skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And yet, when it comes to economic policy, we persist in thinking that it should be implemented by career politicians and popular opinion"

Do you mean as opposed to policies implemented by unelected people with their own agenda?

Money it's fundamentally a political creation. You can't get rid of politics because however control money control the country. And we all know where that 'people don't know what they need' attitude finish.
It is not just in Chinese philosophy that wu wei appears in. Classical Tantra, for example, talks about iccha-shakti.

The latter connection to the modern understanding is ok, but limited. Harmonizing with the different psychological and anatomical selves is only a part of it. This is also about harmonizing with Reality. (Which, when I put it that way, implies that there is a separateness to Reality for there to be harmonized; that's the dualist explanation to what is essentially a non-dual teaching).
In the USA, courts generally can't compel you to speak. They do not have the power to force someone to utter or write words against their own free will. Forcing someone to continue publishing a statement saying that a warrant has not been received would be against understood Constitutional precedent.
Why are you so keen on handing over the decision of austerity measures or not while in a recession, for example, to unelected politicians?
Sorry, I should have expanded on the Mac example. My point was that just as you wouldn't expect Windows 10 or the latest Mac OS to run on ancient hardware, you can't expect the latest hardware to continue support for old software past a certain point. x86 hardware and operating systems aren't created in different universes, they are designed alongside one another to work together.
Most money is created by commercial banks through fractional-reserve lending though.
The 1950's Jet Launching Tiny Satellites
> Why would they join a small company?

Once the basic needs are met, many smart and talented people look for internal motivation. It doesn't matter if it is a small or a large company, as long as they are happy and satisfied. According to Daniel Pink's theory of motivation [0], there are 3 aspects of intrinsic motivation:
1. Autonomy - trust them, don't micromanage, let them take decisions
2. Mastery - allow them to get better and acquire skills
3. Purpose - give them a meaningful purpose and sell them your vision

Internal motivation may mean differently for different individuals, but I believe the above three aspects cover the most of it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Ab...
And what criteria would use the Fed? Whatever is better for the country? following what theory?
Has Twitter considered a micropayment service for publishers, given the outsize value of the platform to journalists and creators for marketing, real-time signals and discussion? Flattr [1], Brave [2], Blendle [3] and Patreon [4] are trying different approaches, but Twitter already has the scale (identity namespace), behavioral signals and traffic.

Since Twitter does not seem to be highly successful at existing advertising models, perhaps some resources could be dedicated to a small team that can move quickly and launch a new service by Jan 2017, so that a payment experiment can run for a couple of quarters before D-Day arrives in July 2017? If any innovative revenue-generating projects are planned, please involve the diehard users who would be lost if Twitter went away. They have much to offer, despite painful memories of API/developer changes and other missteps. There are loyal users who want Twitter to succeed as an independent entity, one that can chart an independent model for social media.

[1] Flattr: favoriting tweets to allocate funds, https://blog.flattr.net/2013/04/twitter-is-forcing-us-to-dro...

[2] Brave: browser metrics to allocate Bitcoin funds, https://brave.com/blogpost_3.html

[3] Blendle: pay-per-article with instant refunds, http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/03/testing-its-pay-per-article...

[4] Patreon, recurring subscriptions to crowdfund creators, http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6502119/patreon-t...
True. Still makes me sad and angry when incompetent people interfere with competent people working to save lives.
Yeah but nobody used it - the task state segment was slow to write and read - so it was faster to push/pop registers. Pity - because this forward-compatibility argument might have convinced folks back then.
Cool idea, but it'd far cheaper, faster, and more reasonable to just have people who know what foods actually should taste like run the "tests" as opposed to running full blown DNA analysis.
Why would twitter have to be more than it already is?

It has a fairly unique place in the whole social media constellation and has long term viability. So what if it didn't become the #1 go to place for everything and anything.

Concentrate on that core, make it work flawlessly and keep a good balance between commerce and utility. Better that than selling out to Facebook or Google, guard that independence.
> I found the attention we got on HN to be incredibly difficult.

Now that's how you stoke curiosity.
Seems like if they opened up their API it would help. Wasn't that when everything started going downhill, when they started closing down third party apps?
Cassius Clay differs from Mohamed Ali on the name property therefore they are not identical?
... I would totally use a twitter micropayment tip platform. I follow dozens of independent artists and writers on twitter who live on gratuities and patreon, a tipping engine built into twitter would be fantastic. I hate the patreon model because I don't want to commit to a monthly contribution for artists who fall in and out of my tastes.

They should buy flattr and build it in.
Skydiving and Base jumping have very little in common
I don't know what the newer systems do, but on older ones that had USB boot support, the BIOS has a basic USB driver that lets even DOS apps access CD/DVD/USB media via the traditional INT 13H interface.
Cool story. I love these history pieces that end up being men against the problem and it gets brute forced.

