skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting is that this is actually how the human brain works. It was in the news and stuff a while ago.
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Yes, that would be a simple fix. Unfortunately, this is such an effective way to sneak favors into bills (things like funding for a local initiative in the home district for a politician who voted for a previous bill) that lawmakers love it, so it's here to stay.
LK - just like LEM - went through multiple iterations in design. A book about that has some pictures - http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/filin/04.html .
Having just watched Spaceballs this is the first thing that came to mind haha.
>It didn't bite me as much, because i've never used node for production apps, but I imagine it has the potential to be a serious issue, when your bread-and-butter app depends on 694 other libraries.. who knows what lurks in them...

The problem is this approach that somehow finds a monolith with 694 dependencies acceptable, yet turns around and praises node.js modules for being so "bite-sized".

>What did bite me was the apparent "infinity" of possibilities at each step of the development process. Whenever I need a feature - there's 20 different libs there to help you. Which one should I pick ?

This kind of choice paralysis used to bite me too. What totally fixed it for me was really weighing the consequences of adding a dependency every time I'd consider one. Most of my production services are a couple hundred lines and have fewer than 5 dependencies (of which, half are boilerplate that every other service has).

Rails is great at big CRUD MVC applications. If you want a Rails-like app in Node.js, you should start with an opinion "skeleton" MEAN/MVC framework rather than re-implementing rails and all its dependencies with every application.
I don't think it's ever a forced choice in an absolute sense. What really happens in practice is that we assign a high weight to highly trusted entities in a game-theoretic sense and we tend to mimic their beliefs in order to maximize payoff in a group setting.

For AIs that do not reproduce sexually, who knows what that would be? Their most profitable trading partners in an economy? Those AIs whose state is most isomorphic? Or would they just recurse into their own self-interest?

Trying to hard-code a belief system into an AI would either render it non-sentient (thus mooting the point since non-sentients don't have ethical codes at all) or would simply be routed around or self-modified in one way or another.

A genuinely sentient AI would have at least as much freedom of choice about its beliefs as humans. In fact, I think there's reason to believe it may have more. Human brains are wired through biological growth processes that make old and long-lived neural connections harder to change. A fully software-based AI may not experience that constraint at all and might find itself able to completely change its mind at will at any point in its development. Such a being may experience none of our ideological inertia or tendency to cling to old beliefs. That inertia is probably another reason we tend to inherit our parents' beliefs.
I actually prefer a solution that limits the length of individual bills. Want to pass a sweeping law change? Do it in parts, so no one can claim they missed it.
Except it really isn't any more. If all you want is a job, there are tons of resources online that will give you much more practical experience than universities. All that it's really missing is some accreditation for employers to use to filter out the talent from the dead weight. University idealism is alive and well I think if you look past the undergraduate programs you'd agree.
I originally had it integrated with Dropbox but switched to Google Drive because of Google Photos.

Here's a detailed post about that. https://medium.com/p/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-googl...
> (I don't support CISA, but if you asked me which I'd rather get rid of, CISA or Techdirt, I'd have to think about it.)

Why? Techdirt often has great coverage of tech policy issues.
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Completely agree here. At least in California, there are strong laws that protect a tenant from their landlord. The only way to be evicted quickly is if you commit a serious violent felony, a sex crime ( I guess that IS a serious felony ), or you stop paying rent ( Ask me how I know !)

In just about every other situation, there is a list of 16 reasons you can evict someone, and all of them can lead to a lengthy expensive trial, in which at the end the landlord has spent a significant amount of money and probably regrets every doing anything with their life.

https://www.sftu.org/justcauses/
That was a reference to a meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-eve...
And isn't that how it should work? The extra money around is supposed to make people do something with their money apart from depositing it with a bank.
I am not sure how else to interpret a post wherein someone relates something personal and then the first sentence of the follow up tells them they're wrong.
My thoughts are that if you're not planning for an Orwellian Nanny-State who will demand access to all your private keys, you're probably not going to be able to scale up to the UK and China.

HN readers will be designing business models with that in mind.

Not saying this is "old news," just that the actual bill that aligns the US with China in terms of human rights violations will not affect startups as much as it will affect large incumbent businesses: Apple, Reddit, Google, Amazon, etc.

Those incumbents will continue to make money right up until they are disrupted by startups who can route around the internet damage caused by the US spying infrastructure. [1]

So here's a toast to the first HN company that succeeds.

