jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The reason why state control works better in this scenario is because of the law of numbers. It takes a lot more effort to exert control over a state than a city, town, or county. Add in the fact that voter interest and participation drops at each lower level of government, and you have a recipe for capture. School boards are probably the best example of this.

This is a big problem in NYS, where there are too many little overlapping fiefdoms with different boundaries, election schedules, etc. that your average citizen cannot be expected to keep track of and hold accountable; basically government by obfuscation. Robert Moses did a lot of bad things, but he did towards the end of his career call for things to be consolidated at a level no lower than county level.
>A fractal drawn on a two-dimensional sheet of paper, for example, has a higher dimension—say, 2.1. This is a useful feature, allowing nature to pack some part of a fourth dimension into three-dimensional space.

if i remember correctly fractal can't have dimension higher than the space it is embedded in. It can have dimension higher than its local dimension though (that what makes it a fractal :) - a fractal drawn on a 2D plane using lines has local dimension of 1 while it's fractal dimension can be anything up to 2, yet can't be greater than 2. The same way with nervous system, blood arteries/veins - these are just 1D pipes locally, yet as fractals they get to 2.x thus achieving good density in 3D volume of the body with amount/size much less than just a regular network of pipes would do.
It wasn't automated. It was an operator calling hold.
I'm aware of the Citizen Labs experiments and consider them interesting preliminary results. Given the implications made by more in depth study that supports my assertions, could you reply to the contents of the study I posted specifically or provide one that studies the issue and comes to a different evidence backed conclusion?

As far as I can tell the Citizen lab's analysis is much less complete methodologically than Roberts, King, and Pan, importantly is trying to answer a much simpler and narrower question, and furthermore that between the two studies - their findings do not contradict. As far as I can reason the King study puts the Citizen Labs study within the scope of the claims I posted, but perhaps you could enlighten as to why that isn't so? It might also be useful to interject here that the Chinese government does not perform application level censorship itself but uses regulatory agency (vis a vis the Google scenario) to have corporations, with freedom of implementation, censor in the manner the Harvard Study has established.
I count four and a book plug.
I have an ergodox, and I love the look of this Atreus keyboard. I would love to see better firmware support for more advanced keyboard features like dual role keys and one shot modifiers, for ergodox and its descendants.

Right now the tmk firmware has the best support for these features, but I'm having to do a lot of monkeying around with it to get dual role keys to work in the home row without interfering with my normal typing.

For example, holding the 'f' or 'j' key acts as CTRL, but tapping works normally.
So are you trying to insult the military, the government, or are you just demonstrating lazy thinking? If your thinking was anywhere close to reality: the military would welcome criminals, the infantry would fill the majority of the ranks and be treated like cannon fodder, and very little time and money would be spent on training and support. The opposite is true.
Awe, negative points? Really? You know you were thinking it when you saw the link title.
I wonder if China's FP plays into it at all. In the same way that Russia has tried to foment cultural unrest in the United states by promoting far left & far right groups.
Some financial quants and traders use Python/Numpy or Matlab, which are both interpreted languages with array operations. Is the main advantage of APL-derived languages such as kdb or q speed or more concise code?

ETA: I found a 2019 article "A comparison of Python and q for data problem solving" https://kx.com/blog/a-comparison-of-python-and-q-for-data-pr... that compares Python/Numpy and q on analyzing tick data.
Funny is definitely subjective. I can see how you might not find this funny given your personal sensitivities. Also there may be cultural differences at play or you may have a different view of communist or totalitarian states than people in the West.

This is true not only for jokes but for pretty much every good idea. More often these are just a reference to something that is (was) funny, like movie reference or quote.

I don't know why you think this references language structure (see next point).

OP may have been clever (or not), but in my reply I sought to assert the canonical form where you take 'A <verb> B' and write 'In Soviet Russia B <verb> A'.
Why do backups of the directory not work? You're saying we couldn't roll back to a backed up version?
If it was that way for a few months and then fixed... still pretty shoddy but sure. However, it has been that way for YEARS, and is one of the most common complaints among players. I wonder how much of the remaining loading time could actually be shaved off if someone with the source code took a crack at it.
This reads to me like an argument for semantic versioning, because otherwise I need to internalize the rules of every package and know that some will break compatibility on the Y, some on the Z, ... Etc.
> A company can disappear along with its stupid fucking app.

They can also disappear and when you lose your remote, too bad. (That's why remotes go for $$ on ebay.)
I'm somewhat confused by what the point you are trying to make here. Are the kids here supposed to be competing on height? Or ability to obtain a taller footstool?

