skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was involved in a small lawsuit over the sf rental market. We sued our landlord. That turns into over $45k in hard costs fronted by our lawyers if I remember correctly. Take depositions for example: even ignoring the cost of our lawyers in a room for a full day, there's a court recorder at $1k/day, a $300 transcript, proofing by us and our lawyers, lunches, travel, etc. Each of us did 1.5 to 2 days of depositions since each deposition is 8 hours on the clock but less in practice. Then there's things like process serving fees and filing fees ($1600 alone to request a jury trial).

Depositions from two of us, the landlord, his partner, a property inspector (and his inspection and report fee), a real estate valuation expert (including his fee to value the rental in the first place), and you'd be surprised how quickly this stuff adds up.

Now imagine suing billion dollar corporations with huge internal counsel with incentives to run the clock every step of the way to make it maximally expensive to sue them. And those companies have dozens of involved internal parties, many of whom may not even work there anymore, or who have travel costs, etc. And that's before you get to multiple $500+/hour expert economic valuation experts.
Aeroplane age is generally measured in total hours flown.

Turbine engine life is measure in a combination of cycles and operating hours.

A piston engine aeroplane has nothing measured in takeoff/landing cycles, although it is good practice to record this information on the Maintenance Release.
Wow, what a scary realization that our once-thought-safe sterilization techniques were inadequate.

This article is a bit more optimistic that a combination of screening and better sterilization techniques has reduced the risk to more acceptable levels: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358170/

"Fragile instruments such as endoscopes and electrodes remain a challenge, but new and gentler methods— alkaline cleaning solutions, phenolics, and gaseous hydrogen peroxide—have proven harmless to instruments and give a high, if not always complete, degree of prion inactivation (24–26)."
Are singletons really this bad?
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Per-host settings.py for Django projects
Looks very interesting, I might switch from PortAudio to this for my project. But I think I'll wait a bit though, I'm not quite ready to give up on WinXP/Vista support yet.
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If the far left and the far right were forced to agree on the level of BI or accept the status quo I think we'd be back to the status quo though...
I've seen algorithms that produce results similar to this before, and I find them lacking in any sort of feeling of purposeful design.

Dungeons are (in theory) built by intelligent people for a reason. There needs to be distinct working, eating, socializing, farming areas. There needs to be wider or thinner pathways between areas based on flow of people & goods.

A good starting place to look for amazing looking dungeons is to look at people who play Dwarf Fortress, and how they build & organize their forts, which are essentially dungeons.

Here are a few good links:

http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/slave-to-armok-god-of-blo...

https://leelubutterfly.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/dwarf-fortre...

etc. just google image search for "dwarf fortress" and you'll see a lot.

Good algorithmic dungeon design should take into account some of these factors, like good city design would.
Rather that FEC, send a lower quality and bitrate version alongside that can be used to fill in the gaps.
Police state 3.0

But holy crap that's a good theory. I'd be really interested in the actual demographics of who is buying which phones.
Read the cogent comments more closely. Folks aren't concerned about the cost of the software. They're concerned about the built-in killswitch. Most folks in the thread will pay 2->4x more than they are paying now for a perpetual license to a particular version of the software. They're also more than happy to pay that same amount for future versions of the software, but on a schedule that they dictate.

If you're considering making a tool a critical part of how you do business, you need to be able to rely on it forever.

If you rent that tool -and don't have a rock-solid contract with stiff penalties- the lessor may chose to suddenly discontinue, or dramatically raise the price of that tool. Or their company may suddenly go under, taking access to all of your rented software with it. In any of those situations, you'll be left scrambling to find a replacement for something that once was a critical part of your business.
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Well, there's more to it, the initial article has been updated with a screenshot from a mailout to employees, it's simply brutal and offensive to Ukrainians
http://ain.ua/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/221.jpg
That screenshot was so outstandingly bad I almost want to believe that someone elaborately staged the screenshot to make a Secure Channel exec look incompetent... but Occam's Razor prevails.
I have to second the deck of cards approach. One particularly effective exercise is to hand someone a shuffled deck of numeric cards and ask them to write down a process for sorting them, using only the concept of bigger or smaller. Given about 20 minutes, most people will come up with selection sort on their own.

It's this sort of introspection that's key to understanding computers. We abstract large chunks of computational thinking naturally. It's essential to be able to ask yourself, "How am I really doing this?" - and to come up with an answer.

