skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a thought experiment, can this reasoning apply to agreements with utilities providers etc? For instance, if I fail to pay an electricity bill, and the electricity provider transfers my debt to a debt collector, can I send a cease and desist letter to the collector and insist that I only deal with the provider who I originally had a contract with?

I know this is probably subject to a whole bunch of regional laws, statutes and precedents, but it's (to my view) in the same category of problem.
The "flat structure" at Valve reminds me of the"unlimited vacation" policy at Netflix. It sounds liberating, but also offers the potential for employees to be judged by rules that are no longer clearly spelled out.
The main problem is that, if the staff know about how to design circuits, why are they working at an electronics store?
So then am I able to put an alert() on my page demanding that all law enforcement personnel not visit my site? And is this now enforceable? What about if I demand that black people not visit my page?

In my mind, it's a distant cousin of Sony telling people they can't mess with their Playstations even though they bought them. This puts so much power into the hands of the site owner. And it's for a criminal offense!
Actually Vancouver is relatively small with its 600k population.

That's just a coincidence of lines on a map. Vancouver is very much like San Francisco in this respect; unless you're a local, when you say "San Francisco" you're probably including areas like Oakland and Berkeley, and you might be including areas as far out as San Jose.
You obviously don't live in Vancouver. The free market has completely failed the city. The median Vancouver house now sells for 1.4 million CAD, while the median family income is $76,000 CAD.

These prices are not sustainable at local salaries. This isn't Silicon Valley, where a large part of the population is raking in cash hand over fist. This is a playground for the foreign rich.

Supply and demand only works when supply isn't fixed.
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't mean to diminish at all the wrongness of slavery.

I apologize for my wording that did not bring to the fore that aspect of his not being a soldier at the time. Escaping from is not the same choice (morally and in terms of risk and preparedness) as killing your captors, and is again different from enlisting in an army against them.
> I'm pretty sure Prolog not specifying an execution strategy would mean that your program terminates under one interpreter but not under another, not to mention their asymptotic complexity, which I think is not as bad with SQL.

Yup! But it's not as bad as it seems. In a pure logic language, the changing the execution strategy can only change three things:

(0) Whether a query terminates, in which case it returns the entire soution set.

(1) If the query doesn't terminate, which subset of the solution set is returned.

(2) How fast it runs, of course.

Which is a lot better than the subtle things that can go wrong when optimizing imperative programs by hand. Selecting an execution strategy for a declarative program is no different from tuning a garbage collector: if you do it wrong, bad things can still happen, but they won't be as bad as if you manage things by hand and do it wrong.

> it's sort of a lie to promise that you can spell out predicates describing a solution and the machine will find a solution satisfying these predicates, because sometimes it can't.

Yup! Which leads (IMO) to the conclusion that general-purpose languages must always include some imperative (explicit control) component. Declarative languages really shine as DSLs, though.
>You are legally obligated to stay off the owner's property if they request that you do so.

You are not, however, legally obligated to never walk up to the edge of the property and ask the owner standing there if you can come onto the property.
Focus on the Problem. Are the Tools useful for solving this problem?
Never having sex again would definitely suck.

Never having sex again because you're dead sucks more.

Comparing the relative severity of problems, and saying that one is worse than the other, in no way implies that therefore the other problem isn't also a problem.
That's not how it works for physical trespassing. The onus is entirely on the trespasser not to go places he's not allowed. If a property owner tells you to stay off their property, and you subsequently visit that property, you're trespassing no matter how few barriers you encountered to that visit. Why shouldn't a clear "don't touch my web site" be legally enforceable, just like a clear "don't enter my unfenced, totally open yard" is?

Note: I'm not at all sure it should be enforceable, and the idea makes me uncomfortable, but I can't come up with a good reason.

This is a bit different from the common problem where someone guesses a URL and gets hit with unauthorized access. There, they merely lacked explicit permission to access the system in question, and the weird legal argument is that building a URL by hand implies unauthorized access. Here, the access followed a letter explicitly telling him not to access their system.
Then in both England and Germany, coffeehouses were seen as such places of disrepute that women were banned from going to them!

To be fair to our German and British friends, depending on how coffee was introduced (sailors/pirates), they may actually have been places of disrepute.....
Anyway to export meals to myfitnesspal?
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't mean to diminish at all the wrongness of slavery.

I apologize for my wording that did not bring to the fore that aspect of his not being a soldier at the time, as per the grandparent's question.
Ok, then make that distinction, as clearly as you can. Like many here, I work on this specific problem for a living, and I don't think the distinction is easy to draw at all. Happy to learn something new!
CouchDB has not let me down once in over seven years of production usage.

