skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ignoring patents is a concern.

The patent issue is a major one and not lightly ignored. I haven't checked patent status, but one of the things that was pretty contentious with JPEG 2000 during the ISO standardization process was patents around arithmetic coding -- not just the method for doing the encoding, but also things like context based modeling.

In reality, the majority of image compression comes about in the "modeling" stage -- be it predictive coding, context based encoding coefficients, etc.

I'm happy to see new advances in image coding, but having spent many years working with Glen Langdon and others, the depth of IP concerns is still fairly fresh in my memory.
Campaign finance laws do not apply to donated labor. Volunteers exist for every single political campaign.

>Personal Services
An individual may help candidates and committees by volunteering personal services. For example, you may want to take part in a voter drive or offer your skills to a political committee. Your services are not considered contributions as long as you are not paid by anyone. (If your services are compensated by someone other than the committee itself, the payment is considered a contribution by that person to the committee.)
As a volunteer, you may spend unlimited money for normal living expenses.
Wikipedia's template language was not intended to be Turing-complete.

Then, through some hideous contortions of the syntax, someone managed to construct an "if" statement.

This caused so much CPU load they implemented it as a function.

And then it evolved into a horrifying accidental DSL, ParserFunctions.

They're now trying to rewrite all those clever templates in Lua, having given up avoiding Turing-completeness ...

The curse of Turing-completeness is: if you have it, you will soon have to use it.
High-tech shredding: First smart helmet for snow sports
Thanks, that sounds like good advice.
And in a win for irony, you also manage to be judgmental...
I think you're interpreting that backwards. "Ludus" originally referred to educational training sessions to build skills for later performing activities of direct practical benefit, mainly combat and political oratory. This is how "ludus" means both "play" and "school." It's originally "play" in the sense of "play-fighting," not in the sense of "having fun without a particular goal." Unlike Greek academies, Roman schools were entirely focused on building practical skills.

The idea of "play" as "having fun without any particular goal orientation" is a thoroughly modern idea. The idea that school should be a form of "play" in the modern sense is an even more recent one. It has no basis in ancient Rome.
Regional operators tend to be better than the national ones.

For example I used Midcontinent Communications when I lived in their service area, and it was excellent. Best ISP and cable company I've ever dealt with.

Unfortunately, they are very limited to the upper midwest/great plains region, and probably serve a million households at most.
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Agree. While crows are exceptionally smart, I bet if other species are studied, similar results will be found, with regards to understanding the concept of death.

The one that gets me now is when people say something like "well I don't eat beef, but I am ok with eating fish because they are lower on the food chain." As if fish don't feel pain when they are killed. You either accept that what you are eating had to suffer when it died, and feel appropriate guilt (or not), or you don't eat any meat at all.
No, it's not at all unprecedented. That's the way the world worked until the mid 20th century.
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The Lessig 2016 campaign also has a tech volunteer program[1], but it is officially endorsed (unlike Coders for Sanders), and all of the software developed for the campaign (including software developed by the paid folks) is open source, developed on GitHub, and discussed openly on Slack.

[1] https://github.com/Lessig2016/Lessig2016.github.io
Then we need a scan of all government machines to see if there was a precedent of it being installed across many thousands of machines to suggest that this was not an actual individual breach of policy. and show that the government was remiss in its ability to enforce the policy at all.
Whoisology shows alpha@mycareerfox.com as the registrant on 2014-10-31.

And the only older record they have is someone else registering it in December 2012.

Domain History has these records: http://www.domainhistory.net/forthepeeple.com

If anyone has a domaintools account they could get a better report (apparently 31 records going back 7 years with 18 significant changes) but I don't have one anymore.

Seems safe to say it was registered by these people Oct 31 last year.
Grew up in the USA. Spent 8 years in Finland.

Finnish kids are taught by the parents to read long before they get to school. Sure, it helps that the Finnish language is phonetic... But really, it's a home environment that teaches that reading is fun and enjoyable and can get you what you want.

Same goes for counting and basic arithmetic.

It's a cultural thing.

Teachers in Finland are not geniuses. The caliber of the teachers is, in fact, higher than the USA, but this stems more from seats in schools as opposed to "smart people wanting to become teachers".

The desirability ranking of what the average student would like to do goes like this:
Medical
Engineer
Law
French
Pyschology
...
Education
...
Waiter
...

So somewhere along this spectrum, you get a bunch of qualified people who become teachers. There's only a limited number of seats for each profession (driven by free education... you can NOT become anything you want to become, you have to do better than the others on the entrance test). So you don't get a disproportionate group of people getting a degree in History or Biology or Pyschology. The number seats are arranged according to the needs of the society.

