skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely skipped watching the Olympics in large part because of NBC which is terrible. So, I have some doubt that 12B is optimal for the IOC and it clearly sucks for the rest of US.
Not at all. They're saying that you can use the same car for hauling the family on vacation as you use to go 0-60 in 2.5 seconds, where with one of these other cars you'd need to buy two separate vehicles. They're in no way implying that the car does both things simultaneously.
My wife has been yelled at by strangers for filling up the car with gas, then walking 25 feet from the gas pump to the payment window and paying for the gas... because our kids were in the car 25 feet away.

She's had the police and the neighborhood watch called repeatedly because our children were playing in our own yard.

It's not a world I recognize and I'm increasingly disturbed by people's strange ideas about children.
Sort of.

There are two claims someone might make. "X is common, and it poses a meaningful risk", or "X exists, and it poses a non-zero risk". Anecdotes do not help much with the first claim, but they do help with the second.

So perhaps we can agree that child abductions CAN happen, and that CPS overreach DOES occur. Then we can review the real risks of both.

I've seen data on the real risk of child abductions. I have never seen data on the real risks of CPS overreach. (And it would be difficult to define "overreach".) Does anyone know of any such data?

(Because also, in the complete absence of actual data, anecdotes are better than nothing.)
I think in France it is more on the "best of both-side" in the sense that you're employee and student (you get a student card, with the associated benefit).
I can have changed in the recent years though.
I wouldn't say it is an outlier, but I know numerous people with GRFPs in both situations. I used to think that it was better to receive it as W-2 income. Now, with Social Security looking less certain 30 years from now, I wonder who really is in the better position.
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> There is no guarantee that an implementation of Python is bug-free, so there is no guarantee that any Python problem is free of undefined behavior.

The implementation being buggy does not mean that the behaviour is undefined in the spec.
Wish people (especially scientist) would just stick to the facts. In the McDonald's case people were not "angry at this woman for not being a full-time mom". They were angry that the child was left alone. No one has a problem with a mom working and a care giver watching a child. And of course we have to throw in a dig at evil McDonalds for not having childcare services.
The LLVM foundation is a non-profit and their website is hosted by UIUC.

I prefer programming languages and utilities that are free and open source. And that is some really bad stock photography.
Look at that HTML, it's so quaint. 80-column aligned. Uppercase labels. No <HTML>. <HEADER> and <NEXTID>. Numeric NAMEs on all the links.

And it uses <DL>/<DT>/<DD>, which seem sadly forgotten on today's web.
Dubai?
Linode-hosted DNS zones were down
That and you lose the advantage of what JIT compiling can get you.
Does anyone think its a little strange to live your life according to some standardized philosophy?
I disagree: there is a lot of competition between PC builders so this ´discount' isn't really optional and Microsoft should have been heavily punished, for offering this discount.
Sir, you have clearly been trolled. Don't feed the trolls.
Afaik, if you read in reverse, then you will miss cache optimization since it only works forward.
It's true that their costs are greater than vanguard which is literally the cheapest private mutual fund company around. Try comparing it to an industry average; 0.39% is quite fair then.

The "plan going bankrupt" has nothing to do with the administration of benefits, however. It's not happening because the bureaucracy is screwing up and wasting too much money -- even if they worked for free, you'd only gain 0.39% more per year. It's congress that is underfunding (or overprovisioning, or some combination of the two) -- could be fixed in two seconds with a bill cutting benefits and/or increasing taxes without any real change for SSA. Also, when it "goes bankrupt" as people misleadingly call it, they'll still be able to pay about 4/5 of the benefits currently promised. In effect, congress by doing nothing has already implicitly reduced future benefits to 4/5 of the current statutory amounts. If you just assume you'll get 4/5 of what is being promised, then it's in no way bankrupt and is self sustaining forever. 4/5 is not chump change.

I've started to realize this whole "social security is a failure" talk may be FUD being spread to get people to accept further raiding of social security because "whatever, it's already broken"
Thanks for the link! I've seen similar initiatives here in NY and I love them. I think it's an excellent complement to some carrots and/or sticks that can get the spaces filled with more permanent tenants.
Which is precisely why it's easy to be productive at that time in the morning - fewer people around mean fewer distractions.

From the article:
By waking up at 4 a.m., they’ve essentially wiped a lot of those distractions off their plate. No one is expecting you to email or answer the phone at 4 a.m.
I develop software for a living, and I dare say I'm better than most at it. I've been doing it about 20 years, since I was writing Z80 assembly as a middle schooler [1]. It would take a lot more than a year for someone to learn to do my job. But I'm a lead engineer, not an entry level developer.

