skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're not certain who makes the team

I'm not sure the IOC should be responsible for any potential competitors vs actual competitors. Even if it's only limited to those actually competing in the games, and only given out after competing, then that's a lump sum of $200k which they weren't getting before.

As for the stipends given out by USOC for Team USA, those are specifically for the US, and there appears to be no information on how much of that stipend originates from the IOC as compared to sponsorships obtained by from the USOC directly. Even then, most countries do not pay stipends that come even close to $20k US dollars. In many places, if the athletes got a full $200k for participating in the games, it would set them up for a very long time (if not for life).

As for the cost of sports coaches, training locales, etc, there's a whole 50% of revenue left over specifically to help pay for those costs (on top of local OC's). As noted in the article, professional US-based organizations, such as the NFL, generally share 50% of the revenue with athletes. Those organizations also have many of the same types of costs, but still are able to maintain an approximate 50/50 ratio.

More to the point, "have you even looked at the economics?". Yes. The conclusion that I have is that there is huge gulf between, (and using the USOC specifically here), USOC's claimed 90% spending and the article's "6 percent in cash payments" to athletes. So it's not clear cut that direct benefits to athlete's couldn't be raised, and substantially.
>That's not what authoritarianism means. When society restricts some individual freedoms that's not always authoritarianism. You personally may not like it; you may be ideologically opposed to it, but that's not enough to make it authoritarian.

I'm referring to the more generic meaning of authoritarianism, as in imposing authoritarian measures, from Google:

au·thor·i·tar·i·an
adjective
favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.

Personal freedom means being able to do anything you want outside of violating other people's person or property without their consent. The idea of being free to act in any way other than violating the rights of others (though violence, theft, etc) is a pretty widely accepted principle of a free society.

That means any consumer protection law, that restricts the right for a party to offer a particular product/service, by fining or imprisoning those who do, is authoritarian.

A law against theft or murder is not authoritarian.
I never said what VA was doing was right or wrong, not did I say what they did to Hogan was right or wrong.

I just said I don't feel bad because they were unethical in their journalism and caused real harm to people because of it (real people besides VA).
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I like them as a way to push me into aspects of the game that I would normally never try.

For example, in WoW it got me to go explore all of the other faction's territories, which I didn't even know was possible. It also got me to run the old dungeons that no one did anymore.

When designed right, they can be really good.
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...2 inches for such a tall building is such tiny angle

If it sinks does this mean the first floor is slightly below the street level ..it probably means that the areas around the door and where the concete meets the street are cracked
That is true, but it was fixed in Django 1.4... in 2012. Technology moves a bit in 4 years.
One's car or home isn't _normally_ owned by a share-issuing company. are you saying it can't be owned by one? Pretty sure there's a well-known Mayer Amschel Rothschild quote about owning vs. controlling.

Private equity is an asset class. equity securities and debt (such as, oh, unpaid medical bills, and the right to collect on them) can be purchased as well as corporations/corporate debt.

Are you sure you understand what I'm saying?
A little off-topic, but what's your experience with Vulkan so far? Are you doing engine work?
Uneven sinking is not good - doors/windows won't close, walls would crack, and so on. It does not take much to seize things, however buildings are usually designed to take a little of it. The rate at which it's sinking is the alarming part.

But i would be mostly alarmed about earthquakes - the thing sits on sand. Proverbial or not, that would make it very susceptible to soil liquification.

Imagine a stick with a weight on top of it. On solid ground it stands still. But if the ground was to turn into a liquid, the stick would tilt and sink rapidly. If the soil were to liquify for a second, it would end up at an angle half-sunk. And a building can't tolerate side loads, so it won't stay at an angle - it would collapse down.
I'm sure the engineers ran the calculations and deemed it 'safe enough'
Yup, something similar happened with the Tesla/SolarCity acquisition: "Mr. Musk said Monday he wasn’t involved in the decision making about the valuation of the purchase." [1]

