skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What magic pixie dust would the Russians have to combat all this?

Totalitarianism, imperialistic colonialism in their immediate neighbourhood, and total disrespect for their subjects' dignity, environment and life?

Disappearance of Stasi and getting rid of KGB in most of the ex-SSRs (if not in Russia main) is always case for triumphalism. Anyway, government never is equal to the people it governs, especially when it's doing its utmost to claim so.

Speaking of governmental continuity, you forgot Sweden. And about the only part of the old Russian empire Soviets (more or less by sheer luck on our part) didn't manage to re-invade, Finland (merely politically subjugate post-WW2). Depending on how one counts these things, especially the revolution/civil war period of 1917/18, our parliamentary and wider governmental system could be viewed as a direct continuation of the czars' local regime. Yay for outliving?

Of course, even if one accepts this weird 'race of continuity' viewpoint, the 'uninterrupted' is quite nice technicality. Denmark, Norway or the Netherlands are still quite recognizable as the about same governmental and national entities both before and after WW2. Even France, with all its constitutional changes since Napoleon III, didn't try such large changes at the societal level.
I have a problem with everything in this quote except the nurses - washing hands is something workers tend to not care about. Things that are directly related to safety of third parties - like washing hands in hospitals, or like driving regulations - should be enforced with a jackboot.
Spies, internet giants in the same business: surveillance. But we can stop them
While I really do understand the logic and reasoning for censoring hate, vitriol and those sympathizing with such movements; overall I do not think this is taking humanity down a good path.

Consider that the US and Israeli Governments are responsible for far more loss of innocent lives per year than any of these terrorist groups. Except here it's framed in the fight against evil, protect the people, spread democracy form which I guess makes it okay?

When it comes down to it if we accept that our platforms for discussion of the world around us are to be limited to the good forms (someone will decide for you which forms are good) than the terrible world has already won, and to me personally it makes no difference whether the innocent are dying by military sanction of some general's order or due to the influence of some crazy preacher.
I think the point that this article somewhat strenuously tries to make is, if the ship was rotting and falling apart on the inside, why didn't it do it in the Brezhnev years, during the stagnation and attempted economic reforms, especially when oil prices dropped to an all-time low?

To say that simply "the system was bad, and 1985-90 was just when the bottom fell out" smacks of hindsight bias.
Mostly, by learning small tricks. Stovetop isn't all that much different to cook on once you get the fire going - stoves and grates of sorts have been around for some time. Baking - you'd stick your hand in the oven and see how long you can keep your hand in there and things of that nature. (keep your hand in 2 seconds but not more and the oven is ready).

If you are really curios to see it done, I'd suggest visiting a live history museum - the only one I know of is outside of Indianapolis, though. They put the research in to make it historically accurate, including the cooking you see them do, and employees are generally knowledgeable about their roles.
Whilst it's true that we shouldn't overlook the experience of others, I believe if we try to look at the issues all at once we'll not get anywhere (analysis paralysis) or will generalise too much and miss the finer details.

You touched on one of the key points for me when you said "never got to feel the joy of learning". Perhaps that's the key problem in this case too, as the author didn't seem to have discovered the joy of learning, but discovered the joy of achieving, and the price you pay when you don't have other joys to balance you out.

I can't wait for a time when we lose our obsession with work ethic. Not that working at something you want is automatically bad, far from it, but it's not the only way to enjoy life. One day I hope we can see that being a slacker can be a noble profession.
What's wrong with CSS classes? My mom can understand them (really, I tried) and they certainly pose no problem to the skilled developer.
You don't want bootstrap? Then go with one of the dozen easy and scaled down boilerplates you can find.
One out of the bunch, that I like for its grid system: skeleton 2.0.
Giving to a private company the ability to effectively sue a government is the worst idea ever. Imagine a world with no regulations because there are damaging the business.
Welcome to a world where you need a mortgage if you are sick because there are royalties to be paid to the pharmaceutical companies.
One example is already happening: Phillip Morris Honk Kong is suing the Australian government because the laws to discourage people from smoking are damaging their business (here is the link: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/29064155/tobacco-giant-s... ). This was going on before the TPP even it is not active yet.
Consider https://hired.com/ to apply to many companies at once. Create a good profile and send notes to to people on AngelList.
According to the video, the CO2 reacts with the solution to form carbonate ions.
US companies stashed trillions in tax havens last year
the behavior of is seems pretty hard to predict

