skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#5 and #6 are even worse, because it basically means Google can dictate whatever terms onto you, if you develop a competing browser.

As VP9 is heavily patented, and the license only allows you to use it if you don't ever sue Google, you're out of luck if Google ever fucks you over somewhere else.
I wonder why didn't also recommend the replacement of caucuses with primaries, since primaries are clearly more democratic than caucuses.
And then, inexplicably, the WikiLeaks official Twitter account also dove straight for naked anti-Semitism.

The author, Emma Ellis, has no comprehension of the tweet in question. Understanding the background could have prevented this:

1. Neo-Nazis begin to point out to their supporters that the people they are discussing are Jews (or "Jew aiders and abettors" [sic]) by placing three brackets around their name. The subjects are often unaware and their account usernames (obviously) do not display brackets.

2. In reaction to this, numerous camps (social justice activists, evangelical Christians, civil society workers, journalists, etc.) both Jewish and non-Jewish alike begin to place three brackets around their display name to draw attention to the practice and to express solidarity with those who are being discussed in brackets, a practice sometimes revered in Western culture [1][2][3][4].

3. A subset of these self-labelled, self-bracketed individuals criticize WikiLeaks.

4. The WikiLeaks account notices that many of their critics are self-bracketed individuals expressing solidarity and wonders what type of people do this, as one might question the individuals who change their profile pictures to have a flag overlay for the tragedy du jour, and if said people are doing so for their own interest.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deputy#Historical_models
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(film)#.22I.27m_Spar...
[4] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmSpartacus
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Having alternatives also helps keeping a standard-based platform conformant with the standard and not slowly drift due to various extensions and idiosyncraties being excessively leveraged in an ecosystem.
Simply have the developer use two computers at the same time, thereby doubling their man-hours
email me your resume.
This is very true.

I live in the country and my house is about 100-feet off a rural highway with a 65-mph speed limit. Being Texas, most folks are going a bit faster.

One of my neighbors has a Tesla. It's no quieter at these speeds than the numerous diesel pickups that inhabit these parts -- the tire noise is amazingly loud. Luckily this road isn't very heavily traveled or I'd be tempted to build a berm or other noise abatement obstruction.
It's the parties that have already have a lower barrier. My argument is that we should put them on equal footing with everyone else.
i wonder since he started shipping on his own, can't he put a note in the box and ask people to check if they paid more and give bad ratings to ebay sellers ?
> push for more forceful action, for unchecked power

Is this something like Barack Obama carrying out drone strikes? Or Madeleine Albright approving the starving of 500,000 Iraqi children? Or Hilary Clinton getting a knife stuck up Gaddafi's rectum? Or the invasion of Iran on a pretext?

Or does it have to be something in dim and distant past which we can tut about as it was done by "those other ones"?
When I bought my home in 2004

I think the "2004" in your reply is key. Crazy things were happening back then and as you called out, the housing market crashed.

I think what freaks people out is that only ~8 years out from the crash, you can already see lending standards getting more relaxed. Didn't we learn anything last time?

Not to mention the number of people I've talked to that said "housing always goes up, it's a great investment!". In less than a decade people have gone from "housing sucks" to "it will never go down".

Amazing.
Greeting from Rochester! I equally enjoy living like a king with the cost of living in Western,NY Looking at your CV, we may have partied at some point, I went to RIT and dated a Geneseo girl around your timeframe :)
>0.77C is not a small amount

It is in the context I was using (the accuweather graphs). If you have a look, you'll see that 0.77C is not noticeable.
What I mean by stages are independent pieces of code that receive information from higher or lower levels and make decisions based on them. each of these stages will also have their own monitoring in place - what you monitor at the risk stage is totally different from what you monitor at the EMS/OMS stage.

So say you have 10 trading algorithms, they'd all send their buy/sell orders on to money management stage (an independent piece of code) which might size the order somehow.

Then, if the order passes money management it goes in to risk, where the risk management can OK it, or nix it altogether.

Having passed that, your order might go on to an allocation manager - which is now allocating resources between the 6 surviving algorithms. Allocation management will weight resources according to however you see fit - maybe Black-Litterman, and pass things along to execution/order management.

EMS/OMS is basically what it sounds like. You say "Buy 100 shares of AAPL", an OMS will go out and make sure they're filled. EMS does the same but tries to make sure it fills them at a good price.

None of these things exist, or are reasonably possible in Quantopian in its current state. Personally, I wouldn't trust a dollar to it.

Yes, I've built my own trading platform on IB. I have the scar tissue, to prove it.

