skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're quite as real as nonnegative numbers, which are also abstract things. It's ironic that in your last line you use the terms "real" and "imaginary", in their colloquial meanings, as these have long since been adopted and coopted to denote... the real and complex numbers respectively :) which, some of us contend, are no less real than the integers. Face it: groups abound in physics. A group has a binary operation such that for every element has a (unique) inverse element w.r.t. that operation. When the group is Abelian we write the operation as "+", and then the "additive" inverse of an element x is -x, also an element of the group. It's silly to claim that, for example, rotation through an angle $\theta > 0$ should be considered more "real" than rotation through $-\theta$. One is counterclockwise, the other, clockwise, by the same amount.
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It wasn't socialism, more protectionism. Investment in defunct industry and lack of investment in new technology for fear that it would overshadow the old craftmanship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fHDWoQuUZo
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So, is it time to throw some tea in the harbour now?
Because everyone with a different opinion on the most beneficial infrastructural policy is driven by pure self-interest.

..basically the pop culture version of a regulatory debate.
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You summed up exactly what I thought it in my head about his Tweets, he is positively juvenile.
He probably meant "Anti-West" attitudes, not anti-colonialism. Coming from a third world country myself, I know there is a tendency to deny and dismiss some socially disruptive innovations because of their origin. There is a cultural trust issue there.
Working on it! I'll give you full credit for it and link to this thread for reference. Also let me know if you have a Twitter account you'd like me to reference.
This exactly. What's going on here is the internet hate machine has found a new target, and is eager to assign the least generous possible interpretation so they can feel good about themselves, look nice and self-righteous to their friends, get up votes, and so on. If you want to attack a man, maybe it's best to figure out what he was trying to say first.

Some of the comments even in this thread are disgusting, and they are getting plenty of upvotes; and I find it curious how a community that usually decries this sort of thing becomes so quick to engage in it.
> Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic
> for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?

I assumed anti-colonialism meant the license raj, protectionism, central planning, import substitution, and other illiberal policies brought in in 1947, that were sold at the time as being anti-colonial.

Can someone tell me what it actually means, or is the suggestion that these policies weren't economic suicide?
So you get can't paid at all because they don't issues checks, they direct deposit to your bank account, which you no longer have thanks to FATCA.
Marc Andreessen has a well-documented record of blocking people liberally for very little reason:

https://medium.com/@aminatou/to-marc-andressen-6d09239f0065

https://twitter.com/triketora/status/677597576183480320

http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/23/technology/marc-andreessen-b...

https://blogdotitrendcorporationdotcom.wordpress.com/2014/05...

And, confusingly enough, doesn't really respect other people's blocks:

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/622911480841699328

I can anecdotally confirm that piratebroadcast's claim is not unusual, as I got blocked sometime after this tweet: https://twitter.com/geofft/status/458371450052022273 To be fair, maybe I should have attempted some substantive discussion instead.
To be fair, it was stupid, however it was also a tongue in cheek tweet that was not an endorsement of colonialism and more poking fun at the sluggish Indian economy once they freed themselves of colonial rule. He was essentially making the point you made.
If this is what you want, why not offer 6 weeks of PTO and a firm policy? It removes the ambiguity.
If this bothers you, you probably won't be pleased to learn that the overwhelming majority of "real numbers" can't be written down or even computed (ok, in principle you can enumerate the digits of at least one such number, but "Becher and Figueira proved in 2002 that there is a computable absolutely normal number, however no digits of their number are known.") [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
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Although I think you may be right in your interpretation how is maintaining net neutrality by India 'anti-colonialist'?
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What austerity are you talking about? That's not a US thing. There's been no austerity here; government spending has continued fairly normal growth once you factor out the stimulus spending.

Although since that seems to be what a lot of EU governments are calling "austerity", perhaps we have had it.
To quote mike_hearn's earlier comment "You say this like other countries don't also offer those services. Almost every western country does, and none of them tax their citizens abroad."

I think your argument is a post hoc justification.

Plus, "access to US consulate services" makes no sense. Many if not most Americans living overseas pay no taxes to the US. The complaint is the hassle and expense of filing the paperwork, and the likelihood or at least worry about exorbitant fines.

Finally, who do you think uses those services more - American tourists and business people, or those who live in the country?

