skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another huge problem with democracy is the voting systems. As far as I'm concerned, if they used a simple plurality (first past the post) voting system, then the results are invalid, and that goes for any election that uses that system. It cannot be said to represent the will of the people.

I didn't participate in this election (I'm not a UKian) and didn't see exactly how it was done, but I'll bet (esp. given the statements made about the results, and how the winner got 3x the number of votes of the runner-up) they had a big list of names, and then people had the chance to vote for exactly one of those names. "Boaty McBoatface" therefore was probably not the choice of the majority of the voters, but only a small minority, with all the other votes spread across a bunch of other names.

If the name was not chosen by a clear majority of people, then it's not the "choice of the people".

If this had been done by some other voting system, then we would have seen very different results most likely. Approval voting might have worked well here; whichever name got the most votes of approval, if more then 50% of the voters approved it, can rightfully be said to be "the choice of the people".

This is the problem with "democracy": the voting system itself is inherently rigged and unfair, and then we're told to believe in its results. How many elections actually use a voting system besides plurality? Not many.
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Every platform is going to have "terms of service". What in particular bothered you?
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Plastic Bags cost $0.00 (typically). They're handed away for free from Grocery stores. Cleaning up Plastic Bag Pollution costs more than $0.

This market failure is called an externality. The people who use Plastic Bags don't pay for Plastic Bag pollution. I mean, its a very small externality in the great scope of things, so I don't really give much of a care. Maybe about... $0.05, the current tax on plastic bags in my area to take care of this externality.

But its still clearly a market failure (specifically an externality). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality

A plastic bag tax shifts the externality and fixes the market failure. Now either the grocery store or the consumer who uses the plastic bags have to pay for the pollution they cause.

The reason why San Francisco is dumb is because they go off the rails and turn into a nanny state. I agree with San Fran that Plastic Bags are a nuisance and that somebody needs to pay for the cleanup effort. But the ban goes too far.

On the other hand, a minor-bag tax levied by the local municipality (who pays for the road-cleanup crews who pick up the plastic bags) makes 100% sense. That's the purpose of taxes: to force people who otherwise aren't paying for something... to pay for a service that they're taking advantage of. Taxes are a lovely mechanism for solving market failures that involve externalities.
As a matter of fact, MemSQL hasn't ignored them for a while now :) I think since 3.2.

But I don't think many customers are taking advantage of it though.
Sorry for the political tangent, but this reminds me of how much I dislike Hillary: I really wonder how much of it comes not from my dislike of her, but rather of her snide, obnoxious, condescending supporters. I hate them so much I'd almost rather vote for Cruz even though rationally I know he'd be much worse from my perspective. But I feel I'd rather have Trump or Cruz or any Republican really, just to spite the Hillary supporters.

So yeah, I think the community that arises around something or someone can really affect your perception of that thing or person, and make you lose your objectivity.
The problem is not the existence of the challenge. The problem is it is broken in a fresh, unmodified install of the TOR Browser. Sorry, but I can't recognize a pure white square properly as a person.
In South Bend, In, parties put forward a representative for that office. It's an administrative role. The Coroner does not, necessarily, open the remains to determine cause of death. As such, the role helps align various resources to causes like drug prevention. It also governs the amount of work spent on finding evidence for a crime.

The campaign is typical campaign. I got the press involved in some of our research that showed signs of corruption and negligence. I coordinated yard signs, etc. The research part was particularly horrifying. Not because of the deaths, but because of how many black individuals were dealt with.
This isn't surprising at all. Social media permeating every inch of our souls, just drowns people in everyone else's seemingly perfect lives. When people view Facebook feeds of everyone on vacation, eating amazing food, taking amazing adventures. It makes you feel like you're missing out on all of that, and that your life can't possibly compare. While in reality, it's many cherry picked snippets of potentially hundreds and thousands of lives. I've certainly caught myself being worried about not being at my maximum potential, why didn't I go to an Ivy league school, why didn't I work harder and play with the big boys Silicon Valley, why am I not out traveling the world living carefree. However from any outsider, I'd be viewed as incredibly successful. It's a sad state to be in, and you just have to distance yourself from it. It's awesome to have goals, but you can't expect to be able to achieve the goals of hundreds of people simultaneously.
All of the code is open source. This is a beautiful thing:

website: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-www

snippets: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-snippets

runner-web: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-run

runner-onserver: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-code-runner

containers: https://github.com/prasmussen/glot-containers

EDIT: And this is directly from the main github source repository -- https://github.com/prasmussen/glot
My favourite smartphone was/is:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N95

It was such an awesome phone at the time, such quality hardware, and once they patched the firmware (a lot), it was an awesome phone. Loved the dual sliding action, the solid feel in the hand, so many features, and the amazing call quality. Still miss it.
Yes, he missed the base case for recursion.

