skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No CFO on the planet will ever approve of a statement prepared on anything other than Excel.
>All of those instances are meritocratic? We'll admit the occasional error but would you at least say that bloodline aristocracy is often meritocratic by your definition?

I would say that it often has the same outcome as a meritocratic system. Suppose if every US election, after deciding the winner, they rolled a 20-sided dice and on a 1, elected the loser instead. This would be democratic most of the time but it would not be a democratic system. Similarly since a bloodline aristocracy uses bloodline as the deciding factor not merit, it is not meritocratic.

>Absolutely it would change. It's no longer a measure of merit, now it's a measure of merit AND your parents' wealth AND your parents' willingness to spend on your development. We can't separate out those factors so the test is now useless as a measure of merit.

I feel like what you are saying is that merit is independent of the training and experiences you receive. I define merit as the ability to perform the given task well. With that definition, you have to include training and experience because they have effects on ability to perform. So if you exclude training and experiences, what do you mean by merit?
One advice though is to schedule the first discovery flight closer to sunset when the air is usually very calm and there is no turbulence.
Isn't the whole market shrinking in an even faster rate? Besides that: there's nothing spectacular to upgrade to for people that have bought a MacBook Pro in the last 5-6 years. I don't think that's entirely Apple's fault.
Are you sure?

Today is July 31, 2018 in the United States, which adopted the Gregorian calender per the act of British parliament entitled "An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use" (24 Geo. 2 c. 23) by skipping September 3-13, 1752 (obviously this was prior to the American revolution).

In the Julian calendar, there are leap days every four years. In the Gregorian calendar, there are leap years every four years except every 100 years except every 400 years. That is, 2000 and 2004 are leap years, but 1900 is not a leap year.

Since 100, 200, 300, 500, 600, 700, 900, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, and 1900 were leap years in the Julian calendar but not the Gregorian calendar, one must subtract 15 days to get to the Gregorian date to get the Julian date.

Today is July 18, 2018 in the Julian calendar.

The Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1918 by skipping February 1-13. They were the last. This is why the famous February revolution took place in March and why the October revolution took place in November. (Though I noticed Reuters announced it had been 100 years last year on the wrong day.)

Mainframes are weird, but I really doubt they don't use the Gregorian calendar whatever the text on the screen says.
This may not work but could be worth a shot and lots of fun. Buy a RC airplane and learn to fly it, nothing crazy but not something to cheap either ($200 from a Chinese site). This should give you a much bigger appreciation for flying (it did for me) and make you very excited the next time you are flying.
Yeah, certainly they don't do it in Europe. I wonder how does it look in the US, I would imagine Macs are much more popular in corporations (?) and definitely startups.
A P/E of 17 is perfect for a great company, in my estimation.
Look at those Mac numbers. That’s something to shake your head at.
I think that's a good argument for building below grade. For instance, you dig a big hole, build a dome-like shell, bury it in dirt leaving a reinforced tunnel to the surface for a stairwell, then inflate a balloon inside the shell to provide an airtight living area. The weight of the ground counteracts the air pressure and it acts as a radiation shield.

(Alternatively, one could build the dome from the top down, excavating as you go.)

If dirt is about 80 pounds per square foot (I'll assume for the sake of argument that that's in the ballpark of the typical density of Martian sand), that's about 32 pounds in Mars gravity, or about 0.22 pounds per square inch per foot of depth. So, it would take about 45 feet of depth for the weight of the ground to match 10 psi of air pressure. Maybe that's a little too deep to be practical for a pure compressive structure, but maybe ten or twenty feet of depth can offset a significant amount of the tension even if the interior pressure is more than the weight of the ground on top.

I suppose you could also mound a pile of dirt on top over time.
Browsers should start offering the option to deny all cross origin resources too.
It's a fair assumption to make, as the difference between Tron and Snake is effectively just single player vs multiplayer.
Can you provide a citation for the per hour stat?

I didn't do the math before, but let's try some back of envelope math. You can estimate it based on mileage. Assuming that a car averages 50mph and a jet averages 500mph, then you spend 10x as long in a car as you do in a jet per mile flown. So if you are 750x more likely to die per mile in a car than in a plane, then you are 75x more likely to die per hour in a car than in a plane.

Uh, what? No one drives 1mph. It's just 200 hours at 60mph.

