skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The panama canal is not only an engineering marvel but a financial one as well. It can cost up to a quarter million for passage if you are a large container ship (such as a panamax class ship).

One thing that I was surprised was that the lateral drift was not computer controlled. Scary that even a small miscalculation can rip a hole in the ship's hull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4F867o_U1w
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For learners it is confusing to see the nonlinear decision boundaries for linear and logistic regression, IMO a note about the feature expansion should be added
>…even when in our current society it is asinine to think people are contributing to one another's survival more than they are contributing to superfluous wants. The fraction of our workforce involved in providing food, shelter, security, and health are probably at most one in ten. The rest are there for wants. Our social organization needs to start reflecting that more rather than making the unskilled writhe in destitution for scraps of a living.

I wish this was stated more often, at least to expose people to converse on ways we can allocate resources in different/arguably better ways compared to say 5k years ago.
> hate her if they somehow came to believe she was Korean

Why would they hate her for having Korean ancestry?
I consider LighTable as the most user friendly Clojure/Clojurescript editor at the moment, for beginners is really great, you need you install it and easily you have everything to start working with Clojure. I even can imaging myself using it for moderate size Clojure projects. But is you really need something more powerful I think Cursive or Emacs are good options.
You may agree in principle, but you are using terms like "forcing employers" which contains a built-in bias. Here's the same question with a different bias: "How do you restore power to the employees so they get equitable salaries?"

Your question assumes that what we have now is natural, and that force is required to change things.

If the shop owner's thumb has been pushing down on the scales for years, then the solution is not that the customer needs to apply an opposite force to balance thing out, but the shop owner needs to stop applying force.

(Okay, applying a counter-force, as in Leslie Thrasher's "Tipping the Scales", would be a short-term solution, but it's also an easily corrupted one, and it makes most of the people feel like they are being ripped off.)

To start the answer to my question, first remove so-called "right-to-work" laws, or at least the legal requirement that non-members can "force unions to provide without compensation grievance services that are paid for by union members." (Quoting Wikipedia Right-to-work_law#Unfairness .) There's plenty more, but it's a belabored topic that you can easily find elsewhere.
[1]for auto tools, I really don't see much difference between the craftsman level brands and the better brands.

The difference is that you don't use the same wrench a dozen times a day, day in and day out. Same reason my home toolboxes don't have roller bearing drawers: I don't open the drawers a dozen times a day anymore, so it's a waste of money for me now.

As I said above, Craftsman is fine for the DIYer. It's the brand I frequently buy. I haven't talked to a Snap-On driver since I left the field.
Now you can 3D print using beer
incredibly fascinating
My argument was that this was actually bad for their business. This is not a customer-friendly move.
I'm upset at the defense "I joke about killing people, too".
Brilliant is amazing for practicing math. It's similar to programming problem sites but for math: https://brilliant.org
I assume someone is running the numbers for fuel cost and time to just sail around South America, it has to break even or be a better deal at some point.
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I suspect setting up the free LFS reference/test server[1] that GitHub provides would have taken less time than writing this post complaining that GitHub isn't free enough.

1: https://github.com/github/lfs-test-server
Racism?

It takes different forms in different countries, but it is alive and well.
Sweet! Keep up the hard work.
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Searching YouTube it seems most of these are used for growing cannabis - not something you would normally put in your window (depending on local laws / neighbors).
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Agreed! That is why I removed the hack after I posting. The current system requires a pin.

Appreciate the feedback on the security issue!
This being a test server implementation probably indicates that it is not meant to be run in production environment.
I think better yet would be to condemn discrimination (i.e. favor social fairness) even if a certain genetic group is found to be causally associated with lower IQ. I think assuming we're all equal is as crippling to science/society as genetic supremacism. Understanding nuances of ethnic and cultural groups is something we should strive for. Diversity of traits, cultures is great.
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The article notes that the two owners were notationaly making a 40% profit before the wage change. (This money was being reinvested into the businesses to pay for expansion.) The plan with the raise is that the increased cost makes the owner's profits zero, but the busines lives on.

Everything would be fine, if not for that one of the two owners was not consulted beforehand, and objects to having a planned zero income in the future. Thus, lawsuit.
Well that explains "All plants are inside our law. We do not judge species based on their political situation. We are a melting pot of photosynthesis enthusiasts." ;)
The paper discusses thread models based around denial of service, but a more worrisome possibility is that an attacker might figure out how to wear out a processor in a way that creates bit-flips which can be exploited to create a more traditional security vulnerability. Does anyone know enough about this to tell whether that might be feasible?
why couldn't you use StackOverflow for mechanics.

