skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this argument is presuming that when someone is looking at an income of $1 billion per year, they will simply accept that fate and write a check to the US government. This sounds astoundingly unlikely, in my opinion.

This person who's making $1 billion will simply put their money someplace else, they will figure out a way so that they need not claim it as income. They may push some of this money back into their company, perhaps raising the wages of some (or all) of their employees. They may form a new company to shelter this income and this new company may do something fabulously exciting and, thus, generate another shockingly large sum for this individual. Both of these sound okay to me.
Apples and oranges.

Slack's story is more about their service and 3rd party integrations, less so their client apps. A messaging client needs far fewer client features than a service like Evernote, and can get away with a simpler development environment. A web frame in a box works for Slack, but not for Evernote.

Evernote's client from a feature and polish perspective is as important as their service. The service need to store and sync (where they also have problems), but the client has to cover a multitude of other features. Cutting corners on the client layer to ease development has had an obvious impact on the UX.
If you were already using bcrypt (or any "slow hash algorithm"), double-hashing may be very slow.
I find Scaleway tricky when deploying apps since it is ARM - the price is kick ass, but I wasnt able to go around limitations with my Python apps. Do you ever run in to issues like that? How is uptime?
Not sure what -he- meant with "There are still worlds between the US and Europe", but there are worlds between Germany and the parts of the US (large cities West and East coast) where I've been.

A lot of water has such a heavy chlorine smell and taste, I can't drink it - same goes for US soft drinks that are created with tap water, can't drink. There is practically no smell or taste in German tap water [0].

[0] I might be biased and not taste it any longer because of growing up here
It's a great marketing ploy for those who are paranoid of the MPAA and want to tunnel their torrents or add an additional extra node between them and a Silk Road. He could commoditize it directly and sell SOCKS 5 proxies for 10 dollars a month and make a killing just because of the false perception that the Swiss government won't release information at the request of US federal agencies. People are way better off using US-hostile-ish countries like China, Russia, or Yemen (though I'd imagine a Visa charge to Yemen might add a whole new set of watch-list problems for a US national).
Someone keep this cat off my desk and lap somehow. Actually just desk. Lap is ok.
As a Toronto resident for over 18 years, I just have to say don't visit Toronto in the dead of winter. It's drab, cold and uninteresting.

There are lots of festivals and things do in the summer, but I can't honestly agree with the #7 spot. Many of the places on the list are more exciting.

Another tip: wherever you go, try to time your trip with a local holiday. This is when most public events will take place and locals will have the day off allowing you to interact with them as opposed to other tourists.
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Interesting, contact me.
The same as any other house on the grid.

How much power you typically use and when has almost no impact on how much grid connection costs. All that matters is the peak they must be able to deliver. That is why billing transfer together with consumption makes no sense.

They should be completely split into two bills paid to two different companies like in Finland.
Why not simply make an escalating cost/tax over time to maintain the copyright? I'm in favor of exponents :-)

Governments love taxes, so this would be another tax...

That way companies don't squat on "long tail" copyrights and squelch creativity.
The Halting Problem helps us prove programs because it informs us that some functions cannot be computed. This means that the requirement spec for some computations cannot be implemented. When we spot this problem in a requirement spec, we instantly know that its proposed implementation is an incorrect program, no matter what that program is. We don't have to look at a single line of code.
Someone making $800M is not doing "work".
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Well it seems like they decided it right now. They are splitting up the net meeting costs into infrastructure and production costs and expect those who connected to the grid to contribute to the infrastructure costs.
As opposed to "naturally" cross-breeding strains and selecting for traits without genetic sequencing?

Changes are changes, whether random or induced mutation. I feel better if there's at least one brain inspecting the changes vs throwing dice.
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Where is the servers based? Why is there no info besides "us based". Do you have data-centers in EU as well?
So if I understand correctly, time reversal means that all the object speeds get inverted, but the fields remain the same. If you change the sign of the field (gravity becomes repulsive) then things will explode very quickly :)
Nope, I don't.
I don't see how throttling "unlimited" plans is a net neutrality problem, but other than that, point taken.

The comment I replied to mentions Project Fi, do they avoid all this?

Aside: not that this really makes it better, but AT&T's list of Sponsored Data providers is full of hilariously obscure companies:

http://www.att.com/att/sponsoreddata/en/index.html
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> Ehh, that doesn't apply to what he's talking about though.

Of course it does.

> That only works when the pages are actually freed. Since actually asking the kernel for more memory is expensive, most malloc/calloc implementations will hold-on to some pages since it assumes you're going to allocate more. Since it reuses this memory without ever giving it back to the kernel, the kernel won't zero it for us.

