skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminder that in America high voter turnout almost always favors Democrats, and the Republicans are very good at gerrymandering and taking control of state governments.

They use this power to restrict voting rather than make it easier, mainly in the name of combating voter fraud, which statistically doesn't actually occur in the first place.
Not really, I got my first card just a couple years ago in college, and the process couldn't be easier, I just applied online with my bank.
Not sure if it's just me, but the ampersands at that link are displaying super weirdly on my end:

https://i.imgur.com/Bg8rejM.png
The Stanley Hotel inspired the novel, but it was not used in filming the movie.
You're absolutely correct. There are some nice papers by Potter, Vasseur et al. and Else and Nayak which illustrate your latter point in gory mathematical detail (they derive constraints from symmetry on symmetry protected topological phases and then use math to relate that to the sort of Floquet phases you can protect using symmetries). Of course, if you're actually Dominic Else, I defer to you...

e: Hah, I commented without reading the article, this is the PRL publication of the Else and Nayak paper, with an added co-author, I had read the preprint a few months ago. The other paper good to read to enlighten oneself in this context is https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04282
The primary issue with BI is that it is actually just the exact same economic policy of last the two decades, but masquerading as a social program. "Helicopter Ben" has just taken this long to design and market.

The idea is basically just creating even more "stimulus" money, but distributing it just a little further from the centralized bankster cronies. Don't doubt for a second that they will still end up collecting it as rents on financialized assets (chiefly housing).

Our fundamental economic problem is being in a Keynesian death spiral - now that production has gotten insanely efficient, the incentives that were forcing people to overwork are now battering those who can't find work. Turning up the treadmill even faster yet will not get us out of it!
Why? It would be fair if he was trying to push a product, but here it's just a technical discussion.
> If you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you should try a very low carb diet before anything else.

What do you mean by "very low"?

One year ago I lowered carbs, with a target of a maximum of 40% of daily calories from carbs. Results: 120 pounds lost, A1C from 8.1% (on Metformin and Actos) to 5.2% (no Actos, Metformin dose cut in half, and would not be surprised if my doctor suggests cutting it further when I see him next week).

Averages for this year so far: 2050 calories/day, 174g carbs/day (45g of which is added sugars), 112g protein/day. So that's an average of about 34% of calories from carbs (9% from added sugars), 22% from protein, and so 44% from fat.

Does this count as low carb?
The trust by default model was tried with driver's licenses. Give one to everybody. Result: lots of accidents. Most states have now switched policies and require a year of driving with a provisional license. Result: fewer accidents.

If we want to avoid debt "accidents", only letting people with demonstrated experience seems like a good solution.
Replying to myself a quote from my article

"It’s easy to notice a bug when examining the colors for Google (note, this is normal google.com not a doodle). Notice how the three colors are light gray, dark gray, and white – not the typical red, green, blue, yellow color scheme. Why? Well, when the image screenshot is resized to 320 x 240 pixels for processing, the colors are dithered. The number of pixels in the new image that lie between red, green, blue, yellow and white – the dominant background color – is much larger than the number of pixels that are colored. Because of dithering, those between pixels are closer to shades of gray, than colors, and thus the k-means clustering (with EM) finds shades of gray and white to be the “color of Google”. I’m not sure if this is a bug.. what do you think?"
The article was published a year ago; I came across it because I got curious about single-crystal turbines after seeing them mentioned in the comments about the AN-225 story posted earlier today.
> It's like they're admitting that they can be replaced by a script!!!

Well yes, evidence suggests that in many cases they can be.
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> a 3 letter agency or the pentagon wanted to use it for satellite maintenance/retrieval. Never happened

I think they did do satellite maintenance from the shuttle a few times, most notably on the Hubble telescope.
Cool idea.

Your marketing site's pricing page breaks on mobile.

Also seems like you could automate this and run the check every 5 minutes, and then compare the screenshots to see if any of them are different, then alert the users.
stop signs are there not to help decide who passes intersections in which order. they are there to slow down traffic in areas where pedestrians can get on the road.
It's very rare in the United States, as well. There's a small number of folks who carry rifles for protection against bears, particularly in places like Alaska where you're extremely likely to encounter bears and also possibly angry moose; most just carry bear spray, or just have a bell and talk or sing, so they don't accidentally sneak up on a bear.

I've hiked in probably 30 of the 50 states, and have met a very small number of people openly carrying guns of any sort (maybe some had concealed pistols for defense against people; that's a reasonably common thing, and there's a permit for concealed carry in most states).
Sounds like overkill to me? Would a comment in a profile be sufficient?

