skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. We take all our things with us when we leave a plane, taxi, bus or train. We will learn to do the same with cars as cost squeezes from one side and convenience from another.
> "If the laws of physics and the laws of the government where I reside allow it, I can do it, and it's moral."

Personally, I think that sounds right and proper, and it's reality that's the "broken" thing.

Living in reality means accepting that there are things that are "wrong" but where there's no sensible enforcement mechanism: "externalities", when it's the commons we're screwing over, or just "social ills" (e.g. hate speech) when it's a specific target.

Living in a consensual massively-multiplayer VR space, on the other hand, the rules of the space can be changed to suit its citizens: morality can be fully enforced, such that of course everything that's possible is good—because everything that's not good is impossible.

And I do mean consensual spaces, here—the plural is important; the most important thing such spaces give us is the ability to opt in or out of them, such that you can find one that fits your particular value system. You might personally enjoy a space with relatively few rules—a VR space equivalent to a "PvP server." Or you might enjoy a space with incredibly constricted rules, allowing almost no expression within their bounds, as in the game Journey. Or—and this is the thing we can't get from regular old reality given any amount of utopian politics—you can visit both, at different times of day, or even "multi-boxing" between the two in a weird VR sense we haven't invented yet.

Really, I'm just rehashing the content of these two essays:

• http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-...

• http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/06/the-future-is-filters/
The qualitative aspect seems pretty clear (people respond to monetary incentives), but quantification is important here. When making decisions shaping policies and legislation, you'd want to know how much innovation would be affected by increasing taxes on the high end of the income curve versus the benefit this could generate by using the additional income to fight poverty, for example.
Why are you guys so sensitive? It makes you weaker, not superior. People say all kinds of things to manipulate others, make them vulnerable, etc., and if one's going to waste their few moments granted on this planet dealing with non-issues like this - it's just a poor strategy. And, by the way, you're insensitive toward people who are even less sensitive.

Edit: I have kids, they get home crying, because people call them this or that. So, it's time to grow up.
* Heat management: Thinkpads just don't heat up in harmful ways. I have seen way too many Macbooks that can't be handled when they heat up or the continued stress degrades some component
* Keyboard with a Delete key
* You can install Linux on a Thinkpad trivially and have it ready for use. The MBP just isn't there
* The chassis stands up to a lot more abuse, not just aesthetically (because the MBP frames scratch up just by looking at them the wrong way) but in terms of actually resisting falls.
* With the newer models you can replace the external battery while running, and if you get the larger batteries you can run your machine for a full 24 hours.
Why don't you go spend a day with your cellphone taped to your forehead recording video and see how many people notice?
Sometimes my brain automatically searches and replaces "imperialism" with "excellence" and "elitist" with "excellent", but this title still doesn't make sense because there's nothing made secret about "Western" math, just people envying to learn it with less effort.
Do you drive a truck for a living?
What I desire, at this moment in time, is for you to clarify a vague stance into a clear one.

Your attempt to dodge this eminently reasonable request is absurd and not beneficial to the conversation at all. This appears to be a silencing tactic, trying to force me to not ask for clarification of a position, and refusing to consider why this might be relevant. I do not appreciate your use of this tactic.

Have a nice day.
Crazy Eddie was, iirc, a child of Syrian immigrants.
> Download this post as a Computable Document Format (CDF) file.

Hmm?

Ah.

> CDF files can be read using a proprietary CDF Player with a restrictive license, which can be downloaded free of charge from Wolfram Research. [1]

Fuhgeddaboudit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_Document_Format
If you do work like that, you're usually working shift(so you might be working days one week, nights the next, and graveyard after that), and you're physically exhausted enough at the end of the day that all you want to do is eat dinner and fall asleep.

At least that was my experience.
> If IPv6 offered a single user-visible feature it would sell like hotcakes

Being able to connect to my home machine from anywhere. Presently, I have to manually[1] mess around with NAT to accomplish this, and the obvious ways to set up `ssh machine-a.me.com` and `ssh machine-b.me.com` simply don't work. That alone, to me, is a single user-visible feature.

Further, I've had tons of scenarios proposed by my parents that would be considerably easier to do with IPv6. "Why can't I just transfer this file between these two computers? Why does it need to go through some third party?" (This was really a bit before Drive, but even with Drive, it's still an extra step that doesn't really need to be.) As an engineer, there's plenty of problems I simply cannot solve while it remains impossible to address a computer that's supposedly on the Internet.

> Instead, it's sold a twenty-year clusterfuck of doomsday predictions about running out of IPv4 addresses

I can't actually obtain an IPv4 address for a device on my network. There's absolutely nothing I can do. So, from my perspective, those doomsday predictions appear to be correct. (And when I can, it often costs extra for something that ought to cost nothing.)

