skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true. Washington is too tainted by vested interests that seek to procrastinate shift. Time has literally run out. From here we are already in catch up mode.

It seems like a revolution is necessary to stop them from acting against humanity's long term existence for their short term financial gain.
That only scratches the surface and I have done it. I think more through analysis needs to be done.
Does that feel right when you write on it? My main complaint with any stylus type input is that it feels like you are writing on ice. The tip just slides around and makes it more trouble than it is worth. Did Apple fix that?
8-queen puzzle in 1 line of Python with pretty print

_=[__import__('sys').stdout.write("\n".join('.' * i + 'Q' + '.' * (8-i-1) for i in vec) + "\n===\n") for vec in __import__('itertools').permutations(xrange(8)) if 8 == len(set(vec[i]+i for i in xrange(8))) == len(set(vec[i]-i for i in xrange(8)))]
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It's very sad that reefs are dying, but it seems that their whole existence was very much tied to a very specific amount of carbon in the atmosphere. (about 265 ppm co2)

The scary thing is that these reefs are so incredibly diverse & their creation took millions of years. Millions of years to create and they can be globally destroyed in just 200 or so years.

It's also scary is to consider what else may be balanced just as precariously.
I'm sure if you google it there'll be blurb on their website. But Chomsky points out that appearing impartial is part of the media manipulation.

They'll print the juicier bits, but buried deep were few except geeks and junkies like me will read it.

Another two techniques that infuriate me:

1. Editing published articles after they are published and making the original unavailable. (Editing should look like word's auto-track feature: in bright red)

2. Not following up on a story after you launched salvos into a person/ideas truth worthiness and they are vindicated
Yes I though the same. Especially when it walks in natural landscapes (e.g. on the beach and the snowy forest).

I find the view of autonomous human artifacts roaming in otherwise unaltered natural landscapes aesthetically very pleasing.

Sci-Fi is real. We leave in the future.
Great suggestion. It's on my to-read list maybe it's gone up a few notches now. I hope someone who's read it could give some feedback on it though.
Who, at the front end actually did that work, and how were they compensated ?
> bully/asshole

Isn't assholism a "niceness burnout"? ;)

I suppose one would have to observe children to see that, as that's when those traits usually start to appear.
Something is wrong and broken with "modern capitalism" if a mere 90,000 people have more wealth than 90% of the planet. All the arguments about investment and job creators falls flat; we have gobs and gobs of excess capital desperately seeing some productive investment. Capitalists don't need any more capital at the moment.
The wealth they have isn't doing nothing. It's in investments.
Secondly, if it was in nothing, that would only reduce the velocity of money, effectively making your money worth more. You could spread that money around, but the likely result of that is less investment and more consumption.
> When you're dealing with people, though, that kind of response can be actively counterproductive. Anyone who's had a significant other "vent" and respond negatively when you try to turn to problem solving will probably recognize this dynamic.

I can't help but link to "It's not about the Nail": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
A bit much, even for me.

But Orwell wouldn't be surprised a bit of quid pro quo. Both are power structures, in competition, ultimately trying to preserve their own controll.
Thrilled to see that the presenter is wearing a FC Barcelona shirt, 1999 centennial edition. Força Barça!
You can add government health care to the list as well (at least for most of the west - excluding the USA).

Single payer provides better outcomes for the population at a lower cost per GDP.
It's a font.
Oh boy, I can't wait for the first exploit involving this to hit.
We shipped a game called The Sims that used Comic Sans all throughout, that sold pretty well in spite of the font. In case you can't stand to read Comic Sans with your eyes, I also made an external screen scraping utility called Simplifier that reads Comic Sans text off the screen, and catalogs and recites the product descriptions with a speech synthesizer. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imu1v3GecB8&feature=youtu.be...
nqueens is ~4, the rest is output
I would also expect that of other states where mere gun ownership is an explicitly granted by the state privilege to particular individuals, e.g. Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey off the top of my head.

And California has created a unit to do the same to people they think are prohibited. Most recent horror story was about a nurse who'd voluntarily checked herself into a mental ward because of a medication screwup (i.e. it was self-limiting) and her husband's guns were confiscated: http://bearingarms.com/california-returns-confiscated-guns-t...

