skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several years ago(before it was against ToS) I scraped data from a county clerk website and did some mild analysis on it. I won't say what I was looking for, but I did find several correlations between case disposition (charges dropped, reduced, etc....) and certain combinations of judges/prosecutors/defense attorneys.

One particular combination showed a 10x increase in correlation with charges being significantly reduced or dropped.

It would be very interesting to see a proper dataset and analysis on this type of information.
Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese is a resource that has been around for a while that has helped a lot of beginners with the language. I'd recommend checking it out if you are interested in learning the language: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
> but what happens when a client sends you an Excel spreadsheet?

WPS Office covers me on that area. I use spreadsheets every week.

> What happens when you want to plug in a second monitor?

It works. Beautifully. In fact, I got a Powerpoint presentation, opened it with WPS, and the presentation was shown in the second display, while showing the notes and the rest of the 'WPS Presentation' in the laptop display.

> What happens when you want to play a triple-A video game?

Now this depends more on how many triple-A video games get sold in Steam for Linux than anything else. The technology is already there. The market is still small.

> What's the battery life like on a laptop?

This is a serious issue, and it needs to be solved.
Manhattan project was circumscribed to one country on one place and didn't involved a worldwide collaboration between almost all the airlines
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In the UK, the law requires all animals to be stunned before slaughter - except in the case of religious slaughter (Kosher and Halal), where stunning may be contrary to religious practice.

It can be hard to avoid eating Halal meat, because there is no requirement that Halal meat is labeled as such. Meat from Halal slaughter ends up in the regular supply chain. The vast majority of New Zealand lamb, for example, is Halal - but isn't typically labeled as such.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/ImageLocator/LocateAsset?asset=docu...
> Call me sexist but the fact is that roads, houses, airports, planes and all kinds of infrastructure is built and maintained almost 100% by hard working men. So is internal (police) and external (army) security.

Of course that’s not sexist, it’s just a list of facts. This however:

>Don't get me wrong, I highly value marriage but I'm not willing to enter a deal where I'm having to give up everything to her and can not expect to get anything in return for it. For example if we married and divorced (without children) she would be entitled to 40% of my net income as long as I am alive.

is. It shows that in your world view, men make all the money and women don’t work. After all, if you were a stay-at-home dad and your wife had a career, would the roles not be reversed?
It's kind of funny, but when you talk to a lot of fellow worker drones, who lack the kind of free will required to accurately describe their own motivations for holding down a job, most will continuously describe burnout as being at fault and getting fired during a moment when they failed the company.

Like:

Oh boo hoo, I suffered burnout
this one time because I was so
incompetant. Good on my boss for
firing me when I deserved it!

Most worker drones with attitudes like this usually cannot or will not describe their core motivations for maintaining employment (power motives, according to the article) as "needing to pay rent" or something similarly compulsory. Maybe it's just too awful too think in such bleak terms.

But this article points to an interesting symmetry of blame: the workers beats themselves up, and the employers express absurd, overbearing demands, or some combination of the two. Worst case scenarios being the blind leading the blind.

You rarely see articles that provide a cold look at employer/employee relationships, and explore scenarios where emotional investment is optional on both sides of the table.
I don't really know for sure, of course, but I'd guess that almost all of these live streams would be incredibly boring. A few then would be interesting. But wouldn't it require changes to laws in many places? I understand that currently you can't even take photographs in courtroom in many jurisdictions?
I don't think you're disagreeing with what the authors are saying.

They are not suggesting that the money comes from the recent MBA grad. They're suggesting a typical private equity approach where new company debt and outside money are used to buy out the current owners. Then cash flow repays debt, investors, then finally the person who put the deal together who will earn 20% of profits going forward.

This type of management (as you said, running an existing company instead of starting one from scratch) seems exactly like what an MBA prepares someone for, much more than it prepares them to launch new ventures.
Speculation is fine - everyone does it. But usually you admit that right up front. "I've done no research but here's my half-baked theory of how this works." You show a bit of humility, some understanding that you might not have it right the first time, and invite corrections. (Also, if it's based on what other people wrote, links help.)
That doesn't really warrant saying "carbs don't make you fat". Eating white bread, sugary drinks, baked goods and pasta is a big step away from that.
The stickied posts at Koohii are a great resource for everything related to learning Japanese. It's a pretty popular forum for Japanese learners:

http://forum.koohii.com/index.php
Two-way binding CAN be fast, however, due to various issues, Angular's only option was Dirty Checking, which is sloooow.

