skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a good fuzzer would catch this - it's pretty common for fuzzers to stick strangely formatted (negative, out-of-range, octal, etc.) numbers in input text.
Here's When Economists Expect to See the Next U.S. Recession
Maybe. But the cynical reflexivity with which such judgements are made immediately is … weird.

Strikes me as laziness and a basic unwillingness to even engage with something, basically a defense mechanism. It would probably be better to just admit that it’s not for you and leave it at that instead of claiming it to be sucky always forever and for everyone.
When I read his description of "radiator fluid" and dumping gravel into the oil fill of a car, I began to have my doubts, but when he suggested that a revolver with the cylinder swung out might still have a bullet in the chamber, all doubts that he didn't know what he was talking about were erased.
If the founders are afraid to launch based on the reason you stated above, don't you think your suggestion to help is just temporary? There are different kind of markets and without domain expertise in a particular market, how do you map out strategy, sales etc.? How do you act as advisors?
Hey! That's my podcast! Thanks for the link. :)

Nathan is a smart dude, I really enjoyed interviewing him.

If anyone has any questions about this episode, or about what Nathan & I talked about, post 'em up! I'll answer pretty much anything...
I'm reminded of an amusing incident Asimov wrote about. He came across a large class where the teacher was discussing the meaning of one of Asimov's works. Asimov slipped in and sat in the back, and then afterwards went up to the teacher, introduced himself, and said that the interpretation was interesting but in several parts it was not what he had meant at all. The teacher replied, "Just because you wrote it, what makes you think you have the slightest idea what it's about?"
> but the current situation of specialized policies that vary house to house in each region is overly complex

I actually think it's not complex enough. How else do you accurately price natural disasters into existing homes, whose ownership is often measured in decades? I think any area with a chance over a certain percent of a natural disaster that could cause catastrophic loss of property should require insurance, and the insurance cost should be as accurate as possible to the reality of living in that location.
I took over maintenance of an in-house application written in Delphi/ObjectPascal about 18 months ago (as one of my many tasks - I have spent maybe one or two weeks working on it since), and I thought Lazarus was a neat way of getting me started, having no prior Pascal experience whatsoever. Alas, the IDE crashed on me so frequently both under GNU/Linux and OS X that I gave up within a couple of days. Either it is not very stable or I was mistreating it somehow, although I don't know how.

The documentation was very helpful, though, in getting to know Pascal. Taking over maintenance of an application written in a languange you can read but hardly write (whatever bad things people might be tempted to say about Pascal, cryptic syntax is not among them, I am certain) is a strange process.
Def agree that it's more complicated but PNWhas record dryness and heat last five years. An the level tho you're right and it warrants more inspection than my cursory gut check.
I couldn't agree more with you. What ever happened to keeping the language small, and allowing the community to provide for useful abstractions on top of it?

Now we have a bloated spec. Seriously. Fat arrow syntax with explicit scope? Bind() works just fine, thank you.

And this isn't about fear of change. Change should only be for legitimate purpose. When I detect any trace of change for stylistic issue, I snear.
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Good stuff. That’s nice it outputs the commands. Have you considered adding a `[--dry-run|-n]` flag to see the command output in a safe way?
But Frost didn't invent that phrase. I hadn't read the poem since school, so I didn't consider it before. But looking at it again now I notice that the phrase is presented in an ironic way. So I turned to the power of the internet and found that, indeed, "good fences make good neighbors" predates "The Mending Wall" by about 30 years.

https://books.google.com/books?id=zAgTAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22good%20...
I've made this comment before on the OP's posts but these tutorials are severely undervoted for as excellent and thoughtful as they are.
I suppose our communication around Titan has caused some confusion after the acquisition by DataStax. As one of the Titan devs I can say that we have no plans to abandon Titan. What we were trying to say is that we will have less time to dedicate to the project in order to encourage others in the community to step up and contribute. That has happened. Over the last couple of months, other Titan users have actively helped out on the mailing list to get newcomers started and contributed bugfixes and features via pull requests. This has allowed us to keep the Titan 1.0 release on its original plan date.
What we are trying to do is make the Titan project less dependent on Dan and myself and more open and inviting to other developers who wish to contribute. For instance, we have dedicated more time than usual to reviewing PRs then before. I realize there is still more work that we need to do here but so far the increased contributions have been an encouraging sign that we are heading in the right direction.
So, Titan is here to stay and - as others have pointed out - there is more momentum than ever behind the project.
It's not as if sports don't demand creativity.
It isn't that I question the validity of the results because of how they were produced, but because I can produce many other quite different results with minimal effort that are no easier to dispute with sound reasoning than the 'official' message presented.

