skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something I've written about before, at least indirectly, but I believe not owning much at all has deep therapeutical value. Until recently, I was in a very similar situation to the author, I sold and gave away nearly all of my stuff (an apartment full of it) years ago, to only be left with a backpack and a suitcase worth of stuff. It was extremely liberating, I didn't have things to look at making me wonder whether I used them enough or unfolding years of history associated to it that would burden my mind. By the time I'd gotten accustomed to this lifestyle, the only thing that mattered to me was my passport, and only because I wanted to keep travelling. The rest of my stuff could have been stolen and I would have shrugged at it. After a while, that made me realize that the problem wasn't so much with the belongings themselves, but rather the attachment we develop towards things, sometimes to unhealthy degrees.

My finger in the air theory is, we teach kids to value the things they have, because as adults we work to pay for most things and we know what it's like to not be able to afford something, particularly when it comes to providing for your close ones. Children's concept of money is rather simplistic (or even non-existent), so I believe the value is more emotionally based (there have been studies showing that children ascribe human emotions to inanimate things, among other things). I think this emotional bond with objects remains, to a certain extent, as we grow older, which would also emphasize the idea of owning as a social signal (i.e. "that person has many [friends|things]"). The idea that we should be thankful for the things we have, not the things we might get, is great in theory, but explaining to a small child that they should be thankful for their very life is a bit brutal to say the least.

Not completely sure where I'm going with this. I suppose attachment is something for which you have to both program and de-program yourself to appreciate without being dependent. But even that is made more complicated as soon as another person enters the picture (partner, child, etc.). The way I try to make it work is to offer people tangible signs of affection, such as cooking a nice meal, playing some music, help out with a problem and so on, things that can be valued in and of themselves, but that carry little or no baggage. Likewise, I tend to ask close ones to give me something from themselves, rather than buy things. As the giver, you get to do something you're passionate about and share it with the person you care for. As the receiver, you value the sentiment more profoundly and you learn a little bit more about the other. Anywho, it works for me, YMMV :)
> a for loop can be understood by almost any programmer you will encounter

Because at some point that programmer learned how a for loop works. Programmers are smart people; they should learn how flatMap or any other abstraction works. Abstractions are the tools of the trade. Imagine a mechanic that didn't use power tools because he/she didn't understand them.
If you could file issues for behavior issues you notice, that would be valuable and help everyone who ends up using the editor.
My family all has Amazon wish lists for exactly this issue, in fact. Before Amazon was popular, we all posted wish lists on a closet door in my grandmother's house, and we either went in the den to look at them or called her and asked her what was on the lists.

My girlfriend's family doesn't do any of this stuff, and so I've had to do "educated guess"-type gifting, which I'm usually somewhat decent at. They tend to get me clothes, which is fine, everyone's gotta wear clothes.
> if I wanted to edit text in-editor I was stuck with Godot's own one.

Yet another move the one should not copy from Smalltalk.
If you measure something which has units using different units, then you get a different answer. If you measure something which doesn't, like aspect ratio, then you don't.
I guess living in Canada gives me a different perspective. Generally speaking most telemarketers calling for charity are fairly respectful and are usually contacting you due to a transactional event that's happened fairly recently.
I didn't understand why author used Redis for the final delivery, when a Kafka cluster was already available. Is there a reason to use Redis here?
That's less about advances NSA may have made ahead of industry/academia and more about the operational advantages NSA has in deploying already-plausible attacks.
ShotSpotter helped the cops get to the scene of a shooting near my house in SF the other day.
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I want to live like this too, but I need tools. I need automotive tools. I can't afford mechanics bills, nor trust the workmanship. I need tools to repair watches--which turned into a side business. Plus I have home contractor tools. It's the tools that has me waited down.

I have a library I can thin down, but it's hard. It's 99 percent refrence. And the first editions--well I like them more than some people. I wouldn't have ever started the library, but didn't think books would be so digitally available.

I have a couple of vaccumes I could get rid of, but who would cut my hair? Flobee--and they do work, if you have a little bit of coordination. I hated going to the hair salon.

That said--if I had to go leave real quick, I would take all my watches, and jeweler's tools. I could fit everything in three legal sized boxes. I would take another three legal sized boxes of books. I would leave my tool chest, and put all tools in six legal sized boxes.

I might need to move quick in the future. I'm not sure where I will go. I won't pay Bay Area rents again. I go out at night, and the people I would interact with moved away. The Bay Area is just not that fun anymore. Never thought I would say that, but then again couldn't imagine living in the Midwest.

I am greatful I never had a kid. Never thought I would say that. I like them, but I never thought life in America would be this ruthless.

I gave away my inheritance, from a pretty brutal father. At the time, I didn't think I would ever need it, nor wanted anything from the man. I gave it all to a family member. I should have kept some of it. It was a lot too.

