skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think therapy works. I don't think most people should do it. I think most people should find a mentor, but a mentor is not a therapist. Most people need someone to chat to, but that person is also probably not a therapist. It's sub-optimal to spend that much money for chat.
> My mind was absolutely blown when I first realized that the function of a CPU is pretty much to read tokens from a stream and perform an action for each.

My "aha!" moment when I first learned about CPUs was the program counter, or if you're an Intel guy, you'd call it the instruction pointer.

The PC might seem obvious, but if you think about it for a moment, you'll realize that someone had to have invented it. It's not totally obvious. And as far as I can tell, the inventor is unknown.

Note also that the featured program does not have a PC, so there are things it can't do that a normal CPU can do.
Compelling article. I think the extended interview Jon Stewart did with John Yoo is another good document if you want to get the perspective of the people who authorized this. I don't mean that as an endorsement of what happened...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/flktqb/the-daily-show-with-jon...
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Tech community reaching out with job postings.

https://twitter.com/cra/timelines/653925058600046592
Please talk about this more.
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Those Material buttons look super nice
Perhaps, but accompanied with a food diary, you can at least account for what a person's diet actually consisted of (even if they didn't follow the guidelines/suggestions to a T)
Why? Why should the location of where you make money matter? If I make a million dollars in Indiana, I need to pay taxes on it. If you make it in Hong Kong, you shouldn't?

It's not like federal income is an admission fee. Or a direct tax on something the citizen uses (like a toll road). You benefit just as much from the government building a VA hospital, AIDS research, or a US carrier stationed near Syria.

You don't suddenly stop being an American when you go live somewhere else.
English translation for people who don't understand French:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Suggestions to eat in a specific way for long periods of time seem even more untenable when the predominant way of meeting the guidelines is manual guess-and-check, and at worst guess-and-check-and-ignore.
In the context of avoiding widely desired features in order to preserve the political goals of the gnu foundation, it's straightforward to understand.
There is a third option: the test is unfairly structured to reduce the number of people Berkeley can put through its PhD program. If Berkeley knows it cannot teach more than x students, yet it consistently enrols y students, then it could use a test to weed out y-x students (regardless of whether those students are capable of completing a PhD).
They're both excellent hackers. In addition, she is cool, whereas he is a bumbling idiot responsible for comic relief.
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What makes the best teams so effective?
I ain’t trolling. Your problem is, you know almost nothing about Windows, but you pretend you do.

You don’t even know there’s no VBScript in Word. The language you wrote you Word macros in 90-s was called VBA = Visual Basic for Applications. Compared to VBScript, it even have different syntax, and of course, they serve different purpose: while VBS is for system engineers, they target VBA towards office users. BTW, I coded both in 90-s.
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Yeah, I recently needed something like this. We settled for google groups, but it's nice to see alternatives.
Winner of Barclays builds on Ethereum using BlockApps' flagship product, STRATO [pdf]
Then why are we facing society wide epidemics with Diabetes type 2? Certainly there must be some change in the way we live and eat that is responsible, that could be corrected. Your argument leaves no room for such a correction.
I never claimed that the BBC is "completely unbiased". I said it appears to be unbiased. I don't see any real evidence of any bias, apart from a lot of specuation.
If we had space exploration capability like in Star Trek, we could think about a different approach. But we are constrained to Earth and we have limited resources. Capitalism is the best system available to allocate resources. What we have right now is not really Capitalism.
Reminds me of poster I saw in dude's house way way back in my stoner days...

"I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?"
A good question but no, they don't have 80% of the income. Let me flip the question though - should the bottom 40% of earners pay taxes proportionate to their share of income? Because they don't pay anything at all (federally). The point is fundamentally flawed.

> The top 1% of tax payers pay 38% of all income taxes yet only have a 20% share of total AGI. [0]

It would be easy to get into the weeds on this, so I'll drop this link and let you decide for yourself. There will always be questions like, is AGI a good measure of income %? (I say yes, because AGI-reducing writeoffs phase out very early).

There's a lot of "well it depends on how you define.." even within my own argument as you can see (do they pay 50% or 38%?) but my point should be clear enough. I hope :)

[0] http://www.financialsamurai.com/how-much-money-do-the-top-in...
In my opinion, you are conflating cause and effect, but per an earlier comment I made it is incorrect for anyone to believe that their passions are not shared by others. And when those others have more money than time, that is how they "help."