(Disclaimer: I'm working on a web based brainfuck ide/compiler/optimizer for my own amusement, and thus probably have some kind of dog in some kind of fight here?)
It seems like maybe rather that just porting nanogui it might have made sense to do a bit more translation/conversion of the patterns used in it to what rust encourages/makes easy...
> Apple couldn't even attempt to handle the size of software projects that Microsoft deals with. They couldn't even build their own OS, they had to buy it from NeXT who stole BSD and Tivo-ized it. Furthermore, if Apple built Office or designed the Office document formats, nobody would get any of the features that they wanted.

Er, you mean like how Microsoft based DOS off QDOS and Windows NT off OS/2?
The engine is not unique to Mria it was used on AN-124 and Motor Sich has a modernised version going through testing Д-18ТМ so should not be any issues on that front
> The preferred solution to having multiple types of nodes in the same tree is to use an enum

That's not really a great option for a widget library, because it means no custom widgets.
> For hundreds of thousands of years people didn't even know what a nutrient was, and yet they ate properly and never got any of these western problems.

Part of the reason for this is that there was no surplus of cheap calories and many people died of trauma or infection prior to becoming susceptible to degenerative disease.

As recently as 1900, the primary cause of death in the United States was infectious diseases. All-cause age-adjusted mortality in the population has halved since then. I suppose we could reduce the role of degenerative and "Western" diseases rather dramatically by discontinuing antibiotics and sanitation, but recent trips to Cambodia and Zimbabwe have me wondering if that's really what you want.

> our tools are finally sharp enough to our liking (fMRI).

fMRI is a false positive generating machine. I've never seen shittier statistical analyses than I see in "neuroscience" (at least the mouse guys use controls).
Furthermore, I can assure you Microsoft isn't the only big tech company interested in 'useless things' like MBL for protecting quantum information.
> I'm not paying taxes to be judged by a goddamned machine

I'd be shocked to learn that the IRS does not use some form of mechanical computation to determine probabilistically whether or not a given taxpayer should be audited for possible tax fraud in a given year.
The spending of any large industry on political influence concerns me.

But the link doesn't say much. Very similar arguments are used to discredit climate science ('big climate science') vaccinations ('big pharma') and things that do need discrediting ('big tobacco'). An argument like that has little signal, but it does allow people who are already convinced to post-hoc rationalise their position.
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Well many do not recognize that taxes are a mechanism for controlling inflation, so this point was not targeted at you, obviously.

I suppose that my previous comment's wording could be construed as assuming we couldexist in a post-scarcity economy. That was not intentional.
However, universal basic income does not require a post-scarcity framework to be workable, and the claim that universal basic income will cause inflation to 'spiral out of control' is left unsupported.

Money is currently created out of nothing through the banking system, and the FED controls inflation just fine through various mechanisms e.g. setting interest rates. Basic income proposals can have similar inflation controlling mechanisms e.g. tie payouts to inflation rate or changes in tax rate. In any case inflatuon caused by basic income could be offset by increasing the fed interest rate which is currently near zero.
There are already some CS courses in Rust, Penn is running another one this upcoming semester.

(It's not a basic course, but you absolutely could.)
If you accidentally sign up for a monthly subscription, call your credit card company and tell them never to pay it and to charge back any fees, because it was too difficult to cancel.
Movie and TV recommendations using doc2vec
Happens here too (on Chrome 52-53.) I guess it isn't some locally corrupted font, eh?

Edit: Doesn't occur on IE 11, so it seems Chrome specific.
Honestly, just about anyone who's read an HN thread or two on Rust should be familiar with pcwalton's involvement with Rust at this point. I also don't see why he should have to insert a disclaimer paragraph in every single HN comment he makes.
You should check out the RFC they linked; there are good reasons to enable this.
New report examines how AI might affect urban life
Not working on chrome & win 10
They are generally just as accessible to people, just at a higher APR. Certain states passed predatory lending laws a long time ago but the US federal government smacked them down. There's a reason why all the national credit card companies have their headquarters in the same couple of states.

Beyond that, credit cards can adjust the APR on existing balances.
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I'm not sure where you are getting the 300MB figure from. ((64-16)/8)x10^8/2^20 gives me 572.2MB of wasted space. What's even more interesting is looking at the percentage of wasted space. (((64-16)/8)x10^8/2^20)/(((64)/8)x10^8/2^20) means a whopping 75% of the memory use of our program is completely useless wasted space.

Using more space than you need to will also impact performance. First there's the cache issues. A 64KB L1 cache can fit 32768 16-bit integers, but only 8192 64-bit integers. Other cache layers will also fit less 64-bit than 16-bit integers in them, causing 4x more hits to the slow RAM backing store. Hitting RAM is very slow in comparison with cpu operations, so this will make your program a lot slower.