And kids would rather be teachers than waiters (yes, there's a school for that).

In Finland, teachers do NOT make more than engineers or doctors. They make about one third (pre tax) of what doctors or engineers make.

Also, Finland is incredibly homogenous. Take that for what you will...
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Executions in the US by Governor (working draft)
> Strictly speaking, Finland is not a mono-culture.

No country is an absolute monoculture or absolutely multicultural, but Finland is a remarkably monocultural country compared to most industrialized nations, with a strong social cohesion and rather minor ethnic divides. Swedish-speakers are very similar in culture and values to Finnish-speaking Finns, they just speak a different language.

Right now there is a huge migration going on - about 50 000 asylum seekers will come to the country within the year and it looks the pace will just increase. That means 1% of population, which is a rather significant demographic change in just one year. It will definitely have an impact.

I do not really believe Norwegian results are that much different. PISA is just one metric. In the most recent PISA (2012) Finland is #12; in the previous one it was #6 and the one before that it was #2. Did the quality of teaching drop that much in just a few years? Hardly.
Screw software patents!
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Any chance of getting this into Debian?
Because the traditional diet is closer to what we have eaten as a species for tens of thousands of years.
Scottrade breached
Looks like the Evernote API is still open, alive, free and public:

https://twitter.com/evernote_dev/status/650089211844890624
https://twitter.com/evernotehelps/status/650086523719671808
> How do you know he didn't?

In particular, Mein Kampf comes pretty close.
Translation: The needs of the few (old corporations) should outweigh the needs of the many (rest of the world).
Before you put too much blame on car culture you should know a few things about Japan. First, cars are cheap, and lots of people drive. However, lots of the same people also have a bicycle which they use for short trips including grocery shopping. People also walk. This means drivers have more empathy for people not in cars. Second, the speed limits are low. Some decent looking roads are 50 kph whereas in America they would be 45 mph, about 50 percent faster. Third, children walking to and from school wear fluorescent helmets. This is a safety precaution American children would not tolerate for themselves or on others.
>Given that strong alcoholic drinks have been around for at most a few thousand years it seems silly to assume that any group has yet evolved any genetic adaptations.

Evolution happens over very short time frames if the stress is great enough. I don't know if that's the case in this instance, but it's certainly plausible.
Yeah, but despite all that we're still called 'Westerners'. The victory is not yet complete.
I suppose that depends on the office. Last time I showed up in person, I was told the wait was 2 hours -- and every customer's face in there seemed to confirm that.
Nutritional sciences are far from comprehensive. It's only within the last 50 or so years that we even began to understand the importance of micronutrients to your diet.

You could definitely pull a paper from the 1940s that showed researches thought they understand what humans need from a nutrition point of view -- and it would be very, very wrong.
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Re: the overhang - that was so obvious and the fact that the writer didn't know why you would need that suggests they have never sat at a work desk.
The arguments here seem to be around whether APIs need to declare the exceptions they throw or not.

However it seems pretty easy to infer what exceptions can be thrown in a static language, so why not let this be handled by tooling such as an IDE that can simply tell you what exceptions are thrown by a given call without requiring all the code in the call chain to care.

Or why not let people opt-in to checked exceptions at functions where they would actually want to do something like present a user with a message?
Actually, the most annoying was on google because it would lock up occasionally and if I typed a new query in, i would have to reload. I was using ublock origin on mozilla firefox. I just upgraded to El Capitan and changed some settings so I will try to give it a go again.

edit: Did you have default deny third party req?
I don't find the genetic argument convincing. There are genes we know of that seem to be related to alcoholism and/or addiction, and native Americans don't seem to have them any more than anyone else. But that doesn't mean there aren't genes related to alcoholism we don't know about.
they don't have clauses for overages?
Damn, this is genius
> Back then, were members of a militia assumed to bring their own guns?

I believe so, yes, particularly the Minutemen-style militia members in New England.

> If so, a credible militia would have been impossible.

Um, what? Did you mean "if not" rather than "if so"? As written, I can find no logic in this sentence. To me, it seems to directly contradict the one before it.
"When you replace one Honda Civic with 20 Ford F-450s 11 million times worldwide, the results are cataclysmic"

This phrase sums all. Terrific article.

My main concern is that 6000 tons x 40 times the limit is 240.000. I wonder how is calculated this almost million ton.
"Associate professor of psychology"? Exactly what qualifies him to make that kind of statement?
Twitter noob Snowden gets hammered with 47GB of notification emails
Most food products you do not eat as regularly so it is much less dangerous if there is a problem with them.
Never got a response from them for months.
They don't respond to applicants
How many states do you still need to add?
I agree.

