skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not smooth, but totally usable on my i7-3770K workstation.

For what it's worth, it's also fun that key elements of the text are dynamic. When I first landed on the page with noscript suppressing any script, I saw:

> Most Remote Airport

> … at … is the most remote; from the nearest airport, .

Usually if I see any text, I don't bother enabling script, so this confused me. Luckily I did enable the script and then saw the principle UI element on the page. :)
You might start by following the "Independent contractor vs employee" guidelines. Of, say, California and the IRS.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_independentcontractor.htm

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
Why isn't there a way to use this principle for energy storage?
This may actually be a very good idea for some cases.

If the stuff being protected by the key is, for example, the type of data that someone would otherwise keep in a personal fire-safe, then simply printing out the keys and keeping them in that fire-safe wouldn't change the type of security being provided.

It might be nice if we had some type of highly-reliable (like the redundancy in QR codes[1]), so the process of printing out a key and re-scanning it was easy and trustworthy.

[1] http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12013/index.html
Almost unusable once the jumping can of beans was in view. On Firefox latest stable, windows 8.1. Scrolling was happening in bursts and the entire browser UI was frozen. Once I managed to scroll past it, it worked fine.
Mails are stored in another person's truck, and yet privacy applies.
I'm glad you point this out. So far no one has noted that lottery is a service the government provides as an alternative to gambling privately in dangerous, much more exploitive conditions.

Interestingly, the job of advertising state lotteries should walk a fine line between drawing would-be private gamblers to safer state circumstances and inducing people who wouldn't normally gamble to take it up. And it sounds like some of those ads have stepped over the line.

So the most salient part of this article deals with advertising lotteries.

The part about turning the lottery over to private businesses I don't find compelling. After all, the role of private business is to make profit and often does so by gravitating laws in their favor. I don't think businesses would compete to see who can make the most benevolent advertising.
The point of the article is:

"The lottery is not a tax. The inflated price of lottery tickets is."

If you want to play a lottery, you have to play the state's lottery, and the article makes the case that a very high tax is levied for that privilege.
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While I don't know about panic attacks, I think it's known that small quantities of alcohol are either harmless or beneficial to health. The general public can't see shades of grey though, so they only look at the extremes of alcoholism and binge drinking and decide that all alcohol is bad.
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Yeah, I agree. The original title was a lot more descriptive.
I saw somebody argue once that the main purpose of a state run lottery is to keep the masses from rising up. As long as the poor think there is a magic way out - as long as they can draw some hope from buying a lottery ticket - they will be more sedated. To be extra effective, there was also the need to nurture the idea that wealth doesn't make you happy, to provide comfort for those who did not win; hence the steady stream of news stories about lottery winners squandering their sudden wealth, or losing their friends and family.

I can't find the video now.
It's hard from this thread to determine if the OpenBSD developers have a point and are just expressing it unclearly, or if they are mistaken in some of their assertions and are unwilling to event engage on the issue enough to learn this.

The one time someone references a prior rPi discussion, it's to a message from Theo De Raadt that says:

Wow. Dream on. It is a mess of firmware. You know nothing of our
history?

I understand maybe this has come up before and they are tired of the discussion, but this is just toxic. Is it really so hard to just reference a valid prior discussion when this comes up?
Title is a total fail at DeMorgan's Law,
because the following two statements differ in meaning.

"All x is not y"

"Not all x is y".
Reminds me in a weird way of the potato paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
Nope, not at all. I just didn't want to be ambiguous.
Fundamental problem: either the distributed thing will be an extremely easy target for DoS attacks -- just because the service is distributed doesn't mean the attacker need be; the attacker can be as monolithic as he wants to be -- or, it will be only superficially distributed, and actually hosted on some honking big central infrastructure.

