skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Landlords grow richer in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing.

Maybe in John Stuart Mill's time, but like anything in a free market, profit tends to zero (it generally doesn't hit zero, but gets closer over time). Those margins are calculated as part of time preference (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference). That's why you see some land owners purchase land and lose money while they wait for it to appreciate. Time is factored into the calculation.

> I wish more libertarians understood the Matthew Effect as well as they did supply and demand.

The Matthew Effect doesn't take into account the fact that many individuals get richer by requesting and receiving special legal privileges from state actors. Classical liberal thought rejects this i.e. equality before the law. That's why many libertarians are against the state's power to regulate, not because you can't have good regulation (the free market is far from perfect after all), rather because the power to regulate is the power to grant special favors. Politicians, like their private counterparts, are susceptible to self-interest. They need money to fund their campaigns. A consistent application of economic principles is necessary (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbDrP7whqw).

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That's terrifying; isn't it just discouraging people from going to the dentist? How much can dental anesthetic injections cost, anyway?
Its ironic.
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Ask an ADHD sufferer. Mind wandering from what you'd rather be focusing on is a constant irritant.
Postgrads

Youth / Young workers

Entry level? (Though I still don't see enough of this to actually feed the demand for experienced developers of X).
> It's "noise" which isn't technically harmonic distortion but that's kind of splitting hairs isn't it?

That's not splitting hairs. Harmonic distortion and uncorrelated noise are completely different from a mathematical stand point. They also sound audibly different to my ears.

Merely saying that "24-bit is useful" or "it is better to you" does not mean that you can actually hear the difference, and you include no empirical justifications for why you believe this to be true. Perhaps I could help you conduct a scientific experiment at home?
I interpreted the "creating a home" bit as referring to it being a residence hall, not a classroom.

I don't have a problem if people don't want to face swastikas made of human feces in their homes -- different school, but sounds like the same kinda idea, http://www.salon.com/2015/11/09/amid_racial_justice_protests... -- because free speech at all times in all places isn't the single most important thing ever, especially when people are living together.

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> It's really because as I age I will be able to afford the comforts and convenience I've grown quite fond of. I will be able to take care of myself and loved ones in emergencies and afford insurance.

You seem to be making a number of flawed assumptions here.

The first is that you will age. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. You could be hit by a truck tomorrow and die. The second is that access to the comforts and conveniences you have grown fond of are primarily a function of your finances. But your enjoyment of the comforts and conveniences you can afford is also a function of many other things, such as your health, which could be compromised at any time by things you cannot predict or control.

> If you feel my answer is inappropriate...

I think your answer is likely to evoke a strong response because it paints exploring intimate relationships and accumulating wealth as being mutually exclusive.

This flies in the face of data that suggests one of the best ways to accumulate wealth is to partner up. Marriage has been linked to wealth in numerous studies, and by some estimates, more than 90% of the millionaires in the United States are married.

Obviously, marriage motivated by financial gain is probably not advisable for most, but avoiding dating out of the belief that it will produce financial benefit is not very attractive either.
My 20 year old self? Lessee, doing a little math here...okay, got it: in a few years a software company called Microsoft will IPO. Take every spare dime and buy shares. Continue to do so until about 1999, then sell all of it.

In all seriousness? You're not as clever as you think you are, so try being less of an asshole. Even when you are the smartest person in the room, no one cares, so quit being so insufferable. Spend more time with your musical instrument; you'll never go pro, but it will add enjoyment to your life and sometimes that of others, and when you're older you'll regret having not played more when your were younger.
Not the original poster, but when you sign into a Wi-Fi network, the router needs to know where to send the packets, so it needs to have a way to identify your device. That's why all devices that can connect to a network have what's called a MAC address[1] – a very long number that is unique to your device. Your device also broadcasts that address when it scans for networks, so just about all the time. When you control several access points and a few of them see the same device at the same time, you can triangulate the location of that device down to a few metres.

The company I used to work for did something similar[2] at a conference over the course of three days. (You can drag on the map to highlight individual devices.) It's really cool and really quite creepy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

[2]: https://apps.opendatacity.de/relog/
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100% is a reasonable goal.

Victims and Eyewitnesses can and do make mistakes. Security footage can show someone who looks like a suspect but DNA (when properly tested) provides irrefutable proof.

In many cases, especially old cases for which there have already been convictions, prosecutors are highly resistant to the idea of testing the DNA because they can lead to overturned convictions.
There is that issue, but surely not all startups offer that?
Cauterization of the wound, I'd expect. Stops bleeding via cooking you.
The refrigerator is running in the next room right now, and it completely masks the difference for me.
> What can I say, it works for me and few more people I know.