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The real problem with digging down to bedrock is destablizing the building. Though there may be enough redundancy in the pilings to do it one at a time.
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Moons are one way around this.
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Elaborate? These tests are pretty common in interviews. I'd be curious to know what you're thinking.
Not a geologist, but I suspect that'll depend on how liquid the 120' of sand between the piles and the bedrock gets.
Building a large edifice on sand? Put that starkly, I could swear that I heard a story about it once. No idea where, though. ;)
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It's not pedantic, he is directly questioning a core tenant of the article by using examples of where it may break down. It serves a rhetorical purpose.
Interesting that this seems to compete directly with QueueHop, another YC company. Good to see competition though
I another very good idea is to have multiple private suppliers, along with publicly owned (but potentially privately managed) infrastructure. At least that's how electricity works in the EU.
The article doesn't talk about the how this practically affects the entrances to the building. Do the doors have to be adjusted for such a drastic sinkage, or are buildings somehow designed so this isn't noticeable to the public?
Google seemed to decide to stop investing (they bought docs didn't they? But improved for a while). Sun in an earlier era did the same with open office but gave up, mostly. Seeing sustained investment would be good, but there is huge legacy in office software. The real disruption we see is markdown and git, but there might be an intermediate in usability.

(Microsoft are doing pretty well at not leaking revenue)
Got any links about that? I haven't heard anything.
One of the geologists told me a simple way to judge the slide risk. Look at the tree trunks. If tree trunks are leaning, or are curved, that indicates the ground under them is shifting.
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I was saying that funding other people's lawsuits was illegal for a long time.
If you put them both in at once, the second output is 100% correct:

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Clojure got reasonably popular around that time.
then you should also be against ACLU as well
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From the article: "To cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock."
I'm amazed that a building of that height would be built on a slab with friction piles in the mudflat fill zone of the SF bay. How did they get a building permit for that? 16 inches of sinkage in 8 years is huge.

Building sinkage isn't all that unusual, but not for skyscrapers. There was a time when skyscrapers were only built on competent rock, like NYC's. Now they're being built on much more iffy soils. Singapore and some other coastal Asian cities are doing a lot of this.

SF used to be smaller. The outer half mile or so on the bay side is fill. There are buried shipwrecks all through that area.[1]

[1] https://medium.com/the-secret-history-of-america/from-starbo...
You defend VA downthread while only decrying Gawker as being unethical.

One takes photos of girls without their consent/knowledge while the other blurs the line of good journalistic taste. Yet it's only the latter that's unethical?

It's not difficult to impute which you approve of.
In the age of SPAs, I have actually found Django with DRF to be incredibly invaluable. The efficiency of just having to specify a few models and then getting a full REST API for them with minimal effort is tremendous.
5. The von Neumann probes are microscopic and densely packed with a chemical structure encoding the information needed to reproduce in a variety of environments. Occasionally some of them mutate and get stuck in a planet's gravitational well, where they keep reproducing and mutating into who-knows-what. The urge to explore the cosmos is never completely lost, and eventually they reach a state where it's possible to continue the mission.
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Well if current BSDs are counted as direct continuations thereof (instead of descendants), maybe it's older. But Emacs directly continues since day one.
It's still amazingly easy to exploit through phishing, etc. Sending an email with a link to a controlled page, etc could easily get an authorized user to send the web request.
> How do you prove to the device that you are the one who bought it?

An arbitrarily-complex passphrase of my choosing plus a fingerprint seem reasonable.
Loving your attitude.

I often feel like with a lot of building (big and small) there is insufficient evaluation of site factors. For example:

Is there a hill above the site? THAT needs to be evaluated (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't).

Is the site on a traditional floodplain? If so what actions have been taken to redirect the water flow? Does the system have the capacity to move the water away?

Is the site itself earthquake proof (e.g. subject to severe liquefaction)? Just because the property is built to code, doesn't mean the land it is built on is safe.

Is the site subject to wildfire risk? Can we mitigate that?

Humans make the same mistakes again and again. We build fast and we don't consider the land's natural problems. INstead we just build and hope it happens far enough in the future for it to be someone else's problem.