However, it would take less than the total amount of time I've been building software to do what I do, because my path to my job took me through all sorts of software development I don't do anymore. That includes 8 years of higher ed, of which I apply only a tiny fraction on a daily basis. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade all that education for the world. I draw upon it in plenty of indirect ways. I just know there are more direct routes for someone who simply wants to become an application developer.

I know this, because I know plenty of people who have taken less than a year to get into the industry, and are now productive developers. One of my friends even wrote about how he did it in detail [2]. There's a fantastic episode of Software Engineering Daily interviewing a guy who landed a lucrative job at AirBnB little more than a year after doing a dev bootcamp [3]. My own brother has been in the industry less than a year after coming through General Assembly and is doing quite well. I interview people all the time who have similar stories. They're not unicorns.

Developing software isn't easy. But it's also not that hard. At least the sort of software most of us build. You only need a couple people at the typical enterprise who are capable of doing architecture and the most technically intense stuff.

[1] http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/61/6175.html

[2] http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/11/2012-my-yea...

[3] http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/07/11/salary-negoti...
Do we really expect every person to conduct such personal research for every single treatment to every single ailment they have? I don't consider that a reasonable solution.
Coffee, exercise.
Parrot fixed wing consumer drone will launch in September
And mobile responsive!
I couldn't find a mention of it. Here's the part:

>>...Britain had achieved cost-effective treatment for everyone, at the cost of some people missing very expensive treatments that might help them. I was rather congratulating myself on this answer, because NICE is beloved of health wonks everywhere; Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) is an attempt to sort of replicate it. Pointing out something the British health system can do that the American system can’t, and doing so in dryly factual tones, seemed like a good way to endear myself to the British audience.

>>The other guest, a British health official, interrupted to basically accuse me of lying; the British health system, he said, did no such thing.

>>Now I reiterate: I had not called NICE a death panel, or said that it was bad; I had simply described what NICE does, which is keep the NHS from blowing its budget on very expensive treatments that deliver relatively little value per pound spent. You can read NICE describing what NICE does on its website; the description is not significantly different from the one I gave. Being told that this was flat out wrong was surreal. Things got even more surreal when I began again to explain what NICE does, thinking that perhaps I had been unclear, and the host interrupted me and said something like “As you know, that’s false.”
I have lots of things to do with it, like releasing it as a gem, zooming, panning, writing some tests...etc

it's a prototype that just works :)
Multi-rotor enthusiast here-- I can confirm this statement! My 5" crafts pull up to 80 amps at full throttle and a mere 1.3ah 4 cell battery pack can generally keep up, albeit with some localized heating and voltage sag.
I am a traffic engineer and she is a hydraulics engineer. Both fields fall under Civil Engineering. Her degree is only a 3 year program (she already has a master's).
Is the Model S not mass produced?
Which site were you running?
Turntable.fm
I was struck by the references to 4 different browser.
Things can be imprecise, and can be modeled as such. Things can be chaotic, and can be modeled as such. Technologists tend to think in a binary between things that can be represented by a single number and those that can't, but that doesn't reflect reality but rather the common (limited) tools of our trade. Sometimes you've got to do a dot product of some distributions for possible values of future vectors, and you get a vague -- but still very real -- answer.
Yes, 20 hours of research time. Her studying time/course load is all on her own time.
My monitors started going berserk around 3:36 PM CT. Here's an example of the problem (I am not hostmaster for The Onion, but they are a well-known Linode customer):

$ whois theonion.com | grep -i 'name server'
Name Server: NS1.LINODE.COM
Name Server: NS2.LINODE.COM
Name Server: NS3.LINODE.COM
Name Server: NS4.LINODE.COM
Name Server: NS5.LINODE.COM
$ dig @ns1.linode.com theonion.com ns +short
$ dig @ns1.linode.com theonion.com a +short
Let's say that an average video is 500MB nowadays. Be it a show, a short movie, a long HD music video on youtube, or a sport event on the olympics.

Let's say that 1000 thousand people are watching the Olympic games. 500 GB * 1000 people = That's 500 GB of traffic.

Let's convert GB to Gb (multiply by 8) and we're talking 400 Tb.

So.. The title of this article means there are about 1000 people who watched ONLY one event of the olympics and then put off their TV.

Well, I thought Olympics were a big worldwide event... I was wrong.

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Alternative: We can take it the other way around and say that there were 1000 sport events during the Olympic, and one guy to watch them all :D

Just for Fun: I'd love to see the numbers from Dailymotion.com, see how much the Olympic Games are unpopular in comparison.
> That's correct, and it's not pedantic to point that out. It proves that undefined behavior is not a useful criteria for choosing which language to use

No, it means that you've warped the definition of "undefined" to the point where it's no longer useful. It's entirely possible to have fully-defined languages where every possible string of symbols is either a valid program with single well-defined behaviour or not a valid program.