Yeah I accidentally pasted the 12000 where the 200 was supposed to go

Or the fact that people probably drive 1000x more than they fly

This is actually an interesting question. It would be very difficult to compare because there is a population that drives extensively and perhaps never flies (e.g. taxi, delivery, truck drivers), and a population that flies extensively and never drives (e.g. Wall Street banker, flight attendant, student traveler). As an example, I drive about 14k miles a year and fly about 20k (round trip to the Philippines is 14k alone and I do that every year). I can see most of the population never flying at all, in which case they drive infinitely more than they fly?
What if people’s fears are generated or exaggerated by a unaccountable minority leveraging unregulated tools, mining illegal data mixed with psychology for profit, power or both?
Apple reports record $53.3B revenue in Q3 2018, led by iPhone
As far as I'm concerned, Facebook is not a content aggregator, it's a content publisher.

It directly profits off of the users, and by extension the comments and pictures and whatever else the users post. As such, they are responsible for this product.

I don't see it as censoring or policing so much as quality control.
This should actually be reassuring to you, if anything! Planes can maintain altitude, fly long distances, and land safely even in the event of both engines failing or blowing up. Also, when you hear them power down near landing time, they're still actually running and providing power, but are no longer providing thrust.
> I think it's fair to say he had a point about people running out of things to say to each other

Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp even HN disagree.
Prepar3d has really come a long way, and IMO is the best of the bunch these days. Starting with v4 it's even a proper multi-threaded 64bit application which solves a _lot_ of issues (Run ALL the addons...)
Apple still relies on the MacBook, and specifically MacOS (of which the MacBook is the flagship product line), as a development platform for all of its other devices... Within Apple's current platform strategy, Apple does not have any alternative for the MacBook. So, it's currently not possible for the MacBook to go the way of the iPod...
Apple is making great money selling consumer products and services. It's time Apple uses some of that money to build better hardware for developers without considering immediate profits. We need MacBook Pros that are actually designed for professionals. No touch bar, better keyboard, better CPU and GPU. Consider it an investment on your developers.
this is a really hard problem

I tried to make this case to an investor who hates Facebook, and their response was: "They have billions of dollars, they can fix it if they want to."

Mind you this person is savvier than most about business and technology, and he didn't quite grok the concept of difficulty solving the authentication and content moderation problem at 2B+ user scale is not solved by throwing more people at it.

Worth invoking this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Same here, I am still pissed because of the flicker issues I have with the screen of my XPS 15 9530 and today I saw that the builtin battery is down to 70% of its original capacity.

Sure, they look pretty and the Linux support is good, but the build quality didn't satisfy my expectations.
I first realised how heavy these pages are when I disabled javascript. Things load in the blink of an eye. \Most\ pages work and the web remains largely usable.
I cant imagine how poor the web is for blind users nowadays with all the hyperactive javascript fucking with the DOM constantly, I really feel sorry for the poor gits who have to write screen readers.
Best solution would be not working in a sweatshop.
But sometimes you get 'first opinions' by people who've thought deeply about the topic for a long time. This is the value. I'd also add that for a site with very broad subject matter, the level of discussion can be quite high. Certainly not as high as some specialists forums (ie LtU).

There are a few things I appreciate; the spartan design, the focus on longer form posting (on the order of paragraphs) as opposed to drive by one liners or in jokes.

I really get to exercise my writing here, and read others as well.
That's already in place. There's nothing in the way of actual user control other than muting the tab. The browser decides, pretty much, and you can't argue with it if it's decided to list a site as something that can autoplay audio based on your interaction level (which doesn't necessarily mean you've ever deliberately enabled audio on the site).
There's Iceland, the Azores, Ascension Island and a few others.
I'd start with the 100+KB PNG images. None of those pictures are complex, they can be compressed much more.
“As fast” in the big-O sense. Here’s what Scott Aaronson says in reply to one of the comments on his blogpost about this paper:

I should point out, though, that in many cases (Simon’s problem, period-finding, Forrelation, quantum walk on glued trees…), people have proved exponential separations between the quantum and randomized query complexities, which means that there certainly won’t be a dequantization in those cases along the same lines as what Ewin did.
I'm reminded of the RSA in Perl "weapon" t-shirt :)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munition...
I've also had a review rejected under very similar circumstances. Like the OP, I too was leaving a bad review on a product that I had purchased a few months back. I had purchased the item in a lightning sale though.
If people who feel deprived are frequently reminded of their relative deprivation, they will tend to dislike it. If your friends all talk about their vacations in Bali and $300 dinners, most people will find themselves feeling at least a little inadequate no matter how wonderful, kind, loving, and compassionate those friends are.

The same thing will happen even via more subtle means as people give moderate-cost gifts or wearing clothing that is visibly more expensive.

You're 100% correct. People like to be around friends. It's perhaps worth considering that there might possibly be more to it than just that.
Yes, you can write down a thought. Whether that gets to be a sentence or not is another story.

