skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why? Anything legalized will be regulated and taxed and many people will still find it easier to go around both.

You're ignoring that legal things, even when taxed are cheaper and safer than illegal things. Legalizing something kills the black market for that something. The reason is simple and obvious, real markets tolerate real business and real business out competes illegal business because it doesn't have to markup the product to make up for the overhead of being illegal which is what makes up the majority of prices for drugs on the black market.

Drug dealers don't tolerate competition under threat of violence and charge as much as they can and have to make up for product lost to law enforcement, real business has to compete with other businesses on price driving the price down to reasonable levels and also delivers a better safer product.
Another this-is-how-the-world-works apologist on HN.
People that excel in something are far less than the ones we perceive as such. Most of these 'talented' people have only above average skills, a big dosis of charisma, ability of selling and a bit of luck.
For the startup world:

Approximately 80% of the pitches I get are between garbled and incoherent. Even higher in the unsolicited ones.

Consider that your recipient is reading on a small screen and utilize pyramid structure. And don't bury the lede. Many pitches ask for money without saying anything at all about what they are about.
Because "you experienced unintended acceleration because you panicked and wouldn't release the accelerator" and "you should have just mashed the brakes until the car stopped" and "shift into neutral, silly" don't make for interesting stories and all have the smell of victim-blaming, even if completely true.
This defense doesn't quite work out. I've heard these stories about Bavarian police doing Racial Profiling on buses, trains and highways again and again before there was any refugee crisis. Experienced it myself too. It's reality, please don't try to play it down.
Would have liked to see Juju in this comparison. Maybe juju is too flexible, since it's not restricted to just deploying docker containers?

(disclosure, I'm a Juju dev)
The IRA wanted a united island of Ireland, for example. They didn't think they'd "won" because rubbish bins were removed from stations. Complaining that the terrorists are "winning" because the TSA makes us take off our shoes at airports or our civil liberties have eroded somewhat is to miss the point completely.
> I think the concern with investing in lawsuits should be focused on secondary motives.

Consider a community where many people are invested in one side of a lawsuit. That could put a lot of pressure on the judge and jury to produce the popularly desired outcome.
Bit mean.
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That is not at all what first-to-file means. Depressingly common misconception though.
Think that context is important for what he said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tudor_Jones
lightning is enigmatic

and the internet facing community surrounding its research seems divisive

can anyone speak to the sort of research currently being done on the study of lightning and its initiation?

are there efforts to recreate assumed initial conditions?

thoughts on the source of the huge amounts of directed energy? does the strike harvest from the vast collection of charged particles within the cloud or is it created by electrostatic interaction of individual ions, similar to http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n3/full/nchem.2161.ht...?
Hope he gets the Nobel Peace Prize some day for aggressive billionaire philanthropy. There are plenty of other generous donors out there, but he sets an example of what do with tech wealth.
Yeah, spamming people who join Facebook groups is pretty low (unless through FB ads).

I still think emailing reporters through their publicly provided email addresses is different.
In other news, Motif Investing today announced that it is rebranding as Muppet Investing.
I don't understand why developers like these small web server tools that you have to remember to start on every project you work with. Setting up Apache or Nginx is harder but you have to do it 1 time ever and then you're done. Just server your entire dev folder and be done with it, never have to worry about static file serving again.
Do you mean that over 1 second, the speed increased by 10 mph ?
Funny. We had a chat in the office this morning about Gates. Original comment was about how his philanthropic work made him so worthy of enjoying the fruits of his labors. My take on it was that the permanent damage he inflicted on computing was justified by how he is spending the proceeds. It was not a well received comment then, no different from whenever I get to make it (and I fully expect this thread to be no different).

You rock Bill. Rock on.
The end of that first sentence you quote, "must withstand huge temperature ranges and enormous forces", kind of gives away the answer -- this isn't made from "standard" materials. 3D printing is an amazing technology that's rapidly developing, but it's not quite that far yet.
Because if they paid their taxes, maybe universities would get more public fundings and wouldn't have to beg for private fundings.
I think you took what he said the wrong way.

He's saying give me a memo like The Economist writes its articles. Clear. Precise. No fluff. Lots of facts pertinent to the topic at hand.

He's saying don't write like the New Yorker. Lots of backstory, lots of trivia, the overall point - if there even is one - is usually quite subtle and takes a while to pinpoint.