Well, sonny, back then we had no easily-accessed Internet. :-) But there are sites much like SO, just not under one umbrella. For instance, for our BMW motorcycles, there are several web forums I can troll for answers. Our Scion xB has at least one or two sites where one can get help for mechanical questions. And, hell, there probably is an auto-related Stack Exchange site for all I know (a quick glance shows a bicycle-related one, so there's got to be one for cars.)

For pros, it's not really a question of "how do I change a headlight?" Any pro knows the basics involved that would apply to just about any car. The real question is usually "how the hell do I get to the screw holding that bracket?" or "I've got all of the visible fasteners out, and it still won't budge". For that, there used to be big bookshelves of shop manuals that are now replaced with DVDs.
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Ask HN: How important is exiting your company?
How important is it to your future fundraising/professional network potential to exit your company versus jut shut it down, if either are an option? How do you weigh the opportunity cost (shutdown = move on immediately, versus M&A seems to be at least 6mos to term sheet, 12 mos retention)?

My personal situation: I'm co-founder of a company that is

* 7 years old, 6 team members
* 900K ARR, 25% operating profit margins, 13% CAGR
* no investors, bootstrapped

The business in its current state could continue indefinitely, but requires active management and engineering. We don't see a believable path to high growth in the current market, and my co-founder would like to leave by end of year. My options are:

(A) Help him EOL the company by 12/31 (and walk away with $0).

(b) Transition to CEO and drive the M&A process on my own (he leaves as soon as possible). We estimate 20% chance of a $2-3M exit, 60% chance of a 500K-1M market share sale. In worst case, shutdown the company on my own in June (estimate 200K walk away cash at that point).

Ultimately, I would like to start a new company ASAP. However, I have little capital runway (maybe 8mos), no significant VC network, and no other exit on my resume. What's the best choice given the circumstances?
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> Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to amass that concentration of wealth in the first place?

This was a total non-sequitur. Mind explaining the logic there?
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How is there no training time delay? How is training all these classifiers not putting my CPU into a sweat??

edit: I should also mention: these is very cool :)
Fix monetary policy so that people would be able to save in liquid assets rather than financing everything and living month to month. As an individual's savings rise, their autonomy increases while the marginal utility of an earned dollar decreases. They'd naturally demand a higher salary.

If that job wasn't worth that much to an employer, either the cost of the resulting service would rise or the job wouldn't get done, just like now.
Well, weird as it may sound (it is election time yes), it was not an empty announcement. The program was been drafted with the help of relevant universities, experts, Institute Cervantes and technology departments. Some technologies like www.Pangeamt.com will surely benefit.

For once, a long-term view ......
But you pay a performance cost for either of those decisions. Consider code like this:

for (int i=0; i <= N; i++) func();

Most processors have special support for looping a fixed number of times, e.g. "decrement then branch if zero." If overflow is UB, the compiler can use this support.

But if overflow returns an implementation defined value, then it is possible that N is INT_MAX and the loop will not terminate. In this case the compiler cannot use the fixed-iteration form, and must emit a more expensive instruction sequence.
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It would need to be sufficient that the average noggt's drinking is made more expensive by the cost of the average Uber ride.

So those who choose to drink within walking distance will massively subsidise those who choose to come in from out of town.
This seems so strange.. They seem to be going about it from the opposite direction (starting with bits) than I would go into it.

I think the simplest method (IMO) is to pick a dictionary of 100k common but not too common 3+ char words that have realistic memorable structures like
adjective -> noun -> verb or adjective -> adjective -> noun
or having probabilities that the bigrams are together in google bigrams being nonzero.

and let people veto the combinations a few times.
If you're talking about binary files merged into Git itself (not Git LFS, which is a separate mechanism), you can use "git clone --depth <n>" to get only the latest <n> revisions of the tree, and then use "git pull --unshallow" if you need to fetch the rest of the history.
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The problem is that TLS is far from "as simple as possible", and you need TLS on the device in order to have encrypted communications just device-to-server.

