skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consumption taxes are inherently fraught with 'class issues' - they act in a similar way to parking fines.

If you earn 50K a year then 10 quid for a bottle of wine that cost 2 quid to produce isn't really a problem.

If you earn 10K a year and have nothing left after rent, it is.

Another point to consider is that 'encouraging people to eat healthily' is an attempt to impose a culture - that's half of what a 'class' is (the other half being income/wealth). It's essentially saying - live like us, we're better, society will be better if you're like us.

The elite don't need to care about their impact on the NHS - the middle classes are probably paying enough in taxes - the poor aren't.

Common rhetoric at the moment in the UK is to decry any notion of taxes as redistribution - the poor are openly considered 'scroungers' by the government - it's pretty much business as usual these days for the state to minimize the impact of the poor on the rest of society.
Do not believe what the Framework charlatans claim. I can disprove every claim with real, working code examples.

Please do. I am interested in seeing more detail in your post.
But is it really? CA puts lottery money into the school fund. But then, every year, they vote to reduce the school fund by exactly the amount the lottery covers. So the lottery balance ends up in the general fund instead.
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> Rent control is fundamentally a tool for getting political benefits at the expense of economic ones. It explicitly creates winners in the voting district that implements it at the cost of losers everywhere else. It's in the same moral class as dumping toxic waste into a river.

I'd love to hear the argument for this. Again, many people living in rent-controlled houses would disagree. Just because people are poor you cannot write them off as votes.
> I guess the better question is, "Why would workers give up control to investors?"

Because they gave you hundreds of millions of dollars. It's like saying why would a bank secure a mortgage with the house.
Those sweeteners don't contribute to obesity as directly as sugar does, so that's a net positive for public health.
... and with some use cases you just can't saturate the cluster 24/7. For instance, if you have to run ad-hoc computational jobs.

Not every use case revolves around customer-facing websites or processing streaming data...
Yeah; you make a great point about delivering value. I do think the partners brought a lot to the table though: they had usually done these types of projects before, so you at least had someone to point you in the right direction. And if not them, I used to reach out to other people internally for expertise on specific issues.

I don't think that clients are delicate unique flowers, but they do often have a myopic view of the problem, so what they ask you for may not actually solve the problem they really have.

Consultants at VERY large companies actually serve a huge communication function: because we get shuffled around from one part of the company to another, we're really good at connecting work that was done in one part of the company with another part of the company. Basically, because our clients don't know how to communicate with each other and form relationships, they hire us to do it for them. That's largely the niche that I see consulting settling into, and it's really not a bad division of labor.
In response to the existence of a rainbow table for "all possible hashes", consider that a rainbow table over all possible (ascii printable) characters with a maximum length of 8 characters is well over 400GB. These sizes grow factorially as the password length increases.

[1] http://project-rainbowcrack.com/table.htm
> were she a big burly guy

Is that really a gender issue, or is it a threatening-demeanor issue ? What if she were a vociferous, large black woman who had an aggressive, threatening personality ? Still a woman, but at least as big of a "perceived threat" as a "big, burly guy".

What if she were a rail-thin effeminate homosexual male ? Lower perceived "threat level", perhaps would have earned her the same nickname ?

one of the many issues that makes this gender-division thing murky is that a lot of the time, but not always, men are physically larger and more aggressive. I suspect that more testosterone generally yields higher aggressiveness (and I've experienced this first-hand after weight lifting at the gym and generally feeling more aggressive ). My point is, its human nature to defer to a more aggressive human, and while gender typically has some correlation, it could be the aggressiveness (not always the gender) responsible for womens' collective withdrawal from the field.
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> "it's not like public research funding comes at the expense of private research"

Yes, it does. It sucks productive capacity of the scientists, and also has a system that's destructive to the creative potential of people actually doing it and trying to "make it", ultimately incompetent people are promoted, and that causes a death spiral as competent people are disinventivised from continuing to participate because the smart and observant ones quickly realize labor is exploited by their lessers, and they get out. Ironically, increasing public funding to the sciences makes this worse by rewarding the existing superstructure of leadership (and creating more bureaucracy to administer). The bureaucracy is even worse: who decides to become a science administrator instead of a PI? Only the people who really couldn't hack it. (With apologies to the two exceptions I know personally)
It's not just accumulation. IMHO, the features of Google Cloud are better thought out.