And no, a depgraph doesn't make it fast. What can make it fast is firing less events, using better triggers, and basically handling it exactly the way that Angular didn't.

VDOM can help, but really not much. However you want to put it, two-way binding is costly, and it should be avoided whenever possible, or minimized by catching multiple bind events at a higher up element on the tree (see http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/asymmetrical-data-bindi...)

Just spraying it everywhere, the way Angular encourages, with no optimization (like the aforementioned asymetrical bindings), should be considered an antipattern.
Can someone re-word the abstract in layman's terms? I had to google what "motivational incongruence" was.

My partial interpretation attempt:

Employees who did not feel like they fit into the culture of the workplace (affiliation motive) led to high job burnout. And people who didn't satisfy their need to have an impact on others, and gain respect and reputation (power motive), predicted increased physical symptoms.
Once you prove that more fraudulent votes than authorized votes would be prevented by ID laws I'd be glad to implement such a system.
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There is no "starter kit" to bootstrap a new country, but the project architecture is designed to clearly separate the core engine from the modeled country.

As this question has occured many times, we're certainly going to work on this topic and add a chapter to the documentation "Howto bootstrap a new country".

For now starting a new country consists of creating a new repository like openfisca-<country_name>, implement what we call entities (ways to group people together like households, families, etc.) and implement the formulas corresponding to the legislation taxes and/or benefits you want to compute.

This involves a lot of reverse-engineering work! If someone is interested, please contact us by opening a thread on the forum (https://forum.openfisca.fr/) or a GitHub issue (https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-core/issues)
Can you expand on why adding a narrative would amplify the effectiveness of these explorable explanations by so much? The whole core of explorable explanations is that you can play with the models yourself to gain insights and reach conclusions the author may not have come to herself, to me, adding a narrative would only add to the linearity of the text itself, and therefor take away some of the "exploration" part
I never heard that, but it seems pretty fast now. If Leo shows up, hopefully he'll tell us.
No, because when you compete on only prices there is no brand loyalty, no customer relationship, and no r&d spent on feature development.

For a community; businesses might move for tax breaks, which benefits them greatly, but there might be more traffic / no high quality living that increases commutes. The employees might have to pay all relocation costs, and then the business that has no loyalty moves when the next tax break becomes available.
Midori was really interesting. I don't know of another that removed context switching.
I think its quite obvious that burnout comes from overdoing youreself, hardly an unconscious feeling.
> What would be the economic incentive towards carrying out a sufficiently complex MITM attack on a blog or a newsfeed?

Gee, I don't know, imagine plastering your brand all over the NYT homepage or libelously accusing your political opponent of some heinous crime or behavior or injecting your malicious script onto millions of visitors' machines.

> There's no MITM required for this.

Um, local scripts injecting ads are still MITM by definition.

> TLS wouldn't fix this in any way as far as I am aware.

Yes it would. That's why pesky "antivirus" software MITMs TLS connections on your local computer.
Couldn't the same argument be made for obese kids and diets without enough nessesary vitamins etc?
I enjoyed reading that! I am a member (donate $10/month to FSF and $4/month to the Software Conservancy).

I am a little surprised that there are only 3200 members (but many non-members also donate).

I don't always follow the FSF credos (e.g., I use an iPad) but they do great work and along with organizations like the ACLU and EFF are a 'good deal' for people wanting to maintain (as much as possible!) our rights in a digital world.
Hot spares and monitoring. RaidZ2 across that number of drives is a performance nightmare and against ZFS best practices.
The TPP isn't 'free trade,' it's corruption
Sorry replied to wrong comment.
This is what the proposal say, it doesn't singles out vegan diets
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-content-calendar-lite/ - A drag and drop content calendar for WordPress. You can literally drag and drop posts to different dates on a calendar and they'll post automatically when the date comes round.

I built it last year, along with a premium version (which auto-suggests what you should write based on low competition kW opportunities) but ended up not getting around to releasing it. The free plugin is up on WordPress and has about 700 downloads.

I'm willing to sell the free + (unreleased) premium plugin for the right price.
This is so wildly off-topic.
I don't see how the small-business route isn't also a similar funnel, where it gets narrower and narrower towards the top. Only a small percentage of small businesses become medium-sized businesses, a smaller percentage still become largish, and very few become Cloudflare. Are the odds actually better than the odds of making C-level on the corporate ladder, even if you take into account that you can start multiple businesses?

