementia are not under professional care and do not require a caretaker to make decisions for them. They are forgetful, absentminded, and/or showing other "mild" symptoms of dementia.
> Well, maybe it would have been better this way.

I don't deny it. There are considerations in both directions. You could also imagine a system of universal rate setting, where you can only offer loans to potential engineers if you do so to art students as well. You could imagine genuinely allowing a free market in student loans. There are a lot of possibilities, each of which would fall at different places on the multi-dimensional optimization problem that we've got in front of us.

But I argue that if you want folks to offer student loans, and don't want lenders to discriminate against certain majors, and don't want interest rates >10%, and want principles on the order of >$100k, you probably need to prevent discharging the loan in bankruptcy. You can't get all those other things and dischargeable loans at the same time.
Is there some working source code?
Isn't UWP still built on top of all those hacks upon hacks the previous commenter mentioned?
Is there a transcript to go with these slides? A lot of these slides are just still photos, and it's difficult to make any sense of them.
If offered a choice between Hell and Venus, I'd pick Hell. At least the commute is shorter. Also lots of friends already there.
In my view, what we see in public debate on these issues, and indeed most political issues, is a sole focus on the symptoms of the problem and never an analysis of the factors causing these symptoms. Adding to the dysfunction, no analysis of potential second-order effects of the symptom-treating solutions is ever done.
Taking it one step further, you can install an add-on like Tampermoney and run full user scripts (works on mobile as well) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
I wouldn't say I am firmly against this approach, but I do feel that if you have that sort of system, you probably need some control over the types of studies that people can engage in. This is a somewhat unpopular opinion most places, but I do think it's possible for a major to be more or less useful to society. I think that (broad strokes) that is reflected by compensation and/or demand for the services offered by graduates of a given major (teachers and social workers notwithstanding). I think in general it's in the best interests of society to limit the number of people studying unproductive subjects.
I wonder how long before drugs are smuggled with drone ships.
And you have really hinted at why FATCA is so distructive to overseas Americans..
> There are often multiple causes for an effect,

I find that some of the toughest bugs to solve are the ones where the undesirable effect has more than one cause.

To be precise it's the kind of situation where the bug can be triggered by 2, 3 or more independent causes, i.e. each cause is sufficient on its own to cause the bug.

Often when attempting to solve a bug like that I'll find one likely cause, address it but because the bug persists, I end up undoing the fix for cause #1, then finding cause #2 and ping ponging between them till I realise that I have to address multiple causes to make the bug go away.
>There cannot be more disruption to Intel than this

Yes there is and it is called server chips.
Why were the various Vandal Patrol groups closed?

Why is is harder to get Twinkle and Rollback now than it used to be, and why is their usage more closely monitored?

It's because people were rapidly reverting a lot of edits, and many of those edits were correct and should not have been reverted.

There's a bunch of discussion on ANI and village pump about this.
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Except Europe discriminated against Americans due to FATCA — that knife cuts both ways.
It seems you’re vastly misusing the words and their contexts here.
Written french is largely codified by the french academy which is very conservative (so the written language did not evolve much in the past 100 years) whereas the spoken language evolved independently. It's a bit like slangs in English if you want but to a whole new level, the two parts of the language don't have much in common nowadays. Tenses, pronouns, grammar, sentence construction and words are different.
This is an example of deceptive journalism where the author fits the facts to suit the narrative. That Comscore chart tells me that Facebook has actually fallen from its peak in 2015 and is only slowly making its way back to its former glory. The Deutsche Bank chart is even more suspicious and looks like it was drawn up by my toddler. And look at that photo of a smiling Zuckerberg. This is an article paid for by sell-side analysts.
They are stored on our servers. The problem is, not all users will want the message deleted just because one of the recipients does. This creates a conflict with the GDPRs right to have information deleted. Recipient A might want the message deleted but recipients B and C may not
> All code is subject to patents.

Well, yeah. All code is subject to copyright too. But you can avoid having that copyright encumber users by using a Free license. Now why would you not want to free users for patents that pertain only to the code you're giving away/sharing under a free license?

If you contribute an image codec, people can safely use that to build on. It will not grant them a patent to your other hw patents, like an ISA or office chair design or image sensing chip.

Sure, if you're Fraunhofer living off of mp3 encoding licenses, you might not want to give away what you're making a living off. But then you'd probably not give away a software encoder either. And sure, if you did, you'd probably chose a hostile license that allowed you to keep enforcing your patent.

And, if you contribute something else, like a load balancer, and the FSF write something like lame, and you sue the fsf - you won't be allowed to (at no cost) continue to violate patents covered by the loadbalancer, assuming the fsf holds a patent that covers some aspect of that.