It seems that much of studying animal behavior consists of confirming what farmers and hunters have known since 3000BC.

I think chipmunks in my yard aren't much different than these crows, though they clearly can't recognize faces. Actually they don't really understand that legs and arms are part of the same being. Which makes me wonder about crows, which seem so smart but don't have much more brain mass than a squirrel.
>"and it just seems unlikely that he'll make good on everything he is promising."

This is unfortunately a big failing of democracy and the political landscape, in my opinion. You have individuals that are voted into political positions under certain "promises", and then have access to a myriad of excuses that they claim prevented them from implementing said promises. Of course, I understand that sometimes there really are stumbling blocks and active measures preventing a plan from being implemented. But can we not draw a line somewhere? And hold political figures accountable for at least trying to implement their promises. Or at least require them to present sound reasons or studies for actually wanting to enact something as law. E.g. "Study on effects of UBI on the well-being of single-parent households"

Additionally, I'm a tad confused about this concept of Democracy (warning, not really confused, just arguing): If the president is elected in a presidential election and represents the majority of the people, why then do we elect a separate set (branch, as they call it), of individuals at a more granular level that could very well "fight" the already-elected president? I'm referring to the congress/senators there. Could the entire problem not be solved by removing the entire "checks-and-balances" concept, and simply hold presidents accountable for their actions (or lack thereof when it comes to promises)? And by accountable, I mean real consequences: prison/large-fines.

Following from that, we don't all believe that we could potentially get a "crazy" or "rogue" president that abuses his power after election? E.g. creating some sort of police-state, starting wars that the public doesn't want or rewriting constitutional-law? Such that we require some sort of "checks-and-balances" entity/branch to keep him/her from doing so.

Anywho, just some random rants from someone that thinks too-logically about politics, because my ideology requires me to.
> the sort of extreme rich-poor divides between schools that is so characteristic of the USA is far less common in Scandanavian countries.

This is due to the "leveling down" social philosophy prominent in Scandinavian societies.

Nobody is poor, nobody is rich, and this is not optional, enforced through mandatory wealth transfers (punitive taxation for those of above average income, to fund generous social welfare benefits for the below-average.)

Likewise, overachievement in schools is actively hindered just as much as underachievement is given extra assistance. Smarter students' learning is slowed so that they learn no more than about the normal level. This is usually overlooked by the we-love-Finnish-education crowd.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
I used to drink Ensure before I switched to soylent. I couldn't stand how sweet Ensure tasted, it's kind of disgusting.
If you are interested in highly available systems, I highly recommend the Pragmatic Programmers book "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software". The author includes some amusing but educational horror stories, such as debugging deadlocks in Oracle's JDBC drivers when "can't happen" Java exceptions thrown connection close() were silently eaten.

https://pragprog.com/book/mnee/release-it

Another clever tip I read (not from this book) was to use prime numbers for recurring events and retry wait times. The idea was that prime numbers would help avoid unwanted system stampedes or synchronization.
So our Latin teacher lied to us! I should have known...

Thank you very much for the explation!

EDIT: In Latin class, our textbook was called "Ludus Latinus", and our teacher made a big point of explaining how that meant learning was supposed to be a kind of game. It made me groan at the time, but in later years, I always thought it made perfect sense.
Nice finds, reading through them now.
Cool map! I suppose that for daylight savings time everything would get one hour more red.
I have insufficient appetite and it's much easier to drink than eat when I don't feel hungry but need to eat to maintain my weight.

My doctor recommended Ensure but I later switched to soylent.
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LGPL is only marginally better (at least as it concerns perceptions, if not reality), especially when you factor in app platforms where shared libraries aren't commonly used.

Basically anything copyleft is going to have a really big dropoff in use compared to say BSD, MIT or Apache 2.0.
why'd you have to lie to leave a service is inconceivable to me. such companies should be paying good money until this is rectified or simply banned.
The Finish education myth -

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32302374
> The smartest students, the most driven students, they all become teachers.

Part of that is the cultural status of teachers. But another large contributor is the policy status of teachers w.r.t rate of pay, autonomy, and educational requirements.

All teachers must obtain a Masters. They are paid in line with expected median or greater for those of their educational level. They are also, by policy, the main driving force and final say on curriculums and educational program design. Further, they are expected to remain current within their field and often publish throughout their career.

In other words, the pay and job preference is the type that attracts the academically minded. And does so without requiring them to assume standards of living far below their educational investment.

