skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting. I've been reading an medieval Indian philosophy called non-dual Shaiva Tantra. The philosophy, or called the View, is only one part of it. The practice of philosophy and the way of life is not separated from the View, and yet it also addresses those fundamental questions that you are talking about with the Western philosophers. There is no dumbing down.

A large part of it is that, in the non-dual Shaiva Tantra tradition, there is a extensive experiential component to it. Someone who merely believes in a philosophy has not yet embodied the philosophy. Philosophical investigation is a crucial stage towards embodying the philosophy.

There is a Western philosophy that is also experiential. It's called alchemy. Here, the truths that were developed are considered the second of three stages of transformation. The last stage is plunging those principles back into the messiness of life, until the philosopher is a living embodiment of the philosophy. This last stage is called the "red stage", where the philosophy is tested in life and further distilled over and over again until it becomes alive once again.

So I'm not sure I buy your argument on that distinction. It seems more to me what you are saying is insufficiently applying and practicing the principles and fruits of philosophical investigation.
That kind of thing is already taxed as "benefit in kind"
I guess because beta usually determines which features are going to be in the final release. So if you're looking what release to choose for a new version of your software, it might be more worthwhile to look at beta than the final release.
There's a mooc that started last week about Pharo https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41010/session01/info

They use pharo 5. I have to admit it's a very peculiar experience. A bit Emacs on steroid in terms of dynamism and homogeneity.

They address French and English speakers in the reading material, not in the Videos IIRC.
How does "European and American Philosophy" differ from "Western Philosophy" versus "Eastern Philosophy", the latter of which they seem to specialise.
1) Seeking "tax shelters" through investment. Very inefficient, however.

2) Factors other than the tax system. Correlation != causation, IOW. The U.S. had (something approximating) the only standing industrial infrastructure in the world post-WWII. It's also worth noting that the Kennedy tax cuts probably released a lot of pent-up economic energy. Similar tax cuts under different circumstances may not have the same effect - there had been widespread privaiton in the US from 1929 until the '50s, and this sort of acted as a "second stage" booster.

3) A general cultural civic-mindedness. I recently listened to a presentation of Devon Energy's CEO, and his father started a fund in energy and wanted it structred as a registered security , one of the first , and was told "you don't need to do that" by the SEC, but he persisted because he felt that was better.

He then contrasted that now with people spending lots of money to avoid SEC regulation. That highlights the level of culture shift since then.
He's considered a good speaker when he is rehearsed. He is considered an umm-er when he is speaking candidly by anybody who doesn't also speak like that.

In his defense, everything he says is hyper-analyzed so he does have to be more careful than most of us.
Is the tax rate not reasonable right now? Is there any evidence that lowering the tax rate would make companies less likely to try to avoid paying taxes?
It's worth mentioning that not even the headline says all fake Facebook accounts can be detected.....
I'm positive, though it seems this setting may have been removed far longer ago than I thought
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What's wrong with LaTeX (or extensions like XeTeX or LuaTeX)? Cursory searching pops up tools such as LaTeXML (http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML) for converting from LaTeX to XML; not that I've used it, but it seems to have about a 60% success rate at converting arXiv papers [1]. That's still about 20,000 papers that don't build successfully, but it's a tool that could be improved.

What would you suggest as an alternative to LaTeX or Word?

I'm just curious; I use LaTeX regularly and think it works just fine.

[1]http://arxmliv.kwarc.info/
Sure, but the proposed simplification eliminated that.
Taxing net worth has been done. They have it in France and a few other places. I'm not sure it's terribly popular.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/

http://www.theonion.com

http://www.getpocket.com

http://www.waitbutwhy.com

http://www.wired.com

http://www.fatherly.com

http://www.mbird.com

Watches:

http://www.theoandharris.com

http://www.hodinkee.com

http://www.watchsteez.com

http://www.watchrecon.com
> Lyft will eventually have to speak to the reality that how much money you make per ride as a Lyft driver can be predicted by skin tone and sex.

Do we actually have data on this, or is this some sort of assumption?

Uber is using this as an excuse to not even try a tipping system, but without data, it's just a hollow excuse.

I tip based on experience. I'm sure most of us do... not based on what color your skin is or your sex.
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If all we're going for is "first $something computer" then Leibniz probably wins.
I used to get a "fake" friend request a week on average with FB. Someone told me to hide my friends list entirely, meaning that I even my own friends can't see who I am friends with. As soon as I did that, I think I have gotten one or two fake ones in the last year. My only guess is that my friends' accounts are getting hacked and the hackers are just networking through their friends list and friend of friends lists and adding people along the way.