I still don't see the problem?

If you don't want to share code, then.. Don't? But if you do, share in a meaningful way?
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Is this possible without using any (torrent specific) library?
How is this not a scam.
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That graph is fascinating to someone who's studied a lot of ancient history.

The thing that strikes me most is how bad things were after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yes, the eastern half kept chugging along. But judging from this data, it didn't chug very hard.

Another striking thing is how bad things things seem to have been in the first century BC. Apparently the problems during that time were not merely political squabbles at the top of a society that otherwise kept operating as usual.
> Xavier works on enabling everyone to construct products that make a life changing impact on world scale.

I would remove/change that sentence if I were you. I suppose it was made to make what you do look impactful and serious but I have exact opposite impression after reading it.
Saw the video yesterday on YouTube. I wonder what happens if they get into very strong winds or very strong swell - if they tip over, do they get up by themselves? What happens if they submerge?

Apparently they figured out how to do it, but my question is, how exactly are they doing it?
You may find it interesting : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine
Well, if you consider nature as an agent, we are part of it. And if we do successfully leave the planet, that will be nature successfully leaving a planet. Which will get nature closer to surviving a sun collapse. Something the rest of nature here is not likely to do.

And, in the scale, nature has had to deal with many stars collapsing.
How do you think Bt or libbittorent was written?
Isn't that what a keel does?
The real problem is that in America we should have access to free public education, but we don't. Instead we have a for profit system that ruins the middle and lower class.
What I mean by free is that the funding can be diverted into our education system from other sources, like the military budget, but alas it seems that somebody or something doesn't want an education populace, but a debt-slave one.
Where may I find this 'free press' that you mention ?
I don't follow. Classical mechanics are still very useful, no?
Think of all the stuff that you've learned along the way that's not helpful to being a "digital soldier". How to fix update issues on several platforms, how to use netstat to find out someones IP address via ICQ back in the day...

All those lessons, while teaching you some valuable lesson in a fun way, can also be hammered into a head by just focusing on the underlying systems and providing actual hacking targets.

The difference between what most of us understand as "good tech upbringing" and their training is the difference between a loving father taking his son deer-hunting and a Soldier being sent to Military School at a young age. While the former knows a lot about how to read the forest, how to stalk prey, the latter learned how to systemically eradicate and overwhelm, how to win a war, not how to hunt for game.

It's simply a difference in focus and intensity that of course creates a difference in outcomes.
It is a pity that the expensive colleges don't at least teach their students about the principles and practice of usury.
I’d say libraries were a less efficient way of accessing information in 2008. In 2018 we are in a third wave of internet where things are getting dumbed down.

It’s much easier to find useful, factual content in books than via google, especially as social media slop has eaten the world.
> [Hacker News] is an amazing community, built off an early version of Reddit, and run by Y-Combinator (which incubated Reddit way back when)

I just scanned wikipedia, first version of reddit was from 2005, and first version of hacker news was 2007.

I always thought PG wrote the code for Hacker News, does that imply that PG helped write the first (Lisp) version of reddit before Aaron Swartz rewrote reddit in Python?
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Meta: I know people hate click-baity headlines, but it is the weekend and sometimes things are a bit more lax around here then.

I love clever headlines. Not the lying click-bait sort, but the kind that make puns or tell the summarize the story in a fun way.

It used to be that after you bought the newspaper, you were done making financial decisions. But editors would still stick these stories with cute heads deep inside. It gives a feeling for the tone of the people putting together the content.

For my money, for folks who like these things, "Giant Space Ant Fires Lasers At Earth" is just too much to pass up.
Your risk of esophageal cancer does not decrease with antacid use, in fact it often hides the problem, when you should get evaluated by a gastroenterologist.

Esophageal cancer is a mean beast.
Well, they can't legally buy a drink, so I guess they're not "considered adults" by government either, at least not fully. If you don't think that a person is responsible enough to be allowed to have a bottle of beer, can you really trust them on making a sound financial choices, especially the ones with huge and long term effects? Or blame them if they don't?
Private loans can still be classified as student loans. Source: My enormous debt
Yes, anti aging research is more interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS_Research_Foundation
Looks like her dad had the answer:

> My father, an electrician who worked nights driving Amtrak trains to put himself through trade school, only earned his associate’s degree in his mid-30s.

She, too, could have started with a 2 year associates degree.
Not sure if the evidence is trustworthy.
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Hi Lossolo, thanks a lot for this feedback, I took it into account and refactored this sentence a bit :) (deploy will be done in +-2min)