Also, the first definition of symmetric tree is wrong. One more appropriate would say that the left branch is the mirror image of the right branch.
I have a coding music playlist that I've been improving over the last few years, it's nearly 70 hours of upbeat electronica & IDM with no almost no vocals. I try to only keep music that keeps me in the zone and delete any track that distracts me. The playlist is now on Spotify, but it had over 100 subscribers on Rdio before they closed down.

https://open.spotify.com/user/syneryder/playlist/5YpeoHyEHG7...

spotify://user:syneryder:playlist:5YpeoHyEHG7ttNgvzAkW72

There was also a thread last week that asked about music:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11493678
So the law should really be one giant program that legislators should "commit" code to, after code review of course.

Neat idea.
Previous to buying Prime, I ordered things that would be in a "Preparing to Ship" status for a week before actually shipping out. Upon contacting Amazon they informed me that they literally will not ship for a period of time if you got the over $35 free shipping deal. I complained and told them that was bullcrap and I didn't know that and I needed the things the next day and they overnighted them to me but still I was surprised. They basically admitted they'll hold things to make sure that shipping takes longer!
Once you sink the time into setup, it really takes care of itself.

You could basically schedule/cron/whatever the job to build once a month/week/day on your machine and it will always dump the up-to-date virtual machine in the location you choose.

I should also point out that Packer is the program that they use to create Vagrant boxes.
Related to your edit, I do. I don't feel it unreasonable to either.

It's a form of lying, a form of corruption.

Also, it's in the interests of places like Reddit and HN to keep them out. It's distorts the comments in an unpleasant way.

I'm fine with corps and stuff posting here, as long as they identify themselves as such.
You summed up everything I was thinking reading these comments good sir.
Go porter stemmer gwizo hits v 1.0. Produces even better results
If that is indeed tractable for a side project at Facebook over a few weeks, it's definitely tractable for someone who actually cares to attack Tor.
Which Companies Pay Engineers the Most?
That's more what I had in mind. I'm not into reading historical events as absolute predictors - but when I came across a mention that both Ecuador and Japan had seismic events before the 1906 quake in SF...that got my attention up. Over a decade ago I took an absolutely fascinating Earthquakes and Volcanoes course from an 'industry pro' who was doing Adjunct work between gigs - he specialized in diamond and oil/gas deposit work. As in, seismic events would enable him to study new developments and discover pockets for potential recovery operations. His love of his science was contagious and I've held his fearful respect for the Earh's tectonic system ever since.
I am slightly curious how much actual innovation (new patents) there are since 1996, that would need to be cross licensed by either given company... the bulk of legacy x86 (not x86-64) is expired. Excluding certain extensions.
Why doesn't China block Tor? Isn't it easy as blocking all known public IP addresses?

It doesn't make sense to not allow the user to access certain sites, but allow Tor that can easily bypass that protection.
The report does claim that. It cites the government agencies whose declassified documents say they armed him in the first place. They lied about that for a long time. They were caught repeatedly lying, esp on torture or surveillance effectiveness, during that administration. Using CIA's own intelligence framework, their source integrity rating would be very, very low even if I trusted 9/11 Commission to faithfully do their part. I mean, think about it, do we really trust CIA and DOD to give us evidence that they're guilty of negligence with direct access to source materials by 9/11 Commission? Or should we reject those parts as tainted? The latter is standard in every criminal investigation in U.S. outside of cases involving "national security."

In any case, the other thing the report said was that Arab-Americans working for CIA posed as Saudi's to trick AQ operatives into cooperating. Turned out, they thought they were saved by their Saudi friends and gave all kinds of unlisted numbers to royalty, etc. The revelation that funding and connected personnel came from the Saudi's means we should've torn up Saudi Arabia looking for them if our goal was stopping/punishing terrorists. Instead, Afghanistan and... Iraq...? While giving arms and military training to the Saudis through private military companies? And sharing terrorist intelligence with them when they just funded 9/11? What... the... hell...?

Now, fast forward to today, the Obama Administration is still protecting the pages showing level of Saudi involvement. The Saudi's still don't want their info or people in a courtroom. You indicate OBL and Afghanistan are all we gotta worry about whereas the 9/11 report on Saudi involvement, that classified doc, and U.S. government working their ass off to protect Saudi's that funded 9/11 seems to suggest very opposite of your or official claims.