As for IG, the amount of spam accounts is almost unbearable. To me it is next to Twitter with the number of accounts. IG I average about 3-4 spam (porn or sell me followers) accounts per day. With Twitter it seems to come in chunks. I'll go a few weeks without any and then one day I will get 50-60 follower notices from obvious spam accounts. With both it makes the user experience unpleasant.
Well, there are two types of students who pass this class:

a) Those who know someone who took it.
b) Those who have a chegg account.
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Plx 2 add webmaster@nerdnorth.com in footer khtnxbye

Seriously though, I loved reading this. Thank you!
Goes to show how resilient life is. Which makes it all the more unlikely that life is all that rare.
I think I generalized too much by saying "Europe". I really meant France and Spain. England was all over the place, good service in some spots, French service in others. I haven't had the pleasure of traveling to Germany yet.

This conversation makes it sound like I walked around being bitter about customer service or other things that I think are better here. That would be a terrible way to travel! Everywhere I went in Europe really was lovely and I intend to go back.
You sound depressed.
Was poor planning to use the name "Nikola Zero" for their electric dunebuggy when it clearly should have been saved for the self-driving semi cab.
It would be money better spent though surely!
Any Postgres news is good news here. Same with OpenBSD. Just embrace it.
Rust's implementation of "type classes" (bounded generics) guarantees monomorphization and therefore static dispatch, so there's zero time overhead to using them. But they're also less expressive than type classes in other languages.
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The point is not that you can't trust your results, it's that you can't extrapolate a theory about all toy bricks unless you know you are seeing a representative sample of all bricks.

"I've run 10,000 experiments that show toy bricks I found on the ground are green, therefore I can say with great confidence that all toy bricks are green." What about bricks in the toy chest? What if someone was building something green before you tested?

As this applies to Facebook's statement, all they can assert is that they've found a way to detect fake Facebook accounts that they've tested against the accounts they've been able to ascertain are fake. What about the fake accounts they could not confirm were fake, or that weren't identified in any way?
Why is this even on HN? There's no reason to debate this, it's a content marketing fluff piece for a company that has no technical pedigree, written by a freelance copywriter rather than an engineer.

It's also about 50% wrong. Let's just move on.
I'm very skeptical of this technology. The Russian equivalent is currently deployed on T90s in Syria, but has been shown useless against rebel ATGMs. Ex - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rfyeR-YaJw [War footage, crew survives but maybe NSFW depending on your sensitivity level.]

The tank was disabled but not fatally (it was later repaired and put back in service), but that's just because the T-90 is a great tank and the shot was unlucky. You can see the damaged reactive defense system on the right from after this hit: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cd_gdCnWoAA5tyN.jpg

They said it was because the hatch was open, but I think it's actually because this is pure snake oil. It's just too hard.
How is it Uber's fault that there's a 10% sales tax in LA county?

Uber could start charging 10% more for rides, but that would reduce the number of customers that choose to use Uber, which would reduce the total amount a driver takes home.
It doesn't matter why they're collecting the information. Once they have it, they have to power to do far worse things with it than Google.
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@native implies JNI-style definition to be available along the Scala method definition. @extern lets you call straight to C code without any additional ceremony, all you need is a single forward declaration.
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No systems perfect but you can keep adjusting it to keep up with tax avoiding innovations. Something should probably be done at the moment to make it harder for multinationals to claim all their profits were made in Ireland or wherever.
Nice try to use Tesla's success and nail couple of millions (to be read: US$) for nothing. The difference is Tesla already produced other cars, that's why people invested in something that it's not produced yet.

Disclosure: I'm not a Tesla owner, neither gave deposits for any of their cars, which I find very stupid, but it's not my money :)
It's about capturing/documenting the moment.
Depends on what degree you want. Plenty of state schools like Texas, Michigan, Berkeley, and Georgia Tech are in the top-20 for one field or another. Wanting to go to one of those for one of their specialties is reasonable.
Isn't one of the reasons for the crazy tipping culture to avoid tax since it's in cash and not declared as income? How would that work if it's done through a controlled system like uber.
If you want to solve this problem in one step, make it illegal for employers to make decisions based on educational background.

Maybe make exceptions for doctors or lawyers, just to keep that from distracting us.

People will go to college to learn things, not to credentialize. Right now, we are in the middle of a zero-sum credential race, which hurts the poorest the hardest, and bizarrely the only real discussion of helping the poor is how to force them to do better in the credential race.
QA automation is the most realistic job you'll be able to get, either for web or mobile (or even both). It will be up to you to find a place that will allow (and hopefully encourage) you to progress towards a dev position.