Elsewhere leoedin points out that 'The UK embeds the cost of consular protection and embassy services into the renewal cost of a passport - approximately £15 in 2010'. That sounds like it's more equitable, and it shows that consulate services are not expensive. I pay 20x that amount for my accountant to deal with my US taxes, and would gladly play a flat $100 "I live or travel overseas" fee instead.
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Researchers don't pay for access to journals, universities do. There is a personal benefit for a researcher to publish on a prestigious but paywalled journal but no personal cost.
I'm not the one who moved to Prague.
Does it take too long to publish research?
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If I were him, I'd say I meant that too!

The original was catastrophically dumb. Was it because it's what he actually believes, or because he didn't spend more than fifteen microseconds considering his words? Beats me. Fun to watch, though.
Are we supposed to disagree with his actual point, or with this obvious retcon you've quoted here?
What a load of bull.

Cryopreservationist walks into a bar. Goes 'Hey, everybody, pay me $50 and I'll show you a fantastic trick, I take your watch, put it in a bag, smash it up with a hammer, then open the bag and out comes your watch'. Fascinated a number of patrons sign up and pay their $50, hand over their watches.

Audible gulps as the watches go into a nice silver velvety bag and a very large hammer smashes down on the bag with the bar serving as temporary anvil.

The bag with the remains of the watches gets carefully pocketed and some of the money goes towards ordering a round of drinks for everybody.

So, how about my watch, asks one of the people that handed over his watch and his money. "Oh, that's the hard part, I haven't really studied that yet, come back in a few 100 years and I might have your watch again. But I'm getting better at smashing watches, that's for sure."

> The point is that we could be saving lives, and we are not, largely because of irrational objections that are not really based on technological or scientific positions, but grasp at a those positions as a shield for the real nebulous feelings on the matter.

What makes you believe that we could be saving lives?
Evidence has come to public that VW deliberately scammed the emissions tests. Do you have evidence to support your argument that "everyone is cheating these tests since centuries"?
You mean, you are also adding pushing your .ssh dir to a remote repo?
I have no position on this. Please disagree with Andreessen about that, not with my objection to wild misinterpretation of him.

I have zero qualifications to have an opinion on the question you raise.
I'm not talking about the law so much as the moralizing. Aereo was a middle-man. The only reason anyone ever paid them money was to get access to content that Aereo didn't create or even pay for. When that content became unavailable, Aereo collapsed because the entire value of their service was derived from other peoples' content.

Whether or not their "subscription DVR service" fit within the legal loophole they were trying to take advantage of doesn't change the fact that it's pretty rich to build a service like that and then go around saying that the people whose content you're distributing -- the people who create the content that is the sole basis for the existence of your business -- are "fat cats" with "unfairly advantaged business positions."
And they were a small ruling caste that was assimilated by the locals, for the most part.

So the previous comment was quite accurate. The Mughals of Babur were far removed from the Mughals of Bahadur II.
I've found that the further down the article the actual quote is, the more likely that the writer's interpretation is misleading.

First sentence

>then suggesting the country would have had stronger economic growth if it had stayed under British rule rather than become independent in 1947.

Actual tweet, at the bottom

>Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades. Why stop now?
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> If anything, most opensource projects fail to do proper marketing.

Can you explain why opensource projects need such visual marketing? Shouldn't we choose the tools which are simply better in a technical sense, rather than the tools which have the flashiest pictures?
For better or worse, I suspect a large part of recent developments in India regarding zero-rating services were supported as "let's deal a blow to the big bad corporations affiliated with the western civilization that colonized us! we don't like them!" rather than a matter of intrinsic merit. It's a common motive in a variety of nations.

(edit: in this case, I suspect it might be "for better" and not "for worse" in effect, but I still suspect the ulterior motive.)
A casual glance at your social media feeds would have told you at least two things: 1. In India, the public rejected a massive PR campaign designed to create support for Free Basics, and went in the opposite direction; 2. That nobody from India in the US tech business thought Free Basics was a good idea.

In light of that, how Marc Andreesen thought it was a good idea to wrap his defense of Free Basics in a defense of colonialism is beyond imagining. But it does illustrate how certain stars of the tech world, some of whom have their claques on HN, can get pretty far disconnected from the real world.
It isn't. But ignoring the NN aspect of this discussion, the sentiment I got from the tweet was that the "anti-colonial" mindset was to drive out foreign influence, both positive and negative. The idea that the tweet was pro-colonial I believe is incorrect.

