skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not discussing the usage of shared resources, it's advocating the outing of someone, which might expose them to violent reactions.
I'm not sure it's a problem. It's encapsulaiton. Systems should be designed so that there is a difference between the knowledge required to operate the device and the knowledge required to design/service it.
I am the wrong person to say this to you, and I apologize in advance.

My oldest son is not neurotypical. Raising him was a real challenge. When he was 8, he spent 6 weeks psychologically torturing me. He didn't care about my feelings and he found my reactions amusing. Part of what I told him that finally got him to stop was "The point at which you will care about my feelings is the point at which you want something from me and my reply is No. What have you done for me instead of to me here lately?"

You aren't responsible for anyone else's feelings. But if you routinely disrespect and offend people and then defend your right to crap on others instead of apologizing, that will have consequences for you and they won't be ones you will like. Most people are not as forthright as I am. Most people will never tell you "I am turning down your request because of all the times you were inconsiderate, insensitive, etc." They will just tell you No and not explain why.

I will suggest there may be a connection between how frustrated you seem to feel with other people and your general attitude that their feelings are not your problem. If everyone dislikes you, that can very much be a problem for you.
Happening to me in the in-app browser for Yarn.
This is hard to read. It really is. A reminder to open our heart to the people in our lives, while they are still with us in the flesh, and vice versa.
It's not a great picture. For one thing, it's unnecessarily provocative (Title: "How to Steal an Election") and not-so-subtly partisan: The use of blue for the 'natural' winner and red for the 'thief' is clearly meant to echo (and comment on) contemporary U.S. politics.

Yes, gerrymandering happens, and yes, it currently disproportionately benefits the GOP: Some lucky wave election timing put them in charge of more states during the post-2000 and post-2010 Census redistricting. But the benefit they get over their popular vote share is on par with the benefit the Democrats saw in the '90's[1].

And the benefit isn't that great. It's good for maybe 8 seats[2], far short of the 30 seats Democrats would need to swing to regain the majority.

The problem for Democrats in the House is that their districts are too natural: It makes sense to put urban voters with similar needs and issues into Congressional districts with each other, rather than diluting their influence with very different suburban areas. The Voting Rights Act even made concentrating minority votes to create majority-minority districts mandatory in some areas. But the result is winning Chicago wards 95-5 while losing out in the 'burbs 55-45. To have a chance at consistently winning the House, Democrats need to draw districts that look an awful lot like the 5-0 image in that picture. Practically and politically, that's a non-starter. That's why ITT and elsewhere you see calls for multicandidate districts, proportional statewide representation, etc. It's not to "fix" gerrymandering, it's to fix the "problem" of concentrated Democratic votes.

[1] http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/gerrym...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/upshot/why-democrats-cant-...
Type I used to be common in washing machines and air conditioning (in Brazil). Now they are using the new one.
I agree. I think this is definitely bullying.

However, why is this not public information anyway?
Maybe. I'd have to think about it. Water is singularly unlike any other commodity, though, because of its positive external effects on society. As an example I give you sanitation. Do you want to ride on a bus full of people who do not all have running water at home, for washing their hands? Probably not.
If that's their motivation (which IMHO would be way more acceptable), then they aren't doing a very good job implementing it.
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I was homeschooled, and I agree that it is great if the parents can make the effort. I think that homeschooling gets an undeserved bad reputation for the perceived "brainwashing" but if it is done right then that is not an issue at all. It does allow the individual learner to excel at what they are good at, though. Once I learned to read my education was very self-driven and I came out very well-rounded because I would read tons (probably literally) of books about anything that interested me; I notice a lot of people identify themselves as a "math person" or an "English person" and I was never like that. I also agree that having other home-schooled kids around is nice; socialization is one of the primary arguments for public schooling but if you have it while homeschooling you've hit the jackpot.
I think its more that the market is pricing in two things in its probability estimation:

1) The deal won't actually close until next summer. Even if we know for certain that the price is locked in at the numbers specified (due to collars or what not), you're investing at $28 to get $33 while locking up assets for a year, while still being subject to risk of Dell issuing a lot of debt that's going to get more expensive (when the Fed raises rates later this year). Ie, its a nice ~15% yield for 1 year, but its a risky asset. Also, unlike typical cases where a company is in play, this trading price suggests that the market doesn't think an alternate bid (IBM? MSFT? ORCL?) is likely to emerge, or at least not a more substantial one.