Water in particular we're TERRIBLE at managing. We build property on floodplains and are then "surprised" when it floods. We place homes on downward elevations and don't redirect the water around the property (e.g. using french drains).
we'll let's help you with your issue: should content providers (reddit, arstechnica, etc) decide to de-prioritize those that aren't directly making them money, the effect is the same as net neutrality, (a tiered-access internet) is it not? Should Brave gain even a minority marketshare, you'll definitely see Google and Mozilla (and likely Microsoft) jump on board with similar solutions.

We've merely pushed the control from the ISP to the content providers. Does this mean it isn't a Net Neutrality hijack anymore?
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Elon and JB said in the 2016 Shareholders meeting that they considered this but are not planning to pursue it.

The PowerWall is designed to be cycled daily while the car is expected to be cycled weekly.

There is also a danger of electrocution and regulatory hurdles.

https://youtu.be/vhqe4gMN6Lk?t=2h46m32s
Wouldn't the width be a more appropriate measure than height?
Wanaka is really beautiful; for people who haven't been there you can get a reasonable idea of what it is like by watching almost any of the outdoor scenes from Lord of the Rings / Hobbit movies. I first went to Wanaka in '94 long before the rest of the world discovered it. Warbirds over Wanaka is great too if you're into WWII aircraft (and others besides). The skiing is great there too (Cardrona, Treble Cone). And Hilary's first major ascent was Mount Aspiring which is about 1.5 hours drive by 4x4 from Wanaka.
My mistake, I misread. I edited my post to address this.
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Office through Office365 has, IMO, left Google Docs behind. It's actually quite a nice product - arguably better than the more recent versions of the desktop clients, for non-power usage.

GoogleDocs hasn't changed appreciably in the ten plus years I've been using it. I get the impression that Office 365 is eroding their solid foothold in education, and I've been seeing enterprises go to Office 365 en masse, mostly for Exchange, but the whole Office suite comes along with it.
Channels will get there. It just wasn't quite ready on time for 1.10. Hopefully it will be ready on time for 1.11, and then it'll ship in Django.
As others have said, going release-by-release is the way to go. I migrated a project from 1.4 to 1.8 (LTS to LTS) over the course of a few months. It wasn't trivial, but it wasn't too difficult either.

The deprecation notices are usually (always?) accompanied by the code giving `DeprecationWarning` messages. These are silenced by default, but can be enabled by setting the environment variable: `PYTHONWARNING=d`. After upgrading to each major version, I'd recommend running with warnings enabled for a little while (in addition to reading the release notes), to see what may bite you at the next jump.
You seem to be unaware of the fact that Office isn't desktop only any longer. Office 365 is growing like crazy and there's no way Salesforce is going to catch up before the cloud wave blows over. Infact, modernizing and getting office on ever device has been the shtick of Satya since he took over.
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You guys do a great job with HN moderation and I've always been curious what ratio of mods:numComments is sustainable and still keep quality high and mods not burned out - do you think HN is a good datapoint or just special?
I never defended VA, and never have. I think both were unethical and wrong.
I've for a while said that a _unique_ password is better than an _awesome_ password.

_Bad_ passwords are still bad, however.

(And for $DIETY's sake, don't use your work email address for non-work sites!)
So in a way military pentathlon is the true successor to the classic olympics.
Turtles are older than that, 1950s.
>> It's kinda mind-boggling to think there's a good chance we are the original Elder Race alien civilizations will write their sci-fi about.

>> They're going to be mean.

Using the history of humanity as a reference, we will be the villains in the plot.
And when someone said "Oh, boo hoo, poor violentacrez." you didn't respect that they don't feel bad for him. You have a very clear case of hypocrisy here.
Is there really less civility today, or have people redrawn the boundaries of civility such that other people's opinions are more likely to fall outside its bounds?
https://newsroom.uber.com/uber-china-didi/
Doesn't say much more than what's covered in the Bloomberg article.
> If they uploaded at different times, then at minimum the second one is guilty.

You're assuming that you know which one the "second one" is.