I'm not sure what other software I could say that about.
It's not just rights, but the ease of doing data routing with channels. For mobile, having a full stack of an embedded mobile db, sync, and backend server solves a lot of problems.
I think of it more as a continuum that either full due diligence or hire most anyone who seems decent.

I agree that the latter version is wrong, but there is room to adjust how much you work on predicting future performance. How much of a jerk people are is one of the harder things to predict in interviews.

I get the feeling we're both speaking with previous unfortunate experiences in mind :)
Monotone (when compared to git).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

These are two C++ and one Lisp failure. And language did play a big role in each failure.
I have looked at Zipline before, but it does not handle intraday trades, and does some guesses on when the trade executes during the "day", so you may not get the best price.

Running an algorithm for multi-day trades for more than a few months does not make sense on how the markets move, as certain events like "brexit", earnings, M&A, etc... affect stock price.

If you are really interested in algorithmic trading, and you have programming experience, it's best to build your own backtesting system with intraday market data (pay for this).

This way you will know the ins and outs of a trading system.
Furry Paws is an "optimizing whole-program compiler and runtime-system for a dialect of John Backus' FP language":

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fp/
You would need a new passport for that to work, and it increases barriers to doing so.

In any large scale endeavor it's often about decreasing the number, changing the balanace vs. reducing it to zero. And it's often a ratchet, adding a law here and there to get to a result.
Can you explain this a little more? I am going to try this out this weekend. It does sound like the holy grail!
Where did you get that number? And "20% reduction" is meaningless without saying 20% of what. Like, 20% reduction of a 1/1000000 chance is not the same as a 20% reduction of a 1/3 chance.

There are two common fallacies I see here. The first happens a lot with interpreting carcinogenicity or toxicity studies, where an X% increase/decrease is quoted without an absolute value. The second happens in the stereotypical startup pitch of "if only we could get just 20% of that market" -- it's a made-up number with no basis for why that is the right number.
Yeah I second this. Hundreds of thousands per minute is a very small number. Wavefront can go over a million per second.
My nightmares are always that my teeth suddenly start shattering into a million pieces. Always blamed it on the fact that I stopped wearing my retainer from my teen years and my parents still remind me of it even now in my thirties. Does this mean I'm going to lose all my teeth? ;)
I will definitely read about the "Aarhus Model" - it truly is what I believe we should be doing a lot more of. However, I'd be interested in seeing what critics say about it, and some authoritative data.

You're probably right about the other stuff as well. Personally, I'm as worried about the links between the recent attacks, mental illness and poverty as I am about radical Islam. The governments are probably being oversold on what's possible with the technology, as well as how secure it will all be.

However, I do think there needs to be some kind of quicker fix. These attacks are playing into the hands of the extreme right (and left), so something needs to be done quickly if only to prevent us electing Donald Trump and his ilk.
This jibes with my experience. When I was feeling down because of financial reasons, it became even harder to solve problems, and interviews. Catch-22.

A couple of years later, I was much more fluent.
This case is civil, so I believe that Law Enforcement would have some sort of indemnity. As for discrimination, I believe certain civil rights laws prevent U.S. businesses from enforcing a suite like that.
Worst part is that paid Wifi usually works less reliable. I hate it when I stay at a conference hotel where the best I can do is to pay for 12 or 24 hours of internet service and then it brings up the shitty portal page again :-/
Specific role models that may be relevant: jeri Ellsworth, grace hopper, Hilary mason, Jessica Evans, Kira radinsky, Joanna rutkowska, Limor Fried (LadyAda). Just a random list off the top of my head.

* edit: added LadyAda
"Hillary Clinton, who was then secretary of state, checking her BlackBerry inside a military plane in 2011. Baby boomers often struggle with modern technology like email."

Yes, Hillary is like my mom, totally incompetent with technology.

EXCEPT, Hillary has nearly endless resources. That is where this "ah... shucks" puff piece falls flat.
So you don't like charlatans with poorly supported explanations of human behavior... but you're a fan of Jiddu Krishnamurti?
I question whether this will mount to anything
We are seeing that still today: plenty of irrational opposition to GMOs. Eventually years from now they'll replace the old stuff, and people will wonder what all the fuss was about.
Big Data Application Meetup in Palo Alto on 7/27
Have a large condo with 3-5 rooms. Maybe they would share a bedroom!
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As a consequence of all this: it is hard to find software developers (are they still middle class?) to work in offices in Vancouver core.

