skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't try to outlaw speech because it's disrespectful, and don't try to outlaw dissent because it's critical of disrespectfulness. Goes both ways.
> if the Maffia recycles money into legitimate assets in Italy then trades those assets in London, it's pretty rich for an Italian to try to pin that on London

It's not rich to criticise London if London is aware of or suspects that it's the Mafia they are dealing with and that the "legitimate" assets are simply laundered.

I also don't see why it's rich for an Italian to do the criticising. Perhaps you can explain that one.
I mentioned "cheapest". The American private insurance model is clearly not the cheapest. Americans pay about twice as much as other industrialized nations for health care, with the added bonus of many people not being covered. Worse, because the insurance system is employer-centric, many people are trapped in jobs they hate for fear of losing their insurance, starting your own business without a spouse who provides insurance is incredibly risky and maybe impossible, and small businesses are at a massive cost disadvantage relative to big corporations because of the administrative overhead of health insurance.

The current American system is completely idiotic. It's incredibly expensive, it's inconsistent and unreliable, and it undermines the basic American value of working where you want or starting your own business.
Sadly we are still very far away from understanding the human brain enough to be able to connect and communicate with it directly, so while that would be great, in the next 20 years it is more feasible that we'll just keep polishing the existing idea of screens in front of your eyes.
Ironically, when I read this article, there was a banner advert for a company that helps people get MBEs, OBEs and Knighthoods: https://pic.twitter.com/UsTf892sr6
I would think, especially for out parameters and return values, you would need to copy to interop with BSTRs because they are supposed to live on the COM heap (SysAllocString) and CLR wouldn't use that by default.
Asus Zenbook 3 – Thinner, lighter and faster than the MacBook
Harvard engineers designed a 'soft wearable robot'
I agree. I imported the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro and the hardware is fantastic. I bought it when it was already 8 months old so it dropped in price from $500 to $350. Adding a $20 import fee and the total was $370. It comes with 64 GBs storage, 4 GBs ram, and a quad hd display (2560x1440).

Some things that are lame. No fingerprint sensor and no NFC.
Apple does not save lives. Neither does their watch.
> It's fundamentally single-threaded, so checking my mail with gnus blocked editing tasks while it was downloading mail.

It's currently single-threaded, but folks are working on it. It's annoying, yes, but not a huge issue.

> Emacs isn't any paragon of good editor design; it's past its useful period IMHO.

It's not great, but it's better than anything else out there. Elisp is far preferable to JavaScript, dynamic scope makes a lot of sense in an editor, the ability to run in a terminal is fundamental, extreme extensibility is key in an editor.

Everything we do on computers other than playing games consists of reading or editing text: there should be no reason to directly run any other program other than one's editor. emacs's only failing is that it doesn't have a full-fledged replacement for Firefox built in.
"... delivered on time and within budget ..."

So for a project of this scale and timeline, they managed to use up exactly all the budget... (I assume it would say under/over budget if it was a significant amount off).

What are the odds of predicting correctly the cost of a 20 year project especially given the volatility of markets over the last 20 years?

I suspect either some corners were cut, or some contractors started padding out the bills towards the end...
I am guessing a flavor of Linux.
No. Please read more intelligently.

I didn't use it to refer to "true Christians", but as an ontological description of Christianity.
I'm shopping for a rMBP and the 256GB flash thing is a big problem. I need OSX + Xcode for the occasional iOS app development, but mostly use Windows. OSX + Xcode and a few iOS emulator images is easily 100GB, so that leaves me with only 156GB on the Windows partition.

I don't mind paying for the higher end 512GB rMBP, but the discreet graphics is a deal-breaker for me. Thus I'm left with configuring the baseline integrated graphics rMBP with 512GB flash.
Please do this, the IOPS are very important!
Watchmaker.js – Richard Dawkins' algorithms modernised and open sourced
According to Forbes, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes now has a Net Worth of Zero
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Which version did you use?

I only used ExtJS 4 and 4.1

I liked their API documentation and the xtypes that allowed for declarative Views. React reminded me of this later.
I'm honestly not searching, though, so even the Unitarians feel awkward. At least as I understand it, Unitarianism is still at least deistic. The most I could offer would be moral introspection and some meditation work, none of it in real connection to the supernatural. I'm not opposed to religion on principle, but I'm certainly not trying to find something to place my faith in.

If anything, the best I can see aiming for is some equivalent to cultural Judaism, where even non-believing Jews are invited to attend major ceremonies.
In terms of your comment about "automating the automation" being not done due to a high cost of the automation, in Economics we have something called competitive advantage which gives explanation as to why we may use humans rather than robots for tasks like these.
Taking an agile approach to content
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Another thing on the k8s configuration guides is that few (none?) of them include SSL authentication. All the ones I tried were entirely insecure, allowing anyone to point the command line client at the cluster and do whatever they pleased. There was also no documentation for fixing this or any warning that the example configurations were entirely lacking in security.