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore, from the perspective that spying has chilling effects and is part of a total censorship program.
Does B2 include a CDN?
The ODF standard was based off the StarOffice file format. If anyone involved wanted Microsoft to participate, that seems like a rather poor starting point.
Good point. But specifically I mean files that exist and have not been deleted.
Does it matter though? 21st Century, everyone with savings can open a Vanguard mutual fund account with the risk/reward profile of their choosing, that's almost as convenient wrt withdrawals.
Source for anyone else interested:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/revenue-eps
Competition drives prices down, but chances are people with limited options to shop around and who disproportionately head towards mass retailers already, by example, live in areas with imperfect competition and in the worst case, food deserts. As such, a minimum wage would seem to negate itself again.
I'd say E is for Electric
> In the long run, the rhetoric from politicians and the effect of the resulting laws on the people seem really similar.

The space occupied by the rhetoric might be similar, but the distribution within that space is not; more significantly, the substantive policy outcomes are not similar, particularly on economic/labor/welfare issues. (Consider things like government policies on healthcare, paid sick leave, paid family/maternity/paternity leave, etc.)
Because virtually the same bill passed the Senate with 75% support, and the House passed the (significantly worse) PCNA back in April at approximately the same margin.

This bill was going to become law; the only question was whether the conference committee between the House and Senate would change it --- if it had, it would have changed it for the worse, since the House bill is worse than the Senate bill, which is the one that's going to pass.

There's just not much of a story here.
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"has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like" http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-eve...
That was my impression too until their customer service referred me to try B2 a few weeks ago when I raised this concern with my personal Backblaze account.

I think their personal backup service should cover all of my personal data at one price, like other backup services do.
It depends on the topic of the discussion, I'd have thought - it might be Hands up who believes in God.
> To an American it's always amusing when a European tells us our political system is unsatisfactory.

As an American, I find it amusing the same way I find it amusing when someone points out the sky is blue, or the Earth is round.
>a change in the federal funds rate will have no impact on the interest rates on existing fixed-rate mortgage and other fixed-rate consumer loans

>Existing home equity lines of credit, credit cards and other consumer loans with variable interest rates tied to the prime rate will be impacted if the prime rate rises, the person said

That is literally what fixed and variable rates mean, so I hope it isn't surprising to anyone.
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My original goal was for this to become a static API generator from which a static website could be created. Once I started down this path though that destination became less attractive. I love the idea of a libre Google Photos but once I integrated Elodie with Google Photos [1] I lost the motivation to have another front end for my photos :).

[1] https://medium.com/p/my-automated-photo-workflow-using-googl...
You don't really have to kill people to remove them from the field. You could just force them to switch to a new study area after a time.
Me -> 0-18 Kansas. 18-35 Colorado. 35-42 NYC and Aspen. There are friendly people everywhere. There are assholes everywhere. The notion middle America has disdain for culture and intellectual achievement is two parts in conflict:

1. quite a few people in middle America are poorly educated because of their religion and politics, and the political system, permit them to elect ideological morons to school councils, and those fuckwits are ruining facts. There are so many line item "vetos" editorializing history and science books that school book publishers have thousands of derivatives of a particular book title and edition to cater to every county in the country. So it's a circular problem that the American education system is itself political.

2. Middle Americans used to be relatively wealthier than they are now, because we used to believe, as a country, that is was a bad idea for a handful of people to end up with all the marbles. And that wealth meant that at one time, Americans as a whole were some of the most well traveled people in the world. Now, something like 80% of Americans don't even have a passport.

And that means confusing the difference between "culture and achievement" with condescending assholes which you do in fact get on the coasts; just like there are ignorant assholes in middle America. If we were more well traveled, we'd know the difference, and we'd properly be condescending to the assholes, and we'd embrace more of the people who just want to get good things done, instead of being so adversarial all the time.

You know, if one wants to thoroughly embrace stereotypes and all.
No, that's a mild punishment for not praying at a school event. That is not forcing you to pray, you can continue to refuse to pray in that case. Were you somehow forced to pray once you got to the principal's office? There is always a higher power to appeal to unless the head of your country's government and legal system agrees with the sentiment. I agree it's a hard path to take, but the option is there.

I guess in the same way you try to have an honest dialogue with a person that insists you are stupid and they can dismiss anything you say because of your beliefs. Both are equally guilty of refusing to participate in the dialogue. Many of the intellectuals refuse to see their failing is evident as much as the overly religious person's failing.
Allow competetion to set the wages, just like all other prices.