On the positive side, when I'm dying, I won't need to make to many amends. I haven't screwed over anyone--I can recall. My exes don't want to keep in touch. One told me, "You can be really hurtful. You have hurt my feelings more than any other person." She's now seeing women. I knew I was kinda a handful, but I didn't intentionally want to hurt her feelings. I just couldn't continually agree.

Got off track.
In my neighborhood we all borrow each others gear, whether it's home improvement stuff, or occasionally used outdoor sports gear. Any startup in this space would have to establish the "trust" feature of a sharing community, which is a feature that a friendly neighborhood has built-in.

You might be on to something if you find an easy way for people to publish their inventory of stuff to a trusted group of neighbors, maybe with a smartphone app to take pics of the gear? That way you leverage the trust that already exists, and just make the publishing and discovery process easier.

We use Nextdoor and our street's email mailing list for this all the time.

EDIT: Nextdoor and email lists only provide the in-group communication solution, not the inventory solution. It would be interesting to see an inventory solution that worked with a variety of communication services.
Checked Wikipedia, doesn't look like it's usually capitalized mid-sentence in English. Users on the talk page appear inconsistent, but I don't think it would be grammatically correct to capitalize it mid-sentence as it's not a proper noun.
Reducing the undergraduate requirements does not seem like a very good way to reduce spending without decreasing quality.
I think this really illustrates one of the biggest concerns with concentrating software power in the executive: what if a totalitarian seizes control? How much damage can they accomplish?

Last time, less than 100 years ago, 2/3rds of the Jewish race was eliminated. How much damage could be done to a targeted minority in the information age? Governments by my account, have killed (6 million) an order of magnitude more innocents than terrorists ever have, and short of nukes, ever will.
Cool! Yeah, I like having enormous lists of color palettes for doing algorithmic art. I will definitely hit up the colr API and the colourlovers one posted above too.
I agree, but anecdotally, as someone who spends a lot of face-to-face time around people on both sides of the typical left-right division, neither of which represent my views, it is very frustrating for me, and I suspect rather pointless for them. I've never left a political conversation like this feeling like I made a dent in anyone's ideology; they just leave thinking I'm a weirdo.
In the same vein, teach them to handle a firearm. And drive in bad conditions (slippery, offroad, gravel). And cross country in harsh weather on foot (rain, snow). And negotiate transit stations.
Yeah, that's true, paint is subtractive, as opposed to light. But isn't it still the case that all pigments can be achieved by mixing three primaries? Whereas in light mixing the primaries are considered to be red, green, blue, in pigment mixing they are considered to be cyan, magenta, yellow. Obviously please correct me if I'm wrong (no sarcasm implied), links would be useful.
A very interesting comment:

"I find it interesting that you don’t mention the fact that you’re a VP of Datto, which just happens to be one of the companies under investigation by the FBI for Hillary Clinton’s classified email debacle. I think most people would think that it is a conflict of interest that you write against the candidate possibly preventing her becoming president, since her being president of the united states would probably take a lot of potential stress off of you and your company… especially since we still don’t know who had access to those classified emails." - Ryan
I guess that makes Apple's encryption the newest "shoulder thing that goes up."
I am mingling with a startup idea (that I can't really build now, but perhaps in 4-5 years, for various reasons) that would solve your problem; however, I concluded that the only way to solve it is to live in a crowded area (like in a condo) and have a dedicated storage area for this.

I can't think of any other way to efficiently and cost-effectively handle this.
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> TSA Precheck is rapidly becoming worth less and less, if it continues at this rate it will be the regular lines in a year or two. When grandma who flies once every 2 years can get it, it ruins the entire point. I've switched back to regular priority lines at some airports these days as they are faster.

Funny, this reminds me of when they tried the 3-tier security lines, for business, regular, and families, IIRC. I usually travel by myself, and have my stuff together enough to go through the security lines fast. I found the families one was actually the fastest, since everybody thinks they're fast/business and skips that one.
There's a place in Berkeley CA. I forget the name, but they loan out stuff like tools, and I believe camping/sporting stuff. They run it like a library. I always thought it was a great service.
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Being actually a derived quantity, alpha's non-constancy actually implies that one or more of the underlying ‘constants’ vary non-homogeneously — which is what you said, but slightly different in import... observing alpha is actually just a convenient way of observing the others indexed together.
I dit DMT once. No elves or other creatures.
I think you're underestimating the cost of good equipment. Yes, a bunch of fragile Coleman gear at Walmart will all fit into that budget, but it would be quickly destroyed if put through the "government mule" life cycle of rented goods.
However, we can use angles in such a way that we never have any estimate that correlates with the size of the rectangle whose aspect ratio we are measuring.

