skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest thing we've got is Beam, here on Android, which Apple and MS should seriously consider adopting. The only problem is that it does require some hardware support, IIRC.

Before that, the best thing for file sharing was Bump, which was kind of hacky, and required internet as a result, but did work. Sadly, Bump is no more.

As for sharing files with yourself, my answer is typically SFTP, which is excellent, provided it does what you want. It also works well for transferring files at conferences, providing your slides aren't to big to make the roundtrip in good time. A bit hacky, yes, but it works.
This search and download by tag app (https://www.coopla.com/filefile/) makes it convenient. However all files are public, its iOS only, no Android, no web and no desktop.
Many southern and east European and South America countries used to have around 10%, before the last layoffs round and the broken promise to upgrade 8.1 devices to WP 10.

Can gladly provide you the link to consulting companies that sell such reports.
It's almost as if we have regressed in some ways to the "principles of scientific management" (Frederick Winslow Taylor) with our focus on quantitative over qualitative (and not balanced between the two).
>Also, you seem to be unaware of the diversity of thought in contemporary moral realism, if you think that all moral realism is equivalent to Platonism.

I'm well aware of moral naturalism, and ascribe to it myself. However, defenses of "philosophy qua philosophy" and that sort of ilk are almost never about any form of naturalism. If you are a fan of seriously naturalistic philosophy, done well and in accordance with the best scientific evidence, than you probably belong on the Science side of the insipid "science versus philosophy" flame-wars, and your favorite philosophers actually spend portions of their books arguing exactly that. Because they have to, over and over again, ad nauseum.

Because otherwise, the Platonism-of-the-gaps people will rush in and declare Platonism About Everything, which is what they really want.

So for instance, I think that Derek Parfit really needs to see a therapist, because if you actually assert that "if naturalism were true, ... I would have wasted much of [my life]"[1], then you've got a problem. You should not need Platonism about X, for any value of X; you should be disinterestedly considering whether Platonism is true (I damn well think it's not).

[1] -- http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/08/on-wasted-philosophic-liv...
I think this is a dangerous and fruitless line of reasoning. It halts the conversation. It makes it harder for management to be introspective. If you look at critical or creative thinking as an inherent skill [1] rather than as a measurable outcome of the right kind of environment and incentives, how can you create and improve a workplace in which your people think critically? [2]

I find that bad managers sometimes use the 'lacks critical thinking' criticism as an out for their own ineffectiveness. It's certainly not wrong for managers to delegate, to expect a high level of performance from their employees, to ask for creativity and mental agility in the face of a respectful amount of uncertainty. But when you combine vague goals and sparse planning with ego, bad managers wrongly attribute an employee's failure to correctly 'guess their will' to poor critical thinking skills.

It's natural for managers (myself included) to go into self-preservation mode when they've failed to give their employees enough direction, but the reality is that it's a relationship. There is, and there should be, push and pull. Sometimes the manager doesn't give enough direction or doesn't plan well. Sometimes the employee does some lazy thinking. Each needs to have enough humility and honesty to say, "I screwed up. How do we solve this and what can we do better in the future?"

If you want to make every decision from the top so that your employees never have to divine your will, you better be a planning savant. If you're a mortal like the rest of us, you need to figure out how to give your people just enough guidance to do their best work, and sometimes that means admitting you haven't given enough.

1. It may be inherent, but that's kind of beside the point. Wouldn't you want to keep the door open to improvement anyway?

2. Actually, the only way to do it is addressed in the article: search for 'critical thinkers,' whatever that means to you, in your hiring process.
>Kind of like MLK, or Malcolm X, or Marcus Garvey, etc. etc.?

No, kind of like in 2016.

>What about those minorities wrongfully imprisoned for long periods of time for nothing short of suspicion before being released with no charges (or worse)?

What about them? I've talked about famous people.
Which themes are yours and how much would you be willing to sale the copyright to them for?
What kind of metasearch?

For web metasearch, DuckDuckGo has taken the crown from Metacrawler, and is easily the best thing out there.

As for the rest... I don't know.
The way I think of 'contrarian' is someone who takes an opposing position strictly because it is in opposition to others, and not due to sincerely help beliefs or the actual merits of the position.

But I think I should apologize to you and the parent post. I just saw an opportunity to come off as being a little clever. I have no idea if the parent poster was actually trying to be contrarian or not. And while I'm just trying to boost my ego, here you are still actually trying to have a meaningful conversation and to understand where others are coming from. Good on you, that's truly admirable. I wish I did the same more often.
> Skydiving is known for being very safe. Safer than american football, boxing, scuba diving, motorbike racing, and many other sports [0]

BTW, after looking at the reference you provided, it's clear that skydiving is more dangerous than every other activity you just quoted, you got it backwards.