Singapore doesn't have a minimum, and wages there are not zero. (Neither did Germany until recently.)
More progressive stance on abortion, higher government transfers of wealth to the poor than many Western European countries, high degree of state involvement in many industries, highest corporate tax rate (although effective tax rate is on par with Western Countries), and the only thing missing from the US to make it European style left wing is socialized health care.
This is one OS I've kept my eye on forever, though it feels as though Microsoft will go open source before ReactOS can catch up if anything. I wouldn't mind if certain parts of Windows were open sourced, or replaced by open sourced alternatives at least, not all of Windows. We saw this happen to the Open Live Writer.
Social ladder climbing is mostly just morally difficult.
I feel comfortable with all the UIs, but essentially I want to be as close to my application's production environment as possible, while still being productive. I've never worked on a team where that environment was windows, and setting up node/ruby/docker/vim/bash/nginx in a windows environment has always been a total pain compared to either linux or OS X (still kind of a pain for docker, but slightly less so).

For some of these core tools, authors explicitly state that windows is a second class citizen. It's just not worth the expense to support something that has so few comparative users, in some cases (ruby). It's a lot of work for something that will never feel "native".
It's fantastic if you just want a lurid source that will get your blood boiling while confirming your biases. If you actually want to learn things about public policy, though, Techdirt will harm you.

They're in business to generate rageviews, not to inform.

Techdirt is like the ZeroHedge of Internet policy news.
> Competition drives prices down, [...]

Tell that to Google and Facebook bidding on programmers.. Or people trying to buy real estate in London.
Did any school deny him on that basis? From what I read, there is no evidence.
There are, what, less than 10 private universities in the United States? Wyoming Catholic, Grove City, Hillsdale, a few more? All the rest take government funds and would be subject to legal action under a non-Alinskyite presidential administration.
I've done some sums too. A 4kw system without storage has a payback time of 10 years for me. I can't see storage making an economic difference at this stage.
Not for 30 years. In fact, as of yesterday 12/15, the 30-year treasury rate was exactly 3.00%.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
Can you illustrate your argument with one clearly wrong lesson that they gave?
The huge political horse trade that will change where the U.S. gets its energy
Assuming for a minute that bottled air is a viable solution to smog, it's only the prestige of "exotic Canadian air" that necessitates the long shipping distance. Bottling filtered air from a relatively local source might work... but only if your factory could generate net negative emissions.

And anyhow, to have a health impact, we're talking about large quantity concentrators for those lug-around supplemental oxygen machines. These look awfully small to have any impact long term:

http://vitalityair.com/products/bottled-goodness.html

Anecdotal: I once tried purchasing a similar Oxygen can at a high-altitude ski resort as a sort of "stamina inhaler" on a heavy powder day. A good puff would return one's breath to normal pretty quickly, but the can ran out after a few hours of occasional use. So, at best these can be used as an ersatz, non-medical inhaler.

On the other hand, the market for air filters is still booming.
What was called wrong was the generalization about the left which started the post, not the personal experience offered after it. At least, the "unless..." which qualifies the statement about wrongness only makes any sense as a qualifier to a rejection of the generalization, not the specific personal experience story, so there is no other reasonable way to interpret the post.
To expand on that: '“I understand the state-of-the-art papers,” he says. “The math is simple"', which seems like an attitude of someone without a solid understanding of ML. But who knows, maybe he's figured out something the rest of the field hasn't...
What I find interesting are the phrases and "turns of speech" we use without even knowing what they mean. I was day-dreaming about something last night, and a phrase flickered through my mind, and I remember thinking "I say that all the time, but I don't - strictly speaking - know what it means". I wish I could remember what it was, but I've actually forgotten now.

I'm sure most of us could come up with some examples in short order though. Here's something close: saying "dead XXX" like "dead simple". We know that when we hear that it means something like "really simple" by why would "dead" work there? Of course English is famous for overloading words with many meanings, and this stuff is dead common. But I still find it interesting to ponder the various phrases and what-not that we use.

None of which, of course, has a ton to do with the material in this article. It was really just the title that got me thinking down this path...
Trying to use this and I get "exit status 128" for all reasonable invocations of "git appraise request ...".

Looks seriously cool and I am sad!
I have yet to be convinced there's no downside to everyone piling into ETFs in Vanguard. Also, funds are traditionally not FDIC insured as checking and savings accounts.

Money market funds have broken the buck before. Its rare, but can happen.
Yeah, sorry, I graduated junior high a while ago. The guy probably assumed I was disagreeing with him, which is fair, I suppose.

(But anyway thanks for educating me.)
I love wry humour, but being insulting with wry humour is still being insulting. You don't get a pass on abuse "because rhetoric".
Stack Overflow changing code submissions to use MIT License in 2016
> Climate conferences, academia

Are you sure the two are exactly alike? I realize there's a lot of soft science that's ridiculous, but it's generally accepted that global warming exists.
I have gone back and re-read that post again.