That is, if OBL did it at all, he was just a tool for a large, Saudi organization connected to their financial and political elites that murdered 3,000 Americans. That connection is in official report, but downplayed. And U.S. government, for whatever reason, is doing everything they can to cover that up and keep justice from happening. If that's not evidence of supporting terrorism or negligence re 9/11 then I don't know what is.

Note: We've been able to show complicity or U.S. support of terrorism without resorting to anything beyond their own official report and actions. No conspiracy sites, no thermite, nothing. Just their own claims and hard work to protect Saudi crooks.
giving discounts for Prime members is not the same as being hostile to non prime customers.
Ex-Reddit Exec Quietly Launches ‘Positive’ Reddit Rival
I think as the technical part of the population, we have the opportunity now to greatly change the structure of the world.

Government can be largely replaced by software. (just thinking long term here)

Democracy can be more pure. Corruption can be controlled. Economies can be stabilized and better planned. Environmental resources can be better managed.

We've got a lot more work to do past sharing images & allowing chats (though look at the massive affect of just those things)
Just put a cabinet that goes down to the counter in the corner.

What the above really means is that they don't like the solutions that will satisfy the constraints.
Is it not obvious that you reverse the left and right subtrees and then swap them?

I learned how to think recursively in college. I never learned how to reverse a binary tree.
It depends on the municipality but the code usually requires an outlet every 18" to 24" on or above the countertop for small appliances so no, such a modification would not bring the installation up to code.

Unless the countertop near the corner has a depth of 18" or less, it would be very difficult to fulfill all requirements.
Those crying children couldn't exist if their grandparents and their grandparents down the line never died. There wouldn't be enough food or resources to sustain indefinite existence for everyone who wants it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecophagy
What's the status of civil/criminal charges against Bob?
I'm kind of a hybrid, really. I consider myself a libertarian at times, but mostly, a constitutionalist. I find that I object to most of the laws passed federally, but don't mind them so much when they're passed at the level of a municipality, city or even state (y'know, 10th amendment). In short, I don't believe in one-size-fits-all policies, as while I think a $15 minimum wage might work wonderfully in places like San Francisco, or NYC, I think they'd be disastrous in places like Alaska, or Arkansas. Regardless, much of the legislation I see being passed in places like San Francisco are fairly arbitrary, and that's the sort of thing I was responding to in the grand-parent.

For what it's worth, I tend to think less of these impositions as tyranny because, specifically, if I don't like what's going on in San Francisco, I can move to Austin.
Ask HN: What will it take for you pay for podcasts?
Like with musicians, most podcast publishers don't make a lot of money. Unlike most labels however, podcast publishers willingly make their episodes free because audiences are small and there are few established ways of making money that work.

What will it take for you to pay money to listen to podcasts?
Especially when your delusions are being so very highly funded.
Poorer countries are on average more religious and more religious countries have lower suicide rates http://www.gallup.com/poll/108625/more-religious-countries-l...
This, coupled with the incredibly mean people on the Internet, I'd expect. Who wants to reach out when everyone's just a jerk all the time? I'm very guilty of this, too. Reddit, Twitter, and other similar forums are cesspools of hate just as much as they're wells of love. For every Arnold post on /r/fitness encouraging someone, there are 20,000 posts calling OP a fag and deriding someone for asking a simple question.

I feel like the Internet is in its High School years, now. The 90's were like grade school, and prior to that it was kindergarten (70's, ARPANET). Now, we've got gang fights, drugs, ineffective leaders/teachers, lowered expectations, and above all, teenage angst.
>Except we're not machines.

I only mean that we're machines enough so that medical techniques work. We are made of parts that break and can be fixed. This is on extremely solid empirical footing.

>Some might say the next logical step isn't to wish to live forever, but to die, and hope your genes and ideas live on. We're not the eternal ones in this universe, no matter how big our capacity to wish for that.

Do you say that? I wish to live a very long time, and I wish the same for my loved ones and anyone who wants. I would keep wishing this even if it were an impossible wish. Also, it happens to probably not be impossible.
Devices 75 years ago weren't designed to be millimeters thick.

If you have a removable battery, you need the walls of the battery to be thicker to prevent puncturing it. You have to have extra thickness for the battery cover and for the wall that goes against the battery. You need a contact interface for the battery instead of a flat flex cable.

There's no way to make an iPhone as thin as it is with a removable battery. You can argue that no one needs a phone that thin, but regardless, I don't think it has anything to do with planned obsolescence.
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Small edit would improve your statement a lot:
I Don't Want to Hire You If You Can't Learn How to Reverse a Binary Tree
"Researchers also found an alarming increase among girls 10 to 14, whose suicide rate, while still very low, had tripled."

It is tragic that girls of that age range kill themselves at all. By 2014, their suicide rate rose to the level of boys' suicides in 1999.

