skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what I was expecting, but the generate source doesn't look all that useful:

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reminds me of source when you export html from google docs...
It shows at least 2 examples of the opposite, yes. That's not, to me, enough to discount that it might be reasonable for a person to be concerned about lobbying, and whether it it might be harmful/illegal.
Does it have a safe way to build queries, as well as the pure sql ?
As a not-so-extreme libertarian:

>Power companies are responsible for their own infrastructure.

>National defense is a tricky one. Maybe PMCs.

>Conflicts are basically impossible to resolve without some variety of authority; this is why more moderate libertarianism works better
I was going on the first half of your statement "buying bottled water or refillable purified tap water".

The latter half is still a lot more expensive than municipal water. Do you also use that water for cooking? Washing your vegetables? Washing the dishes? Bathing? Brushing your teeth?

In Flint the government recommendation (if you can believe them) is to use filtered water for the first two, which means you'll need to fetch a lot of water for pasta night.

If you have kids, "Michigan’s top poison control doctor said parents should take care to limit the time children are in the bath and be sure they don’t drink any of the water" http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/11/do... , and they shouldn't use the water to brush their teeth.

That's even more RO water to fetch.
I do think that there is good reason to make these decisions intentionally i.e. don't drive species extinct by accident. But I'm not sure that an intentional thought process should lead to different conclusions. It depends on what the goals of conservation are.

Humans have, by our presence, drastically altered a variety of ecosystems in ways that can't be undone. In the case of the Condor parasites, it's unclear, but it's possible that if the mites and lice had been left alive that would have been the difference that drove the condors extinct. A non-intervention approach might have extincted all three species.

A more extreme example: in the Galapagos, human-introduced flies have been killing the finches that inspired Darwin. A non-intervention approach is arguably the most natural, but this would likely cause the finches to go extinct. Intervening to kill the flies might save the finches, but it also involves ecosystem changes to kill the flies and interaction with the finches that demonstrably has already modified their behaviors. Ultimately, returning the finches to their original state is not an option, so any course conservation takes will result in an ecosystem that differs from what Darwin observed.

Given we can't undo the changes we've already made, it makes sense to make these kinds of choices based on human factors. It makes sense to choose majestic condors over lice and mites, historically valuable finches survival over their unmodified behavior, human health over guinea worms, and human health over malaria and the mosquito populations that carry it. Extinction of mosquitoes in particular has far-reaching ecological effects which we should strive to understand and mitigate, but I doubt that any of those effects will be more compelling to me than the suffering caused by malaria.

A pragmatic view of conservation realizes that change is inevitable, and the best we can do is push that change in positive directions, and further, that "positive" is subjective.
It does look neat, but what would the advantages be over using the SQLAlchemy tools (not the ORM)?
But isn't it somewhat reasonable that I push someone else's commit? Say I want to rewrite an old commit, and then force push that, then all the commits after the rewritten commit by other people would effectively be pushed by me.

Or consider the common case where the public repository on Github is just a mirror of an official repository somewhere else -- then commits from a bunch of people would all be pushed by whoever is responsible for keeping the repos in sync.

But maybe Github could just add some kind of a "pushed by" label that identifies the Github user who pushed the commit?
In computational physics you model situations by creating some particles, placing them in some initial configuration, and defining the manner in which position and proximity of other particles creates forces acting upon each particle, and then you calculate acceleration, and thus eventually the position of those particles after a single temporal step. When all the giggling stops you've hit your system's final configuration given the initial conditions and subject to the forces defined (up to the numerical precision afforded by whatever affects your simulation's precision).

Analogously in economics you'd want to define the agents, the inventory of what they have, what they want, and the medium (market) through which they will trade to become as happy as they can. When nobody sees any point trading anymore you have a “Pareto optimal” end-state and you're basically in equilibrium.

Back when I used program simulations I used Mathematica, and I am still deeply tied to that specific platform, but there's several introductions to doing much the same with less exotic (and expensive) tools such as Python: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_North/publicati...
I agree that a website for a product like this should have exemplary accessibility.

The heuristic I'd use in a screen reader is as follows: if a user activates a link and a new element becomes visible but nothing else happens within half a second or so, read the contents of that element as if it were a newly loaded page.

FWIW for anyone else reading this thread, ndarilek and I have each developed a screen reader (on Android and Windows, respectively).
I've heard a lot of people complaining about JIRA and so on, but I've never really understood why they hate it. Sure, it's closed source, but so is GitHub, and people seem to like that (this discussion notwithstanding).
Eleven years ago I actually wrote something like this in Scheme for a bespoke Web app. I called it QB (for Query Builder) and basically implemented a useful subset of SQL as a macro-based language inside Scheme. When you unquoted Scheme expressions into a query, it did the Right Thing in terms of escaping strings, etc.
This should be easy to (mostly-)automate for much less than 0.25% per year. Something like a website where I enter the funds that I have and whenever it's time for TLH or re-allocation I get an email.