If you run for office in the US, you will form an organizing committee. And you will put in your organizing documents the things you believe should be true about the world that aren't (this would be your platform) and because that is a public document, it will be published by the State or Federal elections commission with all the other platforms out there.

And you will be surprised, perhaps pleasantly so, perhaps unpleasantly, that your "agenda" or platform may line up with what some billionaire thinks is the right thing as well, or maybe they just want to use you to steal votes from another player in the race (this is politics after all) and you will get donations to your committee from weird sounding names like "Higgly Piggly Partners, LLP" which are people who generally want to remain anonymous and want to help you get elected. Some of those people might be billionaires. You probably won't know but it is always good to ask what they hope to achieve by getting you elected.

And there were a number of people who ran as Republicans in California found that the Koch brothers donated money to help their elections. Did it make them tools of the Koch brothers? Maybe some of them but certainly not all of them. And if some billionaire donated to your election campaign would you suddenly do anything they said?

Look no further than the county clerk in Kentucky to see that once you're elected you are really really hard to fire, even if you don't do your job. There is nothing that says you have to do the bidding of your donors, the worst that will happen is they won't support your re-election efforts.

Politics is people. Its people collectively trying to achieve a goal, some for themselves, some for the group. Whether you are in a company or a government or on an island competing for a million dollars, politics is the process by which negotiation, decisions, and change is effected. It is perfectly legit to say that you don't understand how it works, but it is incorrect to say that you cannot participate. And sometimes participation can lead to understanding which can lead to great things. But you won't know unless you try.
It may not show a lot of trust in their employees, but removing access is a prudent move considering the motive and opportunity for malfeasance. The timing should have been simultaneous however.
>the childless should not be forced to support education for children

The best public schools are in jurisdictions with anomalously high property taxes. You move there when it's time for your first child to start school and you move out when your youngest graduates. The tax base is overwhelmingly middle-aged, married, educated, and willing to pay what a top-tier school system costs. In my hometown 95% of adults had at least a Bachelor's. 95% of a given freshmen class would go to college. I would guess there were approximately 0 adults between 18 and 30, and 0 households that didn't currently or formerly have kids in the schools.

People who want expensive education for their children can get it; people who don't want to support education (much) can live in an area with lower property taxes a mile or two away.

>people in low crime neighborhoods should not be forced to support policing in high crime neighborhoods

Crime is a major reason people move from the cities to the suburbs, at which point they are no longer paying for urban police departments.

Like I said, this is fundamentally unavoidable for issues like national defense and the social safety net, but services which could meaningfully be privatized (utilities, infrastructure, recreation, etc) can usually offset their costs by charging for use.
You can get emoji fonts, just not real, full color emoji like on the Mac. They're monochrome and they don't look good.
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@jack: "just slimming down my twttr"
Magical. Tzar. Lots of nlp in that article. Is this some kind of covert advertising offensive today? Or I am being too paranoid after reading "if you're not paranoid..." article?
Furthermore, spam is rarely targeted. If it was, spammers wouldn't need to send hundreds of millions of e-mails. And I doubt it works that fast. You visit some suspicious site one day and the very next you're bombarded with "several spam emails". Lastly, I don't see how legitimate art businesses would tolerate spam. I'm an amateur art collector visiting dozens of art sites for years and I've never received spam.

The guy is obviously talking out of his ass. Which is a shame because he's trying to make a good point.
In the "The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe, he mentions quite a few situations where the Mercury astronauts would visit factories and facilities in charge with building various components, and in all of these cases there was the same gist of "be really careful with your work or these nice young boys could die." So this practice existed from the very beginning of the American space program.

I wonder if any of that still happens these days. Probably way less now when American astronauts hitch a ride on the Soyuz.
> The top 1% of earners pay 50% of federal taxes.

I think you mean "federal income tax" (and even then, have the number too high.) Which isn't the same thing as "federal taxes", or even federal taxes on income (since it excludes federal payroll taxes, which are the most significant federal taxes on income for a very large segment of the income-earning population.)
certainly everyone practicing it expects it to work

Or they like torturing. (They are torturers, after all.)
Not in government and large corporations.
> I feel bad for them, too. It sucks for them that it is no longer a viable business model to sell non-bespoke art to the public.