Meanwhile, boys' suicide rate between 1999 and 2014 rose even more than girls. This however, is not alarming for some reason.
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Ub Iwerks is one of the most under-appreciated technical geniuses in film industry history. In addition to being an early innovator of multiplane camera design, he introduced the xerographic process into animation and drove the development of the sodium vapor process for combining animation with live action.

His son Don Iwerks also created the first 360-degree camera (for use in Disney's 1950s nature documentaries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks
Evidence was elsewhere. You know where to find it. You had already dismissed the whole topic with an ad hominem with plenty assumptions and no references whatsoever. If anything, I acted above your standard of discussion. I've replied in another comment with more details focusing on just one angle from government docs and activity only.
The point is to encourage you to bring your own bag, eliminating a disposable bag from use. To do that you have to charge explicitly for it.
I think the GP meant revocable. ("Repudiable" -- able to be repudiated -- is neither a word nor exactly correct in this context.)
Right... So how is an employee of a politician informing the public of what the politicians actual stance is 'propaganda' of the denotative and connotative form?
The conclusion about Li-ion batteries is not supported by the paper. The paper tests the electrodes in a capacitor configuration, not a Li-ion battery configuration. Li-ion battery electrodes are damaged more by the swelling caused by Li-ion diffusion into and out of the electrode than they are by the electromagnetic forces between electrodes.
It doesn't. The experiment could have been done by the dad and his daughter on their own without a single form. Its when the school and their lawyers get involved. The cynic in me wants to point out that the paperwork exercise might be the part that best prepares the young student for an actual career in science or engineering.
One of the main ideas put forward by Thomas is that the generic agile principles are basically a reflection of gradient descent: take a small step in the direction you think you should go, evaluate the value of doing so and the error generated, then repeat. For a well-posed problem, you'll converge without taking huge steps generating tons of short term inefficiency.

Real world Agile is effectively like taking this gradient descent idealization espoused by the agile creators and turning it into simulated annealing instead -- a vastly slower, dumber optimization method with no guarantees about avoiding local extrema.

This analogy carries you pretty far. It's all the extra political, bureaucratic, micromanagerial stuff that creates the effect of random displacements, as in simulated annealing, instead of calculated, deterministic displacements as in real gradient descent. (And hooking up user and customer feedback as a major driver for the displacements is one of the worst failure modes for this.)

For me, the trouble is that "real agile" (i.e. the "good" and "not manipulated" principles) doesn't provide any mechanism for explicitly preventing this kind of political subversion. It's just too easy for middle managers and bureaucrats to subvert for their own purposes, while shoving all the negative externalities of doing so onto lowly developers.

I don't particularly like Agile because I don't think one-size-fits-all approaches will ever work (e.g. every sprint must be 2 weeks long, every workflow must involve story points, etc.).

But if I had to think about a way to vindicate Agile and protect it from subversion, I would suggest it needs some kind of explicit statement that short-term business concerns are not valid excuses for modifying the process. Of course, then managers won't like it ... because they only like things that give them metric surface area with which to politically manipulate the situation for their changing agenda, and so Agile would become impossible to sell to huge companies.

It's a Catch-22. Actually good software dev practices that make money, make customers happy, and live up to quality standards instead of just paying lip service to them are completely at odds with executives and managers who want to torch the commons for the sake of short term bonuses and couldn't give two shits about whether it makes customers unhappy, etc. (because they will have secured blame insurance against that anyway, and may even make more money from endless irrational tech re-orgs).
Hysterical. The female rate is < 1/3rd that of men and still the articles first five paragraphs focus almost entirely on women.
Perhaps add async.auto. Auto can do anything series and parallel can do, but with named functions and any combination of dependencies.
I can't even read the arin.net pages...does something screwy to my browser...both Chrome and Firefox in Linux.
This is another experiment to test their monopoly power (like the conflict with Hachette.) If it's successful, expect it to happen across more product ranges. Their monopoly power is built into their valuation; if they can't make it pay, they will eventually crash.
"You can't expect to be able to achieve the goals of hundreds of people simultaneously." -- great quote, thank you!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_XML
No, it's not that simple. Propaganda has a definition which usually includes something about false info or spin. From Marian-Webster "propaganda
: ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc."
Oxford "Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view"
They did go up, but in a country of only 11 million people Greece's low rate means annual suicides went up from approximately 370 people to 501 people. My point is simply that the relative measure (35%) might lead us to inappropriate policy solutions versus looking at absolute measures (131 additional suicide deaths in an entire country per year) or deviation from comparable nations.
How would it be impervious to criticism? It seems like these people are going around looking for statements that are incorrect about her and correcting them.