The cathedral site has some good history on it.

http://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/our-heritage/our-history/building-the-cathedral/
Even if you stick with the traditional route, having a tiny initial advantage for your first job will have compounding results over your lifetime. This is significant enough that people who graduate college during a recession on average have a 9% lower salary during the first 10 years of working [0].

Many people can tell you about their "big break". That one success that seemed to cascade into other successes. Whether this is a real phenomenon or simply an illusion of memory, I don't know. It's quite possible that if that big event hadn't taken place, there'd have been a similar one just a little later, taking the person on a different, but equally pleasant path. I suggest you not trust individual narratives, only systematic analysis.

[0] http://www.nber.org/digest/nov06/w12159.html
Saturating math is mainly a DSP thing, where it can be very useful in mimicking the behavior of some analog circuits. And it makes some algorithms have much nicer boundary behavior.
> it's pretty hip to be a conspiracy theorist

I've never observed this to be the case, and I collected conspiracy theories for a good few years. The people who credit them tend in my experience to be a rather close-mouthed lot, not least because they're accustomed to ridicule, and probably the very last word I'd choose to describe them would be 'hip'. I'm curious what you've seen that leads you to consider otherwise.
This happens constantly to people who think they don't need CS to program. Something that should have been a 2 hour implementation of an algorithm invented in the 60s turns into a 2 week exercise in frustration.
I would think it would be cheaper to have a network of work-from-home experts for each department. Put a kiosk robot that video chats to a real person who can drive the bot to walk with the person around the department and answer real questions like a person. Employees could server all stores at once like a call center. Eventually you can add automation to the process so that the easy questions are answered by code.
Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages
It's not what Microsoft is doing, it's what they have decided not to do, which is support their older operating systems. Apple doesn't have this problem because their supported hardware is very narrow in scope, usually only works for a small range of OS releases, and no one tries to install Leopard on their brand new Macbooks.

As I've said before, the issue is with the removal of legacy hardware. Intel removed EHCI support for USB in it's chips with Skylake in favor of xHCI. This has been a long time coming and not a malicious or insidious act. Windows 7 doesn't natively have xHCI support and Microsoft isn't adding features to Windows 7. So, on Skylake, you can't install Windows 7 via USB and you can't use a USB keyboard or mouse during installation because the USB drivers are incompatible.
...so that you understand what it does. Else it will remain magic, and you may entertain other magical thinking as well. Like Astrology or Numerology or even that maybe you could win the lottery. Its important to have a good understanding at a very basic level of what math, statistics and physics are about.
That's true, but in which case the term ceases to be useful!
They aren't journalists, they are marketing copywriters. News has turned into advertisements and no seems to want to accept it. Any article about a product or company was payed for by a PR company that was payed by the company in the article. Many times they will write large parts of the article themselves.
Model Checking Java
>every time you are coding formalized programmatic logic, you are using math

Almost no one (outside of those who were friends with math majors) are actually familiar with the nature of proof-based mathematics. When you hold out "programming is math" the general public, policymakers, admissions offices, kids who might want to be programmers, etc. don't make the association to Analysis and Abstract Algebra, they make it to high school Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II/Trig, Precalculus, and (maybe, for the better kids at richer high schools) Calculus.

This has the effect of selecting programmers for their skill, patience, and diligence in executing the algorithms they're given. This is exactly backwards!

In my opinion, if you're looking for an analogy to a high school class, programming is chemistry. You're given a reasonable number of facts about the world, some lab and algorithmic procedures, and a problem. How to string together your intuitions, information, and procedures to arrive at an answer is entirely up to you.
Does that include olive oil? I am not certain I'd know the difference... :-(
Ridiculous. They should have dollarized the economy. It would have forced internal and external discipline on them.
Let the Engineers Choose the Scrum Master – Peer Recruiting in 8 Steps
Lessons I'd share with my 23-year-old self before I started up
This article is about climate change. Stay on topic, please. You can downvote me, but still you should keep your agenda to topics where it belongs to.

You cite your agenda and ideology everywhere, and bully (here: downvote) those who don't start clapping and hailing outright.

https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/71486888.jpg

STAY ON TOPIC AND DON'T CITE YOUR AGENDA EVERYWHERE, AS IT IS BORING AND OFFTOPIC.

ps: your statement can be reversed, as equality is reflexive, thus equal rights for woman mean man should have equal rights as woman. Should a man be able to be pro-choice and choose to kill the unborn child who a woman is bearing and wants to raise? Because it's reverse can happen. Is this the right thing? Only totalitarian ideologies and religions claim to have the receiepe of the right thing, but climate change is a scientific topic, not one of the prior, so please refrain from such claims.
Code.nasa.gov Site Leveraging the Open Source Catalog and Angular
Another, even better, litmus test is whether they ever change their mind when they've been wrong.
What's the point? We won't see this in the USA for another 10 years, if ever. These articles only serve to feed a Scandinavian fetish-food is better, culture is better, blah blah.
"Nearly every country in the world has adopted the US's system of central banking: an unelected, privately owned central bank that creates money through bond purchases or some other mechanism."

