skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great example of how the south is a boat anchor that drags the rest of the country down.

It's like there is this institutional anxiety that since the days of Slavery and Jim Crow, ignorant conversations just aren't disenfranchising people like they used to.
Rarely, if ever, and never as images. If your dreams are like movies, mine are like stumbling through a dark house.
It sounds like you want a member-controlled organization working with an INGO. Do you want a group whose members are the people who RECEIVE the services, or a group whose members PROVIDE the services, or a group whose members are mostly activists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_non-governmental... -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights-based_approach_to_devel... -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Poverty_History -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARE_(relief_agency)#Programmi... --
https://www.fidh.org/International-Federation-for-Human-Righ...
What would you advise for smaller companies that don't background check? Or if I don't fill out an application and get an interview? Do I still bring it up and if so, when is it appropriate?
Story time. When I was 4 or so, I fell asleep at my aunt's house on the couch. I recall being above my body, looking down. I then looked over to the table where the adults were, still looking down. I could look down upon the table and its contents, something I could not see normally (hey, I was 4 and small, I could not see over the edge of the thing). This is the first time I ever saw square pizza. From Dominoes. The experience of being out of body was not meaningful to me at the time, but, man, square pizza?! I remember thinking that was quite novel.
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How clear are the pictures normal people can visualize. Is it like seeing but with your eyes closed? Because what I can do is nothing like seeing. Visual memory doesnt appear like a vision. Just a vague memory.

Can people actually see memories. I'm really missing out if so.
I can't say that I see anything unethical about a police sousveillance company catalyzing the Black Lives Matter Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

edit: apologies, you meant on the controller presumably
Business licenses (in the US) have nothing to do with personal liability. That's what LLCs and other structures are for. A 'business license' just gives you the ability to run a business without being shut down for, well, running a business without a license, as tautological as that sounds.

Presumably the idea behind business licensing at the local level is that commercial entities require extra service from the government with regard to code enforcement, city planning, fire/police protection, and so on, and the license fees help pay for those services. Discriminating against anyone for pretty much any reason would be grounds for a lawsuit against the municipality or county.
My argument is that the calories in (eaten) / calories out (exercise) explanation, and the idea it is just that simple and if you're not losing weight you're cheating on your diet or lying about your exercise is wrong.

You seem comfortable with the idea that different individuals have differences in caloric uptake (Suppose I extract 1500 calories from a meal, and you 1800 calories from the same meal), but I don't think others are comfortable with that idea. And if it varies across individuals, why is it impossible to vary with one individual over time, or change drastically in a short period of time? Can the physiology of your body change to (for example) start extracting more calories from food than it normally does? It doesn't seem like that crazy of an idea to me, and if it can do this (as anecdotal evidence suggests), then it makes weight loss strategies much more complicated, and it makes the simple calculations no longer work under all scenarios.

This doesn't seem like a terribly controversial idea to me.
Not a paradox...here is a proof that it is 1/3

Let P(T) = probability that coin landed on tails, P(H) = probability that coin landed on heads.

Let "1st" denote the event that it is the first time you are awaken, "2nd" the second time.

Note that P(T|1st) = 1/2 (if you were told that this is the first time you were woken up, it's equally likely that the coin landed heads or tails). And of course, P(T|2nd) = 1

By the definition of conditional probability,
1/2 = P(T|1st) = P(1st|T)P(T)/P(1st) = (1/2)P(T)/P(1st)
Hence P(T) = P(1st) = P(T)1/2 + P(H) = P(T)1/2+(1-P(T)) = 1 - P(T)/2
-> P(T) = 2/3
Putting a question mark after a seemingly-accusatory statement doesn't make it a question.

If you were genuinely curious, "what's your opinion on voting rights for convicted criminals?" would be a better way to ask.
> Plus as a purely practical matter, banning former criminals from making a legal living seems like a pretty good way to ensure they continue to commit crimes.

This county wants ex-cons back in prison or in another state.
I'm baffled as well. I had no idea people could do that. I thought that was called hallucination. I can remember images, I can't see them. I think I'm missing the point somewhere.
Just funny that MySQL couldn't cut it.
> Sandstorm actually self-containerizes.

Ok, that's interesting... so hopefully it wouldn't conflict with my Docker install and its containers at all (other than port numbers I suppose).
Well.. then your understanding is rather wrong.

Stories about those are quite common but actual verifiable or repeatable events? Those have yet to happen.

