jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do call China communist, and so does Chinese Communist party itself. Only you for some reason try to pretend it isn't. And you do it not by addressing my argument but by discussing irrelevant details of my biography. This is textbook personal attack (check out Wikipedia of you're in doubt).

> I think you've redefined 'communist' into some sort of tautological catch-all.

I define "communist", broadly, as a totalitarian state with single-party rule, where the ruling party is the communist party, i.e. a leftist party based on the Marxist social theory, and with state-controlled planned economy, with all economic and political decisions being made and subject to the control of the state and the communist party (which are one and the same in this case). This describes China very well. What would be your definition of a communist country?

Of course, if we instead use strict Marxist definition of "communism", no communist country ever existed and none can exist ever, because marxian communism is anti-scientific fever dream. But if you follow the common use and include socialist countries which are ruled by Marxist parties calling themselves "communists" (e.g. USSR, North Korea, Warsaw Pact countries, China) - even though their countries do not implement marxian communism (because it can not exist) - China fits. Here is Wikipedia:

The economy of the People's Republic of China is a mixed socialist market economy which is composed of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and domestic and foreign private businesses and uses economic planning. Since the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982, the economy has been described as socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Following the common, colloquial definition of communist country instead of the strict marxian one - and noticing SOEs in fact dominate the economy and even the nominally independent businesses are subject to strict control by the CCP - one can be sure my definition is correct. But if you insist on saying "totalitarian socialist country ruled by Communist party" - ok, you can use that one, it's just saying the same with different words.
Well, that's sorta what I'm more familiar with - the 'dana' model - there's plenty of sangha orgs that have operated online during the pandemic (e.g. https://sfdharmacollective.org ).

The teachers may also have other offerings that are more paid upfront that are more 1-on-1 or small groups.

"What we are trying to do is bridge the gap for people who find traditional techniques challenging so that they can avoid the discouraging feeling of “I’m doing this wrong” and empower them to develop their own mindfulness practice. Another thing we do to support our users in the early stages of practice is provide a community in which they can share their experiences and get encouragement to keep going."

Part of me has a visceral pushback, but I understand this may work for some people. I just hope, out of respect, there's a pointer to the traditional techniques for those realizing that this practice may not be the right fit for some. The worst thing you can do is dissuade people or disrespect neighboring teachers (see https://seattleyoganews.com/northwest-yoga-conference-incide... ).
I think I follow this, but isn’t owning say an index fund just another IOU, itself made up of smaller IOU’s?

And isn’t that the main way normal people’s savings can be tied to “real stuff?”
The flight itself should take about an hour, but with the trip to and from the airports, the luggage and passport controls and the need to arrive before the plane takes off, I would say the travel time between two offices in Amsterdam and London will be at least two hours if not three.
What does an email like social network protocol provide over something like Usenet or IRC?
Yes, the README says "This was inspired by github1s.com."
It is actually a link, he's not cynical (if you thought so like me)
Scala is a very simple language at its heart. Unfortunately that empowers developers to write really complicated libraries, leaving application developers in much the same place as if they were using a language with complicated features. (Most application developers can't even tell the difference - most complaints about "Scala is a complex language" turn out to be "I was using a complex library in Scala")
In those situations, the average person is definitely thinking 'overthrow the government' because everything is crumbling around it.

This is what causes they hyper sensitivity, authoritarianism, and 'blame America for Everything'.

But yes, BTC is completely unpragmatic.

USD, at least in Latin America, has the benefit that it will creep into the system irrespective of what anyone in charge says.

Nobody needs to be told that USD's are 'good' the hairdresser, cabbie, landlord, grocer will just take it.

I wonder if Euros have the same effect in E. Europe and North Africa. Maybe these days.
I thought that it was going to be a fourier like overlay of the pixels making up hello world with some clever working to reduce the number of curves used but maximise the density of the in fill in the text.

Instead it's just a function that goes through the points relating to the ascii codes for the letters - (87,0), (111,1), etc..
Great tool! This one and wordroid are my favorites to use
This lacks a lot of the nice things that makes Medium great. Just off the top:

1) The sidebar's navigation feels bloated and useless at the same time. Needs to be tighter and more useful. Why not put the last five posts' title in there? Move the social icons in there as well, they are super distracting floating on the right side. Simplify the page presentation.