In my opinion, device-to-device encryption is much better, and you don't need all the overhead of TLS. I've actually finished a first draft of the prototype and am looking for people to kick the tires and discuss it. Would you be interested?
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How cost effective is this space-bucketry? Right now tomatoes are $3.99/lb at WholeFoods. If I grew my own tomatoes, and my yield was, say, 5lbs, would the cost of growing them (electricity, nutrients, etc.) come out to be less than $20?
Still, can anyone offer some insight as to why?
Shallow clones are the term. It used to be that you couldn't pull remote changes or push local changes to/from a shallow clone, but that was fixed with v1.9 (early 2014). I'm not sure how LFS interacts with shallow clones though, as it's really a separate system that works in tandem with git more than a part of git itself.
I'm reminded of a story in the Book Of Heroic Failures which went something like "Mr Smith, who attempted to pull off the worlds largest single cheque forgery, altered his pay cheque from 14 pounds 8 shillings to 148 million pounds. The fraud was successful right up until the moment he tried to cash it."

The best security for thousands of years has been simple - be a suspicious bastard.
Try interpreting the observation of animals & humans through a lens of their behavior being similar given certain contexts.
History. Command is the Ctrl key of Mac, and IBM/Microsoft switched it up when they copied it. The command key is placed in the right position to be used quickly, the control key (on most laptop keyboards) is placed way off to the left or right to be very useful.

The first thing I do on a new Windows laptop is swap the left alt and ctrl keys to match the way it was meant to be. From wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key):

> The purpose of the Command key is to allow the user to enter keyboard commands in applications and in the system. The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines have always recommended that developers use the Command key (and not the Control or Option keys) for this purpose. A small set of keyboard commands (such as cut and paste, open and save) are standard across nearly all applications, and many other commands are standardized (Find, Show Fonts). If an application needs more shortcuts than can be obtained with the twenty-six letters of the Latin alphabet, double modifiers such as Command+Option are used.

> One advantage of this scheme, as contrasted with the Microsoft Windows mixed use of the Control and Alt keys, is that the Control key is available for its original purpose: entering control characters in terminal applications. (Indeed, the very first Macintosh lacked a Control key; it was soon added to allow compatible terminal software.)
Pretty much the same as everything else that happens when I lose my phone. Total disaster.
Let's say instead that you want to enter the field of physics. With an IQ of 110, you might be able to excel as a lab manager, an analyst, a lecturer, or any number of prestigious careers other than "physicist," which, to be fair, isn't actually a job title anyway.

If you were to instead aim for a career as a programmer, which includes subfields like "CSS specialist" and "engineer who writes firmware for jet engines," you'd quickly find that there is room both for people of extraordinary as well as below average intelligence. Programming is not a genius-level activity, though some subsets of it are.

The chart you linked to shows that someone working in computer occupations will usually have an IQ between 90 and ~120, which seems pretty close to average.
Just add 10,700 miles[1][2][3] (26 days) and sail around one of the most dangerous navigation hazards in the world.

No big deal.

[1]: Assumes turning around on the Pacific side

[2]: Southbound https://www.searates.com/reference/portdistance/?B=23078&E=2...

[3]: Northbound https://www.searates.com/reference/portdistance/?B=20155&E=2...
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That's a big "if" there. Nobody's suggesting that anyone bend over backwards for older people, only that they stop bending over forwards for younger ones.
Do either of you have any evidence or statistics that joking about killing someone is in any way associated positively with actually killing that person? If not, I don't know what your points are other than that you find humor of that type distasteful. If you don't have any such evidence, then all I can guess is that you're arguing that we should fixate on innuendo as opposed to evidence, or avoid speech that could inspire other people to fixate on innuendo rather than evidence.

Has anybody who joked about bombs in the line to get on a plane ever bombed one?
I actually wonder about any potential adverse effects it might have.

For some time now I've wanted to try such service for kicks and giggles but the thought of getting a result like you have some gene which makes it more likely for you to get toe cancer by 700% which will pester me for the rest of my life even if it has very low scientific value always bugged me enough not too.

Sure if i was going to die I would rather know about it sooner than later, but I never thought that filling my head with the potentialities of mortality was warranted.
What the actual fu(k!

I'd ask who would pay to see this but I hear Trump is doing well in the polls.
This. Unlike many other systems, compression in git has nothing to do with commit order or file types or really anything VCS related. The way delta chains work in git are ingenious and transparent.

The problem is that "binaries" are large amounts of data with high entropy.
I wish postgreSQL focuses more on clustering, sharding and replication and bundle these features in the product rather than asking us to use other thirdparty tools like slony and pgpoolII. Other than that, postgreSQL is one of the cleanest SQL implementations. It's source code is incredibly clean, consistent and easy to follow.
Almond milk has been called almond milk quite a bit before the US even existed. I don't think it would make sense to rename it now.
Ah, I see what you're saying, and, yeah, there are most assuredly pathologies that crop up the "profoundly gifted".

