jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's only available through their volume license scheme. And therefore people will continue to use regular versions and suffer from these issues. Microsoft seems to have forgotten that small businesses (who don't want to deal with volume licenses) run Windows... They get Windows when they buy new computers.
These are good points, but I think they are more applicable to clinical psychology, at least in US and today. Psychiatry as a science and a field of medicine is committed to a certain view of mental illness as disease that precludes this kind of theorizing. Imo.
Korea blocked Iranian assets, fearing US sanctions. Iran was pissed off being robbed, and now confiscated a ship, basically asking Korea to pay its debt (at least through products).

It’s a tricky situation with both parties.
Are you saying e.g. a Rock cover of a classic piece isn't original work? Because last I checked, the composer can demand royalties (if it's not so old that it expired).

Of course you can sell physical things. You can even sell digital things, but transformative works are a way of creative expression. Or, say, a live streamer on Twitch doing an IRL (using a mobile uplink while out and about) getting their content (people seem to like it, so it appears to have some value) deleted/banned because a car with an open window waiting at the stoplight had the radio on.

And I don't know where you got that I'm making six figures. I'm just not aware of individual artists making a living by selling digital copies of their work. I'm not saying they should put a free-download button there, but having to keep track of who made which parts when (copyright and expiry) is a gigantic pain, especially for small artists who do transformative work.

I'm primarily attacking the rent-seeking model of software houses and (at least most of) the MPAA & RIAA.

I want to encourage work-for-hire (potentially payed by a collective) and Patreon-like models over rent-seeking business "propositions". The benefit is that all the censorship for reasons other than legality and bookkeeping for royalties would be gone. It would enable far better privacy, too.
You can run binaries you compiled either. On device dev is essentially pointless.

You can run interpreters, but possibly in a restricted context in the future.
This is why I'm saying I'm close to just switching to Linux, which would be my next move. Not going to reward Microsoft with a new version purchase for making their OS a pain in the ass. Nowhere in the purchase documentation/advertising does it mention this differentiation unless its buried somewhere so I was unaware and I already made my purchase.
uBlock Origin is GPL licensed software. GPL isn't compatible with the App Store Terms of Service: https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance
> Our actual response to COVID has had huge second order negative effects, like killing the economy, for no real benefit. You need to include that in your analysis.

There's strong evidence that the economy suffers whether or not governments institute lockdowns, mostly because people choose not to go out on their own. For example, take a look at the Swedish unemployment rate over the past year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/527418/sweden-monthly-un...

> I didn't say "the FDA", I said "institutions" in general. That includes both government organizations like the CDC and the WHO and the mainstream media.

The CDC didn't lie either, AFAIK. The WHO is irrelevant in this case because they're not in charge of approving vaccines in the US.

> Oh, you want me to reinvent society from scratch?
> You're right that I don't have a working alternative society in my back pocket, but our current society is clearly not working. The first thing to do if you're in a hole is to stop digging.

There's no need to reinvent society from scratch, but if you criticize a situation harshly it's best to have your desired alternative in mind: what, exactly, do you want people to start or stop doing?
Pretty sure the first only made the news because the 2nd is the more common scenario.
>The first contained 5 black, 5 grey and 5 white balls.

>The second contained 2 black, 11 grey and 2 white balls. You can see here in the second version that the grey is a relatively large category.

>Despite the fact that the chance of each ball being plucked from the lottery bowl being equal, people were then asked to estimate the probability of a grey number 8 ball being chosen.

>And the answers were crazy! People judged chance of choosing the grey 8 ball to be higher in the lottery with 11 grey balls, than the one with 5 grey balls. Put another way, because there were more grey balls than black or white, they thought that the grey #8 ball was more likely to come up.

I felt that this result could be found easily by people simply misinterpreting the question. I was very confused by the text in the article.

The question was: What is the chance of the grey ball LABELLED BALL NUMBER EIGHT to be plucked. Which is obviously 1/15th in each experiment but the question could be easily misinterpreted to mean: what is the chance of the 8th ball being grey. I have not yet read the original reseach paper Isaac & Brough (2014) so I might be wrong.

I just feel like that "people were then asked to estimate the probability of a grey number 8 ball being chosen" is worded very awkwardly ...
Really like the idea! The only complaint I have from initially using it is that the workflow is a little confusing / convoluted. I think it might be a good idea to limit the use of the modals to 1 or 2 UI interactions. Just an overall sense of progression through the various application states would be great (think simple like breadcrumbs). Good start!
Folks HAVE to do it for fun, or not at all, because there's no money in it. Cause and effect were turned around.
Great idea and an exciting execution. I'll be playing this tonight.

[I'm Kai]
BS. Rebuttal follows.