I'm not sure this was ever the case in Western society for all but the top 1% of artists in any given time period.
>criticizes repetitive joke

>uses a rage comic to do so

Simply terrible.

The OPs comment on the reddit thread [0] does a fine job explaining it.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3og4hs/dow...
There used to be another mail service I used in a class at school probably a decade ago called Gaggle.

This seems like a cool alternative to FB groups/Google groups/etc. though.
Google runs display ads, which are bid on by third parties who can use that data to target emails.
Sometimes it just loads a random article, sometimes it gives an error page.
Hmm, KVO perhaps?
​Android security a 'market for lemons' that leaves 87 percent vulnerable
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https://xkcd.com/356/
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There's no way it would take $700/passenger for fuel to fly from LAX to Northern Europe.. Even if you do assume a 747-400.. Add an hour for a flight from LAX to London and you get ~12hrs flight time to get to Sweden or Denmark.

Some approx numbers:

1,000kg for taxi / rollout, 15,000kg to take off and get to cruising altitude, 10,000kg/hr average at altitude, another 5,000kg for landing/taxi..

You'd be looking at roughly 125,000kg of fuel burned for a flight of that distance. A gallon of Jet A weighs ~3.1kg which would correspond to roughly 40,000 gallons of fuel per flight. The average cost of Jet-A as paid by commercial airlines in 2015 is $2/gallon. [1]

In summary, it would cost about $80,000 in fuel for that flight, if you had a 90% full airliner of 600 people, the per-ticket fuel cost is only $133.

Wiki confirms the approximate numbers where they list the 747-400 at 72mi/us gallon/seat (only showing 415 seats on the airplane). A 5,500-mile flight from LAX to Sweden would then take 31,000 gallons of fuel, which again at $2 would cost $62,000 or $150/seat.

[1] - http://www.transtats.bts.gov/fuel.asp

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long_...
Part of the trick would be defining privacy in a way that can't be "interpreted" around by the Supreme Court.
Attend the talks and learn new things. Conferences are the continuing education of most professions, they're how you keep on top of what's changed since you finished school and went into practice however long ago. You don't have to go for the networking aspect.

http://leanstartup.co/conferences/lean-startup-conference-20...
Hold my spreadsheet, I'm going in!
I'm not so sure. I keep looking at the states and thinking that it might come to pass. Now, what amendments would get suggested and if they could get approval from 38 states is a different question.
For public domain content first search results are usually non-profit online libraries like Wikibooks and Project Gutenberg.

In Russia where illegal book sharing is widespread most popular piracy libraries now are non-profits like Flibusta and Library Genesis.
Linux is actually a large part of the "computing pop culture" that Kay laments, FWIW.
People are afraid of what they don't understand. If you just thought of the cloud as a server somewhere instead of a mysterious "ghostly entity", you'd know it's really not as smart as you think it is.
Lots of people getting hung up on this line. Let's try to keep in mind it's an executive talking to the workforce of his company.
I've already stated in another thread my general paranoid state with anything related to China stemming from years in manufacturing. Please don't be dismissive of the threat to Tesla and the industry in general. It's very real.

Look, electric cars are easy to build. I feel funny saying this but, well, it isn't rocket science. The vast majority of people have no need for the gizmos a Tesla has. They need to get from point A to point B and back in comfort and with reliability.

Is that difficult to achieve?

Well, considering an electric car has a thousand or more less parts than an internal combustion car, probably not.

Is that enough? Is the lack of an IC engine enough?

No.

You have to know how to design a chassis and suspension. There are plenty of people who do that for a living. No rocket science there.

You have to know how to make a good electric motor and controller. There are plenty of folks who do that too. Look at the electric forklift industry. Electric motors and their controls are solved problems, from switched reluctance through PM BM to AC motors, loads of people know how to design and build them. I'd venture to say a good number of them are made in China these days.

Well, how about batteries and battery chargers? Panasonic probably has that covered pretty well. They'd throw an entire engineering team at you just to sell you batteries.

I mean, an electric car is an overgrown RC car. Very, very simple at the core. The complexity comes in if you want to turn it into a computer on wheels. And, I would venture to say, a lot of that is probably not that difficult these days. Load it up with ChromeOS or something like that and go.

I am not diminishing the amount of work it would be to design and build a new electric car. It's monumental. All I am saying is I don't think it is as much about inventing new technology as much as money and execution in a business where most of the moving parts are well known solved problems.