And no, writing the implementation in C does not introduce undefined behaviour, although it may require a number of compile and run time checks to ensure that you're never invoking it.
“fs” unpublished and restored
Yes the old system suffered a full bankruptcy, and indeed it is hard to compare to different cultures.

The Chinese call their system "socialist market economy" but I would call it "communistic capitalism" (communistic administration system, capitalistic economy).
The thermal throttling will start kicking in about the time you hit 60mph.
For those of us who did use maps--most everyone I know--we didn't consider it cheating. The original form of the game sucked, and the maps worked like a community-made patch to work around some of the shortcomings. Why bother playing when the entertaining part of the game is so diffuse?

With maps, I'd gather a few coworkers for a safari when something cool popped up. Now we sit at our desks, catching the occasional thing that spawns in the building, but not going anywhere, and not even really interacting with each other.

Why bother playing the way that Niantic wants you to when their way feels like a grind-y waste of time?
There are hundreds of paid services that scrape Google heavily (search engine ranking trackers). How are they legal?
Antigua and Barbuda? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua#Internet_hosting_and_g...
I understand your view is that spectrum auctions increase costs for telecom providers, and that these costs are passed along to consumers.

What I am challenging is your assertion that these prices are somehow higher than they would be in a competitive market. I've articulated three primary objections to this position, none of which you seem to have addressed:

1. Spectrum auctions can only be said to 'increase' costs relative to some other, preferable regime. But, as I and others have argued here, there is no preferable regime, for the reasons that I set forth above.

2. Spectrum auctions are a form of artificially/politically imposed scarcity. There is nothing "political" about the scarcity of spectrum. It would be scarce even if there were no FCC (in fact, it would arguably be scarcer due to increased interference). So the government must come up with some way to allocate it efficiently. Auctions are the most efficient choice yet identified because they do the best job of transferring the resources to those who value them the most, without requiring a lot of intermediate, inefficient secondary market transactions.

3. An auction results in higher prices than would a competitive market. The whole point of a spectrum auction is that it is a "competitive market" so I don't understand what you could mean when you say that it results in higher prices than would a competitive market. Is it your point that auctions result in higher initial prices than the market would otherwise find through secondary market transactions if the Commission were to give spectrum away like candy? If so, this is highly counterintuitive. Why should we believe this? The point of the auction, after all, is that is reduces the transaction costs required to find the market price, improving market efficiency, thus lowering prices.
Not everyone lives in SF.
My experience was 8 years ago in the CS department and I did not teach.
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Worthwhile probably isn't the best word to use here. Most do it because it is expected of them. Some people thrive with this mindset and others are SOL.

The work culture in Japan is a very extreme case and can't be used to prove that this type of behavior is common in other parts of the world. I would say the majority of companies in the US and in Europe do a reasonable job of respecting the personal lives of their employees--more so if they are part of a union.
Well I can understand your view but looking objectively this message does not align the price a customer pays with the product itself (Model S P100D in this case) but rather aligns the value to a different product's prospective benefits. (Model 3 in this case which would change the world by creating a sustainable transportation.)

I think a customer naturally would try to align the value of a product to the product itself. Just think: would anyone pay expensive price for an Honda Accord if Honda tells:"Buying an expensive Accord would help us fund a new version of Civic."
Matt Levine is always an immense pleasure to read.
I guess I thought this was common. Maybe this development is private universities only? Where I went to school (Michigan) many (most IIRC) of the grad students were in the union:
http://www.geo3550.org/
Only tangentially related, while I don't like having to wake up at 4, being out and about in town at 4 a.m. is a pretty enjoyable experience, especially on say a Sunday morning. I love driving through foggy streets as dawn is just starting to break, and the only other people around are gas station attendants and the occasional extra-early rising farmer.
It's not an unreal risk. CPS really does have the power to take your children away. A CPS investigation is not a pleasant thing to go through.

Imagine having to sit through a serious conversation in which every aspect of your home life is inspected. For example, a (former) family friend reported that in our 100-year-old house, there were some ants in our kitchen. Not thousands of ants, but a handful. Imagine having to defend this as if it was a serious threat to your children's safety by someone who could legally remove them.
What are the advantages of this versus a thread pool of web drivers? I'm not really familiar with Selenium Grid.
Well, for starters because it takes at least 1 hour to eat breakfast, take a shower and get dressed + usually another half hour for the commute and some minor errands on the way.

Obviously that applies less if you work from home, since you can cut the shower and the commute.
Isn't that what webarchive/wayback machine do? I think they use a "Fair Use" defense.
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And in the absence of meaningful data BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY! said the overprotective parent that wouldn't let their 12 year old kid bike 5 blocks to school.

