skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because you think this is simple issue and you think that the answer is obvious, doesn't make it so.

>> I don't need one to assert that people who are armed are in general better defended against violence than those who are not

Just raising some simple questions:

1. Who does own the arm? The good guy, or the bad guy?

2. Can you shoot?

3. Can you shoot under pressure?

4. Can you make sure nobody (kids, thieves, ...) is getting hold of the arm?

5. You with your gun in front of another armed guy: are you really more secure?

6. Will you be able to use you gun tomorrow? Next week? In three years? When you break your leg? Will you really be better protected when you are not actively practicing?

And the question that interest society, and thus the government:

7. Even if you are one of those lucky few who will be better defended owning and carrying a gun: will society be more secure allowing people like you to carry a gun? You may think you are the good guy, or that you are an excellent shoot, but I may think you are not.

So, you need a study to prove that guns are indeed increasing security. But you rightly pointed out above that there are no studies which only correct for guns / no guns. Therefore, you can not prove that guns are increasing security.

I can also not prove that they decrease security, but I do not pretend I can (or, even worse, that I know), or that it is obvious they do.
Most people my parents age purchased a house, waited a few years and it doubled in price. Then they kept doing that until most of them are in £500,000 houses having paid off their mortgage.

So the pressure from them to their kids 'invest in houses' is very big. After all, house prices always go up.

I worked it out for my Uncle and he was making more on his house price going up than in his job (for a couple of years.)

You can't do up a renter. Most people want to 'nest' or have different requirements from a home than the renter has. Got a baby? Need a baby room. Go surfing? Need a surfboard storage room. Want to paint over the mould? Need permission from landlord.

And where I live no one rents out houses. So renters just can't live here.
> You forgot to say that Clinton has 394 delegates and he has 44.

Superdelegates are fluid; the only delegates that either candidate really has are the committed ones produced by the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary; superdelegate "commitments" aren't real counts of delegates that a candidate concretely "has" in any meaningful sense, they are just a measure of support from the establishment (in an election year in which for both parties, being associated with the "establishment" is a liability that candidates are actively running away from, this may be a negative signal.)
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Yes, though CS is called Riak S2 now.
Well that's a huge double standard.

So the GP's point about the nature of polling itself isn't pedantic but my retort on the same topic is?

You'll have to explain that to me. Neither post is very productive discourse, but you think one of the two is "perfectly correct" so call out the other..?

Sorry but that's some mind boggling mental gymnastics you had to go through to write this reply.
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The difference between a startup and a new small business is novelty. A startup is innovating, a small business is not. More so if a startup is establishing or growing a market versus competing in an existing market.

Granted, a lot of tech "startups" in SV are not innovating and should probably not be classified as true startups, nevertheless, that's the differentiating factor.
Thanks! I welcome any feedback you might have on how I can make it even more useful.
Yes - much of the world is indeed willing to wait an hour to save a few dollars.

One lesson from 2001 is that Startups who Serve Startups tend to get hurt in the downturn as their customer are unable to pay them. Case in point Exodus. [0] This is especially relevant given the "Build something you want to use yourself" ethos.

The flip side is that if you make something that saves General Mills, Coca-Cola and P&G money, you'll always have a buyer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Communications
Someone asked a similar question a few years ago and there was a good discussion on HN about it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446880

My father's entire career revolved around IBM's TPF mainframe systems. Airline Reservation Systems, Credit Card Processing, and the IRS use it for extremely high volume processing.
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This is false. Rents have always been taxable in the UK, just like any other business income generated in the UK, whether or not owned by a non-resident.

Capital gains on property for non-residents were indeed not taxed until 2014, but that loophole is now closed.
I don't mean to argue against the logic behind the negative-feedback cycle of the security dilemma.

The Madison quote was meant to indicate the historic precedent for over extending oneself on the war front and the ways it has left the civil front critically vulnerable.

However, today, in the electric age, there is no distinction between civil and military fronts.
There are hints of systemic risk. Look at what's happening in Financial Services. Many firms (example: Deutsche Bank) are trading below their bottom in the financial crisis. A banking crash will have a big impact on real estate.
Thanks for spotting that! I'll fix it.
For fast development iterations, running webpack's own web server is used for development.

Where django would instead load a custom JS endpoint in development, and use the compiled file for production.