Yes, you can write out an idea. Whether that gets to be a page or not is another story.

Yes, you can write out a book. Whether that gets published or not is another story.

Yes, you can self publish a book. Whether that gets people to care or not is another story.

Yes, you can spread your ideas to others. Whether that lasts or not is another story.

Yes, you can live on through your words. Whether that's going to be good or bad on your name is another story.

But through it all, all that matters is what you choose to self identify as. Whether you survive, benefit, or take over the industry built up before you or by others, is another story.
The quantum algorithm is exact if it works, the new classical algorithm is negligibly worse at a negligibly higher cost.

Even if there's a formal difference, practical performance is what matters when discussing useful real-world applications as motivating examples for new and expensive technology.
Extremely questionable call.

They earned $6 billion in profit in 2017. They were sporting a ~$580 billion market cap. Paying near 100 times earnings for a business whose growth is rapidly slowing, is not a great idea typically. They've massively pulled future returns forward. More likely, in seven or eight years when they have an optimistic best case scenario $20-25 billion in profit, they won't be worth a lot more than their 52 week high. Multiple compression always comes for stocks like these eventually.
The list of Editors, Senior Assistant Editors, Assistant Editors, Assistant Senior Editors, Executive Editors, Editors Adjutant, Editors Emeritus, and Editors-at-large _did not stop scrolling_!
Background for anyone who hasn't read it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
It's actually possible almost everyone, or at least a great many people, have a good book in them. The hard part I would think is getting it out of them. It takes work and practice.

I've been a professional writer for much of my life, in the sense that for periods of time I've actually been able to eat and pay NYC rent by virtue of people paying me to write things.

But I don't know if I have a book in me. Because every time I try to write things that could possibly turn into a book I read them and they don't sound very good. I know what I'd have to do to change that, namely write a lot every day for a few years until it clicked. But I don't.

But so far I haven't made that a priority, so whatever book might be in me is still there. I think there's a lot of people like that. Many people just can't write and tell stories at all, of course. But many many people can, and would in fact be able to do so compellingly, but they haven't and won't put in the work.
Isn't it obvious? the sad state of iTunes is so irrelevant to making truckloads of money that any effort to fix it will only eat at their profits.

So...No iTunes for you!
Agreed. I could run a marathon if I put in the effort. The reason I "can't" is truthfully that I can't be arsed. If you want to run a marathon what you're saying is that you're happy for training for that marathon to take over your life for, probably, about a year, and I'm not motivated to do that.

With that being said Eddie Izzard, with little training, ran 43 marathons in 51 days. He didn't break any records or win any medals, which I suppose is roughly analogous to getting a book published, but he did do it, over and over again, which is arguably writing the damn book.

All of this suggests that I could probably run a marathon right now if I really felt like it. Fortunately (I'll say it again) I can't be arsed. Same goes for writing the book, because nothing inspires me enough to write an entire book. But I could do it, because I've absolutely written a book's worth of words over the past few years.
Wish this would be pinned on top of all such discussions.

This is precisely what's happening. In the mind of regular user, the web looks like it's supposed to, because they don't have enough technical knowledge to correctly understand what's happening. Users accept what they get, because they don't understand it. And as you said here, the complaints get targeted at the wrong thing. "Why is my computer so slow? Did I get a virus?". No, it's just that Google just deployed even more bloated iteration of their GMail UI, CNN just added 20 more tracking scripts, and YouTube is now eating half of your RAM for no good reason.

I get through this dance with many of my non-technical family members and acquaintances. I can extend the life of their machines only so much with ad-blockers and cleaning out adware. Ultimately, they'll buy a new, faster machine, just to return to the status quo. And maybe I'll inherit one of their "slow" laptops and pull out 2+ more years of professional, productive use from it.
> You need to ask why does gasoline contaminated with ethanol still exist

The two mandates that together promote this are mandates for share of renewable fuel use and mandates for gasoline oxygenation to reduce carbon monoxide emissions; ethanol-containing gasoline helps meet both mandates (the latter is applicable to certain markets at certain times of year.)

> Drivers would save tons of money if they'd refuse to buy it,

Well, yes, refusing to buy the gas that is sold at the pump would save lots of money.
If the total US national deficit keeps getting bigger and bigger as a percentage of GDP, at some point, lenders (bond buyers) will decide it's too much and demand higher interest rates. This will start a downward death spiral as the US needs to borrow more and more just to pay off interest. The only choice will be to shoot out more money causing massive inflation inside the US. The price of anything imported will skyrocket. The US will drastically cut social security payments and other spending, leading to riots.