[1]: All the while we have standardize protocols that should allow software to automatically configure NAT in a router, except they're supported by nobody…
Your argument is intuitively correct, but formalizing it requires a very careful choice of "smaller than". In particular all of the infinities in question are countable, so in some sense they are the "same size".

But there are two approaches that we can use.

The first is to point out that in real life it is more common to encounter small numbers than big ones. So if you choose a probability distribution for what denominators you expect in practice, and sum up the values of all of the exactly represented numbers, you can get to a fixed probability of even division. And it won't be zero.

Unfortunately your choice of the relative probability of having a 2 in the denominator versus a 3 is extremely arbitrary. So while the approach makes sense, the numbers you get really will be made up. (Though no matter how you make them up, your general statement is guaranteed correct.)

The second approach is to just look at how the count of exactly representable numbers below N scales with both N and your set of primes. This has been studied. The exact counts are a mess, but if you have a set S of prime divisors of size k, then the count is (1+o(1)) * 1/k! * [product over p in S of (log(N)/log(p)].

The upshot is that for large N, more prime factors always wins. And for specific prime factors, you just look at the ratio of logs.

For instance with this approach we can say that log(3)/log(5) = 1.46497352071793... times as many denominators are exactly representable in base 12 as in base 10. (The log(2) factors cancel out.) Therefore base 12 is better.

Of course the second approach says that base 6 is as good as base 12, and it is smaller, so why not use it? Well, the reason why we keep on winding up with base 12 in practical situations is that divisibility by 4 comes up a lot. It isn't just exactly representable that matters, efficiency matters.
For me, Amazon is the way to go. I live an hour from the nearest Walmart or department store. The FedEx and UPS delivery people know me really well.
And anyone driving their own car needs to pay for parking, plus for full insurance, registration and so on. Free street parking will gradually disappear and off-street parking is not going to get any cheaper.
Because the larger Thinkpad replaceable battery lasts for 21 hours.
I mean, immersive gameplay is a pretty big use case. To me personally, as someone who loves FPS games, that's a huge win. It's worth it to me.

When it comes to making predictions, i'd remind you of this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Tor author approves:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959#c4
(This is an extension of my previous comment [1])

The table 3 in their (only) approved HSV-1 IgG assay 510(k) seems funny:

A) No body just check some simple math?

In their "Table 3: Design of Precision Study", the Equivocal Panel C, Lot 3 is asterisked with the citation of "sufficient cartridges not available". However if you try to sum up the total valid replicates (27 + 44 + 8 = 79) and just =\= the total of 78.

B) Their SD values distributions in table 4 vs numbers of devices (table 3) shows a distinct pattern between small and large numbers of devices used in their precision study.

http://imgur.com/HLTKGfM

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10816704
False dichotomy. Nobody (or very few people) is arguing that everyone make the same amount of income regardless of what they do. The arguments are against the jackpot-like nature of income (and wealth) distribution which leads to extreme inequality.
I'd be somewhat surprised if the bzr->git conversion did in fact mess those up. I was following ESR's blog when he was doing the conversion. He seemed to feel very strongly that the conversion should not mess things up like that. (His goal was that the history should look like it would have done, if people had always been using git.)

On the other hand, I'm less confident about the conversion to bzr. And anyway the relevant question is not "would it have broken?" but "did people have reason to expect it would break?"

And on the third hand, a commit id could be referenced by author and timestamp, which would be invariant under (competent) repo conversions.
12 x 12 is 144 and if we're not worried that our children will not have the mathematical skills to count and divide a gross of bottle rockets, then this is truly not America.

Plus inches in feet.

On a more serious note, the world does not end with 10.
The cost of reshipping + cost of wrapping + cost of time of wrapping is probably getting close to $6 an item.
How much time did it take for you to wrap it? I usually say for myself if I were paying myself minimum wage and it exceeds that then I rather pay someone else.
Backpressure is in 1.5+ by setting spark.streaming.backpressure.enabled=true (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-g...). Like you, I'm looking forward to the out-of-order data support.
I think it would bankrupt the government if they did single payer without price caps on drugs. We already spend about double, as a percent of GDP, on health care compared to other countries. Getting the costs under control is the only way to approach reforming health care that's going to work.
It seems to work reasonably well in a terminal, but I found myself wanting to use some features that weren't supported in the terminal. The biggest reason for me to use tmux + vim was vim-slime for editing+repl environment, which basically works out of the box in all of the modes I care about for emacs (clojure/cljs, python, javascript).