Things that are smaller than Google, Amazon, or Facebook can be DoSed into total oblivion. Abuse is the greatest unsolved problem of distributed systems.
It's easy to understand why states are willing to raise a significant amount of their budget through the lottery. It's because people -- especially Americans -- hate taxes, and many politicians come to power by promising lower taxes. But states still need money for schools and roads and all those good things that people still expect, so lottery is an easy way to raise that money. Without the lottery, states will never come close to balancing budgets unless efficient, progressive taxes are implemented. Something tells me that will be hard to do.
Hmmm, which one is the result of a team of experts competing with other major corporate entities, getting paid to optimize a set of well-known algorithms for months prior to delivery to an audience of millions who will spend thousands of hours with it and which one is a one-off hack meant to demo the first iteration of some new code for the first time on its new platform?
Anyone conspiring to commit criminal acts should remember what Martin Lomasney said[1] about 100 years ago about the importance of discretion:

Never write if you can speak;
never speak if you can nod;
never nod if you can wink.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lomasney
Yes;
That's already the case in most states. After all, they don't want any competition - that'd mess up the whole point of being a monopoly for an addiction-driven product.
You're absolutely right! My example was mainly for illustration, I was not sure that it would give exactly the same lower bound (but I was indeed surprised that it's below the 29% in those papers, which I thought a "hard" bound).

It seems the bound that you are calculating (that I have reproduced, R code below) was already published more than 50 years ago for this specific case of a normal distribution. See slide 10 in http://www.biostat.uzh.ch/teaching/master/previous/seminarba...

I have not really read the paper of Sellke et al. entirely, but it seems that the "calibration" they propose is more general but it makes some assumptions about the distribution of the p-value and it's therefore approximative.

p=0.05
null=0.5
c0=qnorm(1-p)
x=seq(0,5,0.01)
y=100*dnorm(c0)/(dnorm(c0)+dnorm(x-c0))
calib=100/(1-1/(exp(1)*p*log(p)))
actual=min(y)
plot(x,y,type="l",ylim=c(0,100),ylab="%null",xlab="mu1",bty="l",xaxs="i",yaxs="i")
title(paste(null*100,"% null p = ",p,sep=""))
legend("topleft",c(paste("Sellke, Bayarri, Berger (2001) =",format(calib,digits=3)),
paste("Edwards, Lindman, Savage (1963) =",format(actual,digits=3))),
lwd=2,col=c("red","blue"),bty="n")
abline(h=calib,col="red")
abline(h=actual,col="blue")
grid()
Looking at the map, I am liking some of the place names on St. Helena;　"The Gates of Chaos" is a particular favourite.
arxiv says it was submitted 26 Aug, so about a week ago. Near the end of the paper they explain how to implement it, so I guess it was a matter of reading the paper and sitting with caffe to toy/hack an implementation -- most of the heavy work was "already done".

Edited some typos.
One possibility is to find a market where the contractor is really a contractor. Nobody forced Uber to enter the cab business. They could match up contractor/customer payments for lawyers, Bobcat drivers, riverboat pilots, etc.

There are truck drivers who are owner-operators. How's that work? Something like that might be a good business to go into?

How do agents work in the music business?
There's a contextual cue that's missing between the two, but a strong hint is in the, "Growth that can never translate into long-term positive cash flow...", statement. That context is growth for what duration and what investing purpose.

If I'm investing into a business for the longer haul, like a pension fund might or maybe looking at a company to take a senior position in and stay in a job for years and years, etc. the viability of the business as a business becomes more important than if I'm investing for an exit 2-5 years down the road. If I'm a VC or similar looking for a relatively quick turnaround, in short two to five year window the company might become recognizable enough or have a popular technology etc. that the long term viability of the business qua business becomes less important than does who might want it for reasons other than current revenue or profitability.

Once you get the context, the quotes aren't so much contradictory as much as referring simply to different goals.
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Yeah. There's a big semantic difference between saying something is a tax and saying something is taxed.
I have met very few people who will publicically critise their current employment, or current employment; no matter how terrible the job is? I guess it's denial? Or, just making the best if a bad situation? Or, just shutting up the nosey individual who needs to ask questions?