Seriously, once you see the parallels between how parents afraid of criminals and parents afraid of CPS talk about the risks you can't un-see them.
Well, it depends on internal projects vs external ones. Internal ones might work as you described. External ones will have many more deployments than code changes for a given module.
Yes and yes.

The theme in the comments here seem to show that this policy, like other tools, can be easily abused.

At the right company it is freeing. For example, my productivity doesn't fit nicely within the box of the standard work week. So if I'm not feeling like I can get anything worthwhile done, I might take a day to recharge the batteries. Need to stay home for a contractor? No problem. Need time off to travel? Awesome.

The challenge is there is this nagging feeling of taking advantage of things that was instilled in me from working at shitty companies in a service industry notorious for bad hours (ad agencies) most of my career. That said, I've heard that mandatory time off is now on the table to help alleviate some of this "guilt" myself and others feel.

I fully recognize my experience is not the norm. It is also very hard to screen for companies that actually stand behind their policy. I had a hard time convincing a candidate I was trying to hire that it was in fact as good as it sounded and we were not lying. Hard to do when so many people are scarred from shitty experiences.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12346307
Ah, no material changes to the end-user experience, just a shitload of backend personal-data shuttling.

Abhorrent.
"After a rocky start — in his memoir, Ageless Quest, Guarente cops to quitting smoking when he was in third grade — he has lived a generally healthy life. Besides Basis, he takes a low-dose statin, aspirin, and vitamin D; weighs himself every day; eats a mostly Mediterranean diet (red wine included); and does a mix of cardio (on the elliptical machine, ever since his knees wore out and he had to stop running) and strength training three days a week at a gym near his home in the Boston suburb of Newton."

This is a pretty sensible anti-aging regimen. Vitamin D and baby aspirin reduce all-cause mortality in the elderly in the meta-analyses, statins are probably helpful, daily weighing will help avoid obesity and metabolic disorder leading to all sorts of bad things like diabetes, and likewise the cardio & weight training. Such a regimen is probably good for at least 2 additional years of life expectancy. If he was going to add anything more, it would have to be metformin or low-dose rapamycin, and those are speculative enough that one might want to wait for TAME/MILES results before deciding.
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While I mostly agree, I wouldn't say they are entirely a step backwards. Pokemon Go broke the mold and did something that would not really work on any past platform.
The Kinect is goddamn amazing. Using a system without a Kinect makes me feel like Scotty in Star Trek 4.
The Tesla P90D is $107,700 AFTER the federal credits.

The Cadillac CTS-V starts at $85k, while the normal CTS is around $45k. BMW 7-series is also around $85k with electric / hybrid models flirting $100k.

Tesla is definitely in a higher price class, but not much higher. I think its a fair comparison price-wise and feature wise.

Both the Cadillac CTS and the Tesla S are "fast" sedans with spacious interiors and cost upwards from $50,000+, with racing versions (either the CTS-V or P90D "Ludicrous") just around $100k.

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I can agree that the BMW 7-series counts as a competitor, but it isn't considered by anyone to be a "fast" vehicle. Aimed at more luxury. The Tesla 0-60 score has always been front-and-center as part of marketing... as has been the CTS-V.
>The funny thing is Microsoft’s linked lists are faster than C++ standard vectors.

If I had to guess, it's because the std::vector is more conservative in memory use and it causes more malloc/array copy calls.
You make many claims in strong langauge, but that's not itself meaningful. They are at odds with what I learned from economists, and from what I believe is the very widely accepted consensus in the field (though I might have a few details wrong). Regulation is a normal, effective response to market failures, which sometimes result in shortages.

Of course, I'm not providing any citations myself!
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45 Years without Gold
Many of the comments so far revolve around whether graduate students are students or not, as if being a student and an employee are somehow mutually exclusive or the fact that graduate students also take classes mean they must be equivalent to undergrads and ought to be given the same treatment. Clearly this is not the case. Acquiring the specialized knowledge that a PhD entails requires tremendous sacrifice (and, in the case of PhDs hoping to become professors, it often ends in tremendous disappointment). Universities have two primary functions - conducting research and teaching. This is the job of the university. Undergraduates don't have the specialized knowledge required to teach or to contribute substantially to research. Graduate students, however, do both of these jobs. Indeed, they are absolutely essential to the functioning of the university. And while the average time to completion for science and engineering doctorates hovers around 5 years, it's not uncommon to find humanities PhDs who take 8 years or more to complete their dissertations. This isn't because they're lazy. This is because the competition for academic posts is brutal, the expertise expected of them is vast, and, more to the point, because they're busy working. Universities are subjecting students to increasingly unjustifiable tuitions and pocketing massive profits couched as expanded endowments. Pretending like graduate students are just really smart, really old, really slow-to-catch-on interns and not a part of their extremely lucrative business operations just adds insult to injury.
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