skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From a content creator (studio) perspective, I have to imagine this is ineffective.

It's effective if you consider what their real goal is: to keep any one streaming provider from becoming too popular, and then in a position to start making demands from the creators. They're deathly afraid of streaming ending up like music did with iTunes, where Apple had the record companies in an iron grip until they were broken by streaming. Thus, they want to keep each service as weak as possible, so they can remain in a position to yank popular titles if any of them get too uppity.

And, honestly, it's working. For a while, it looked like Netflix would be the movie-and-TV streaming provider, and everyone else was going to be an also-ran, but now Hulu and Amazon Video are respectable competitors. I don't really like that, but their success means that there will definitely never be one service which has everything. Everyone would just switch to that one to pay only one subscription, and that service would have way too much leverage over the creators.
Voters should decide how taxes are spent, not billionaires who evade taxes.
The 'fitness function' they used was time only. Doesn't consider/weigh the cost of bad assembly (trolley falls on your kid spilling boiling tea everywhere) etc.

I can assemble that trolley in 5 seconds - throw the parts in a pile, Done! Some errors of course.
I have a say in what state agencies do. I have absolutely no say in what a private foundation does.
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In fact, it would be declasse to be seen on a mega yacht except if it was for a charity gala. Yacht is of course owned by charity, which is owned by... well you know who.

But you gotta spend money to give money!
A November 2015 Cambridge Associates study:
"The widely held belief that 90% of venture industry performance is generated by just the top ten firms is a catchy but unsupported claim"
http://www.cambridgeassociates.com/our-insights/research/ven...
How good is Isis at running cities?
Personally I see it similar to how I see technologies. Each has had purposeful evolutionary pressures. I'm not talking gender-normative roles here, but traits like Men tending to hold more muscle mass than women.

In this specific case I think the research is very informative for the current state of affairs, but maybe not so informative about how male/female sexed individuals differ. That is, it really sounds to me like ppl who would be identified as men have more experience being expected to work w/o instructions, with physical things etc. Vs it sounds like women are often expected to work with instructions etc. -- Nether was faster when they worked with the expected "mode" of operations.

Anyways, this whole subject is flamebait. So I'll leave it at this.
It's different in that it's a more accurate characterization of the argument.
Don't they use those screw-slot devices that you just turn a quarter turn and they lock? So maybe no difference there.
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I am not giving up on D3. I just wanted to point out the limitation in the default tree layout and the complexity around it. In fact there was a discussion about variable sized nodes in GH and a plugin is in place now. Might be useful for you if you are heading down the same path - https://github.com/mbostock/d3/issues/1992
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> People are genuinely interested in Buddhism because it looks elegant and less stained than other major religions.

Because it was basically invented by white folks in the last 150 years and designed to appeal to those with scientific mindset. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's a little propagandistic not to acknowledge it.
An idea I heard (not cf related) was to analyze referers of past requests to be able to determine what resources a user most likely needs. They'll probably implement something like this sometime in the future, if they do it.
I was thinking more about Types here

var name : String

func nameMe(name: String) : String
Your argument makes no sense: the people control everything in a democracy, literally, by voting for their representation in government.
Why is it misleading? Not every instance of slowdown in a 3d game is because the graphics are too intensive to maintain the framerate, there are instances of insufficient CPU time.
I had the same thought: how exactly do these cases work and how do they account for an emergency?
IKEA's furniture comes with quirky instructions (no words, just graphical "sign" language, to avoid translating into tens of different languages). Women may be a bit more patient with figuring out what it means (more empathy, less testosterone)
If we talking about US dollars then yes the money comes from the state. The clue is in the name.

Is there a quick shorthand way of referring to the notion that tax is theft?
You can actually model diamond or x dependencies with task - I'm not aware of any other todo software that can do this, short of a pert chart or gantt chart.

(I mean where A and B both block C, while C blocks both D and E, which both block F, etc)
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The reality is that the details of how money is spent are in the hands of bureaucrats.

I trust the guy who wants to use his own money to build a legacy for himself. He has more motivation to get results than a government bureaucrat making decisions about spending someone else's money.
interesting observation, so you'd claim the difference could be entirely due to strength? That'd be an interesting follow up study -- w/ and w/o powertools
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https://xkcd.com/323/
Love your app man!
Related use as banking PIN's: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/maybe-emoji-passcodes-arent-goo...
I'm not much of a writer but without further ado - I give you my very first blog post detailing the journey of building a web application for VC's with my roommate. Please feel free to comment, leave feedback, and share! Much appreciated :)
This is a fundamental philosophical question. The same question can be asked about more traditional physical models, e.g. what is Einstein's spacetime composed of, and how did his equations of general relativity come to be? Are they real, or are they just a model that we use to describe reality?