QA automation is good for entry-level because you're still writing code full-time, but you're competing with way less people. Anything with "QA" or "Test" in the job title is very unappealing to most CS graduates, even when they've been unsuccessfully applying to positions for months after graduation.

Entry-level pay for these positions is competitive (I would say no less than 10% comparison to entry-level devs) and you'll be able to choose between part-time/hourly and full-time/salaried, since there are plenty of jobs for both. You will want to know basic Ruby, Python, and Bash going into interviews, as well as how to test JSON endpoints. Interviews for these positions are very, very easy in comparison to dev interviews.

I also really suggest looking for a position that integrates you into the dev team(s) you will be working with, as opposed to siloing you off as part of a separate QA team (of which you may be the sole member).
> * It's still ridiculously hard to actually know there's
> an icbm,
> * where it is
> * be able to hit it with another missile
> * (and have that make a difference)

Are these tasks all equally difficult, or is one part of that substantially harder than the others? I had (naively?) assumed the first two pieces would be reasonably easy.
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Big over the road trucks are all about energy. How about Carnot Watt Joule Gibbs Boltzmann

Eisenhower pushed through the interstate highway system.
All of these have just made me very happy.
I think his point is that, because of that negative comment his methods and results will never actually put to the test of whether they will be useful to the community; however, given the volume of new papers coming out it is unlikely for that paper to be picked up by the community as is, with or without comments. The best way to get people interested is in establishing direct relationships (ideally in person: go present at a relevant conference, engage with people in the community).
This crowd is already aware that the public is more willing to entrust broad, deeply personal datasets to profit-seeking corporations than to a government which ostensibly serves them. But the people running the surveillance state seem to always live in a parallel unreality, where their work is presented as unimpeachably noble and necessary. To me, the silver lining in this story is the indication that the people operating the surveillance machine understand that we find their work strictly more creepy than the data collection conducted by non-transparent, unaccountable, explicitly self-serving corporations.
Props for the blinking font.
Yeah that was perhaps a bit locally biased: Deer around where I live are of either the Bambi or Rudolf variety and pretty harmless to cars (No risk of being tall enough to enter through the windshield) while our elks are lethally tall and either end up in the lap of the driver or flatten the top of the car.

Obviously if a deer is of a kind that approaches elk/moose size then it's in that category wrt. ditch vs. hit too.
I think the point is that they don't have a definitive list of fake accounts, so the only thing they've been able to test are accounts they previously knew were fake, or new accounts it flagged that they were able to determine where fake. That leaves out fake accounts that were newly flagged but weren't able to be determined as fake, and fake accounts that are still entirely unknown.

At most you can say some fake Facebook accounts can be detected by when they post and the vocabulary used, which is what I think the top level comment was trying to note.
Firstly, I really want such project to exist and will start working on it next year if nothing successful exists by then.

I am not advocating PoW for security (yes sure PoS & other federated schemes can do it) but for spam. Your solution is a pre-deposit. Nothing is impossible but good luck having creators to pay to blog.
[Try brainstorming a PoW akashacoin & you will see the secret sauce that solves this pre-deposit problem]

Being decentralized certainly makes the geek in us happy but is only relevant to user if it brings some advantage, here it being censorship-resistant which takes you to the controversial topic problem.
California tax payer here--FML.
The choice of name alone ensures that the first impression is of a copycat at best and a scam at worst. Even if neither of those things are true and this company is totally legit, the fact that whoever is behind this company chose to use the name really kills their credibility. So, three possibilities here:

* The whole thing is a scam

* It's a copycat company

* The backers have money and/or connections but no taste or business sense

All from a name. Congrats guys, way to crater a business before it even gets off the ground. It's like trying to compete with Ford by naming your company "Henry".
The danger! Do you ever get claustrophobic? The basic diving courses I've taken made me appreciate normal atmospheric pressure, lack of nitrogen build up and ability to breathe naturally much more than previously :) And that was in open water.

I was a pretty fearless kid, but I guess if you get out of the adrenalin habit, or just get old, the fear creeps back in.

What's your take?
NoT doesn't allow you to copy the SERs back into the previous app/keyboard context does it? It seems like at least one app "switch" is still required to share what you just looked up, because it takes you out of the app to present the search results.
There's nothing to complain about with this. But aren't most large database queries ultimately IO capped, rather than CPU capped? Wouldn't this just put more load on the IO and it would just bottleneck there?
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I don't think they failed to address it at all.

They were pointed about what is taught is what you write about - and in a publish or perish environment, if you only teach western thought, you only publish thoughts based on western though.

In no way does what is published force advancement.

