skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grading just gets kicked down the road. Now, because we don't trust your credentials, we give you a coding exam, that is effectively a grade.

Likewise, an open secret is that college work is a simulation of the workplace. Those college students who develop through practice the ability to turn in work on time that makes their teachers happy, will also be able to do the same in the workplace. If you give up the chance to learn it while it's available to you in college, where your only risk is a Zero on an assignment, you will learn it later in the school of hard knocks. Your performance review will be a grade. There are people who come to work knowing how to get good grades, and others who don't.

This is coming from one who struggled to get good grades in college. A goose egg on an assignment is rarely an isolated occurrance.

Knowing educators, and having kids in high school, I know that the kids who miss a deadline during recruiting tend to have already missed many deadlines over the years.

I strongly believe that while credentialism and college brand recognition are real and probably regrettable, if those are your only reasons for attending college, then you are wasting your money and your life, whereas someone who has other reasons for attending the same college is getting a lot more value out of it. But colleges assume they get the same money either way, so it's really your choice.
Same here. Imagine a headline "America searched in money laundering probe", omitting the "Bank of" from "Bank of America".

It's factually wrong and misleading. Please correct the title.
> The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose and suicides

The US is pretty much also the only country where suicides are increasing.
What other retailers? The brand's store directly? I want other options but I don't know of any.
But if you install Win10 don't you just get spyware/adware/crapware direct from MS then? (asking, I don't know, not a regular MS user)
Actually, IE and iOS Safari are lagging but other major browsers seem to have support for SRI for quite some time: https://caniuse.com/#search=sri
I would like to see this correlated to access to "health care", which need not necessarily translate to improved health.

From personal experience, I have a strong suspicion that much of this "care" is actually harming people. In particular I am concerned about over-prescription of anti-pain/anxiety/depressant medications and incorrect dietary modifications (eg, to eat a low-fat/salt/cholesterol diet).

EDIT:

Very roughly, there is a link to "obamacare". From TFA:

>"The U.S. has lost three-tenths of a year in life expectancy since 2014, a stunning reversal for a developed nation, and lags far behind other wealthy nations."

>"The ACA's major provisions came into force in 2014. By 2016, the uninsured share of the population had roughly halved, with estimates ranging from 20 to 24 million additional people covered during 2016."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
NFS open file handle semantics are quite an annoyance.

The recommended way to perform atomic writes on POSIX is the create-write-fsync-rename-fsyncdir[0] dance. But that replaces the original file which causes ESTALE for all readers on NFS servers that don't support "delete on last close"[1] semantics.

This breaks common pattern where you can continue reading slightly stale data from unlinked files while writers updating the data atomically. In other words it makes it much harder to do filesystem concurrency correctly which already is hard enough.

A practical case where I'm seeing it is on Amazon's EFS. Updating thumbnails occasionally results in torn images because the server tries to send a stale file.

[0] https://danluu.com/file-consistency/ [1] http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d2
Which is almost 20 years after he began writing (according to your link). The point is, he didn't start writing at 45. Not that you're implying that, but I see plenty of pieces about people making it big when they're older, but those same pieces fail to shine as bright a light on the years and years of toiling and craft-honing that led the person to that moment.
(On edit: below comment is retracted. At least for 2015 to 2016, the decline is not attributable to Simpson's paradox. See Table 4 in the CDC report linked below.)

This is either incompetence or maliciousness on behalf of the CDC, WSJ, or both. Life expectancy in the US is falling, but it's only falling due to Simpson's Paradox [1].

The CDC's own data [2] shows life expectancy increasing for all genders and races except black men, which decreased marginally over the last few years.

The primary reason life expectancy is falling is due to changes in the racial composition of the population, not because of opioids or suicide.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_05.pdf (see Figure 5)
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I always do my accounts exactly but then have to round up or down to make settlements. This can leave some "dust" in my accounts which I might eventually move to a losses account but I prefer to do things properly. For example, if I borrow money from someone I'll agree on an interest rate and calculate the interest (compounded continuously). If it turns out the interest is something like 1.01521 then I'll pay 1.02 and leave the account in the negative. I'll move it to losses if I never expect to transact with that entity again but if I do then things will work out exactly given enough time.
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https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.as...

Below is copy pasted from above website. In any case, share prices fluctuate a lot, due to many factors. And every time, someone writes an article about it, but it never means anything.