I'm subscribed to and read both. There was a NY article on Varoufakis ('The Greek Warrior'), easily a 45 minute read, and at some point the writer talked about how the girl in the song 'Common People' by Pulp is rumored to be Varoufakis' wife. I found that fascinating and am happy the author included that part.
Sometimes though I'm not interested in a story, and I only want information relevant to what I'm looking into at this very moment.
Sounds like the idea is that the beam itself is invisible, and it becomes visible once it hits something. Poorly worded though.
But if you surrounded an event with a sphere of sensors, there is still an upper limit. The number of sensors is a function of sphere radius, and whether they are limited to the surface of the sphere (which is reasonable since tightly packed sensors will, in general, get in the way of other sensors).

A sphere 1km across has a surface are of 4pi1km^2 which is roughly 10^7m^2. If you had 1cm^2 sensors then you get 10^4 sensors per m^2, which means you get 10^11 sensors total. At 11k fps (10^4) that's a total of 10^15 fps.

Note that Planck time is 10^-44 so such an arrangement probably wouldn't help for detecting quantum gravity because you'd run out of matter in the universe before you could construct the sensors.
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>But his experience does contain one lesson for other designers: Even when you’ve run out of other options, calling someone a “thief” in public may not be the wisest option.

Good takeaway, I think. Resorting to public name calling is pretty petty.
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If you look at the Bayesian analyses and the frequentist analyses assuming she knew how many AD shirts there would be, you'd see that point 1 doesn't matter. We can statistically test this without the need to make her sniff 1000's of shirts.

Point 2 is interesting though, and the first thoughtful criticism I've seen in the thread. What if she's both a bit lucky, and also picking up on some correlated marker like age/gender?
Samesies. I thought it was a good strip, but I always love the XKCD hover text. :(
Partly, there are a lot of foundationals you could teach someone that would make a good improvement upfront though. Paragraph structure, how to formulate an argument, how to use quotes or data to support your thesis and the most important... REREAD WHAT YOU WROTE. Too many people hit send after vomiting on a page and thinking that is that.
My brother once chocked with a piece of barbecue meat with farofa (a Brazilian mix of toasted cassava flour) in a restaurant. He was barely breathing, and could not swallow anything. We rushed to the hospital and they were able to save him.

Nobody new how to perform a Heimlich maneuver, and I don't know if it would have worked. I wonder if this device would have the suction strength to pull the obstruction in that situation, probably yes.
Just launched this plugin and would love to hear what people think.
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Is there an easy way to try Juju on a laptop? Like a vagrant vm or something? Thank you :)
Yes no doubt about that.
What country was that?
A big takeaway that I got out of this is that nearly everybody forgot about this.

People are still buying and driving Toyotas.

When the VW emissions thing started making its way through the news cycle, I read comments postulating that this might be the end of VW. Hah - people are going to forget about VW just like they forget about everything else.
> The difference is that if private institution that issues "toms safety certification" takes a bribe it is a very shortsighted strategy ... Government-powered institutions can take bribes for years, or even decades without ever being punished for that, or being put out of business.

That's a theory, but the theory does not describe reality. Reality is that human beings defraud each other frequently, and in fact that is one of the main reasons we have governments, laws, and regulations. When you buy a house or obtain a loan or some software, or walk down the street, do you assume nobody would be doing anything corrupt or fraudulant, just trusting everyone? Of course not.

Anarchy leads to chaos and conflict. Caveat emptor.

EDIT: Major edit
DKIM: Useless or just disappointing? (2013)
People change with time. Not always for the better, but in this case, whatever was Bill's reasoning in the times of early Microsoft, he has his heart in the right place now. He also has the means and the smarts to bring a lot of good impact from that now.
"Atoms cooled near absolute zero don't move while beamed with the laser"
That's probably at least partially true, but I still prefer traffic stops without a weapon drawn.
Read your writing out loud to yourself, carefully observing the punctuation. You won't become Hemingway, but you will find the most obvious flaws in your writing.
That forces the cost onto the state and the state is also inefficient generally so it would take longer than an I ternary review. Then when a bug causes an issue it is the fault of the state for allowing it through and not the company for coding it. In addition private sector usually pays more so the state sector does not get the pick of the coders.
And if we could only get password taking software to not require special characters and numbers if the password was longer than 15 characters, life would be peachy. (that is 19 characters if you're wondering, and no I don't use it as a password)
Impossible task because the subject in my domain (finance) changes so soften. Is it New Gingrich shutting down the government today? Is it Bank of America losing its shirt in Detroit? Or is it Greece failing to pay its debt? Or is is it Glencore overleveraged on commodities? Maybe it's China devaluing!

The only common denominator, in my experience, is not to try your best to be the first. The first is usually a computer, and that trend is only growing.