2) The structure of the tracking stock is unique, and its not clear if the biggest agitator in EMC (Elliot) is on board with this transaction.

My personal bet is that the deal will go through - but the markets are probably pricing in the a) long time frame and b) potential debt exposure from an interest rate rise that may blow it up. For what its worth, in most transactions like this, there's always some gap between the "sale price" and the trading price.
Sorry, during that time I had modem-related issues. ESP8266 was up for the whole time, but it wasn't accessible. Yep, it's the example from repository (slightly modified, I added some new features to prevent crashing under yesterday's big load from Reddit).
Does anybody have any recommendations for decent books or articles on corporate tax evasion?
That would cause an immense consolidation as the 1% would be applied to the revenue of every country in a manufacturing/logistics chain and add up to a sizeable percentage of the final cost. More companies would take the Apple route and do as much as possible so that there would be fewer 'revenues' to tax per good made/service provided. Perhaps that is your goal.
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i am continuously impressed by the esp8266. i have been building things on and off with them for the last couple of months, and bought enough of them to give out.

at less than $2 each, they really are amazing.
In my opinion the European CEE 7 plugs and sockets are about as much safe as British plugs and achieve that essentially only by mechanical construction of the socket (while on the British plug the isolated sections on live pins are required for safety).

Fuses in British plugs do not have much of a purpose. The idea is that the wiring in a wall has higher power rating than the cord itself and thus there is fuse on the boundary, but same effect can be achieved by placing the fuse inside the appliance (as is done everywhere else).
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There is nothing to gain for Ecuador by escalating the situation. Already they spent a lot of political capital and goodwill vs US/UK by hosting Assange in the face of overwhelming hostility, cracking practical jokes at the MET would only make things worse.
It doesn't stop grocery stores from having something like 1% margins, either.
> "In Objective-C, we have syntax like this:"

Not really - implicit casts were always a warning in Obj-C, along with any number of things that other languages consider errors.

My personal opinion is that Obj-C is so loose as a language that, for production uses at least, one should turn on as many warnings as the compiler gives you, and then turn on warnings-as-errors. We've been doing this for a while and it's saved our bacon at least a few times.

Floats, doubles, and ints are not interchangeable. Likewise, int8, int16, int32, and int64 are not interchangeable and IMO should never be converted from one to the other without the explicit knowledge of the programmer.

This seems like a nice convenience, but I'm skeptical if the convenience gained is worth the (IMO substantial) risk of shooting yourself in the foot.
"How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now."

I didn't read the letter. The framing of it was all I needed to text my wife and tell her how much I love her.
I dont find those connections to be practical. Further they are scheduled very poorly.

If you take Bart to Millbrea, the logistics of getting from Bart to the train can at times be difficult to make. The scheduling is that Bart will arrive either two minutes too late - or twenty minutes early... Then, you even run the risk of the bike car being full if you're attempting to get the <9AM train...

Overall, to get to Mountainview by 10AM from Alameda on public transport I'd have to leave my house at 6:30AM

So - while achievable - the experience is piss-poor.

Ill have to look at the transfer discounts - as I had not noticed them ever hitting my card as I have to take Munit to bart, then bart to work...
No, what you said is absurd. You're feeble straw man argument is pathetic. Nowhere did I state the person should do nothing. Mental illness of the kind that is described here can be dealt with in other ways such as living with a trusted family member, focus on sleep hours, or stop taking Adderall if it isn't prescribed.
It's certainly a PITA if you move around the wrong places in Europe. We had to buy a bunch of new cords when we moved between Italy and Austria.
What is it about this quantumness
It appears to be so quantumless
On the scale of a human being
Cybernetic math
Of a separate class
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They are also using inciteful and provocative language. Honestly it sounds like they want a full scale riot of estates in Bel-Air.

Between this and the electric plus fights, what on earth is going on with you goons in California. Jesus.
So what? The topic is non-political, and even if it were, you are free to skip it.