>>> 3.1 is 3.1
True
>>> a = 3.1
>>> a is 3.1
False
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It's not "the worst idea". It's designed to stop countries commandeering or nationalizing assets that a company owns. (Search for "venezuela expropriations" for some recent cases). For that limited purpose it's fine.
No one can say for sure what Prismatic is doing behind the scenes since it is a commercial entity but I've seen them speak at a couple conferences, which led me to believe they are doing some pretty novel ML studies. I could be wrong. But, your initial point was to suggest that a company shouldn't use anything other than Python when starting new ML projects, and Prismatic is an example of a company doing just that: using Clojure in this case. The article you mentioned earlier gives some good reasons why Python is often not the best choice for ML: speed, security, portability are often the reasons for leveraging the JVM (where Clojure lives). This is not a knock against Python, just pointing out that there is major stuff happening in ML that has nothing to do with Python. NYU's machine learning lab prefers C++ over other languages, and major projects like Siri and Watson rely a lot on C++ and Prolog. The point is that it makes no sense to claim that Python is the only language anyone should consider for these tasks.
Definitely want citations...

BBC credibility is high, much higher than almost any other media outlet (its main rival ITV runs late night shopping channel and studio roulette games - it's embarrassing)

It is true that most if not all mainstream media outlets are run by, edited by, well educated, well informed, London bound media types - it's amazing that they do report anything people care about.

However I would still prefer editors with 20 years cynicism and experience over the HN algorithm - I use it to look around but if I wanted to follow everything HN recommended I would be blind.

(Actually an interesting idea - is a daily digest of most commented / upvoted stories going to represent the editorial power of HN?)
Indeed.

It also begs the question of how will the scan for "illegal material"?
I wonder whether this article was initiated by a PR department from either DigitalOcean or Blackhaze, which are the only two providers mentionned. I does talk about a new trend, but it brings little new facts.
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It is designed to remove power from the people and give it to the big corporations.
Key point being "Conservative circles" , which lets face it arent very big. The conservatives were dreadfukly movked and ridiculed when the arrived in Manchester last week. Most of the working class cant stand them.
Making it difficult to fire ineffective people, or doing so slowly, is one of the best ways to ruin an organization. The friction that exists around firing in many countries seems to be part of why they have less effective business innovation and investment. Companies can't hire someone without significant risk, because firing them will be difficult if they don't work out, and so they're averse to hiring. Meanwhile, poor performers stir dissatisfaction among other employees, especially effective ones. This makes it harder to start new companies and grow.

It's preferable for both employee and employer have the right of free association. If it's not working for either side, just end it. See "‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups" for a recent examination of this in startup hiring.

As organizations tend to grow larger, they tend to accumulate less effective people over time, since people tend to hire those who are less effective than themselves, rather than more effective. A counter-balance is necessary to preserve organizational effectiveness, which includes making it possible to fire genuinely ineffective people without a lot of hassle and drama. Some countries have truly ridiculous firing processes that involve a committee of one's peers, and the whole nearby office gets dragged into one person's poor performance.

Employers and employees don't owe each other an obligation to keep providing compensation or labor. If a company is unfair in its management practices, and undervalues effective workers, then that company will flounder in the market compared to companies that value them appropriately. The problem will fix itself over time, without simultaneously saddling down fair and appropriate companies with the baggage of making it hard for them to fire their bad people.
Given how horrible that ad is, it should be a surprise to no-one that it is deemed inacceptable.
Citizens have been able to sue the Government for a long time, English law is littered with cases where Citizens have won against the state for hundreds of years.

The whole point of a free state is that the entities within that state, people or groups of people (for example, companies) are able to keep their rulers in check.

Let's remember, the Government is sometimes wrong and needs to be kept in check.
GPS spoofing then?
To understand, you have to get out of your current 'reality context'.
It's very easy actually.

A powerful psychedelic trip leads to a couple of simple realisations:

- you are God that created this Universe experiencing the sensation of being separate, weak and mortal within this body

- all living beings are the same - God experiencing himself subjectively. Including the cells in your body - God in a different 'vehicle'. Hence 'we are one'. Hence the necessity to be respectful towards all of nature - they're all you and you will experience all the interactions with your 'current' self.

- you have been here since the beginning of time and will 'exist' forever.

- Life is a trip, a story, a simulation. You will wake up from it one day. It's hard to believe it, because it's so 'real'.
But everybody will get 'it' when they die.
Companies are essentially groups of people. I'm not sure that taking away the right to sue from groups of people is such a good idea.

I see this as actually giving power back to the people.
The reason why most cloud services seem to work is because of economies of scale. Google compute engine will only ever represent a small percentage of their total server utilization, and all they've learned in serving Google.com, and such enables them to serve GCE better.