Misconceptions About Market Caps
Although it is used often to describe a company, market cap does not measure the equity value of a company. Only a thorough analysis of a company's fundamentals can do that. It is inadequate to value a company because the market price on which it is based does not necessarily reflect how much a piece of the business is worth. Shares are often over- or undervalued by the market, meaning the market price determines only how much the market is willing to pay for its shares.

Although it measures the cost of buying all of a company's shares, the market cap does not determine the amount the company would cost to acquire in a merger transaction. A better method of calculating the price of acquiring a business outright is the enterprise value.
Paper would be the easy part (to destroy).

The hard part is electronic data. I work in a large Enterprise, no chance that even a simple email would vanish completely (it's definitely on several backup servers, tapes and whatnot I have no access to).
Something important which I think is missing from the accessibility section is a reference to the prefers-reduced-motion CSS media feature [0]. When it was initially released the WebKit team wrote a post [1] explaining its purpose, how to use it, and many practical examples. I'd suggest including a link to their post.

It's currently supported by Firefox and Safari [2]. The Chromium team recently began working on it as well [3]. Edge's Platform Status [4] has it marked as a low-priority issue; given the included explanation they'll probably wait for Chromium to finish implementing it and copy them. Please consider taking a minute to vote on the issue if you consider it important.

WCAG 2.1 Level AAA requires that animations from interactions have a way to be disabled [5]. I wish more developers would implement this, although in my case it's just because I generally don't care much for animations.

There's no mention of springs, which is essential for creating animations that feel natural. I remember having my mind blown when I first learned about these animation techniques. Just knowing they exists lets you expand your toolkit, even if you don't regularly work on UI development. "Creating Animations and Interactions with Physical Models" [6] has a superb explanation.

The book references it in passing, but I want to highlight Disney's Twelve Basic Principles of Animation. I was first exposed to them in the wonderful animation: "The illusion of life" [7], and it remains my preferred resource for quickly introducing others to the concepts. They also put up each individual rule as gifs on tumblr [8] if you prefer to skip the video. This is one of those foundational building blocks that you start to notice everywhere after learning about it.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

[1] https://webkit.org/blog/7551/responsive-design-for-motion/

[2] https://caniuse.com/#search=prefers-reduced-motion

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=722548

[4] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

[5] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#animation-from-interactions

[6] https://iamralpht.github.io/physics/

[7] https://vimeo.com/93206523

[8] http://the12principles.tumblr.com/
Flu and especially pneumonia can be deadly to anyone just a lot less likely. Since the seasonal flu variate in intensity appended with off-season flu's added to the death rate from this kind of diseases. Just a hypotheses though, nothing concrete.
...you mean conversations/ dialogues/ communicating/ reaching out to a server to request information?
Yes, Windows has a feature called Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table that allows the OEM to embed any executable file they want into the UEFI image which is then automatically run on every boot. Extremely terrifying backdoor mechanism.
Common lisp also ignores case (sort of..it's a little bit more complicated). I've never found it to be a problem - apart from the compiler always uppercases my symbols when it reports to me, it feels a bit like being shouted at.
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The goal was to make it so library authors could write Nim in their own "style" - some prefer snake_case, others prefer camelCase, maybe PascalCase.

If you had your own preference one way or the other, you could call a library's `snake_case(foo)` function as `snakeCase(foo)` instead, and pretend that the library matched your own personal style.

Of course, this isn't very useful in practice, and makes simple things like grepping for identifiers or Googling a function that much harder. Tools for refactoring also suffer.

What's better is having a single style guide enforced by ordained tooling; e.g. PEP 8 for Python, Prettier for JavaScript, or gofmt for Go.
In humans between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 10,000 of the mtDNA is copied from the father, and how much and which parts seems to depend a lot on the particular father, perhaps suggesting that there exists an as yet undiscovered checksum scheme, and not random chance. Most mtDNA between humans is the same, and mtDNA is only 16,569 base pairs long. So in most offspring the paternal mtDNA contribution of 1-20 base pairs happens to be the same as the maternal mtDNA and one can not distinguish that it is even present. But sometimes those 1-20 base pairs are different. The fallacious assumption that all changes in mtDNA are due to mutations in the mother is completely off. The differences between mother and child are almost always due to the father's contribution, and not to mutations. This has serious consequences for branch dating based on mutation rates.
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Hogwash. The worth of a company is what someone will pay for it. Thats literally the definition of the market cap. Trying to say "But these shares are overvalued right now!" means nothing. The value of anything is what someone will pay for it- Just ask the guy walking in the desert what he will pay for a bottle of water.
You'll never get good performance without using assembly. GMP probably walks all over this. Even my own bignum library probably walks all over it for addition and subtraction.
Could you please elaborate more. I always have to scratch my head to really think what should go where. Most of the time I am following MVC paradigm so it dictates about but would like to know more about it.
Floating point multiplication can be faster than integer multiplication on modern CPUs. Check out this thread for lots of info!