Once again, Twitter shows us why it shouldn't be used for nuanced conversation.
Interesting... Did the British also leave with the knowledge of how to maintain it?
Yeah sorry the question wasn't supposed to be directed at you, more rhetorical in nature.
With the new X-Files season, I've had an excuse to watch some over the air TV for the first time in a while. Before and during the most recent episode there was a recurring teaser for the local evening news that went something like "the hidden Dark Nets that cyber criminals are using and why they're so difficult to shut down!"

The accompanying graphics were things like dark hooded figures in silhouette and images of credit cards being scanned on something resembling a flatbed scanner. The whole thing was a real reminded of why I never watch network news unless there's something very local and "breaking" that's going on in my city.
> there are indeed aspects of American life and opportunity that don't currently exist in the EU.

But which are those? As far as I can tell, the only meaningful one I can see is unrestricted access into the US, and the ability to vote for the most powerful government in the world. That's not nothing, but it doesn't have much impact on most people's everyday life, unlike stuff like healthcare and pensions.

I suppose an American living in the EU does get to enjoy the best of both worlds in that regard, but is it really worth paying double taxes? Are there other aspects I'm missing?
Sorry for that question: What is that different to Affinity Designer?

You can do pretty much the same in Affinity Designer. Even things like moving curves around without the need to modify the handles of the curves.

I don't see anything innovative here.
Many Z170 motherboards got this functionality, but keep in mind it's not without caveats.

It breaks integrated graphics, turbo boost, all power saving states, temperature sensing, and cripples the performance of AVX instructions for some reason.

http://overclocking.guide/intel-skylake-non-k-overclocking-b...
Influential people's opinions have always been news. The medium they use to disperse those opinions is irrelevant.
Seems health and taste both dissuaded use.

For when lead is smelted in casting the fumes from it settle upon their members and day after day burn out and take away all the virtues of the blood from their limbs Hence water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes if we want to have it wholesome That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste.

Google books, pg 246 https://goo.gl/g19bhQ
I doubt even the Indians themselves are debating that the British brought many new technologies to India or that they maintained them well. Something which the later Indian administrations did not do as well.

But when, in the end, the whole system was a huge scam meant to get resources out of India and into Britain, everything comes into a larger perspective.
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Also, I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that R's `read.csv` doesn't do what one hopes it would when fed this CSV:

10,3,Brian,"You mean like the time you had tea with
Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith?
Peter:
Come on, Mohammad, let's get some tea.
Mr. T:
Try my ""Mr. T. ...tea.""
"

Well, it seems people are not understanding the problem with this line. Here is the screenshot of the original script: http://imgur.com/pcu5N2U

Brian:	You mean like the time you had tea with Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith? [flashback #3]
Peter:	Come on, Mohammad, let's get some tea. [Mohammad is covered by a black box with the words "IMAGE CENSORED BY FOX" printed several times from top to bottom inside the box. They stop at a tea stand.]
Mr. T:	Try my "Mr. T. ...tea." [squints]

There, three characters speak.

However, R's read.csv will assign all three characters' speech to Brian: http://imgur.com/gLpPKdl

> x[596, ]
Season Episode Character
596 10 3 Brian
Line
596 You mean like the time you had tea with Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith? \nPeter:\nCome on, Mohammad, let's get some tea. \n

> x[597,]
Season Episode Character
597 10 3 Brian
Line
597 You mean like the time you had tea with Mohammad, the prophet of the Muslim faith? \nPeter:\nCome on, Mohammad, let's get some tea. \nMr. T:\nTry my "Mr. T. ...tea." \n

as well as seemingly duplicating part of the conversation.

PS: In addition, both Muhammad and Mohammad appear, presumably under-counting the references to the prophet.
Makes sense, but the problem is, those niches described are filled by entrenched competitors, or don't really justify the market cap. I feel the best for the company is juicing rev, earnings, and FCF, and they can't do that by trying to get a foothold in saturated markets as the cost is too huge or ramp up time too long.

I am also not proposing they take a VC approach like they have where they pay huge multiples hoping to somehow have the success at selecting winners like yc. I am proposing they buy companies that are generating growing free cash flow at sub 25x levels.
Not at all. You can 'git add' (or in the case of the technique above 'config add') only the files and folders that are safely stored in a repository. Because of the 'ShowUntrackedFiles' flag, git/config won't always show folders you don't want to track, which would be annoying.
Different algorithms are used.