Webpack static compile each time is just way to slow— I've seen it take 60+seconds to compile.
Their military is very effective in it's own way, but this comes at a cost - since the country is so small, a large-scale deployment means stripping much of the civilian economy bare of workers. They've got a good system going for short-term large-scale deployments to stop any of the large armies that their neighbors can more easily field, but they can't afford to keep an army of that size in the field for more than something like a month or two. Large-scale occupation is logistically out of the question, before strategic and political considerations are even taken into account.

They don't really have much to gain from trying to grab parts of Syria - they already have just the right amount of territory in the area to have very defensible borders. Taking more would give them territory much more vulnerable to attack, pretty much nothing in the way of natural resources, and most likely a population somewhere between neutral and hostile to manage. Not to mention that it would surely play rather poorly in the Arab world and the greater diplomatic community. Israel has done relatively well to conspicuously have no involvement in any of the Arab Spring rebellions.
It depends on which side of the transaction they are. :-) New investors will keep pushing for lower prices, existing investors will talk up the values!
It sounds like you are arguing for imperative programming over functional programming.
Quantum was the premiere maker of SCSI drives back in the day. They were beating IBM and IBM needed more capacity so IBM bought them. Then IBM sold to Hitachi, who sold the drive business to Western Digital who sold the drive business to Toshiba.

I believe these Deskstar types and derivatives are the same essential mechanism and processes as those old quantum drives (probably especially in terms of the QA processes). The heads and the technology have improved to give better capacity of course, but I've been buying and relying on these drives for ~25 years at this point.

I'm not surprised to see them showing up well on these charts.
It's "case in point".
I guess. But damn, I'm so used to not seeing ads that I spent maybe 10 seconds wondering how the image was relevant to the article. "Maybe UBAR is an Uber side project?", I was thinking. Then I saw "SPONSOR" ;)
There is a surprising phenomenon in microeconomics called the Alchian–Allen effect[1]. Quoting from Wikipedia, "[W]hen the prices of two substitute goods, such as high and low grades of the same product, are both increased by a fixed per-unit amount such as a transportation cost or a lump-sum tax, consumption will shift toward the higher-grade product. This is true because the added per-unit amount decreases the relative price of the higher-grade product." The quality of Japanese produce could be due to the effect of the higher prices on consumer decision-making rather than any advantages of small-scale farming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchian%E2%80%93Allen_effect
Code review might well be harmful if you're doing programming language research.
I wonder what disagreements or counterarguments downvoters might have, and if they might share them.

For the parent, given what you've observed, do you still go to R for data crunching, or have you found anything in Clojure land that measures up?
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However, it's much easier for an ordinary person to borrow hundreds of thousands of pounds to invest in the property market than it is to borrow that sort of money to invest in the stock market. The leverage makes up for the lower rate of return.
The past four years of modern development practices have run screaming from the concept. Learning why the systems used to work they way they did was, like, super hard, so they reinvented the wheel and are running into the same problems that caused us to make shared libraries/COW/etc in the first place.
Seems like the conventional policy when faced with a militaristic regime hell bent on using nuclear weapons is to ostracize them in the international community and impose severe sanctions. Not give them as much advanced weaponry as possible.
Is the converse statement also true -- i.e., do 27 distinct lines define a cubic surface? Will have to think about this.
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How does this compare to Jekyll?
And yet Hillary is up by 350 delegates. I am a Cruz guy, but overriding the will of the voters is something for which I can not abide -- regardless of the ideology involved.

I may be wrong in my politics but I certainly hope that the will of the voters is respected.
Then read Wikipedia.
I think having to submit the cover letter in this format is kind of cheesy - it's difficult enough to express oneself concisely. I wouldn't mind posting an application to some well documented endpoint, which included the code to do some task so you could run it. I have been wondering lately about the utility of asking people to do some puzzles on leetcode or whatever if they don't have a github.
I love it when people downvote you because you might disagree, or present some conflicting data. Good job.
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I don't see anything in that article that supports your position. The article says that farmers are dumping milk because the supply has been outstripping demand and inventory costs aren't cheap. That's completely different from "throwing it away to artificially raise prices."
Isn't it interesting that despite a lot of Sander's voters being against the outcome of Citizens United that his very presence as a viable candidate at this point is in a way a demonstration of the point the Supreme Court made in their majority opinion?

I.e. here we have a guy who's not taking donations from big corporations, but is just as visible as Hillary who is. Money's speech apparently, and either lots from a few big donors or small amounts from lots of small donors counts.