2) The footer of the site should link to the post I made before this one. Similar to how medium links to a random post.

3) The hover effect on the list of posts is brutal. Way too harsh. The list itself is also weird. Why do I care when it was last edited? Show the subtitle if there is one instead.

4) Medium putting the author bio at the top is really nice. Same with who helped you write it and last updated. I miss it in your design. Medium also has a much better homepage with a really nice bio bar.
Ah, that makes more sense. I'm not sure how well it will work, being made of wood and considering how violent and chaotic tsunamis are once they hit land, but I suppose it must be better than nothing.
This list feels incomplete without Snowden.
Hasn't this almost always been true?

On the plus side, it makes it fairly easy to ask cocktail-party-caliber questions and quickly suss out whether you conversation partner knows what the hell they're talking about.
> "Look, veganism is a preference, not a religion."

The line between preference and religion can be awfully thin. See: Urban vs. suburban, Nikon vs. Canon, Vi vs. Emacs, etc.

All of the above are contentious issues that are, at the end of the day, incredibly asinine to argue about. And all sides in the above suffer from incredibly poor signal to noise ratio - both defending their ego more than they are any notion of reason.
Thanks for the nice reply. My first experience with GAE was not good, after that I have never looked at it. I took a look at webapp and tipfy, both look good. I will make some time to give it a try.
We're still talking about the scenario when NK nukes SK, right? The "nuclear umbrella" doctrine, where nuclear deterrence is used to protect one's allies from nuclear attack, is well-established policy. The question smackay raised was whether public opinion would allow such a retaliation. The TV pictures take care of public opinion; the nuclear umbrella doctrine (and the need to demonstrate the West's will to enforce it) take care of the leadership.
I don't speak french. Why is he orchestrating a bank run?
They also speak a slightly different language
The author of this piece calls Dynamic Programming "one of the top three achievements of Computer Science", however, it doesn't have much to do with computer science, as it's just a synonym for mathematical optimization, used seemingly exclusively for being "politically-correct" (avoiding the wrath and suspicion of managers) at RAND Corporation:

> I spent the Fall quarter (of 1950) at RAND. My first task was to find a name for multistage decision processes. An interesting question is, "Where did the name, dynamic programming, come from?" The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word "research". I’m not using the term lightly; I’m using it precisely. His face would suffuse, he would turn red, and he would get violent if people used the term research in his presence. You can imagine how he felt, then, about the term mathematical. The RAND Corporation was employed by the Air Force, and the Air Force had Wilson as its boss, essentially. Hence, I felt I had to do something to shield Wilson and the Air Force from the fact that I was really doing mathematics inside the RAND Corporation. What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word "programming". I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying. I thought, let's kill two birds with one stone. Let's take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it's impossible to use the word dynamic in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some combination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It's impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History
I'm not sure I buy that. Or, well, I suppose that those in the medical field believe it, but I don't think they're right.

Consider something like a surgeon nicking and artery while performing some routine surgery, the patient not responding normally to anesthesia or the anesthetist not getting the mixture right and the patient not coming back the way they went in. Or that subset of patients that have poor responses to a vaccine.

Everybody likes to think of the world as a linear system, but it's not.
There are two tests a trade dress lawsuit has to meet: first, the features have to be distinctive of the product in the eye of the consumer; second, the features must not be functional. This second requirement should mean that trade dress cannot be used to establish a monopoly.

The actual application of the functionality requirement is hazy. See http://www.akingump.com/docs/publication/549.pdf

It's unclear to me that Apple's claims to trade dress pass the functionality requirement.
I wonder why you were initially downvoted? Anyway, to quote from Williams: "I see no reason why a conscious motive need be involved. It is necessary that help provided to others be occasionally reciprocated if it is to be favored by natural selection. It is not necessary that either the giver or the receiver be aware of this. ... Simply stated, an individual who maximizes his friendships and minimizes his antagonisms will have an evolutionary advantage, and selection should favor those characters that promote the optimization of personal relationships."