Over time, physicists have come to take models very seriously (thanks in part to Einstein's 1905 papers). That is, when our model says that electrons act like particles and waves, we assume that electrons really are these odd things that are somewhere in between a particle and a wave.

So, if it turns out that Wolfram's ideas have merit, and there really is an underlying spacetime network which can be used to model and derive all of the known equations of physics (and likely some unknown equations), then at that point we would have to take very seriously the existence of such a network. We would be forced to think of a seemingly continuous spacetime as a special facet or feature of this underlying network, in the same way that we now think of space as a special feature of the more general spacetime.
Do silly and subjective comparisons of handpicked outliers come in Econ 102? What exactly did I say that has anything to do with Econ 101? It isn't even an economic argument.
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This is entirely subjective. What about those who devote their lives to a cause and go into government? Your money is better than their passion? This line of logic would suggest mercenaries are always have more incentive than soldiers.
I recently imported the Huawei Mediapad X2, a 7-inch phone with a 16:10 1200P screen not unlike the Nexus 7. I use it both for phone functions (BT headphones) but also as my primary web browsing, magazine/ebook reading and mobile gaming/XBMC device.

A smartwatch is the perfect accessory to a device like this, which is too large/unwieldy to use at the gym, or pull out for things like map directions, public transit arrival times, email notifications, etc. None of these are a problem with smaller phones, like the 6 Plus or Galaxy Note.

The Apple Watch is a poor solution for this, because, like the 2001 iPod, it requires a Mac device to work. And even if it didn't, like Android Wear devices, it must be tethered to a smartphone for most of its functions, as opposed to functioning as a standalone device.

I understand Apple, Google, etc. don't want to cannibalize device sales, but it seems ridiculous to me that a V1.0 smartwatch costing $300+ can't even support music playback on local storage, or have a built-in GPS and maps that work offline. If I'm on the go, I'd like to limit the number of expensive devices I'm carrying with me where possible. I think the same goes for most people, otherwise people would still be carrying their flip phones and digital cameras around. Yes, of course there are hobbyists who need their DSLR with them all the time, but the majority of people are happy with a solution that's good enough and convenient enough.

I'm not even thinking about more advanced features like a built in video camera that, with the appropriate strap, could act as a body cam or a helmet cam. I'm sure future versions will offer such functionality, but V1.0 functionality is already so limited, I simply can't muster any enthusiasm for this class of devices yet.
True enough. Your developers could be incompetent and lying to you, but they could just as easily be incompetent and/or telling you what you want to hear.

> You can't tell someone they're doing it wrong if what they're doing is making them money. That is the bottom line.

This is exactly the problem, though, isn't it? If it's easier to believe someone who tells you "we can keep muddling along indefinitely" than someone who tells you "this will cause problems eventually", then you have some sort of cognitive dissonance to counteract.

In other words, what is the right response when your mechanic tells you "replace your breaks or you'll eventually die in a fiery car accident"? I'm pretty sure the answer isn't "well, I don't understand cars, so I'm going to defer this decision until you can quantify how soon I'll be dead".
Interesting to also see Mattt Thompson helped out.
I’ll just let you know that without the money spent by the German government you wouldn’t have mp3, or AAC.

You wouldn’t have most of modern technology, nor would you have Wendelstein 7-X.

You wouldn’t have DHL or T-Mobile.

Sure, they waste lots of money (BER, S21, Elbphilharmonie), but still they manage it better than the private sector ever could.

The top politicians earn less than the managers of any company at that size — Merkel earns 216'000€ a year. The CEO of even middle-sized companies end up making far more than that.
You gotta read the article, they rate the quality of construction.
Economic models indicate that the most wealthy people in the United States do not spend proportional to their means, and those in the lowest income brackets tend to spend at their means or beyond. Thus, large quantities of capital pooling with a small portion of the population is extremely damaging to the overall health of the US capitalistic system. There's a larger argument to be had that he probably should frivolously spend it all or randomly bequeath large sums of money to poverty stricken individuals or families at random, that is, if he wanted to actually help the economy.