It's what the standard system malloc does, possibly in cooperation with the kernel but not necessarily so (why would it need the kernel involved after all?)

Just as OpenBSD's malloc framework can do way more than trivially request memory from the kernel: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/.... In fact, since OpenBSD 5.6 it'll junk small allocations on freeing (fill them with 0xdf) by default. And as usual that uncovered broken code…

> When we started junking memory by default after free, the postgres ruby gem stopped working.
> It would be way cool to have an app that I could use the color ones to teach it, and colorize the B+W ones.

You'd want the training to be done on the server, not locally. Setting up a full Torch/Caffe/Theano stack is not easy because there are so many libraries and moving pieces which must interact with Nvidia's proprietary blobs and libraries and ever-changing GPUs, that you can follow all the directions and either work or fail with an utterly inscrutable error. (For example, I'm running on an old Ubuntu because the newer Ubuntu is not officially supported, and my usual OS, Debian, just does not work no matter what I try.)
Guy stood for upto 10 hours a day for 5 years at his workstation.

His posture has improved and doesn't fatigue as easily when standing but don't expect it to drastically improve your life, because overall healthiness is an accumulation of many things.
I think C does not make you write simpler code. It makes people take short-cuts. Static allocations, using a hand rolled linked list, skipping return value checks or boundary checks etc. are all typical to C programs.
Finances (billing, quarterly taxes, yearly taxes), lack of colleagues (I feel at best a semi-colleague if I'm somewhere long enough), lots of costs, some hidden or vague (insurances, office space, travel, laptop, utilities, etc.), possible dry spells / less job security (not an issue yet, but still), no perks (paid learning, conferences, outings), proposals and discussions about how much things cost, even with longer-term clients.

And of course the fact that I can't rely on the more 'default' paths of promotions, specializing, etc. I have to choose to grow, or I just keep doing the same thing or risk falling behind.

I don't find all these downsides. For example, I'm rather happy to not have to be around the same group of people day in, day out. Or to feel forced to go to some work event and be a 'team player'. But still. Sometimes I think I miss it, at least.
> Poverty is the metric that should be focused on, not inequality

No. Inequality is the problem. Poverty has nowhere near the same damaging effect.

This book is essential reading on the topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Level-Equality-Societies-Strong...

The authors use two test-beds: a comparison of countries around the world and a comparison of states within the US. With these, they show that with overall wealth held constant, it's the larger inequality that causes more social problems.

For example, the UK and Japan have roughly equal GDP and similar average incomes, but Japan is less unequal. On almost any measure you might choose of how well a society is doing, Japan is better. Mental health, drug use, teen pregnancy, violence, divorce, abuse, the whole lot. The same goes across all of the states and countries they looked at.

The sheer scale of the evidence is overwhelming. It's very rare in the social sciences for literally hundreds of studies to point to the same broad trend across so many different parts of the world.

Their work is a revolution as it overturns the common assumption which you expressed that poverty is the problem.
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I've thought the same thing. This seems like a simple way to deal with it. And since most created works don't make money, even fewer after X years this would seem to do the most "public" good while allowing Disney to keep Mickey.

This is especially true for software games where you can't even get the hardware, thus software sales are essentially 0. A lot of the older games will just get forgotten while the copyright runs out. Some get remade and sold and have no problem with that.

Companies won't like it though, because some will forget to register and loose out on potential profits.
So if you taxed those 5 people, you would make 4 billion. We spend over 3 trillion a year. Do you really think the punishment fits the crime?

Wiser management of federal resources would go a lot further than throwing more money down the hole.
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Yes, thanks. And the thing is they don't even have to be that long. Still inconvenient to enter a bunch of those every day, but the same is true with any password and most of us don't do that - we maybe set a master password and our web browser remembers them.

Salting is one of the best and easiest measures if there is a possibility of lowish entropy passwords, but if not it doesn't help (edit: on further thought I think there is a fairly substantial entropy range where the only viable attack is a very large scale batch attack and salting would prevent that, although the cost/benefit on actually doing that makes it an unlikely attack anyway). Iteration and memory hard functions also effectively add just a few bits of entropy. But when users choose passwords, a huge portion will be low enough entropy that nothing you can do will help enough.

