skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that most middle class people don't have excellent accountants and tax attorneys. So they're an easy target. Whereas, if you're truly wealthy, you will optimise your taxes etc more. Most also don't mind going to court to challenge the government on certain bits of the law, if the risk/reward ratio makes sense.

If you are paying 40-50% in tax, they're probably only paying 15-20%
edit: The OP has accepted my pull request and this explanation is now directly available on the website.

It's a shame that the web page doesn't explain why floating point numbers are inaccurate when it comes to decimals. It's actually pretty simple. When you have a base 10 system (like ours), it can only express fractions that use a prime factor of the base. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. So 1/2, 1/4, 1/5, 1/8, and 1/10 can all be expressed cleanly because the denominators all use prime factors of 10. In contrast, 1/3, 1/6, and 1/7 are all repeating decimals because their denominators use a prime factor of 3 or 7.

In binary (or base 2), the only prime factor is 2. So you can only express fractions cleanly which only contain 2 as a prime factor. In binary, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 would all be expressed cleanly as decimals. While, 1/5 or 1/10 would be repeating decimals.

So 0.1 and 0.2 (1/10 and 1/5) while clean decimals in a base 10 system, are repeating decimals in the base 2 system the computer is operating in. When you do math on these repeating decimals, you end up with leftovers which carry over when you convert the computer's base 2 (binary) number into a more human readable base 10 number.
Are products listed for sale only visible through shared links/listings?
Or will this be a Craigslist/gum-tree type affair?
This is much trickier to navigate than a street. I overshoot what I want to look at with almost every click
Does going to school increase your intelligence?
No, it was definitely a fire: http://www.naroomanewsonline.com.au/story/1345250/ship-spott...
Different perspectives come together to form better ideas
Well, the law also says "upon a highway"...which seems in line with my observations that I only ever see minimum speed limits posted on highways. It sounds to me like the google vehicle was in compliance with the law.
What if they, hypothetically, developed their code with a separate toolchain/IDE and didn't use xcode at all? Are they still bound by the terms of it, or is it the users compiling the app to put on their phones bound by it? I'm also pretty sure advocating people violate a license agreement isn't illegal, or did Apple get an exemption for the first amendment?

I realize f.lux was distributing a compiled binary instead of telling people to compile it from source, but I think Apple would have sent them a C&D just the same if it were just source.
It really is killing it in the Enterprise, and I'm trying to do my part to remove it. I'm at a client that wants to use MongoDB. It's on the approved product list. They have little to no experience with it.

Every chance I get, I advocate ArangoDB. It also is Mongo Done Right. You get joins, graphs and a thoughtful future plan from ArangoDB team. To help bridge the gap I've written an ArangoDB Hadoop connector [1]. Unlike the MongoDB one, you can read and write.

I've also added better Clojure support to it: from a driver to a Ragtime migrator.

Sadly as it stands Mongo has a better Ops story than ArangoDB. Until that improves, I don't think that ArangoDB will make it into many Fortune 1000's outside of some small prototype style applications. Maybe micro-services in the enterprise will change this, but I don't think a large insurance company wants to support multiple database standards in general, and definitely not within a family.

1 - https://github.com/deusdat/guacaphant
But what about the part that Cook, from Apple, doesn't understand why someone would buy something other than a tablet these days. What if those Macs go away? What then? Can our iPads and iPhones be allowed to do things they are perfectly capable of doing but Apple doesn't allow it? If so, why not now?
The way tsunamis affect different locations is quite interesting! The wave length (distance between two peaks/troughs) at sea can be hundreds of kilometers long, a tsunami could pass under your tiny boat while out at sea and you wouldn't even notice it. It's only as they approach land that the shallow depths force the wavelength to shorten, forming the giant waves we usually associate with tsunamis.

[1] http://www2.scholastic.com/content/images/articles/sn_ts/sn_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
So, are the conclusions based on science? Not speculation or correlation re: size of insects and oxygen density. 35% oxygen to 21% doesn't seem to account for a millipede going from 8 feet to 15in.
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> Why are sane people okay with having their property rights violated by taxation

Most people don't regard taxation as a violation of property rights.
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Apple's brand of Excel.
Relevant smbc and xkcd:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2999
https://www.xkcd.com/217/
Radiolab did a show on this recently and it was interesting to say the least.

Podcast here:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/
What I'm saying is that there's no difference in STARTTLS and SMTPS. In either case, the client should drop the connection if it doesn't manage to negotiate the desired transport encryption.

Whether that happens because it doesn't get the expected response to STARTTLS or because the SMTPS port fails to respond with a proper TLS handshake is the same.