For now, the 'Institute' is simply being vague about wanting to "do good" in the world, which, if you ask any well-meaning college student or pot smoking hippie, would be a pretty basic premise, but equally ineffective without a step-by-step plan. Might be asking too much on that last point, but look at it this way: A guy stands on top of a soapbox and says he's going to change the world for better, and if nobody in the audience scoffs and asks "How" then is it really a bold statement?
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The argument doesn't make much sense to me. Each government is basically a single decision-maker that already has a very large budget. Just by watching the news, we know these decisions aren't always all that rational (though democratic!). Giving more money to a government doesn't increase diversity of funding sources at all.

Starting another large foundation creates a new source of funding with an independent decision-making process. This increases diversity in sources of funding. (Though not as much as breaking it up into multiple charities.)

Whether it's a net improvement or not depends on whether their decision-making is better than average. Unfortunately, little can be done about charities with poor decision-making (there are no market forces, and corruption is possible). But at least it's independent.
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Precisely. The article hasn't been justifying the claim that large charitable donations are bad; it has being justifying the claim that not taxing charitable donations is bad.

But I'm not inclined to believe that, since I can reasonably believe that the increase in charitable giving from not having the tax is more significant than the gain from having the government control 20% or so of it.
In the US a lot of people who aren't billionaires or even millionaires donate a lot of money. And people donate a lot of time to their causes.

http://www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-gi...

http://nccs.urban.org/nccs/statistics/Charitable-Giving-in-A...
Thanks for the info :)
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The lack of comment threads is a feature. It prevents other people from interjecting into the story you want to tell with your blog. For example, if you post something on YouTube it's kind of inevitable that someone will come along and comment that they hate your face, whereas on Tumblr you can write that comment but you have to reblog the item to your own blog to do it. Also, your reblogs are pushed to your followers' streams but people viewing the original post don't see it, so if you write something nasty it just makes you look bad.
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Doesn't work in x86, ubuntu 15.10,
bash: /home/user/Descargas/swift-2.2-SNAPSHOT-2015-12-01-b-ubuntu15.10/usr/bin/swift: no puede ejecutar el archivo binario: Formato de ejecutable incorrecto

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Not to mention, bootstrapping in a language that's not stable yet can be.... quite a pain.
Reply to the statement just below: "Although contributing to many other physical and chemical reactions, the major atmospheric constituents, nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), and argon (Ar), are not greenhouse gases. This is because molecules containing two atoms of the same element such as N2 and O2 and monatomic molecules such as argon (Ar) have no net change in their dipole moment when they vibrate and hence are almost totally unaffected by infrared radiation."

But do keep trying.
The study did look at build quality.

"In terms of construction scores (from 1 to 10 where 10 represents a perfectly built trolley), men averaged 8.9 with instructions, 7.6 without; the women averaged 7.5 with, and 5.7 without."
There are two trains of thought in the comment section: one that argues because the billionaire made the money himself (unless he/she inherited it) he/she should be entitled to distribute it and the other that he/she may be better positioned to do so than the state. You can argue that the billionaire was only able to make so much money because the country/state he/she lives in provided the necessary infrastructure and environment. Paid for by the tax payer.
As Warren Buffett famously said:"Had I been less fortunate and be borne in another country I probably would have become lion fodder." Hence, he/she should pay his taxes as a payback to the taxpayer. You can also argue that the billionaire, because he/she is so successful, must be better in determining what to do with his/her money than the state. However, research suggests that many successful entrepreneurs had significant luck (as Buffett's quote suggests too). Take successful hedge fund managers for example. It also runs against the idea of Democracy. Because if you follow through with this line of thought you may well abolish any elections and leave it to the billionaires to decide who rules - which is almost the case in the US, isn't it?
Yea I'm really surprised Apple didn't go with this route initially. Add the heartbeat measurer + calories burner and it will be the perfect fitness assist device.

I guess they don't want to pigeonhole a device into a specific category.
The functional mapping also makes sense. Thanks for the pointer.
Honestly, there are some libraries for swift which are shockingly authentic clones of go's channel + routine syntax. Abstractions like that are not swifts problem.

Edit: also, look at https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch so those libraries should be portable.
This is actually a pretty solid 1-line summary of the whole problem.
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I'm sorry, that all still sounds like busywork with some buzzwords thrown in for good measure to me.

A screen that has the size and power limitations of the Apple Watch seems like plenty of limitations to work with, to me.
Stop eating.
> But if the money ever belonged to the individual

Nothing belongs to (as distinct from being immediately, physically controlled by) anyone except in the sense that social convention grants them some, usually limited, exclusive control over it.