Suppose some rectangle is visible at a distance. We can use parallax angles from our vantage point to estimate its aspect ratio.

We have no idea how long or wide that rectangle is because we don't know how far away it is.

(Indeed, we don't even know whether it is a rectangle, or whether it is some quadrilateral that appears as a rectangle under perspective.)
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Prior to our modern atomized ways of living as individuals instead of parts of a community, most people solved this problem by getting to know one's neighbors and community members and borrowing amongst each other.
Not according to any set of definitions that I have ever heard of. Can you provide an explanation of the difference as you understand it?

To give one example, my piece of US Letter paper is 93.5 in^2 in area. One side is 8.5 in long. If I divide these, I find that 93.5 in^2 / 8.5 in = 11 in. Is that eleven inches a ratio or a quantity?
PayPal isn't so bad--doing millions through them a year has caused no problems that couldn't be worked out.

I looked at Braintree before the acquisition and they seemed really cool. I was able to hang out in their IRC chat room and watch them work.
I tend to agree with your line of thinking, but what's the first alternative to Google right now? DuckDuckGo?
MATLAB fits a specific market, whereas Delphi is very general and open ended. Their great benefit is RAD (Rapid Application Development) of GUI applications in relatively less time.
in the US at least, Snowden revealed they were even intercepting newly purchased hardware while in-transit and introducing corrupt hardware.
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For anyone that doesn't see it; http://i.imgur.com/cPpBcq8.png

Circled the only real responses. I don't exactly have a low resolution monitor either. I can only imagine it's worse on an older laptop.
There are things like the Denver Tool Library (http://denvertoollibrary.org/) that help to solve this problem.

What I want is a delivery version. I'd pay $xx/month for access to tools and other household items I rarely need along with $x per delivery and pickup to not have to go get them.
Human emissions levels were very low in the Little Ice Age, compared to today. The only proto-industrialized part of the world was Europe, and Braudel estimated that Europe had access to 1.5-2.5 million horsepower total from all machinery (including wind- and water-power). That's roughly 2 gigawatts of power; we might guess that burning fuel for heat produced about the same order of magnitude. (Fuel was very expensive as late as the 1930s; Orwell has some interesting statistics in _The Road to Wiglan Pier_.) Double that is probably enough to account for the rest of the world: not more than 10 gigawatts of human-generated power and heat, some fraction of it from wind and water. 10 gigawatts is probably too large.

Today, the United States apparently consumes about 2,000 gigawatts (2 terawatts) of power from power plants, and another 2 from all other sources; Europe, China, and the rest of the world probably consume another 2-4 terawatts apiece, for close to a petawatt total -- about 100,000 times the power output of the world in the Little Ice Age.

I don't rule out the possibility that human emissions are having no effect or a limited effect -- or that their effect is positive, by keeping the Little Ice Age from developing into the real thing -- but I'm also not ruling out that the prophets of doom might be on to something. (Jeremiah was simply correct, after all.)

I'm hoping that emissions-cap negotiations get somewhere, and that we see more use of alternative energy (especially nuclear and geothermal), more artificial and biological carbon sequestration, more hybrid and electric cars (and is it too much to wish for, to hope that we see more commuter rail?), and general efforts to keep things from getting out of hand. We don't know what happens next, after all, and we only have to get it wrong once.

Besides, if these sorts of things start producing hazardous levels of global cooling in 50 years, we can just scale them back, or even remove some filters from remaining coal-fired plants. This sort of effort will be expensive, but I'd rather risk doing more than we need to than not doing enough...
Note: this is a CGP Grey video, and a good one!

Another take on this, from Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ .
Resistance should be easy as well. I think the wikipedia page for a Wheatstone bridge explains this best.

If this sort of thing interests you, I'd encourage you to look at the quantum metrology triangle. Frequency, resistance, and current are all currently related to a josephson voltage standard, the quantum hall resistance, and the current generated by a single electron transistor. This allows us to standardize all these back to a frequency. Length can be related to frequency by wavelength of light. Everything has been related back to frequency. Basically the only thing not referred back to something absolute is mass, which I think is still referred back to a mass standard, which is a physical thing stored in a vault.

Okay well more than you ever wanted to know.
I have some nice tea things too, but when I'm travelling, I make tea with whatever's handy. The thing I mostly use for brewing is a gaiwan, which is basically just a cup with a lid, and that's very easy to substitute. And I used to bake quite a lot of bread using nothing but a couple of mixing bowls and an oven.