I personally like seeing non-mainstream or controversial topics on HN, even if I don't agree with them.
Exactly. The local economy long ago outgrew the municipal structures. The state should do what New York City did a century ago and merge all of the tiny local governments into a single unified entity. San Francisco is a big city that hasn't yet realized it's not a small city anymore.
This is a microbenchmark. It's a tight loop that calls the function 500 million times. The function itself just adds two numbers. It's pretty close to the best possible improvement for inlining a function. If that's what your program does, and it's a big part of what your program does, then inlining it may be a big performance win. Even then, addressing this may not be a worthwhile tradeoff. Even then, as others have pointed out, you could use a minimizer.

If your program is not CPU-bound, or if it doesn't have a function that's called millions of times in a tight loop, or if that doesn't make up the majority of time spent on CPU, or if that function does more than execute a couple of instructions, then the performance difference will likely be enormously less.
That is partly because Intel beat them in many of their R&D though.
Water is not just a commodity or utility. IT KEEPS US ALIVE. Without water, we all die. If someone else uses more water, in this case, a hell lot more and meaninglessly wasting it, and in current CA drought condition, ultimately means less water for rest of us to drink and to keep us alive, then there's an advent problem. I'm sick to hear that people say that's OK because on one broke the law. It was like to be OK to discriminate people on basis of race and religion before the equal rights amendment. CA declared a drought state of emergency since early 2014. Doesn't that mean anything to anyone?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374347
They did not think it was a big deal. It was self deprecating humor, aimed at themselves. It certainly wasn't intended to imply anything about anyone else. If I had tried to convince people that it was something that was going to make foreigners hesitant to post, I would have been dismissed. I didn't bother to try to convince anyone I was right. I felt that the forum owner's clearly stated desire to have more international members was sufficient "permission" for me to feel a clear conscience about rooting out this "humorous" meme. If you think that meme is clearly a big deal but misgendering women is not, I will suggest you are underestimating the problem regarding use of pronouns.
A relief, glad to hear this as well
Technically South Africa has also switched to the newer IEC 60906/Type N/Brazil plug. Going to be years and years until any sizeable number of houses have it as standard, and since appliance makers need to target the majority of the market (who are still on the old plug) you don't see them switch either.
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Actually it adds (or, should I write, multiply) up to x48 if you take the lower bounds and x120 for the higher bounds that sylvinus provided above.
I am impressed that's the actual 263rd rule in the Ferengi Rule's of Acquisition. Kudos.
You wouldn't expect many wells in big cities, would you? Assuming that to be the case, an occasional well isn't going to hurt the water table.
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Props to Dijkstra for choosing the right topics to have strong opinions about, which is the hardest part in making an intellectual contribution -- far harder than being right or wrong about a given topic. The writeup is like code that's correct but for a sign error.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10368107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367760
Yeah that one hit me.
I think you can have sparks in any system while plugging in a large enough load. My 85W Macbook adapter sparks in honest-to-god German engineering sockets.
One option would be to provide all IO operations as high level plugins or 'virtual drivers' provided by the platform runtime, similar to how one might install and configure plugins for all of the input and output plugins for video game system emulators.

What the VM would provide in a centralized manner would be a repository mapping API names to public header files.

This way, if a developer distributed a program over the internet imported a reference to 'simple-video.01' API, the end user and VM could lookup the name and pull a copy of the header API defining the calling convention directly from the VM website.

In order to run the program, they could then either find or write a 'native plugin' for their platform which implemented 'simple-video.01' API using machine code similar to a C shared object. Or, they could find or write a 'soft plugin' which translates the calls in the 'simple-video.01' API into calls to another API which their was machine code for (say, 'direct-video.51') using VM bytecode. This way the VM could automatically infer the native code necessary to generate effects, even if it was less efficient or qualitatively different depending on the needs of the end user.

For output, the headers would basically need to specify a list of tuples of primitive data types for effects. For input, the headers could perhaps specify a set of named primitive tuples, arrays, and tables which vary over time and can be directly accessed, similar to how one might access pipelined input variables in an OpenGL or Direct3D GPU shader.
The Swift patterns Emerging definitely favor explicit conversions over implicit. One of the QA questions begins eluding to some issues with this pattern with under and overflows, but the author also doesn't mention safety around Nan's or Infinity. Last thing I want as a consumer of an API is surprises. There are good reasons why these value types are non interchangeable without being explicit.
>Unlike people, corporations do not consume for the sake of consumption, instead they invest in assets.

Uh, what exactly is the difference between consuming and investing in assets? Most investment in assets is actually just a claim to consume some of the ROE.