Society at large lends respect to fields based, by and large, on superficial reasons. In the U.S. we offer teachers pay and respect (within the job) more in line with short order cooks with a G.E.D. than professionals. Society's treatment of the profession reflects that.
I've cancelled Rogers up here in Canada in a painless, lie free, asshole way without resorting to swearing.

It's easy, just say you want to cancel, act like an imbecile, refuse to be transferred to their retentions department. When they offer you a better deal, or ask why, just repeat "I want to cancel" over and over, and if they still give you guff, ask to speak to their supervisor (all after getting their name and agent number).

I was able to cancel everything in under 5 minutes.

Remember, you don't have to be nice or polite to them when they're trying to upsell.
I cant imagine how uncomfortable it would be to nap at someone's feet or have someone else napping at my feet while I'm trying to work.

If it were a dog bed though that would be nice. I could work with a four-legged companion at my feet.
Health checks are orthogonal to retries. It's not one or the other, you should have both (along with sane limits on retries so you don't cause a cascading failure with a persistently-down server).
Except meat and vegetables. How many contaminations have happened with Salmonella or E. Colli that were more dangerous, and so wide spread that product recalls were required. I'm also not sure how many people are actually consuming Soylent multiple times a day, but I would love to know the ratio of one-off orders to subscriptions. Might be interesting.
Right now, N=2. As of 9 hours ago, it was N=1. I think he's okay at the moment. https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF/commits/master
Hundreds of years x dozens of states.
Indeed: I once walked into a restaurant in Spain and was told they were not yet open for dinner. The time was 8 pm.
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Note: I'm not the parent but like them I like, and consume Soylent and I agree that once a day is probably a good rule of thumb. I'll try and explain the parent's perspective in my words.

Soylent is deterministic. In-fact Soylent's goal is to be deterministic and as such will only become more deterministic as time progresses. Any two Soylent's will be the same.

Traditional food on the other hand, especially through variety, is by its nature non-deterministic. Example: You happen to be a patron of an icecream parlor. Today you buy/eat mango icecream, unknown to the parlor the mangoes happened to be from the east coast of Mexico. Tomorrow you buy/eat "the same" mango icecream, but these mangoes happened to be sourced from the west coast of Mexico. Was it the same? This example, doesn't even account for the variety involved with "traditional food", which only increases the stochastic nature of its nutritional properties.

Having defined that (hopefully we agree on the axioms), we can continue on to discuss the nature of problems where "we don't know [what] we need". Until we know what we need, the optimal strategy to satisfy an unknown goal is through non-determinism (again, hopefully we agree).

Based on the above:

I'll try to make a more succinct argument:

Given that Soylent contains everything we know we need.

And we know we don't know everything we need.

Then only consuming Soylent guarantees we do not satisfy all of our needs.

We must then consume things we do not know, to increase the probability of satisfying all our needs.

P.S. I am all for scientific experiments to better determine the unknowns and turn them into knowns. However, as long as there are any unknowns, the above points still hold.
Poor misunderstood, disadvantaged corporations...If only their employees cared more and were willing to donate their time to make sure their employer was seen in a better light.
Same for me when I was moving to Germany.

The only question I got was:
"Is there a roommate or somebody else that could take over the account?"
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It's necessary, but insufficient. You should have automated testing for each individual component. The problem is that by itself, automated testing won't give you a reliable distributed system. You need to assume that components will fail in ways that won't be caught by your tests, and design your architecture accordingly.

(Among other problems, automated testing won't catch a hardware failure, or someone tripping over the power cord, or a cosmic ray flipping a bit and corrupting memory.)
I'd translate "Ludus Latinus" as something like "Latin Practice," in the same sense you'd say "soccer practice" or "piano practice" or something like that.

It is a game, in the sense that it's not the real thing, it's practice for later doing the real thing -- it's a structured, goal-directed game with a particular practical outcome in mind (building Latin skills), not a "let's go have fun in the park without any particular motive other than having fun" kind of a thing.
My point is that things that are "easy" for the tech elite are not so easy for the general public. People have a hard time figuring out how to (e.g.) "program the VCR" let alone use the computer.
It's too bad that this is for sparse data only. ML datasets have differing degrees of sparsity, and when the sparsity gets low enough, it's more efficient to use dense matrices, even when there are still missing values.

Also if you have dense data, you can use mmap, which isn't very space efficient but is very fast. I guess it could also be made to be space efficient if you use a filesystem with transparent compression.
I tried napping in one of these once: it was pretty uncomfortable, since you're still sitting fairly upright (imagine an airplane seat tilted backwards), and I find the pod to do little for me in terms of blocking the surroundings, especially noise.
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