It is like a theory that, while explaining the results we saw, would just as easily explain any other results. Such a theory wouldn't be worth any further consideration unless the supporters are able to give it more sound structure so that we can actually have a reasonable way of saying 'no, that is wrong' or 'yes, that is right'.

As it stands, if there is a boat, I could say the boat is representing something feminine because boats are like sheathes and provide protection from the harshness of the sea like a mother or I could say the the boat is representing something masculine because it is piercing the water and representing historically masculine ideas of exploration and conquest. Any such analysis is largely useless as I can get what ever result I want.
I didn't realize Turbo Pascal was ever released for the Mac. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) it was, but it was soon discontinued. Lightspeed/THINK Pascal/C ruled the roost on the Mac for a long time (thanks in large parts to just how horrible working with MPW was) until the PowerPC when Metrowerks took their place.
MIT scores worst in cybersecurity
"There’s a useful high-tech concept called the Technology Readiness Level that helps explain why Uber pounced when it did. NASA came up with this scale to gauge the maturity of a given field of applied science. At Level 1, an area of scientific inquiry is so new that nobody understands its basic principles. At Level 9, the related technology is so mature it’s ready to be used in commercial products."

There's a often a big difference between the people who like to work on level 1 verse level 9 stuff. "How do I scale this to be used by 10,000 people?" isn't even an interesting/relevant question to a researcher pursuing level 1 areas of science, but it's one of the most important questions for an engineer of a technology at level 9.
Sorry, bitcoin is not now nor will ever be normal.
Frost's duplicity (sometimes triplicity, maybe more) is part of his charm. Yet if there were not also insight and beauty, I think the charm--the mere pleasure in being as clever as the speaker (if not as clever as the poet)--would wear thin.

I truly love Frost, but I love even more Gerard M Hopkins. One gets the feeling Hopkins resorts to dense layers of images not to share a joke with the sufficiently-clever reader, but in desperate earnestness to show what can't be said in prose. "Look--look! See this beautiful/terrible/mysterious thing!"
If the piece evokes some kind of emotion then it is fair game to analyze the piece to see how it accomplishes this. The problem is that there is no way to prove that an analysis is correct, but the reasoning of good analysis should be logical and plausible.
An OLED screen could solve this, having no light where the screen is black.
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I don't buy the 'think of the children!' argument for a second. If a person wants to use, they're going to use, regardless of what drug or their age. What really causes problems is all the lies, misinformation, and unrealistic expectations about what they can achieve with or without drugs. People think that the drugs are magic and will close the gaps in their training. It really is all about training- as the article says, the drugs are used because the human body isn't able to recover quickly enough from the volume of training required of professional athletes; in most sports it has nothing to do with adding more muscle. In fact most athletes don't want to add muscle willy-nilly because it makes it harder to move. If professional athletes were able to honestly discuss the drugs that they use and their dosages I think it would make things safer for young athletes, because most people don't understand how low the dosages that they take are and it would PROVE that you can't replace hard training with drugs. There are young athletes now taking dosages that far exceed what even world class athletes would consider because there's no honest discussion around them, they can't make informed decisions.

Tl;dr: Hiding information never makes people safer. If Barry Bonds published his training program and drug stack, nobody would ever be stupid enough to think that "I can get to where Barry Bonds is by using steroids"; instead it would prove that the only way to compete with Barry Bonds is to train your ass off.
Is it possible to clear enough brush/trees from around your house that the chance of it catching on fire is small? I've always wondered this, but I've never seen this issue addressed anywhere. Thanks.

EDIT: of course, if your house was left standing in the middle of a fire wasteland, you might want to live there anymore.
360-degree panorama from the WTC roof 3 weeks before 9/11
I've seen far more problems from people who think they understand the code so they don't need tests than from people who write tests to check their code. The best of the best might be able to get by without tests, but us common-folk stand to benefit a lot from writing tests and listening to the design feedback they provide.
I think that many, many scientists and engineers are not really interested in curiosity and exploration at all -- they are interested in solving well-specified problems using previously trained and learned techniques. They are interested in final answers and the satisfaction of completing a task successfully.

I suspect people who whine about "what the author intended" or that "you can make it up as you go along" really lack the mental/creative flexibility to wrestle and dance with art and miss the point that the act of interpretation is a purpose in and of itself: you express art/ideas by interpreting another's work; your interpretation is art itself since art is a conversation. It's the job of artists to create a work that's deep and flexible and inspiring enough to generate many possible interpretations.