Also, it's not clear to me how shifting cash flows into something makes an asset (or how a physical asset could directly benefit from increased cash flow [not sure how this is even possible; I can't pump FRN's into my car's gas tank]).
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shootings” increased in the 1970s and 1980s, and continued to increase, but not as steeply, during
the 1990s, 2000s, and first four years of the 2010s."

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44126.pdf
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Why would shareholders want a corporation to aggregate wealth?
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Well, to be fair. Node is not a language and this hack is not a "feature" or whatever of the language, rather it's a hack to get V8 to inline functions. JavaScript as an language is all right, but as always, making this language work and perform in multiple environments is tricky sometimes.
And the childless should not be forced to support education for children, and people in low crime neighborhoods should not be forced to support policing in high crime neighborhoods etc.

Taxes are going to involve people that don't agree with something supporting those that do almost every time.
I would ignore #2. That's going to end up single-payer (as it should) in the next 5-10 years.
"The chief cause of problems is solutions." - Eric Sevareid
When I was in Thailand I saw sockets that could take both type A/B and type C/E/F plugs, they had holes that were cut out to allow both to fit in.
Your response only makes sense if people identify on a state level.

Do voters in Ithaca, NY feel like they got attention when candidates visit New York City? How about Spokane, WA vs Seattle, WA?

When the US could tightly tie state views to voters, the electoral college MIGHT have made some sense, but now the issues are regional at best (coal belt, bible belt, etc), and not based on states. Now we're allowing a minority of the country to disproportionally influence elections (and legislation via the Senate).

To use your counterexample - Why stop in Boston indeed if you can hit Columbus? What difference does that make? I'm less worried about candidates _visiting_ places (because what good does that do?) and more about them being accountable to voters.

You are right about the consequences, but there are consequences to the system now.
Stupid onion-cutting ninjas..

This was quite an emotional read, a wake up call for many.
Ah yes governments always trying to make things too complicated!! Argh! Why cant we replace the govt with the private sector! They never do anything that would obscure or needlessly complicate things.
> It's so hard to understand that a person that was so important to you won't be there to hear everything you wanted to tell them.

I agree. I know this is going to sound creepy, but in certain African countries like Ghana there is a video made of the funeral just like they do for weddings. And when you miss whoever has passed away, you get to watch the video. It doesn't bring them back but you get to see the person.
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I was under impression that Feynman was a pickup artist (i.e. persuading ladies to have flings). During his work on the Bomb, i.e. before 1945. That's from his books.

Can you please enlighten me on the issue?
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There's an active memory-improvement community at http://artofmemory.com including forums and a wiki of techniques.

Why bother? Because these techniques increase the capacity of "cache" that is closer (low latency) to human "computation". This can lead to faster traversal of the OODA loop, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop, which is relevant to lean startups, business competition, combat and more.

See the HN thread on AI as an enabler of IA, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373180

In addition, spaced-repetition techniques can be used to increase your vocabulary, which is like gaining extra pixels for the expression of nuanced goals, helping any compass which guides execution to a goal. Words are proxies for dreams and dangers, especially in a software-constructed world. Greater word capacity becomes greater visibility over a software-based terrain.
Are you sure that the size of the intermediate representation is a good indication of suitability to inline? I think we'd be replacing one arbitrary heuristic with another. If we wanted to do really well we'd look at the cost of the actual operations in both the caller and callee, and reason about how they interact with inlining and things like that, but that's a bottomless pit of a problem and by then the user has browsed to a different page.
There's at least one 100+ acre estate back in those hills, but it's mostly wild. I dunno what the biggest irrigated lawn up there is. My guess would be less than 10 acres, but that's a guess.

Five acres is well with in the realm of possibility, almost certain.
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I assume you write this as a bad thing?

I don't know about you, but I really like what Amazon provides to me, and am quite glad corporations like it aren't strangled by our tax code.
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"make sure you run Aurous as sudo"

Tell me you were kidding, please.
In London (and Seattle) the busses are free to ride in busy locations for this exact reason.
> e.g. had never heard of a tuple before

You never encountered tuples in python?
Wasn't that the consensus was that many countries (especially after WW1, and WW2) adopted different plugs to control the import of appliances? When plugs weren't easily replaceable with kettle type cables and where you couldn't just buy a plug in any home depot and change it yourself it seemed like it was a very good tactic to restrict the grey/black import market.
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