skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I surprisingly like this idea. My friends and I were considering getting a suite in Vegas a few months back and though the plans mainly fell through for conflicting schedules, I remember finding it more difficult getting quick information on suites.

I have two questions for you:

1. Have you faced any resistance from certain hotels for any reason?

2. What other cities do you plan on expanding to?

Keep up the great work!
OT : In the US, coffins are a big money maker for funeral homes which have been accused of running a racket. Basically many funeral homes overcharge for the coffins, engage in price fixing, and make claims (such as preserving the body) that cannot be substantiated.

https://www.globalaffairs.org/threads/funeral-homes-and-coff...

Although there are some consumer protection laws in place, e.g. in some states, funeral homes must allow you to provide your own coffin. If you do, however, they will just charge you more for other services to make up the difference.

The funeral industry is another area which needs disruption.
I do agree with that, but I consider that to be much more controversial. I didn't want someone arguing "oh yeah? how is higher math ideological?"

It would lead us astray, I fear.
You think that sharing pictures of people under 18, who have given the implicit notion that these are private pictures, is ok?

Because please dear god tell me that you're talking about the peeing in the street or something, and that was just a poor quote placement?

There's a difference between going to a nude beach, where you have an expectation of nudity vs. being in the street and taking out your penis. If you're doing this repeatedly, then you have been repeatedly exposing your genitals to people who have not consented to the exposure. There's a gigantic difference.

Nudity and being happy with your body and happy with the body of others is fine. The thing about nude beaches is that they are not sexual. People are not creepy at nude beaches.

I'm asking you to engage in a thought experiment. I'm wondering where the line for child porn begins and ends for you -- because its complicated is just not a fine argument when it comes to legal systems.

I think that judges should use discretion when it comes down to cases like the one you're talking about, but they only have to use discretion because it is still child pornography by definition.
"Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse."

- Penn Jillette

Of course, the full context of the statement transforms this from a head nodder into a well reasoned argument:

"It's because you get older, your responsibilities are different. Now I'm taking care of children instead of being a child. It makes the world look scarier. That happens to everyone."
Hi, sorry one of our upstream providers for Las Vegas is having downtime at the exact same moment the post went live. We hope to have it resolved shortly.
This is awesome. I love quick, succinct communication.

I have thought of early state funding as more "who you know," and it's good know I can email people!
Is the open source version you speak of Libreboot? That's the only open source BIOS replacement I know for any thinkpads. That Thinkpad looks a bit new for full-fledged librebooting! Did he have to reflash the ME firmware back on?
You can't, but it doesn't matter. They state that the curb runs perpendicular to the fault. No matter which way you rotate it, the "east" side is being pulled south.
No,in France, some universities/academic departments are said to be leftwing and other rightwing (in history, for instance) but they don't seem to indoctrinate, rather to attract some students who already have the same mindset.

In reality,in History, professors may be slightly engaged politically, and some students as well, but most are rather struggling to figure out what kind of jobs they are going to do after their studies.
Chilies are pretty simple to grow yourself, even just by using the seeds from a dried one. A happy plant produces lots of chilies and the freeze fine for most uses. They don't like the cold, though, so depending which part of Germany you're in you might need to keep it indoors (but still with access to a few hours of sun a day).
I just combined a couple of user scripts I wrote a while ago and have been messing with for a while:

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/7a21c0187fedd6f47e7c

https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/5b5e413220afb93c9c93
Thanks. I'm on a mobile in a foreign land, so had issues tracking down a useful link.
Historically, what you suggest hasn't been far off, whether under slavery or under "free market" forces.

It's after all how we "pick" who goes digging for coal or throws the garbage. Force those people through lack of other options.
I find various accounts of nuclear accidents fascinating because, as the intro of the article alludes to, they often involve complex systems undergoing complex failure scenarios.

Then there's SL-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1). That was a really stupidly simple failure, but of all the accidents I've read about I find it the most poignant reminder of why nuclear reactors are such complex systems in the first place.
As someone who went through the the 68k -> PPC -> x86 transitions with shockingly minimal fuss (also even the MacOS -> OS X + Classic transitions) I wish I could upvote this comment a thousand times.
In many universities, major programs for CPSC, physics, etc. require courses with prerequisite chains that take several years to go through. It would be quite hard to build up to these while only taking a minor in these subjects. There are courses for non-majors, but these are typically dumbed down to be made more accessible and possible to jump into without much in the way of prerequisites. For example, there is typically a vast difference between a quantum computing course for physics majors (with a few quantum physics courses as prereqs) and a quantum computing course for non-physics majors.