The more I think about this the more absurd it seems. The situations are so entirely different that conflating them this way is just strange.
Nope. You're still enshrining post facto control mechanisms by which the manufacturer controls what you do with the hardware after you recieve it.

Why is it so hard for businesses to just sell things? Why must they encroach? I'm not even a miner, but I'm not inviting anyone into my system to make a judgement call on whether my use of something I paid for is consistent with what they want. They sold it. They should not only have to part with the drivers, but with any semblance of software enforced binning too.
Because he might have more expertise and experience in technology than medicine. We should evaluate arguments on their merits alone, ad hominem is destructive to effective discussion.
Exactly - though to add a little nuance to your post, it’s about having a million loops in a 10M line code base and exactly one of them is operating maximally slowly. So preventing the loop from entering the code base is tough - finding it is key.
The founding fathers of the USA hacked out a patchwork of compromises to put together a government. Great work, some of the ideas aged well. But they weren't prophets and they weren't building a plan for the cyberpunk future we're finding ourselves in.
I like to semi-ignorantly throw things out there for the off chance people will talk about it and I get to learn things:

Less federal and state government, more local government.

After decades of not being involved at all, I was shocked how easy it was to get involved at the municipal level and what kind of difference I could make.

Also: stop depending on government. Want schools to improve? Go volunteer. I cold called a high school and got involved in a FIRST robotics team and it's been amazing.
The Founding Fathers (save one) also intended that slavery would exist. All of them were very rich. All of them were men, too (as their collective name suggests).

The problem with appealing to the Founding Fathers is that they were profoundly uninterested in equality of opportunity, due to who they were. It is a useful exercise to consider what they would have done — that does not itself demonstrate anything.
If you’re just looking for emergence power you can get honda e2200i generator with a gas adapter for around 1500 USD.
So you're complicit in the violence and deaths the BLM protests have caused?

Yes there is a difference
I found DW's YouTube channels to be good resources to learn about cultures, societies, current affairs and geopolitics from around the world. Auto-generated subtitles for their non-English channels are good enough to understand what is being conveyed.

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelle

[2] : their other channels are listed at the bottom of [1].
I'm not even confident about the "many could read it" part. Most papers are full of obscure jargon, and occasionally fields of study will just re-define words for their own purposes.
Exactly. Asset prices are not determined by central bank actions, there is a third component that pushes both asset prices and central bank policy - the global supply/demand of savings vs investment opportunities. Which is driven mostly by demographics. China's massive working class, and the unprecedented rate at which they are getting wealthier, and their savings rate which is like >10x the average US citizen means there is a huge increase in the global supply of savings. Which bids up asset prices and pushes down yields, as savers compete with each other to buy up the extant profitable and safe opportunities. Central banks are the on the receiving end of this too: over-saving pushes down the natural rate of interest, which means policy rates must be lower to respond (unless you want to condemn some working Americans to unemployment).
I think the problem is that homes are also designed to cool, efficiently, which is why many a/c and heater units are in the attic with vents in the ceiling.

This means that they tend to heat homes more inefficiently than in places that are used to very cold weather.
"ssh-keygen -G /tmp/moduli -b 4096
ssh-keygen -T /etc/ssh/moduli -f /tmp/moduli

This will take a while so continue while it’s running."

First line has taken 6 hours on an ec2 t1.micro.
"Make me a..." is clearly imperative.
I started my career in 1981 so I predate the author. While I often use examples from back or tell stories in my blog I have zero desire to go backwards in time. To me the good old days are in the future. Worshipping the past just makes you old.
Some great tips there. Thank you very much!

Am deffo going to keep a close eye on the Reddit group so might shoot you an email about that in a couple of days
This is a strawman of my argument. If you can make $40k in one job or $85k in another by completing a 12-week course, it is a purely rational decision. (You may be passionate enough about your $40k job to turn down more money in other areas, but only you are capable of weighing that trade-off. It's still a rational process.) I'm not making the claim that all humans are purely rational all the time.
Apologies for out-pedanting you, but I believe it is still called the past tense. English past tense (a grammatical form) can be used in several situations, the dominant being signalling past time, but also used to signal conditionals.
Wonder if WePay was allowed to bid on it.
Can someone explain what this is, is it like a UK sort-code [which identifies a particular bank branch, like a zip-code only for banks]? Why do people need to look it up [online].

Thanks.
"Imperative" isn't really a binary feature of programming languages, the imperative-declarative axes is more a continuous axes of variation describing code (which can be applied to languages, as well, as a general characterization of code written in the language.)

And, while its certainly possible to write very imperative code in clojure (or even Haskell!), idiomatic clojure is more declarative and less imperative than most popular languages, so, I think, on balance, "is imperative" is not a useful description.