All politicians have told us that since the US is the global fiat currency, this will never happen here. It has happened to many other countries which have borrowed too much, but it will never happen to the US. So it's OK for the US to keep spending, and cutting taxes at the same time.

My conspiracy theory is that all the politicians are deliberately lying, and this is a possible scenario.
I can vouch for this. Although I've been doing this with regular chrome (disabled javascript by default) and I whitelist sites with the click of on icon in the location bar.
iPad sales should go through the roof later in this year.

The acquisition of Texture and the upcoming refresh with iPhone X style design should drive a lot of of users to look at iPads as a magazine replacement. Especially if it comes free as part of your existing Apple Music subscription.
It occasionally goes on sale for even cheaper. Plus you can find it bundled for free sometimes, e.g. with a Panasonic camera lens: https://www.adorama.com/ipc2517mnk.html
Cash on hand now upwards of $230B. Your average CNBC talking head would probably recommend a large acquisition soon. Names usually whispered about include: Uber, Tesla, Snap or Netflix. Or a content studio such as Comcast, Disney, or Fox.

But such advice ignores the gargantuan growth that cloud services are experiencing right now. Although iCloud, iTunes, ApplePay and the AppStore are almost solely focused on consumer internet and retail. It's conceivable that $APPL would make a push to deliver more SaaS offerings. Perhaps analagous to Adobe's Creative Cloud suite for profession digital content creators.
The article title is actually “No, you probably don’t have a book in you”.

But the intended meaning of the article is more like “no, you probably don’t have a bestselling book in you.”

Disclaimer - I’ve written a kids sci-fi novel in the past year. Something I’ve been meaning to do for awhile now, and finally got around to actually putting down the words on the page to make it happen.

Now it’s one thing to say “I wrote a novel.” But to be fair I wrote the draft of a novel that still needs substantial editing before it’s ready to publish. I’ve been picking at it for awhile, and still it’s not ready to send out to other editors (or agents).

I’ve been stuck in edit mode for months now, I’ve been finding editing much harder than writing. A common feeling. One writer told me that writing is like a party, editing is cleaning up the next day. Some of my published friends and colleagues tell me it takes a few drafts of editing before it’s even good enough to send to an agent or editor. So I’ve got a lot of hard work ahead of me.

But this article is a bit strange because the author is an agent herself, who knows full well that there’s a ton of editing and a night-vs-day difference between someone’s first cruddy draft and a finished product, for which agents and editors worth their salt will have honed and worked their magic on.

Also a bit discouraging to hear this from an agent, suggesting people’s stories may not be worthy enough to be told. if anything I’d want them to encourage more people to write that story they’ve been thinking about on the train. Can you imagine if JK Rowling heard this and just thought, “she’s right, my story probably sucks, better to just focus on my day job.”

Though the author does clear things up a little at the end of the article to say write a book because you want to write it, not because someone told you to write it.

But in any case, the title is still misleading because people do have books in them. Even if they’re not profitable. Even if the ultimate reading audience is in the single digits. It’s still a book that means something to the author and that small but critical audience of readers.
California Fires: Photos of the Blazes Devouring the State
And that actually works.
That makes sense - a buck regulator is a lot of component selection.

Do I read a "no" between the lines of my question regarding DDR3? I ask because that's a design segment you could automate to great effect. The DRAM is nearly always the riskiest part of an embedded processor design - so much so that many companies (even large ones in my experience) do not deviate from vendor generated reference designs.
Price Comparison API – A Transparent Way to Drive Direct Bookings
Memory mirroring is a pretty common feature on basically every x86 server I've used (going back to the Core 2-based Xeon's, no experience with older platforms), though I've never tried just yanking DIMM's out and wouldn't recommend trying it.
These are just the misconceptions the article talks about.
It works fine for me; maybe it's fine for most folks.
> Like spam, we should try, but like spam, don't expect it to get solved any time soon.

I don't understand. To me, spam was solved decades ago by Gmail with a simple Bayesian filter. I can still read the spam I receive if I look into the spam folder, so there is no censorship or moderation taking place. I can chose what is spam or not and it reduces noise in my inbox. Why not do the same on just everything else?
>Thousands of cpu hours, megabytes and dollars wasted on some user spying turdheap the marketing guys NEEDED to put in an app, 'to track user behaviour'.

I understand that somewhere in a perfect universe, tech guys just make things right and money just flow in without those pesky marketing people ever involved. Unfortunately, in our universe if you don't do marketing and don't analyze user behavior your business is toast.