> a phenomenon which seems to be willing to accommodate the faith of the tester

This is synonymous with "made up".
Which answer is "correct" depends on your interpretation of the question, as you say, and that's exactly the point. Like many paradoxes of the kind, it illustrates the ambiguity of the question and, by extension, the lack of nuance in the way we describe and reason about probabilities (in general, that is; of course one who has learned some probability theory is likely to be able to understand and communicate the difference).

Implicit in any answer is a way of valuing the choices made. In the 1/3 case, it is assumed that being right twice is better than being right once - for example, you get $100 each time you answer correctly. In the 1/2 case, it's assumed that answering the same question correctly twice isn't inherently better than answering it correctly once - for example, you have to debate an opponent at each awakening. You're either right or wrong and you don't get extra credit for winning the same debate with the same opponent twice.
I don't think a business license frees you from personal liability, I think you're talking about incorporation, which is entirely different.
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> all this, apparently, is laid at the feet of Visual Studio

I wonder if you actually read the story.

He admits several faults including most if not all of those you mention.
The case for retiring another ‘barbarous relic’
No they will likely announce the school and before it is even built arrest you and lock you away for many many years
20$ is the kickstarter price. retail will be 30$ apparently, which is still a pretty awesome deal imo.
I should've clarified that RAID1 is the absolute best if data integrity is your sole concern. Regardless...

> RAID10 is strictly worse than RAID6 for redundancy.

Only if you use two drives per mirror; RAID10's worst-case matches RAID6's when using three disks per mirror.

RAID6 also lacks a "best case" that's distinct from its worst case. You lose three disks, you're hosed, period. You lose three disks in a RAID10 (even one with two disks per mirror), it's much more probable that your data will be intact. You can mitigate this further by using a bigger array (RAID10 total failure probability is affected by array size, unlike RAID6) or by using different vendors for each disk in the mirrors (example: each mirror has one Intel and one Samsung SSD of the same capacity) - which, while having some performance and capacity implications, actually mitigates the "oh no I bought a bad batch of hard drives and now my RAID is kaput" failure case (unlike with RAID6, where mixing/matching vendors won't help you unless you mix/match them for every disk).

There are also some recoverability benefits of RAID10 v. RAID6; notably, recovering from a fault in RAID6 requires recomputing parity, while no such thing is necessary for RAID10. This mitigates the "oh no my array took too long to fix itself and now my RAID is kaput" failure case.
speak for yourself (or for other top-10 schools) - i worshiped my rice cooker for filling my belly day in day out for 50c a pop. i got about $10k per year and even in the mid-90s that was !#@!@# all.
A lot of that depends on the job and the type of people involved. I once supervised a small group of computer operators. The work was more interesting than factory work, say, but it did get a little tedious after awhile. I could not trust them to work when I turned my back. Heck, I couldn't even trust them not to pop down to the local bar if I took the afternoon off.

In my current workplace it's mostly theory Y. But it far more easy to get excited about the work.
The optionality is composable, because we can have the nonexistence of a cache entry (cache lookup fails, perhaps indicating so by returning nil instead of a cache entry) paired with the possibility that cache entry which exists (successful lookup) has a nil value for a phone number.
Part of the problem is the "Debt to Society" crap. People who violate the law do not owe a debt to society, they owe a debt to their victim(s) and no one else.

This "debt to society" was invented in order to justify the creation of 1000's of victimless "crimes"

It should be very simple... No Victim, No Crime.
Coincidetally, this article showed up in my feed. Apart from the advice to carry a notebook to record what got one into the Hyperfcus Zone (I tried, I did, but I cannot remember to remember to make the note), it is a professional take much like our anecdotal ones here.

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/10117.html
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Yes, it seems like most cities (at least larger cities, but at least many of the small ones too) and a few states require business licenses for any business. Some cities wave the fee for low income folks and some will happily charge you more than you made as "business income" in some cases (Philadelphia going after folks who put ads on their blog is the one I know about, there may be more).

I think most state licensing is more limited, but still tends to cover wide professional areas and often is more trade protectionism than public benefit.
Quite a lot of hubris in thinking they are just going to solve this as if no one has been working on it. Who knows, maybe they have, but color me skeptical.
Why Gentrification Is Good for Poor Neighborhoods
I quite like your phrasing because it highlights that probability is a model of uncertainty for an observer.

So the mother has no information on the door, so she is 'neutral' (p=1/2 of guessing right); you have a small amount of information (p=2/3); you can even include Monty which of course has total information (p=1). You can't ask what are the probabilities of finding goats behind each door without specifying an observer and the available information.
François Brunelle did a photoseries called "I’m not a look-alike!" photographing unrelated people who do look alike. Pretty neat.

https://portrait.photogrist.com/francois-brunelle/
http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2013/02/me-myself-and-i-fra...

