skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Datomic takes that long to wrap your head around, but it does take a long time to actually use. There's no inherent equivalent of Model.all or Model.where(x = y), so chances are that you'll have to write your own DSL for mapping domain objects to datomic queries which is a time consuming non value-adding activity. You'll also likely want to transact through some DSL so that you can do validations, and post-creation lifecycle hooks, where in Rails or something you'd just get that for free. The Devops is pretty frustrating imo, there's no equivalent of the Heroku Postgres or AWS RDBMS one-click deploy for Datomic, so you'll need to set it up and monitor it yourself, which can get tricky when doing things like REPLing into the db from your local Emacs shell can crash a process downstream somewhere because you went over your remote peer limit without realizing it. And there's no view that shows you the IP address of every connected peer, so it's kind of hard to debug what exactly is going on sometimes. I think the query engine is really cool, I just feel like I waste a lot of time using Datomic that I don't with other databases.
You are correct, I did have the wrong number.
But they can take their army to a delicate border - say with Pakistan, India, and at the straight, and if they ask North Korea nicely maybe they will be able to get to the SK border, and ask for their money back with the PLA standing by.

A holder of government debt can have much sharper knives than a loan shark.
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> He was truly very dull, something he himself admitted

You may wish to rethink this.
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This article: "How China accumulated $28 trillion debt in such a short time." At the bottom it says "Now watch: China is immortalizing its founding leader with an enormous 121-foot gold-plated statue."

I guess the second headline answers the first headline's question.
That's what I did with the "shelf" my Ikea Jerker.
Yes. At least until people figure out that life can be awesome (and real estate is 1/4 the price) outside it.
> People should always create and attempt improve upon whats out there. Don't try to stifle innovation...

I agree completely and my argument is that a lot of the Javascript libraries being pushed around over the past three to four years are neither creative nor improvements over what already exists. React is innovative. Redux is (arguably) innovative. jQuery was innovative. Many other libraries have been innovative. I'm arguing against the hundreds upon hundreds of "me too" libraries that make it so much harder to find the truly innovative stuff. These libraries do nothing but add to decision fatigue. Developers have to make decisions, sure, but we need to have limits too.
> Well to be fair, having parents be "warmer" to their children and engage with them more probably also has positive results, regardless of the flawed reasoning for it.

I agree, but imagine this:

You have a children with a bad illness. Then some moron comes and accuses you of being the cause of the illness. Let's hope he is right, otherwise he deserves to burn in hell for the eternity. (Or whatever infinite penalty is compatible with your beliefs.)
Yes, this is 100% accurate. No-one wants their budget to shrink. Agencies will come to us at the end of the year with unspent client budget that they really don't want to give back, lest they be given less to spend the next year.
Hyperinflation (Especially unrealiable hyperinflation) is an untenable state of affairs. Nobody lends, hedging is impossible, and cash becomes worthless.

Moderate amounts of inflation (Under 10%), on the other hand, has worked 'fine' for the better part of a century.
I don't think that the belief that feature X was created at the expense of feature Y is a reasonable assumption. Who knows how this feature came about? It could have been a Githubber's 20% project, or weekend hack project, or largely down to a 3rd party library.
Absolutely a non-issue for Amazon. People are likely selling since Amazon's sales are likely to decrease seasonally (though, while that's generally true of retail, I don't exactly know Amazon's financials from the past few years).
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This may not be an issue for everyone, but I tend to stay the same position for too long so I need reminders to switch position.
The desk electronics knows the current height and a Slack bot is a nice way to remind me. Being able to lift the desk through the bot is just a side effect of the reverse engineering process (and a pretty good gimmick).
Unless the loan shark is the IMF, the ECB, and the EU, in which case it can park (financial) tanks outside the banks of the debtor country and threaten to rain financial death on it.

That's unlikely to happen in China's case - but we're in novel territory politically and economically, so I think it's impossible for anyone to guess how it will play out.
How do you feel this will compete with the growing popularity of bug bounties that are a crowdsourced pay-per-bug model?
Probably not for the same reason, because they are easy to replace. A notebook full of thoughts is not.

Interestingly though, I have shunned glasses for fear of becoming dependent on them. I can see well enough without them, and noticed, after wearing them for a while, my uncorrected vision was worse than before I started wearing them. Whatever mechanisms my eyes had developed to see better became less effective after wearing glasses for a while. I lost the last pair about 4 years ago and haven't replaced it.
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> Why the downvotes?!

Probably because of the needless profanity and lack of an explanation for your statement (my best guess, I did not downvote you).