A second factor does help in that case, and can provide additional protection to high entropy passwords (as long as the second factor is distinct from the system that stores the high entropy password, which in theory it should be to be called a second factor).

technion: yeah, my suggestion won't work if there is any way for the user to set the password.
That's also how PHP handles it for its password_needs_rehash function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.password-needs-rehash.php (PHP >= 5.5)
80% did not appear to be a legitimate policy proposal but just a way to say that even if taxes were insanely high, billionaires would still be unfathomably rich.
You mean it's easier to write an incorrect program in C than a correct one in Rust? Of course!

If you mean it's easier to write correct programs in C than correct programs in Rust, I'm afraid you're badly mistaken.
name one.

billionaires don't sit on their capital.
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That's not how it works. Automation doesn't put things in the hands of a few powerful companies. Those items become commodities. You don't get rich selling commodities. Corporations spend billions upon billions to make sure they aren't reduced to commodities.

Cheap access to driverless cars will be a huge boon for the poor. Can you imagine what it would be like to have cheap access to goods no matter where you live? To receive delivery of materials cheaply and quickly? That's not a wealth destroyer. That's wealth creation infrastructure.
Come on you two, don't be so thick. He wasn't seriously suggesting we tax at 80%. He was using that as an extreme example to make a point.
Which MVNOs? I probably missed which, if any, MVNOs have better integrated WiFi wireless telecom services than T-Mobile because they're usually entirely dependent on the big four networks (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile) for voice and a variety of data platforms.
You can't avoid identity theft, because you not in control of all your data.
Anthem/OPM/lastpass will get breached or Experian will sell your data, etc. etc.
The only thing you can do - harden each line of defense available [1].

[1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/opm-breach-credit-monitor...
This was done when the local (municipal) and provincial electricity companies were split into a network and a generating entity. It was supposed to bring more transparency and create a market, in fact it brought a lot of graft and trickery. At a guess the actual costs were a fraction because those companies were already paid for aeons ago (they were public property, and then got privatized so we were allowed to rent back the infrastructure that we already owned...).

Short term thinking at its best.
Unfortunately, even if it's not your fault or problem, there is a fault or problem.

We're no longer discussing correctness, but assignment of blame.
How much money do you need to start?
Micro effects are typically already simulated by shaders.

Ray tracing could in theory simulate interaction between a frequency of light and the frequency of of medium although the situations where that would be practical would be exotic.
My point is that knowing all of a languages features is neither necessary nor sufficient for getting real work done even at the highest level. I've worked with some pretty smart and experienced people in my career and non of them would probably claim to know every single obscure corner of their favorite language.
As I understand it, the universe actually started in a heat-death state (very small temperature differences, homogeneous and isotropic), it's just that it is a very hot heat death state, not the usual cold one where everything freezes.

Then it is the universe expansion that made the entropy per volume decrease, actually allowing complex systems to evolve. The expansion still has to occur faster than the entropy increase rate but I read somewhere that the universe total entropy did not increase that much since the Big Bang.
Electricity is covered under something as defined by the government as a "Utility" and thus not a private organization. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Public+Utiliti...
Interstellar gas/dust forming a planet increases its temperature, and it radiates thermal photons out into space. For the planets to fly apart, you would have reverse the photons as well, and aim them super precisely, and define the initial state of the planet super precisely, and...
It's essentially a problem of entropy. All weirdness of macroscopic time-reversal can be reduced to the weirdly low entropy of the big bang.
Tiobe can't be right. It has Assembly ahead of Ruby and right behind JavaScript. What???

Redmonk looks flawed too. I would expect GitHub to create a major sampling bias in favor of smaller, throwaway projects, and in fact, a quick search(1) on GitHub appears to show 2.2 million projects smaller than a kilobyte that have never gotten a single star. Should those be counted? Do they really reflect anything meaningful about the language's rank?

In my opinion, the only meaningful measure of a programming language worth quantifying from the net are StackOverFlow tags: they can be counted and read and provide a real reflection of the language's community without giving any special preference to language, license, or context.

Everything else is hopelessly subjective: whether or not the language maps well to a particular problem, whether it maps well to the way you like to program, and whether it fits into the ecosystem in which you plan to deploy it. You can't measure those with google searches.

(1) https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=size%3A%3C1+stars...
Something about the idea of self-driving cars seems to just shut off critical reasoning in some circles, I suspect because a lot of folks in those circles don't want to deal with cars and drive. I do think we'll get to very good autopilots for certain types of roads. But this idea of app-summoned robocars is likely decades out and it's not clear how the rent/own economics will work out even then.
And take off any fancy shoes before going down a slide! (Or even better, don't wear fancy shoes.) My wife's shoes got ruined by friction in the heel area. Still glad we went, it's an awesome place. :)

You can even pair it with a visit to the Strangeloop tech conference (http://www.thestrangeloop.com).
If, for some inputs, the program is supposed to calculate the value 42, but it throws an integer overflow, then it is not correct.

