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RE: The goal of the central bank is to meet it's inflation target by injecting money into the economy via policies like QE.

Not really. QE was a semi-emergency move. The hope was that managing interest rates alone would be sufficient, but it turned out not to be for deep slumps. QE creates a lot of nasty side-effects and draws criticism to the Central Bank they'd rather not have. I think the chairman once said the job of stimuluses outside of interest rates was or should be Congress's job, not them. But Congress bungles it with debt and reverse Keynesian timing due to political and tax squabbles.
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As someone outside of SV, I too have heard that generalization. Can anyone with varied experience inside SV confirm or deny?
Gardens and other natural spaces absolutely affect social and mental wellbeing.

An interesting piece of research into the effects of greenery and nature on wellbeing was conducted back in 2001 by Ming Kuo and William Sullivan [0]. I love referencing it in discussions like these as it's a rather opportunistic experimental setting that might have otherwise never occurred, and gives us some pretty great data to recount when we only otherwise have anecdotes.

In Chicago there was a set of high-rise public-housing buildings. The residents of these buildings had been assigned randomly by the public housing system. Attrition over time had left some buildings surrounded by only concrete and asphalt and others with pockets of green. Kuo and Sullivan were able to compare levels of aggression of 145 residents. They found higher levels of aggression and familial conflict recalled by those living less close to nature. They backed up this data by looking at similar low-rise developments [1]. Controlling for other factors, they compared crime rates of inhabitants who experienced less natural proximity to those with more. They found that roughly 7% of the variation in crime that couldn't be accounted for by other factors could be accounted for by the amount of trees.

Ming Kuo has gone on to research the link between nature and school performance, one of her recent studies concluding that "greening has the potential to mitigate academic underachievement in high-poverty urban schools."[2] In another fascinating piece of research she has also found that "Children with ADHD have fewer symptoms after outdoor activities in lush environments."[3]

Many of this research matches our collective anecdotes. We know that we are somehow hard-wired for nature. Yet we keep ourselves locked away in buildings for hours on end with little of it except corporate potted plants (often fake) and the odd photo or poster on the wall. To pile on with another opinion... I think there's something about 'wild' greenery that is distinctly effective versus manicured greenery. Its chaos and growth somehow synchronise with the minds' inherent nature. In an incredibly fundamental way, we are supposed to be amongst that wildness.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245234610_Aggressio...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249624302_Environme...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327876862_Might_Sch...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23192434_Children_W...
> Literally everyone is wearing this £39 Topshop dress on Instagram right now

> So many people are wearing this Zara blouse on Instagram right now

> All your favourite Instagrammers are wearing this high street range right now

It's as if they're waiting for readers to notice the belabored joke.
New planes also get 50-year old design engines due nobody wanting to pony up $ for certification of new ones...
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I'm currently sitting in a Boulder Cafe at Galvanize reading this article, and wondering if a high school peer that I know -- Tennyson McCartney -- who also played for the CU team back in the day had CTE. He also committed suicide 10 years back. Remember him as a giant of a guy that was smart and kind.
For those unaware the above comment is likely about how american football programs fund almost entirely all athletics and some amount of academics at universities.
Neem is great. We use it a lot in India. It's one of what some people informally call super-plants or wonder-plants, some others being banana, coconut, and bamboo. All have various uses, for different parts of the plant, not just the obvious ones, e.g. in the case of banana, people in India eat the flowers and stems too, made into curries).

Edit: Also garlic, ha ha. What would we do without it, for both food and (informal) medical uses.
I've always thought this too, but never seen it laid out as clearly as you did. We should be incentivizing long term growth and planning over bare knuckle struggling over the next quarter.
Though sometimes it feels that if you are not working at one of the FAANGs making $400k/year that you are a total loser.

That's the socially acceptable thing to brag about, but it's absolutely not "everyone" here. A lot of people downplay it if they don't fit that narrative.

But it's kind of a skin deep thing. HN is vastly more diverse than that.
Pretty sure it’s a dig at what people thought about her. I’m sure most people who follow her think they’re slackers. Granted she is very talented but coming from a wealthy family allowed her to pursue her arts completely.
Not my experience and I have a Engineering-Physics degree, which is essentially a full physics degree with additionaly courses gears towards training us as systems engineers and luckily that's how I landed a job afterwards. I tell all prospective physics majors to dual major in CS or EE or some other engineering useful discipline if you truly want to do something good. You have a much better chance of landing a job afterwards and gaining the foothold you need to propel into what you really want to do. Most places outside academia don't know what to do with you. Funny thing is, the people I know with physics degrees end up being some of the best engineers and quickly bubble to the top. HR types have a hard time seeing that potential if you don't fit their criteria degree exactly.
> Even though some people win the lottery, it’s fairly uncontroversial that most people would be better off if the lottery was simply disallowed, and nobody wins. We don’t need a replacement for the lottery, just to remove it.