The "first" file may have originally been hosted somewhere else or distributed privately. Some hosts don't keep high granularity timestamps or any timestamps at all, or the user may control the timestamp. How do you know who was first?
Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
I love what Kaggle is doing in the machine learning space. You also have an awesome tech stack! ;)
HN also lets you set a delay before a comment appears, if you're like me and tend to catch mistakes more easily on the page than in the composition box. It's called "delay" on your settings page.
It's a bad decision. It's similar to companies deciding to outsource their communication to other parties (e.g. Slack) that can be hacked [1] and you can be banned at any moment.

Don't outsource your infrastructure to 3rd parties (especially competitors) just to save few dollars in the short term. Have control of your assets.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/27/slack-got-hacked/
The exact same titan missile design that is the subject of this article was used to send probes to other planets.

Also, this world was designed with competition in mind, tempered with cooperation. So military competition is to be expected. Lacking competition people tend to stagnate. Too much and they suffer as well - a balance is what is needed. But that balance is not zero military.
Because Millennium is on reclaimed land, they cannot determine whether or not they have drilled into bedrock. They drill into what's called the 'point of refusal'; a point where they can no longer drill deeper. Whether this is bedrock or even stable soil is somewhat vague.
> Are you allowed to complain about food poisoning on Yelp?

In the US, sure. UK libel laws could be used to suppress 'food poisoning' without a doctor's note, but I think you'd be pretty safe to say 'sick'/'vomit'/'diarrhea'.
Well thats one way to put it
When I saw the title, I guessed Transport Tycoon. Close!
Think you are missing (what I understand to be) his point.

The point is not that this is the UI of the future, the point is that there are other ways to conceptualize doing knowledge work with a machine, this is one.

Real innovation takes time...

Here's the man himself, Alan Kay, on the topic.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xero...
How a tech unicorn creates value
I don't even Google most of my commands anymore, unless I'm pretty sure I'm running into some weird distro-specific issue. These command easily gets me through most of my day now:

man [thing I want to know about]

[command I'm trying to run] --help

There is a learning curve for Linux, but realistically, I found it to be about the same learning curve as using anything I hadn't used before on a Windows system. For basic tasks, Ubuntu Desktop is pretty darn fantastic at working out of the box, and its Software Manager parallels the Windows app store quite nicely for programs that do normal things. (Web browsers, ftp clients, office software, music players, etc etc.)

I choose to run something more complex (Arch linux, presently) because I want to know more about my system, and because I like experimenting with desktop environments. But once you understand how one package manager works, you can perform most basic system administration tasks between the various distributions without a huge amount of effort, and the package manager takes care of most of the fiddly configuration details for you in the process. I find this far easier than trying to set up services in Windows, or dealing with the awful registry.

Of course, I do still keep Windows around. I have a dual boot on my home desktop, and I boot into Windows regularly for the sole purpose of playing games. For all the things I love about Linux, the one thing the community still hasn't gotten down as well as a Windows system is proper GPU acceleration. For now, Windows takes the cake easily on that, and it's reasonably stable when that's all I use it for.
Yep, but as I said it's still rather limited compared to SQLAlchemy. Stuff like aggregations are cumbersome, and it's really really easy to shoot yourself in the foot and cause O(n) queries (especially in templates and in custom admin views).

Things specific to Postgres are rather lacking. While they added support for advanced datatypes like arrays, hstore, intervals and search recently (yay!) you still can't use any other index than a standard btree one or things like recursive queries. SQLAlchemy supports all of these, and has done since forever.

Things are progressing, don't get me wrong, but there is a long way to go.
Actually it's more like the 'j' in Eyjafjallajökull.
Thanks. Being a huge NN fan, I have to say I have been surprised of the number of cases where Bayesian classification have proven useful. :)
I did a lot of things to reduce risk. None were expensive. I watch other houses go up in the neighborhood, and they do none of them.

My most expensive mistake was not having a geothermal heading system installed when the yard was all dug up anyway. I could have had it essentially for free, and save 30% on the heating bill.
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