If you want to use k8s, I strongly suggest that you entirely ignore their own documentation and instead use the excellent documentation from CoreOS.
Remote is fine too. I'm looking for someone who's committed enough to spend some evenings/weekends as we look for product/market fit. I'm happy if you have a day job so this isn't an all or nothing proposition. I would also like someone to exchange ideas with while keeping each other accountable.

For context, family is important to me as well but I am crazy enough to think that building a business and having a family is possible.
I don't think Intel plans for more than 2 fabrication cycles regardless of some gloom and doom omg quantum physics go away plox prophecy.

14nm FinFet GPU's are only coming in now, and they'll stay on 14nm for at least 3-4 years.
10nm GPU's will probably come out in 2019-2020, 7nm GPU's will come out in 2025 or so, and 5nm GPU's will come out in 2030, that's already ~15 years and considering that everyone is predicting that we'll have to stick to processes longer as the small we get the more time it takes to actually optimize them for good yields and performance you probably have 3-5 years there too.

So even if we do not adopt any major process changes like switching to graphene, solid state photonics to replace the metal pathways and even optical transistors or w/e else people are cooking up to enable us to continue to improve our integrated circuits he can still be correct about the time frame.

Also regardless of what happens or not he was talking about true VR immersion this means that allot has to change other than just how good and convincing the graphics are this also includes learning to develop VR applications and as VR is a very new media that alone can take 20 years.
Zip compresses each file separately. A folder full of zip files, each containing a single file, should take up roughly the same space as a zip archive containing all of the files. tgz doesn't do this, so it has a higher compression ratio for large collections of files. However, you cannot extract a single file alone from a tgz archive. This is why zip was designed the way it was.
There was an article about a week ago that makes the claim that Rails is tailor-made for Basecamp.

This single comment absolutely confirms that point of view: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/25208#issuecomment-222...
That doesn't really answer the question though: if you could live in the wilderness, is that freedom?
Select * is the problem, not the blobs. Storing blobs should be more efficient that putting them in a filesystem somewhere else (which is effectively just another database) and dealing with the overhead of a bunch of other filesystem operations and losing referential integrity, etc.
Microsoft wants VR headsets to run its Windows Holographic OS
I'm reading through your description and this catched my eye: "In general, the smaller the wave, the faster it spreads out: this is the uncertainty principle." This is not true, spreading out is due to dispersion. Why you don't see particle like wave packets on water surface? Also dispersion. In fact you can create particle like waves on a guitar string, which is pretty much dispersionless. Also you can describe massless particles in QM which are also dispersionless.

The uncertanity principle is about the uncertanity of non-commuting observables at any given time (eg. position and momentum), it's not about the time dependence of the wave function.
> If the US government is unable to change the government of Cuba (including the disastrous attempt at the Bay of Pigs and the decades long trade embargo)

The longest standing issue facing Cubans is the US trade embargo and that has always been in it's power to fix...

> If there is no peace in Syria, so the goal of returning home cannot be achieved, what then

There is no peace in Syria because of over a decade of destabilizing policies and engagements by the US in that region, which Europe has mostly supported.

More generally, as to 2of3 examples which you provided - the refugees aren't due to some terrible internal policies of these countries or natural catastrophies - but majorly due to Western/US involvement.
> children don't learn a new offensive term.

Um, yes, yes they do. Obscuring words is to protect you from the reminder of the terrible history human kind has had toward people that look different from you. It doesn't protect a child's innocence.
Intel knows it's no longer inside
Church attendance is available to everyone. For thousands of years, the answer to your dilemma has been obvious. If you are excluded from an existing church, just make a new one. When black people could not attend white churches, do you think they just gave up and decided to be secular?
Oh nice—inline images, try this to see if it's working. :)

curl dn.ht/lol.html
I started reading the Post regularly after moving to the DC area in 2001. Over the past ten years the paper has been garbage. It regularly promotes tabloid "news" that is of no consequence but that, I suppose, they believe gathers page views. Other stories are riddled with factual errors--just recently I read a story that got the numbers wrong in a House committee roll call vote.

The paper routinely infuriated me so I stopped reading it (except when I have to for my job, which is how I am aware of the recent factual error.)

I have seen some of the poor quality under Bezos, but to be fair I can't tell whether it has gotten better or worse because I am so disgusted with their reputation that I generally just don't read it.
If you don't have your hands in the transaction, then you'll be cut out if the transaction as soon as both parties are comfortable with each other.