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> I don't know about the rest of the world

My experience in Italy is that they manage a high number of users pretty well without getting so uptight about things.

Just one bizarre example: you can bring a rifle into a wilderness area and kill an animal with it, but riding a mountain bike or even using a baby stroller is forbidden.

People in the US seem to get into all these NIMBY sorts of huffs, despite the vast amounts of space available.

Look at this, for instance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MTB/comments/3jfrf5/someone_asked_a...
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"Aesthetic component is important but not so important".

I wonder how this philosophy will hold up as the years drip by?
Pets and rogue camping do cause damage. If more usage is what's important, why not just pave the whole AT? Because we already have plenty of those kinds of places!

I pondered this for a while the first time I saw a "stay on the trails" sign at a national park. The immediate reaction is to think that we're just animals like any other, so wherever we want to walk is "natural" and should be perfectly fine.

But then I realized the differentiating factor is that the only reason I was at this specific place is because somebody put a dot on the map and built a road most of the way there. So even when we leave behind most of the artifacts, we're still part of a populous advanced civilization that can easily destroy these places. No matter how alone you seem, the trail is more like walking through a "nature museum" than actually being part of nature.

Irresponsible drug use could cause an increased load on emergency rescues, but it's probably just a red herring focused on by overproscriptive government agencies. Most park rangers are awesome people, but they've still drank that LEO kool aid.
kileywm has this to say about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171998
A challenge to anyone who thinks we should have a UBI: do the math. Show how it can work given the current population and output of the United States.

It's not easy.
I agree. Not all of the trail is on public land, but that sort of thing would be helped a great deal by having an adequate number of law enforcement rangers patrolling the Appalachian Trail land managed by the National Park Service. But there are nowhere near the number of rangers employed by the NPS as are necessary to have broadly effective enforcement.

I'm on a flight right now, and am not readily finding concrete figures to support this, but I am a member of the Association of National Park Rangers (though not a ranger myself) and have a little bit of familiarity with related issues.
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Thanks.
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I'm confused how people can party every night and then hike. The problem is the AT is just so accessible these are the things you're going to find when something becomes hip.

Head to the Rockies or out to Oregon if you want solitude hiking. When I hiked Mt. Bierdstadt in CO I was completely alone for 7 hours and never saw another person the entire day.
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If you look at what most people were doing in 1930 most of those jobs are obsolete. And yet most people are still working. I'd be pretty surprised if 2015-2100 turns out to be much different from 1930 - 2015.
Three words is not doing the math. Show your work!
This is exactly where the HN submission links to.
>and the ability to drastically simplify government welfare--cutting out a ton of means-tested programs and their agencies, and replacing it all with a check each month.

As someone that leans left, this is one of the big arguments I make in favor of UBI.

Frankly, I'm tired of arguing over the minutia of welfare, unemployment benefits, the minimum wage, social security, etc.

Fine. Scrap most of our social assistance programs outside of healthcare and replace them with a UBI.

The progressive in me likes it because it gives everyone a minimum safety net and the capitalist in me likes it because it opens up entrepreneurism and the ability to pursue potentially innovative businesses -- especially in an economy increasingly geared toward service and information work -- to huge portions of the population that are otherwise locked out. Active, small businesses are good for everyone.
> When people on the far left and the far right agree, they're usually onto something.

A similar observation is the "horseshoe theory": "The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Not that they could do it. But that was the dream. That dream is dead.
The Basic Income doesn't address the systemic issues which we usually lump under the category of "inflation," although by that what we're really talking about is power and privilege.

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miller20120327
I did like the Wild film as well as (for the most part) the book. Certainly it's much more polarizing than Bryson's book which--like a lot of Bryson's work--is breezy and engaging but doesn't have a whole lot of depth. I likewise think getting people outdoors is a generally positive thing although it's also the case that Baxter in particular has a definite limit to how many people it can handle.
> There needs to be distinct working, eating, socializing, farming areas. There needs to be wider or thinner pathways between areas based on flow of people & goods.

put those constraints as a starting point and use genetic algorithms?
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I'd like to mention that disability rates are another good measure for what you're looking for, since things like "local lumber mill closes, former employees aren't educated enough to get a job afterwards" cause people to go on disability benefits.
It has been posted more recently than that I think.
Hey man, do your own homework.
I think the main problem with "coding on a whiteboard" during interviews is not that you have to reason about an algorithm without the help of a computer, but rather that you have very limited time to do so. You stand there, looking at an empty board, trying to come up with something sensible (or at least, a decent start) in a few seconds. In the meantime people are looking at you, waiting for your answer, which adds just a tiny bit of psychological pressure. :) This is a very different situation from sitting down at your desk and thinking an algorithm over, at your leisure.
Off topic but I like how that website shows a new article, as you scroll down the page. Even the URL changes to the appropriate link, so it's easy to share. Pretty cool.