NB: If Quantopian implemented this - even in a fairly clunky, fixed function way I'd consider using them in a heartbeat. Then, my only complaints would be in quality rather than kind.
As a counterpoint, I really disliked The Sparrow. I guess it could be interesting if you are religious, but even then: why do you have to experience horrible things on an alien planet to start wondering why god let's such things happen - aren't there enough horrible things happening on earth? Really didn't see the point... (Don't know Children of God).
I agree: "The human mind is a great pattern matching machine but has a problem with false positives."

But, I think you have stripped the context from the quotes you offer, and in so doing, made them applicable to anything.

For instance, regarding point (1), you're stereotyping the BLM protests. Read their website and it's all about intersectionality and inclusion and a bunch of other academic buzzwords. It's not really about protest for protest's sake: specific demands have been given. And it's not anti-intellectual, which is the context you removed from point 1.

You have done a similar thing with the next point. The original point is about fear of intruders from outside the nation

I would agree that there are parallels of certain parts of, say, the anti-globalization protests of the late 1990s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests) with this synopsis of fascism. A lot of that was action for action's sake: dress up in black and break store windows.

But take, on the other hand, the OWS protests. It was partly because of the authoritarian tendencies of other protest movements that OWS adopted various egalitarian habits - not addressing crowds with bullhorns, the consensus process, etc. (For more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#Main_organi...).

In sum, I think you're not being careful about your reasoning, and you are reasoning backward from the answer you want ("a pox on both their houses"). We're not talking about mere groupthink, smug activists, or misguided protesters. We're talking about actual fascism.
This. The mandatory noisemaker is annoying. Not sure what it accomplishes either, as the driver is supposed to be avoiding pedestrians.
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I happened to be on a wifi connection that was very slow and the HN home page loaded just the top 5 stories, then a long pause, then 5 more. And wow, I like that better. My brain doesn't try and scan the whole page all at once.
Actually, Panasonic makes the cells and owns that part of the factory. Tesla just puts them in a box. A fancy box with a titanium bottom, yes, but a box.
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EDIT - Whoops non-paywall didn't pick up - click top result:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Facebook+Posts+Strong+Profit...
Let's Encrypt currently uses a cross-signature provided by Identrust that expires in 2021. This inclusion is the first step toward making Let's Encrypt completely autonomous.
People have been saying that about the Mac since the 1980s. Consistently high quality and premium features and services sell product.

Apple doesn't need to 'rely' on selling more into China. If they end up locked out of the China market completely, they'll still do fine. As it is, they have a I've premium niche over there and will do just fine.
Glad to see so many great female authors represented ... Oh... Wait
Mortgages in the US are barely above 3% right now (they were sub-3% 30-year fixed not long ago).

How much lower are they in Spain?
To expand on your point, calling Mississippi circa 1950 "democratic" is, while not technically wrong, extremely misleading. Systematically denying the less privileged half the population access to the vote, both by legal means and by extralegal coercion up to and including murder, does not generally lead to what we now consider to be democratically elected governments.

The "tyranny of the majority" can be as harsh as the tyranny of any single strongman, but it's important to note how closely that process is tied to systematically de-legitimizing other voices and perspectives.
That is exactly the same link...

EDIT: and thanks for fixing it ;)
>"Having depression is like having a broken leg. Not seeking help is the crazy choice."

That's an interesting way to put it. I've always seen depression as more like a respiratory disease. It might just be a cold, so you should wait a week or two before going to the doctor, but if you get worse instead of better, you need to go get some help.
If you can recommend more female authors on par with, say, JK Rowling, Fred Vargas, Neil Gaiman or Patrick Rothfuss, I'd be happy to read them. It's hard enough to find good books, worrying about the author's gender is very pointless. Especially since I am not interested in women's issues, which nobody should be obliged to be.
Consider: “officer Batman shot metaphorm dead” vs. “officer Batman's weapon discharged killing metaphorm”.
Yes and no.

What you describe would be useful, but the scope of its usefulness is likely far less than you might think. Basically, you'd only be capturing some long term effects that have very high effect sizes / strong correlations. The sheer complexity, variability, and size of the dataset means that you won't be able to pull out subtle interactions, even with a large number of individuals. Barring fundamental advances in GWAS methods, you're looking at huge expense for very little benefit.

Now, collecting and organizing disparate datasets that are already being generated is worthwhile. Comparison is difficult due to the different methods used, but a good investigator will be able to do a lot of in silico work to, at least, do some preliminary work on hypotheses. On a personal note, this is actually a lot of fun because you can often come across from very exciting hints to follow up on, all with a quick feedback cycle conducive to 'flow'.

Ultimately, and this gets back to science fundamentals, this would amount to a big fishing expedition. Good science will always be strongly hypothesis driven. Good bioinformatics is built upon good datasets, and that only comes from very careful hypothesis consideration, solid methods, and a good understanding of the biology involved.
I reread Cryptonomicon (the last Stephenson book to really draw me in enough to make me read it, although he frontloads a lot of the complexity, so maybe if I push through the opening to Anathem just one more time...)