So not to be argumentative or anything, but beyond clothes and a pair of swim shorts, the only things you need to do everything on my list, and that wouldn't be found in a typical furnished home, are: a decent pen, a deck of cards, and some oranges...
Mr. Sivers emphasized repeatedly he isn't trying to convince anyone else to live like him.
I've never been homeless, but if I knew I was coming into hard times, I would rather have savings instead of stuff.
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This is where I think LINQ does a good job.

var coworkers = departments.selectMany(department => department.employees);

Nearly equivalent to the Scala code, but uses more approachable keywords like `select`, `selectMany`, and `where` instead of `map`, `flatMap`, and `filter`.
That's a pretty bad situation, agreed. I think it exceeds the scope of what programming constructs/paradigms to use, and is instead a way more serious problem. With this kind of coworkers, I predict everything is going to be a problem.
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I do. I've trained nearly everyone in my life to accept that I'm happy receiving nothing for my birthday and Christmas, but my dad refuses to get on board. I always have a list of stuff saved in my Amazon cart that I want eventually, but not enough to buy it right now. So every time a holiday rolls around and he wants to buy me something, I just chuck all of that stuff into a wish list and send it to him.
At one point Microsoft had an option to buy Google for peanuts. Ballmer declined because he didn't see how it'd ever make money.
The most powerful Ubuntu phone is still not good enough
This insight seems like a great opportunity for classification or tagging. I wonder what a stream of tweets which were purely autobiographical would look like.
> Coming over for dinner? They bring a (bad) bottle of wine that I now have to get rid of.

I'm not a drinker myself, but I always assumed that people brought wine to dinners with the intention of drinking them at that dinner. Shouldn't that take care of getting rid of it?
Yes, there's this whole attitude of "black-boxiness" to these types of arguments that I find troubling; that it is simply the nature of the machine to be unpredictable, and that therefore the safest and best code is the code with the most mileage on it, and every time you poke it you compromise the integrity of the system as whole.

(It's a close cousin to the "don't rewrite it" argument we've all heard via Spolsky et. al., even though they've ended up rewriting their shit several times over).

There is a fundamental shift forward in the types of guarantees you can make with the premises of a language like Rust vs. that of C that I have simply never heard one of these demagogues address.
This is a fruitful example: the vast majority of those opposed to abortion will concede that a zygote has no conciousness or intellectual capacity, yet most of them will nonetheless insist on the zygote's personhood and right to life.
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Cryptoexperts must be one of the most impressive research and consulting private company that I know of (in Cryptography). Antoine Joux and Pascal Paillier are there...
Definitely worth a read. I misplaced my copies during a move many years ago but recently got them all as e-books. Unfortunately, they weren't quite as good as I remembered.
Like "functional" programming can't be abstracted so it becomes way too generic.
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And I'm not saying he is. I am saying that I would like to understand him and how he derives fulfillment out of his lifestyle better than I do.
Let me flesh that out. It's the waste I don't like. I don't dislike the person for the sentiment. I don't enforce this nor do I criticize it should a guest bring some.

I basically just want someone to come to my place and enjoy themselves, they shouldn't have to bring me a gift: I invited them. If they do anyway I thank them but I wish they had not.
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I think the team at cryptoexperts is way more impressive.
Home cooked every time - everyone in the kitchen pitching in - best family time there is!
Ah, yes. There was also the imake/IMakefile variant too, mostly for X11 related stuff.
> If two theses conflict each other at least one of them (perhaps even both) must be wrong.

This is too simplistic. They can be partially right as well as partially wrong. Is light a wave or a particle? Well, it depends.

Two opposing half-truths form a paradox. While some paradoxes can be resolved, by finding a deeper theory that unifies them, some cannot. To draw an example from the political realm -- more relevant to this discussion -- here are two truths:

(1) We are all in this together.

(2) Each person is responsible for their own life.

These are both true, but conflict. And I do not think there will ever be a final resolution of this paradox. In some situations, the first principle is more important; in others, the second. Hashing out which is which is a never-ending debate, and a critically important one.
That's not the point. If I want to do good, I can choose to do good. I don't want someone else choosing how I do good. If those things are positive, if I feel good about them, then I can do them, whether or not someone has given me a gift I don't want.
CryptoExperts is for real. But the Million Dollar Curve seems gimmicky.
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It's okay for you to adhere to your faith. If you ask me to move my seat, you're asking me to adhere to your faith.

I say let him stand; the airline should deal with it. Finding an acceptable seat for him is their problem. I don't have a booking issue with my seat.

If the airline wants me to move, they should either pay me two hundred bucks, or move me to business class, or first.

They have no qualms about charging for cancellations or last minute booking changes; why should the passenger accomodate their problem free of charge?
Yes! Well-put! Thanks for bringing this up. I'm Kindle-only these days, and people ask if I miss books. I might, in theory, but you're right besides the convenience, it's the advantage of NOT having all that paper that is so worth it.
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Often it's bad because the people I know aren't rich. That's fine, I'd rather they just brought themselves.

If it's bad why spoil dinner!