skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I fell victim to that, too. Also having a timer counting down caused me to freeze up. I got about half the questions right immediately, and half after the time had ticked down so that my mind could relax and pay attention. I think I legitimately only got 2 wrong. And one of them I could argue that I found a different bug than the one they were looking for.
Don't. Hold them for ransom. Why do you want to do charity work for for-profit businesses?
I didn't know that till I saw your other response. Responded there.
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I haven't seen a mousepad in a long time. My wireless optical mouse (thanks Logitech and Doug) sits on my desk, or my coffee table, or the couch cushion next to me, or my thigh.

EDIT: Or sometimes, ironically, on the large area below the keyboard on my laptop. I have my mouse sensitivity set way up, and I can move across the entire screen without moving the heel of my palm. I really don't like touchpads, and always turn mine off.
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That's curious. I specifically choose Granny Smith when making apple crumble! They are hard and almost sour when fresh, but are broken and humbled by the heat.
Not being snarky, but at that scale why would you still be using Digital Ocean? Are you processing this dataset with just a single droplet?

Are you going to keep each months 10 TiB forever? Something like Nearline is going to be a much better fit even if you process the data and have to pay the $.01/GB retrieval fee.

Disclaimer: I work on compute engine (so of course I want your money), but I'm honestly curious.
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I agree but there is the small issue of cost. I've read before that the ISS was the most expensive project in global history at > $150B. I used google to confirm the cost and was stuck by 1) the fact that "Is the International Space Station real" was in the autocomplete options, and 2) How bloody expensive the War on Terror was/is ($1.7 Trillion according to Google).
A six-inch scope in your backyard gets you this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ceejayoz/26513799722/in/album-...

My daughter's massively into space, and having a mid-size telescope (Celestron NexStar 6SE) has been truly wonderful. There's something really different about seeing it for yourself even if the picture isn't as good as one from a probe.
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Not true. Germany does in fact have a constitutional right to free speech.

>Freedom of expression is granted by Article 5 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, which also states that there is no censorship and freedom of expression that may be limited by law.

The US is in fact the only developed country that has no laws banning hate speech, including no legal recourse for outright lies like Holocaust denial.
I was trying to say that I agree that privacy matters.
I think it's wrong that you focus on Jews or any fixed identity. Globalist elites are highly polymorphic and you can't peg them like that. Just leads to endless pointless discussions.

Nevertheless, I have to share this experience: I was mildly left-liberal ten years ago, but now I'm heavily nationalistic. It's the only view point now that doesn't try to combat objective reality.
In 13th century music, the major 3rd actually comes across as a dissonance, and also to mention that music during that period was taught as a species of mathematics.

Music theory is as easy (and as difficult) as trig. Learn the language. Learn the axioms. Understand the assumptions, please.

And also understand that those assumptions can change at any time, depending on the musical period you're looking at!
Who is "we"?
Everyone wants the future to win, even if they can't articulate what the hell that means, but who wants to disagree with it, because it sounds really cool, and nobody wants to not be cool.

It's easy to take this glowing 10,000 foot view of Musk/Tesla. Get down much lower and there are...issues that smack very much of dangerous, egomaniacal adventurism. Exhibit one is marketing a car that as being able to drive itself, then blaming drivers when the car fails to drive itself.

Also, I call bullshit on the idea that Musk isn't sitting on his fortune. It's everyone else's money he's using for fuel...$4.1B in government money IIRC plus god knows how much VC.
I have 4 friends who live in Baltimore, and they say it's the opposite of most big cities. In most big cities, there are a few blocks that are bad but most of the city is safe. They say it's the opposite in Baltimore -- most of it is dangerous and there are a few safe areas.
This is really par for the course with anything involving games media. The studios who can afford work their butts off to control the narrative, and reviewers who go against the grain quickly lose preview access.

The bribes aren't cash. They'll fly you to a hotel to play, carter the whole weekend, give speeches about the game. And send you home with a lot of swag. Also these function as industry events since so many reviewers are there. You also sign an NDA about the event because it would be trouble some if the public got word how this systems works.

I guess we should be shocked it was a raw cash deal, but that's just the next logical step. Generally you can't assume a game review is fair unless it was produced post release.
Thank you for the screenshot.
Not merely because due process wasn't followed, regular Joe Citizen passively supports it by having no problem with this outcome in any meaningful way. There are no political consequences.