A "downgrade attack" only works if the client decides to keep going after failing to establish encryption. This is a client policy configuration issue, and has nothing to do with whether one uses the bytes "HELO server\r\nSTARTTLS\r\n" or a raw TLS handshake to negotiate the connection after opening the TCP port.
> $70 for 1gbps rather beats that by a drastic margin.

You need to factor in the marginal utility of added bandwidth. Few people can meaningfully utilise 20-50mbps (a full HD stream is <10mbps), much less 1gbps, so you're looking at paying $20-30 for, essentially, nothing.

For the record, I count myself in the group of people who can't utilise such a connection, although I'm squarely in the group of people who'd pay for the faster connection in a heartbeat regardless.
If you enjoyed this, you will probably also like J.B.S Haldane's essay, "On Being the Right Size": http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
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when you aim for reddit style stuff like "ELI5", don't be surprised if HN tears you up. reddit likes things to be cool and cliquey. we like things to be correct.

also we don't have 5 year olds.
Plex hadn't worked for me when I tried it out of curiosity some years ago. Some devices worked, some had failed to discover it at all. IIRC, the network was fine and it seemed like some issue with their DLNA/SSDP implementation but I haven't bothered to debug proprietary software. Installed MediaTomb and it worked reliably nearly out-of-the-box.
No, there’s no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment
> by simply showing that things are equal.

Statistics do not work like this. You either positively reject the null hypothesis (i.e.: "these things are different") or you fail to reject the null hypothesis (i.e.: "I cannot assert these are different").

Formally speaking, I am doing the latter.

Informally speaking, everybody else understood my point as a rebuttal to OP's. More explicitly: "claims of X seem grossly exaggerated" should be taken as "I haven't seen compelling evidence for X" -- it may be awkwardly phrased, but I suspect you know exactly what I meant.
>>> use the right tool for the job" and "do one thing and do it well" feels like the right approach to take

Absolutely. However, database is a sort of an extreme example. A lot in the modern software (especially Web) relies on the database, and often migrating to completely different one (because requirements change and it might not be the right tool anymore) is a huge task. So you want to use something flexible enough.

Also, you want to hire people, people leave the jobs, people change teams, etc. If you use some exotic, less common DB, it adds a lot of overhead. And if you apply the "right tool" to an extreme and have a few completely different DBs flying around, your maintenance cost increases a lot.

See, SQL might not be a perfect, most elegant choice, but most often it is just good enough. A lot of people have used it, a lot of people have scaled it. If you run into an issue, often enough,other people did too and blogged about it, etc. Hiring / getting help will be much easier than $insertNoSQLDBName.

And, let's be realistic, relatively few companies have hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes of data that typical relational DBs can't handle.

My rule of thumb is that if you're in doubt, use SQL/relational store (I realize that they are different things but often used as synonyms and mean MySQL/PostgreSQL/etc).
"...the quarter-inch audiotape—first used in 1972...."

Not hardly; these were popular home devices in the '60s and per Wikipedia the '50s, my family traded tapes with at least one of my mother's sibling's families back in the '60s, and I got my own TEAC unit no later than Christmas, 1974, by which time the low fidelity tape cassette was becoming a big thing.
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I'll accept this.

In which case I'll reiterate my request that he provide examples, since I've not observed the effect he seems to see all around him.
We just got this at work and I have to say it's insanely fast. Makes downloading things like Xcode a joke. We are getting around 250Mb/s down over AC wifi and a blazing 800mb down over ethernet. Great stuff so far!
It's usually used against people who don't have the means to mount a legal challenge, in amounts that are too small to be worthwhile for a lawyer to pursue yet that can put the victim in such dire financial straits that they're struggling to stay off the streets let alone hire a lawyer.
This is a great point. Operating a tanker ship might appear expensive (hundreds of thousands per day), but when you spread that cost across the cargo it holds, it's actually pretty cheap.

I remember hearing that shipping something from China to the US can be under $1 per pound.
Working on the other mentioned project, I've laid some of the groundwork in the last few months (Sandstorm now supports WebDAV, and the OwnCloud sync clients modified to connect) so it's certainly worth picking back up.
One reason insects breath differently than we do is that the surface to volume ratio between us is so different. Naturally, volume increases as the cube of the linear dimensions of the organism and the surface area only increases as the square of the dimension. This means that the ratio S/V is directly proportional to the size of the organism. A mouse has a much lower terminal velocity when falling than a human, for example, because they have a higher surface to weight ratio (weight of course is related to volume). Insects are so small that breathing doesn't require the mechanisms that we require because their S/V ratio is so so much larger. On the other hand, desiccation is a much greater problem for insects as is surface tension when wet. For these reasons, insects often have waxy coatings or other means of protecting themselves from drying out or being trapped in by a water drop, but an ant doesn't have to worry about falling out of a tree.
Arizona and Nevada are dotted with abandoned copper and silver mining towns.
You keep throwing out this 13% as if it is a bad thing, with no comment on the context mentioned in your link. So I'll add it here for others to view if they don't want to wade through a pdf to find it:

1: The 13% decrease in work effort is per family unit. This is an important distinction, because it led to the following 3 points

2: The primary wage earner in the unit reduced their effort only slightly, but this had a large result due to them making the majority of the cash

3: The secondary wage earner, who was usually the spouse reduced their work effort to stay at home longer after having a baby, and to do more work around the house.