Detecting overflows and throwing nice exceptions instead of continuing execution with garbage values isn't the same thing as ensuring correctness.
The person in the video has been using a standing approach to work for five years. He likes to use a furinno laptop stand, instead of a standing desk (he likes that it's easier to move and take with him, can be positioned on most any desk, and it costs $50).

He hasn't found that he experienced leg pain or much fatigue. He takes routine breaks, preferring to jog in place to refresh his legs, rather than sitting down so much (he noted he takes breaks for eg lunch, I assume he sits down for that). He said he basically hasn't experienced any significant negatives.

On the positive, he said his legs and back feel much stronger. He had back pain for years that is now gone. Early on he wore specific sneakers and was very careful about doing things a certain way; now he has relaxed that a lot, and will wear any type of shoes he wants to, and doesn't worry about having a padded mat under him. He didn't indicate a vast uptick in productivity, but that he may have experienced a bit of improvement there. He said his posture improved dramatically, having removed the hunching-over you often get at a desk.
Great idea. I feel like an alternate color model could help, because of all the places where the color is arbitrary but strong average to a muddy sepia.

For example, the stripe on the truck should be bright and saturated, but the actual color doesn't matter.

The HSV colour space could work if the difference between colours is calculated with some kind of circular arithmetic.
The entire Walton family. (That's six).
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I did name one.

One that did. I don't know of any others that did.

Musk is driven in a way that no Gates, Jobs, Ellison or anybody else of such wealth is. I don't see him with a huge mansion or a yacht, just more projects.
2016 is my 40th year of using C.
I prefer Java.
The 'averaging' problem is interesting and I think related to the Euclidean-style loss function: it is correctly minimizing the color distance between its gray-brown guess and all the possible shades? If that's what's going on, then messing with the architecture won't fix it because it's already reaching the 'right' answer and what is necessary is a better loss... Perhaps something like DCGAN where the loss function is another CNN which is being trained to guess whether an image is original or generated? (So you'd feed the BW image into the generator, which converts it into a colorized image; the colorized and the true color images are both fed into the discriminator, which tries to guess which is the real one. Then error is backpropagated into both.)
"... you'd probably pick EFF. The group, which has been around forever..."

Founded	July 6, 1990; 25 years ago. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)

What a curious definition of forever. I'm not always sure when the EFF is more interested in protecting digital rights or self-promotion. Some statements sure feel like the later.
To be honest I don't understand why isn't -O2 the default. Also does anyone ever use -O1?!
I don't think anyone proves their hardware from basic physics[1], but hardware comes with specs and tolerances. If your software needs to operate in a high-radiation environment, you buy appropriate hardware and potentially take other countermeasures (e.g. multiple processors executing in sync).

[1] practically we resort to empirical testing to confirm that hardware conforms to its spec. But as your sibling says, that's no excuse not to do better in the places where we can.
There are clearly difference between how we see it as people, but I was talking in regards to how the law sees the contracts themselves. For example, how can the law tell the difference between a significant discount at an error. I've purchased things at 98% off their sell price and which were far less than their market value, even accounting for the sell price being above their market value. The stores had different reasons for giving such a discount, but they weren't given in error.
Can you name three? In any case, a good economist typically just says what the state of the world is or will be given x, y, z, not what should be. I can think of one economist (Robin Hanson) who doesn't say "we should reduce financial inequality".
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"Because poverty is not actually a bad thing that causes income inequality, it is a circumstance of it."

Poverty is a circumstance of living in a world with limited resources where trade offs have to be made in virtually all decisions. When I have lunch today, I am, in a twisted interpretation, depraving someone else of that food.

In a world where everything has a cost, whether hidden or real, poverty in some form will exist.
There would be no shortage of water if it was priced correctly. Instead, nonsensical "water rights" contribute to less-than-optimal uses (like growing rice in the California desert, or water-hogging almond trees) and shortages for those who need it.
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You forgot to include JavaScript. I don't think that one should be excluded at this point.
I have no doubt that they could spend a lot less than they do. On the other hand, I am entirely unwilling to wait for them to become more efficient before deciding to severely tax

That sounds to me like, "We can't get our ship in order, so lets rob someone who can instead of fixing it and we'll fix it later (but we won't because note what we've done in the current example)."

The problem for government is less "not enough money" and more "we don't know how to spend it to accomplish specific and measurable goals"