skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert but I have family in the Krakow area and used to live there, and everyone I know burned coal (and trash) for heating. Not so many people used pellets, although I did hear about them too.
Polyamory and open/alternative relationships gaining acceptance is yet another example of this fragmentation. The expectation up until now is that you need a single "vertically integrated" partner that satisfies most of the partner roles in your life. More and more people are starting to realize that this is a compromise between time and satisfaction. With a single partner, you get a lot more of their time, but the likelihood that they will be satisfactory for all of the roles partners typically assume is less likely. There are two reasons for this that I can see.

The first is that we are less and less likely to share extremely similar upbringing with others such that it is easy to find someone who is largely on the same page. When people were born, lived and died in a small town or city and the internet didn't exists, two people from the same place likely have a LOT in common. Now, everyone is shaped by the information they encounter and experiences they have, and at no time in history has there been as much variation between people than now.

The second is that our sexual and romantic tastes are fragmenting and we demanding greater satisfaction in both breadth of tastes and depth of tastes. People want to have the same level of satisfaction from the romance and sex parts of their lives well beyond the honeymoon period, and when a single partner doesn't or can't meet the variety of needs you start looking elsewhere to satisfy them. The difference is now that there is acknowledgement of this greater fragmentation in sexual and romantic needs, giving people the position to be more transparent with dialogue surrounding it. There is also a greater acknowledgement of enthusiastic consent between all partners involved in an act as being important. This focus on consent means that you don't try to make someone participate in something they don't desire to participate, thus you need to find other partners that reciprocate for those sexual or romantic needs.
I have mixed feeling about this. This will be the FOURTH way of formatting strings in Python. The other formattings will never go away.
How to Cultivate the Art of Serendipity
How someone can make such an unbelievably moronic and utopian statement is beyond my comprehension. A shame so few have yet to internalize the lessons of Buchanan and Tullock, though to presuppose the existence of a perfect government, I'm afraid is much more desperate than that.
In the short-term you are right, but in 5+ years AoE2 HD is going to run into the same problems and then this version might become more popular.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll do that! I posted partly in hopes that somebody would reply and solve problems I didn't know I had. That's the joy of being totally new to this stuff. I don't know what I don't know. :D

Re: using mains power lines... I actually have a friend who might be able to answer that, so I'll ask him. We were also considering transmission towers, since plenty of the hikes I know will take me across a clearcut for the transmission lines, and I can get some altitude with good, unobstructed views.
Here's a decent start of a more elaborated explanation: http://pyvideo.org/video/83/djangocon-2011--keynote---glyph-...
Haven't tried it, but vuescan http://www.hamrick.com/ claims to work on Linux.
That really would be the rising tide that lifts all boats - trickle up from the bottom.
The same thing happens if someone gets rich and sticks their money anywhere but under their mattress.
Haha Ron Burgundy came to life and made a website!!

EDIT: oops yes I meant Ron Swanson :)
Not sure - but as a high school teacher I've been turned down to buy paperbacks (that actually have all their pages) for my classroom due to budget constraints.

You're not wrong, and there is a lot of money in compulsory education (hence the push since the 80's to privatize)- but the macro view of educational budgeting doesn't necessarily speak to the direct effect of budgeting on classroom resources.
Still very early.

Currently I am planning combining quantitative and qualitative data (mainly NLP and sentiment analysis). The main goal is to build a robust system.

Therefor I am working on implementing Minimax and Tail-Risk-Hedging as a Spiking Neural Network.
It makes adults sick doesn't it? Why not children?

I wonder what a society without that "drive for success" would look like. My first thought, maybe a little sad, is if everyone else didn't have that drive I might actually succeed.
I am not to sure how to the left Gates and Buffett actually are, but they are really good examples of ultra rich with the perspective of the upper middle classes. Unlike the hereditary ultra rich, they are self-made men who grew up in upper middle class families. The fact that they want to give away their wealth rather than pass it on to their children is a sign they recognise the morally corrosive nature of inherited wealth.

If I were asked I would be keen to lower taxes on incomes and raise taxes on inheritances. We really don’t need a self-perpetuating parasitic overclass.
Right Wing Militias Are Prone to Crazy Drama
Yeah it would be great to have nuclear fusion figured out as well wouldn't it...?

What was your point here?
Very cool. I'd check the fantasyhockey subreddit, I've seen a few people working on various analytic projects posting there.
I'm surprised that such a buggy piece of software was developed by Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld, who made QuickDraw and the original Macintosh Toolbox work in even less RAM (128K, soon upgraded to 512K). I wonder what caused the later project to go so badly.
Do you intent to generalize this into a general library for service/client data syncing and if so can you talk about its design?
Interesting use case I hadn't thought of. I'm making it in React and then converting it all to standard HTML and CSS so it would be simple to do a standard `react` output instead.
Actually yes. Useful for me.