Scroll to the bottom.

Parachuting Mortality rate: 0.1754 (/100 participants)
Boxing Mortality rate: 0.0455 (/100 participants)
Mountain hiking Mortality rate: 0.0064 (/100 participants)
Scuba diving Mortality rate: 0.0029 (/100 participants)
American football Mortality rate: 0.0020 (/100 participants)
Lead in the fumes is still solid particulate matter, but that's sill not something you want in you. It's not likely to be a major issue, but it's not completely safe either.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12423446 and marked it off-topic.
Randall made the same observation some time ago:

https://xkcd.com/949/
Do you believe prison should be used punitively or for rehabilitation?

Prisons currently fail very badly at rehabilitation, and actually tend to make worse criminals. We should be spending less money on punitive unfair sentences and more on trying to make people productive members of society through good rehab and education programs. This would actually make society better. Fixing the root of the problem rather than ignoring it by just locking people away.

We should reserve prison for only those people from which we need to protect the general population, e.g. violent crimes. Though I do have a special place in my heart for locking away fraudsters and con artists.
I made http://dillydally.herokuapp.com, a way to share collections of locations with friends. Made it for myself and friends, but didn't get a mobile site done before I had to move on.
You get what you pay for. TCO of running a highly available data center is more than just the cost of metal, real estate, power, cooling, and cable

Going cheap with one of the non-big 3 public cloud providers will cost you.
Hi Mitchell, I'd be very interested to discuss this with you. I've been working on a similar application for over a year. What would you expect from the right person?
Locking more and more people up hasn't done much to solve America's drug issues. But if you feel it's a moral necessity, it's hard to discuss alternatives.
What do you mean? What can happen?
Perhaps all prosecutors and public defender would be chosen randomly from a pool, instead of making prosecutors a political office?
Would love to get involved!!!
> The EU never prevented UK from trading with the rest of the world

Upon joining the EU, the free trade arrangements that the UK had with Commonwealth countries were dissolved.
not reliable. a lot of my friends were saying they were earning much more than were really making. made me depressed for quit a while.

then I got a wonderful job as a data admin for an intelligence institution and for a few days when certain maintenance was due I had unlimited access to everyone's earning in my country. THE LIES!

I always have issues negotiating my wage so knowing what other people are earning would imprive my bargaining power.
You cannot simultaneously believe that "you never get there" (i.e. an infinite number of nines is not constructible) and believe that the syntax 0.999... denotes an actual infinite string of 9's which has a straightforward value (that happens to be precisely 1).

That simply isn't the basis for how 0.999... is regarded as 1.

Rather, 1 is the supremum ("least upper bound", LUB) of the countably infinite set { 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... } as a subset of the reals. We define that 0.9... denotes that supremum: i.e. that the ellipses suffixed to 0.9 denote the expansion of 0.9 into the set { 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... } followed by determining the LUB of subset among the reals.

No "infinite string of 9's whose length isn't a natural number" nonsense is involved.
I think for most people in the developed world, it is much easier to prevent that than losing your life. Also the money in a sense is somewhere else now, since there is less of it, everyone else's money is now worth very slightly more.

Still a good example.
...which surely depends on the circumenstances.
It could just as well be 3 years or more (for instance if you're part of a gang) and I think this is reasonably since you want that person to change (i.e. stop dealing) and not destroy his/her entire life, right?
Motor industry: Pressure on the pump
Reminds me of NNTP.
A Pastebin of a Nodevember Slack channel, should provide more context:
http://pastebin.com/3mQc7DfG

There is some discussion about the reason, and whether Nodevember should disclose a reason or make a public statement. For instance:

"Josh Crews [9:57 AM]
Maybe Nodevember could make a public statement along these lines, "After announcing Crockford as a keynote speaker, we learned from others of things he's done and said at previous conferences that are against our Code of Conduct"

HermitPy [9:57 AM]
why do we need to do that

[9:57]
what does that do other than add more fuel to a fire?

Andrew Albright [9:57 AM]
It would save people time for trying to find the answer themselves

[9:58]
'cause I burned at least ten minutes this morning to satiate my curiosity

HermitPy [9:58 AM]
I personally hope people will do some research and form their own opinion

Andrew Albright [9:58 AM]
^ good point

Josh Crews [9:58 AM]
you are reputation tarnishing somebody if you are not clear about the disinvitation

Andrew Albright [9:58 AM]
opinion and reason for the decision are two different things though

HermitPy [9:58 AM]
no doubt

Russ Anderson [9:58 AM]
I will say that it’s difficult to do the research. I don’t think the twitter trail is very edifying. This chat has been much more helpful.