(His site is down otherwise I would link to the source.)
A caloric deficit once achieved will work for everybody, but different people absorb calories differently - so, as was being discussed, the same thing (calories consumed per kg of body mass + exercise) will not work for everybody.
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> paid debt to society

Since society is not actually an entity that can be paid anything, it's not surprising that individuals want to treat ex-cons unfairly.

I think we should scrap the notion of "paying your debt to society" altogether and instead focus on making victims whole. As it stands, victims of crime get minimal remuneration[1], and it varies by state. It's not the criminal who pays the victim, it's the taxpayer. And then the taxpayer gets to pay for the prison term as well.

[1]: http://www.victimsofcrime.org/help-for-crime-victims/get-hel...
To be sure I understand you: you mean we can't prevent people from bringing an AK47 in school, as long as they don't shoot anyone?
And one can drive as fast a she wants as long as there is no accident?
One can sell outdated food as long as no client gets sick?
Rarely with any color. Mostly about moving through terrain and spaces, but the sensation is only partially visible.
Avoiding the Durkin opening in startups (slide deck)
Just switched to OSX for work, and i3 is the only part of my workflow I can't replace. I dearly dearly miss it.
Ashley Madison: Analysing the Data with Wolfram Language
I used kanbanflow[1] it is trello like project management tool with built-in support of pomodoro [2]. For reporting, it has a pretty basic use case available on free account but should be good enough for your purpose.

[1] https://kanbanflow.com
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
pre commit hooks could have prevented this: https://gist.github.com/stevendanna/4db970716cabb8f5def4
I wonder if you can improve your visualization ability.

I stopped reading novels for fun about 5-6 years ago but this past year I've started reading at least one book every couple of weeks, and I feel that my ability to visualize things has improved.

On a related note, I wonder how you could measure one's change in visualization ability, since it's so subjective. I had a very difficult time answering the questions in the article, since I had no frame of reference.
I wonder if you can improve your visualization ability.

I stopped reading novels for fun for about 4-5 years and this past year I've started reading at least one book every couple of weeks, and I think my ability to visualize things has improved.

On a related note, I wonder how you could measure one's change in visualization ability, since it's so subjective. I had a very difficult time answering the questions in the article, since I had no frame of reference.
Worth mentioning that RAID1+0 and RAID0+1 are two different things (striped mirrors versus mirrored stripes, respectively), and have two different probabilities of multi-drive failure causing total array failure (long story short, RAID10 has a better chance of surviving a multi-disk failure than RAID01 without any sacrifice in capacity or performance).

But yes, the performance boost is certainly quite fantastic.
A digital controller for my smoker that would control the temperature and smoke output so that I could start cooking before bed and be done by the time I woke up. Ideally it would keep a log of internal meat temperature and internal smoker temp through time. I know you can buy commercial products that do most/all of this, but I think it'd be a fun side project.

An isomorphic CMS built in react. This one I'll probably get to and leave as a proof of concept. I'm personally fine with over-engineering things for my amusement, but wouldn't want to subject clients to my woes. But, who knows — could end up working better than expected.
You can read about the activists that coined #BlackLivesMatter here, they work for social justice nonprofits. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/04/alicia-garza-b...

What is the name of the police camera company that you are talking about?
Actually I'm pretty much at my ideal weight, maybe a few pounds over.

Which facts am I not accepting?
Correct. Other than port numbers, Sandstorm should have no interaction with anything else on the system, including Docker. (Please file a bug if you find otherwise. :) )
Not only will the example code and docs never use Gc, there won't even be a Gc implementation in the stdlib. There are just too many potential variants of Gc (along with too little concrete demand) to ship any implementation by default.
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That's interesting but it's such a startling claim I think you need to back it up with something better than 'i heard it on the radio,' otherwise you're just going make a lot of people feel offended and write you off as a conspiracy theorist. Like at least hit NPR.org for an hour or two and track down a URL.
I look at things through a different framework. The products that end up winning in the very competitive world of software are the products that evolve very quickly.

Almost all the value creation that's happening in the cloud is about enabling agility, and very fast release models.

Agility is far more valuable then the time/effort it takes to maintain these apps.

Agility is the ability to launch a new product or feature faster than your competitors

When agility is no longer valuable to a business, they already have a dominant position in the market or have been disrupted by something else.
> Adding more trading hours to the day doesn't serve a productive purpose.

Sure it does. Why should Chinese investors only be able to trade US equities from 9:30pm to 4:00am?
OK. I'm an idiot.

I'll tell you why I didn't suss this out (and I think this is a geek blind spot more than a true UX flaw).