What you want to do, and this is a time honored principle, is to really think about what you want to say, before you say it, and make sure you know the unique aspects of what you're saying. Paul Tudor, like most AAA people, is hammered every second with the main-line thinking. His attention is only piqued with things that are oblique to the mainstream view. (notice that I use the word "oblique", not necessarily "orthogonal", because there are many unsubtle people who take the idea too far ie: "I want attention so will go wild with my thinking". You must never underestimate the extent to which high end people have seen it all before and have defences against charlatans). Your best bet is to be really honest with yourself, about what you're saying that's different but not crazy, make sure you can back up your claims, at least intellectually (the market often does not have time for proof), and make that the key point of your piece, upfront in the subject line/headline.

Then, be prepared to defend your standpoint, with credible arguments. No sloppiness allowed. Your 10 seconds turned into 5 minutes! Don't screw them up by not knowing your facts.
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For most people that means either Google (gmail) or some other party that will run email just for this purpose (for example, Facebook creates an email address for each profile already).

The percentage of the public able or willing to run an email server is tiny. That is not a solution for any market big enough for anyone to care about.
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Are there good classes one can take online which teach someone how to get through writing anxiety? Or how to write despite the fact that you cannot really ever know how your audience will interpret what you are saying?
In a strange way, this reinforces his point. We don't need new clever alt="ernatives", we need to keep doing the good old-fashioned effective work.
Isn't applying negative pressure to the lung also a great way to collapse it?
It's likely that drivers won't immediately react well to unintended acceleration. However, immediate reactions are unlikely to cause major accidents here. Yeah, you might bump someone or mount a curb or something, but it's likely to be an injury-free accident.

Toyota's unintended acceleration is notorious because of incidents where the car accelerated up to extremely high speeds, was driven down the highway in this state for an extended time, then finally crashed. At least one involved a panicked 911 call from the driver. This is a scenario drivers should be able to bring to a safe conclusion, because they have time to work things out.

Some drivers will panic in such a scenario and be unable to work on the problem. Those people should not be driving. That they are speaks to the woefully inadequate state of driver training in this country.

None of this absolves Toyota of blame, though. If an equipment malfunction due to a design defect results in death even if the human should have recovered, that's still the fault of the manufacturer, as well as the driver.
...and WWE if I remember the press. An important difference is the MLB effort is more of an infrastructure play / turnkey solution versus an actual network. They don't provide content, just capability.
In my experience, the higher you go in an org, the more terse and direct the written communications is. At the IC & supervisor levels, folks tend to write books in email, often because they feel obligated to provide a complete justification for their decisions (or ideas). As you go up the decision-making ladder, the need to explain oneself shrinks (at least, this is the perception. Strong leaders will do it regardless.)

The other issue is that for folks low on the food chain, they often don't feel comfortable requesting face-to-face meetings with execs, and "manage up" by providing absolutely as much detail as possible to their direct management in hopes he/she will do it on their behalf. Again, an organizational deficiency, but a common one, and one that's easy to understand.

Concision & clarity of communication are critical tools in any employee's toolbox. As an aside, this is one reason it's pretty easy to find articles and blog posts endorsing the success many liberal arts majors have in the tech world.
So, you hate the guts of people who do their jobs.
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I see a lot of people that can do things much better, and faster than me. It's intimidating. There are also some problems that I can't even solve in pseudo code. I literally just can't come up with an algorithm that would work. I get a few ideas, and then quickly realize that they're all terrible. Yet I'm sure that there are people that can look at the same problem and come up with 5 different solutions in 30 seconds. I can do a lot of problems, but I think it's just because they're easy. Every time I stumble upon one I can't do without looking stuff up, it ruins my whole day. I begin to get really frustrated and wonder if I just don't have the right type of mind to be a programmer.

That's why I was asking for a problem. I need one that will tell me if I have the right brain wiring/mind. "If you can't do this without outside help in X minutes, you should quit learning to program." Not incredibly easy like FizzBuzz, but not incredibly difficult. Somewhere in the middle.
How do I purchase this in the US?
I actually don't understand prison sentence lengths at all.

1. Why is prison time measured in years?!? I can't even list all the things I've done in the last year. I can't imagine being confined to a few square blocks for ten or twenty or thirty times that length of time, especially when it does not only cause loss of freedom (which was supposedly the only intent) but a greatly reduced quality of life (e.g. endangerment, and even small things like having worse meals all the time).

2. Why is prison even considered for young people? People do stupid things when they're young; they don't always know better. You can't tell me that someone who's 20, who's barely had a chance to live alone for "years", should suddenly be told to spend "years" living with strangers for (most likely) some petty crime. Great recipe for development there.