Worked in what way? You made no mention of what it actually did, except maybe prevent some viral infections?
Links, perhaps...
>If someone did block my driveway, and I needed to get somewhere I would politely ask them to move because that's how human interaction should work. I'm not trolling, I'm making a general plea for more cool headed reasonable human interaction.

That is like politely asking people to not park in handicap spaces instead of handing out tickets in the hundreds of dollars. The reason the tickets are justified is because it wasn't an accident (I'm sure a small number of cases are and it might be possible to get it tossed if the space is improperly marked). They purposefully, and dare I say selfishly, made the choice to do something they knew they shouldn't have which can cause problems for others.

Yes, you could respond politely, but at a certain point politeness doesn't really cut it. Which is why we have tickets.

>You're doing far more harm to them than they did to you. That kind of enforcement just makes the world a much more unfriendly place, and does not serve the common good.

A couple hundred dollar ticket can really mess up a lower income family, and they were only using the space for a couple of minutes while they ran in to buy some milk/drop off a letter/what have you. You are definitely doing more harm to them than they did to you. But if you didn't do this, those parking spaces would never be available for those who are truly handicapped because of the unending stream of people running in for just a minute.
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I see the connected nature of work and after-hours email as a "symptom" of the blurring nature of work vs. life. Gone are the days where one clocks in and clocks out. I fully expect to check work emails and do other work "after hours" (read: on my own schedule). I also fully expect to check personal emails, read HN, and do other non-work activities during "work hours".

I get my work done, and I do it well. If you want to impose artificial constraints on when and how I do that work, you're stuck in the dark ages. My managers and teams understand that. Sometimes I have email conversations at 11pm at night because we all happen to be up. Sometimes I send emails that people don't even read until the next day: no problem. Sometimes I don't read emails until the next day: similar story. If it's truly urgent, people know to call or text.

I think it's a personal choice, though. I read (and respond to) emails after hours to a) plan and organize my coming day and b) do an ongoing triage of the things on my plate. I could do all this at 9am the next day, but I'd be more stressed as a result.
Lobby against drug decriminalization, since it is already criminalized.
There's a map in the linked Nature paper:
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/151027/ncomms9705/fig_tab/...

It's pretty direct: these particular eels appear to swim north along the shore to the outlet of the St. Lawrence River, then more or less straight south to the Sargasso Sea.
i'm not sure what i think about the central role this "Turnitin" 3rd-party software played in all of this.

is Turnitin a for-profit company? it looks like they are.

what if a student does not want their papers stored in Turnitin's databases for perpetuity to be used in an ongoing basis to help Turnitin continue to acquire profit?

i'd demand royalties for each and every time any paper of mine gets used in a comparison op.
I only get about an hour a day to work on it during my commute, but I am having fun with my side project bestfoodnearme.com I am hoping to have a new look for it in about a week, more visual, more pictures.
News for you: corruption is not tolerated these days in China. Keep your racist stereotypes to yourself instead of trying to be an arrogant knowitall.
Interesting, let's say it should be our first priority, how does that translate into action?
Please remember that mobilizing large amounts of people towards a goal is hard problem, specially when the goal involves copious amounts of research and experiment.
Yeah, so, like, the same as contactless credit/debit cards, only it can run out of battery
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> The only difference in meaning I see in those two statements is the original is more strongly worded (ie, less room for interpretation).

The former claims that (some) non-believers claim to miss community the most (of all the things they miss about religion.)

The latter claims that most non-believers claim to miss community.

They aren't similar but of different strength, they are fundamentally different. One is a claim about how much (relative other missed things) community is missed by an unspecified subset of nonbelievers, the other is a claim about how frequently (without reference to relative placement) community is missed by nonbelievers.

I'd say that, if anything, the latter is the stronger claim, in that former is true if any of the many millions of nonbelievers misses community more than they miss any other aspect of religion, while latter is only true if an absolute majority of nonbeliever miss the community of religion at least some amount.
It's not necessarily that it lacks what happened (or at least what the author says happened), but that it's hidden under rhetorical fluff and opinion. The author spends his time coming up with adjectives rather than explaining why you should agree with him or actually discussing the heart of the issue. Maybe incoherent isn't so much the right word as embellished. Take this example...