For those of you who read RP1 already, I would reccomend You, by Austin Grossman, which takes the concept of a treasure hunt through computing and gaming history in a radically different direction, one that is more realistic (although it still takes some bizare leaps of logic and outright wrong turns), as you follow a new developer at a games company that his friends started many years ago, desparately trying to track down an ancient, game-breaking bug, before the company closes its doors for good.

It's flawed, but has a stronger character focus than RP1, and I think I liked it better, on the whole.
>We always ask a new recruit which salary he/she wants publicly (by that I mean in front of a not insignificant part of the company, we are 50) and show them salaries of other people in case it does not really fit

This smells the subtle management trick. As far as I can see you create a peer pressure. These people shouldn't come into play in the salary discussion, the salary discussion should be solely based on : what do I deserve to earn based on what I will bring to the company. Putting these people in the room - even if they don't speak - is a very sophisticated mecanism subtly repositioning the whole thing.

I would personally smell it and would filter myself out as I dislike companies using subtle management tactics very much. And I think many other people would.

Just by seeing this, I can also derive that this company is full of politics and change happens slowly there.
The speeds in the article are in km/h, not miles/h. Residential zones in Germany are 30 km/h, larger inner-city roads are usually 50 km/h, so this very much applies to cities too.
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Once, a couple of years ago, I had a chat with a woman online, and I used "rational" in describing a given choice (we both disapproved) - something like: "Well, this is not something I consider rational".

She was a bit surprised at my choice of words (we were basically in agreement on the main topic, but the moment I said "Rational" she reacted badly) because in her experience "rational" is almost a bad word, because (according to her) it is banded around (by men) to belittle their counterpart in a discussion.

I told her that I had just finished an online course on IA, and therefore I meant "rational" strictly in the sense of "rational agent" as per Wikipedia: a rational agent is an agent that has clear preferences ... and always chooses to perform the action with the optimal expected outcome for itself from among all feasible actions.
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I had this once, "auto typed" a password into a messenger window. So be careful it can happen at any time. Better use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
Ostentatious appreciation of poetry is also great for social signaling.
Usually they've caved in to the conventions of the market (iOS notifications) or missing features (F.lux). The amount of blatant theft seems minimal. They usually put their own spin on things to differentiate somehow.

Even Microsoft has gone its own way with Windows after some heavy overlap with MacOS and other windowing systems (DESQview in partcular). Windows 3.1 was more different, and Windows 95 borrowed more heavily from OS/2, which was wildly different from MacOS. If anything Apple was forced to adopt the right-click menu popularized by Microsoft since it became the de-facto standard.

Meanwhile other companies have damning memos that say "Make it look exactly like Apple's product".
Facts make me say that.

3D-NAND uses charge-trap flash while planar NAND uses floating-gate-transistors based flash.

Working in a NAND company also makes me say that.
x1 carbon, definitely. i'm using the 1st gen carbon at work, and other than the sadly crappy battery life it's been a wonderful machine
Yes, there is one, though it is unlikely to be available in your market:

http://www.mi.com/en/mi5/
Heart disease could be cured by spending less money. Less money on food that is. Diabetes too (type 2 at least).
Yes, but the referrer is different ;) Thanks @aresant!
I'm wondering how the banks are structuring the liability

Yeah, that's what is I was wondering as well. They aren't selling those 1M+ 0% down to GSE's, but maybe somebody on wall street? If not, is it on their books? And yes, what is collateral? Just the property itself?
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Why would they "portfolio" (I'm inferring this means keep it on their books) such a loan instead of selling it? Because the risk is thought to be so much lower than standard mortgages that keeping it somehow helps them in some way?
I think your comparisons are misguided because you got the original claim wrong.

The claim is not about "largest factory". It is supposed to be the "Largest footprint of any building in the World" [1]. That is, the square footage of a single building.

Several buildings in the same area (which is usually what we understand by "factory", or maybe more accurately a "plant") is not the comparison you should be looking for if you want to disprove this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings_in_t...
Even if it does quit, there are so many large, established tech companies here that prices will remain high anyway.

Actually, most of the people I know who have bought houses in the past few years work for such companies: Cisco, Apple, Google, etc. Their employee stock plans are so generous that startup stock options are not very attractive.
> [...] why are we relying on poorly trained volunteers for our elections?

This deserves more attention. I encourage anybody with enough spare time to work a poll at least once (they typically pay you and cover commute costs).

Usually the people training volunteers were never properly trained themselves and, in my experience, responsibilities are delegated emphasizing fairness over merit.