Regardless of what happens with this election I think what's happening so far is indicative of a major change. If things keep going in this direction the 2024 election is going to be very interesting indeed.
Yep. You keep talking about polls as if they're somehow conclusive, objective, and completely predictive. The GP points out — correctly! — that polls are estimates, with margins for error, &c, with which you appear to concede agreement, but only after quibbling with the wording.

In my book, only one of those things is pedantry.

I'm not entirely sure how that's either mental gymnastics or a double standard, but I'm smart enough to know that I don't know everything, so I'm prepared to be mistaken.
I might have used this if I knew about it 2 months ago. Instead I built this: https://github.com/muellermichel/guetzli

How do you handle multilanguage content? Also, may I suggest implementing autopulling on github webhooks (if you haven't already)? It's a great way to keep a site in sync with what people push to a repository or even edit in the github web interface.
The only modern device I've found that did tangible good was a sleep app that woke me up within a time range based on how active my body movements were. I found it was much easier to weak up.

The Phillips light was also decent, but not as good as the app.

The main problem was that it felt weird to have my phone laying on my bed, and I worried it'd fall on the ground.
You're right. I copy pasted some code from some projects to build this generic one. A colleague will fix it in a few minutes :)
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I think you're willfully misinterpreting the parent comment. When someone says "Why can't I find a good man/woman", they usually mean your third paragraph. The parent poster likely agrees with you.
See, this is another interesting example of the kind of behavior described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11113042

People who don't take the time to learn the language are having to go through these contortions to make R work the way their favorite language works, rather than just taking the time to learn how R works!

R has a useful function, paste, that concatenates strings together.
Only it takes varargs, not a character vector, so if you have a
vector v of strings, you have to use do.call(paste, v).

But the help for the `paste` function literally goes over this exact situation:

> v <- 1:5
> paste(v, collapse = ",")
[1] "1,2,3,4,5"

I'm often super baffled by the lengths people will go to not figure out how to use R and insist on writing <X> language in R.
No it does not, it serves a index.html with react/css.
The Bait (A.K.A. The Subject Line)

Bizzy's Headline makes it sound like there is both a battle (a head to head competition) and it is one taking place in a cyber context. However, it is neither. It is candidates emailing their donors/supporters for more money and can be fairly decoupled from one another.

The Point (A.K.A. The Body)

The body is actually some cherry picked lines from emails that are not included in the post at all. There is no imagery or context so it is difficult to draw conclusions, they draw these conclusions:

> Hillary’s latent message is that of a campaign in need of resuscitation.

> Hillary’s subject lines hint at impending doom for her campaign

> Bernie’s subject lines send a message of successful impact and building a future together

Conclusion

Without including the emails, the context of the emails, and the imagery in the emails, and giving limited insight about the recipients, it is pretty difficult to appraise a marketing campaign. This is a super biased appraisal in favor of Bernie sanders. That's fine, he seems like a good guy. It does point out imperative language and future tense present a stronger and more compelling subject line, but other than that this is not how I would have presented the arguments and information and it is not the most useful to the reader. Context is very important and I would like to see screencaps of the actual emails, and get a sense for the target audience. They did a good job of explaining when the emails were sent (macro) but more granularly breaking down the context on the per email basis would also have been helpful(micro) especially by presenting the actual email.

Extras:

Bizzy.io didn't give any credit to Hillaries team for running their own mail server or the overall transparency they have provided about Mrs. Clintons emails. We don't know what Sanders is using, but the world has been well informed about the clinton Email campaign.

not making a joke like this was a missed opportunity.
A vote for a candidate is not an unqualified endorsement of the candidate.

There are plenty of people I've voted for, even though I don't think they have great character and/or have done shady things in the past and/or have shown poor judgement on some issues.

For instance, my present city council member has had an extramarital affair with one of his staffers, but OTOH he's something of a visionary as far as city planning goes. I would vote for him again, despite the fact that his actions were deplorable.

Aside: my views on this used to be closer to yours. As years went by I became convinced that withholding my vote was not sending any message (in a Turing sense, principled apathy looks a lot like mere apathy, and may indeed lead to it). Witnessing some very, very close elections was also a factor.
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The transitive form "Begs the question X" is in common use and well understood, and clearly distinct from (though it also serves as a rationalization of) the intransitive form "begs the question"; complaining about the former and insisting that only the latter is proper signals that you are a pointlessly pedantic prescriptivist.

