skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would probably be OK with a 20-33% reduction of my income if it was used to provide a universal basic income.

Completely agree. My only stipulation would be that all financial transactions, reporting, etc is openly available to the public online.

I want a strong government providing support to its citizens, but I want it held ruthlessly accountable.
Well yeah, if you had options in a private company that has grown your equity from $20k to $2M over 7 years... you'd find a way to exercise. Surely that company would have demonstrated enough value that your could borrow the money safely or use one of the option-funding schemes to cover the $700K tax bill.

But better that than scrounging $20k together when you quit only to see it evaporate.
I agree that you don't (shouldn't!) have the redundancy in computer languages. But I think the point of the article is that some word orderings cause less load on our brains. I think that's directly applicable to function parameters. For example, if I have a function that takes an array, a starting offset, an ending offset, and a value to search for within those offsets, then

int limitedSearch(int *array, int startOffset, int endOffset, int searchValue)

causes less cognitive load than

int limitedSearch(int *array, int searchValue, int startOffset, int endOffset)

simply because the offsets "go with" the array to make up one concept (where you're searching).

There may be other reasons why some parameter orderings are better than others, but I think the article is directly relevant.
Drivers won't be Uber drivers forever - they'll need to keep pushing to hire new drivers to replace ones that drop out.

And don't write off customer service - it is expensive.
Interesting, new SDK released today includes `TARGET_OS_WIN32` in many headers. Is Apple planning a surprise?
> Surely commodities like gold are bullish in bear markets?

Maybe everyone is pouring their money into Bitcoin to ride out the downturn? /s
I am one of those skinny people awaiting my sleep study results.

And for the past several years, I felt the exact same symptoms - falling asleep behind the wheel (or on the subway); craving for food; episodes of sleep paralysis (thankfully not too frequent).
Personally, I think it's a shame. GPL generally puts me off as the licence is too complex for me to understand and I don't understand in what situations I can and cannot use it. MIT, BSD etc are simple enough that even without a legal brain I can get the gist of what I can and cannot do.
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Are there any commonly cited resources in learning the business of e-commerce? Let's say I want to put ads onto my page, or optimize my SEO, where does one go to learn current best practices for those? As a developer I feel like this is a part of the web I should know, but there seem to be many more resources dedicated to learning coding as opposed to the business side. Any guidance appreciated.
This required physical access. I'm sure I could do some damage with physical access to any vehicle.
Apparently it's an acceptable outlet for dirty cash from shady foreign 'investors', http://www.theprovince.com/travel/Chinese+money+launderers+s...
Remember around 2008-9, when the next big markets were commodities and futures.
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And "popular culture" (whatever that means exactly) is so fragmented today anyway that not being up-to-date on even popular TV shows, movies, or books aren't exactly a recipe for social isolation. I actually feel like I'm at least reasonably plugged into what's going on in culture and I hardly ever see a movie in the theaters, watch a bare handful of TV shows, and don't listen to much current music.
How could a company be added to the database?
Totally noticed this in google analytics, earlier. Whoops. It's now fixed!
Not at all surprising; there's evidence that cannabis use suppresses REM sleep. Anecdotally, people who suddenly stop taking it after long periods of use tend to report unusually vivid dreams.
As many as we can implement! Pull requests are welcome :)

Good starting places for the current heuristics:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/master/sr...
https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/blob/stable/sr...
Is power consumption a problem here? It seems like power production on a space craft would be quite limited (solar, plutonium?) and this thing would consume a lot of it. Is the idea that this would always be on or only on in an emergency? Also, is interference w/ electronics on the craft a problem?
Does anyone know if this includes a database of tracking hosts or if its self learning? Because for me on Reddit it counts all the CDN's as tracking domains and the actual tracking domains as the non-tracking ones [1].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/7aw6rHo.jpg
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Yes, the connected nature of the car is an attack vector. But it seems there are other attack vectors which are far worse and the connected nature can be used to protect the vehicle.

We need to be careful with this kind of risk assessment.

If Microsoft or Google messes up a Windows or Chrome update that is automatically installed, or a malicious actor compromises the update mechanism, maybe a few thousand PCs belonging to people who accepted the risk get broken and there will be some hassle restoring normal functionality afterwards.

If a car manufacturer messes up a firmware over-the-air update that is automatically installed, or a malicious actor compromises the update mechanism, maybe a few thousand cars belonging to people who accepted the risk get run into walls at 100mph.