If Uber decides to become a fair employer; their will still be a maryiad a shifts workers will be able to choose from.

If they become a "Slumlord" employer, and abuse their employees, they will be just shooting themselfs in the foot?

Meaning the caliper, and quality of employee will fall to fast food establishment levels. Let's be honest, the real reason we used Uber is because we knew a person who kinda acted like us would show up at our residence?
The link has waaaaay too many ads. Almost unreadable if you don't run an ad blocker. The content provider should consider a more tasteful, smaller ad footprint. It might even increase ad engagement.
Yeah basically a lot of MEMEs started out by finding some random image on the Internet and adding a background to it and then placing words over it.

I suppose the Penguin image was one of Getty's stock photos and someone copied it and added the background to it and called is Socially Awkward Penguin. Then Getty started to demand payment for a license fee for it when others used it on their websites.

It is just like on Youtube when someone took that footage of the movie "Downfall" about Hitler and took his rant and added captions to it. There was a Hitler video generator to add your own captions, but since the footage is from a commercial movie it got DMCA takedown requests or the company that owns the movie would get advertising credits for your video and you'd get none.

Copyright laws are crazy when they don't allow fair use for a parody or whatever.
The story is a reported memoir that touches on a number of topics. The first, primarily, is about the treatment facility that takes care of people like her brother. Another is the negative and traumatic effects that addicts have around the people like them. In no way is this article about the brother but rather the effects of the brother to the world around him.

Often times, family members rely on arguments about the proper ways to behave to each other in order to silence or police objections to family behavior. In the case of addiction, it is complicated because addiction is itself complicated in ways that other forms of trauma are perhaps not. That said, is the voice of people who were traumatized by others worth less? Should it be kept quiet simply because the other person is a member of the family? Are we not allowed to acknowledge and discuss that addicts cause trauma for people around them that is deeply hurtful and is allowed to be heard as well?
I agree that lottery is bad for society but the only reason that the government is doing it, I think, is because it was worst when organized crime had control over it.

But I do think that the government should reinvest all profits in education (not necessarily gambling related), gambling therapy, etc...
I recently did ORD-HKG and spent quite a lot of time thinking about ETOPS diversion airports over Siberia (because honestly what else are you gonna do). Now I'm wondering if you can even land a fully laden 777 at any of them. Most of them don't even seem to have wikipedia pages.
I'm working on an interesting project right now where the web application behaves like a typical SaaS solution, except that all of the customer's data is hosted on premises.

After the initial install, their local servers (and data) don't have to be touched, but the SaaS portion can be continuously improved. So far it's worked really well.

Your MSaaS idea sounds really interesting, especially the multiple trusted deploys. That's the crux of trusting deployed open source software.
Perhaps that is when Communism works when the technology does the work for us and doesn't need any motivation to work better.

No, because you still have the fundamental problem that broke Communism (and which was identified by von Mises and others in the early 20th Century): the calculation problem.

https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

This is not a solvable problem. Creating an 'artificial market' is akin to predicting the weather in great detail 75 years from now. You might, might be able to say "it's likely to be a bit warmer on average", but you could certainly never say "it'll be raining at 11:00 that day". It's simply impossible.
I checked this page and nobody here links to anything supporting ad auction abuse as you say.

Are you sure you understand what you're talking about?
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> Consumer Reports' best car ever tested

What a surprise when it's also the most expensive one...
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Interesting read, thanks for posting this. I was flabbergasted to see that he had only been diving for 4 years when he made the attempt.

Two points in this article really rang true to me in particular:

- the tendency for divers to speed through increasingly more advanced dive certifications. Often I'll be at the dive shop waiting on a tank fill, and I'll overhear somebody talking about how they had such a fun time during their beginner open water certification that they signed right up for advanced and divemaster courses. There's nothing wrong with educating oneself, but I think the false sense of mastery instilled by these courses is clearly a potential danger. The material learned in the class must be complemented by real-world experience for the concepts to become second-nature. The dive shops make money on this mindset too and so share lots of the guilt.