I would personally make this decision on some other grounds than the (very small) likelihood of getting megarich, though. The lifestyle, set of skills rewarded, etc. are pretty different on the two routes.
Classic response. I'm all for rational discussion on how to improve the general situation. My point is that said rational discussion is impossible to participate in without great personal risk, so I choose not to. I prefer less risky avenues of helping the world.
Lightweight threads? Nodejs doesnt use them. There is only a process and a handful of threads which are basically workers.

And I don't buy that the only point of nodejs is that _that it let people who know JavaScript write server-side code with reasonable performance and scalability_.

Writing nodejs code is a complete different beast from frontend javascript. I actually think writing nodejs is much harder to understand and code than eg Golang or Java.

For me, personally, the point of Nodejs is neither performance nor the fact that its _async_.

Nodejs has a really good balance of performance, tooling, ecosystem and scalability.

Of course I could be wrong.
Yeah I have expereined this very thing at work right now, but the great thing about being a human is you can change and adapt at the face of adversity. In my case it was either get fired/quit spend a month or two getting a new job and hear it from my wife or suck it up and be the person myorganization wants me to be -- it wasn't that hard at the end of the day because I get paid handsomly, get to sit in an air conditioned room with a comfortable chair (they even got a standing desk for me)great benefits, get to put food on the table, have clean water to drink, you know.. something 90% of the rest of the world will never get to experience.

My answer to these situations is to humble yourself. Now of course I am not saying the other option is "wrong" especially if it is just as easy for you to find an accommodating workplace but at the end of the day you are paid to do a job, not have all your feelings babysitted. If you find your workplace is stressing you out, go talk to a therapist (or close friend who understands you, spouse, etc) and see if you can identify ways to overcome it. If not, then maybe consider the switch.

I know this will get downvoted here because it sounds very "conservative pull up your bootstraps"-esque
Ask HN: Why are techies so interested in Japanese culture?
Another thread made me kind of curious about geek fascination with Japan? As long as I can remember be it Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Reddit, HN! or any other techie-oriented forum, the only foreign the western tech culture western seems to have a fascinating with is Japan. So what is it? Why does our community have a more vocal interest in Japanese culture than others?
> While still a fraction of what the Pentagon's biggest contractors spend, Palantir's lobbying expenditures grew from $300,000 in 2010 to over $1 million by 2015.

Expected this number to be a lot higher as this seems to be the articles thesis: palantir aggressively outspent and outmaneuvered the traditional war contractors.

Also, given that palantir has secured $500m in gov contracts (1.2b*40%) the ROI on the ~$10m they've spent on lobbying is massive. I find it hard to believe that it accounts for a substantial portion of palantir's success.
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I think there are other reasons that will also stop it happening. We used to be frequent customers of a fast food store near us, who switched to sourcing Halal chicken for their product. Seems like a good idea (increase marketshare, provide a new service to an unserved community), but the Halal chicken was extremely dry & flavourless. It ruined our enjoyment of the food and we stopped going (after being customers for almost a decade), especially as new competitors with tastier non-Halal offerings started opening. The store closed some months afterwards.
> "Tylenol" doesn't charge "$60", the hospital does

That is what I stated. And band-aids are roughly the same price per instance. And there are also staff-related line items. And there is a completely separate EMT bill if you are transferred from the scene of an accident.

A stay of about 16 hours with no procedures, just a transfer by EMT, a few bandages and Tylenol, with about 30 minutes total of staff interaction was billed at almost $15,000.

There are absolutely "legitimate" charges involved, and there is a markup that would be considered legitimate, but there is also a lot of abuse that goes straight to overpaid doctors, overpaid hospital administrators and insurance companies, in the same way prison's are charged 6x or more for miscellaneous items.

Legitimate charges would be listed as legitimate line items, not hidden in other marked up line items.
None of those quotes forbids AOSP devices.

AOSP passes the compatibility test and the second quote applies to devices with Google Services
Composer in PHP-world works even better than NPM, while being similiar in some ways.
With CI for running tests and building docker images, I have seen a lot of places where npm install happens everytime. So don't know why you are getting down voted.
I'm pretty sure Pivotal and Carbon Five, two high end Rails consulting firms in SF require pair programming. I'm pretty sure that you can't hire Pivotal without contracting two of their engineering, strictly for pair programming.