There's also the computational speed issues. Lets say your problem can be implemented using the AVX/AVX2 instructions. These registers can compute multiple results at once, in parallel. The AVX registers are 256 bits, which means they can operate on 16 16-bit integers at once. In comparison, they can only work on 4 64-bit integers at once. So there's another potential for 4x improvement, although the cache problems are probably going to be a bigger issue in practice.
> > What IS the idiomatic Rust way to do a cyclical directed graph?

> Unfortunately, the correct idiomatic way is that you try very hard to avoid doing so. Rust is all about clear ownership, and it doesn't like circular references.

> The usual solution is to put the cyclic graph code into a library, and to use pointers and about 20 lines of unsafe code.

The point about C++ is important. Cyclic graphs are hard in any non-GC'ed language because it breaks the ownership story.
You have to take them to small claims each and every time.
One of the reasons that governments have a hard time executing on large public works projects are the costs.

Advocating for regulatory changes that reduce the cost of public works projects (e.g. prevailing wage rules) would result in more of those projects actually being completed.
Given that Rust was designed by a group known for writing web browsers, how does that work out in practice, given that the DOM is a deep bidirectional graph?

UIs work routinely by the organizational principle the author is attempting. Nested groupings of related functions that often interact in small groups.

And the thing is, a pointer to your parent doesn't semantically mean an ownership relationship anyway. It s in fact an extremely clear declaration of the ownership contract because while the owner can own many things, an object in this graph can have but one owner.

Now, I'm not sure how you would encode this into a compiler, so the discussion may have to end there as being impractical to implement.
But OMG! The government is tracking me! I have freedoms!
But you are an american right? You spent your whole life in the US? So you have a history with a bank I am assuming.

I don't understand exactly why I am being down-voted.

The system is at it is it's not something I made up.
Complete 911 timeline
From the title, I thought this was going to be about the Spruce Goose, but it turns out the Spruce Goose was designed only for a 75-ton capacity, not the 250 tons of the Ан-225. The Spruce Goose had a larger wingspan (97.5 m rather than 88 m) but the Ан-225 is longer (84 m rather than 66⅔ m).

It's interesting to reflect that the previous "world's largest plane," and still the one with the widest wingspan, dates from WWII. In a sense this reflects changing social priorities, and in another sense it may reflect a generalized form of Conway's law: giant aircraft are produced by giant monolithic bureaucracies brooking no dissent, like countries in wartime or totalitarian governments.

If that's the case, maybe we'll see more such planes if the wars in Syria and other places continue to spread, pushing countries like the US and the EU powers onto more of a wartime footing. But it's not clear they'll be strategically beneficial for fighting in the Drone Age; they're too hard to build and too easy to destroy.
I had read before that Dyson was not big on the higher education system. This was interesting, about his time at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton:

Well, I think it actually is very destructive. I'm now retired, but when I was a professor here, my real job was to be a psychiatric nurse. There were all these young people who came to the institute, and my job was to be there so they could cry on my shoulder and tell me what a hard time they were having. And it was a very tough situation for these young people. They come here. They have one or two years and they're supposed to do something brilliant. They're under terrible pressure--not from us, but from them.

So, actually, I've had three of them who I would say were just casualties who I'm responsible for. One of them killed himself, and two of them ended up in mental institutions. And I should've been able to take care of them, but I didn't. I blame the Ph.D. system for these tragedies. And it really does destroy people. If they weren't under that kind of pressure, they could all have been happy people doing useful stuff. Anyhow, so that's my diatribe. But I really have seen that happen.
Best case: Create a project that impacts lots of people.
Worst case: be able to create enough wealth to sustain me and my family.
Many years ago, my ex-boss was in an informal pitch meeting with a very prominent tech lady (who is/was a limited partner at a major SV VC fund as well as an angel investor) and he mentioned that he had signed up an experienced Harvard MBA as the CFO and her reaction was along the line of 'Well, so what?'.
Which is part of being good with money.

For instance paying your rent on time. I.e. something that can be proven other ways than using your credit card.
Totally agree.

I'm beginning to think one of the biggest causes of all this crap in the US is the "American rule" regarding legal costs. Even if you win, you still lose unless it was a massive case. Stupid.
There are so many of them. There are degrees of near-deserted of course. The Alpine Lakes Wilderness, for example, is popular but less so than the popular areas of Rainier. Mount Adams Wilderness. Much of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. But really, just look at a map of the Cascades and see the vast swath of national forest land there and pick up a Washington hiking guidebook to provide some pointers.
I agree. I am not claiming we have evidence, I'm claiming we go out of our way not to seek it out. As a result, the lack of evidence provides little information as to whether or not fraud occurs.

I.e., if p(evidence|presence) ~= 0, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Of course, it is pretty strange how so many people are strongly against the collection of evidence.
On trees: Can you use regular references for the children, and weak references for the link back to the parent? That's a valid structure that tears down properly. With strong backpointers, when one of the objects is deleted, there's a moment when there's still a live reference to it. That's invalid under Rust's rules, so you can't do that.