I've found emacs to be reasonably pleasant even for things like git operation (via magit). Most of my scripting for projects end up written in python or bash and controlled via a Makefile, and emacs (like vim) fits in perfectly for this. There is very little I use a terminal for these days, and when I do want one, I open it inside of emacs. This keeps me down to emacs + chrome as my only applications running.
The ability to do P2P is truly amazing

No argument there. But that's not really a quantifiable statement either. In any case, that's not what I meant: I was referring to the different business and distributed computing models we might have had, instead of the heavily centralized models we have now.

Maybe we would have had technologies like bitcoin ten years earlier? Maybe IRC would have gained a P2P component, and Twitter would never have happened? That's the kind of things that "could've been" I was thinking of.
You're right, it is a completely typical example of casual racism.
We already have a massive war on poverty. Just the Govt. is $1T per year.
http://www.heritage.org/multimedia/infographic/2014/12/total...

Economic Inequality is not bad per se, too much inequality is. At extremes, societies tend to tear apart in violence.

Startups are good. But execs get rewarded for dodging taxes, laying people off, global labor arb, and automation. It's not surprising inequality is increasing. There's tradeoffs in everything.

For all the hulabaloo about income inequality, tax policy could easily reverse the trend. It's not that complicated. It's a political, not an economic challenge.
According to this [1] which is fairly consistent with other things I've read, US costs are maybe 25% higher than in Canada. What that means is debatable in the context of waiting times, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_s...
As others have said, I think you can use another company. Also, some companies will allow you to invest any money above a certain balance. In my HSA, I can invest anything about $2000 (or maybe $2500?) into a number of different mutual funds. That plus tax benefits plus tax free growth is a pretty good deal.
Still wouldn't change much because, thanks god, the US law is not global ^^
I only mentioned it because I normally don't give a crap about these kinds of things. I am genuinely surprised that I am even slightly offended by this... its not a rational choice.

p.s. I am doing this as I wind down after a long day of productive work. I wouldn't assume that anyone browsing HN places particular value on the discussion here beyond its own intrinsic value... its certainly not wasting my precious few moments.

(pps. i did not downvote, but upvoted, because conflicting and honest opinions are vital to healthy discussion, and yours is perfectly valid imo).
Yes, it would seem as a developer there is a certain amount of bandwagon jumping going on in the last few years.

You're very right, you really have to pick your battles. It's interesting since I'm doing more contract work and finding out that one shop uses Angular and another Backbone and a third React. Which one should I really learn and focus on, when nearly every shop has a totally different philosophy??

Even trying to pick the winners in these framework battles is getting exhaustive.
Some people don't get insurance because the high deductibles mean they probably won't get any benefit. I think an even scarier effect is that I personally don't go to the doctor unless I really, really need to because of those same high deductibles (and the high cost of time off of work). Preventative care is expensive!
> but it's really disconcerting that all the state[1] passed down to sub-components gets represented using attributes-but-not-really-because-they're-not-primitive-types-any-more.

React, Angular 2, and probably most other frameworks with templates do the same thing.

If it makes you feel any better, the key point for me is that these are not HTML, they're templates embedded in HTML via a DSL. This DSL is valid HTML, but it's necessarily interpreted and modified by the template system.

Also, it's great that these values are not primitives. One of the persistent detractions (made by a core React dev I think) against Polymer is that "everything is a string because attributes", which is just wrong. As you note, Polymer uses attributes in template to declare binding to properties in the resultant DOM, which can be of any type. I think it's great that you understand this distinction, even if you don't like it :)
GBPUSD:+Risk+Of+More+Weakness+On+The+Cards
Design an 18th Century Wig website
Hello

I am in a similar position (7 years of development and getting bored of having no say in what gets build) and wanted to ask a couple of questions.

- Is an MBA essential for the transition?

- Does college name matter when doing an MBA for this purpose?

- Do you get to recoup the cost of the degree?

- Did you change employer to make the transition into project manager?
There are places in Smalltalk code where you see:

false ifTrue: [
"Some code to debug to help understand..."
].

In VisualWorks, you can double-click next to the 1st square bracket to select the code, then instantly execute it or debug it. The reason why it's not simply commented out, is that automated refactorings in the Smalltalk Refactoring Browser can then touch the commented-out code. (St RB used to be guaranteed to always execute strict refactorings and produce correct code.)

Often such code can even use values from the current scope, so a separate debug session can be spawned to see what it "would have been like" then dismissed with no consequences. It's stuff like that which made Smalltalk an uber-environment back in the day.
Those are generally larger buses that are completely fixed in their route and stops, right?