It is far from clear that providing a mechanism for remotely initiated updates of fundamental system software is a win in this context. As we've seen with automatically updating PC software in recent years, not all updates work as intended, and as we've seen with modern malware, reprogrammable firmware is not always a blessing.
Is the main missing chain a lack of WinRT and XAML support in Mono?
> The reality though is that our taxes increasingly go to paying for retirement for state workers (19% - California), welfare (10%), and health care (35%). In other words, a total of 64% of our budget goes to things I will never see a benefit from.

Retirement for state workers is part of their agreed-on compensation for labor provided, so its part and parcel of the labor costs for all the things government does (including all those things that you said you are "totally happy" with your taxes going to), not a separate use of funds.

> This is what I think the conservatives are railing against - 64% of benefits going to ~10% of the state's citizens.

Medi-Cal alone (which isn't all of public healthcare expenditures in California) covers around 12 million of California's 38.8 million population, so that piece of the healthcare component of what you are complaining about reaches far more than "~10% of the state's citizens".
Copy and paste the first paragraph into Google. Looks like someone didn't understand the nuances of the MIT license, no biggy and easy to fix.
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So was Ronald Fisher. He was a big proponent of eugenics.
URL linked to is just a landing page. Actual link to the policy here: http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_files/dit/files/policy_on_a...

I find it ironic that a government that is committed to censorship, site blocking, and internet surveillance cites transparency as an objective when instituting this policy
I use Privacy Badger with Ghostery and have been really happy so far.

I rarely run into situations where I need to fiddle with both to unblock a script or embedded video, but for the most part the combination is pretty reliable.

I also like seeing the long lists of adware Ghostery is blocking as the page is loading. You'd never know some pages have 50-60 scripts getting loaded to track what you do. It was an eye opener the first month I was using it.
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I'm very impressed with the technical prowess involved in shipping this, that being said, I feel like OSS this is somewhat disingenuous. To use it you'll still need VS2015 (EDIT: this tool which will only work in Windows 10 according to the spec). While Windows 10 is a free upgrade, if you're developing iOS apps you probably don't have a windows license, (because Apple requires development to happen on OSX) so you're gonna need access to two closed source (and kinda expensive) pieces of software to see any real benefit from this, I guess at the very least there'll be an easy way to provide bug reports, feature and pull requests, etc (where usually for closed source you're SOL).

RE: The project itself: looks like they're still working on getting it to work on ARM, which is strange considering that iOS is ARM...
I think they work for very few people and unless you adhere to the jaw exercise regime you can end up with jaw problems.
Actually they bill the same rate no matter how long it takes.
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Hmm, I'm not a doctor, but that sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Thanks!

Some of the entries seem suspect, e.g. YouTube.com - why do they think that Google won't track you through pages with YouTube embedded items?
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Is this only permanent? Would you consider freelance contractors? I am based in London Waterloo :) https://uk.linkedin.com/in/engclaudioviola
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Err, VS2015 works fine on windows 7.
The story that Google sold itself was that Microsoft was driving the investigation to keep Google in limbo. This probably speaks more to an irrational fear of Microsoft then actual reality. It looks like the base facts are that Google had some negative impact on specific companies and people. A fact would be, Google changed something, now we rank lower, our traffic is was x now it is y. These facts have different stories based on who is telling them. One story is that Google is using its monopoly position to hurt competition. Another is that Google is providing a better customer experience. At the same time it looks like the main critics are also subject to regulation and as such they are using the regulatory sledgehammer to drive their outcomes which could be as abstract as hey we are regulated and so you should be. For Google to achieve its goals, it needs lay a common ground with its critics. Perhaps the strategy here is to achieve consensus in favor of broad deregulation.

Uber will have similar issues where some locales will ban them and others will allow them. To succeed they have to push for deregulation as well.
Yes. I remember reading somewhere (Wikipedia probably) the moon is only about as reflective as asphalt, believe it or not. Imagine how much brighter moonlight would be if it were painted brilliant white (e.g. titanium dioxide pigment). I'd love to see a simulation. Would it be bright enough so we could see enough scattering that the sky would appear blue, I wonder.
Could it be that the dependency representation has an influence on this? Perhaps the dependency lengths are shorter with non-projective dependencies?
I agree with the need/value of side-effect/pure annotations. From a debugging perspective though, there are 2 alternative solutions: Aspect Oriented Programming (i.e., mutation observations) and Immutable data types (e.g., Object freezing) to cause an exception on mutation.