I'm not even sure in Crazy California a voluntary admission is a disbarring event, it isn't Federally or of any state I'm aware of, as this case shows it shouldn't be.

And note medication screwups/unwanted mental side effects happen all the time, a former SO got frank suicidal ideation when switched to a standard normally well tolerated anti-depressant (she just stopped taking the drug and was careful while it worked its way out of her system).

And many drugs can cause mania, as I can personally attest (hypomania in my case, and my "you're impaired" flag kept me from doing anything stupid including spending money needlessly (well, beyond buying a power supply as a kit when they're so cheap and easy in the form of wall-warts) until the problem was realized). Many that are not normally psychoactive, I've read systemic steroids like prednisone often do this.
What is the legal structure of the company?

Is the focus of business operations to produce recurring cash flow for the owners or is it to produce capital gains via growth of the underlying equity?

What is the vesting period for your equity?

Sales person psychology:

1. Sales people are always enthusiastic.

2. Commission based sales incentivize closing deals that don't advance a company's general interests.

3. A milestone based contract can help align interests.

Good luck.
I don't think they actually write a check for the amount the hospital owes. I think my EOB for surgery looked something like:

Item: drugs
Amount requested: $7000
Amount paid: $3
Amount owed by patient: $0
A device announces support for the WebUSB command set

Wat.

This document describes an API for direct access to Universal Serial Bus devices from web pages.

This isn't what any of this is about. Expose USB devices to the browser or not, do not add rogue standards for USB devices to comply with!
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This is madness.
Are there any other method to prevent / protect information being hijacked without going for encrypt?
>"there is no other side. its not a physical hole."

Isn't a black hole more like an edge of the universe? My understanding is that you end up with a Zeno's paradox situation where no matter how close you get you can never actually reach it.
Proof for the SHA3 claim that 256 bit security is “post-quantum sufficient”?
I find it confusing that you don't even seem to read my comments, and instead claim I said things I didn't. Perhaps instead of accusing me of bias, you should work on your reading skills?

I never made a claim about the authors funding. I also didn't claim that they are biased (although I find it curious that they only use 2000 of the 8000 scripts they found). I DO think they have an agenda, but I wasn't talking about that in this comment thread yet. Nor did I claim that their numbers are wrong.

So if it is important to you that a film you watch has more female than male lines, you have more than 150 to choose from. If you are generous and include movies with an even number of male and female lines, you are up to 490 movies (out of the 2000 they analyzed), or roughly 25% of all movies. Maybe that is plenty enough?

I never doubted their result that there is a "gap" between talking time, averaged across all movies (or at least the movies they looked at). However, why should you care about talking times of movies you don't watch? What matters is the movies you watch. That is all I am saying.

Personally I also think it is stupid to judge a movie by that criterion (likewise for the Bechdel Test), but if it is important to you, why not. But unless you run out of films to watch, there isn't really a problem.
Many ecosystems have been already reduced to:

grass, goat, pig, sheep, cow, person, dog, cat

Currently we catch wild fish to eat. That will cease some day (we'll run out) & we will grow most of our fish in farms.

So.... these are probably the last 100 years of wildlife. Unless people make drastic changes.
In a perfect game system you'd probably make labor income taxes less than capital gains on investment. Yes you want to encourage investment but you also want to feed the economy with monetary velocity or cash money.

The fact is lower/middle class labor income workers put more directly back into the economy than the wealthy "job creators", so who are the real job creators? Demand is the job creator!

Demand comes from people that spend having cash. Capital locked up in hoarding does not help the economy as much especially in downturns. Lower/middle class spend almost all their incremental income dollar while the rich typically spend less than 5% of each incremental dollar. If the lower/middle class has cash then you have demand, demand leads to investment, and jobs/growth.
+1 because you're right about the importance of distribution.

My family are inflation "refugees". It's bad in of itself.

I agree that the distribution of the money is the worse part of the printing press. Giving money to soup kitchens is not as bad giving it to upgrade your military equipment. But, lets not kid ourselves. The central bank is a very powerful instrument of control. The powerful are hardly going to relinquish it!
Show HN: Heroku for Live Streaming
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The idea is that anyone can setup and streaming node and then our infrastructure will handle all the transcode and CDN for the event. Unlike others this service would only charge you for the time and data used and have NO MONTHLY FEES.
Some other key features are:

Analytics:
We give detailed analytics about who watched, where and if and when they dropped out along with a host of other data points.