There's a big difference between "disallowed" and "does not exist". The lottery as it stands distributes its poor tax proceeds to the state, often to education. It's heavily regulated, and advertisements contain warnings on the dangers of gambling, and I'd say it's common knowledge that it's a tax on the poor.

If it was removed, however, it would leave a vacuum. People are irrational, and the idea that they could get lucky and win is extremely tempting. I don't think you can say with confidence that whatever gambling would take its place would be less harmful than the lottery.
I agree that the other two were disappointments.

Also when reading on blues waters, I hadn't yet read the previous series. but the references were made all the more mysterious because of it.
5G needs way more capacity/stations than 4G
Yes it should be awkward, but at least in my experience in the past this was expected to happen. And the person on the other side of the awkwardness would mostly be receptive from the tentative approach.

I feel like nowadays, because it is so much easier (but fake) online, most people simply gave up all tentative of approaching//being approached in real life.

I mean meeting people in real life still happens, but it is getting more and more rare//isolated and awkward unfortunately. I guess we live in a society where everything needs to have a well defined flow and be well codified.
Do you have specific examples?
Then we just get bigger offensive and defensive lines, who still take big hits. Making the field faster might be a solution - moving the game towards hockey rather than rugby speed.
Not that I have the luxury, but sounds good to me. A company that doesn't expect a social-media presence is a company I'd rather work for.
Sounds so much simpler outside the context of a 'research' paper:

>When an engineer attempts to land their commit, it gets enqueued on the Submit Queue. This system takes one commit at a time, rebases it against master, builds the code and runs the unit tests. If nothing breaks, it then gets merged into master. With Submit Queue in place, our master success rate jumped to 99%.

https://eng.uber.com/ios-monorepo/
That study has a selection bias; the athletes' families all suspected that their player had CTE. So it's not accurate to say that 91% of college football players will get CTE.

But, it's still an enormous indictment of the sport. Enough that when that study came out, I just lost all taste for watching football. (Which was not a stretch, I never followed much, but I did occasionally pay attention or watch with friends.) With those kinds of numbers, I think it's fair to say that if you play college football, your chances of developing CTE are very high. I think of it as similar to smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. I just think it's important to be clear on the parameters of that study, which means being careful when citing the numbers.
I find the idea of “except for emotional reasons,” as if they are not Facts and Needs like any either, to be a good representation of the pretenses mentioned in my original comment.
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These companies would not be wrapping their practices in secrecy and lobbying against user rights unless there were sinister aspects of Big Data.

And it's not just principles. The effects of Big Data are extremely tangible even if not to you in this particular time or space. Some feel the effects now, others will feel them later in life.

I'm worried my children or grandchildren could one day be denied healthcare or adequate education or loans or low insurance payments just because of my attitude towards my government and every other aspect of my lifestyle which gets swept up and analyzed by for-profit robot armies bent on achieving the Holy Margin.
Physics major myself and found it pretty much the same as you mentioned. Definitely wish they had put more emphasis on double majoring, or doing internships and such.
Yup but I've already turned off the LTS setting.
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Right, I should have pointed that out: the Power hardware is truly incredible, especially the fast I/O to GPUs. There’s a reason why the national labs and Google have gone with that architectue.
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When it came out it was a substantial UX regression from Gnome 2 and it took a few releases to even reach feature parity.

The same thing has been seen with KDE 4 and 5, Gnome 3, and how long LXQT has taken. Users hate experience regressions passionately, and will actively hate projects that depreciate or replace their workflows, sometimes for years, and sometimes forever.
I've been in recruiting discussions where we specifically wanted an ABD in CS (we wanted ability, but also eagerness to work in a new subject area).

Although, it's conceivable that being both ABD and not specifically in CS is seen as a bridge too far.
I think a lot of people, (probably) me included, have quite a high barrier to things they're willing to discuss or reveal to people they've paid to discuss and reveal these things to.
What I do is take it and turn it on 'em. I make about $15k a year but it's off open source software development on Patreon plus some livestreaming, and literally everything I produce is available free.