I always start out thinking others will LOVE my idea until I release it and no-one uses it.

You're a fool until you're a genius. One day I'll be a genius.
Big and bold challenges.

Does the "no difference between creating and using software" not cover much/most of your considerations?

I'm curious where you've taken to the idea of things like graphs over trees, should a new system be so opinionated? or is there a way to develop something flexible enough that when the next thing after graphs comes along, your system will be able to adapt.
I'm building a website for managing personal budgets for my girlfriend (existing applications do not meet her needs). I'm using Node and React for the frontend; this is giving me a chance to learn React, which I've never used before.
You know, $8M for 200 speeches isn't that much. People like Seth Godin and Malcolm Gladwell make ~$100k per speech, and they're not even former POTUSes.
Exactly. Democracy is designed to prevent the positive feedback loop where people who happen to have more resources can vote for things that gives them even more resources next time. If a system has this feedback loop, it's definitely not a democratic one.
> I think the expectation that "people should be good to me just because I was born" lies at the root of much distress. Reality can be harsh: if you don't have anything to offer them, most people don't care much about you.

I think your first sentence is either logically vacuous or a sneaky way to disregard someone's emotions: Either you are stating that "feeling mistreated is the same as existing and feeling mistreated" or your clause "just because I was born" is putting words in this abstract person's mouth: "I feel mistreated but I am unjustified in feeling mistreated."

Like, your ideas are logically consistent: If you don't feel mistreated then you don't feel mistreated. If you can just stop feeling mistreated then you will be liberated from feeling mistreated. It completely sidesteps the issue: People feel mistreated for a reason.

Why not apply this logic to everything? "Just because I was born, people shouldn't saw off my leg at the knee". The gall of such entitlement! If only one adjusted to the viewpoint that their leg should be sawed off at the knee, they would have a much easier time! Does it sound absurd because I am exaggerating? I'm not really exaggerating that much: depression and anxiety can hurt so much that they drive people to kill themselves. How could such illness be anything but agonizing?

You call it reality, but it is not indifferent and impersonal like disease or a storm that sweeps one's home away: We are talking about people. People are intelligible to people. People are answerable people. People interacting with people changes the way people interact with people.
Probably not. The guy who is checking his pockets just seems like a riskier target.
The Great Republican Revolt
400,000 Lines of CSS over 2,000+ files? Is that a common scenario?
The Hays translation is definitely currently my favorite, so this is particularly fascinating, especially given how much variance there is in translation (both in general and with this specific text).
I wonder if he means he is going to lead efforts to build an AI such as Jarvis with some help from his friends at FAIR or whether he's actually going to sit down and train his own models (for recognizing his family's faces for example). Quite motivating actually to see someone who is leading a billion dollar company to find the time to study machine learning on the side and apply it.
"Early Summer, 1995 - I advise a major brokerage house not to invest in General Magic. They invest anyway. I hope they don't wind up losing a large chunk of cash."

Isn't that insider trading?
It is not just the drive for success; it is the entire culture in general. The system is built to reduce happiness, because a happy and content person has less impetus to contribute to the economy. This is actually very intentional; see for example Alan Greenspan's speech to Congress: when he was questioned about job insecurity among the population, he replied that it was a good thing because it made people work harder.

On the other hand, the ideal person for the economy (on average, forgetting outliers like inventors) is a psychopath with a penchant for conspicuous consumption. Such a person is geographically mobile, able to dedicate his life to attaining wealth and power, and is also incapable of happiness. The normal among us, unfortunately, have to try live up to that ideal. Therefore, you see people spending very little time with their families, trying to earn more and more just to satisfy their need to consume. That is stressful! This is a form of mental sickness.

YES. The system we live in is sick.
> (b) Japanese are quite conservative about sex in general,

Your other two points may be factors to some extent, but this point does not match up with my own experience, and I'm wondering how on earth you might have got this impression.
Wow, brought back a lot of memories. I worked for Motorola on the Envoy team. It was my first encounter with Reality Distortion Field engineering. I remember their software engineers were literally called "wizards" as their job title. They developed a custom fully object-oriented programming language to write the OS in, and confidently assured us that it was so advanced that the OS would ultimately be delivered with literally zero bugs. This in the face of build after build of buggy, unstable, backward-incompatible code. I remember the change of line terminator from semicolon to colon (or vice versa?) when the product was already months past its original ship date. Good times.
That's why I made using rm into an error, instead of aliasing it directly to the trash command. Now that I've trained myself to use trash instead of rm, if I'm on a system without it installed, the worst that can happen is a "command not found" message.
I seriously doubt Zuck is that smart or capable. Intelligence wise Zuck is no Bill Gates. Go look at what Facebook looked like when it was just Zuck working on it. Zuck has not been honing his skills at networking or AI or deep learning for 10 years, he's been leading a company. He's not going to write any of this. Zuck wants to come off like he's the brains behind all of it... and sure he has business sense and billions of dollars to put that business sense to the world. Technically he's very limited.