That may be ok, but is definitely far less sustainable, as you have to keep creating new matches (as opposed to being paid for an existing match continuing).
I don't have customers yet - mostly beta testers at this point. All have mentioned they wanted to see something before buying since it's a CRM-ish type of app. But some have said that there's a great need for it. I'd like to test that fact.
It is completely optional, just pass the --skip-javascript option when you generate a new app.
I'm pretty sure there are places in your country where $8000/year would be plenty enough to live on. Not in any luxury, obviously.

Living in central SF, or Manhattan would be unfeasible. Is that s bad thing? BI could prevent urbanization, and make small businesses blossom in smaller countryside towns.

And outside of a city you would have better opportunities to grow some food on your own, making your BI last a bit longer.
I'd guess that the players on a football team would be reviewing the playbook all the way up until kickoff. Meanwhile the band isn't going to be practicing their performance on the bus.
Agreed - this new pricing structure hits hard for freelancers that do smaller jobs for many different clients, whereas for freelancers that bill larger amounts and have a longer client relationships, this will save them money (5% vs. 10% fee).

I guess the small-jobs-for-new-clients-each-time take up a disproportionately large amount of support work for Upwork.
Maybe something like a REI or Vanguard model would work, where the company providing the service is a cooperative owned by the members?
Refugees by definition are poor (civil war wiped out their livelihood in this instance). They end up relying on the government safety-net, which is better than nothing, but normally still a barely above poverty life-style. This congregates the migrants in migrant only areas; to where they do not experience the culture of the nation which is now their home, in a way a normal immigrant would... Thus there is no real pressure to assimilate and the customs which aren't congruent with western society which are endemic in parts of the Arab world remain(woman's rights, freedom of religion, etc...).
Very similar to http://33mail.com/, which has been around for over 5 years.
Really nice and clean. Would prefer it if it included cyrillic characters and more latin ones to cover all European languages (e.g. Polish ł is missing, Czech š, č and probably several Hungarian letters).
From the Vitess overview page: "Vitess has been serving all YouTube database traffic since 2011".

Given that, it seems production ready.
Thanks for your feedback, and absolutely. We're in beta now and the HTML output (going to S3) was useful for validation of the workflow. We're working on the output formats and API at present - a lot of our beta users like Corilla as a kind of technical writing IDE, which is very interesting.

If you have any specific output requests/formats, drop me a line anytime.
It's funny - dealing with people who are under 25, most of them seem to be developing pretty good phone 'hygiene'. Smartphones come out all the time when I'm around my friends, but rarely in an antisocial way, and people who are being rude (not on a phone at a party, but on a phone with a couple of friends) are directly called out. The settings where I see the most "bad" phone use are between acquaintances, or with older demographics where smartphone penetration isn't high enough to generate these etiquette rules.

As a result, most of the phone use I see is socially beneficial. People can show an interesting video or look up a fact to keep a conversation rolling, and take shelter in their phones to avoid looking awkward when they have no one to talk to.
Isn't that what Magic Leap is up to?
> Is it safe to say then that distinctions such as "lock free" and "wait free" always refer to data structures and not algorithms then?

Well, for what my thoughts are worth, I would say no, not inherently and catagorically, but in practise, it's hard to imagine algorithms which are multi-threaded in such a way that threads contend on shared data, such that the design of the algorithm could even be lock-free or wait-free.

Parallelized (i.e. multi-threaded) algorithms tend I think to have multiple threads all running the same code but each being given a separate part of the overall data to process - say an image processing algorithm, where each thread receives an equal portion of the image to process.

A PRNG however I think can (for one or two types of PRNG only, not in general) be implemented as a lock-free algorithm. A PRNG is not a data structure - rather, it maintains some internal state and on requests uses (and updates) that state to generate a new random number. It is an algorithm.

The updating process must be atomic or it is compromised - you can't have one thread half way through the state updates, and then another thread jumping in at that point and using the half-updated internal state.

Good PRNGs hold a lot of internal state - up to a kilobytes - so it's not possible to directly use atomic operation to update that state. However, there is a class of PRNGs called "SplitMix" which have an 8 byte state, where on request for a new random number, that state has a particular (quite large) constant added to it, and the result is then passed through a hashing function.

With this design, an atomic add can be used for the addition, and once that's done, the requesting thread then local to itself runs the hashing function (it's single-threaded, and merely takes an 8 byte number for input), and so the design is lock-free - no matter how many threads are using the PRNG, whether or not they have been idled by the OS, all other threads can still get their work done.