Smaller buses able to optimise routes to make fewer stops will help. Split the current big bus into 3-4 smaller ones and the people going close to the full distance might not stop for the first 80% of stops. That would cut out a lot of time.

Obviously rural areas will be the last to see these changes for non-commercial traffic.
Great job! I am definitely gonna use this daily!
The new YNAB is a $50/year subscription vs $60 to buy a copy of YNAB 4 (now called classic).

YNAB 4 has been out for at least three years with no major updates. If find it hard to fathom how they can charge that much. $20/year I could understand...but $60?

I'll check out the new YNAB because I'm curious, but I plan to keep using YNAB 4.
Why co-bots will be a huge driver of innovation and growth for robotics
I saw the MIT scratch(lego style) coding for kids, which is nice. Also in the early days we did draw flow diagrams like this IDE does before coding, and there is the PLC logic coding in the factories, and there are also nice programming tools for artists etc(e.g. processing), I am just honestly thinking where to fit this one. Will try it sometime.
With all the talk of uncles and cousins, I wonder if the submitter may be of Middle Eastern or South Asian persuasian - I don't think it would occur to most accidental racists.
Wouldn't the problem with that be, insurance companies would have an incentive to raise prices as high as they can, knowing that the public would basically be required by law to pay them (or an equivalent penalty)?

That incentive sounds pretty terrible for the public. Great for insurance companies though.
What percentage of people live in metro areas though?
Have a look for RFM98W (434Mhz) or RFM95W (868MHz) on aliexpress/ebay, they're around $14 there.

I know in the UK high altitude balloon community they've used them in flights - http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1850

Although FSK works just as well in the case of balloons.
I spent many hours looking for this and couldn't find any individual PPO plans that cover Austin, Texas. If you know of one, please send it my way.
Problem is that Amazon's gift wrapping is crap. They just throw it into a blue felt bag and attach a gift note.
That's a difficult question to weigh at the best of times. Among other things, you have to consider questions like the relative efficacy of small business grants versus ongoing cash transfers. There's also questions of policy preferences in non-financial terms. The list items to be considered is considerable and I won't pretend to know what's all on the list.

Anyway. I don't think it's an easily evaluated question, in large part because there are good ways to fight poverty (as a government) and ones that are no better than cash-fuelled bonfires. It's difficult to evaluate a kinda-sorta-semi-vaguely-known (change in private spending from higher taxes) against a total unknown (result of hypothetical anti-poverty programs), though.

Which is a long-winded way of saying you're right about it being a quantitative question, but I don't think it's a readily answerable one.
We do? In my experience mathematicians almost always assume base 10 and don't bother indicating it.

In fact we mostly indicate the base when there is a good possibility that it isn't 10, and any stray numbers fail to have a base represented, they should be assumed to be base 10.

(Mathematical notation mostly uses sensible defaults except for differential geometry.)
Better in being much more concise, but unfortunately, and for the same reason, even more revealing of the central emptiness of the argument.

I don't know why we're even talking about such overbroad themes, even in the longer version. Whether you believe you can "create wealth" or not, poverty is quite simply a central facet of inequality; it is part of the DEFINITION of inequality. Poverty IS inequality, along with riches. All it means, is there's an income or wealth distribution curve whose slope is nonzero.

There is no conceptual definition of inequality that doesn't include poverty. If everyone had the same wealth, that, by definition, is a situation of
1) no inequality
2) no poverty

Whereas as soon as some people have more, and others have less (which is quaintly known as a little thing we call "inequality") there is a phenomenon crying out to be described, and that phenomenon is: A poorer group exists. There is poverty. Even if the poorer group is only just slightly poorer. Which interestingly indicates that poverty is inherently comparative. Equality is absolute; inequality is always relative. Just like in math.

You probably think you happen to have a lot, and people in the Third World happen to not have a lot. No. You have a lot, BECAUSE the people in the Third World don't have a lot. And they have less BECAUSE you have more. The corporations working on your behalf extracted that wealth from them, and conveyed it to you. (And to themselves of course.) And when those people try to immigrate to your country they are just trying to follow their own money to your doorstep.

Anyway the thing everybody hates and wants to fight is not that "some people make money" but that "the Paul Graham class" can buy themselves a Congressman. They can emit ridiculous brain-farts over and over (Musk) and the media fawningly fellates. They can invest in a thing and slavish people infer directly from that, "Wow, must be real valuable!" Inequality confers unfair political advantage which leads to disproportionate opportunity which leads to further inequality in the same direction. It is not a self-stabilizing system inherently. It is prone to excesses and failure, and a shity quality of life for the majority on its way to getting there. Go ahead and push that as far as you can, see what happens.