This is a country where a significant minority have elected a presidential candidate who activity argues against due process, using the argument that because terrorists don't follow due process neither should we. And that is an increasingly popular sentiment, that somehow following the law and ethics is liberal bullcrap, and that selective application of due process as a kind of loyalty test and reward is patriotic and heroic.
I figured that is what it was, the raw data doesn't match up with the results in the table.
Reminds me of the rumor (debunked by Snopes) that Coke willingly lies about its calorie count and simply opts to repeatedly pay the fine than correct their label:
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/1calorie.asp
Because odds are high that you'll fail, in which case you default on your technical debt.
are you fucking stupid? An addict doesn't look like ceo.
Recent related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748474
Yet there's little evidence that any other car company is holding their car-control software to any high standard. They don't release it (for peer review) because they regard it as valuable IP. Then when forced to like Toyota did in the case of the Camry, its found to be the biggest pile of irresponsible spaghetti code imaginable.

So no, Tesla is not materially different in process. Perhaps in talent - Tesla has actual experienced programmers involved, instead of solely relying on junior folks for the bread-and-butter coding.
China also does this. Certain beliefs about history simply aren't permitted.

tldr; if you don't want police to raid, don't break the law.
You know what I want? I want the old linux client to work. It didn't have the stupid bubbly UI bloated with ads and "big, friendly buttons" it had functional utility, separate windows, and a much more pleasant user experience just by being unpretty.

As it is, I'm glad I have to use it less and less in favor of discord, which is by all accounts, far, far superior.
I think you will find, depending on where you live, that personality rights are often much narrower than that. In general the rights stem from protections against passing off or unauthorised use in an advertising context. In Australia and in most US states personality rights wouldn't have much to say about pornography, far as I know.
But I dont think anyone copyrighted a fundamental particle's name.
There are a handful of cities in north America where this might be true. If you live in one of those, congratulations. For the rest of us the difference is night and day.

As a really simple example, as applies to my city, I have had to wait 2 hours for a taxi more than once. I've never waited more than 25 minutes for an uber. Average times are ballpark 10 minutes vs. 30 minutes.

I would take uber if it were more expensive than taxis any day.
IANAL but that sounds an awfully lot like Apple can break the same regulation CompuTechSoft, LLC can break and Apple gets nailed with a 9+ figure fine just because they have a lot of revenue. I can't see that holding up in court.
Why is it okay to deny Armenian genocide then?

Not that I like Armenians that much, but it kind of making no sense. Why not level the playing field by making other countries admit their genocides and crimes like Germany and Russia did?
> Suppression of speech which does not explicitly advocate for violence is oppression.

In your opinion (and that of the US), "violence" in this context is defined as physical violence. However, one can argue that non-physical violence should be considered too. In that case, it could be said that hate speech is a form of indirect threat or intimidation against a minority.

> no government should be allowed to oppress the free expression of ideas

Are you okay then, with an intelligence or military defector (not a whistleblower), revealing all government secrets and publishing it publicly without any selection or redaction?
Elon Musk time means "2018" is almost certainly going to be 2020 or 2022 (even with NASA's promise of technical support). That said, "landing on barges" is potentially a massive step towards reusable, cheap launch vehicles, and it's one their competitors mocked them for even attempting.
" and that most of the suspects were accused of posting anti-Semitic, xenophobic, and other extremist messages"

Laws that stop this kind of "expression" have existed in Germany a while now, for historical reasons.
Jim Sterling, TB, etc. covered this in much more detail months ago. I'd reccomend watching their videos to find out how it worked, why it was legal, and why it was absolutely dispicable anyways.
There isn't a distinction made here between product+technical diligence (e.g. is something possible to build given the funding sought) and execution+technical diligence (e.g. is the team building it the right way).

I would argue that the former is always important.

I agree that the latter is less important, but with some caveats. The number of engineering hours put in during the first year is going to be a tiny fraction of the second year, etc, so tech evaluations will change drastically over time. The author argues that this makes them a slight waste of time.

However, I've been very successful in using rough technical diligence in the early rounds as a proxy for measuring the decision making abilities of founders. This is hard to measure, so I still find technical diligence useful. You have to know the constraints they are working under, and not hold technical debt/differences of opinion (like homebrew vs stock) against them, the purpose is different.

Just my 2 cents.
Same here. My $5/month droplet is sufficient for all my needs, except it's a bit limiting on storage. $2/month for an extra 20GB, doubling my storage, would be great. I don't want to migrate anything and I don't care about more CPU or RAM, I just want more space!
Would I? Of course not.