4: The tertiary wage earner, in most cases an adolescent male, had theIr work effort reduced by the fact that it entered the workforce later. This may have been due to them continuing their education.

So I think - IMHO - the 13% reduction represent a net benefit for society - dad doesn't have to do so much overtime, mum can spend more time with her baby, and your kids stay in school longer and become qualified for better jobs...
THANK YOU! That is one of the best explanations on that matter I have seen. I've never considered why floating points are inaccurate, I just took it for a given (which I hate doing). Now I understand why, and so my own wisdom has increased ever so slightly. Today is a good day.
I had the same feeling, the website doesn't look ... done. However, I think it is nice to see that MS is launching its own initiative. The more, the marrier. I'm especially interested to see how their LDA variant performs.

Still, I hope they continue to make the documentation a bit more accessible. In example, the LightLDA documentation (http://www.dmtk.io/lightlda.html) gives no indication of the output I would get from this. Do I get all the matrices (word to topic, topic to doc) or just a list of top topics, or...?
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/ret..., "The use of mercenaries in warfare has a very long history—much longer, in fact, than the almost-exclusive deployment of national militaries to wage wars. Before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended Europe's Thirty Years' War and marked the rise of the modern state system, medieval powers from kings to popes routinely hired private fighters to do battle for them. As state governments sought a monopoly on the use of force within their territories in the 17th century, however, they moved to stamp out violence by non-state actors, including mercenaries, driving the industry underground."

The Peace of Westphalia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia, "… was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 … established … a new system of political order in central Europe, later called Westphalian sovereignty, based upon the concept of co-existing sovereign states … General recognition of the exclusive sovereignty of each party over its lands, people, and agents abroad, and responsibility for the warlike acts of any of its citizens or agents. Issuance of unrestricted letters of marque and reprisal to privateers was forbidden."
Announcing Java Web Weekly (after almost two years of publishing it)
Backups with Changed Block Tracking can return incorrect changed sectors in ESXi 6.0 (2136854)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
Same. I wish there was a DSL layer on top.
I've recently started on Rust. Can someone who knows both Rust and Scala draw comparison on the myths the author is talking about?
For this dev, it's a big deal. I love writing a query in MongoDB way more than I love writing a query in MySQL.

Granted, I think a big part of it has to do with joins being the annoying part of SQL...
I like that they put it in the WTF namespace.

Does this open Webkit up for a denial of service Javascript fragment that triggers O(n^2) behaviour in their compiler? Then again, if you want to use up CPU resources with Javascript a simple while loop will do...
At one of the hospitals I work at they have thousands of computers still running Windows XP and IE 6 that are insecure. It would be very easy to hack.
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That's interesting, I had no idea. There's probably a way more detailed Rosetta Code style project that could cover all these nuances, but for a single page demo, there's only so much detail I can get into before it would be more confusing than helpful.

If you'd like to flesh out the perl section a bit though, maybe include the differences between 5 and 6, I'd be happy to merge a pull request.
And as a result we get less productive output, making us all poorer.

If you want to argue that making us poorer, but having more leisure is a good thing, go ahead. But don't claim the effect is "slight" unless you also consider the great recession to be "slight".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_D._Cogswell#Philanthropy
The Daily Fantasy Protest Looks Like a Good Time
"Do one thing and do it well" is problematic for things that store a lot of data. Especially for things that are supposed to be an authoritative source.

Getting storage right is very hard. Either it's too low-level, and it's hard for applications to coordinate complex operations without corrupting data; or you end up putting a lot of features in and end up with a SQL dbms; or everything does its own storage and you have a mess.
>"You prefer them to starve and/or rebel and trash all our progress, or shall we just skip that bullshit and go straight to something better?"

Irrelevant. Technological progress does not erase work, it merely changes what work the market will pay for people to do:

-People will hire teams of people to play video games with them.

-They will hire teams of costume designers to create wild, highly personalized clothing for them.

-They will pay for live musicians in their living rooms.

-They will pay young beautiful people to lounge around in their living rooms.

-They will pay large teams to plan and cater elaborate parties in their homes.

-They will purchase expensive hand-thrown dishes, because they'll think it shows their authenticity and good taste.

-Homes will be decorated to a degree which we have little conception of today.

-Teams of well-paid cinematographers will produce their home movies.