The only reasonable option to live for devs is in 1.5-2 hours away of driving and public transit. 2-3 hours per day wasted in traffic just to get to and back from the office is too much. Half of the time spent in traffic are considered (or should) as working hours - thus increased salary demand as de facto there are not 8 but 9-10 working hours per day.

Big software houses shall consider moving R&D offices outside of Vancouver (core) I think.
There were loads of DEC multia workstations selling cheap at some point. But even those where a pain to get booting into linux of FreeBSD.
The real evidence of this is the news today of Ford (as far as I know last of the major car companies with presence in the US) incorporating CarPlay into their console software. I've heard the reason for the swift industry-wide uptake of the platform is very high consumer demand - even to the point of driving the purchasing choice for a number of customers.
If one of my friends at age 12 had showed me an M & M color sorter I would have considered them god.

Your advice is good.
I guess I've failed to express myself adequately, I'm looking for ideas that minimize the politics needed to get them adopted. Like it doesn't take politics to propose a $1 trillion buyout of least expensive homes in SF, which you would then use as a starting point to get the zoning laws changed to enable higher density construction.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/run-command/ Might be useful if you're doing a lot with AWS
That is an interesting idea, that proteins (or proto-proteins) predate genetics. Now I am trying to think about how proto-proteins would have first evolved towards creating genetic polymers that replicate themselves. Or maybe the genetic polymer was the best self replicating pattern, and life evolved as a side product?
As a point of comparison, use of air conditioners seems to get much more argument and rationalization than use of heaters. (E.g., consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave)

I assume this has partly to do with the relative novelty of AC.
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You can sync with JawBone & FitBit, but not MFP (they're not accepting API requests this year). We do give you a full breakdown of nutritional info for each meal though, so you can always enter the macros in manually.
Unfortunately, this is the only source I could find referring to plants marked as "cursed" by the church for the reason that they didn't "bow before [God]." Most primary sources are in Amharic, of which I know little.
The word healthy means almost nothing. Its an arbitrary term that we use to create a general idea of what we 'should" be eating and what we "shouldn't" be eating.

It's why the debate about whether or not milk/eggs/bread are healthy rages on and on. There is no definition of the word healthy so anyone can make their own interpretations of what makes those foods healthy or unhealthy.
You (presumably) couldn't send chat messages directly to another player's script console, which is how this works.
I find it odd how they seem to use depression and sadness interchangeably. I'm not myself entirely sure where I would draw the line between the two though. The most simple analogy I can think of is sadness can result naturally from a loss (like the death of a family member or friend) that takes a natural course that fades over time. Depression can be much more ambiguous and is not always directly related to life-events and is sometimes rooted in mental illness.

Speaking of mental illness, I'm pretty surprised bi-polar disorder is not mentioned at all in the article. I think its been fairly well researched that bi-polar individuals (both today and before bi-polar was an understood mental illness) can have highly productive periods (manias) that have lead to great works of music, art, and science and oscillate with periods of depression.

I have known multiple people to fit this description (some diagnosed, some not) and it would be easy to miss or not understand these cycles and think that their depressive nature contributed to their creativity when its really their mania cycles that produce the most.

Personally, my creativity takes a nosedive when I am sad or depressed, which likely changes from person to person. Things that reduce depression also increase creativity for me (exercise, sports, good food etc).
ICYMI: cardiogram is doing this with the apple/android watch (possibly other devices). they're not using phone sensor data yet to my knowledge though...
unoccupancy

How do you propose to measure that? If someone commutes to a work camp outside Fort Mac and is only physically present in Vancouver for two weeks each month, do they pay the tax? What if someone spends 4 months every winter in Florida? How about someone who gets hit by a truck and spends six months in a hospital? Or an elderly couple who move into a care home because the husband has dementia, but want to keep the house they lived in for 50 years because the wife (who is still in good health) might move back there after the husband dies?
Seems like you're confusing Couchbase Mobile and Couchbase Server. And that wasn't a sales person that responded. It was the head of Couchbase Mobile engineering.
For anyone who is about to google this, a lakh is 100,000
It doesn't stop being assault when you successfully hit the person. It's assault and battery in that case.
Because they have the plaque? Charleston is all about it's history and was the epicenter of the slave trade, so I wasn't surprised to see it I suppose.

Reading it sure did send a shiver down my spine though. Looking out over the harbor, with the mansion estates of The Battery directly at your back, knowing all the chapters of so many lives that began and ended there, suffering to create the wealth that built them.