Two examples of things that rock:
- Being able to pop up an ssh shell right from your browser
- Google Cloud shell. A free Linux shell in the sky with a bunch of dev tools pre-installed (including docker)
You're only a startup if you have an entirely original business model? I don't agree with that definition.
How does that work exactly? I'm on Imgur daily and never heard of such a thing. On the other hand I've never understood what "usersub" is either.
All these might simply be for the lack of access to data not for the ability to predict with the data though.
You're not even saying anything at this point. I already quoted you a quoted showing that medicating children is demonstrated to be safe. Stop pretending already! There's hundreds of studies.

You haven't made a point! I've quoted the reference literature, shown you that your little major point about diagnosis was false and now you just keep repeating your point. Your cdc point at 11% was your silver bullet and now you know its useless.

You also missed the point about asymmetry of harm for <not medicating diagnosed> vs <medicating misdiagnosed>. That quote from the 4th edition demonstrably refuted what you said. Sorry buddy, hate to tell you, you've lost. =)
> The vector of attack, through compromised ad networks, will also serve to inflame the debate around adblockers.

This is the largest reason I install adblockers on my own laptop and phone as well as everyone in my family. I allow zero exceptions for ads. I'm willing to pay for content via other means (for example google contributor), but attack surface is simply too large.
What are you looking for? Something like Dropbox or Google Docs? Or a little more feature-rich like Scribd?
I have ordered a couple of times, the prices were slightly cheaper than Amazon and the delivery was prompt.
Why is "a genre" fair game, but "a kind of director" not?
A human child receives millions of "training" lessons every day for two years, and only then does it learn that you, indeed, are its "mother".

This knowledge is composed from other, simpler and more basic facts, that it slowly learns along the way:

1) you are a reliable source of warmth and comfort
2) you make me feel safe when I'm anxious and scared
3) you feed me when I'm hungry
4) you always come back after going away
5) you make me laugh and feel happy

These can be broken down into more basic facts, as the concepts here are still rather advanced (for a baby). The baby doesn't actually know what the it means to feel "safe", "fear", "happy", etc. It just has fuzzy experiential feelings that slowly become sharper and more contextualized as the baby is "trained" every second of every day by interacting with the world around it.
This might be interesting for any kind of software-related service, development, design or otherwise, not just for open source software support. As a freelance consultant I can see how such a process could benefit both the service provider and the client.

However, this would've to include some kind of task review, escrow and automatic payment on successful completion to truly deliver. In other words, you'd have to upend to whole process of how software-related services are provided for the most these days:

- client looks for consultant who matches technical requirements (or often rather has a recruiter look for such a consultant)

- consultant works x amount of hours

- consultant bills client amount x

Therein lies the rub: In the market as of today it's very difficult to market and sell clearly defined and measurable software-related services, which is why most of those services are often still sold by the hour. This is non-sensical for the most part because what client wants is not hours spent but problems solved.

Measuring those problems and their solutions however, still is tough. Being able to adequately productize services it what it ultimately comes down to I suppose.

If you're willing to address these larger issues as a whole I'd be happy to hear your thoughts (contact info's available in my profile).
We're kind of arguing past each other -- you're saying emotions can lead to irrational behavior, while I'm saying emotions can be manipulated for many ends.
I make my own. Its pretty easy. And cheap. Which is amazing, considering that mass production should have put it at a price point that can't be beat.
> Fire fast

It's been my experience that people who are on the path to getting fired turn hostile either to their direct management or to the company, and keeping them around after that is a net-negative for the team. Once you've decided to fire someone, you should do it as fast as you legally can.
My problem with Qt is that it seems like only Python has language bindings that are good long term bet for a project. I'd like to see bindings for Go, Rust, Node.js, and C#/.NET Core with dependable long term commitment to quality. I think there's more a business case to do these than there ever were for Qt Jambi(Swing and SWT existed) or PySide(basically, duplicating PyQt because it's GPL not LGPL).
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It's impossible. Responsible government has to have a mechanism for accountability, and this is antithetical to basic science.
This gets tricky with things like imbedded youtube and twitter content. I would be right with you blocking content not from the same domain, but I will constantly be clicking off page to watch a video or view a tweet, etc.
What? First of all the old constructor will continue to work as noted in the blog post. Secondly, what kind of terrible code did you write that can't handle zero-initialized memory?
Oh, I didn't realize he was referring to loans; I thought he meant deficiencies.
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> More than once I had been confusingly introduced as a founder or CEO of the company. That, in part, was how I ultimately was able to sneak into the Andreessen Horowitz corporate apartments and stayed there rent-free for sixteen months. I currently have twelve monogrammed a16z robes in my collection, and possibly was involved in mistakenly giving the greenlight to a Zenefits employee who came by asking if they could get an additional key to the stairwell for a… meeting.