Not everybody has to like it but don't just dismiss it out of hand, recognize that brilliant creative people find value in it and the value is there, it just takes work to get at it just like it takes work to find beauty in well-written code or a system of complex equations, and it's a wholly different kind of satisfaction and beauty you find in the humanities; if you took the time and effort to honestly try it you might like it and like it or not that kind of expansion of the mind is something everyone could use a little more of.
Even Love itself can be dissected and torn apart, the inner workings exposed for the grime ridden machine that it is. But that is done in neurology, not literature.
> That's the problem with trying to value an asset that's granted by the government. Just because they have acted a certain way in the past doesn't guarantee that they will continue to act a certain way in the future.

I see that problem with any asset; 'past performance is no guarantee ...'. And one reason any asset can be unpredictable is the behavior of actors on which it depends; for example, if Apple changes the rules or features for the next version of iOS, your app might not be viable anymore. I don't see government as a special case.
It's a pain, but try to rule out dietary problems. I had what you describe for years and then had numerous health problems that forced me to take some time off. I found I have celiac. Now I'm back at it. You just never know...
Houston and New York are also designed with an expectation that those cities will flood. Most buildings in Houston, for example, forgo a basement and instead have a collecting vault underneath them that the rain drains into and from (and leaves more slowly and sustainably). There are fields set aside to ensure that there's land that can flood with minimal impact. County flood control districts will buy up property just to let it be undeveloped.

There are ways to mitigate the risks of living in a flood plain while still reaping the benefits.
I like Stanford, but as I read this article I couldn't shake the feeling that all of these gigantic academic dinosaurs are headed for extinction and simply don't realize it yet.

The very force that has fueled Stanford's prestige — the dynamism of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — may ultimately strike the fatal blow against the existing university system. Anyone who bothers to look can recognize the gross waste and inefficiency in the existing arrangement that the federal government subsidizes through student loans: Education is more expensive than ever, and there are cheaper and cheaper alternative sources of information.

We have already reached the point at which you can educate yourself outside of the legacy institutions. In the future, someone smart will devise a better way to demonstrate the existence of the relevant skills to employers. The residual prestige of schools like Stanford or Harvard may seem durable, but it could evaporate overnight if suddenly all of the smartest kids in the country realized that ____ education startup was providing them a better opportunity for future advancement.

I predict that once this cultural phase shift occurs, the field of economics will also begin to decline, because so much mainstream economics research offers zero actionable insight for private actors. The parts that thrive will presumably be those with practical applications, like finance.
It seems to me that Silicon Valley's unicorns are themselves turning into incubators for future spin offs. Uber is taking a ridiculous amount of funding and investing in what can barely be called related technologies. It's not a conglomerate, it's not a global taxi firm, it's not a VC. It's ... Something new. And it's not alone.

Google, Amazon, AirBnB for heavens sake, all are placing bets on future innovations and models a long way from their core. I don't have a problem with this, but it's going to have a lot of knock on impacts. From traditional business valuation techniques to how to tax R&D globally, we are going to see a few decades where unfair and undemocratic could be the global theme, or, we could see better forms of governance emerge.

This, Uber going robotics crazy, is for me just a trigger to realise what has been going on for a while, from Pikkety to Varoufakis, tech has emerged from nice career to political engine of the next decades.

The boy has started saying the emperor has no clothes on. We the people need to know how to deal with a naked emperor and a new species of global something's. We the developers are not isolated from the political effects of the fun technologies we work with.

Gosh I'm pontificating now ...
Sounds like a great way to start a fight with a monkey in a cage.
Congratulations, you've nailed down the Culture's biggest quandary in one sentence. The best answer I can give you is "good question." The best answer Banks could give you is spread out over an award-winning series of nine books, so it's probably worth a look.

For starters, Minds are fully aware of how big a deal mind reading is, and virtually never actually do it. A situation has to be ethically ridiculous before a Mind will even begin to consider it, we're talking "this person was brainwashed into hiding a nuke on the puppy daycare planet and we can't find it" sort of situations. This somewhat changes the question: "If the Mind could read your thoughts and predict your future actions, but hasn't, what does it mean to... " Again, the best answer I can give you is "good question." I suppose it's worth pointing out that if the mere possibility is enough to deprive you of free will, your universe is totally deterministic, the Mind doesn't have free will either, and you're all in the same boat. The Mind doesn't meaningfully have any "control" over you, since nobody has control over anything. The realization that you don't posses free will won't help you gain free will since that realization was itself inevitable and the actions you take as a result are too.