Does anyone know what the term for that technology is? I'm referring to a term that's similar to how "responsive HTML" is a term for a website that changes based on view port.
I REALLY want to explain this away as the complaining from some grumpy park rangers. Then you have these stories and you begin to wonder if there is something generational going on.

Prom Date spray painted on Black Rocks -http://jonathanturley.org/2015/05/08/destinys-child-police-s...

Casey Nocket - http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2014/11/08/ams-woma...
I think a lot of people are encountering this same issue -- myself included!
Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of abstraction
This ain't your grand-daddy's automation.
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> Either way, an increase in Americans focused on exercise, spending time in the wilderness, and general soul-searching activities will be a good thing.

I disagree. The problem pointed out in the article is that a lot of people aren't there to exercise and soul search, and they're ruining it for people who would like to do so in the future by trashing the place.

It's absolutely not a good thing if many of the people are going into the wilderness and destroying it with trash, vandalism, and dog shit.
If the loss of access to IntelliJ is not a large one, then why would one ever pay to use it? :)

I, and many others in this thread, are happy to pay for a perpetual license to a particular version of software. We are also happy to pay for future versions of that software, if future versions are even vaguely worth paying for. We are not happy with making rented software that contains a built-in killswitch a critical part of how we get our work done. [0]

[0] kileywm found some JetBrains FAQ answers that indicate that if your license cannot be verified for 30 days, or your license payment is 30 days overdue, JetBrains's software will refuse to function: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10171998
Yep, what we need are more places where you can do this sort of thing, so that the load is spread around. The fact is that the AT is one of only a few places where you can go walk and camp for a large number of days in a row, and it's the least wild, so it's the safest and easiest. It would be nice to see more "competitors" pop up!
In that case it's better to rebind name instead of introducing a new binding - it makes it impossible to misuse it. I hate languages that don't let me rebind (or sometimes, not even shadow).
Explain to me how the energy expenditure required to extract minerals from out of orbit will ever be accessible considering the energy cost of exiting the Earth's orbit.
I'm seeing a lot of comments here about the format and how it's not great to learn CS without a computer, etc etc.

I personally think this site is AMAZING and I plan to share it with many of my friends.

Perhaps this is because many of my friends, like my wife, are elementary school teachers and I've seen the kind of resources they usually have to work with.

As far as resources for elementary school kids, this site is far and away the best I've ever seen. They clearly took their time to do things well, knew their target audience, made a site that is super useful to teachers.
Which is a bit ironic because the infrastructure of basic income will require tracking of US citizens on a scale never before seen in the US. I'm not for or against basic income at this point, but it does make me chuckle a bit about idealists and their inability to see what their ideas will look like in practice.
Absolutely no difference. Only a handful of near-modern planes (a-10) have any real armor protecting the plane itself. Pilots often sit in metal tubs, but the overall plane is unprotected from anything physical beyond bird strikes. Any protection is incidental to the structural requirements.

There might be something to say for a metal with a higher melting/yield temp that could survive longer in a fire but I don't think that enters into the design equation.
This isn't about learning how to program though. This is dedicated to imparting computational thinking as a skill. It's not going to teach you how to program, but it will make you a better programmer.
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I've been doing a lot of playing with Google Container Engine (hosted Kubernetes) on Google Cloud, and have been very impressed so far. Can anyone who has worked with both offer some thoughts on how the two compare?

I don't know if Amazon's Container Service has substantial parts that have been open sourced, but I've been super happy with how Kubernetes is being developed in the open. It's also nice that it runs just about everywhere (in theory). It's pretty rough to set up manually right now, but I assume that will improve with time.
Mozilla is a vendor. Very few people get a Firefox rebuilt by a third party. (And, in fact, Mozilla takes steps to make that more cumbersome to do legally than just redistributing the upstream build.)

Linux is relatively unusual among security-sensitive free-software products in neither being a vendor nor wanting to be a vendor.
So there's at least three unrelated functional languages whose names start with Ur?