The screeners have no problem distinguishing Israeli Arabs and Sephardic Jews. 30 seconds of conversation -- if not simpler cues such as clothing -- will resolve any ambiguity.

Israeli Arabs might not always be hassled, but they are certainly lined up for "increased scrutiny" more often. A lot more often. I have enough friends who can attest to this experience.

I cannot count the number of times I've flown via TLV -- let's say that I've departed a few hundred times over the course of my life. How many times have I been taken aside for any kind of additional screening?

Zero. Never. Ever. Every time I have flown, I've received the abbreviated white-jew-boy questioning about my bags and whether they've been out of my sight. That's it. Nothing about me, ever. Obviously, they deem me to be inherently safe, else it would be wise to randomly subject me to extra screening once in a while.

Without getting into the advisability or ethics of racial profiling, we do it unabashedly in Israel, and that's a fact. Unlike the US, the threat profile is relatively narrow: Arabs and/or Muslims, and the one-time Japanese freelancers. Ergo, it makes practical sense to invest the majority of your screening resources in one place.

As harmless-looking, pasty-white, computer-geek Israeli Jews, we feel the touch of the security apparatus more lightly than everybody else. Don't let that fool you into thinking that everybody has it as good as we do.
"Mike took TechCrunch50 and re-branded it as TechCrunch Disrupt, and a valuable property I created and owned half of became part of a sale to Aol"

Can someone tell me how this is different from: "After dissolving the partnership, Mike decided to launch a conference of his own."... And why that should be a sue-able offense?

Even IF Mike was talking to AOL first, he has the right to sell TC (without the LLC) and the acquirer has the right to launch a competing conference (unless there were written agreements to the contrary which no one has mentioned).

Jason, it's all about execution. If you guys parted ways, you're both welcome to create new conferences (were there pre-existing agreements to the contrary?). IMO, 90% of the value of the TechCrunch50 was the TechCrunch brand.
See: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelifi...

It's not upping security, it's upping security in a way which increases safety, at minimum inconvenience to traveleres.

The US TSA bureaucracy, and its emphasis on scanning everything and everybody, and making everybody waste a lot of time, is dumb.
You shouldn't be able to delete comments that have replies attached to them...
"This is to see that you don't have heavy metals on you or something that looks suspicious," said Sela.

Sorry but what do heavy metals have to do with airport security? is this just typo or have I completely lost my understanding of basic explosives chemistry and other terror related topics?
Or if you text 40404 to tweet? This is really ridiculous. In my opinion, no sane person would sign off on it if they knew these details.
Great pilot program, now we can step it up a notch. Put cameras on all state level politicians and judges=) When the corruption numbers start to fall, then move up to the federal level=)
You might want to be careful with that.

I believe the company you work for legally owns anything you make while at work.
I think you have most of it right. The rollups are not configurable currently. However, we did give some thought into those pre-configured rollup granularities.

The query today is very simple. You can query data points for a metric you know by name. Look at retrieve metrics section of this guide:
https://github.com/rackerlabs/blueflood/wiki/10minuteguide

I'd like to clarify that this is not a monitoring tool. This is a metrics aggregation engine for data collected using monitoring tools. We haven't benchmarked OpenTSDB. We have a lot of operational experience with Cassandra and one of the devs is a Cassandra committer. We are seeing good performance in terms of reads and writes from/to Cassandra. If you have other questions, please join #blueflood on freenode. I am one of the devs and I am in that channel too.
Yep, I linked to that at the end of the post. It's been in Chrome Canary for a long time but hasn't made it into stable.
Gold, being an element, needs nuclear processes for manufacture instead of chemical processes (like diamond). Before modern particle accelerators, this was flatly impossible, and even today, it is very, very hard and expensive. The cost to produce an amount of gold like this is millions of times more than it's value.

Somewhat interestingly, gold is actually being actively destroyed in particle accelerators, as it has several properties that makes it a desirable target. As my professor once put it, we finally have the secrets the alchemists only dreamed of, and we use them to destroy gold.
That have been always true. San Francisco kids population is only 13.4%: the lowest in country [1]. But there is also constant flow of fresh blood (20s something).

Now, the problem is that percentage of kids has been constantly declining. It is interesting to see at which point the economic system of the city will collapse because it lacks diversity. Or it is really possible to have city without kids and without older residents: just dogs and DINKY couples.

[1] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-f...
How exactly do you add a watch? Is it a key-combo?
Exactly. I believe Gen. Keith Alexander (and the others who espouse that idea) have been seduced into believing in benevolent dictatorship.

That's not how democracy works though. Fundamentally, democracy is premised on mistrust in authority (hence voting citizens, checks and balances, the bill of rights, etc.) In a democracy, the citizens aren't expected to blindly trust the authorities. The citizens must be informed, the citizens must make their own judgements, and then they will vote for legislators and executives who share their platforms.