tl;dr Zuck is not Iron Man.
Maybe you mean Dwight Schrute, or Red Green?
ZFS without ECC is no worse than any other file system which doesn't do checksumming.
I don't think TeMPOraL lives in the US; for us foreigners when speaking in English, it's common to use the American term to refer to the local equivalent.
Thanks for the reality check on this poorly written article. I think the NYTimes should have asked you to edit it!
Can you tell us more about the programming language and operating system? For example, how did memory management work? Was it based on garbage collection, reference counting, or still manual memory management? And what about persistent storage? I gather from the OP that fragmentation of persistent storage was a big problem.
You mean in between long sessions of Fallout 4? I built a new todo app (yeah I know!), because I could not find an existing one to support my simple daily work-flow: https://five.today/
Actually the price tracked FB expected revenue very well. For some time after IPO, there was serious doubt on FB mobile ad revenue (as the desktop ad was not growing enough). They somehow grew the mobile add very well and that's when the stock price made the U-turn. Whether the mobile ad is a proven business or not is still the 100B dollar question.
The amount is not the point.

The point is, companies/lobby groups who directly benefitted from Hillary's decisions as a secretary of the state, paid Bill a lot of money to give speeches.
been working on a node/angular/react static site generator (graffiti engine) https://github.com/greengrowtech/graffiti-engine
and now a complimentary HTML template/fragment editor (graffiti composer) https://github.com/greengrowtech/graffiti-composer
Last month I read The Tsar of Love and Techno[1] by Anthony Marra. The writing, story, and characters are all fascinating. If you want to take a break from sci-fi, give it a read.

1. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995336-the-tsar-of-love...
What Science Fiction Movie or Novel Is Most Prescient Today?
We make it pretty easy to do with Kernl. It also supports "push to build" from GitHub or BitBucket if that interests you. If you have any questions send me an email: jack at kernl dot us
What about the other 2 billion?
The editorializing choices regarding Ian on HN made by staff were poor at best. Not surprised they locked discussion down.

But, this is a different topic. Any Turing award winner deserves recognition and reflection on their passing imho.
"Insider trading" is a loosely-defined phrase, but the regulations most people think of only apply to publicly traded stocks.
Yet more evidence that things should become public domain after 15 years.
Hello World, 1978
The penultimate paragraph ends with "But it's a different kind of rewarding to build things yourself, so this year my personal challenge is to do that." and the final paragraph begins "This should be a fun intellectual challenge to code this for myself."
If you've done it once you can do it twice.

I wouldn't go back to college, I actually dropped out from a top tier college 4 months before completing my MSc. To me there's only one good reason an informed entrepreneur would go to college : buy the alumni directory in order to have leads - not a job.

You become good at things by doing them often, do more business. Work on your business 2 to 5 hours every day and hold yourself accountable. I don't believe in MVPs but I believe in flexible revenue models, initially iterate this model as fast as you can.

http://read.reddy.today/read/4/flexible-revenue-model-vs-mvp...

I'll quote Donald J. Trump "Most entrepreneurs fail because they fail to see their business as their business school".
To be fair, it did look "better" than MySpace. I use quotes because I preferred MySpace's customizability but I understand why uniformity won out.
No, increased government income is not required to decrease inequality. We just need basic fairness in US. Here are the policies I would suggest:

- Capital gains should be taxes at least at same rate as income generated by labor.

- Remove incentives from economically unproductive investments such as real estate. For example, discourage home ownership unless its primary residence.

- Limit political contributions from super rich.

- Discourage high return investment vehicles that typically manipulate markets to achieve their goals by reducing risks through government safety nets.

- Limit what can be charged by insurance providers for a given quality of service. Health insurance oligarchy and their political influence is core barrier in enabling healthcare for all.

- Limit what can be charged by educational institute to students. More financial aids is not the solution, its the problem.