> With world-altering research to support, graduates who assume positions of extraordinary power, and a $24.9 billion endowment to marshal for better or worse, Yale administrators face huge opportunity costs as they parcel out their days.

or the text surrounding the e-mail

> Erika Christakis reflected on the frustrations of the students, drew on her scholarship and career experience, and composed an email inviting the community to think about the controversy through an intellectual lens that few if any had considered. Her message was a model of relevant, thoughtful, civil engagement.

> It’s hard to imagine a more deferential way to begin voicing her alternative view. And having shown her interlocutors that she*respects them and shares their ends, she explained her misgivings about the means of telling college kids what to wear on Halloween.

It's weird how much someone supposedly advocating having an open-mind are telling you what to think without explaining why. Then you get HN comments saying how respectful her e-mail was, without talking about the issues themselves. It's written for someone that agrees with the premise of the article and won't question all the embellishments. It's apparent even by the title.
> TIL that bottled water promotes tooth decay (by displacing flouridated tap water consumption)

The elite-branded bottled water that go to lengths to set themselves apart from tap water (spring-fed-only, or rain-only, or some other esoteric, "natural" source) will not have fluorine. But many a budget-brand is simply expensively-packaged municipal tap water, and about 2/3 of municipal tap water supplies in the US are fluoridated. I suspect it is a relatively safe bet that when at a department/grocery store, if you simply pick up the house brand bottled water, it will be sourced from municipal tap water and fluoridated.
What stops them being self driving? Dedicated delivery vehicles don't need to be designed around human comfort constraints.
Yea that's the most confusing thing about the article is that he seems very upset about the implications of the TTP, but doesn't explain why...
Judge calls for NSA to halt phone records program
Every law is backed by violence. A threat of legal action is a threat of violence, even if it is delayed.

So instead of breaking knee caps, it is more like threatening to get a person who may charge them $500 and if they don't pay, then break their knee caps. There is a chance they won't do anything, but it is still a threat of violence.
Sorry, not ready for prime-time. Closest is a visualization of the previous version of the script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a703TTbxghc

That version wasn't a NN graph for ML; more of an executable flow graph for visual music. Will post something on https://github.com/musesum in a couple months.
It is tough for sure. People who take a hard-line opinion on the subject I think may not have worked at a small company and/or have never had to think about payroll and insurance expenses.

I know when I was younger it never even occurred to me to wonder where my paycheck came from.
That's how it works for the most part on Grubhub/Seamless & Delivery.com (if it still exists). Seamless defaults to a 10% tip or $2, whichever is greater. Grubhub & delivery.com both asked the user to enter a tip amount or select a predetermined amount of 10, 15 or 20%.
I was a bike messenger doing food delivery for awhile. For the most part people tipped between 10-20%. The delivery person sees the tip in advance for the most part and can decide drop-off order based on that.
Additionally, most people who've told me their tipping practices for food delivery usually have a predetermined amount regardless of service/time/basket size.
This is like to say that gold is only valuable for mineral collecting hobbists.
Athletics doping: What happens if trust goes out of sport?
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> Vitamin C is the most effective virus killer in large doses if you time it right.

Which viruses? All viruses? With what mechanism? This is nothing more than molecular fanboyism. Nothing is a panacea.
Countries aren't getting screwed over, citizens are, certain industries or interests in each country are. These trade deals throw certain sectors of the country under the bus in favor of other sectors as they must.

And the ability to rubber stamp a 6,000 page monolithic treaty which has already been agreed to is a complete joke. It's about as democratic as a parent asking a child, "would you like to go to boarding school or boot camp?" The democracy happened during the negotiations and amendments -- at that point the needs of each constituent were considered, included or excluded, compromised. Unfortunately the citizens of these countries or their elected representatives or anyone willing to represent their interests weren't invited to that party.

The negotiation would be harder, sure if it were public but that's because making an agreement that is fair is a lot harder than asking corporate lobbyists to narrate a wishlist and typing it up. All they had to do was reconcile the many, many different wishlists (still very hard), not put forth an agreement that actual citizens would approve of (much harder but what they should actually be doing).
I think that's good speculation. But with bit of Hanlons Razor, that seems bit too good picture of CIA. They are not stupid, but they are still a fallible organization.

I think their priorities are: existence of CIA, genuine concern for safety of U.S., geopolitical power of U.S.