Want to impress me? Continue to make $400k a year whilst giving everything you do away for free. Otherwise you are merely exploiting the workers and making things worse for everyone, and the more astonishing your 'score' at capitalism the worse you are :D

For all that folks like that spout on about 'making the world a better place', often that means 'cashing out on a software patent for an obscure relational database interfacing protocol'… very better, much wow. That really did a lot, and was unequivocally helpful to humanity ;P :)
Oh, I don't have an opinion on it, thanks for clarifying that. I could probably formulate one, and I'm not sure it would be different from yours.
Ask HN: Learning C++ with a C Background
Hi fellow HN'ers,

As a long-time C on Linux developer, and someone who has some experience with languages such as Go and Python, I'm looking to finally learn C++ as I've ended realizing that I am skipping a huge amount of systems-level development opportunities (networking, embedded, compilers...) due to not learning C++.

I'm looking for resources that don't start from zero given my background, but without teaching some sort of "C"ified C++ warts and anti-patterns.

As someone who learns more by quickly jumping from theory to practice then back to theory, rather than studying a 1400 pages book, resources with focus on practical problems/projects would be very appreciated.

Thanks!
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KDE was always brilliant in functionality, but unprofessional looking. I've settled on Mate, but it could use some more KDE-style functionality.
> the other clipboard

"The other clipboard" is part of the problem I'm describing. Why would you have "the other clipboard" in your system?

But you know what: I've read the replies in this discussion and I rest my case. It seems that most Linux users are OK with the current situation and do not even want to hear about the possibility of a better solution. This is why things will not change.

I'll just use OS X for development, happily paying Apple a premium for getting things to work for me.
It's not that the highlight reel is better. It's that you only see the good days. Sure, maybe one day you can get a bunch of stuff done and post about it, and then the next week you get nothing done. But if the only post people see is the one about getting all the stuff done, then they will assume that happens every day, including the days you don't post.

The problem with the highlight reel is that people assume it applies to all the times you don't post.
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> For multirepo users this is explicit in that this comes for free :-)

Only if you spend the time to build tools to detect commits in your dependencies, as well as your dependent repositories, and figure out how to update and check them out on the appropriate builds.

So, no, it doesn't come for free.
Default python3 version is now 3.7. Upgraded and found python performance improvement over py3.6 to be quite significant.
Applied?
Machine learning and neural net systems seem to be the inverse of the "uncanny valley", call it the "miraculous hill" if you will.

They're just good enough to, with insane amount of computing resources, churn out economically viable results, but in my opinion they're the biggest setback in actually developing intelligence or cognition in a long time.

There's very little insight to be gained from what they pick up, and they function purely in a stochastic sense. Even the best ML algorithm has no ability to reason at a high level or produce counterfactuals, it works purely by correlation and still, in those 1% edge cases, will be as helpless as anything else.

That might be good enough when selling advertisements, but in automated cars and healthcare treatment, this sort of failure is not an option.
I don't think that's accurate. Many top-level football programs lose money. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/runni...
My 2010 car didn’t come with Bluetooth either.

I fixed it by replacing the head unit with one that supports Bluetooth and CarPlay. An easy DIY project or you can pay a small fee to have it done for you by an installer.
You're absolutely right. But since there's no evidence, we can't label someone guilty, like the mass media have been doing for years now. /I'm not even a fan of Trump./
Anyone fancy comparing this to bors?
Its not that annoying because you can go into the Search settings page of system settings (or just search for "search" in any of the various launchers) and turn it off with a checkbox.
The author of this article seems to be a slave to her emotions and hasn't yet realize she can choose the emotional responses to the events in her life. Endometriosis is an awful awful awful thing to experience, but she seems to be confusing her own emotional choice about that condition and the inane platitudes those around her try to give to her. "Be positive" isn't toxic... it's just annoying when you think you don't have a choice about how to feel.
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I don't want to diminish the seriousness of CTE, but there is a huge selection bias there since the brains had to be donated to the study in the first place. Fully healthy people are probably much less likely to make the decision to donate their brain on death. Most of the people who are making the choice to donate are probably doing so because they experienced CTE symptoms during their life.
> It seems the way to make the game safer is, ironically, to reduce the safety equipment. After all, if you have more skin in the game, so to speak, the less you might make or take on risky maneuvers.

This seems like saying the way to make the roads safer is to take seatbelts and airbags out of cars, because then people will be incentivized to drive more carefully.

And the football case is even worse, because on the roads nobody's future career hinges on how recklessly they're willing to drive. College football players on the other hand have huge financial motivations to be willing to ignore the risks and hit hard, since if they aren't, they are likely to lose their chance at one of the tiny number of jobs in professional football to someone else who is.
I don't like all the toxic positivity that has been growing in the workplace. This has changed a lot since my early days in Silicon Valley. My impression is that different countries have different "power distance" - a measure of submission to authority.