This is false.

A) 'Central Banks' existed long before the US Fed.

B) The FED is totally unique in the world in that it is 'privately owned/managed' - most Central Banks of the world are nationalized, and managed indirectly by the governing apparatus. The more advanced the state, the more it is independent.

Nobody is copying the US system - that said - the US system is 'de facto' pretty close to Bank of England, Canada, the ECB etc. in the sense that though the Fed is technically a private entity - the way it is managed is pretty close to how most good central banks are managed.

Hyperinflation always has the same causes:

+ Governments printing money to pay off debts

+ Governments grabbing private property causing a capital flight.

That's it, there's no magic to it.
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I can't talk about Finland, but in Sweden I was really surprised how far I could wander from civilisation and still get 4G, Edge was pretty rare. Much better than what I get here in Germany and also cheaper.

(I shouldn't complain though, I'm using heavily throttled internet for free)
I seriously love Tiago's work. I don't know if anybody remembers, but I once wrote a post about procrastination that got to the frontpage of HN, a couple of years ago [1]. And since then, I've been basically reading everything relevant I've been able to get my hands on. (Here's a 'research review' of sorts: [2]).

I'd put Tiago squarely in my top 3-5 list of 'People Who Get It'. I highly recommend reading the rest of his work on the subject. [3]

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6468521

[2] http://visakanv.com/1000/0333-procrastination-pt1/

[3] http://www.fortelabs.co/blog
Morally, I'm not sure if controlling the gender ratio of a fish population is much worse than killing and eating them.
Anybody know if I can do a DNA test on food at home? How can I build a lab at home?
That used to work, but I just tried it and it didn't work for me.
"I'd like the Federal Reserve to control overall fiscal policy as well"

This is beyond irresponsible.

The Fed is a bank (and privately owned) - not an apparatus designed to manage the state.

They have absolutely no businesses determining fiscal policy.

We elect people to manage our finances, maybe what we need is 'better democracy'.
All I want is an operating system to game on that doesn't spy on me and advertise to me and force me to do things or disallow me to do what I want. I sure hope WINE has gotten better in the past couple years because I refuse to put up with this Windows 10 bullshit.
Lowes does have an app with in-store maps. When you search you can see product inventory and where items are located in the store. I've used it a few times with moderate success. It only has 25 reviews on App Store with 2/5 rating, so that might be lowering adoption. For comparison the Home Depot app has 186 reviews with 4/5 stars.
I don't know the answer either. :-(
I never said you shouldn't understand what it does. It's just that I think it's useless to drill on arithmetic.

I know very well what a computer is doing when I tell it to divide 188416 by 20148. That doesn't mean it's useful for me to be able to mentally do it.

Mental arithmetic is incredibly overvalued and useless as a skill, especially since it's largely uncorrelated with actual depth of mathematical understanding.
Had that happen to me. Fucking terrifying experience.

By some miracle it dislodged from my throat and I was able to spit it out. So wasn't deep in the first place, but enough to rattle me.
A story split in 37 tweets. Are some clients supposed to display that better than 1/, 2/ etc? What happened with Twitter's experiment with the 10,000 characters limit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10844306
Because she is an illegal immigrant. Case closed.
The Forgotten Art of Blockbuster Cinema [video]
Clustered Indexes V/s Non-Clustered Indexes
I used Windows exclusively from DOS until XP. Then for over 10 years I was using OSX and Linux exclusively. With a recent job change I'm now managing Windows 7-10 and I'm amazed how many clunky things are still there.

I built a new PC in January and installed Win10 from a USB stick--no driver for onboard ethernet. I had to find another computer, find the driver, put it in a USB (no CDROM), and manually install it so I could connect to the Internet to install the other drivers and updates. Yes, it was a new motherboard and likely the fault of the manufacturer, but it was just 10/100 ethernet.

This week I was prepping a brand new system with an in-house developed game for a trade show. Fresh install of Windows 10, installed all updates, video card driver, copy the UE4-based binary. I get some DLL errors on launch. After googling and ignoring many offers to download that specific DLL I find out it's a DirectX DLL and I should just re-install DirectX. DirectX is no longer separate in Windows 10, so everything should be included. After more digging I find there was an optional DirectX update in 2010 and installing that fixes things. It had a suspiciously different install method; launching it asks to uncompress files to a folder, then you have to dig into the folder and run the setup.exe in there. I also see/hear Steam manages different DirectX (and .net runtimes?) when installing games. Windows + DirectX is a huge focus for Microsoft.