The main issues that I can think of are wash sales and the task of finding other funds that match your original fund.
I don't think the genre has been exhausted, much to the contrary, I think it has vast amounts of untapped potential! That's exactly what makes it even more painful that almost no more good MMOs have been released since WoW.
Over a shorter term, there's the famous example of Scion Capital, which handily beat the market during its eight-year existence. And not just by a little bit; the S&P saw 2% total return over those eight years whereas Scion saw around 490%, primarily but not entirely due to the fund manager's foresight of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
As a counter-point: my favorite classes were always the ones in which the teacher instilled their love of the subject into their teaching.

Show me what can be accomplished--show me the best of what can be done--and let my imagination run with that.

The mechanics are generally simple and can be learned online or through routine practice. It's the passion, the love, of the subject that teachers can uniquely give their students, whether that's history or painting or programming. Show us the joy behind it, and we'll seek out the rest.

I know that mechanics and passion aren't mutually exclusive, but the question ultimately comes down to what teachers should prioritize. What's their goal? Is it to teach how to add, multiply, and divide, or is it really to inspire a lifelong love of mathematics in their students' lives?
Their preorder button doesn't work for me either in Safari. It just scrolls down to a bunch of icons to be a tester/developer/distributor/supporter/investor/make a donation. All of those go to a generic contact form and only "donate" has a button that lets you give them money - and has no indication it's a preorder so it's presumably not.
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Exactly. That's what happens when your game isn't being lovingly crafted by (e.g) Richard Garriott and his pals, and is instead a product on a treadmill to maximise profit.
I don't think it's intellectually honest to mix and match stats from different studies to fit your worldview. The study that has the 1 in 21 stat for men who have been forced to penetrate also says that 1 in 5 women have been raped.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a...
IIRC, the upper-middle class and the people who admire them. That seemed to be what the article is saying, until I got to the conclusion.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/logic-of-evil-the-social-orig...
What is the conversation about if not resource redistribution? Simple acknowledgment gets you what, exactly? Nothing.. There's obviously some desired action. That action is what, if not some kind of favoritism or balancing of scales?

In this simplistic example, it comes down to one party using guilt tactics to convince the other party to provide an advantage or a leg up, which necessitates working against their own interests. Guilt tactics are required because it's a social engineering goal; the total number of people at the losers' bar remains the same.
Werc, minimal plan9-based web framework, receives updates after over 3 years
Here's a few things I found myself, if anyone is interested:

Book: MacLellan's Principles of Programming Languages. The principles are listed here: http://www.lshift.net/blog/2006/06/24/bruce-j-maclennans-pro...

Book: Masterminds of Programming. Interviews with the designers of many languages. Not all equally good.

Papers and Media: History of Programming Languages, proceedings 1-3. The third one includes video. (Paywalled -need an ACM subscription) Many classic articles including Kay on Smalltalk, Richie on C, McCarthy on Lisp. Iverson on APL. More recent languages include Haskell, Self, Lua. Many obscure but interesting languages like ZPL, Beta, Modula, etc.
Hello, we are the TSA. We are a massive, sprawling government bureaucracy that has never caught a single terrorist. We know airport security is a massive pain in the ass for no discernible reason and no tangible benefit to your security as a traveller.

If you would only pay us a small recurring fee, we will agree to hassle you less and speed you through this line-up.
Just add native support for Sass and call it a day.
The same link is somewhere in this guide, too. This guide has a broader scope, though.
> hello world is outdated

I agree with this sentiment in the general case. But it reminded me of something from when I was in high school

I was taking some sort of electronics class that had rudimentary programming and the first assignment was to just get the computer to print your name. I was working with another student and this student was amazed when it worked. Amazed just that they got the computer to do anything. I was baffled by this, so much that I still remember it.
Has it occurred to you that maybe it is your perception of Apple that has changed, and not the company? Because Apple has always had a corporate strategy.
Hey, wait. We don't even have a project defined but you're already talking about being effective. Isn't it a bit early? ;)

A lot of CRUD apps (which, I think, a lot of websites/webapps are) don't usually use anything but the basic SQL stuff.
You have no idea how charming those screengrabs are :O
Good point. I threw it out there cause I was multi-tasking, and busy but thought it would be interesting.