As the workforce has changed, with more hiring from "high power distance" countries, there are more "yes men" enthusiastically agreeing to anything that any incompetent executive wants.

Of course, the executives like this, and promote those who are "easy to get along with" and who are happy to "implement their vision". But I think history will show that this is one of the things which has contributed to the culture decline in Silicon Valley - from producing useful products to producing maximum profit regardless of any contribution to society.
Right now, for example, I'm at yet another company with several incompetent managers who are supported by technical "yes men". They know that we are making idiotic technical decisions, but they would never openly disagree.
Open Streetmap doesn’t build laser scanning drones, or fleets of connected 360 camera vehicles, or the tech and infrastructure to do the mapping. SOMEONE has to build all of that. It can’t be free. If it’s govt funded, then there WILL be corruption, scams, and it’ll be run as well as the DMV.
Do you have any particular models in mind?
Say wooot?

Since I can't read the paywalled article I'm wondering how exactly do you apply "noninvasive stimulation" on these frequencies. Was it audio, electrodes on a shaved head, combination of drugs, did this work in rats first etc..
When I was an undergrad, a classmate told me a Master's in Physics was a "kiss of death". I did stop with a Master's (didn't even go to the graduation ceremony, since it felt like dropping out), though financially I'm good since I went into the web world (started around the bubble's peak). I kinda buy that it helped develop my analytical thinking skills, though in the long run I'm not sure that mattered. Recently I'm also feeling something else that I was warned about: what I'm doing isn't fulfilling. So, it's kinda cliche, but I'd say do what you like doing, not what you think will make you money.
I once had a friend that was complaining about their decade old microwave and how the keypad was really looking bad, like it was going to fail at any moment. I took a slightly closer look at it, scratched it with my fingernail, and peeled off the protective cover, leaving a brand-spanking-new looking keypad.

We definitely have people trained that electronics come with a protective film over them. I mean, we clearly don't have everyone trained, but... :-)
This isn't true at all. The USA has a strong left-wing history and events. These are forgotten in America but remembered by the rest of the world. It's just that nowhere has this history been more "erased" than in the USA. The rest of the world remembers.

- An example is May 1st, international workers day which was inspired by the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.

- Another example is the Republican party! which was started by Socialists in Wisconsin.

- Or the fact that Abraham Lincoln corresponded with Marx (most Americans read Marx at the time) and one of his army generals distributed the communist manifesto to the public during the civil war.

- The writings of Thomas Paine were incredibly popular in the USA and abroad.

- Russian Anarchists like Tolstoy was inspired by American Quackers, who later inspired Gandhi.

- Influential thinkers like Chomsky and David Graeber are alive and American.

The connections are deep!
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If a government or government-sanctioned non-profit receives enough tax credits and funding to create a viable alternative to Google Maps which puts the service out of business, it's still just market competition. We do this all of the time with banks, large American industries, oil companies, etc. You can't have one and turn away the other.

> Great. Are you working on a mapping service?

That's fallacious. I don't have a giant pile of money sitting around. But I support initiatives like OpenStreetMap even if I see room for improvement.
Richard Hipp explains the techniques he used to optimize SQLite. While this was a presentation at a TCL event, there's nothing in his explanation that's particular to TCL.
Really the blame for that lies with the public for not demanding a longer warranty.

If enough people were prepared to pay double to buy something with a 25 year warranty, I'm sure companies would step up and make those products. People don't want to pay enough for it though.
My point was that the rules are the same across all sports. If you make a change that will positive affect football athletes, that change might not be so positive for the other sports it will affect as well.

Although, you are absolutely correct in your comment as well.
The more I've learned about gardening the less fun I find the abstraction of gardening games.

I think it's mainly about how important soil health is for growing plants and how poorly this concept seems to be modeled in games.
If you want to try Ubuntu, try the latest long time support release (currently 18.04).

All Ubuntu (and indeed most major Linux disto) releases come with a "live image" - so there's no reason to start off with an actual install - it's easy to boot off an USB and play around.
Apple was selling them brand new until a few months ago. Of course people are still using them.

Isn’t there some sort of analytics you could add to your app to learn the screen size of your users?
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I know this was a few days ago, but I'm curious, what utility do you see for this dapp? I'm trying to wrap my head around the economics. Will properly defined words be more valuable?
Because modern weapons are designed to enable both sides to lose at the same time.
It's clear that there is significant brain damage risk to participating in activities that knock your brain around. Why anyone would let their children or themselves box, MMA, hit soccer balls with their head, or play American football is beyond me.