> bells and whistles

These kind of features are completely unnecessary for developers, but are useful for the less tech-savvy team members. The markup is not hidden, so it provides a way to learn some basic MarkDown (good!). That in turn improves communication, which improves your product.

Beware of the fallacy of believing that because someone finds the time to polish their product or add seemingly simple features, they don't invest resources in more complex features or research and development. These are not mutually exclusive goals, even though resources are by definition limited.
As someone who uses a fixed standing desk without a chair, aside from a desire to do periodic squats, I don't see the appeal of a transforming desk. But I know I am coming at this with a totally different point of view, and everyone's tastes are different. So I'm obviously not saying you're wrong.

The following bit piqued my curiosity:

> Regarding the above items, you'll probably want to move it up and down every 45 minutes to 1.5 hours.

You transform your desk several times a day? I am surprised. I really didn't think transforming desks saw that much transformation in practice. Sounds like you are getting great value out of it!
and that would cause a run from the yuan, right?
I bought the autonomous desk from kickstarter for $500 (basic model): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403524037/autonomous-de..., so far quite happy with it. Really stable, and the table top is of good quality. I can see the author's point where the motor is not necessary but when it's cheap enough (at the low end of the $500-$3000 price range), it's certainly a nice to have feature.

Wobbly desk really bugs me and I would rather have a fixed height desk rather than a wobbly one. Testing the stability (or confirm from other's review) before you buy.
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Yeah, it's easy to say that, but you're assumptions are wrong. Spending time and breaking flow waiting for a desk to go up/down is a waste. I can keep typing and focusing while the desk goes up and down.

Also, I don't stand because it burns calories and I wouldn't expect to burn significant calories cranking a desk or holding a button.
All of the names in the selector are short and easy to read, there's just a lot of them. I don't even know what the method does or what any of the parameter types, but I can make what I'd assume is a fairly accurate guess:

outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:

Some kind of pixel format enumeration, probably along the lines of "[Class name of the receiver]PixelFormat". Also, the function probably returns an "OutputImageProvider", or something like that (could be a id with a protocol associated, due to "provider"). This one is longer than the others, but that's just because it contains information about what the message will return.

pixelsWide:

The width of the output image in pixels, hopefully an NSUInteger (but sadly, probably an NSInteger, and Swift is only making this discrepancy worse).

pixelsHigh:

Same as above.

baseAddress:

A pointer to the buffer referenced.

bytesPerRow:

The number of bytes per row, probably size_t?

releaseCallback:

Something to call when the provider is released, probably a block? Actually, judging by the next parameter, probably a function pointer. Wow, this must be an old API!

releaseContext:

An argument to pass to releaseCallback.

colorSpace:

A color space value. Possibly an enumeration of RGB, HSV, etc., or a more complex type.

shouldColorMatch:

While I'm not sure what color matching actually is, I do know that this parameter enables or disables it, and is of type BOOL.
Yes, that is something. The act of writing it down helps my ability to remember it.
Can you explain the "money from the future" thing?

The only money that I know is a) a metal coin and b) a contract. Now, the contract naturally deals with future expectations as does the stock market. The stock market, however, does not create money. It distributes money.

One problem that arises in this regard is making contracts about money (which is other contracts). When the expectations fail, the contracts fail and if the contract was used to create money, you now have a problem. The money supply ultimately shrinks and the contracts about money start to fail. This is usually the point where the government announces big spending programs to lessen the pain.

You may ask where does the government get that money?

There are two fundamentally different methods.

1) from people who accumulated money. They give it to the government and the government spends it. In turn the government needs more money to pay those people back.

Does the money supply increase this way? Kind of, but not really. It just helps to bring existing money back into circulation but does not create new money. It is therefore only a temporary fix. One day the government will stop paying those people back.

2) The government just creates new money. They can do this if they control the currency (sorry, Greece). The dangerous part about this is that it is so easy to create new money once the dam has been broken and this new money isn't backed up with value. When this goes out of hand it leads to hyperinflation (as in Germany 1920s) where the currency is devalued.

By having a really strong and reasonable government, you can force 1) at low cost and control 2) without going overboard. China might be in a position where they can do that for a long time.
Agree. I also have the Bekant, and it's been fine. The motor is nice if I do need to adjust the height.
Yeah exactly, for building UI's less is more and the Clojurescript approach works really well. For building web apps, I really don't care how storing sessions, or configuring your web server or parsing HTTP requests is done, I just want it to work out of the box.
> willingness to put ones life on hold for a predetermined amount of time.