That being said, in most "declarative" languages, there still remains the risk of being bitten by issues related to order of operations and structure of the code that aren't apparent if you view the code as purely declarative statements of intent rather than as to some degree imperative instructions. And if you call anything that presents that issue as "imperative", virtually all programming languages are "imperative".
But not for Volkswagen (Audi is in Ingolstadt, which the A9 passes), BMW (Munich, also passed by the A9) and Daimler (they're further away, but still close).

I guess they're not interested in sharing their livelyhood with Google, so they have to reinvent that particular automatic wheel...
So protectionism is now the next cool thing?
Isn't that LightTable? I think they discovered actually everything would remain largely the same.
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> At this point you could have used ssh right away, no? Any reason you used TLS + checking SSH agent instead?

Yeah, using the SSH login method is actually quite slow for something you want to call at app startup on N instances during a push (at a minimum, your process responsible for whatever gatekeeping you do has to be respawned for every request, which necessarily puts a lower bound on the latency). I'm sure this could have been tracked down and optimized, but as jmillikin points out, another downside is that the additional per-user config can get kind of messy and error prone. Implementing logic like this at the .ssh/config level is (in my opinion) kind of easy to goof up and hard to test.
Having average programmers is possible, but it does two things. Features are added more slowely (sometimes half the rate) and management/architectural overhead has to be much higher as well. Personally I wish that I was working with better devs even if I would appear less exceptional; just so that I could learn a lot more from them and would have to do less refactoring of their existing code
This is different, as Nihon University and All Nippon Airways already have official English names.
We humans are greedy species. If given opportunity we would always hire superstar (even janitors or hamburger flippers) especially if they don't cost any extra. If you can find superstar, great! but stop crying "shortage" if you are not in the business of open heart surgery.

EDIT: And yes every average heart surgeon is capable of doing heart surgery otherwise they would not get a degree in the first place. There is no such thing as 10x heart surgeon.
Either you exercise control over what you send, or you don't.

This has nothing to do with your choice of configuration method.
> Possibly grant resident status to anyone (with lot of money of course... after all, it's only the exceptional we are talking about here) who wants to fund and run a VC company? Because there are lots of great programmers who simply can't get funding.

That already exists in various forms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa

I don't think PG would have any problems with that, because investing in startups is not a zero-sum game, which is one of the reasons why there are so many investors in the bay area. It's not like they seek out "investor free" territory, such as eastern Montana.
3x is the normal multiplier or set your day rate to be 100x your targeted yearly income want to target $60 pa dayrate = $600
Eh. Houston also has uncontrolled sprawl and major pollution issues from letting chemical companies have free reign. I'm quite impressed with Chicago myself. The business climate is a lot more stifling, but for example it has never imposed rent controls so housing is a lot more affordable than in comparable cities. Its famous for being liberal, but is a lot more pragmatic than say San Francisco. And in many parts of the city, there are two FTTC providers (ATT Uverse and RCN). I remember 70 megabit was like $55-65. Atlanta is quite good too--I was glad to see it as a Google Fiber city.
Could be wrong, I interpreted the obesity and intelligent design comments as reflections of the culture. Unless you never leave your house, living in a place that promotes sedative lifestyles and intellectual crutches seems... draining.
Yes, Google will comply with law enforcement.

Uh... what would you prefer they do instead?
A named query, or any other form of named SQL statement.

It could be a view (a select query, stored as a database object) or a procedure (a grouped set of sql statements that might involve changes that are written to the database, possibly a simple insert, or simple update, or simple delete, but potentially much more complex).

DML is one class of SQL statements, and DDL is another. The two together encompass most of your common, practical database operations.
Sports analogies are quite accurate for any team work I think.

I recall Phil Jackson talking about the Chicago Bulls with Denis Rodman. Denis Rodman was sometimes late to practices, always in trouble, and etc. And Phil Jackson was connivent with him. When asked if this permissivines with one rebellious player wouldn't have a bad influence on others, specially when you have two other more important stars (Pippen and Jordan), he answered that they knew it better. They knew one team can have only one Denis Rodman on the team. And despite being more important than him to the team, they didn't try to play the "I'M the star here, so I should have the privilegies". They knew Denis Rodman needed this kind of freedom to perform, and they needed his performance.