The typical avenue through which that social convention for both the right to control and its limitations is expressed in the modern world is the institution of the State via law (most obviously, property law, but the whole body of law, including tax and other civil and criminal law, addresses either the rights to control or its limitations.)
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Makes sense as the PhD's and government "experts" in education gave us the unpopular and widely criticized No Child Left Behind and Common Core, which hasn't done anything to stem the flood of unprepared kids going to college and the work force.
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>All that is necessary is for the private sector to be better run and wiser than the government.

Many economists would consider this to be a problem that falls under their realm of expertise.

Can you provide counterexamples? If you look, there is plenty of competency in both sectors.
> it looks like the biggest loser to Julia's rise might be Octave.

It's not a competition. Julia is our friend, not a rival to Octave. We're on good terms with their developers. Occasionally we share ideas and patches back and forth when it makes sense. They've asked me for help with their Octave benchmark and I've gladly provided it.

Octave being unnecessary is Octave's ultimate goal. When nobody cares about Matlab, probably nobody will care about Octave either. But as long as people care about Matlab, Octave will be relevant. Or perhaps, in a perfect world, enough people will stop caring about Matlab that Octave can start leading in fixing the biggest stupidities in the programming language (we already do this to some degree, but keep relenting and replicating Matlab's bugs because code depends on those bugs).

If Julia is gaining the minds of people in scientific computing, great. It's going to take them away from Matlab and Octave to equal degree. If we can all do our computing unfettered by proprietary licenses, I don't care if it means we end up using Octave or Julia as long as we stop using Matlab.

And many of Matlab's alleged proponents keep turning to Octave. Octave still fills a niche that Julia does not: being able to use Matlab code freely.
You can if you press the arrow keys!
I don't want the shape of my country to be decided by the whims of a super-rich elite.

But this is what inevitably happens in public choice as a state expands. Once you delegate all regulatory rights to a central exogenous body, it will be exploited by elites and a symbiotic relationship will form as the state develops special interests of its own.

Hence the need for extensive decentralization, and yes, individualism.
Well, their current offering is really: you get a streaming music service, and for the same price as any other streaming music service you also get an ad free YouTube experience, and the ability easily save YouTube videos for offline viewing. Additional video content is just sweetening the pot.
No one forced the employees to take 0.01%.
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Nor do they like updating schannel.dll (the underling SSL/TLS stack) unless there's an extremely serious vulnerability in it. And even then, they bungle it more often than not (http://www.infoworld.com/article/2848574/operating-systems/m...).

The reason SChannel matters is that the protocol used to negotiate which "next generation" protocol is to be used for the HTTP connection (not session, minor point) is something called Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation. ALPN is a TLS extension sent as part of the ClientHello but wasn't added to SChannel until Windows 8.1/2012 R2 Server. (There was a predecessor to ALPN called NPN that Adam Langley authored/implemented for Chrome but Microsoft never implemented it.)
Very cool, bookmarked!
Tumblr has long supported connecting to Disqus for comments. It's just that they are a superfluous, community breaking misfeature, so nobody enables them.
I know many people who work in government. They do their job and they take home their pay. Nothing more. If they became personally invested in the outcome of their work, they'd probably eventually quit, because they have little ability to actually make a difference.
This article skirts around the issue, but the biggest (and most common) mistake I've seen machine learning startups make is starting with an algorithm and trying to productize it. When you do this, you end up with a solution looking for a problem, which is never a recipe for a successful startup. So in addition to finding a problem that fits your solution, you then also have to build a product around it. And chances are, if your product is really great, you can build it without fancy machine learning models and it would be just as successful.

Machine learning, in my mind, is more of an enabler that makes great products more 'magical' - it's not really a product in itself. IMO it's a discipline that lends itself well to a consulting model - hire some ML wizards, unleash them along with a dev team on a problem for 6 months, then move on to the next one. This is mostly the "infiltrating the professions" - most consulting companies organize themselves around market verticals for the exact same reasons.
But we already have a few wealthy people deciding things for us, we live in an oligarchy. I trust the motives of Bill Gates more than Obama.
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Thanks, glad to hear that!
Obviously they are trying to marginalize him...
I love the simplicity of this.

If there were a way to add alerts when things are coming up that would be a good option. I know there have been times I've made a TODO list thinking I was getting organized, forgot about it, and never got my task done.
As a kid I enjoyed finding books that hadn't been checked out in decades or old books that had only one or two checkouts in its lifetime.
That doesn't follow. Things don't always scale like one would expect them to.