So if I wanted to see if the buddhist concept of Samudaya (the origination of Dukkha, which is translated as pain, but is much more encompassing than that) helps resolves the ongoing issues between Platonic Realism and Nominalism, I'm going to be sh*it out of luck in terms of readers and people to help me along if no one teaches about Samudaya.

Hence problematic
Many trucks are owned by the drivers and not part of a fleet. I don't know what the ratio is nationally but I can say locally it's probably in the range of 50%, maybe even more are owner-operators vs. company fleet. So this pricing model would make sense to target that market.
Having rigid definitions for data types doesn't necessarily mean the datastore is rigid. It just means that you know what type of data goes in each column. Like it or not, if you change your schema that change has to be handled somewhere - either you update the old data to the new schema (do this), or you handle old versions of the schema in the application (fundamentally non-scalable IMO). It doesn't matter whether they're values in a JSON object or columns in a relational DB.

Flyway is a fantastic tool for making changes to relational schemas. Your code is versioned, and you can just keep the schema migration scripts right next to it. If you need to upgrade an old schema, it just walks through the migration scripts until it's up-to-date.

If there is some portion of your model that really, truly, honestly consists of unstructured data, you can just put that in a JSON column.
>The hazards do flash at the same time but that also happens when you lock the car.

When activated from the stalk, the hazards lights don't flash continuously like the key fob or mobile app. They only flash once, because the car immediately and "automagically" selects the forward direction, transitioning away from the flashing state. And the only auditory indication when the driver is still in the car is a single chime.

>You do need to opt-in but I'm hoping they make a change to have it a bit more defensive.

The Autopark dialog is opt-out not opt-in, unlike other Tesla automatic features which require manual confirmation on the touch screen to activate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-JoZL9edlA

A single additional press of the park button brings up the Summon dialog, with arrows to move the car forward and backward. The flaw is that forward is the default. You don't have to press it. The default should be "do nothing," making the driver confirm their intent to Autopark.
Who owns those companies? That's the one who will have to pony up.
Didn't Friendster spend an inordinate amount of effort on detecting fraud accounts?
Mostly because the seniors have spent their working lives building their savings (hopefully) to be able to retire, and have a very fixed income -- they can't look forward to getting another job, getting a raise, etc. Seniors as a whole are a very vulnerable group, which I think is one of the reasons that their voter turnout is so high.

Think about what that'll do to your retirement. Presumably you're saving and such, and want to get to a point where you can live comfortably (not extravagantly) when you retire: a trip a couple times a year, the ability to take your grandkids to get ice cream, etc. A tax bill can be devastating to your retirement savings & therefore lifestyle.
3rd party keyboards can't be used on password fields; it's an OS-level restriction.
It was nonsense.

"Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. "
I would imagine quite a few since they were designed to fill multiple buses and some farm vehicles.
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> pluggable storage for Mnesia. This removes the 2GB per shard limit.

This is a pretty big deal isn't it? I've never used Mnesia but that 2GB limit was a common warning I came across in the docs and blog posts, despite noting it was a great DB to work with.
Because everyone knows #russianmilf are especially salacious! /s
> the title was made up by the poster

And it's a linkbait and should be fixed by the mods.

Also on BBC September last year:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-l...
Many databases considered NoSQL actually have SQL now. Cassandra for instance. Granted it's not as critical to the execution as SQL is for RDMS but I would much prefer the distinction to be: RDMS / Relational versus KeyValue / Document Stores. But I digress.

Some of the other criticisms in this thread are very valid especially in the area of why you should use one versus the other so I won't bother regurgitate them I just felt like a better distinction could have been used between what they were comparing.
Taxes or tax rates? Don't forget that government spending in the 1950s was quite low as well
No, I'd say _why_ is the central question. If it's a corrupt city supervisor spying on foes, that's contrary to their purview, if it's to enforce laws, that is under their duties.

It's like saying, well, we don't care why facebook collects all that information, they may as well sell it all to any bidder.
Microsoft actually argued in favor of Oracle.
The narrative that capital and government are natural enemies is deeply flawed. It didn't actually exist in quantity until the Hearst newspapers set it alight. Sure, you had the Wobblies and all, but they were considered lunatic fringe.

Taxation is (ab)used, IMO, to promote normative ideas far too much. It should simply be a way to pay for government, nothing more, nothing less.

If it could be deployed to promote normative ideas cheaply, and there was general consensus about what norms to promote it'd be different. But there's too much ardent BS from both sides to trust this mechanism - it would be much more honest to withdraw from it.

This is doable, with tools from economics but using norms to derive other norms is a good way to end up with entangled and bizarro systems. Just getting people to agree on Coase's interpretation of externalities seems nearly impossible. We have partial technocracy, with ideological shims rather than stern empirical underpinnings.