3. Why do we have bail? Oh, you're rich? Great, leave; otherwise, stay in jail until your trial. And since the system is so damned efficient, who knows how long that will be. Oh, and those in charge occasionally forget about people[1] after they're detained.

4. Why isn't community service the number one penalty for most crimes, especially minor offenses? And, why isn't the bar being significantly lowered for what constitutes a minor offense?

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/us/california-forgotten-prison...
Not that it isn't awesome how fast cameras are, just keep in mind, the clip is 25ms. So at 11,000 fps, that would be 275 images (11 frames per ms). Not sure if we actually have a camera that can take 11,000 images in 1 second. (I guess that depends on the resolution)
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Its short term, bottom line thinking. If you force them out at reduced retirement wages, that saves pension money you can then bonus yourself with. You don't care that you are firing your most competent people, because they are just resource slots you put new, cheap college hires into. They arent as good, but whatever. You have 2000 of them. They are good enough, right? You can then bonus yourself with that salary savings as well.

The company will eat itself to death, but that will take years, and you'll have left to do the same to other companies, using your "success" at this one to prove you need an insane salary at the new one. Repeat, over and over.
He could have paid
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I am not advocating that every aspect of a system is tested by an agency, I am simply saying that there should be a body that ensures that safety-critical software development follows a basic set of best practices - avoiding some of pitfalls mentioned in the article.
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Yep. It's a PaaS, a take-it-or-take-less-than-it-and-roll-the-rest-by-hand-deal. It's very opinionated because a large part of the DNA is from app developers (Pivotal Labs) who Just Want To Focus On Writing Apps, Dammit.

I'm wildly, crazily biased because I have seen the fruits of multiple snowflake PaaSes and it is rotten. Brilliant engineers building brilliant systems that consume enormous time and effort to not do everything an off-the-shelf PaaS does serviceably already.

Rob Mee gives the analogy that everyone used to write their own ORMs. Nobody does that any more. Companies with homegrown ORMs are cursed, no matter how brilliant that ORM is. Being on a cutting edge is only a good thing if it eventually stops being the cutting edge.

Does anyone still write their own OS? Their own webserver? Their own database? Their own programming language? Yes! They do. But for 99.99% of the world's problems, delivering user value is the first priority.

> it doesn't feel like true open source in the way that both Mesos and Kubernetes do.

Could you elaborate?
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The crime dropped after prohibition because the FBI became a bigger part of preventing crime and rooted out all of the police corruption. Violence in Mexico will continue, unless the government can prevent any cop, judge, or agent from being bought.

Drugs arent special as you say, but they also arent the cause of the violence. Gangs will still be violent and kill each other. It will just be over something new. So yes, we might see a decrease in drug-related violence (im still not convinced of this though), but we will see an increase in violence related to something else being traded on the black market.

I also have a hard time seeing crack or meth being legalized when many people still sue the cigarette companies for giving them cancer. I think tort reform is also needed.
Please everybody, perhaps?
By not being used effectively by the driver, mostly.

If your car starts accelerating in an unintended fashion, you should push the brakes to the floor and keep them there, then if you have time shift into neutral and turn off the ignition (this shouldn't be necessary, but will help).

Many drivers won't actually do this in the heat of the moment, though, thus many deadly crashes.
You can survive a single collapsed lung indefinitely. You only have a few minutes to survive not being able to breathe.
And there should competition after you become the monopoly.

If there is something better it should always win.
How many prisons, while not for profit, are largely staffed and have services met by for profit entities?
So are the people who have been convicted of violent, property or public order crimes unjustly imprisoned? Should they be released?
meanwhile in Canada, back to the drawing board for the US invasion plans
Using rhyme and meter to remember things has a rich history, back to the epic poems.

The phrasing of the title made me think of an Onion article along the lines of: They found the perfect password, it's '42Lemons?' and everyone should use it!

What they found is an excellent password scheme for humans.
No those who buy the IPO generally do quite OK since IPO shares are generally priced to get the most funding possible, not necessarily the highest share price. Restrictions on selling after IPOs also generally help support the price.

Historically, those who buy into IPOs do quite well.
+1 to this --- and I should add, it needs to be actually out loud. No, reading it in your head doesn't work.

If you have an office rubber duck, reading your report to the duck is a really good way to get feedback.
>everyone is freakishly wealthy by historical standards and has a lot to lose

You raise a really good point here, and I think this is one of the most important stabilizing factors in today's society.
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Persona is still hosted, right? Because I plan on using it.

Does this remain accurate?:

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p...

HN link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7362613 (a mozilla employee posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364465 )

I'm confused about this post:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR

If the goal is to keep providing this service, how has it failed? What is the goal?
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