I believe the government's stance is "but if we debate these issues publicly, it will tip our hand to the terrorists, which would defeat the whole purpose of mass surveillance in the first place." That's a legitimate concern.

However, my stance is that in a democracy not every form of law enforcement and secret surveillance is possible. If a law or policy only succeeds if it is kept secret from the citizens, then that law or policy is incompatible with democracy. Only that which can be publicly debated can be made law.

The key in debating these issues is that opponents and advocates need to discuss and debate the issues without assuming each other are evil. And everyone must maintain an open mind. Because otherwise, we will never find ways to overcome our differences and address the root issues (differing values and concerns).
Nope.

I have neither the time nor the expertise to be able to do this myself.

You're not trying to defend against people with my level of expertise (or rather, lack thereof). You're trying to defend against people who are a whole lot smarter than me, and have a whole lot more time on their hands.

I was hoping you either had something showing it wasn't a problem, or a workaround. Instead you've basically gone "I don't think it's a problem" and dismissed it. Normally, that would be ok. But it's cryptography. That's not good enough.
it would be interesting to have two separate fantasy leagues. one just like this one . but another where investors get to see 2 minute videos with the founders just talking about themselves/their company... it would be itneresting to see if the companies they invest in are any different because of these videos... and furthermore if 2 minutes of video lead to significanlty better predictions about which companies will be successful..

incl. obvious implications for ycombinators model with 10 minute interviews etc.
FlappyReact?
Both. When the last bubble hit, the advice given to startups was:

1.) If you're in a position to raise capital, raise money now, because the funding window may not be open for a long time.

2.) Cut burn rates immediately.

3.) Get to cash-flow positive.

4.) Cut non-essential features, and focus on customers that are willing and able to pay.

It's usually not practical for a startup to change its entire business model (although LoudCloud did it in the first dot-com bust), but they can trim fat, and stop doing activities that aren't absolutely essential to generating revenue.

http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/10/the-sequoia-rip-good-times...
There are many such implementations. https://godoc.org/?q=jump+hash
The Cartoon History of the Universe I-III:
http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-1-7/d...

The history is only as good as was known at the time each book was published, of course, but it's better than you'll learn in school, where my classes seemed to go over the same parts of 1800s American history every year and gave no indication Asia existed.

Plus it's got sex and drugs.
Actually ComponentKit is built on GCD!

https://github.com/facebook/componentkit/blob/master/Compone...

GCD is fantastic—one of my absolute favorites. We're trying to solve a problem one level above that: exposing an API that doesn't require every view developer to know the details of managing GCD queues and updating a UICollectionView.

As for Autolayout, it's very powerful but isn't performant enough for layouts as complex as Facebook's News Feed. We tried it first before developing ComponentKit.
The good guys are known to use much more in-depth techniques than that, see: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

especially: https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20...

Based on the state of that powerpoint slide they're probably achieving fuck-all in practice.
Have you looked at some of the other posts? Most of them are pretty trolly
They already have network effects. I wouldn't underestimate those. Also startups are rarely zero sum, so for Dropbox to be successful™ it doesn't have to absolutely murder the competition, just be significant enough that the competition doesn't murder it.
I agree with you that DropBox is the gold standard in "it just works" but I have been using Google Drive for about a year now on a 1 TB plan consuming 850 GB of space without a single issue.

I store everything on there including JPGs, AVCHD videos, TrueCrypt volumes and every other kind of file type. Never had a single sync issue or slow sync speed.

OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) on the other hand... That constantly left filename.machinename split versions and the sync speed was uselessly slow.
PCL is a good book but too wordy for my taste.

Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp will get an advanced programmer up to an advanced level more quickly and efficiently.

http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
And all things being equal, for some reason, Dropbox syncing is much faster than Google Drive.

If I empty out both drives and start from scratch, then put the same files in both, it seems to take Google Drive around 350% time to sync the same files.
Love the project! Plan on putting it on github? (Is this you? https://github.com/smithamilli)

Also, noticed you're working on CareersMob? Let me know if you want an intro to the folks CareerMob (https://twitter.com/careermob)
Could you put an example?
I've recently started using offsetof in my own code, it's a pretty neat operator. Useful for nested structs, where you have a child but need to reference the parent.
If it's just compiler-assisted copy and paste, users should have been able to do it themselves rather than wait for the maintainers to add one instance of compile-time code generation (out of many more which still aren't present) that requires a platform reinstall to use. This is why languages should be extensible via something like macros.
Sad fact, but I'm starting to believe there is none.
"The families of many of those students you refer to are just as shattered as their neighborhoods and that may be what makes it easy for them to be susceptible to influence from the neighborhoods."