I can see how it would be spammy, though considering that it's not a product available to people it wouldn't really benefit them in the same way as other products.

Either way, the relevance is that "robo-advisory" services will likely fall to AI systems sooner rather than later. That these "robo-systems" are taking off at all, means that people are comfortable handing over those decisions knowingly to machines. As they get better, it would be irresponsible to have a human managed fund - in the same way it will be irresponsible to get into a human driven car.
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American forestry and wood products is a national treasure. It really does embody what sustainable use of natural resources should be.

Shout out to any one working for/with the forest service. keep it up!
I'd disagree with "prevent genocide". That was some pro US intervention rationale; but in the end it was "the enemy", the Serbian/Montenegrins of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, that got ethnically cleansed. The US was involved.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm

The New York Times reported the US Air Force did the AWACs on this particular job and other sources report that the administration used mercenary contractors and supplied the invaders.

Check out Serb population in Kosovo, too.
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FAQ: https://ultibo.org/faq/
But the policies that politics is concerned about (economy, welfare, etc) are accessible to scientific analysis.
The last commits were done by Uriel himself back in August of 2012.. great to see this project still lives!

The main page is here: http://werc.cat-v.org/
Agreed...

After reading the article I was curious about the actual adhesives used...I've seen what mother nature can do to sheets of ordinary plywood after only a couple of years outdoors an had my doubts about exterior applications...

Found more info on the adhesives here...

http://www.glulam.co.uk/principalChoices_adhesives.htm

I did not find an answer to the question: What sort of regular maintenance is required... sealers...waterproofing?

Nice write-up...some of the photos are stunningly beautiful...
I didn't think that first quote was your argument, I just thought it was the dumbest thing you said. I think it's silly that you believe that past wrongs can be rectified and that future wrongs are definitely going to happen, and that that invalidates the argument you presented about discrimination against white people not existing. Theory or argument, that's pedantry.

> Not all discriminations are equal.

Never said that.

I was implying that anything that was discrimination was wrong. Are you arguing the opposite?

> We can measure the effect [etc] and the impact [etc] and it can ascribed monetary value [etc]. No formula will be ideal in all cases, but that is not an excusable barrier. [emphasis mine]

You'll have to inform me then why there's debate on the ballpark percentage of the wage gap or even that it exists in general, just as an example. (not arguing for or against, but that there is a debate) And it is perfectly excusable for someone not to take action, or not to execute a very big action, if it is not the correct action, unless you think justice is necessarily coexistent with wrongful imprisonment.

And how do you pick who gets affirmative action anyway? I'm a Polish immigrant. My ancestors have been fucked 5 ways from Tuesday by just about every major happening in Europe. It was still 1989 when communism fell (only 27 years ago), and it left desolation and despair in its wake. Coming to the US, my parents and I had just about nothing.

And better yet, I'm not going to claim I deserve something. Because the world dealt me and everyone a shitty hand and the best I can do is play it, no matter the odds. Even if someone got a better hand than I did.
When I went back to C++ after learning Rust and used a vector again, I realized this and it hit me like a brick. I used to program in C++ before, so it wasn't like I didn't know this, but it was something rather unremarkable to me. Then I go back to C++ and throw vectors around willy-nilly and stuff works. Huh, I thought, this feels strange, I wonder how C++ accomplishes this without a garbage collector or ownership. Then it hit me -- it deep copies All The Things. Again, I already knew this, but I hadn't ever thought about it much. But the change in perspective made it stick out like a sore thumb.
I'm wondering if there is added value in replacing the proposed simple alarm function with control charts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_chart
I agree with the article's thesis: programming general-education needs to step away from abstracted problem sets. Instead, I think programming should first be presented as a tool - rather than a complicated science.

The comp-sci courses I had access to in high school / college were all depth-first, so the barrier of entry was overwhelming. The dense theory, to me, was so much less attractive than solving a problem with a BB plugin or broken Javascript in the real world. I believed I was going to be a script kiddy forever, because I enjoyed tinkering and tweaking more than traditional coursework.

It didn't click for me that I could be a "real" programmer until after I dropped out of college (was studying Latin/Classics, no science or math background). I started building my own games and game-helper apps, in Python, while working an IT helpdesk. Observing people interact and engage with things I built gave me the confidence to pursue a career in web development, using MOOCs (MITx series was excellet) and project-based tutorials to self-educate. I stepped up to tackle more real-world problems outside the scope of my helpdesk position, mostly day-to-day scripting and org automation.

So, educational strategies like Human Resource Machine really tick the right boxes for me. If I had played that game years ago, I think I would've gravitated towards comp-sci much earlier. I needed a strong reward system (coworker's gratitude) to propel me through advanced topics, and game-ification of edu is all about treadmilling through a reward track.