There's also the option to own all tree objects with some collection for allocation purposes, and use weak references for all inter-object links.

As for traits, Rust does seem to have an overly novel and complex type system, and I'm not going to defend it.
Even if your local troop didn't follow the original policies and mission statement of the organization doesn't mean they don't exist. I don't want to support the organization even if a rogue troop doesn't follow the official mission statement.

From my link above:

>What’s new is that beginning Jan. 1, 2016, every rank from Tenderfoot to Eagle Scout (plus Eagle Scout palms) will include a “duty to God” requirement
This is the best documentary on how RR makes the jet engine and the blades. 1 hour long but once you click it, it would be hard to stop!

https://youtu.be/VfomloUg2Gw
https://reddit.com/r/zerocarb - plenty of people sustaining zero carb for years.
It's a nice idea, but pretty much impractical if you happen to have a job.
Only if you know the information is false.
My father and I have the same first name and middle initial (but different middle names).

As a result, I've spent at least 1 entire calendar month in the past decade to "disentangle" our credit reports. With Equifax it wasn't finally resolved until I showed up unannounced at a regional office in a suit.

Yet again, we're entangled with TransUnion (after last resolving it 18 months ago), with me having to enter security questions as if I were my father in order to confirm my identity.

The most maddening part is it is extremely difficult to talk to someone in the US if you have a problem with any of the large three bureaus.
Last three great books I've read are:

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Guns, germs and steel - Jared Diamond

History and evolution of man kind. Hihgly recommended.
... and not even necessarily unique.
GREAT book.
Here's the training data and code for training doc2vec embedding on a corpus of imdb reviews.

https://github.com/jeradf/bookspace/blob/master/example/doc2...
"Safe" Rust works for almost everything in a typical CS curriculum.

But if you want to teach an operating systems course or build cyclic, pointer-based data structures, you'll usually need a modest amount of "unsafe" Rust. Using "unsafe" gives you access to real pointers, which work just like they do in any systems language.

It's just that Rust chooses to lock those features away when you don't explicitly ask for them. If you actually need "unsafe", it's no more dangerous or more difficult than writing C code.
The usual solution is to put the cyclic graph code into a library, and to use pointers and about 20 lines of unsafe code.

That indicates a fundamental design flaw in the language.
>Citi gave me a credit card with a $3,000 limit as a college freshmen.

How old are you? Just a few years ago, despite making a very decent amount of money and having no marks on my credit, it took an entire year for me to get a credit card. Reason: lack of credit history. A lot of people have similar stories.

>This depends on your definitions a little bit.

The part where you spend money that isn't yours and then pay it off later. That's debt.

Personally, I've learned the game so to speak and now continually get out outrageously good offers for cars, credit cards, home loans, you name it. I have a about $90k~ worth of available credit to me on my CC's alone. But despite having an incorrect black mark for a medical bill that's reported by _ONE_ CRA (the others removed it after I gave them proof that the debt wasn't valid, Experian refuses to listen and because it got reviewed once they won't review it again), I get better offers now than I did when I had a squeaky clean record.

It's an absurdly backwards system. Get debt to get more debt. Hope CRA's don't fuck anything up. Credit card management has no indication how I'll manage a loan (whether a house or car) due to the nature of spending and utilization, but financial institutions treat it as such.

Quite frankly we need "stricter" credit laws across the board.

1. Start out with a "default" score at the very least.

2. Cap interest rates on CC's (20% APR is stupid). No reason a CC should have an interest rate of above 12%.

3. Don't allow medical debts to be displayed in pulls from CRA's. If the institution really wants to see "everything", make them pay a decently high fee for it. They must also explicitly state that in their loan consideration for you, they took into account medical debt. Craft laws around whether or not financial institutions should be able to consider these debts, depending on the loan being offered.

4. Prevent employers from pulling credit history. Your finances are not their business.

5. Prevent landlords from pulling credit history. They are not loaning you money. If they want to pull your credit history, then they need to also contribute to it positively (i.e. report payment history during the length of your lease, accurately).
Who patronizes small retailers?
Hey Andy,

That's awesome! I figured someone else must have had the same idea before me. :)

I think your screenshot scraping technique is probably more accurate than my text parsing. I also like that you used a larger sample size. I plan to experiment with groups of 100 and 1000.

Thanks for sharing! It's always interesting to see how different people achieve similar goals.

I'd like to begin scraping the images on the sites soon too. When I've got a good chunk of time I'll look through your source code for inspiration. Mind if I reach out with questions when I do?

EDIT: I also really enjoy those woodblock prints! Now I want to somehow print my data for the top ten sites onto canvas.
It's far more cost efficient to just avoid entering such areas.
Then the credit agency will ding your credit report for not paying your bill...