That is almost the definition of a degree. During a degree, every class expects you to devote time and resources to learning. The degree programs we see today are structured in such a way that they expect you to drop everything else and learn (or research, in graduate studies).

If you can't 'put your life on hold' in order to study you won't be able to do it quickly or coherently enough to generate the large body of knowledge that a degree represents.
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With Docker getting more and more space and the docker ecosystem being so good with docker machine, docker engine, docker compose and docker swarm. Can Docker replace entirely CM tools?

Looks like using ansible + docker for a small app is a completely overkill and mess, everything can be solely managed with the docker tools.
> Now, granted, this stuff isn't used by "hip startups" or "unicorns", but the world is a lot bigger than the SV startup scene.

Most of it is used by business that literally manage your life. Banks, electrical and water, manufacturing plants, telephone exchanges, everything.
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What do kids want to be when they grow up?
Explain. What did you modify?
Definitely a neat little read on pedestrian activity. Apparently people like to play in the snow but not commute in it. Who'd a thunk?
Now I have some context so it makes a little more sense. Is society as a whole fund-able?
I have used this rack as my standing and sitting desk. One rack adjusted for sitting position and one for standing. I used to stand most of the time. Not as conveniently adjustable as standing desk but it worked for me at $100. http://www.staples.com/Hirsh-Heavy-Duty-Riveted-Boltless-Ste...
If he was there from the beginning, is he actually a part-owner of the business? Are you sure that you can legally fire him? Honestly does his analytics work provide more benefit to the company than your work output? Are you sure it wouldn't really be better for _you_ to resign?
Gold plate is cheap.
The debt is substantially owed by local Chinese governments, SOEs and developers to Chinese banks.

The central government could:

1) Transfer the debt to itself (a bailout) this leaves the central government with a very high (although sustainable) debt load but doesn't address any of the underlying problems.

2) Inflate the debt away. This doesn't address any of the underlying problems but it also impoverishes a lot of people who thought they were doing well. It also increases capital flight pressure.

3) "Stress test" the banks, requiring loans in arrears be paid, bad loans be written off, stopping the process of sending good money after bad. This is the only move that address the underlying problems, but it means the banks collapse (because they're already insolvent), the SOEs go bust, plus the problem of insolvent local governments would have to be addressed; people lose their old age pensions, massive unemployment. Plus most of the PRC's members wealth is in SOEs so this will affect them personally. Also the government will have to recapitalize the banks if it wants a financial sector at all (see option 2).

4) Claiming to do 3 while actually doing a combination of 1 and 2. This is probably what they will do and if they succeed, at the end of the day, the can will be a little further down the road.
I was going to buy this game until I read the steam reviews. If you're considering this purchase I highly recommend reading the top-rated helpful reviews. They changed my mind, they might change yours.

TLDR for the reviews - Only buy this if you like puzzles for individual puzzle's sake, not as means to unlocking a larger story.
US debt is in USD, question is how China's debt is structured.
Fair point, I think they're mostly professional too and have friends who went into HPD, but I've seen enough that are not (grew up there 20 years, Ewa and downtown).
The desk is constantly going up and down. Depends on what I'm working on, how my back is feeling (dealing with a herniated disc). I actually spend a lot of time pacing on the phone right now, so I may have it up for an hour phone call and then down for some writing.
While I wouldn't put abusing police records past them, it seems more likely that they just purchased some telemarketing DBs from data brokers.
Any static generator (e.g. Jekyll) + any HTTP object store (e.g. Amazon S3) + any CDN (e.g. Cloudflare)
Best sitting/standing desk around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4-yOB3qFKI

Cranks, motors and the like have nothing on this simple counterweight system.
It can be hard or even impossible to prove that a variable gets read before it gets written to.

People who want to get every last bit of performance out of their systems do want to write code like:

int x;
...
if(condition1) x = expression1;
...
while(expression2)
{
x = DoSomethingWith(x);
}

where the intelligent reader knows things are fine, but a compiler has a hard time proving it. For example, a contract implicit in an API may enforce the invariant, but that cannot be deduced from the code.
No one should vote, it just encourages the bastards.
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I have the feeling we would have to bail out a lot of banks.
I've used a notebook at well and I think you'd be able to work with the same strategy. The notebook is just ephemeral thoughts that you have the impulse to take action on, so you write them down instead of acting on them. At some point you move the worthwhile content to a better resting place. It shouldn't end up being an irreplaceable object :)

Edit: Specifically, I followed the Bullet Journal system: http://bulletjournal.com/
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Not really. Smoking went down as it became less socially acceptable to do so. Case in point: cigarettes are $6/pack in California, but very few people smoke because those who do are seen as unhealthy louts. Meanwhile in New York cigarettes are $13 yet it's much more prevalent.
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That probably means that China has no problems paying back debt denominated in US$.