Would my insurance company? Probably.
This is confusing genetic markers for intelligence with intelligence. Building half a bridge is not useful, and individual markers don't stand alone.
I would probably add `-std=<lowest compatible version> -pedantic-errors` to that as well. Aside from that I agree totally.
That's a retarded perversion of what Kaizen is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen
Corporations with poor long term planning get weeded out and bought out all the time, even when they're among the most powerful in the world. It takes a global system of neoliberal economics intertwined with politics just to support the ones that do survive. Of course, we have a very limited frame of reference, as there are very few corporations even a few hundred years old, which in the very short span of human history isn't even a very long time.

I never claimed to be anything in particular. But I did state that there's an argument against the idea of needing to serve a higher cause to validate one's existence, that it seems very much like a motivational technique to coerce people into giving up their autonomy and intrinsic self-worth for the sake of someone else's interest. For a perfect example of this, look at Soviet propaganda, always emphasizing sacrifice for the greater global workers' struggle. Everyone was expected to be a little miserable as they worked together for the greater good. They didn't invent this idea, and it's been used many times throughout history.

I do think that with a wider perspective on the universe, the distinct line between self and other blurs. The meaning of selfishness changes when a person sees the people and things around them as an essential part of themselves. It's not just a matter of not being able to profit from pillaging the commons but rather a sense of personal loss when the commons are pillaged.

For example, I'm looking forward to all the scientific and medical advances that will happen in my lifetime. I know that increasing poverty, incequality, and war can be barriers to that advancement because the people who might push them forward will be denied access or killed. I might be motivated to make money selling weapons to regions suffering from war for a short-term profit, but I might be denying myself much more in the future. Maybe the person who was going to make the breakthrough to reverse aging was killed by one of my weapons. As one animal that can't survive outside of a nourishing ecosystem and a supportive community, I have strong disincentives for sabotaging my planet and my community, and I can't even know which acts of destruction might deny myself benefits later. I can only know that the only way to guarantee the best possible future is to do as little harm as possible.
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This feels like the beginning of air travel again. Each new rule and system update has a tombstone behind it.
>"It is more than stupid shit, it is illegal stupid shit."

Exactly. This is like how posting negative things about the communist party leadership in a wechat group can get your house raided. Break the law, and police might show up.
For severe anxiety/panic, the main course of treatment when it comes to medication is to load the patient up with high doses of SSRIs. We're talking hitting the maximum doses for medications, where side effects will almost certainly appear. They aren't fun, they slow you down, give you nausea, change your behavior/personality and might make your dick not work.

Some doctors not in the loop will end up overprescribing Xanax and benzodiazepines to deal with the symptoms, but fail to recognize that they're only indicated to be used for a period of 4-6 weeks because they're highly addictive drugs with a withdrawal that can last 6mo or more, can cause brain damage or kill. They mask the symptoms, add their own (you are essentially drunk and impaired while on them) and tend to make the disorder worse after quitting.
This article helped me grasp how the major/minor scales are constructed by using the idea of consonance and dissonance.

It is sort of like a derivation of a mathematical formula. So many other books just give you the scales as given. For that alone, it was an insightful read.
Google's business model is based on selling user-generated data to advertisers, unlike telcos who sell network data to you.

Come on. Telcos are just not competent enough to do what Google do. It's not like they're morally opposed to it or wouldn't try. Remember Verizon injecting headers into their users' http traffic to track them for advertisers?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
Technical debt is a temporary leveraging to achieve productivity at the expense of ultimate quality. So assuming the business failed for non-technical reasons, or if the business succeeded, both are examples of why to use technical debt as a strategy.

The case for not acquiring technical debt is when a business fails because it can't pay down the debt or fails because it is bitten by the debt in some way.
Do you feel all opinions on this are equal? That someone expressing misinformation about groups or calling for restrictions to their freedom is equivalent to someone expressing support for the same minorities?
Why not use it? IMO, it's because I don't think that the difference is enough. And the wrecks which are being reported are for stupid things.