Backblaze had their backup business that enabled them to figure out storage, and buy a ton of it. DigitalOcean is really a Linode competitor. Not really a EC2 / GCE competitor. I wouldn't call it "cloud."
Hiya - I wrote the article, it wasn't from PR. As far as I know the supplier stuff, revenue numbers, signup numbers, are new.
>. One example is already happening: Phillip Morris Honk Kong is suing the Australian government because the laws to discourage people from smoking are damaging their business

And because they did sue, Tobacco companies are specifically excluded from the ISDS procedure in TPP.
The BBC definitely lost some credibility with "Yes" voters in last years Scottish Independence referendum - they seemed pretty strongly biased in favour of the status quo which, of course, supported a "No" vote.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13420666.BBC_criticised_o...

NB I've been a huge fan of the BBC for pretty much my whole life, particularly Radio 4, so I was actually fairly shocked by the coverage in the last couple of weeks or so before the poll. It does rather raise the "well, if they are biased on this what else are they biased about" question.
This isnt about Telegram. It's about BBCs decision to report on IS and what theyre doing. Youre clearly not familiar with IS history. IS was armed and supported by the US (do your research) and the BBC is well known as a US mouth piece. Looking at this as a purely tech debate, one of conjecture or a conspiracy theory is incredibly naive.
It seems to be a case of leaky abstraction, where the way python caches small objects becomes visible, another example:

>>> a = 'hn'
>>> a is 'hn'
True
>>> a = ''.join(['h', 'n'])
>>> a is 'hn'
False
>>> a
'hn'
>>> a = 'h' + 'n'
>>> a is 'hn'
True

Edit: found another interesting case

>>> a = 1
>>> b = 1
>>> a is b
True
>>> a = 500
>>> b = 500
>>> a is b
False
Sous vide cooking is a trendy cooking technique (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous-vide ) which depends on good temperature control.

The French chef and molecular gastronomist Hervé This, for example, developed "6X degree C" eggs, that the, long-term cooking of egg at exactly, say, 65 degrees C.

You can order them at, for example, Blue Valentine in Paris, says his review at http://www.yelp.com/biz/blue-valentine-paris .
Well, except that most of England voted for the Conservatives in the election just a few months ago. They are hugely, yet quietly, supported and popular in any area of Britain that isn't deprived.

Manchester, Bradford, Luton and their ilk are all bastions of welfare recipients so it's hardly surprising that the Conservatives aren't popular there.
I'd be inclined to say that if everyone is complaining about the other side getting too much coverage, the BBC are getting things about right.
Watch till end: http://youtu.be/XHGDDMAP5qU

Note: this is one example of many
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

This is the RSA Animate of Dan Pink's lecture on motivation. He suggests there is a division between physical and mental tasks. This was tested with several experiments involving different reward schemes.

As long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they
would be expected. The higher the pay, the better the performance.
[...]
Once the task called for even rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward
led to poorer performance.

edit:

The idea that penalties trump rewards probably explains why I've always liked roguelike games (and Touhou-style shooters). I've been playing way too much Nuclear Throne recently (and Risk Of Rain). As a roguelite, it strongly embraces the idea of "permadeath". Robotron/SmashTV style extra-fast action, that where you can never make a mistake (a single hit can end the game).

Also, Nuclear Throne demonstrates an important implementation detail in something that uses such a strong punishment-based motivator: never put anything in the way of the player restarting after their mistakes. In NT, once the death animation has played (only a few frames, at most 200-300ms), you can hit "R" to restart the game at the first level. No delay whatsoever. Sure, the penalty is harsh, but you can try to overcome that failure immediately.
there is no good path. it is the will to power
The source is at https://github.com/clbr/fifth

Maybe someone should tell them about GH user pages :)

The project seems mostly dead though.
Wow. So I guess this has already happened: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

What's funny is that a ton of the issues in this article are all classic stupidity with numbers. Let's sample some metric every 15 minutes and react to it then! Rather then average it out and say "right, what does this tell us in aggregate?"
Does the TPP include a provision to stop Oil Companies suing over any future regulation to reduce CO2 emissions ?
I have read that the Goose Green incident was actually caused by a MoD official releasing something too early - they were just passing on the message.

The thing about the bomb fuses was a horrendous mistake “six better fuses and we would have lost” - particularly as there was nothing wrong with the fuses and the Argentinians could have easily fixed this by a simple adjustment.
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Citizens are people. Companies (regardless of mind-boggling US Supreme Court rulings otherwise) are not people. They are not even groups of equal people. Representative democracies represent people, not companies, and that's precisely how it should be. How companies are expected to behave in our societies should be decided by the people.
> except that most of England voted for the Conservatives

They got a 36% share of the vote, on a 66% turnout.
That doesn't even make sense. Who's to say he would not have done even better if he had not smoked pot? How can he assume his case generalizes across the population? How does someone who is So Very Smart not realize this? Did his AP courses not give him an inkling of the scientific method?