(being slightly loose with definitions)
> an adequate number of law enforcement rangers

Is this seriously what we want? This is a good thing to think long and hard about.
It actually depends on how well you do it. ionic framework uses round checkboxes and does it really well. http://ionicframework.com/docs/components/#checkbox
Not everybody on the left agrees:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/01/the-failure-of-a-past...

"The idea of a basic income guarantee is very popular with readers, more so that the notion of a job guarantee. Yet as we have mentioned in passing, this very sort of program was put in place on a large-scale basis in the past. Initially, it was very popular. However, in the long run it proved to be destructive to the recipients while tremendously beneficial to employers, who used the income support to further lower wages, thus increasing costs to the state and further reducing incentives to work. And when the system was dismantled, it was arguably the working poor, as opposed to the ones who had quit working altogether, who were hurt the most."

I've yet to hear a good explanation for why basic income is superior to a job guarantee. We do not live a techno-futurist utopia where robots do all of our work. We do not want to be welfare queens; work gives us dignity. We do not even have world class infrastructure, we have infrastructure that is falling to pieces and direly needs work.

The last time we were in this situation, FDR created jobs. Jobs that built stuff like schools, hospitals... the lincoln tunnel.
You don't seem to understand how the choice defines the relationship.

Imperfect Analogy Time

Imagine a deli that you go to every morning. It's the only one in the neighborhood, but they make great bagels, so you don't go out of your way to find a new deli.

Now imagine the deli adopts a subscription pricing model -- no other options. If you want food from that deli, you have to subscribe month-to-month. If you don't want to subscribe, you have to walk 5 blocks out of your way to go to a different deli.

You decide to subscribe because you were going there every morning anyway.

Over the coming months, however, the food keeps getting worse. The service grows poor. You wind up waiting longer for your food. But you're invested in the deli, and it'd be a hassle to leave, so you put up with it.

Eventually you bail, of course. But for a number of months, you were stuck in that gray area in there in which the deli can take advantage of the fact that, if you drop your subscription, you'd have to have expended significantly more effort and time to come up with an alternative.

Unlike a deli, tools are a lot harder to replace.
This blog is really helpful for understanding FP. I dove into the other big post on there about Haskell and pure functions and monads and it actually made a bit of category theory finally make sense.

Just enough brain-stretching to learn, and just barely enough not to make me tune out.
What I think what most people count on is the inanely fast ACCELERATION of technological progress. The amount of advancement between 1930 and 2015 will be orders of magnitude less than 2015-2100.
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Why is all of the code written as strings of 'l's and '1's that macro-expand to things like 'if' and 'break'?
This is a cool package that offers a new capability. I've been trying to find a use for it -- although Mathematica could do some of this also.

They have a nice examples page (http://www.chebfun.org/examples/). Here's one on convolving probability distributions that is much easier and cleaner than discretising the problem manually (http://www.chebfun.org/examples/stats/ProbabilityConvolution...). Of course, also much more accurate. The same could be said of computations of expectations or probabilities on such distributions.
That assumes that the automation trends of the next 100 years are going to look anything at all like the automation trends of the last 100 years. I don't think that's likely due to pretty obvious technological multipliers. Progress isn't linear.

Additionally, I think if you spend much time around the working classes, even today, you'll find that they're living in a world that's leaving them behind in a way that simply wasn't true even 30 years ago.
They would have built it from titanium but at titanium welding hadn't been figured out too well then. The Alfa sub hulls were done with plutonium rods if I remember right!
I agree. Markets and businesses are changing so fast that most people are going to have periods of tough career change in their lives.

Allowing people to make those important transitions without completely losing financial stability will help everyone.
The problem is, when you scrap all of those programs you immediately create more unemployment. There are a lot of jobs supporting social services, the hard part is going to be finding a way to phase in UBI without wrecking the economy.
This is one of my favorite ideas. It sounds great in theory, and I'd love for it to be tried somewhere.

Just as a note, I'm pretty libertarian leaning, but that idea is, I think, the best compromise between pure libertarianism and the bureaucracy mess we currently have in the world.
Well, the US right wing, maybe, which seems much more State-adverse than right-wing parties here in Europe.
I am very much against the UBI but I don't see the tracking issue you mention. I'd love to know more about it!
I first heard of this idea through HN and have discussed it with several people who I consider far right.

They are all concerned that this will ultimately end up as just another dole and the mother of all doles. They ask questions I don't have good answers to like:

1. This includes healthcare?

2. This includes disability?

When I say...well, I don't know about healthcare, its curtains.
The content in the update is outrageous