Chat:
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Why Material Design Didn’t Achieve the Grand Unification It Originally Aimed For
Looks like they were able to coordinate with multiple teams using gantt charts. Probably taking into account fuzzy nature of time planning. So I would not think about gannt charts as rigid time planning it is just a tool so it depends on how you use it.
Study finds that sky is blue. Politicians shocked.
I've listened to a few interviews with Josh Waitzkin and I have to say, not impressed with him as a human being. In his case, he is highly intelligent, but it doesn't escape the fact that he's kind of a lousy human being. Go listen to his interview with Tim Ferriss for example; he talks like he's robotically trying to figure out how to sling vocabulary words together to sound smart. At once point (paraphrasing here), he says something like: "we have create a sense of agency for the kids". Not long after, I stopped listening.

Just listening to him describe his life, he's a very self important type of person.
This particular restriction is intended to address things like authentication devices (e.g. gnubby) where you basically destroy the entire security model if a user accidentally allows a malicious website to connect to it.

That stated, the last round of discussions gave me the impression that browsers generally (and in particular Chrome) are leaning towards implementing this as a very alerting warning rather than an outright block.
I think it's a matter of taste or what you're used to. I find the first two examples clearer than the map/filter ones.

Are map and filter more concise? Yeah but only in this case. If you would need to do some processing, they would get messy fast because of a lambda.
And, yet, long-term economic growth forecasts are the lowest that they've been in a really long time.
A fast algorithm that really isn't very complex:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=4DC...
Here's the NASA press conference where he says it: https://youtu.be/EmN9IJyzBG0?t=23m30s
We'd see it coming long before. They emit radiation at many frequencies, plus all the stars orbiting them (ie, a galaxy) indicate the mass of what they're orbiting. So if you happen to see any galaxies coming towards us in the next billion years (aside from Andromeda) do let the world know.
This has nothing to do with functional programming. Here's an iterative Python solution that's almost a direct translation but uses explicit iteration and avoids `filter`/`map`/etc.

from itertools import permutations

def n_queens(n):
for p in permutations(range(n)):
if len({c + i for i, c in enumerate(p)}) == len({c - i for i, c in enumerate(p)}) == n:
yield p
Don't forget to add underemployment to the list - people who have jobs, but not enough working hours to survive.

In the US, at least, an incredibly common opinion is that those people are scum, and deserve nothing. It's very strange to hear you call it the 'natural rate of unemployment.' The human impact poverty has on the unemployed is devastating. (Yes, there is also the working poor.)
That's the intent though, which completely flew over the "critics" (and I use the term loosely) head...
Note that the policy isn't mandatory. Privileged contexts will likely have access anyway.
Consumption drives investment. Why on earth would you spend 10 million dollars to build a widget factory, when nobody has the money to buy widgets?
According to science, they may...

According to my personal experience, they definitely do.
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Congress has a 11% approval rating. Nearly 90% of Americans agree that it's performing inadequately

Given that all 535 members won an election to get there, that is pretty surprising.

Widespread dislike of the entire political class is a new phenomenom in US politics. It seems to be driven by:

* Unprecedented polarization

* Filter bubbles -- new media makes it easy to hear only news you already agree with.

* Gridlock and dysfunction
How many spoonfuls of soup must you taste to know if the pot is salty?
Employers with short expected employee timelines leads to a culture of highly disposable workers for the majority of employees, since most employees are less powerful. Not everyone can leave in two years to work for Google, Facebook, etc.. due to children or wanting to have a life outside of work. This culture and the disposability of employees leads to high demands and negatively impacts employees' health. If the employee doesn't meet the demands they can be disposed of in this exploitative relationship that is now couched as being the new normal and to be promoted.

I agree with point 3) people should have a safety net. Maybe some of the problem with this culture would be mitigated, since people would have a net to fall back on and wouldn't fear for their survival. But this plan also costs money. So companies with this sort of work culture should be paying the taxes to support the employee they laid off. Once you take the increased taxes into account, then you might see a more rational approach towards the average employee that is thrown out instead of retrained. Does the hyper libertarian mindset take into account this negative externality? Or do they simply try to dodge their taxes in offshore accounts or move their headquarters to avoid paying the tab?
20k? That is madness.