Robert Trivers expanded this idea and you can read his paper, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism", here: http://www.cdnresearch.net/pubs/others/trivers_1971_recip.pd... Since then the evidence has continued to grow in support of the idea (at least in primates--birds and fish that Trivers suggest don't have as much evidence).

http://lesswrong.com/lw/kw/the_tragedy_of_group_selectionism... is a nice post on why group selection theories tend to be wrong by default and why you shouldn't really pay attention to them when they come up.

For people interested in evolutionary psychology I recommend Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, which does a good job covering the history of the field and offering explanations for a variety of behaviors. http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Animal-Science-Evolutionary-Psyc...
So we have people who upgraded their hard disk to a ssd and say it resulted in a "serious performance increase" and we have people who still use traditional hard disks (why on earth would somebody want to do something like that?) who say it isn't. Maybe the judgment is based on experience?
Well then, how shall I contact you? (my email is alexis at hipmunk) Don't be a stranger!
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The "don't DIY" option hasn't been explored here: why not pay a graphic designer?
I always assumed that those fantasy light/dark associations came from much older (as in, pre-language and pre-sentience) human feelings of "day/light/warm/safe/good/life" and "dark/night/cold/fear/bad/death".
Why is it, that whenever there is a FIFA WC or Olympics, that there seems to be ties to organized crime, poor working conditions, bribery and so on, but nothing ever happens, the games go through (every time) and everybody is watching, what is just a show of "panem et circenses".

Why do "modern" societies accept these kinds of festivities, with all what is surrounding them?
I use http://mongohq.com and love them, I don't think they actually do consulting stuff but they do take care of all the technical stuff I'm too busy/lazy/stupid to learn myself.
The title of this article is kind of BS. I went to UT's business school and studied Management Information Systems (I call it watered-down computer science), and I founded a successful startup with another UT grad.

The courses at UT, even in the business school, do not prepare you perfectly for startup world. But an important thing to realize is that being a startup founder is about desire and taking risks. It's about eclipsing the limitations of your formal education. There are plenty of successful entrepreneurs from even just my class at UT. The real founders pick up and go to San Francisco or New York to get shit done.

I agree with your general sentiment that the CS department should integrate with real world projects more. I don't think UT in general is a haven for future startup founders. But since when is it the role of a university to produce startup founders? That's a personal duty. Saying UT Austin is second rate at producing startup founders just doesn't make sense. The good ones, whatever school they happened to go to, go to Silicon Valley or their industry equivalent, so you aren't around them anymore to see.

This is more of a comparison of Austin tech to Silicon Valley tech, which, for the foreseeable future, Silicon Valley will win definitively. That's why the tech entrepreneurs that you're missing are out here. =)
http://www.feedbackarmy.com/ , sorta.
People don't choose belief or lack of belief, or agreement or disagreement with any idea, unless they're trying to brainwash themselves.
That's fine, I'm not optimizing my life for money. I'm glad I don't have to deal with IBM mainframes anymore.
“One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have arrived at her destination.”

That’s particularly awful and cruel. It must be extremely disorienting and stressful for a blind person to be put in that situation.
> "British union leaders simply play workers against management for their own gain, then leave both workers and management worse off, but workers get the worst of it."

Again, you're buying into nonsense anti-union propaganda.
Disregarding who actually had access to that healthcare and education (since by similar definitions of who had access, the West had both public services by the classical Greek era)...No major wars? Really?

Even ignoring the phrasing that could be read as claiming no major wars since the medieval era, we don't have to go so far back. I mean, sure, the Cultural Revolution killed more Chinese people than WW2 and the Korean war did combined, but that's still eleven million or so Chinese people dead in those conflicts.
It's incorrect to state that the Economist doesn't have a bias: it leans consistently toward free trade, free markets, open borders, and international institutions.

Some of the limits are due to the way that media is regulated in others countries (vs. not regulated at all in the US). In the UK for instance, the major broadcasters have a public service remit, and can be challenged easily via libel laws, regulation etc if they print something which is overtly incorrect. In the US, that is less the case which means that news has evolved into a kind of entertainment rather than a source of information.
Slavery isn’t in dispute, nor segregation, however I’d posit that those elements dragged down society and the economy rather than strengthened it (it was detrimental to progress). Same as serf slavery in Czarist Russia before liberalization, it dragged down their economy immensely.
The big real estate holding groups are probably getting way less than 3%. How much is burkshire paying for 10 year bonds? Less than the us government?
Most of the money went to the attorneys.