Depending on the language, you can replace the value with a watcher or proxy and add a break point to know if it was mutated between those lines. Alternatively, you could freeze the object or property or make it immutable between those lines to cause an exception to be thrown. Both will require triggering the case in question live so annotations still superior, especially compared to manually reading code.
Thinking about things that way comes across very much like rationalizing the conclusions you expect, and building a machine that will just agree with you.
Or perhaps they're just selecting people who are good at lying.
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I'd consider C# a much superior "fork" of Java. If that's the case here then I'm all for it.
One of the developers answers:

"It's self learning! Things above the that divider are things that are reading or writing cookie, html5 local storage, or canvas data. Below are third parties that are not. You can manually change any of them, and if one of those domains is blacklisted via another site it will appear above that divider in the future."
How much of a correction you're looking for? a 10% sounds very feasible in a down market but a 50% hit sounds implausible esp. in the short run.
For your '86 pontiac it's even easier. All I need to do is cut the brakeline
Apply. We have a very diverse team of backgrounds. Getting up to speed isn't a problem.
I didn't see this addressed in the article:

Do these annotations have force? I've run into plenty of annotations that lie - how can I trust that code that's annotated as being side-effect-free actually is?
Remember self healing NAND Flash with embedded heaters? What happened to that? Too reliable for todays planned obsolescence?

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/142096-self-healing-sel...
I avoid the use of tuples outside of the scope of a function for the reasons you described. I prefer to define a type, even if that type is private to the containing class. Within a function, I prefer to use anonymous classes because of the improved code readability.
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One kinda expensive piece of software - Windows 10. VS2015 Community is free, and more than capable for the use of this.

I'd imagine if you are a mac developer then the price of Win10 is practically insignificant compared to what you are used to paying for OSX stuff.
It'd be great if it allowed domains and hyperlinks as a search filter.
Thank you! Very interesting research all around.

I think these old German and Japanese languages may have been hard to understand for outsiders, but were used with high sophistication (you have to invest energy to access this information) among insiders. For instance the Japanese pillow words / Makurakotoba or German words for hard to translate concepts like "Weltschmerz", "Kummerspeck" and "Torschlusspanik". All short, useful words for communicating complex rich concepts, provided the agent knows the meaning of these words.
This doesn't prevent a malicious employee from gaining access to the update server and pushing out an update, but you're going to have to worry about that regardless.

I'm pretty sure that if your car isn't connected in the first place, so that its essential control systems can't be updated remotely by a single malicious actor like that, then this isn't a significant concern.
Cool!!! I just mortgage the house, my life savings, and my kids college fund. Off to sell all my hard assets to muster up some more cash to invest. It can only go up ;)
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In the US, the lifestyle intervention is telling the fatty to lose weight. Over the phone. From a script.

I can easily imagine how, in nations with less sadistic health care systems, an actual human might show up in person, to do things like take the fatty on an instructional trip to their local grocery store, followed by example preparations of salubrious meals. Or the person might demonstrate beginner exercises that require minimal equipment. There might be an organized support group of individuals with similar goals available at no additional cost.

The actual situation in the US is that if you have a problem that some weight loss might help to fix, you get a pamphlet or printout entitled (paraphrased) "Hey Fatty, Being Fat Is Bad For You!" There will probably be a deprecated recommendation to start a low-fat, reduced-sodium diet. There might even be a true factoid on it that you didn't already know. But no actual, material support is provided, whatsoever. If you need to lose 100 lbs., you are completely on your own, to not only figure out how, but to stick to your plan for the next two years.

...Unless you have enough money. In that case, you can rent a personal trainer and nutrition consultant, at your own expense. Weight loss (and other types of lifestyle change) is a for-profit business in the US. And the business is horribly inefficient. Americans spend millions on it, and are only getting fatter. A very large part of the business is fueled by ignorance and disinformation.

So perhaps you can explain to me why lifestyle interventions are not seriously attempted in the US as part of medical treatment. What you say is true. It is safer. It provides other benefits to the patient. But few people can accomplish it without some form of external assistance or support. And in the US, that often comes at a price.

By the time someone in the US actually goes to endure the gauntlet of getting some responsive treatment for OSA, they may have already been trying for several years to lose weight, without success. They may be falling asleep at work (in meetings, even!) or while driving. They need relief now, not in six months. That's why sleep docs in the US go straight for CPAP. It's a quicker response to treatment and a surer path to profitability.
Welcome to Haskell.

No, seriously. We allow side effects. We have the STM monad, the ST (single-threaded) monad, and the IO monad if you really want to go wild. And almost no one seriously argues that the IO monad is "dirty" and should be avoided. In fact, the type signature of a top-level executable's main is IO () by mandate.

I want to make a proposal, which is that we ban the term "side effect". It doesn't mean what people think it does.