This seems unethical.
>What the shit does that even mean, fire fast? Should I fire people four minutes after I hire them? That’ll show ‘em!

My suggestion is to remove all sentences like the above from the essay. The "four minutes" sounds juvenile or coy (or combination of both).

Are there reasonable adults out there who have no idea what the "fast" in "fire fast" actually means? If not, don't insult your audience with a caricature. Demonstrate that you have some perspective so readers can focus on the stronger parts of your commentary.

The essay is almost 10,000 words long and stumbling across that sentence doesn't entice me to commit the time and read the rest of it.
Course on programming in R: https://www.datacamp.com/courses/intro-to-python-for-data-sc...
> 'encouraging people to eat healthily' is an attempt to impose a culture

I see it as an attempt to save money, or rather an attempt to account for all the externalities - that is, at least if there is scientific consensus that the measure you're introducing statistically helps people live longer/healthier and reduces healthcare costs (I've no idea if that's the case here).
This may be a 'No true Scotsman'
It sucks; I'm 31, but the only people I can relate to here are the old men.
Nope, 31, you're an old man now.
Nah not Snowden, it was just a joke because in TV shows whenever there is some kind of computer crime the technical specialists in the show (black hats turned white, etc.) talk about how the criminal is untraceable because they were hidden behind 7 proxies or such. Not saying you are a criminal it just made me smile/chuckle when you mentioned routing Tor over VPN which is also going through another VPN which in turn is on Tor, etc.
Wanna back up that beautiful rhetoric with some actual objective reasoning as to why; HTMl, Javascript, the DOM are "bad" and some ideas on the way forward?
> ...but the most complex...

Those would be the passwords that we're talking about here. Next time you run either, take a look at the count of uncracked passwords. There are always some, which should tell you something.

Also, I couldn't reply to you before so see my reply to parent WRT rainbow table size. They're not the panacea you're implying.
Easy vertical centering.
I thought that also, but look at his body, it's machine to the bone so I was thinking where is the place for the human to occupy? I was thinking, maybe he just "thinks" that he is breathing because he was a human and wakes up to be like this.

What's that with the downvotes? A robot doesn't need oxygen to fuel chemical reactions.
Groupon's "deal" is very different these days. The restaurant (or service provider) sets the particular offering - usually it's a specific menu item, which they can produce at low cost for all the Groupon customers. And it's not always 50% off, or often times they'll offer something like "dinner for two for the price of one". The last couple times we've used Groupons it amounted to maybe 10-15% off the total bill - enough to get us into the restaurant when we wouldn't otherwise go, but still quite profitable for the restaurant.

It's basically the same as getting coupons in the mail, but with a lower cost of distribution and a channel that people actually pay attention to.
I wouldn't dismiss logical reasoning this way either. But i think we are underestimating the power of analogies. Every abstraction is an analogy. A lot of higher math is generalizations (or recursive applications) of real-world , easy to understand analogies. It would be more fair to say that logical reasoning is a result of combining analogies.
For a long time twitter has offered specific developers who were doing projects they thought were interesting the ability to consumer a higher volume of traffic using the standard streaming endpoints.
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No, that's what you're saying it is. And the claim that asking where "Allison" is from would result in you being fired is also yours and yours alone.

Am I correct in assuming that the answer to my last question is "there is no such comment on a micro-aggressions list that is OK to make to a colleague after it has been made clear that such comments are unwelcome"? If that's the case, we have nothing to argue about.
The question is at which point you feel the need for a package manager.

I tend to err on the side working as simple as possible.
Adding tools only when things seem like they can get out of hand, not before.
It's typical hacker absolutism. You see it everywhere. The very notion of subjectivity is rejected because it's too difficult to deal with.

It shows up all the time in discussions of hiring diversity. A large number of people assume that hiring decisions are done by making a perfect ranking of all candidates by ability, then choosing the one at the top. Any deviation means you're getting someone suboptimal. Thus, any hiring diversity initiative necessarily means a decrease in worker quality.