Windows still freezes the whole window when the application is busy. You can't resize or minimize it. I don't remember this being an issue in Linux or OSX in the past few years.

I was amazed had how many updates you need to install on a fresh install--and how many times you need to reboot. I heard they started doing rolling service packs to address this--but they're only now starting to do something?

There are so many little grievances still in Windows after not using it for 10 years I wanted to compile a list for a blog post--I was just so amazed how much housekeeping hadn't been done.
It could also work for tipping app developers who struggle to earn revenue on Apple/Google platforms. Some developers respond quickly to support and enhancement requests on Twitter. It would be convenient to tip developers for either their assistance or to sponsor a new software feature, from the Twitter app where you are already "chatting" with the developer. In China, WeChat incorporates payments and much more, http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/

"... while Facebook and WhatsApp measure growth by the number of daily and monthly active users on their networks, WeChat cares more about how relevant and central WeChat is in addressing the daily, even hourly needs of its users. Instead of focusing on building the largest social network in the world, WeChat has focused on building a mobile lifestyle — its goal is to address every aspect of its users’ lives, including non-social ones. The way it achieves this goal is through one of the most unsurfaced aspects of WeChat: the pioneering model of “apps within an app”. Millions (note, not just thousands) of lightweight apps live inside WeChat, much like webpages live on the internet. This makes WeChat more like a browser for mobile websites, or, arguably, a mobile operating system — complete with its own proprietary app store. Not what we’d expect from a messaging app.."

If Twitter can create a revenue channel for creators and developers, then (re)open the platform to third-party developers, they can unlock dormant economic potential in both the platform and customer base. The advertising ("own the user experience") experiment has run its course, it's time to try business models which build on Twitter's unique identity platform.
Agreed. The only way I can think around it is if the tagging is automated somehow. Shouldn't be too difficult to have some intelligent system. That way people don't argue with people.
Hmm, I agree that much of the higher level math is not required for engineering work that has extended math requirements for the engineering degree. However, at least for aerospace, it goes a bit beyond 8th grade algebra and excel.

I used to work as an aerospace engineer, doing trajectory analysis. We used high school trig and algebra, as well as first semester calculus pretty much all the time. But, I don't think any of the other required math classes for my aerospace degree were ever used (3 semesters calc, 2 semesters linear algebra, diff. eq, IIRC). I did end up using a fair amount of stats, which was not required for my degree, but really should have been.
"This still meant that they were basically swapping hyperinflation for racking up a huge external debt instead"

This is extremely misleading.

There is absolutely no need for a country to be borrowing at such large rages.

Your statement seems to imply that countries should get money for free from outside entities.

Yes - if your finances are a mess - you're going to have crazy books - hyperinflation or massive debt - pick your poison.

The 'fix' is not to change the numbers around, it's to solve the underlying fiscal and investment problems.
So if you prefer the Ubuntu ecosystem, but are willing to go for a more traditional desktop environment, I would recommend KDE neon with the muon package manager. It's a distribution based off Ubuntu Long term support releases but tracks the KDE Plasma desktop packages more closely.

To improve driver support, you might consider updating to the latest 4.7.2 kernel from the Ubuntu mainline ppa. Tracking Mesa more closely by adding the padoka ppa. And by adding proprietary drivers by running ubuntu-drivers --auto-install. Manually setting the DPI for sddm might also help if you have a high DPI screen.

To improve power consumption, consider adding powertop, and setting powertop --auto-tune to your rc.local

Currently running KDE neon on my Dell XPS dev edition, and everything works. Wifi, graphics, sound, touchpad, special fn keys. Arguably, the wifi and touchpad are even better than under win 10 AU.
Hah. I'd think so. I couldn't tell the difference either, but I'm sure there are people who can. :)
I completely support what Switzerland did. If you don't want to be part of the culture you are joining, they don't have to let you in. Note that they are not expelling the girls-they are denying them citizenship. Citizenship for Switzerland means shared values.

Ping me when Saudi Arabia allows Jews to become citizens.
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You do yourself and your argument no favors by being willfully dishonest.

From the very same speech:

"Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign. I’m pretty sure I’ll take some actions that some in Congress will not like. That’s natural. That’s how our democracy works"
How is their localization and navigation done? Visual? GPS?
[Disclosure: I wrote this.]

http://deeplearning4j.org/neuralnet-overview.html

Also, this book is coming:

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Practitioners-Adam-Gibs...