The last poll I worked at had volunteers check in voters using some clunky software on an old laptop. It quickly became clear that none of the volunteers used (or perhaps even owned) a computer and, as a result, check-in was a disaster. I offered to take over or re-train them on how to use the software, but no -- it was my turn to hand out "I Voted!" stickers and I had to wait my turn to work the check-in station.
> they're trying to look better and nicer,

I think that's a misleading picture of where things are going. Seeing these releases as charitable work misses the point. They haven't open sourced any of their core many makers. Nothing of the Office suite got open sourced, and you still can't code for your game console without special permission.

They do as many others, they open source what's already lost in an effort to stay relevant. It has been .net stuff (which was supposed to out-compete Java, but captured exactly zero mindshare outside the Windows ecosystem which is necessary to grow it at this stage), other developer stuff (not Visual Studio, mind you, but things like git and ssh where they tried to compete but lost), cloud (they need Linux on Azure to stay relevant) and web development. Much like Apple when they started out with OS X and released networking, printing and X11 stuff to get back developers. That worked out well for them but we haven't seen any more releases since then.

Don't be tempted to view this in terms of good and evil, but in terms of where these products are in their life cycle. Time will tell if it's successful. I would guess they lost web development long ago and there won't be any mass exodus from PHP or Rails to .net, but they still have a fighting chance against Java, especially if Oracle continues to bodge it.
Thank you so much Tim for such a fantastic library. I can honestly say that I use it more than the libraries that inspired it (underscore/lodash).
There lies a difference between Bodhisattva and Buddha.
What you described while explaining the difference between Buddhas and saints is essentially the difference between Bodhisattvas and Buddhas :)

And Bodhisattva is a lifestyle by choice.

But then again, what do i know. I barely follow the eightfold path.
I've found I definitely use my iPad less now I have a 5.5" iPhone. Is still wouldn't be without an iPad, I love it, but for many tasks I used to switch to the iPad for, now the larger phone is fine.
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I think the implication is that getting them on the ballot might not be possible due to the local ballot requirements. The hope might be that the pain suffered by vote counters like yourself sends a clearer message to the local establishment than an abstention.
Just like being a rapist and a fugitive stopped Polański from continuing his film-making career. Really.
but do you know, really, what his actions were?
It's not; OP points to the direct wsj.com article (crippled with a "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In " banner if not subscribed), while aresant to a search for the article on Google, and when coming with a Google referer the full article is displayed. Thanks aresant.
Only the protagonist met her in real life. I think you read too much into that.
You are comparing a 7 year old version of Windows to a recent Linux release. Obviously Windows 7 will not have all the drivers.
Feature engineering and model ensembling are usually what separates the top competitors.
Largest factory building, but according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings_in..., not the largest building in footprint. The Aalsmeer flower auction beats it by the relatively tiny margin of 8,000 square meters

By the way, the BBC recently had a documentary about the flower industry that I think is worth watching if you are interested in manufacturing and logistics. For Brits in England, it is on iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07czwfd, but Flora Holland seems to have it available for everyone at https://www.royalfloraholland.com/en/speciale-paginas/search....

In particular the parts about an army of marching lilies (starts about 26:50 in) and the way the auction clocks work (about 34:00 in) may be of interest to those interested in automation and efficiency (it seems they manage to make a sale every 5 seconds or so on one clock, with seven of them in the room)
Sir, may I please look at your horse? It seems pretty high, would you step off it, please, and face the reality?
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> but Apple tightly controls their entire stack

More like Apple wants you to use their computers. If it was legal I'm sure Microsoft would have figured out how to compiler iOS apps in Visual Studio. It's not magic, it's just obscured and prevented through legalese.
I'll give it a whirl. Last desktop I used was whatever Ubuntu has... Unity I think or something like that.

A lot of glitz, but also very glitchy. I'd be happy with plain, consistent, discoverable, comprehisble. The animation eye candy is nice, but it's low on my priority list.
Moment.js is absolutely one of the core utility js libs out there. It has saved me so much time and I believe that the whole industry has been spared of motherlode of bugs in self-made time libs, not to mention time spent implementing/debugging the same. One to rule them all :)
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It was when I commented, it just has been edited in the meantime.
Pullman is another one for the Christians, I suppose. If you are not religious, it seems unlikely to me that you would enjoy it (I didn't).
First-past-the-post thus eventually results in an entrenched two-party system.

Indeed, and I like this set of visualizations to demonstrate that: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim

This alone is ample reason for those two parties to resist any change to the voting method. Anything else might undermine their duopoly.

So we know why the major parties would oppose voting system change. Is there something beyond the parties' word that keeps non-partisan members of the public from wanting to change voting systems?