The goal of the governments isn't ensuring wealth equality, but ensuring level playing field. If that is ensured then, IMO, wealth inequality will naturally be limited. Government must ensure equal access to two core areas which is health and education. It must make tax system fair and avoid scenario where secretory pays higher tax rate than their super rich bosses. It needs to prevent inflation of limited resources such as real estate by strongly discouraging economically unproductive investments.
Probably that dismissing real problems with the pejorative "first world problem" is counterproductive, especially when we do it to ourselves.
Democracy's weakness is a susceptibility to allowing the people to vote themselves bread and circuses.
Is that for a decoder that can decode multiple instructions per clock cycle? I think it would be somewhat interesting for a single instruction decoder but it would be quite remarkable for a decoder of greater width since x86 instructions aren't even self synchronizing (you can read the same sequence of bytes in different valid ways depending on where you start) while ARM is fixed width.
The reason the system wants you to work hard is because they get a share of your labour for every part you are successful above subsistence.

They get this through debt issuance, primarily via land prices. Fiat money costs absolutely zero to produce, they give it out freely and in return you pledge to give part of your labour for 30 years.

If land prices were far lower we'd all be working 3 or 4 days a week. Employers wouldn't have enough workers. They'd be paying you most of the value you produce as they bid for you against other firms. And you might not work for them because you no longer have to spend most of your labour on banker tribute for the right to exist.

Land value tax is the answer. It would replace income tax, removing the regressive tax on labour and punishing economic rentiers.

I hope for the sake of my kids we can win this one.

http://www.henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm

When people hear about LVT their immediate reaction is "another tax". Realise that it would replace income tax (or at least significantly reduce it at the lower end) and also it would reduce the massive tax via land price ramping.

Right now the banks are getting our tax instead of it being ploughed back into the state, via debt issuance. And producing nothing of value for it.
> I can't help but feel like this is the inevitable conclusion for a society that's obsessed with working and financial success.

It could be different if "success" was actually a well-defined concept, and determined by hard work and intellect. But right now, success seems to follow more from a mix of randomness, networking (which is also partly random), but also from more or less insincere practices, like using charms and underhand business practices, fake-it-until-you-make-it behavior, and so on.

But this shouldn't surprise us, as, even in politics these days, not the person with the best argument wins the debate, but the person who puts the best spin on the topic.
Bootstrapping Business #2. Well, actually bringing in revenue, since I started this a few months ago. Within about $200 of break-even at this point.

In summary, buy reliable used cars that are rough around the edges and with low asking prices. Spend leisure time doing necessary repairs to ensure reliability, safety. Spend time doing detailing work, which in the future may include repainting panels, and basic underbody rustproofing. Use as a car for 2 to 3 weeks as a burn-in to ensure I have something that meets my quality standards. Sell for 125-140% of cost. Limit yearly sales to keep under the transaction limits for a non-dealer.

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Pros:

* Excluding first car, cost me ~$2500 for good tools and safety/disposal equipment.

* Usefully leverages my vast knowledge of the automotive landscape.

* Improves my sales and negotiation skills, which will benefit Business #1

* Improves car repair skills and detailing skills, which is useful since I'm a hardcore car-nut.

* Turns a hobby into something that makes money. I'm having a blast and making money doing it.

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Risks:

* Unable to move a car, reducing profit, which means time not well spent.

* Poor assessment of a car I purchase for resale. Risk eating all profits or taking a loss.

* Losing interest. Though I'd have all the tools I'd ever need for my existing toy.

* My spare time I could spend on other things.

* Fraud, which I'm taking precautions against. This includes things like payment issues, or buyers not completing title transfer and doing terrible things.

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Where it goes next:

* Nothing exciting for a while. Sticking to things like Corollas, Civics, Camrys, Accords, CR-Vs, RAV-4s, F-150s, etc. Known quantities with easy parts availability and consistently strong demand that are easy to refine my process on (assessment/inspection, negotiation/paperwork, repair, pre-sale QA), and learn how to properly do bodywork at an acceptable level in a private garage.

* In 2 years the hope is to move into still easy-to-move cars with a higher profit-per-vehicle. Lexus ES, Lexus RX, Acura TL, Acura MDX, Mazda MX-5, etc.

* In 4 years the hope is to start going after cars people really desire on the used market. "Affordable dreams." Things like older BMW M cars, AMG Mercedes, Subaru WRX/STis. Late 90s Japanese sport coupes. This has the potential to bring in enough money to cover rent, utilities, health insurance/care, and groceries in full.

Business #1 will always bring in 4-5x as much money, but having a hobby pay the bills 5 or 6 years from now? I'm stoked. Since there's no pressure for this to pay the bills, I get to enjoy it too.
I think the novelty for Pinterest will wear off. There is only so much gratification in viewing beautiful pictures put together. I don't see any other value Pinterest is providing.

Snapchat, on the other hand, at least provides a communication channel for a very active demographics. Yes, it has to compete with a lot of big guys in the space, but the utility is there in the product.