1) binary comparison. Without knowing what type of file we are matching, we compare to other files and evaluate if the binary contents are similar (or preferably 100% equal)

2) snippet matching. For mainstream languages (C, Java, Javascript, Python, etc) we transform the code into anonymized blocks that don't care about variable names, formatting or comment blocks. Then the code is compared for similarity. Up to 80% similarity is still qualifying as a match.

To provide context, we have the concept of code diversity. Meaning that a given match needs to present a relatively high number of different logical instructions in order to qualify as match. Example, multiple IF statements will not qualify, unless they contain other code within. If you change the order, add/remove code we are still robust enough to detect changes.

For special cases where exists known malicious intention of hiding the code I will be cross-matching different algorithms and specifically look on variable names and comments inside the code. In such cases, a manual inspection gets done by an expert and becomes truly difficult for a developer to escape the detection of non-original code.

In fact, if the guy is indeed able to hide code from triplecheck then it reached a level of sophistication that no normal third-party developer will be capable of (easily) detecting plagiarism. In our experience have occurred rare cases where only with new techniques we notice that a given company managed to hide non-original code from our tooling.

In either case, we live and learn from such examples and gets more difficult on new iterations of the tooling to evade (non) originality detection.
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If you hold the command key, you can also move those curves around without modifying the Bezier curves.
Looking at the amount of opinionated tweets that he writes every day, it is statistically inevitable that he at one point writes something which gets him in trouble. This simply must have been taken into account by him from the beginning when starting to use Twitter the way he does. How can he do that? He simply knows that this, like almost anything controversial people say or do, will blow over.
In addition to the idiotic comment about colonialism, I'm curious about this new phrase he used: "partial Internet connectivity."

That's a rather Orwellian choice of words, and appears to be flying under the radar while everybody gets upset at the other stuff.

Let's call it what it really is: connectivity to a couple of services which also happen to be connected to the Internet. "Partial Internet connectivity" is about on the same level as "partial pregnancy."
> poking fun at the sluggish Indian economy

Ah, that's so much better. /s
Even when dealing with people I don't like and with whom I almost 100% of the time disagree, I've found it much better to try first to understand what the person was actually trying to say before jumping reflexively to the most uncharitable interpretation of what the person said.
I thought net neutrality was about protecting consumers from selective high prices set by regional monopolies. Here it "protects" them from a free product that anyone is AFAIK free to compete with. Do I miss something or did things go wrong with the net neutrality idea?
Or perhaps every running instance would have to have a certain amount of insurance. You wouldn't be able to spin up arbitrary numbers of self driving cars, just like the average person needs to satisfy requirements before they can drive.
Twitter is an amazing machine of outrage, misunderstanding and hatred. It allows the benign comment to be taken as an offense and it amplifies genuine offensiveness, bullying, witch-hunting and harassment.

There are some wonderful things Twitter does, especially around real time news of non-controversial events such as natural disasters, but if the service is a net positive for the world, it's by the slimmest of margins.
Wow. That is one of the most insanely good manifestos I have read.
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To be honest, I'd be worried about security vulnerabilities from a system that was exchanging and synchronizing data in the cloud. It seems unlikely that the first generation of self driving vehicles will be able to update its behavior in real time from other vehicles' experience. If there is any cloud connectivity at all, I'd expect it at first to be solely outgoing data that is sent to and aggregated by some central brain. Then, when the owner of a vehicle wants to update its AI, they manually download a certified patch or bundle of data that incorporates what the central brain has learned from all the cars. These upgrade patches would probably have to be constantly vouched for by debug vehicles that drive all over the streets of the world before being released.
Yeah. I know road rage isn't rare, but some people talk about it like its normal behavior. Most people I know, including myself, don't let minor annoyances get to them like that.
Hopefully someone will be able to share their experience. I myself am in Canada and it was a pretty simple process but I have zero experience trying to do the same thing from India.
Perfect then,
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This implies there aren't future episodes upon which this type of statistical analysis could be applied.

This also strongly implies you think the author is a 'budding data scientist' out of his/her league.

This is very much a 'sample' given the context that South Park is still releasing new episodes.

FYI all elitist 'statisticians' ...
There are no links to more relevant information either. It seems like one of the most basic features of HTML, and arguably it's most important one, wasn't used.
Sure, but "search and query" is still incredibly useful in many situations compared to indexes or even curated lists/collections. I certainly use those as well but both models are tools suited to particular situations.
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