Meanwhile, talking to the prof and being willing to work a little bit can get you into graduate level history courses even if History is not your major and you've taken next to no History courses. An interest in the subject, time to read, and writing skills honed by other subjects are all you really need. For this reason, I'd argue that History is a great minor to take with a science major, but perhaps not the other way around if you plan to work in a technical field. It's definitely possible for a science major to dive into a senior level undergraduate or graduate history course intended for history majors. Arguably, this is more rewarding that taking a course intended to be an easy option for non-majors.
The article makes the point that even if the rich don't leave, or avoid their taxes in some other way, high taxes on the rich disincentivize creating wealth. That's likely to have a drag on the entire economy.

People may not like the fact that much of our material, technological, and medical progress over the past century has been a result of people trying to get rich, but it's still a fact. If getting rich becomes less attractive due to high taxes, fewer people will try. Everyone will suffer if the economy slows, and the non-rich will suffer more than the rich will.
It's not clear from your comment whether you're assuming history is like this because of your experience with other majors or whether you have experience with history in particular being like this.

If it's the latter, can you give some concrete examples? I'm genuinely pretty curious because all my experiences with post-secondary academic history have been unusually non-partisan (compared to many/most other social sciences).

If it's the former...well honestly that's just silly. Just because it's a favorite tactic of the left to claim that anything contrarian is critical thinking doesn't mean the converse is true (i.e. that anything labeled critical thinking is on the hard left).

I find the claim particularly dubious for history: if you really squint and try to label it as partisan, it seems just as likely to me that it would seem right-ish than that it would seem left-ish. The discovery students make in the postsecondary study of history that historiography exists is one of the linchpins of history's alignment with critical thinking: instead of reading sources (and historians) as bearers of incontrovertible truth, you realize that they make up a best-effort account of facts subject to things like lack of information, blind spots, etc. This is fundamentally similar to not blindly trusting academic and scientific authority, a view which dovetails neatly with both the contemporary and historical right[1] (the latter case including opposition to things like high modernism on the left). It's true that a level of distrust of status quo knowledge exists on the left as well (e.g. post-modernism), but that just reinforces my point that it's not fundamentally partisan.

[1] This isn't a commentary on which approach is better, but I hardly think it's controversial that the idea that scientific facts are set hard in stone and you're simply flat wrong if you question them is far more common on the left at the moment than on the right. Skepticism of academia and the scientific establishment consists both of 1) anti-intellectual "scientists are all scammers" and 2) a sober-minded recognition of the limitations of the scientific method and the attendant belief that progress based on scientific knowledge should have some brakes built in.
How has the self employed market been for you in the Midwest? I am also in the Midwest, taking baby steps towards self employment.
Alright, I'll leave the thread.
The question of whether or not that will continue from one month to the next is completely out of your hands as an employee. Regardless of how well do you do your job, if any of the billion layers above you bungle their budget, or their marketing, or there's merging or reshuffling between departments, or somebody just plain doesn't like you, your "steady income" can vanish in an instant. The company's health is not tied to your performance, and if the company's health wanes enough, you start getting squeezed as a bottom-runger before anybody at the top.
If a Basic Income is so obviously flawed and unachievable why is YCombinator doing this:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income
I think you literally mean figuratively.
>same conclusion many years ago and has been making money "arbing" it out ever since.

Can you (or someone else) please explain how you'd make money based on set of assumptions listed above?
Planning to do that chili con carne next Sunday, so no time to grow the plants... Also electricity is super expensive in Berlin, so any artificial growing lights will break my monthly budget.
So my experience is anecdote not data, but by the end of my time going to college any time a professor said "This class might be about <subject> but it is really about critical thinking" or "The point of education is to widen your horizons" the class was just chalked full of the same unchallenged, easily repeatable Marxist or hard left ideas.
Michael Feathers – Testing Patience
The first six columns of IBM cards used for COBOL programming had sequence numbers that could be used to validate that program lines were in order.
I wouldn't go that far.

So the fact that I like peanut butter and jelly is not derived from a particular ideology.

It seems to me that it would need other things -- many people banding together, promoting it, fighting against others in various forums -- for it to be called an ideology.
I still don't get how you can have any kind of verification of state if you make transfers off of the blockchain. After all, that's the whole freaking point of the blockchain: verifying the integrity of the transferred item, verifying the entire network state, and ensuring that fradulent coin cannot enter the network. But then, I suppose that's why I'm on XT's side.