You are correct. I was wrong.
Interesting! Nathan knows his stuff, he'll get you sorted :)
Form the linked article:

> allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution

OK by me. Note that it doesn't allocate benefit to idle owners f investment income.

> Even after taxes, 27.6 percent of increased earnings go to families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution.

"top 40%" is rather silly bucket. That includes basically the median family, all the way to billionaires.

> Over 25 percent of the increased earnings are collected back as income and payroll taxes

(aka effectively a tax on businesses that pay the minimum wage)

It takes massive concern trolling to argue that this effect is worst than not raising the minimum wage

Pardon me if I overlooked the anti-minimum-wage camp yelling "lower taxes on the working poor!"
> No, that's a mild punishment for not praying at a school event. That is not forcing you to pray

Imposing punishments for failure to comply is coercion, and fairly described as forcing, or at least attempting to force, someone to do the act toward which the coercion is directed.
The goal generally is to split the company into "exploitation" and "exploration" divisions, as in the types of innovations that the divisions pursue.

So, the traditional group still innovates, but focuses on product or incremental innovations. The 'innovation group' then is one that has free rein to pursue 'radical innovations.'

In general - exploitation requires homogeneity and consensus, while exploration benefits from heterogeneity and episodes of conflict. This still focuses everyone on innovative effort, but if management can identify how people fit in / which kinds of innovations they can do best, then this 'ambidexterous' organizational structure can work well.

Additionally, the 'elite' language is pretty bad - you're right, we should encourage everyone to innovate, and should encourage incremental improvements, which certainly have great value as well. It's easier to see the value of a radical innovation, but also the risk as well.
Is there any evidence that someone rejected him on that basis? I didn't read the whole article in detail, but it seems like a suspicion with nothing to substantiate it, and a lot of hearsay about what some people told him about the risks.
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> a restaurant in in Zhangjiagang city recently started charging patrons for fresh air, after owners bought air filtration machines for the establishment and added a surcharge to people’s bills for the operation costs.

Having lived in Mumbai for 2 and a half years, this to me actually kind of makes sense.

Surcharging people will probably vanish once air filtration becomes more common, or ubiquitous (I've never been, so wouldn't know).

But in Mumbai, there's really nothing like stepping off the hot and polluted streets, into an air conditioned place with clear air.

Of course, the issue needs to be fixed at source, and this is so obvious it's hardly worth stating. But somehow, having lived in a polluted asian city, none of this surprises me, unfortunately.
We're trying to build a service that's more akin to Google Cloud Service and Amazon S3, not Nearline, IA, or Glacier. Those all have certain limitations (like time to access your data) that we are trying to avoid, which is why we didn't price against them and instead priced against the services we're trying to actually provide an alternative to.
It doesn't have the same religious dimension - they're basically just the butt of southerner's jokes. There is quite a bit of regionalism in the UK, but it's mostly pretty harmless, and doesn't carry that much bitterness with it.

For example, there's definitely a north-south tension in England, which does have some cultural aspects to it, but it's in a completely different league from the US situation (as far as I understand that), and beyond the occasional mutual quips, you won't see any real discrimination - that's my experience, anyway.
I actually saw this attack used in the wild just over 10 years ago – so I guess it's one that spammers have long since been aware of.

In my case we had a server that was running Adobe Coldfusion suddenly start misbehaving itself. After digging around a little we discovered all the outgoing email. I can't remember the exact form but it was something like a forgot password mechanism.

As described in the article the attackers were just exploiting the non-validation of the recipient so they could inject an smtp payload. I remember at the time thinking that it was a) clever of the hackers and b) sloppy of the entire pipeline to not be doing some sense checking.
Be aware: Right wing thinkers don't believe food deserts exist.
Can you describe some situations in which this problem comes up? I'm having a hard time imagining when I would want/expect an iterator adaptor that does something useful on an empty/finished input.
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The competition in Google and Facebook's case isn't "programmers", but "exceptionally skilled programmers," which is a different good, a much scarcer one and with less diminishing returns than the former.

I'm not aware of the real estate situation in London to make a comment.
Truck driving worldwide probably fits this criteria for the next few years.
> "top 40%" is rather silly bucket. That includes basically the median family

No, top 40% does not include "basically the median", by any remotely reasonable standard.
Maybe we're both rare, but I think Windows 7 and Windows 10 are both really nice, as is the Edge browser. I've been considering switching from OSX. It seems like it should be relatively convenient with tools like Vagrant to develop on Windows but run, test, and deploy on Linux. But I haven't tested this hypothesis yet.