"Irving took legal action against Uber, resulting in an arbitrator this month awarding her $324,000 in damages plus legal expenses of $805,313"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-drivers-re...
If recent experience with America’s unilateral application of FATCA on the rest of the world, (effectively imposing massive compliance costs on other countries’ banking systems to help them find non-compliant Americans and bring in revenue equal to maybe 1/100th of the worldwide compliance costs) and how literally no country put up resistance to this imposition, I’d say everyone still cares what America has to say!
I am reminded of the recent obituary of Grothendieck: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendie...

Two extremely well-known mathematicians were asked by Nature to write an obituary for the late Grothendieck. They wrote it to be mostly understood by a nonmathematical audience, but Nature ultimately rejected the obituary on it being too technical.

It is almost as if each discipline has become an island. When I submit a math paper, I do not at all imagine a nonmathematician will read it. But then again, I also do not write it so that nonmathematicians could read it. I suspect this is largely the same across different fields.

I'm also not certain if this is necessarily bad; it would be tremendously hard and time-consuming to make each article understandable to another field. Or maybe this is precisely the problem?
Yeah, this is good advice from a really good boss. I would love to work under that person. However, if I were the boss's boss, I'd be skeptical and reluctant to say that. Essentially, the boss is mis-allocating time resources and therefore money, in a very strict sense.

Honestly, if your employees are doing side projects that may or may not help the company, then you have very good hiring managers and 'free' R&D built into every division. I believe Google recently just stopped this process, a shame as it is what likely has made them so agile. Correct me if I am wrong.

However, when the bean counters come in, all that evaporates in the race for profits. Typically this happens a few years after an IPO, when a bad quarter is looming and numbers have to be made.

Still, good advice! The followup is: 'And when I come into your office and ask you to stop doing the things I don't know about, send me your resume for polishing and a list of contacts you would like me to talk to.'
Sony has a 13" 150ppi e-ink display for $1000 direct.
The attack is changing the debug level logging...
It's both.

$10B are spent each year on sales of actual mainframe computers. [1]

The article quoted in the last article claims that everything you sell around mainframes, like services, is a quarter of revenue.

Now, it's your turn to do something for me. Don't respond if you're not willing to read before you speak. I should not have had to explain this to you.

[1] http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-10-1006_en.htm
It depends on what type of person you are.

Some people are nostalgic and find great comfort in something like a chat history or a photo album (sometimes they're almost one and the same)

Nobody really needs it. Arguably it might be a burden or an impediment to growth.
Over the most recently posted 12 month period they have posted financials for, Tesla booked $1.05 bn in regulatory credits, which would take their $368 mn net profit to a ($681) mn net loss.

https://www.thestreet.com/tesla/articles/could-tesla-be-prof...
Your anecdote is irrelevant, You can find all kinds of deranged behaviour on any platform.

Speaking of gatekeepers, however, I wonder, how soon Google and Apple will boot Parler from their AppStores?
The allegory actually fits really well.

I had fun working through it :)
There's a saying that "Every man has his price."

For me personally, I hope that I'll never be offered enough money to betray those who trust me. But I fear that my selling price is far lower than $19B.
This is the same place that sends police to your door if you post unapproved opinions on the internet. Doesn't surprise me at all.
For what it's worth, I have the exact same use case
Nothing new under the sun. Ancient Roman politicians did the same. panem et circenses (bread and circuses", "bread and games") was the term Decimus Junius Juvenalis used to describe this practice.

Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81:

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
The person who took the picture disagrees, and claims to have witnessed the smoking, and there are also other reports in the thread and greater media of such activities.
I appreciate the clarification. And giving it a more general name which I wasn’t aware of. I hope it was clear I was using an example and not trying to suggest this was somehow unique to Clojure. My point was to say that encapsulating mutability to provide an immutable interface with other desirable characteristics is actually commonplace.
Not the great barrier reef, thanks to our lifestyles.