I hold the title of software engineer today, without ever having completed a formal comp-sci course outside of MOOCs. I don't think this narrative is uncommon, especially among women or first-generation programmers. I clearly demonstrated the skills necessary to be a successful developer: linguistics and programming share many common themes. But I was funneled towards a silly Latin program, because I and my academic advisers thought my non-existent math/science background precluded me from computer science.

Progamming has seeped into the vernacular of day-to-day problem solving, and I think this is the angle that intro courses should seize.
Wood is such a great material and seems to be making a comeback of sorts all over the place. Recent big bestseller nook in Norway/Sweden was about chopping, drying and stacking firewood: http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scand...
I compile some random links and send them out every week: https://www.skorgu.net/weird/
The rundown of the scholarship and the following debate is useful, but I found that post to be immediately suspicious as it simply asserts, repeatedly, that "legitimate scholars" and "legit historians" ignored it or don't agree. I find such language to be a strong indicator that someone is about to try overstating their case, and is trying to discourage people from challenging their assertions by dismissing other views. An unfortunately common problem with historians, I've found.

I think the guy is correct that the "fall" of Rome is a complex topic and it's not entirely clear what this fall really consists of. But it's known from skeletal analysis that some Romans did indeed have very high lead levels in their bodies, we know what kinds of effects that can have, etc. Saying Rome fell exclusively because of lead piping would be perhaps overstating things, but we know that our own much more advanced society was becoming more and more violent until lead was removed from gasoline: if that connection had never been made or the solution never happened it's not hard to believe that in a hundred years or so we'd be existing in a far, far worse state.
Why? He doesn't like Common Core and wants to lower the bar.

Everyone needs logic and philosophy, abstract thinking, and the ability to prove (or disprove) with facts or evidence.

This guy, more than anyone else, really really needs to read, comprehend, and understand 'Software is eating the world' to understand exactly how wrong he is. But at 86 years old, I doubt his ability to grok anything that doesn't fit his predefined narrative and views.
Well, that was a long time coming. I was playing with a beta version of CSS Vars 4+ years ago, which was then removed and eventually replaced with this.
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What impresses me most when I look through his stream on Flickr is his access.

It is not easy to get into as many events as he has managed, and it even harder to get a seat or being allowed to get close enough to get a good picture. If he is not working for, or assignment for a media company he probably doesnt have a press pass, or at least not one that gets bouncers / security people to step aside.

Presumably he gains more and more access as his pictures are published. This is the key thing that will help him if he ever wants to get paid work out of it. Leading powerful politicians will know him, and know him as a photographer. Getting that recognition is not easy for a photo journalist.

Getting started in photo journalism is really hard, and its getting harder as news agencies downsize both regular journalists and photographers The market is turning more and more toward video and crowd sourcing images.

Lets say you went to school, studied photography, getting started as a freelancer, you take ok pictures and you submit them and pray for a publication. If you are luck you get picked up a little here and there, but unless you get lucky, no one really pay attention to who you are.

He has taken a bold step, and his name is now known to editors at major publications. Getting that network is far more difficult than learning how to
take pictures.
The site’s back up, so your wish has been granted: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/home/fired-for...
GitHub-backup:  backs up everything GitHub knows about a repository or a user
just curious. how do you feel about the 4 fund portfolio?
If you've already got the SQL handy, this is pretty useful.
I just have to say that I wish people would stop using App Store links and link instead to a program's home page. I am seeing this everywhere and it is annoying.
Why SHA-256 instead of SHA-3?
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>Power companies are responsible for their own infrastructure.

You think they'll be able to negotiate easements and rights of way to each house? (without starting to look like a public entity?)

>National defense is a tricky one. Maybe PMCs.

So, Somalia? Blackwater?

>Conflicts are basically impossible to resolve without some variety of authority; this is why more moderate libertarianism works better

Extremely moderate libertarianism? There are more conventional names for that.
Saying 'no' to keep crap out of products
>Power companies are responsible for their own infrastructure.

How exactly do you build infrastructure without government powers such as eminent domain, or without inserting easements for utility access?

A libertarian landowner could simply refuse to allow utility lines to cross their property and thus cutoff others from access, or require expensive routing around their property. Roads, power/sewer/water/gas lines, phone/cable/data - all would be at the whim of landowners large and small as to whether it would even exist.

There is no realistic way for a private company to negotiate access between them and every single landowner they'd need to in order to build infrastructure that serves a sizeable population. Hence government "coercion" is required.