- going deep for the sake of going deep. There's always that one guy (it's always a guy in my experience) whose goal is to get deeper than everybody else on the boat. As far as I can tell, it's pure machismo. Not only does it lead to accidents like this, but you have less bottom time, worse visibility due to lower light, and in most places the richest animal life is not at the deepest part of the dive. So it's stupid. This article seems like that mindset taken to the extreme.

I don't want to speak callously of the dead, but this guy appears to have had it coming. And I think the dive shop that sponsored him should bear a big chunk of the responsibility for this accident, as outlined in the article.
I want to second what you say about sleep. These days I get plenty of it, and the first thing I notice if I get a night or two of insufficient sleep is a lack of motivation, closely followed by a noticeable drop in cognitive performance.
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You played or someone broke your legs or burned down your house. Last time I checked, no state is doing anything like that.

I think that the major difference comes from the magnitude of the power.

You are describing two possible measures: reducing somebodies mobility and destroying financial situation.

State can in both situations be a lot of more effective and therefore offer better competition against the mafia.

If a State wants to reduce somebodies mobility, it will arrest this person. In many cases this can be extended to eternity.

A state can be also more efficient in the second case - instead of burning down the house, state can just confiscate it.
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> Imagine the government nationalizes the liquor business.

I live in Toronto, no need to imagine :(
I think you have hit the nail on the head. I have a successful (very successful, bootstrapped) startup which basically enables marketers to optimize their ad spend and I dont think I realized that this would become my life.
You can do this with enough marketing. Some ideas on how to engage the "1% minus 0.01%":

1. Avoid associating your new lottery to the low-status images of "making it big" and "lifting out of property". Instead sell them on the image that they are so much more moral for "giving back" and "doing their share".

2. Instead of cold cash, make the prizes be aspirational things that mark them as high-status. Houses, cars, overseas vacations, etc. Make the prizes classy, let the prospect indulge in the fantasy that they too are part of the elite.

3. Make the tickets both scarce and expensive. This way, the ticket itself is a high status marker. Bonus points if you present the image on how much better the chance to win is compared with regular lottery (never mind that both quantities are negligible from a practical point of view). This way they can congratulate themselves on how much more smart than the hoi-polloi they are, on top of being nicer and more benevolent too.
If you don't know what a problematic level of immigration looks like then you have no idea if you're looking directly at it or not. You're telling me you haven't seen any chickens lately, I'm asking what you think a chicken looks like, and you're saying you don't see any right now.

A 10% ESL student population doesn't solve itself. That's like a child thinking that their refrigerator magically fills itself when it gets empty. If you ignore that solutions have costs than yes by your definition ESL students have no costs associated with them.

I asked about the strain on the legal system due to immigrant populations, specifically the prison system in California. You said we should put less people in jail. While that's true it doesn't solve the problem unless we're going to change our laws to the extent that aggravated assault is no longer a crime. Then we've once again solved the problem by refusing to admit it even exists.
I'm impressed at what the Mono/Xamarin team is able to pull off, but I can't help feeling that one day Apple is going to introduce a change (or a new product) that breaks the leaky abstraction in a way that the magic Xamarin elves simply can't fix. I thought watchOS 1 would be the breaking point, and then watchOS 2, but so far they appear to be making those work. Keep up the good work, I hope to be proven wrong!
I've always said no matter how tough you think you are: never try to do something to somebody that they can't explain to their spouse/partner.
that was quick, the paper just came out
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You learn something every day.

I thought the purpose of ads was to generate revenue so that content could be created in infrastructure built. You know, like it's been done for a few centuries now...
I know right?? It's mind-blowing! My PC can push millions (is that the order of magnitude?) of polygons per second. But it locks up an entire core to render a couple hundred polygons (plus the layers of cruft), and can't do it at more than ~10Hz.
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A bit offtopic, but where did that article get their chart with house odds from? Generally, Blackjack has been said to have better odds, usually with roughly a 1% house advantage and supposedly the closest to 50% odds there is.