For example, the print function puts output on the console but that's not a "side effect"; that's the main effect. I would argue also that non-detectable stateful effects (e.g. building up a large dictionary mutably) shouldn't be called "side effects" (although they are stateful effects) if they're purely implementation details that are hidden behind an interface.

"Side effect", I think, is a case of a term that used to resemble either a design flaw or a non-intuitive behavior (i.e. reading your command-line arguments deletes the strings, which is something that I encountered in one system) that is tolerated for performance's sake; but that has now been expanded to include stateful main (i.e. desired) effects as well.
I think it's a much more subtle point than that, and he does make it rather directly:

* If police departments are racially biased
* and the Heat List algorithm heavily factors in associations
* and most people associate with others from their own race
* then won't the Heat List disproportionately output people from a certain race?
* Won't this then result in increased policing & suspicion of these communities?

In other words, the point is: human biases can be a seed issue that machine learning then positive-feedback-loops out of control
Don't forget about satellite monitoring/manipulation of magnetism.

The terrorist attack from "constant inductance" is huge(needs to be stopped).

Directed/manipulated energy weaponry triggered by ONE(1) simply information saturation event...

These are HUGE, and almost no one is talking about them in the public, maybe in fear of being struck down by vaporizers.

Then there's the attack from, and with "stolen genderless no form factor options", THESE ARE OUR GENDERLESS NO FORM FACTOR OPTIONS THAT TERRORISTS ARE USING AGAINST US & THE POPULOUS(of the entire whatever we're doing)...

REAL ISSUES. NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE...
This is interesting work. I'm curious how confident we can be that the TLA+ proof from Diego Ongaro was correctly represented in Verdi/Coq. This still seems like a manual, hard-to-verify process.
> MS mutated Java into C#.

I'm not sure that's true. The Sun vs. MS litigation ocurred on 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun.27s_litigat...)

On the other hand, C# first appeared in 2000
The entries there are things that seemed especially important for sites' functionality; they are supposed to be there as a result of these criteria:

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox/blob/master/y...

If you don't want something to be on the list, you can also override it in your own copy of Privacy Badger.
Lots of people are scared of silence.
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I'm guessing they liked you, but you got edged out by someone else for the original position. If they didn't like you, they wouldn't be recommending you to anyone.

I wouldn't think of it as being sent anywhere. You might get an unexpected offer.
Maybe what's needed are better non-lethal weapons for police.
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but can you please define "client services"?
The most likely scenario is that the company would have an exit event in that time, in which case you would purchase your options and have them liquidated in the same moment, meaning you do not actually spend anything, you simply receive what your stock is worth.
Artists who can't derive a living by these means should look into alternate means of making a living. Success as an artist is not an entitlement. Creative people who make creative works will succeed in proportion to their ability to be valued by society or a subset of it, not because society can correctly identify any objective or intrinsic value in any particular creative work.

In other words success is correlated with successful marketing rather than any intrinsic value of the work. So even if the work is great and popular, authors of said works hould not be allowed to have an economic interest in its distribution.

It's also not comparable to the "wealthy engineers" you malign. If engineers worked under the same terms as modern copyright never a road or bridge or factory would be built because the next hundred years of paying royalties to all the engineers on top of construction costs would make it impossible to build anything.

Utter, unmitigated bullshit. You're saying that there is really no such thing as original work, which is patently untrue.
Yup, the bumped up the 0-60 time of the 85D from 5.4s to 4.2s just based on usage data after the first few months they were in the wild. They'd found that they'd greatly under-rated the motor and provided it as a free update.

As an 85D owner that was wonderful.

I'm sure they're also doing the same with autopilot. Imagine being able to use your entire fleet of 100k cars to aggregate data about how to best tune critical subsystems.
Yes, "considering". That is management fluff.

Contracts can't be unilaterally rewritten, but new contracts which bridge to parity with current policies are easily achievable. Lazy management is nothing new or surprising.

This just feels like a premature management-product rollout to me. Why not finish considering first, decide to give everyone the same benefits, and then present the unified plan, instead of attempting a Python-like fork of your company with vague promises of possibly building a "2to3" automated upgrader.
It would be awesome if someone could develop a web app that displays the visualization and allows the data to be searched/understood more easily, e.g., you enter a city and it could show you the projected weather/temperature over time under the various models/scenarios. I'd be interested in also knowing if there are any cases where the models have consensus vs when there is a lot of variance in their predictions. These kinds of predictions could be really useful for long-term real estate investment planning.

Link to data: https://cds.nccs.nasa.gov/nex-gddp/