As for Raiden itself, I think that the forthcoming return of the Snake network will largely bring cheer to those who dislike it, and largely overshadow it. [JOKE]
It still clearly violates the spirit of the law. I guess in this case the government could argue that your attorney represents you; you're still effectively making a disclosure. I think it would be pretty much unheard of for a law firm to unilaterally announce a new client, so it's not like you could claim you didn't know it would happen, or it was out of your hands.

I just don't think it makes sense to look for a loophole here. That's not really how the legal system works, especially in these kinds of national security cases. If you make some conscious decision at some point that ends up informing people of a NSL, that's disclosure. There's no way around it. Setting up a system beforehand probably makes things worse, since you're proving that you fully understand the purpose of your actions and the spirit of the law.
Thank you! The problem you described is exactly the one we want to solve.

1. Absolutely, we faced a lot of resistance when we first started. It took getting one big hotel to vouch for us to get more signed up. It gets easier every day since we are bringing the best customers.
2. San Francisco will be live very soon. Before demo day we anticipate that we will have the largest markets in the US online.
No, I mean literally at this point. I've talked with them a lot and they are honestly convinced that awful choices are good choices and don't understand how anyone would feel otherwise. I don't know anyone who doesn't work on the GNOME project that thinks any of their ideas are good ones.
More info: [1] Most of the pebbles were removed through the fueling system, but broken pebbles and dust remain, all highly radioactive. Bits of broken pebbles are jammed into crevices in broken graphite. "The reflector bottom of the core cavity is funnel shaped, with an inclination of 30°, ending in the 0.5 m wide vertical fuel discharge tube. In that geometrical setting it could simply be assumed that all pebbles must have rolled into the discharge tube and that there was no need for an inspection. The reflector bottom, however, contains many slits for coolant penetration, 3.4 cm wide and in radial orientation. A piece of broken pebble could have stuck in such a slit, and, standing out, one or more pebbles might lay behind it guided by the slit like by a rail."

"An upper limit of 197 fuel pebbles, respectively fuel pebble equivalent in form of broken pieces, has been evaluated to be residual in the reactor vessels containing an upper limit amount of 98g of fissile material."

"AVR has most probably the strongest β-contamination, and in the worst form, of all nuclear installations world wide".

This is why complexity in the radioactive portion of the system is strongly undesirable. If anything goes wrong, dealing with it is extremely expensive, difficult, and dangerous.

[1] http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2000/pdf/36/36-5.pdf
From: http://timurtatarshaov.me/it-city.html
Some period of my life I’ve been traveling many times between two cities in Russia and was entertaining myself guessing what city my next seat train travelers are from. And 9 out of 10 I was right.

Explanation is simple if in one city, let’s say fountains are on the every corner and in another they are not, you would be able to spot the difference between those two persons from the different cities even though you don’t know the exact reason(fountains, rocks, rivers, etc.). So every city does have an energy.

Another thing about the nature is a rivers. Water passing through has a huge impact on the people living nearby. Water takes and refreshes the energy. I’ve been living for some time in the city with two small rivers and could spot the difference compared to the city with the wider river. Water refreshes the people taking the entry and in ‘small rivers’ city people were more mean keeping negatives for longer.

Recently I had a conversation with one girl working in the european conferences organization company and she named several cities where events are more common. The reason for that was transportation hub, including air transport connection mostly and roads as well.

So contemporary cities even though they are not tied to goods transportation along the river are connected to the air lines hubs a lot.

So I would state 3 things: nature, transport, history.

There is one good example of the city made by the power of will of one man, city is St. Petersburg, it is a really good example for research. Such thing as a soil was imported to make it possible.

I’m not saying it’s not possible, but saying you should mind milling of things and the only possible way to have it is to have perfect internal sense.
Subject to FOIA? Not so fast... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
Sorry, I think my statement appeared a little too broadly.

I'll try to re-state it.
In my experience, outside of hard science every one of my professors who was fond the phrase 'critical thinking' was pushing marxism hard, including several history professors I had.

I'm not trying to state that history is hard left overall. Just that if I heard the phrase 'critical thinking' I should prep for a long lecture on worker alienation or class struggle.
Perhaps Snow is more happy to give the Chinese government copies of your snaps?
I worked for ~3 years at a startup that built chemistry and geology software. We were all computer graphics and image processing folks, so we approached problems from those angles. We had three main products:

- A hardware/software solution for thin-layer chromatography. This was the product that actually got the company started. Basically we built a chamber with a camera and UV lamp that people could put their TLC plates in and have the software take pictures with and without UV an analyze the results.

- A point-cloud visualization application for LIDAR data, used by geologists to scan large rock outcrops and study them. By far the most challenging of our projects, since LIDAR data consists of gigabytes of 3D point data and we had to figure out how to enable quick interactive manipulation of the data (rotating, zooming, etc.) without requiring hundreds of gigs of memory to hold it all at once.