And, yeah, I have no idea what things were socially for him before he attended Harvard, and that can be an ... unusual place for the really intelligent, very possibly one reason he gravitated to MIT, although MIT being one of the world's top 4 CS schools, and the world's #1 engineering school, and Harvard being ... not so good in those two areas is almost certainly a bigger part. I only know of RMS as of when he showed up to MIT ... and there, he was an outlier amongst a whole bunch of outliers. But no apparent co-morbidities (is high intelligence a morbidity? I sometimes wonder :-) besides perhaps ASD, which really wasn't a "thing" back then and which I have essentially no knowledge of.

But certainly his fairly fixed by then personality is consistent with your hypothesis. He certainly fits into the Sigma category in this fascinating socio-sexual hierarchy essay: http://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2011/03/socio-sexual-hiera... and you don't get there without ... well, as the essay mentions at the end, "Sigmas usually acquired their outsider status the hard way; one seldom becomes immune to the social hierarchy by virtue of mass popularity in one's childhood."
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And if you donated blood recently "they"(evil quotation marks!) might actually have it already, not sure about the US but in many places these days when you donate blood they ask you if you want to be added to the bone marrow donor list which means that they genotype (at the least) your sample if you agree to it, in some place i think it's even by default these days.
I don't think you needed paragraphs like "My guess is that some high-level greedy marketing dickwad, completely unaware of the asinine implications of his brilliant idea, signed off on this dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks pricing model. He then directed the grunts to somehow implement his grand vision on GitHub’s servers. That’s when shit started to hit the fan." ... to get the conversation started. Your other points were sensible and lucid. This was a distraction and had the paradoxical effect of making me more sympathetic to github. The same looks to be true of other posters in this thread.

If you were consciously choosing to take a hyperbolic tone, can I ask if you might reconsider that decision in future posts? Or at least concretely test your idea that calling people "dickwads" and "grunts" gets you more traction.

I appreciated you raising the bandwidth question, and comparing it with other services. You made a good argument.
Thank you!
Cool still going to use the best tool for the job.
I'd prefer to see chronic drunk drivers stop doing so and rely on something like this instead. I suspect the cost of paying for taxis will be less than the cost of all the emergency services, post crash analysis, and road modifications when someone is killed on the road. ( The average cost is 4.3 million per fatality according to the National Safety Council http://blog.safeauto.com/how-much-do-car-accidents-cost-the-... )

[edit for typo fix]
Given Kaufman's brand of humor, he might have found this hilarious. People paying to go see an imaginary version of a dead guy!
Are license plates that hard to forge? How much work is it to stamp one? (Not to mention that you can get away with printing plates even on paper. A buddy was driving his car intercountry but didn't have his official plate, just the temp ones. Border agents were particular about that part. A bit of Photoshop and applying a bit of dust and no problems at all during a trip spanning 3 countries.)
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Sure. With git-fu and enough emails, you can replicate anything done in GitHub.

I'm just saying it's a very odd choice for an example of GitHub screwing over workflows.
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I'm intrigued also. Definitely some sort of Machine Learning related library anyway. Found something related to it but it doesn't really have any substantial information on it either:

http://nerdyjs.appspot.com/
No bucket required. I purchased some LED grow lights from Amazon which were super cheap and work great. They produce very little heat, are unobtrusive and supplement my indoor plants for the winter.
What kind of granularity can you get with this? Based on all of the apps/build in features utilizing 3D Touch, I had thought it was binary.
Its not that I believe good forever, but rather that I think it (it being your first comment) was a weird way to take the conversation. Like, why did that even occur to you in this context?
Why didn't you just continue driving outside of times people normally leave bars/clubs?
Not sure what world you live in but I have never heard students argue in favor of African Americans having heritable lower intelligence. Such a discussion would instantly be shamed and publicized. Pretty sure your making this up.
There are literally thousands of uber-popular projects that are deeply integrated with GitHub. I recommend choosing one of those for an example.

Line NodeJS or something.
The label even has an egg as its most prominent feature. They're really going out their way to make people assume that it's got eggs in it.
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> The reason is probably because OSS has "won". Not in the absolute sense that all software is open, but in the sense that businesses have fully realized the impact Eric Raymond prophesied in the late 90s.

This is kind of problematic and exactly why rms insists that we call it "free software" instead of "open source". The big goal shouldn't be to be a better business, but a better ethic.
I'd hate to see the blog post you call vicious. Does it need f-bombs? Death threats?

I think what you mean is that it is not unjustifiably vicious.
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