https://stackoverflow.com/q/2550281/164234
The world definitevely needs to move past GDP as key metric to evaluate success of a nation.
From the document you posted:

since 1990.
• In 2016 compared with 2015, life expectancy decreased for
non-Hispanic white males (0.2 year), non-Hispanic black
males (0.4), non-Hispanic black females (0.2), Hispanic
males (0.2), and Hispanic females (0.1). Life expectancy for
non-Hispanic white females remained unchanged

So, no, it's not just Simpson's paradox.
That's an odd causal link to draw. For all we know, the increase in healthcare spending is what has caused the life expectancy to fall less than it otherwise would have.
The United States is a unique outlier due to its special healthcare structure: https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-...

I think a better conclusion would be that life expectancy can be hardly increased with further spending in the current healthcare system.
I think you underestimate the amount of bad health environments there are in cities (anecdotal evidence only). I would not call most cities or working environments anywhere close to sterile.
In Firefox you can turn off updates for individual plugins, so you only need to trust Mozilla and the extension author once.

Chrome is currently looking into getting rid of the ability for extension authors to obfuscate code -- minification is the highest level of obfuscation they'll accept now, and (opinion me) minified Javascript code is not that hard to read. Chrome does still need to get on the "let people turn off automatic updates" train though. But I'm not sure what to tell you about that -- you should not be running Chrome as your main browser anyway if you care about security/privacy.

I'm not sure if Mozilla is planning to follow suite on blocking obfuscation. Assuming they are, if you don't trust the extension author even for the initial download, install the extension, read through the source code natively on your own computer, and then set it to not update after that point.

It would be better if you could download the unminified/unbundled source code and install the extension yourself locally, but for whatever reason Firefox and Chrome have decided that's insecure. I feel the opposite, since requiring signed extensions makes it harder for me to audit code or place additional safeguards around that code, but... eh, what do I know?

In any case, the current situation for extensions on Firefox is not all that different from installing something in a standard software repository.
How does that compare to other countries with changing racial composition? What has happened to black men to cause their life expectancy to fall?
Sure it did - relative to the GPS coordinate system.
I think the problem here is that "financial computing" is too broad a term to apply a rule like that blindly. If you're making products like point-of-sale systems, ecommerce applications or account management, then it's basically malpractice to use floating point. The performance edge you get from them is so slight in the overall performance of the system and the damage bugs cause can be catastrophic. And it's very easy to get them wrong. It's pretty trivial in most languages to swap in decimal and/or rational types, so NOT doing so is just irresponsible.

However, if you're doing things like high-frequency trading systems or machine learning stuff with massive amounts of data, then performance really does matter, and using floating point is entirely reasonable. If you're making systems like that, you're hopefully aware of the limitations of floating point and know how to use them safely.
Market cap is guessing and network effects - investor hype - so only a reflection of perceived worth.
If you win the contest do you really need the book?
The question is can computers do arbitrary precision arithmetic. Technically you'd need infinite memory, but if you use fractions to represent amounts, as is correct, then practically speaking, yes you can. One accounting system that uses fractions is ledger[0].

[0] https://www.ledger-cli.org/
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If a 3rd party's script loaded from the 3rd party domain initiates any execution on its own (without being invoked by script on the 1st party's site), it won't have permissions to make calls to the 1st party's domain. Moving the 3rd party script to the 1st party domain opens this up.

Update: Given the responses, I'm starting to think I might be incorrect on this point. I'll admit, I'm working from memory here. I'll have to go back and validate this.
Forgot to add.. in common lisp everything is kebab-cased which makes case a lot less significant. Not sure what happens in Nim?
Nor anything close to a spoonful of soil on the bank of a pond outside a city?
Would you like to show us a benchmark of your bignum library?
If you read the investopedia link, you would see that what you write is not true. Just because some shares are being sold at a certain price does not mean all shares will be sold at that price.