- An image processing application for enhancing electron micrographs of ostracod fossils. It required only a few "hints" (in the form of clicks) from the user to know about important areas in the image, then cropped unimportant parts, enhanced contrast, and whatnot. It also had some tools for layering annotations on top of the enhanced image, taking measurements, plus a few other things.

By far the coolest job I've ever had. Sadly, the company failed. It was founded in a rather business-hostile country in South America, where taxes are absurd and one can't hope to start a company that isn't in an already established market where money can be made right away. I'm fairly positive it would have succeeded had it been in the US.
Basically your thesis is that as an asset class, late stage private technology companies are underpriced, since the presumed employee option pool will be smaller than previously assumed, and thus dilution will be smaller than previously assumed. Thus you can bid a higher price than your competitors and still come out ahead in your investment in this asset class.

What I don't understand is how you get around the fact that you would still have to "pick winners".
GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone
I wrote up these tips on emailing to help my friends and relatives email better: http://dtrejo.com/how-to-email

Summary:

- Keep it under 250 words.
- Ask only one question, directly before your signature.
- Ask a single yes/no question.
- Extra Credit: Show you did your research
- If you really want a reply: follow up in a useful way.
NOT: "Did you get my email?"
It's a privately held corporation, point blank.

It is not a nationalized entity, nor a part of government.

It's right there in writing.

There's also no reason that the US Fed should not be nationalized as it is in ever other nation.
That's fair I was far too broad.
Stapes.js 1.0.0
Good thing he isn't murdering anyone then.
For this application, I feel you'd be better off with HTTPie.

No really, it's ace: https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie
Mencken's whole schtick was to be a populist intellectual. At one point he was so famous that a letter from Germany simply addressed "Mencken, USA" got delivered just fine.

His usual essays and reportage use more elevated language than this. IIRC he wrote this to make the point that "American" was a separate language from "English", and stuck in every Americanism he could think of.

The median American today probably speaks better English than back then. Literacy is up, radio and TV are universal so you don't just hear people on your block, fewer of us are recent immigrants, etc.
I've often observed the same thing with a different machine. It's a great metaphor for many things.

There is something about cybernetics and control theory, that, if applied to governance would be of enormous value, but I've never seen a real world application. I wonder if we'll get to see such a thing in our lifetimes.

In the cyberpunk Pyscho-Pass there exists a nice fictional account of such a system.

> You probably just need both.

Yes, today. My complaint is that this is a very crude algorithm! There has got to be a better way that represents people's true interests. My own hypothesis is that in the year 20XX there will exist a <country> with a combination of intelligence agency with a vastly expanded remit and a computer system which produces most central governance.

Did you believe/think/feel X today? Your inputs have been factored and there are Y resolution proposals! The resolution you have chosen shall be weighted against counterproposals and if selected shall be converted into contracts for activities that a new arm of the State shall spring into existence to deal with. Government functions can scale backwards and forwards in an orderly and consistent fashion with the desires/knowledge of the citizenry.

I think it can only work by illustrating trade-offs in order to keep stakeholders in the loop. As long as the system is comprehensible it should work. Pray we never fork.

We should try experiments like these on a Seastead first before we kill everybody.
Did you have any success with the first one? Sounds like a fascinating problem.
Ask HN: What habits are common to startups who are unable to ship v1 quickly?
Which countries in the world don't have legally possible gag orders?
That's not what I see happening. What I see is a gradual shift from DIY crypto to a few vetted components and designs --- Nacl, Signal Protocol, Scrypt --- and objections, often from non-experts, when new systems avoid those components. Things look hopeful to me.

Meanwhile:

Look, you are much smarter than I am about this stuff. I'm just a pentester with a former life as a software developer. Are you honestly telling me that you think a good way to learn how to build safe crypto is to start de novo a new secure messaging application? Of all the things you could do to introduce yourself to the field, and what work in the field is really about, that's what you think smart people should be spending their time on?
Ha! Thanks! I saw a mirror of this from a university but all the final links to sources were broken. I was curious enough I resorted to gopher to track down archaic links... the only thing I ended up with was a copy of linux-1.0.tar.bz2.

[ update ]

Oops -- these end-points are dead too :) Back to the scavenger hunt.

q: Is there a logical successor to libero? A few of my searches took me to references to GSL...

[ second update ]

https://github.com/imatix-legacy
Player Recreates Working Pokémon on Virtual Game Boy Advance in Minecraft
Always exciting to see what the Loveland squad is up too.
Is your resumé ready?