-People will buy social media teams to write funny twitter posts for them.

To us this all seems very frivolous, but the general populace of the 1600's would have thought the same of most of what we do:
Our insistence on buying numerous outfits, that we would pay someone else to paint our house, that we buy new shoes when our old ones look worn, that people are hired just to decorate coffee shops and concert venues, sign spinners, travel agents, ballet instructors, and so on.

If you can't imagine what they will hire people to do, that just says that you're not "frivolous" enough to understand the whims of the people of the future. You'd hate them if you met them, but their system will actually work, unlike UBI.
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That's an implicit parameter, something entirely different. It is unfortunate that so many critics conflate the two.
It probably doesn't. Google doesn't let their cars roam freely yet; they always have someone inside the car.
I'd prefer a seize and destroy policy for contraband over the current system of prosecution. For stuff like heroin or cocaine there doesn't even need to be much of a system for recovery, for prescription pills and the like there probably does, but I think there are some bright lines that can be drawn there.

Cash and other legal property should not be seized without a warrant though.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from this page. Is this an allusion to bubble-sort's O(n^2) worst-case time complexity?
As long as BTSync does not betray you.

The idea is discussed for syncthing, https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/109

There is a 880 USD bounty on it at https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1474343-support-for-file...
Awesome React Native Reddit Reader Example
> ... have you ever applied that concept to yourself, or to texts like...

Yes. I am currently doing a lot of work on exactly that subject.

> A gender studies researcher's motives are crystal clear...

...and we're not discussing the motives of gender studies researchers. We're discussing a man talking to his friends about their own experiences. You were the first one to bring up the topic of social science.
It did.
I actually started it when I missed a girl in traffic. We said "hi" and all but then separated. There was nothing else to do. I came up with this.

Our 2nd investor finished our 1st meeting and said "interesting idea, could work". I told him to try it out. Even without the app. He went on a weekend vacation, downloaded a picture of a whale and showed it to women. Came back Monday and told me we need to meet. Almost half the woman came to him to ask him what it means, the others didn't, but he could see them engaging people around them asking them if they know what it means.

Let's try this scenario:
A woman is walking down the street. 10 guys looking at her. 5 of them run Tinder and can't find her, 5 guys run Happn and can't find her. 1 guy shows her a picture of a trumpet. When she talks to a friend later... She won't say "10 guys tried to find me on Tinder & Happn" because she doesn't know they even tried. She saw the trumpet, she remembers the trumpet and if she wants to talk to that guy, anonymously, even if she didn't have the app when he showed her the trumpet, she can.

eecks, even if you don't use it - that's ok, being the guy that actually makes the move - you got my respect. Just one thing, when a friend tells you sometime that someone showed him a picture of a "....", tell him you think it's this diggidi thing and that person just said "I want to talk if you want to talk".

Thanks !
Interesting! Other people seem to think it plays the opening well, but it didn't seem that way to me. Consider this position:

http://chris.printf.net/deepgo.png

Every corner shows a joseki, so there's been no non-standard play. But globally, white (the computer) seems to me to have blundered by allowing the combination of the lower-right and top-right joseki and N10.

Would be curious to hear if stronger players than me (~1d) agree. Maybe it's actually just much better than me!
Absolutely. But optimizing for the long term (and it doesn't seem like SQL is going to disappear any time soon) is not a failure either :)

If a newbie asked me whether to learn MySQL/PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, I'd absolutely say *SQL. Yeah, it's not as straightforward as MongoDB. It's not intuitive for many. But this knowledge will still be useful a year, or 5 years later. Finding a job will be easier too. So, yeah, it could be better, but it's still a good, safe choice.
> I believe ST and Atom have some UI elements that aren't integrated into Emacs out-of-the-box like tabs and mini-maps; is this what you are referring to?

No.

> "look so nice" since that is entirely subjective

Majority of people who aren't familiar with emacs would find it ugly. You can do it now. Show it to a couple of people who don't know sublime or emacs, and ask them to compare those.
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They get around it by claiming your house or car (or whatever) is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately, inanimate objects can't represent themselves in court.
I'd love to hear your experience on it. I have someone in the house who very much wants to purchase fallout 4 to play it over the link. I'm just not confident it will work, even with a good, wired connection, but I'd love to be wrong :)
Some people I know that live in NYC, Seattle, Valley complaining that their 1 bed/studio is "small" even tho it's larger or the same size as my 2bed in London.
The average British household size has shrunk now to 76 sq/m which is 800 sq feet[0], the average US home is over 2600 square feet.

People don't understand that this isn't apples to apples when people from Europe and the UK specifically (which has 30-50% smaller housing than many other European countries) and the US complain or talk about small housing, but literally apples to watermelons.

[0]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/10012254/Average...