For what it's worth, that blog post caused a tiny increase in my propensity to believe marijuana is harmful.
Don't you see the fallacy here. Tobacco was carved-out primarily because of their unreasonably aggressive lawsuits and not because tobacco is unhealthy. Using reason, we should ban either all companies, because all companies have the power to abuse the system, or ban all companies that are producing arguably unhealthy products. They did neither of those.
I agree. One of my mentors recommended that I write down my own version and share it with my team. Here is my attempt: http://kiyototamura.tumblr.com/post/130937953602/good-market...
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Hello,

We use Paypal and Stripe for our online payments. Stripe definately have a better interace is more user friendly , however - Stripe appear to have no seller protection which means we use 3 fraud tools which we inspect before shipping any Stripe.com orders.

We have been using Stripe for a while now and in the last week have received 3 "warning" disputes - from buyers claiming they have not received goods. We have uploaded their tracking numbers to Stripe and now they are waiting on the "banks" to make a decision as to whether or not we lose the money (on the goods we have already shipped).

Is this the way Stripe operates , it's a russian roulette situation. With Paypal, we provide tracking and we are safe from huge losses. With Stripe , it seems even after shipping goods with tracking - the "banks" can still make unfavourable decisions - putting businesses on the line.

Your thoughts?
> Four-year-old DigitalOcean now has more host computers in its cloud (almost 200,000) than any other company but Amazon (which has about twice that), says researcher Netcraft.

As someone who works on an IaaS offering, I'm really curious how Netcraft is doing this estimation. As a curiosity, I also wonder what they estimate our count of 'host computers' at.

However, it's also a meaningless number, given that VMs are sold in terms of (mostly) cores and RAM. If you're buying an 8 core VM with 16 GB of RAM, do you care if the physical host has 8, 16, 32, or 64 cores? Probably not (and you shouldn't). Those eight cores perform however they perform; you won't know unless you benchmark them, and you won't know what your variance is in prod unless you collect continuous metrics.
I would suggest that we do have it in the West. It's not unknown to know people who live at their family home well into their 20s, don't work, don't go out much, spend their time getting stoned, watching TV, surfing the web, and playing computer games.

The only major differences between the hikikomori and the equivalent Western stereotype is that food isn't brought to the room, and this leads to some limited social interactions with those around them.

I can understand the appeal of being a recluse, and I'd much rather someone became a recluse than topped themselves.
An interesting question! If it's mass you're after, you need to consider that different wavelengths trace different condensations of mass. Here are some examples that follow the mass of stars in different evolutionary stages:
1) In visible light, you can pretty easily deduce the masses of the stars if you correct for their light shifting to red as it passes through interstellar material. As the star spectra often peak in optical wavelength, the optical image is the "realest" for the star mass
2) When the stars have just been formed, they are still obscured by what we call dust - tiny micron-sized carbon-core particles that are annoyingly good at absorbing optical light. The best tracer for this mass regime would be infrared light, since the dust allows for some transmission.
3) Before the stars are formed, their mass resides in a diffuse (more so than any vacuum in our science labs) yet massive (10^3-10^7 solar masses) molecular clouds. They are typically very cold (~20 K) and their emission peaks at far-infrared light.
Stoking a political flame war isn't a smart idea on HN.

It's worth remembering that comments are fixed and non-editable after only a little time and that such comments will come to be permanently associated with you even if you only meant them in a very conversationally temporal way.
Not sure if I can call this as `wat`, but this one puzzled me at first:

foo = 1.0 + 2 # Foo is now 3.0
foo = 1,0 + 2 # Foo is now a tuple: (1,2)
foo = 3 # Foo is now 3
foo = 3, # Foo is now a tuple: (3,)

source - https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks#Python_sucks_becau...
But where is the evidence - for example does the Beeb supply their subtitling, can we use sentiment analysis on their entire output? Surely some media studies centre in a university does this?
Maybe someone can explain better, but I don't think it's a coincidence.. In category theory, there is a general notion of "exponential object". This works like normal exponentiation in various categories of numbers, and like modus ponens (and also reversed - given exponent and power, you can deduce the base) in various categories of logic.
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This is just a "positive" aspect of the TPP so that you can say it has positive things in it. Surely it has a lot of caveats for other industries, companies/lobbies. Typically corporations have lawyers working for them full time.
Good point, people brain and psyche structure can respond differently to substances. To some it might free the system of some problems, balances things so you can focus or be more relaxed longer, but for others it might just trigger 'unproductive' fun.
I believe I did not say stupidity was a crime.

I suggested that it's stupid to carry large amounts of cash while smoking weed, because that can easily get you into a bigger trouble combined than merely carrying lots of cash or only smoking weed.

Factor in the unfair and unpredictable behaviour from the police and while you've done nothing wrong, you have a lot of explaining to do to the officers who really aren't that interested in hearing your explanation in the first place.