Same thing here. Spike Lee created an exact, perfect list of films that exceed some threshold. Altering it afterwards means the list is no longer perfect.
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A lot of the media coverage of this spoke about it in terms of "big gulp" sodas and the like, or stores that allow any size soda for the same price (incl. very large ones), which it seems led to this perception of the issue.
There is this, which is similar. https://www.cbinsights.com/research-downround-tracker

Doesnt measure layoffs, but downrounds instead.
I have no love for Twitter, Gnip, or the way they've treated API devs over the years but this particular use case (ranking emojis by frequency of use) seems like it could be just as well served by the free sampled stream. I can't imagine anyone needing the exact usage counts vs. the relative popularity. Also, the author's stated goal of making it open and immediately usable by other developers would be better served by using the access level that is freely available to everyone.
Linux is a mixed bag - while it's actually way easier to support in general and people write in with way more detailed actionable feedback, it also has its fair share of glitches, especially around video hardware.
Whenever I read stuff like this, I first wonder if my setup would be vulnerable to the attack, and if not, how much stuff I would have to turn off to be vulnerable? Chrome Stable + uBlock Origin + plugins disabled by default seems to be safe from everything but targeted zero-days. At least, I hope.
You might wanna look at this: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
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It made a sweeping claim about Clinton's supporters, begging for an unproductive retort from one of them.
RELIABLE, not READABLE.
Who is claiming that he deliberately left women off the list?
Yeah and TypeScript has Types and JS doesn't. So, there's incompatibilities there too. Granted, the relationship is backwards so maybe I should have reversed the comparison, but it still stands. This was an asinine suggestion.
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I'm a C++ developer of about 10 years worked in games for a number of years xbox/wii and then in a visualization company, currently at an engineering firm. We have made a start moving over tech to a service architecture python to ASP server which I really enjoyed. Question is how likely is it that a company would even look at someone's cv that's from a C++ application background?
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While that may be true, out right discrimination by turning away qualified male applicants is not how to correct a bias in applicant hiring, it would be extremely hypocritical to suggest that is some how okay. Give people tools to find the best candidates and they will use them, the market for tech talent is extremely competitive.
this really wasn't a surprise, but it sure gives the press a different headline tomorrow than "another round of austerity" or "it's just not working".

not to mention, and to my utter horror, all schools in England will be turned into academies, and in doing so pass out of public hands into private ownership. A naked landgrab. Fucking disgusting.
Then get you outside DB server via a VPN.
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Yes, this is definitely not a problem unique to Canada, but I feel the effects are felt a bit more strongly here due to the fact that the barrier to entry into the US for Canadian citizens is practically nonexistent (TN Visa) compared to elsewhere in the world (H-1B).
They should just tax sugar/corn syrup/etc directly rather than how they are handling it.
I have no idea what "typical" would be, but my counterargument is that candidate ranking is extremely noisy and imprecise, and because of that it necessarily already includes bias. A good diversity initiative is simply an attempt to compensate for the existing bias, not add bias to a perfect system.
> I suspect it's a class issue: politicians see soda as something that poor, obese people drink, but a white chocolate mocha is not.

To drink one of those coffees you have to actually go to Costa Coffee or Starbucks. It's too expensive to drink daily for the vast majority of the population. And most people who go to coffee shops don't drink those anyway. All of those would suggest that the public health effects of the two are vastly different. The tax should apply to both, but from a public health perspective I doubt it matters.
I think the smart move for the time being for VR is to put realism to the side in favor of strongly art-directed stylized content that focuses on the strengths that the platform has right now and worry about realism later.

I think films are a great example of demonstrating that realism =/= immersion. Movies like Lego Movie, The Incredibles, etc can be just as immersive as live action. The secret sauce isn't realism, it's choosing the right style for the content, gameplay and theme you are going for.
One nice thing about GridFS is that the spec is maintained by MongoDB and consistently implemented in all its major DB drivers.

Any plans to port this to other languages, or get the spec blessed by RethinkDB?
Per force, there will be some aspects of language that will be easier to solve than others. At the same time, I think that there's been a tendency for people to overestimate the value of just a part of language understanding.

To me, Google search with NLP is at best barely better than search with some kind of query language (and often worse imo). Those phone-based robobilling system now can mostly understand what you say but are still essentially only a notch above keypad menus.

The thing with complex syntax-based meaning in human language is that really is only worth the trouble if one is setting up an ongoing relationship with an other. A very smart human with vast knowledge still couldn't give great answers to single-sentence questions from people he'd never seen before and who would never see him again.

And ongoing language interactions actually tend to connect multiple aspect of human activity making divisions harder. So metaphorically we may have a few very small fruit and more or less one very large one.