I think Tesla --and the world-- needs to take this very seriously. The way the Chinese piss all over intellectual property and manipulate markets is despicable.
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> Sure, but if people were moving up on aggregate, we would see the middle class growing as children of the poor made their way up.

Eh, what you really want to look at is a series of cohorts moving on up as people grow older: a lot of US population growth is from immigration (legal and otherwise) who tend to have less income (which is why they immigrate), and from children born to recent immigrants (who have substantially more children than rich people in this country).
Successful spammers are absolutely targeting their emails. It's similar to when you search for something on Amazon and then see ads for it on Facebook -- the goal is to put an ad in your inbox (essentially for free) instead of paying for ad impressions.
Ah, thanks, didn't know that!
What scares me more is what little difference strong passwords, 'anti-virus' and clean browsing makes.
So, the Geneva convention is basically a lip-service treaty only enforced when its convenient? Sounds like most treaties come to think of it.
Sure it’s an option… but look how long it’s taking us to move to IPv6.
the thing that seems to have probably condemned MH17 was that it was flying north of the corridor (check the flight24 data of it). From the rebels' positions (25km north of Torez, ie. 25 km north of where the report puts it) using the BUK launcher vehicle's radar (they didn't have the command&control vehicle with its more powerful 360 radar and the things like transponder identification system, etc...) they could only see the sector about 120 degree in front of them, and giving that sector and the radar working distance, they probably didn't see the other planes (which happened to be flying pretty much inside the corridor).
All the parent called out was that we don't know enough about diet and its health impacts to make a definitive declaration about good/bad foods. He even called out diabetes as an exception, since it is better understood...

We need to do more research and learn more before demonizing things like fatty foods. That's all. Not sure what part of this you object to...
"When you know your passion and you're unwilling to live by somebody else's rules, you can make your own way. And don't misunderstand, this is not about breaking rules, this is about producing results.

Ignore the job description and produce results for somebody, I promise you, you won't be ignored. People will change the rules for you if you can produce outstanding results."

- Tony Robbins https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140527113908-101706366-if-i...
This is not accurate. Even with the jobs being sent to China, they still require fewer workers due to the efficiency of automation. If you look at the global pool of jobs, the trend is the same: fewer workers producing more output.
How does a display ad allow you to target emails without asking anyone for an email address?
How does that help the original author monetize their work? I don't care whether the first result is non-profit or not. I care whether it's me.

If I can't monetize works, I won't make them, I'll do something else. Are their Russian authors making money with working business models under their system of non-enforced copyright?
To be clear, this is $2/mo or $10/yr per group, right?
It is entirely possible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo , but there is no market for a domestic robot. Not even for an AiBo.

You see: poor people are accustomed to doing these chores by themselves, while the rich can always use their paper money to hire naturally occurring biological robots.
Docker is incredibly good at caching, the assumption that Docker is slow is incorrect. The first time you build or pull an image on a machine, it might take a few to get the base images, but past that it is lightning fast, and it works the same for any language and any stack.

For most companies that operate several services, having one trusted and strong way to deploy and orchestrate is way more important than an occasional load/build time when working on a new laptop / instance.

Edit: I'm not saying Capsule isn't useful, it just doesn't make any sense to say it compares to Docker, because the use-case is quite different in reality.
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This reminds me of Breeze[1] from Basecamp. That service no longer exists, but it always seemed like a great idea to me.

Your landing page design is really nice, too.

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3391-launch-basecamp-breeze-t...
Do you think that paying in cash at the toll booth is any more private? A photo of your license plate is taken at cash toll booths (Northeastern corridor E-ZPass and California Fastrak).

If someone keeps their Twitter handle disambiguated from their personal life, is there a reason why they can't #followallthehashtags?
Was hoping this was about robusta coffee.
Haha, came here to say that, you beat me to it.
There may be no law stating that each generation of humans should have it easier and with more resources available to them. But it's been a working assumption for a long time, and there does not appear to be any good reason for it to stop now.

modulo the Great Depression and a handful of other such cases.
TL;DR: We hire "data scientists" more than "statisticians" these days and pay them more. This is because the challenge has moved from "not enough data" to "too much data" and "how to get it out"?
A different way of looking at this is, we figured out how to make things work at all. Now people are trying to figure out how to get paid for the work they do on those cool new things.

Struggling to make sure you get paid is nothing new, either.