Slightly more detailed version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10659342
Local economic conditions (incomes and rising rents especially) and renter laws aren't equal everywhere. Here in NYC market rate renters can expect 4-10% rent increases a year and can be tossed out for almost any reason whatsoever. In SF they have the Ellis Act. My understanding is that in places like Germany, where renting is common, things are very different (renters are some kind of partial owners of the places they rent, and enjoy much greater protections than in other places.)

In the most difficult US markets, ownership is a lifeboat on a wild economic sea if you can come up with a downpayment or, even better, can buy outright, as rents tend to grow much more slowly than property taxes. This is doubly true if you own an apartment rather than a house and can just pay a maintenance fee rather than dealing with paying for it yourself.
The link points directly to the auto-download page. A link to release notes or main project page would be more approachable.
Take 27 lines that intersect in exactly one point (all coincide in the same). Would you tell that they define a smooth surface?
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The votes go to employees of businesses, rather than to businesses. I had one for a while. Left that job and moved across the border into Shoreditch before i could use it, though.
Most rentals, you can't do anything to. So if you want to modify or change the place a little bit, you can't.
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Well written, but, somehow, I think many will not understand how it could be likened (no pun intended) to hell.
Ugh! Blah. Spit.
> How anyone saves for a deposit, while paying rent [...] is beyond me.

I couldn't agree with this sentiment of confusion more -- especially living in San Francisco, even with a reasonably healthy wage.
Have you seen farmbot? It is almost exactly as you describe.
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He created lisp-stat in the late 80's

https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v013i09

"While R and Lisp are internally very similar, in places where they differ the design choices of Lisp are in many cases superior. The difficulty of predicting performance and hence writing code that is guaranteed to be efficient in problems with larger data sets is an issue that R will need to come to grips with, and it is not likely that this can happen without some significant design changes."
The limitation I see with applying this method is that you need to know the total number of potential suitors at the start. How can you accurately estimate this if you don't have any past experiences to base your estimate on?
In the US, farming represents something like 2% of the workforce. If we lost every farming job (and we won't - robotic operations will have to be managed and maintained), it would still have less impact than the loss of manufacturing jobs in the '80s and '90s.

Transport, I think, would hurt more, but I don't know enough about it to say for sure.
Here's how to find packages on your system with statically linked applications (that probably use glibc):

[root@server ~]# find /bin/ /sbin/ /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin/ /usr/lib* /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/sbin/ /usr/local/lib* -type f -perm /u+x -exec file {} \; | grep statically | cut -d : -f 1 | xargs rpm -qf | sort -u
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glibc-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.5-123.el5_11.1.x86_64
grub-0.97-13.5.x86_64

... etc. And yes, it can be a lot of work. It's easier to only use your distro's official packages and update the patched ones they release. Luckily most software devs are smart and compile dynamically.
But central, rather than inner. Of course it's eyewateringly expensive to live in central London. The way London works is that people live in the bits outside the centre, and commute in for work and leisure. People who live in the centre are a bit of an anomaly.
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It doesnt't. There's the needsrestart package that does this though.
R. Or a mixed approach, with Clojure for data preprocessing and R for the analysis proper. Case in point: I wrote the Clojure scraping library, Skyscraper [1], and made it output CSV by default so as to be able to easily drop the resulting files to R.

For statistics, Clojure has Incanter, but it's very basic in comparison. There are easily usable Java libraries for certain tasks (MALLET comes to mind), but these are few and far between.

[1]: https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper/
Press release: "We possibility found a hint that might indicate X."

Press: "Breakthrough study finds that X!!1!one1eleven"

(I know I am caricaturing here, but certainly less than I'd like...)
Your job post has two main functions.

1. sell the opportunity
2. have candidates self-select out

Every job pipeline is going to follow traditional funnel math and you are starving your funnel.

The test you've proposed is more appropriate for later in the funnel when they are more willing to trade their time for the potential opportunity.
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Ubuntu is now patched.

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20...
I like the tone of Sanders campaign a lot more.
We, together, help our campaign, fight for a cause.
Instead of I and Me based around a person.

After 2008 im surprised she still goes on the "me too" route and has no visible agenda except for "if you vote for me i will win the 1st female president award"
I think the other thing that changed is that branch predictors are roughly infinitely times better than they were in 1980. The is-this-subscript-ok check should be easily predictable and I wonder if these checks even cost anything in a hot loop on a modern CPU.
Same, I got one asking if I was interested in a job the other side of Europe. Nope. Interesting idea for a product though