1. I decided all the options FOR the app would be inside the part of the screen owned by the app (i.e. not the top bar). So I only looked there.

2. I was expecting the url in the browser's address bar to be shareable.
SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF MY FAMILY
So what? Admitting fault isn't absolution. He really does go out of his way to blame the tools.
You REALLY need to be charging more that the ~$9 a month you are charging.

~$20 seems reasonable. Cheap even. You can always discount when you get to a scale that sustains.
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I've heard enough of these stories to have no doubt this is a real experience, but what could a scientific explanation of this possibly look like? I take coherence of worldview very seriously and will rewrite my entire ontology if necessary, but I'm having difficulties here. I don't want to accept the cognitive dissonance and say you're making it up or are fabricating the memory, or simply dismiss this comment altogether. On the other hand, it seems a very difficult hallucination to conjure.
Normally I whip out my Peter...Turchin and talk about how structural-demographic theory could predict the increased marginalization of vulnerable groups as societies reach their next crisis point.

The truth of this problem however is probably more prosaic. Someone in Amherst has somehow gotten under the skin of the mayor or city council - probably refused to contribute to a campaign or hire someone's dumbass relative so now the target gets to enjoy the benefits of "civil society" or whatever half-assed rationale finds its way to the local rag.
But the important part of life is the fun. The work is only instrumentally useful to get to the fun, not really valuable in itself.
Dominoes used to do square pizza?!? Sure it wasn't Little Caesars?
This is freaking awesome. I love it.

Definitely in for the $6 hosted version, once you guys are out of beta.

Seriously... wonderful work.
GitFS – A FUSE Git File System
If you have a few hours, have a look at Jon Blow's new language, Jai.

Most of the content is in video form so not easy to grok, but there is essentially a way to switch from Array of Structs to Struct of Arrays with a single keyword. This gets you many of the benefits of Data-Oriented Programming with minimal effort.
I don't see the problem in their problem:

> Whenever SB awakens, she has learned absolutely nothing she did not know Sunday night. What rational argument can she give, then, for stating that her belief in heads is now one-third and not one-half?

The argument that she can give is clear: she might have learned something, but the memory was taken from her. And she knew that they would take the memory from her. So yes, she hasn't learned anything new, but that's a cop-out—the problem explicitly prevents it.

I mean, from that perspective, she doesn't even need to go to sleep! They could ask her, "when you wake up, how likely will you think that the coin was heads?" and get the same (correct) response of 1/3. That result is not based on her "learning new information" (since the situation forbids it), it's based purely on the situation as described.
Garbage collection was solved long ago: just manage your own memory ;-)
The HN guidelines ask you to please use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait. Your rewritten title was arguably more misleading and more linkbaity. That's exactly the opposite of what we're looking for.

We don't let people use submission titles to editorialize. If you have a point to argue, such as that a law effectively makes ex-cons unemployable, you should argue it by commenting in the thread, where everyone is on a level playing field. Otherwise the submitter of a story would get to frame it for everyone else, a huge undue influence over the discussion.
> Close your eyes and imagine walking along a sandy beach and then gazing over the horizon as the Sun rises. How clear is the image that springs to mind?

Very clear; I see some cons cells, making up a list, whose CAR holds the symbol BEACH, the main connective of an abstract syntax tree describing the whole situation.
I'm sorry, what exactly is your criticism?
Indeed.. the author breaks down in laymen terms how the cipher was broken and the journey to breaking made this piece a very good read.
I can envision a lot of people in corporate middle management having a bit of a problem with the very idea of democratic decision making. An extremely large part of the allure of those positions is power and controlling which information filters up the management chain.
Phenotype space is probably not continuous given genome structure. So it appears like you can vary features almost arbitrarily, as you see in the Oblivion video game, but in fact you see a lot of genetic collisions due to a much smaller search space combined with the birthday paradox.
Or, if you don't have the patience to give this mumbo-jumbo the benefit of the doubt, just see this: https://xkcd.com/spiral/
I think 1/2 argument makes essential use of the fact that the "2 people" are the same person at different times. Ultimately it comes down to a different idea of the way "being right twice" is valued. In the 1/3 position, the model is that each time you answer the question you get something good if you're right. In the 1/2 perspective, the idea is that after the whole experiment is over you either were simply correct or incorrect, and being correct twice doesn't count any extra.
I'm not sure I understand this given the way the question is posed.

We're doing a single experiment, and I am put to sleep without remembering either once or twice, and then awaken (potentially a third time) after that?

Or could this keep going indefinitely until heads comes up?

And am I guessing each time I'm woken, or only after the final time?