HermitPy [9:59 AM]
We're dismissing a keynoter without context other than they didn't fit our view of the community (edited)

Russ Anderson [9:59 AM]
however, I agree that you don’t owe anyone anything

HermitPy [10:00 AM]
All this whole thing has done is ensure that I won't do one more fucking thing for the community, so next year other people can run their own conference and pick their own shit and deal with it (edited)"
Is this comment based on the single, recent case that has been severely misrepresented in religious circles?
The explosion in computation complexity is a BIG problem… but the potential is massive.

The are scenarios in which the additional privacy would be a game changer: imagine getting a 23andMe type of analysis from your DNA without having to disclose yourself, or people being able to get a credit check without telling to a bank who they are.

Thanks for sharing it!
I often wondered if automating the pain point you mention above (integrating with hotels, airlines etc.) and providing a singular, specialized API for that would be an amazing business opportunity. Seems like one of the existing travel companies could do it, or a travel agency.
I thought Bump was a pretty cool idea. It's a shame that it didn't take off.
Problem is, that they don't discuss the cases with anyone (because of children protection). They may all be valid abuse cases, but they will just not present any data about them.

In most famous case in Czech, I believe it was real abuse. Despite that common Czech perception is that is was basically misunderstanding. In other cases I'm not so sure, but I miss lots of data.

It's also not about basic travel, but living there.

But it all comes to the rules. You live there, you must adapt. Czech are crazy when immigrants don't adapt/integrate, but they don't want to do the same abroad.
I wouldn't mind if it's their informed opinion. What we see in this case is that they were sold a lie, one that'll eventually collapse into an ugly, harsh truth.

The best deal possible is a Norway-like arrangement, which would be unacceptable to nationalists.
A few thousand jobs that Japanese automakers bring to the UK is nothing compared to the jobs that can be created as a result of a successful Brexit. Jaguar Land Rover continues to go from strength to strength... how about turning the tables so we are actually selling more cars to Japan than they sell to us? Scary thought eh? That's what Brexit is about. It's about daring to think big. Like Great Britain used to do for centuries.
My recommendation would be to look at the specific objectives listed in the certification criteria, collect materials related to each and to study those in depth. Actually, that's my second recommendation. My first recommendation would be to take the official training. And my zero recommendation would be to work someplace where the employer pays for it: the reason for that is that without an opportunity to actually apply the classroom material in the field in a professional environment, the knowledge has much less value. For example, the RHCA certification can include skills at the design of a data center scale.

Probably not the answer one would wish for.

On the other hand, if the goal is just to learn more Linux, then studying according to the test criteria is a good method...and so is reading interesting books and watching interesting videos.

Good luck.
OTOH, governments sure love alcohol. Consumption and VAT tax adds to 50% on hard alcohol. There's a lot of profit to be made. Gov makes many times more than the actual producer.

Denaturation is just a way of pleasing industrial users, while keeping the exorbiant profits from drinkers. If they could, they would tax the industrial users too.

It's a blood money because of artificially increased incetives for unsafe production of alcohol. Which killed and blinded people in the past. Even those who thought were buying the "good" taxed alcohol because of supply chain contamination.

Cynical view perhaps. Though when thinking about effective measures the government decision making is always contaminated by losing their precisous billions of $.

(non-US)
It's interesting how the exact same facts can be described in so many different ways, in order to imply vastly different conclusions.

-----

"This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco"

Implication - the county's law & order apparatus is dysfunctional and is oppressing the local population

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"This small Indiana county has more convicted drug dealers than San Francisco"

Implication - the county has a severe drug problem, and harsh efforts are needed to combat this problem

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"This small Indiana county catches more hard-drug-dealers than San Francisco"

Implication - either other counties are incompetent/indifferent in combating the selling of hardcore drugs, or this county is exceptionally good at achieving this goal.

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"This small Indiana county leads in the nation in narrowing the racial-incarceration-gap"

Implication - the county's law & order system is tough but fair, and should be a role model for others in pursuing White criminals just as vigorously as Minority criminals.

-----

The phrasing involved in "sending more people to prison" in particular, sweeps under the rug the fact that the people being sent to prison are dealing hard drugs, and spawning/enabling a generation of drug addicts whose lives are going to fall apart as a result. Instead of making the drug dealers the lead actors who initiated the subsequent chain of events, the headline is structured such that the county's justice system is portrayed as the lead actor instead. Neither wording is wrong, but they clearly bias the audience in different directions.

I trust the NYTimes more than any other American media source, but it's hard to deny that they too have their own spin that focuses more on one side of the story, more so than others.
> Unfortunately, there's no rulebook conference organizers (or their Greek choruses on message boards) can consult to say when rejecting a speaker is a good idea or not. It's a judgement call.

There is! if they bothered to write one.

I know, I know, everyone gets up in arms about Codes of Conduct, because they're oppressive SJW tools used to silence men, or whatever. But this, right here, is their use case.