Not to mention, there's only one datapoint for Autopilot fatalities, which makes any attempt to use it as a statistically significant point useless. Just one more death in the coming months this year would make the number jump significantly above the averages reported in this article. And with the number of potentially deadly autopilot wrecks reported lately, it's inevitable.
It was exactly the same with previous crashes. Electric vehicles are dangerous etc. etc. People would read one or two reports and jump to the conclusion that the cars were not safe.
It just doesn't stand up to scrutiny, especially given how many people are autistic.
"All SSD all the time" is kind of DO's thing. There are lots of other VPS providers with round storage if that's what you're after.
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Exactly what I thought. Crazy to be prompted to register an account when I'm just trying to run the demo
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> We will be releasing updates to Skype for Linux every couple of weeks and we hope that video calling, and group video calling will be available in the coming couple of releases.

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34656/more-information-ab...
You generally get decent objective arguments in the court rulings on these kinds of cases (I linked to several elsewhere in this thread).
How do we add to the list? The Companies page doesn't seem to be editable.

Perhaps you should consider adding the data to a simple WordPress site. I'd be happy to set that up for you on my server.
The source page: http://www.transmedics.com/wt/page/ocsheartintro_med
Is that how that actually works?
The writer starts out complaining that the distinction between "chord" and "scale" is arbitrary. He then proceeds to derive the major chord and major scale using a bunch of arbitrary decisions. For example, why does he stop adding notes to the major chord when he has three of them? And look at what he does when he starts constructing the major scale from the major chord:

> Well, we like the Major Triad, so let's make another one, but starting with a different note as the fundamental. To preserve as much theme with the previous triad, let's start with the "closest" notes to the C that we have in our first triad: The first note other than C that we hit was 3/2 times the Root, also called the Perfect Fifth; therefore let's build a triad using 3/2 times C4 = G4 as the fundamental.

And then

> Ok, that was so much fun let's go in the other direction as well.

Why not just continue with the harmonic series, rather than construct a new chord from the fifth? Why continue with a fifth below the root, and not continue in the established direction? Because these changes would lead to a completely different answer. He knows which answer he wants to end up with, so he picks a path that will lead there. This is numerology.
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Presumably villagevoice actually pay their writers?
"Music theory" tends to be incredibly narrowminded and Eurocentric. Harmonic theory? Outside of Europe and European-derived forms, harmony is very rare. There are melodic traditions that do not use harmony, yet are just as traditional and sophisticated (Arabic, Hindustani, and Carnatic music all come to mind), and there are purely rhythmic traditions (various African, Arabic, central Asian, etc). And in the modern world, there is ambient, music built out of tone rather than rhythm/harmony/melody.

Having studied and played several different traditions to varying degrees, one thing I've learned is that music is equally sophisticated everywhere. There's this idea that classical and jazz are more sophisticated than "folk" forms. It's BS.
Ah yes, many thanks, I was thinking of Popplestone & Burstall's functional language POP-II from Edinburgh. POPLOG was developed at Sussex.

Did you work with Margret Bowden's robotics group ?
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Millions of people use Skype for video calls, which Discord doesn't support.
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Network block storage isn't inherently broken, the initial EBS implementation was frankly just unreliable.

We've not had anything like those dark days with Persistent Disk. It's still true that having your storage across the network opens you to networking failures taking out your storage, but the gain in durability and maintenance pays for it (in our case, live migration would just be crazy with local spinning disks, we tried it didn't work).

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Sorry, but you have no ideea what I'm talking about. You are probably to young to remember but going with RTG was immensely controversial when Cassini launched, which had an 135 kbps link. Juno, on the other hand has less than 1kbps, because it needs to carry a large solar array instead of an antenna and has much less power for the uplink - data rate is proportional to the square of transmitter power. Bad publicity is the reason we went with solar on Juno and why NASA canceled ASRG.
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Whether it's implemented or not will not depend on if the phone has a DAC, but if the USB chipset supports it. If the USB chipset does not support it, the phone could have the best DAC support in the world, and not provide analog audio over USB-C.
> scarred vegetables regularly abandoned in the field to save the expense and labour involved in harvest.

So what? Most plants on the planet's surface are "abandoned in the field".

Where I live, there are vast areas of blackberry bush. Most of it is not picked by humans. Oh, the annual waste!

These vegetables will help fertilize the next crop. It's just not yield-efficient use of the agricultural surface area, that's all.

There is an opportunity for someone who can figure out how to grow perfect vegetables: they can make as much profit using a small fraction of the farm size.
The point is that normally having your mac address is a unique way to identify you. Unless I've misunderstood you, you seem to be saying that because it's possible to spoof your mac you shouldn't worry about it being collected?