I find the stereotypes here frankly appalling. Have you guys even lived in the ghetto, or even taught in one? Inner city students are just as motivated and understand the importance of education as any other kid living in middle suburbia. They've known that since it was ingrained in them as kindergartners. It's not a people problem. It's a systems problem.
I like your sentiment. The thing is, it's a lot easier to shoot for a concrete goal "get rejected" than for a fuzzy one "be more social". Also, you don't know what your true limits are until you hit them. I think she's going for it in the right way (asking for things you want and not being cruel).
- a 30 day rejection therapy survivor. =)
Safari Mobile was the killer app for me. At the time I switched to iPhone, no other phone had a comparable web experience. This is no longer the case, as the competitive landscape for browsing has changed significantly.

Now that I'm locked in to (and satisfied with) iOS with respect to accessory and software purchases (in the very much the same way Canon photographers are unlikely to switch to Nikon), I find no need to switch to any other platform, even though they may be just as good as or a little better than iOS.
That was my thought process, but the parent of my post claimed he could do it in O(1) (actually, he claimed it in o(1), but I'm assuming he just typo'd). Hence my question.
This is something that has bothered me about my Ruby usage. A lot of the time, I feel like I'm writing "dynamic" code that really just needs to be pre-processed.

class Cool
[:ice, :soda, :snow].each do |item|
define_method item do
#some code
end
end
end

There isn't a real reason why that couldn't be pre-processed. I don't know a ton of Java, but the idea of compile-time code generation is appealing. Does anyone know more about this?
That sounds like a neat idea. I wonder if you are interested in teaming up to implement something like this.
A few years ago I made up this [generic] genetic algorithm page in javascript. http://icefox.github.com/javascript_genetic_algorithm/?progr...

The neat part about it was that you could put in your own problem and have it solve it. I took a minute and slapped together the Hello World! version of this problem. You can copy it into the text box and play with the parameters (and resulting graph output. The output isn't a pretty as the link and it runs slower, but still neat.

function salesman() {
this.target = "hello world!";

this.points = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '!', ' ' ];

this.fitness = function(chromosome) {
// higher fitness is better
var f = 0; // start at 0; the best fitness
for(var i=0, c=this.target.length; i<c ; i++) {
f -= Math.abs(this.target.charCodeAt(i) - this.points[chromosome[i]].charCodeAt(0));
}
return Math.abs(f);
};

// the size of values that should be passed to fitness
this.numberOfArgs = function() { return this.target.length; };

// the max value needed for the arguments
this.maxArg = function() { return this.points.length; };

// convert the current chromosome value which can have a maxValue
// into something fitness can use.
this.getArg = function(value, maxValue) {
return Math.round(value * (this.points.length - 1) / maxValue);
};

// Paint the solution onto bestimage
this.paint = function(values) {
var canvas = document.getElementById('bestimage');
if (canvas.getContext){
var w = canvas.width;
var h = canvas.height;
var canvasContext = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvasContext.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);

canvasContext.font = "italic 200 12px/2 Unknown Font, sans-serif";
canvasContext.strokeStyle = "blue";
for (var i = 0; i < values.length; ++i){
canvasContext.strokeText(this.points[values[i]], i*10, 10);
}
}
}

}
salesman;
Does anyone know of any apps written in this?
I've been in that area. I think it is real.

It is a lot easier to move around and work on one side of the border or the other, which leads to people naturally not meeting people on the other side.

In the east there are so many more people and there is so much cross border traffic due to trade (particularly from the auto industry) that a lot more cross border connections exist.
But Arduino isn't hardware in that sense — it's a shitty microcontroller rebranded as a standard building block. It's software!

The thing that chaps our asses is that it's almost exclusively used where a simple circuit would have done fine, often boiling down to being just a 555 timer or a parallel port breakout box.
> controlling how things are executed/computed.

No...see...you understand a monad. That is not the same thing as groking "Monads" in the abstract sense.

For instance, I don't think the State monad really has anything to do with how things are 'executed/computed'
7.5 hours daily, but some times 6 during the week and about 9 on the weekends.

Ideally it would be whatever I felt like, for maximum cognitive and memory benefit. I hate being on someone's schedule.
This is just an ad for a new WordPress product...
I have exactly the same problem with a project I run. I generate iCalendar versions of the timetables for each course at my university and let students download them. The timetables are static and do not change, yet I still get hundreds of hits every day from dataaccessd, even in the middle of summer when nobody has any classes.

EDIT: http://notlate.co.uk/

EDIT2: Not that it's enough load to be noticeable, but it's a little wasteful on the part of dataaccessd IMO.