If you want definitive standards, by which we can semi-objectively measure whether someone should be dis-invited from a conference, then consider a community statement of what constitutes [un]acceptable behavior.
To cut.

But with a butter knife you won't really cut humans. But there are combat knives for that... and yes, you can also use the latter for butter, but not so good.
It isn't legally binding, and although the Prime Minister said she doesn't intend to consult parliament about it, parliament will still need to repeal the European Communities Act which took us into the EU in the first place. So they could say "no", but I think it unlikely in the current political climate.

It is binding in the sense that it's "the will of the people", albeit by a slender margin, and it's kind of tricky to just ignore that. I personally suspect the Prime Minister is not highly committed to Brexit (she campaigned against it) but can't be seen to be "sabotaging" it by action or inaction, so she's got her game-face on. But she might come back later and say "it just won't work" or "Europe has offered us a better deal on immigration if we remain in", so let's have another referendum.

> a lot of fuss and hot air about things that will possibly not materialize

Or they might materialize, and it could turn out to be a Bad Thing, which is why people are worried about it. The continuation of the current status quo seems highly unlikely, whatever happens.
A Modest Proposal

brexit means brexit: since English is not native to any remaining EU member country, drop it as an EU working language. With special regard to the European Central Bank (banking passport system). Irish could still remain as an official language^1, but the semi-official Welsh would need to go too.

^1 For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
EU is like a CANCER which slowly gets all over the body. UK should stay away from this deceased organisation.
knowing about gogi bodies, hockey, and black holes is a personal choice, and it wouldnt be efficient to teach these topics in depth to everyone.

needing higher level math is absolutely unnecessary for 99% of the working population, so the argument that our economy will fall to pieces unless we force high level calculus and trig on every student seems suspect.

however, it is hurting america in an indirect way. we have an elitism going on that only students from top universities get dibs on the best and important positions out of college, and our graduates are becoming increasingly foreign, as american students aren't prepared to get 165+ math GRE scores.
Good point. Decoders for various formats are being reimplemented in Rust, which may make Mozilla less hesitant. There's still no guarantees, but it seems much less dangerous.
Letter – Continuation of the National Emergency
Hey Mitchell, Merlin from https://thisisbud.com here. Looks like a cool tool you've made, what's made you close the door on it? I've sent an email over to you anyway as I'd love to hear more about it.
Has Famed Street Artist Banksy's Identity Finally Been Revealed?
Some Thoughts on Testing React/Redux Applications
E2E Testing in Angular 2 from Zero to Hero (Final Part)
> Look, I suggest that you simply try to write a large-scale formally verified program. And I don't mean "verified" as in it type-checks in Haskell, because the Haskell type system can only prove extremely weak properties, but actually verified with respect to interesting logical properties.

This is exactly what I'm doing: a library of data structures and algorithms, where the verification effort is suitably split between the language and me. The language (in this case, Standard ML) ensures that abstract types can only be used abstractly, and I prove (using paper and pen) that the implementations of these abstract types are correct. A primary concern is simplicity, so if a module has too many invariants to manually prove, it is a natural candidate for splitting into smaller modules.

I'm not saying that Standard ML is the ideal language for this kind of thing, e.g., some limited form of dependent typing would be very helpful (as long as it doesn't compromise type inference), but it's much better than anything else I have tried (including Haskell).

> Do you know what that invariant is?

The invariant to maintain is “there exists some distinguished index i such that x[i] is written by process i before it is read by process (i+1) mod N”. If N = 1, then i = 0. If N = N' + 1, consider some valid interleaving of N' processes, with distinguished index i', and then consider the effect of interleaving one more process.

> The cost of verification comes from the knowledge you wish to obtain, not how you obtain it.

In this case, what I wish to ascertain is whether a living organism is fit to survive in a range of circumstances, most of which will never actually happen.

> BTW, as far as the theory is concerned, a test is verification of a more specific property (e.g., the property that your program, when given input x, would, say emit output y followed by output z).

Tests can verify atomic propositions. They can't verify that a predicate holds for all inhabitants of an infinite set.
"Used to have 10% before a bunch of bad stuff" is exactly what I meant, Windows Phone has no significant adoption anywhere in the world.
Really painful.
My VM on vultr has better performance than the comparable DigitalOcean one. Uptime is okay as well, haven’t had any trouble so far.
There is no business in it. If anything there is a powerful incentive against anything that permits interoperation. The big guys all want to build closed vertically integrated silos, and probably more than half if all startups are trying to do the same or position themselves for an acquisition by building entirely within someone else's silo.

Open source is the only way this could be fixed, and unfortunately that is mostly the kingdom of developers who already think this is a solved problem via ssh, virtual networks, etc. Developers tend not to care about end user problems unless... well... there is a business in it!