It's up to 100 Mio € over here in some european countries.
Well, an excessive amount of spelling errors on the application could be an indication that they half-ass everything.

Which could be a problem in a housemate.

Or it could mean they won't give you shit for half-assing everything.

Depends.
I get it, Comic Sans is tacky. But so is the fetishizing of Helvetica.
Attach it to your neighbours dog. Instant profit!
I didn't say it was the same movement. I said it was the same software.

The DRM point you make is nuanced. There can be free DRM implementations -- it would just mean that users could modify the software to remove the DRM. If the DRM is implemented in hardware, like tivoisation, then it is indeed no longer free. I think open source advocates, if they still exist (the open source movement seems dormant because it has "won"), might consider that to be open source. Stallman certainly thinks they would:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html
One of my CS professors had us writing papers, and we got extra points if it was in comic sans. I had to specifically install a ms fonts package for it. Ever since I've liked it, but don't actually use it. I think the whole thing surrounding comic sans is incredibly strange and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some context or something.
It's bad advice to say "don't listen to what others in this thread are saying". Having more data is better than having less data.

It's good advice to trust your gut; but as Nobel prize winning psychologists discovered, trust your gut as an additional parameter to your existing rubric of tests.

Don't trust your gut while excluding everything else.
So you're asking people to stop wanting money?

The people who want to solve life threatening problems will do so and the people who want to make "trivial" apps to make lots of money will do so.

Asking us to just do the former is pointless.

Also what about people who aren't entrepreneurs and work at industries like finance, law, and first country problems? Shouldn't they be held under the same scrutiny? What's so special about tech entrepreneurs that they'll should be more responsible? Knowing how to code Ruby and deploy in Docker is not the same skill set needed to come up with climate change solutions.
Comic Sams actually shipped with Internet Explorer 3-5 and Win98+. The font was meant for Comic Chat which came with IE3-5, an IRC chat application. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

You have to install IE on Win95 to get the font. IE4 included the Win95 shell upgrade which meant it turned Win95 to look like Win98. So a lot of people installed it.
Do you mean the amount the hospital bills?

I'm talking about a bill I have to pay to meet my deductible, so the 5x number is the number that appears in the EOB (the covered amount for the service) and unless I am mistaken, it is the amount they would pay if I had met my deductible.

My paranoid speculation is that they push back harder against the coding of bills that they are responsible for than they do for bills that are under the deductible. This doesn't really make sense (the insurance company should want to control costs all the time), but it feels good.
Isn't the point of an n-queen solution to be fast? What does it matter how many new lines you have in the solution if it isn't fast?
You're right. Most Millennials don't have the attention span for a book.
There's a followup to that article where they specifically look at Ajax and conclude that there are still issues:

http://searchengineland.com/can-now-trust-google-crawl-ajax-...
“Currently, it is not possible to add an SSL certificate to your site.”
This is a very interesting topic to me.

On one hand, you want to (in my world) empower developers and let them take ownership of ... whatever. On the other hand, you want to learn, as a group how to do better. On the gripping hand, you want to be able to tell the customers (and investors) what to expect and when.

It seems as if you can do the combination of #1 & #3, somehow, without tracking what you are doing and how you are doing it, but that #2 requires us to baseline what we are doing and try to brainstorm about what we can try in an attempt to, as a functional group, do better.

In your world, measurement is "bad" for an individual's autonomy. And it may well be. How does an organization accomplish goal #2 (and #3) along with #1?

Anecdotally, I found that the self-directed process improvement (PSP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_software_process) helped a great deal. I didn't go overboard with formalism, just jotted myself some notes along the way during the week that I spent 20 minutes compiling on Friday, but I found that I had to record what I was doing to even know what I was doing. And that's just me. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I really didn't know. And my own estimates of what I was doing were ... surprisingly off.
How big is the market for travelers who don't know where they want to go?

Could there be a market for alocal version of this? Something like an Uber that takes people to 'arbitrary' restaurants. If not, why would people who will risk flying and hotels but not a "cab" ride and a dinner?
Are there any risks associated with them? For instance, a burst of radiation that obliterates us? Is that possible?