>Although it measures the cost of buying all of a company's shares, the market cap does not determine the amount the company would cost to acquire in a merger transaction. A better method of calculating the price of acquiring a business outright is the enterprise value.
The opioid epidemic is an amazing example of human psychology and the power of a visual. More people die from it every year than Vietnam, yet there's been no large public outcry to resolve the situation because it isn't right in your face like a 9/11 or pearl harbor. Even ignoring the human impact and just going to economics, those lost lives will cost the US billions in lost productivity over time, yet nobody really cares.

Honestly, somebody should make a Kony2012 style video about it. It was a sham but I can still remember how viral that thing went, because it hit all the buttons of human psychology.
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Um, the article specifically mentioned that

>the drug and suicide deaths account for many years of life lost because they occur mostly in young to middle-aged adults.

Hence their large effect on life expectancy.

Of course healthcare effects life expectancy but the net effect on overall life expectancy has been small because half-assed legislation has ensured that recent gains for the poor and sick have come at the expense of the middle class and healthy.
Hahahahaha. That's amazing.
So it only provides repudiation of the sender, and only if they can share the original message through some secure channel? That isn't even a signature, let alone encryption
An alternative to retext is Mallard. It's pretty easy to use, see http://projectmallard.org/. It's used within GNOME for the documentation.
Yes, how is it that a company that's been around as long that's a market leader or second place in a large number of market segments can be so valuable? Truly, it's mysterious.
Here is my blog post for when I did this in D:

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/advent-of-d/
A sharp rise in police killing unarmed black men, I'd wager.
Their stock price has tripled since 2014. I would say that's a topic worth exploring.
Citation needed, if only because of the increased expense.

Also, public heath care plays a massive role in opioids treatment and suicide prevention, at least in developed countries.

What seems to be clear is, unless the issue if acknowledged, the US will continue to slide literally to developing countries life expectancy levels.
Stress, cancer, inactivity, obesity, diabetes, prescription and street drug abuse... doesn't surprise me unfortunately :(
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I think the argument here is about the distinction between book value -- ie owner equity in the accounting sense -- and market value.

They are both "true" values in different senses. If anything market value is "supposed" to be an integral of the total lifetime book value. Book value in turn is the integral of transactions up to the current time.
Are there other countries where the news media is as hell-bent on stoking the fires of craziness and painting the world as a horrible, horrible place full only of strife and despair?
That's the value of the stocks, what does it have to do with the objective value of the company, its assets, its IP, its facilities. Entirely different critter.
Is there any indication as to whether life expectancy has fallen for all income groups? Are there any income related discrepancies?
Where can we find your bignum library?
Golang is the accepted label used for titles and other communications for disambiguations. Note the domain name that hosts the project.
Yeah, but fewer people will still need fewer houses while construction will be more and more efficient.
It's not how much you spend, it's what you get for it.
I wonder if I should be concerned. If I simply avoid opioids and suicide, I'm safe?
> 3rd parties should version their JavaScript resources with a version number in the URL

I mean yes this is true, but it seems almost totally orthogonal to SRI (which is aimed at security AIUI), particularly given you can give more than one hash for a particular resource. If for some reason a third-party can't use fingerprinted URLs, they can still update the resource provided they give "sufficient" advanced notification of the new fingerprint to clients.

> And this should be a manual process because automating it would defeat the whole point of SRI.

Obviously it should be offline/write-once, but unless you're reviewing the actual assets as well I'm not sure I see the need to avoid automation.
Thats literally the definition of the market cap.

It literally isn't. Market cap is literally the current share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding. It's literally a different thing.
This is a reasonable concern, but after having used Nim for a couple of years I have never run into this as an actual issue. The benefit of being able to keep your entire program in one casing style outweighs these concerns. For that is the purpose of this style insensitivity, to allow you to use a library using snake_case in a project using camelCase and the other way around. And after having used Python with mixed case libraries I must say it is a good solution.

Now back to your concern of identifiers being read in different ways meaning different things. Once you know that this will be an issue you tend to think about it when naming your variables, and so it tends to not really be an issue. The thing is that once you get used to it you know that `pidTarget` and `pIdTarget` is the same thing, so you either relax you expectations, or you don't construct your names with this ambiguity. And besides, a "pointer to a target id" and a "scalar process id" probably don't share the same type, so the compiler should be catching that anyways if you ever used it wrong.