It's certainly not your average spot to process a sidewalk history plaque - I recommend a visit sometime.
Thanks for the kind words and feedback. We do have a free trial set up for everyone today (no cc required) if you want to check it out without paying anything.
I couldn't guess why hotel rating negatively correlates with wifi quality, but the correlation for cost of wifi makes sense. Higher quality hotels in big cities are more likely to get business travelers, and business travelers are more likely to have someone else pay for wifi.
These have been really great. Thanks for putting them together!
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People's fears can be assuaged much more easily if those fears aren't actively exploited by news agencies and politicians.
"The more stars the Hotel has the more likely you have to pay for WiFi"

Luckily today, you can see whether Wi-Fi is free on the premises, and give the Hotel its well deserved boot if it's not.

How they ever get this idea is beyond me.
I can most definitely relate to that :)

I also kept a small journal (which I was very ashamed of!) when I was depressed, and like you I found that it was helpful as it was at least a small but very free outlet to express what would definitely be difficult to talk about.

And I've also recovered :) And like you too, I don't keep a journal so much now, in fact very rarely I'd write in it and come to think of it, it was usually when I was very grumpy that I turned to it.

So I can't help but be glad that I don't have much of a journal now. I also feel your conundrum with happy memories, but one thing depression has taught me is to count every "now" moment as a blessing. I've a goldfish memory but I'm very precious about remembering the good emotions, like happiness, peace etc, and that for me is enough. And enough to carry me forward and whack the occasional blues. And anyway, I always find that we inadvertently store memories, be it random phone captures, spontaneous scribbling, reminders of cringey moments by friends and family ... as corny as it sounds, we're all made of our past and we all love to share things. So no need for fomo!
Maybe the title should say 'Transit Maps Design: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App' to make it clear who the third one is, and that it's about transit maps.
There's this other bloke who goes by the handle ’Turing’ who keeps yabbering on and on about what programmers can't make a computer do but he doesn't even have a CS degree, so avoid him and don't feed the troll. ;)
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I think the fact that it's surprising is an indication of a problem with the law. If people think that breaking and entering actually requires physically breaking something or disarming some security measure then that's probably what it should be.

Is there really a harm in calling it trespassing?
I have a 28" 4K on my desk and the picture is absolutely stunning. I'd imagine any more dense than that I'd have a hard time appreciating, but I think it matters way more in terms of where the display is relative to your eyes. For example, my monitor is usually about 12" away from my face, whereas my TV is about 7 feet. A 1080p picture looks just fine compared to a 4K picture at those distances, I never feel like I'm missing anything.
For backtesting intraday trades, LEAN from QuantConnect is a better alternative.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. The risk of saying "we shouldn't do this because it won't work" is that it only has to work a little bit for the argument against it to fail. And it will certainly work a little bit at reducing one type of terrorism, just not enough to outweigh all the other negative effects.

That said, I would also like to see more discussion of alternatives instead of just saying "it'll never work".
You vastly underestimate the complexity of a discretionary trader's intuition and experience. You cannot just replicate years of human experience with computer code so easily.
> I am not sure that partnership or ownership really changes anything.

It changes everything. DDG is a Yahoo customer and, as adrusi wrote, sources search data from them among other providers. Yahoo doesn't control DDG, its privacy measures, data collection, or product direction as they would as a parent company. The relationship is completely different.

I do agree with you about Searx having the optional self-hosting advantage. DDG claim they won't track you, but there's really no way to be certain.
Out of how many cities? They only present 7.
Vancouverite here. I applaud this as a reasonable question.

I understand why immigrating to Vancouver from China makes sense. It has great climate, is postcard attractive, easy China-YVR flights, has a dominant Chinese culture already with lots of Mandarin spoken and Chinese writing/advertisements, and it's generally very welcoming and embracing of Chinese.

But for the investor only, who doesn't plan to live here ... it's a little harder to understand "why only Vancouver?" Some insight ... Vancouver has become very familiar to Chinese investors, so it's a known and well-researched entity to Chinese. Ask a friend, "where should I move my money?" and "Vancouver!" is a respectable answer. There is also now a large marketing machine that straddles China and Vancouver, whereby new and old Vancouver real estate deals are (sometimes exclusively) marketed directly to China. Systems like this (right or wrong) take time to develop and now have momentum. In short ... familiarity, habit, and support systems.

Also, if an investor (or, often, their children) wants to spend any time at all living in their investment ... Vancouver tips the scales for the reasons in the first paragraph.
I think it's to prevent the unoccupied house bank account. You could make an exemption for your official registered home address.

That way if you own more than one house, the unoccupancy tax creates an incentive to put the locked up supply on the rental market, but would sidestep the complexity you just stated.
What's the least bit shocking about that? Or am I missing something about how the US marks historic events and people?
Ballmer in a 2007 interview with USA Today:

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006:

"We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "[Apple is] not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."