Some of my best code has been written with pair programming but I can see the flip-side. There's no day-dreaming, there's no zoning out, complete engagement all day long.

It's the same mental overhead as with taking care of toddlers; you have to be constantly aware otherwise suffer the consequences.. :)
My old minister used to say "We can have all the morals we can afford". So if quitting isn't an immediate option, good advice to suck it up. In fact just knowing that it will end (eventually) can make it bearable.
Building conversational apps is still hard
Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think
Ah yes. The question was about the Python ecosystem. There are other good solutions for other platforms.
No major flight paths over me - the variation in number of planes flying daily is interesting - no contrails == blue sky. Some days 10+ planes before noon - then cloudy. Doesn't matter what time of year or day of week. Just my observations.
I am about to do this and am very interested in seeing this, I have a feeling you are very right. :)
Sadly the state deference too much to religion based requests (we are talking any religion here). I personally want it to be the other way around - religion changes to adapt to the state it is in. But we as a society need to stomp our foot to the ground to make it happen.
> The linux kernel is now at 10million loc +! I dont care if you are Red Hat, you dont have enough eyeballs to properly audit that shit!

To be fair, most of that is in device drivers and other optionally compiled or non-critical pieces of code.

The common code path is extremely well tested and audited.
Vue already seems pretty minimal to me. What advantages does riot have over vue?
I don't feel that this is sexist. Here in Austria even left wing media had to admit that only 35% of women in working age do work full time, while 90% of men do work full time.

I have no problem with that because someone needs to raise children and still it's mostly women doing it. (which is one of the most important jobs someone could possibly do)

> After all, if you were a stay-at-home dad and your wife had a career, would the roles not be reversed?

That's all fine, someone has to do it after all if we want our civilisation to still exist in 100 years. I'm just pointing out the fact that men still at this moment mostly do the work that provides their families with necessary resources.

Every couple should be able to find a private arrangement that suits them best without being attacked for it.
> The closest I can get to that currently, is cx_freeze, which isn't compilation, merely turning the Python code into bytecode.

Is there a problem with that?

If you're worried about someone stealing the code you can obfuscate it a bit.
Not sure what you mean "rerun all the tree", if you change a a state variable that is added as a prop in another component it has to rerun refresh on those components, but only those components, so not all the tree. Also not sure how this relates to atomic updates, with a flux pattern each state change is associated with ui changes propogating down, the difference to angular is, they aren't supposed to be allowed to propogate up, which you can do in angular since there isn't necessarily a central state store and since there is two way binding children or parent can change the variable.

It's easy enough to write two way binding into a react state variable, it's just nice to not have it happen by default since having state able to change anywhere in the app can get confusing.
You might want to consider checking out Pex (https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/stable/). It helps you create a single, executable artifact for your Python project very similar to an UberJAR.
quite a bit of mobile games and apps rely on tens and often hundreds of small resources, each of them needing in periodic caching and update, which makes loading hundreds of resources simultaneously both very realistic scenario and eliminating the need for home-brew caching and resource packs update mechanisms
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Anyone know what kinds of small businesses this article, and the previous ones they've linked to, are referring to? I imagine running a donut shop is a very different beast from running a bespoke software development house or a plumbing parts company. Are they referring to all 3 kinds?
They keep re-designing the Falcon 9 and adding new features so it's not really surprising. Those poor engineers working on it, "What do you mean you're increasing the Falcon thrust again. Now we have to reinforce the connectors even more." The capacity of a Falcon 9 has gone from 10 tons to orbit up to 23.
edit: overdose* not "over does" albeit it's somewhat apt
While bundler certainly have warts, the disaster in that case is not using a lockfile. That completely defeat the purpose of the tool, to get repeatable installations.
It was a public health issue there. Became an issue of, support Vegans or support Kids. No-brainer.
Why? I try to explore why we need mercenary armies in the first place. Why are not enough people volunteering? What makes them withdraw and what could this mean for our future?

There are many comparisons that you can draw between the US and fallen empires that had to rely on mercenaries before they finally collapsed internally.

The last time Western civilisation collapsed at a large scale (Roman Empire) it took the West almost a thousand years to recover from it.
A fantastic library. We switched Onyx Platform www.onyxplatform.org over to it from Netty, and it was a lot easier to write than the netty messaging layer that we had, which required a lot of tuning and thought to get right.

I learned a lot by reading the code, and it generally forces you to use good patterns that changed how I thought how to build a messaging layer.