Further, if you know the Mind can perfectly predict your future actions when they scan your brain, does that change how you'll act? What if they scan your brain in secret and don't tell you so you don't know when their prediction was formed? I'm going to take an example from a source I'm sure we're all familiar with: the 2007 film Next, starring Nicolas Cage. The premise is that Mr. Cage's character can observe his own future for the next two minutes. The big caveat is that it only gives him a highly useful idea of what the future is probably like and not a faultless prediction. By the time he's done looking, the future has changed because he looked at it. The end result is that he never actually knows the future. His power is subject to the "observer effect:" the act of detecting the future caused it to change, so he only knows what the future would have been at the moment he used his ability. From then on, the actual future is different, and the only way to know how it changed is to use his ability again, which will yet again change the future. A simpler but less Cage-tastic example is detecting electrons. You can observe when photons interact with the electron, but the electron's path was altered by the photon, so good luck figuring out where it is now. You could wait for it to interact with another photon, but that will cause... and so on. Perhaps the Mind shooting a bunch of futuristic radio waves or whatever inside your skull alters your thinky bits, and the very act of detecting your mental state alters your mental state. The Mind will then extrapolate from data that was outdated by the very act of producing it, and his prediction will be wrong. How wrong? Wrong enough to matter philosophically? "Good question."
Burn Trials- Out of the Maze and into the Playa
Yes. In NYC Uber is a licensed car service like Carmel and Dial7.
OLED have terrible burn in though, they don't like being turned on for long lengths of time.
Can't users opt out by disabling automatic updates? Microsoft is basically doing what every other modern software company does but taking heat for it.
I think my Dad had that "pseudo-highbrow twit" for a professor in college. Asking my Dad why the whale was white in Moby Dick gets a reaction like someone remembering being in a car accident.

It also probably explains why he didn't seem surprised to be informed by my high school teacher that my 5-minute book report that stretched to 35-minutes on The Pearl had "too much energy" and "focused on the negative themes" a bit much. For my part, given the conditions of the school, I found the choice of books to be unfortunate.
Every software engineer should have a blog
> What's the market do? Push all effort into C and C++. Results of that are still with us.

Not to mention the amount of money spent writing band aids for them., in form of static and memory analysers and more recently CPU instructions (Intel MPX).

Which not everyone uses, because either it isn't available on their platform, or they choose not to use them anyway.

Just like coders that despite C++ safety improvements over C, use it as C with C++ compiler.
Thanks for the catch, I think I fixed. But if not this works.
http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/open/wiki
Reminds me of the joke that if a forest firefighter woke up in the middle of the night and saw his house was on fire, he would go light his neighbor's house on fire to fight it.
Nobody but techies use RSS, so it likely depends on the target clientele.
Why We Should Fear University, Inc
http://michaelteeuw.nl/post/111886383522/magic-mirrors-aroun...
I get the point - it's necessary to reanimate the mouldering bones of Malthus now and again. I just disagree with that because the emiprics of the case are pretty lopsided against him. He could not have known about engines. Which now appear to cause one whale of an externality.

The only thing Capitalism did was replace Mercantilism at scale. You had production before.

What's weird is that economists talk about ways to actually price things like externalities, equality, sustainability and/or risk. That might be madness or it might be reason.

If we can't price them, then are we not dropping the checkbook and reaching for the sword?
File store? I agree that "object" makes no sense when applied to S3. It's not like you can store an "account" object and call a method to get back the current balance, with accrued interest for the time since last deposit added in. Or even store an image and call a method to get back a black-and-white version. Etc.

IMNHO "File server" implies it exports an actual file-system, and would also be wrong. In that light, I think S3 is more like FTP than a "file server". Sure, it might technically be more like WebDAV than FTP, perhaps "FTP-like service using HTTP for transport" is more accurate -- but I'm not sure it's better than just calling it FTP...
Yeah, I think a lot of English teachers push on over-interpreting, which drives some set of students away.

It's unfortunate because there is actually a lot of beauty to be found in literature, and each reader is free to find his or her own.

Beyond beauty literature helps establish empathy by exposing you to the inner-thoughts of different types of people, and it inspires creativity, both of which are useful in any field.
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It'd just be an easier version of this

http://michaelteeuw.nl/post/111886383522/magic-mirrors-aroun...
People have been building robts for years, they're just becoming more consumer-facing. What's not good is that a few companies buy up all the talent and control the market in a monopoly or oligopoly-style situation. Whatever goes on in comercial labs will be heavily patented; all large tech companies play that game (out of necessity until such time as there is meaningful patent reform) and Uber has applied for patents on things like their surge pricing mechanism, even though the concept of equilibrium pricing is a matter of basic economics.
GET /v2/keys/mykey?quorum=true
After the disaster of Windows 8 and 8.1 for the desktop can you blame people for being a little bit gunshy about upgrading?
it might still be useful to filter based on type. if you expect a mass storage device you don't want it to register as input device.