This PRNG is a curiosity though - it has almost no genuine use cases. The performance is poor when compared to the single-threaded version of the same PRNG, and a PRNG being what it is, each thread can easily run its own, thread-local PRNG.
>There's no way to efficiently allocate resources absent a price mechanism

Obviously math and science would be involved. However, the dollar is not created based on a mathematical or scientific standard, it is created by a handful of oligarchs based on closed source subjective speculation and confidence, "voodoo economics", and the broken window fallacy.

>how are you supposed to acquire all these resources in the first place?

The resources don't need to be acquired, they're already sitting there. They just need to be shared. So empathy for humanity is where the real deficit lies, and one of the main reasons for this is the fallacy of Malthusian-Darwinian economic ideology.
The name arc has namespace collision problems. Not in software in general (I never complained about somebody calling their language elm - that's Cantrill's job), but in archivers in particular. Arc was the format that directly preceded zip, pkzip being the program that pk started selling after it was discovered that pkarc's source code was copied verbatim from the source for the original arc utility.
I (foolishly) did the update as prompted. Wasn't mentioned that it was a beta. Afterwards, I had to spend 1/2h trying (and failing) to get back to the look and feel I had before (all the fonts that I tried looked much thinner than before).

Eventually, I switched to a dark theme instead of light as I was accustomed. This solves part of the problem (my consoles are again reasonably readable), but I'm not sure I really prefer a dark theme over a light one.
I attempted to install the exact same card (M.2 Samsung 950 Pro) into a NUC5I7RYH, as well as a backup SATA (Seagate 1TB Laptop Gaming SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST1000LM014)) - Neither one of them worked with Windows 7 out of the gate, and I ended spending a 4-6 hour odyssey of googling BIOS upgrades, Firmware Upgrades, and downloading various and sundry windows drivers (my final count was around 8-10 before all was said and done).

Ironically, we thought that Windows 7 would have had better support - but, as it turns out, for Circa 2H2015+ hardware, it's probably not a great platform. Here's hoping that Windows 10 stabilizes for a few years, and all the vendors agree to support that platform....
The opinion being raised here is not supported by evidence. The only testable claim that can be evaluated in the original poster's comment is that, in the Swiss system, planning is 50% of the work. I ask specifically for any breakdown of cost or schedule, the two metrics by which all public work is judged, where planning occupies 50% of the work.

Simply looking at an isolated example of a project that was on schedule and under budget (for varying definitions of schedule and budget, but that's how it goes in construction - the Seattle SR 99 replacement tunnel project along with the Seawall replacement is currently "on schedule" if you believe the management of those projects) does not provide the data to back up the poster's statement. Without the data we cannot adequately make the determination if the "Swiss system" described by the poster is better than any other system.

There is a saying in the poker community: don't be results oriented.
Thinkpad's are great, X120e still going fine here despite being years old.

Mac hardware is lovely, pity it's such a struggle to get control over it (ie install linux :)

I just nearly choked looking at the price of the x131e, how is it nearly 3 times the price of comparable machines?
This isn't the worst article of the election cycle from a major newspaper, but it surely deserves some kind of award for "worst application of data journalism":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/be...
Maybe good-faith advocates avoided the discussion rather than receiving death threats like TotalBiscuit. Clearly, neither side had much of good-faith activity in them, and both side focused on the worst participants from the other side, primarily those that did misogyny and misandry.
They can if the supply greatly increases. That's among the reasons why a project longer the Triboro brings so much opportunity. Decentralizing New York real estate would drastically improve affordability.
Not an answer to your question, but I think it's ironic that some people are proposing basic income as a solution to reduce overhead. After all, if we only need basic income because technology is taking people's jobs, then surely technology can also be used to minimize almost all the overhead in government departments.

So I think we just need far better social welfare programs, and far better government software.

I'm imagining a new kind of welfare that provides good quality housing, healthy meals, sports and other kinds of activities, counseling and mental health service. All free, and available at any point during your life. We already have the foundations for something like this in countries like New Zealand.

I think the US has a long way to go, and there are a lot of old mindsets to change. I feel that basic income would be a short-term solution to a much more complex problem. I don't think it can be properly tested in the US until the general population views socialism more favourably.

And I don't think we even need it in New Zealand.
I have talked to two developers at my company who have flown to Florida and taken Magic Leaps red pill. They were both floored by the experience!
...3 hours in, 174 people have loaded the game and 5 made it to the final (16th) level. Still no completions though ;)

On the other hand, most of the comments have been about the Java rather than the physics. I suppose I should have expected that.
Will say this: my uber drive yesterday was fed up. He's moving back to his home in Afghanistan.

Current lease payment for him through this program: $250/week - I can see why.
The people themselves can provide the services. They have no other jobs anyway, remember?
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