I don't know about the dynamics of this selloff. It's very hard to argue without seeing the whole picture but it indicates that _something_ is going on.
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I swear to god they used to make them with like these two plastic pads like 3"x6" that attached to those rings but I've haven't been able to find one like that for as long as I've been looking. I do admit the bars are crap though it's never been an issue because the when seated my feet are further under the desk than when standing and I've always had a boxes of shit under my desk. Or I just stood up or did the one cheek on one cheek off move.

ETA holy crap you found one</praise jesus hands> I feel like a jack ass now.
Is this the game he wrote in his new programming language?
I'm supporting this mentality. You should always be looking for ways to make existing things better. This is exactly how React was born damn it.
You wouldn't consider India or many parts of Africa a growth market?
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It is already mentioned: you never have to type those by hand, there is autocomplete with placeholders.
Hmm, I think there are actually zero or very few examples of populations given permanent welfare where something bad happened. In fact, the exact opposite. I really feel bad for the people in permanent welfare in Sweden where health care is free and standards of living are extremely high. Yeah, that's terrible.

I read a lot of that discussion on meta filter, and it was extremely unconvincing. I empathize with women who marry crappy people who expect them to stay at home and don't want to listen to their problems and want them to send birthday cards to their family. But the whole conversation was about a non issue. Basically like the argument any roommates would have about who has to do the dishes. Or who left the toilet seat up. It was complaining about personal things that they really just need to deal with themselves. And maybe they need help learning to do that, but "emotional work" isn't a thing. It isn't, it shouldn't be compensated, it doesn't exist. These aren't big societal dilemmas. Women aren't perfectly equal now but it is perfectly acceptable in most of the western world for women to get real jobs.

Or maybe it would help to hear an example (any example, you still haven't given one). What is one hard choice a woman might have to make to escape the pain of being poor? The hard choice not to have children? How is that a hard choice and how could it possibly go away in any imaginable future without the reality of biology being worked around with external wombs and robotic child care? And what, please tell me, could that have to do with a basic income?
If anyone is interested in how the game's beautiful lighting works, Ignacio Castaño wrote several articles about his work on it:

http://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/tag/witness/
The problem is it usually turns into a Think Of The Children argument. Among my friends on social media, everyone is either 100% anti-cop or pro-cop. No one is willing to discuss possible solutions to occasional injustice.
I'd pass on the nuclear physics, biophysics is where it's at these days. (Now if you meant particle physics you might have a point). But nuclear physics itself is kind of considered as a field whose heyday is past.
For the government debt it isn't a huge issue because the Government can essentially decide not to pay itself back. But for public debt it means that the economy is held back.

"Public debt" is another name for "Government debt"[0]. From the rest of your description, you means "debt owed by the non-government public", private debt, or "household debt" (which doesn't strictly include corporate debt like your example outlines).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_debt
Adjustable standing desk is more than a desk -- it's a multi-use work surface. I can push my monitors out of the way and move it all the way up to have the right height for taking computers apart. I can then move it to writing height and fill out paperwork like it's 1995 and then adjust it again for typing height and pull my monitors back into place.

If I could, every surface I owned would be adjustable height.
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I think Nim would be ideal for that kind of applications, in particular neural networks stuff. But definitely we are not there yet. I try to explain my reasons in this blog post: http://rnduja.github.io/2015/10/21/scientific-nim/

To get to a point where we have something good to use, though, there are a few libraries to develop. I started working out a basic layer for linear algebra, that is needed in many applications - see http://unicredit.github.io/linear-algebra/

I hoped I would be able to start working on some neural network stuff based on that, but I did not find the time yet...
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You're being ridiculous. My question was about US laws, which is non-general information and also constantly changing.

I claimed I have no knowledge about it, and asked if someone else did. What is your problem with that? You aren't even contributing to the conversation. Do you honestly have nothing better to do than to attack random people on the internet? Please get a life.
Back up now. Looks like I hit some sort of Azure limit.
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http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-standing-desk/

I'm considering to buy ergo depot Jarvis. Anybody using it?
I ended up with one of these: https://www.standdesk.co/

$400, easy to build, not super loud considering.