So, just as you need more down to earth programmers to support a superstar, you also need to everyone know they role in the team and why they need each other. A superstar that doesn't recognize the importance of those with less talent than him isn't a good one to have on your team.
Finally they're changing the iTunes icon. This might be the new one. http://dribbble.com/shots/51495-ItUnEs-10-1
From what I've heard "vaporizing" allows you better control consumption without any (minimal) smoke.
Probably the safest and healthiest method to consume a desired amount.
Falling into local minima and getting rescued by mutations.
A 10" iPad is still too small to legibly render a typical textbook. It requires a lot of scrolling and/or zooming. If the rumors of a 12-13" iPad turn out to be true, this will certainly be one of its primary uses.

I'd buy one just for reading my large collection of PDFs for tabletop RPGs.
Honestly benzodiazepines should almost never be taken long-term for anxiety. They are fantastic drugs for short-term use, but in the long-term they tend to only make things worse.

You don't have to take them for very long to have withdrawal symptoms after stopping. The effects of stopping can include crippling anxiety. Not exactly the best thing for someone having bad anxiety in the first place.
Can we do this computationally? Dokmanic et al say yes in certain situations in their paper "Acoustic Echoes Reveal the Shape of the Room," PNAS, vol. 110, no. 30, 2013. Daniel Kish is mentioned in the paper to motivate the problem. Thaler's work is cited in the commentary by Mark Plumbley.

Here's a more accessible commentary: Mark Plumbley, "Hearing the Shape of a Room," PNAS, vol. 110, no. 30, 2013. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12162.full
No zoom on iOS. This means search is now unusable for me.
I made the mistake of buying Pale Fire on Kindle. It is basically unreadable due it's structure.
s/OpenStack/customLinuxKernel/

No startup should be rolling their own cloud, any more than they should be putting together their own Linux kernel. Go public, or if you MUST be on your own metal, use a turnkey solution like Metacloud or Nebula (and let them manage it for you).
How about on a tablet? I admit, I don't really like reading a screen (I do love me some e-ink for novels, though). I've found for things that require flipping back and forth (think DFW foot-notes) that an iPad Mini has an intuitive enough interface that I don't find it cumbersome. I think the real challenge is making the ebooks not just text, but interactive. That is, ebooks should add value to the text, not just reproduce it in a different format.
Nothing is different if they are also targeted specifically.

The context of the discussion is that SONY, even if it 'increased spending on defense' would have been compromised because it was targeted in an attack rather than an attack of opportunity.

Amazon and Google also get hacked. So does Adobe and Microsoft. So does the DoD and Whitehouse. So does JPMorgan and Wallstreet.
"I could never manage the transition from Linux to MacOS"

I feel the same way. I recently started using a MacBook at work. It's a mid-2014 MacBook Pro w/Retina display and there is a lot I like about using it.

But it seems rather hostile to developers. The keyboard shortcuts don't make a lot of sense -- most of it really is just about what I'm used to, but for example ⌘+SHIFT+3/4 to take a screenshot? And the CTRL+SHIFT+POWER KEY combination to lock the screen is a very odd choice.

⌘+C and ⌘+V work on files/folders, but not ⌘+X?

I only had to setup MAMP here so far, but it wasn't quite as smooth as LAMP on my Ubuntu machine.

I am in the market for a new laptop -- I considered everything from Chromebooks to even getting my own MacBook. But I keep going back to a Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot setup. There are just too many little annoyances with OSX for me.
Thanks, that's what I thought it was supposed to mean. There's a number of other ccTLDs as well that have restrictions similar to .eu.
Could you elaborate? In what I've learned (in the past few minutes) it looks like it hasn't has POSIX compatibility since an optional subsystem up to Windows 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX_for_Windows
So bloody what.

I use G+, I like G+, it does what I need, Google haven't messed with it too much like FB does all the time.

Use whatever tool you like for the task.

What's with all these articles saying how no one is using G+, I assume they think Google are going to shut it down? Why would they, they can target me and create a profile around me....

Meh.
Powershell is a lot better than CMD was (at least if you're used to bash/zsh; cmd and bash have too many false cognates, making it realy difficult to be able to switch between easily). That being said, bash's object model is infinitely easier to understand (what objects? it's all text and files).
fib(35) is much much smaller than the safe max that is the whole point of my comment
It's unclear to me how enforcing laws on theft pertains to a tyrant retaining power over their citizens.
Glad to be part of that annoying sense of guilt at the back of your mind :)

For me it's less about modeling the tube and more about checking the rest of the circuit around the tube if that makes sense. Does the tone control do what I want, and so on.

Personally I'm looking to verify relatively simple parameters of a tube in a circuit: gain, whether it's operating in the linear region given a particular bias, that sort of thing. If the model was simply a representation of the tube's characteristic curves that'd be good enough for my purposes.

So being SPICE-like would work ok. After all that's what I'm doing now!