Maybe they we're really clueless. And decided to waterboard people so they would be "doing something" so they could try to justify existence of CIA. Or maybe they wanted to show to Mossad that they get to do shit too. As an intelligence saber rattling. We really don't know.
Rapists often repeat the crime on new victims. Even in such a situation as you suggest where the kit is not needed to prosecute a given crime, the data from the kit could be useful in unsolved cases for which a kit was processed but no suspect was identified.
Depending on what you mean, that is a feature of the new release: archon mode, where two players have shared control of a single base. This was also a feature of starcraft one but was never very popular. This time it should be easier to use and find matches through matchmaking. The recent blizzcon had a match between 4 pros in this mode, and the casters really couldn't keep up with the side engagements that were happening. So it's even interesting from a competitive scene as well.
In my opinion it's a range of management requests that give rise to the workflow, and devs hate managing workflows with email, notes ("When you are done implementing move the issue to the X column and send a message to the testers group that..."). So then devs bring in JIRA to do some automation. Now the tester person gets an email when the issue is moved to the testing phase. But once everything is in place, management will see the benefits, and the workflow will "evolve", especially if the teams grow. It's pretty natural.
Not this again. "Republic" and "democracy" are not mutually exclusive terms: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
> Maybe in John Stuart Mill's time, but like anything in a free market, profit tends to zero

That is true in an perfectly competitive free market, that is, where adequate substitutes are available from alternative vendors so that price competition is unavoidable.

Market freedom does mean that the there isn't a regulatory prohibition on competition, but it doesn't mean that there isn't the absence of a natural bar to competition for a particular good or service. And there certainly are natural limits to real estate alternatives in many cases, as for many uses there is a strictly limited supply of viable substitutes.

This makes real estate an area where effective monopolies (as measured through pricing power) exist, which means monopoly rents can be extracted, which means that prices are not driven to zero economic profit in the manner expected in an idealized free market.
>Wouldn't the government approval issue be more of a socialist factor?

One uses money to manipulate the people in charge of socialist government programs. I'd bet that the dental lobbyists are stronger in their niche than the teachers union is because there's less public knowledge and interest there.
Things evolve. Something being considered a good practice is not a necessary a good practice when we learn more information.
They seem to be okay with freedom of speech for themselves, but not for the freedom of speech that goes with a reaction. Furthermore, why should freedom of speech trump community? We all recognize that in certain groups you don't just say whatever you want for the sake of it (e.g. try that at work and see how long you last); harmony within a community is important. Arguing for knowingly offensive speech/actions negates the importance of harmony.
Some decades ago, on one of the first IBM PCs 12Mhz, I created a neural network using static point multiplication (binary shifts) that learned to play tic tac toe over about a weekend, in C. I probably have some code for it still lying around.
I really like the solution(s) listed at the end of the piece. This is wise stuff and the best way to handle something like this.
If it wasn't for Hedy Lamarr, we wouldn't have Wi-Fi (2011)
The danger of cultural waves like this is that there might not be a market for schools that stand up to it. If this mentality is prevalent enough in a whole generation of students, there may never be a school willing to stand up to it. It'll just become the new normal.
Sean Parker on tech industry's 'tricks': 'Social media feeds our narcissism
No, he means a properly done sandbox but native and 2D accelerated platform without the DOM cruft.

Not sure why it's so hard, probably because it's in nobody's interests but the users (as every major just wants to promote their own platform and have the web play second fiddle to it).
Hmm. Both of mine were on molars and certainly alive, so that explains that.

But I don't know how a dentist could possibly tell the nerves are dead before drilling in. And the way they know is that you say ouch that fucking hurts.
Sounds good until Nevada does it.
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The KimKlone impresses me quite a bit; was it just a case of a thought like: "oh, if I did this and this, I could extend the address space..." and then a burning desire to see it work, or did something else motivate this?
I also recently had my wisdom teeth removed without sedation. I took some pills that the dentist prescribed to me that were supposed to really put me out of it, but I was 100% with it until about the time we got in the car to leave the dentists office. I pretty much hate having my teeth worked on. It causes me quite a bit of anxiety when normally I'm not very anxious. Whilst numbing my face, he hit a nerve 2-3 times that sent what felt like a powerful electrical jolt through my body. After that, it was a quite a physical process with the dentist even propping himself against my arm at one point to rip those suckers out. I had put the process off for about 6-8 years, but I am really happy its done and in the past. Now every time I have to get a filling, I wince quite a bit waiting for that poked nerve sensation...
Even if it's not extremely useful it's an interesting project. People tend to like doing interesting things for fun.
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I actually lived through all the stages described here (I'm mid 20's) and I live in the Eastern Europe. When I was a child 20-15 years ago, local anesthesia/numbing would not even be even put on the table as an option, then good 10 years ago the doctor would ask if I wanted the numbing - I haven't refused once since then because I knew what the experience was like with no anesthesia. Recently they have been giving anesthesia without asking, which is good.