skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I incorporated Tarsnap Backup Inc. five years ago (to the day!) largely for tax paperwork purposes. By being a separate legal entity it became possible to do things like having Tarsnap register to collect sales taxes without having Colin register to collect sales taxes. But the company was running quite successfully as a sole proprietorship until that point.

Probably more important, although I didn't realize it at the time, is that being a corporation gave Tarsnap more credibility, especially when dealing with other corporations. I saw a sharp increase in the number of large users of Tarsnap after it I incorporated it.
Just fixed this. Each comment/post doesn't download through a separate request anymore. The main page now takes ~ 3.8 KB on my site, almost half of the original site :)
Yes, i somehow had the impression that ps4 used opengl, but they use some own cooked gl fork. So my point is more about pc games i guess, since opengl runs on all major oses. The only reason for d3d seems to be the xbox.
> Yep, it's not a public utility, it's not governed by a neutral third party, it's not open, transparent or free. What did you expect? It's a surveillance and marketing platform that you subjected yourselves to out of convenience, operated for its own benefit and indirectly to the benefit of its customers, certainly not its users.

With the possible exception of "surveillance" everything you just said is also true of newspapers.
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"The biggest impostor, fittingly, was farmed Asian catfish, a fish with white flesh that is easily disguised when it’s filleted and drenched in sauce. It was sold in place of 18 types of more expensive fish, including perch, cod and grouper."

This is especially concerning for people who try to avoid farmed fish (to minimize inflicting suffering). Farmed catfish has an incredibly high suffering/kg ratio, 6x that of salmon, 30x that of chicken meat, and 1000x that of beef.

http://reducing-suffering.org/how-much-direct-suffering-is-c...
What I am saying is that you can come up with a lot of extensions of the basic regular expression language. But there is no subjectivity at all in whether the extensions can be implemented by a DFA. Either you can, or you can't.
Honestly, that person probably had a form that went:

[x] Children

[x] Naked

And the system did the rest.

I doubt they also have

[ ] Socially acceptable photo of naked children

on the form.
So, how would you go about altering all large numbers of page sections in realtime, without suffering the performance hit of serial page repaints, using jquery?
> being burned by napalm

I didn't see any napalm in the image. The girl had removed her burning clothes before the photograph was taken. The reason this particular image is considered acceptable is the historical context.

If I were to recreate the image by hiring actors, that would probably be considered child pornography.
Given that you and Patrick have spent the last several years advocating billing by value instead of by time/skills, why did you decide to start a business trying to convince people that the best way to get paid more was by improving their tech skills? Granted learning stuff is often a good thing and there is clearly some connection between skills and value so I don't think there was anything wrong with the concept itself, but the fact that it was both of you running it seemed at the least off-brand.
It's mislabelled fish.

You can find the report here http://oceana.org/reports/widespread-seafood-fraud-found-new...

There's a chart on page 5 for the substitutions. For example, replacing white tuna with escolar.
My position continues to be that - because of the marginal value of a "dollar" - redistribution is justifiable. Even Hayek considered being open-minded about having certain goods be considered sufficiently public goods as to be treated as public goods.

If we consider monetary velocity as a public good, then doing things to support it is... supportable.

The problem may be how we go about this.

It is just that it may not actually be possible, unless someone can show a method whereby it can be done without corrupting the agents who execute it and corrupting those who receive it.

Not having governments interfere with their finances is perfectly respectable position. It's positively rude to ask how much someone makes. SFAIK, the various versions of the income tax were designed to be fairly rude. They were, of course, initially targeted only at those with very high incomes, then we got frog-boiled into everyone having to be subject to them.

Tax rents. Not income. Then, perhaps there will be less pain.
http://itslifejimbutnotasweknowit.org.uk/files/LSRC_Learning...

Similar conclusions - with some evidence of benefit from VARK and similar sensory preference inventories. Coffield and his team also asked if other factors (reinforcement, regular assessment and monitoring &c) had a greater 'effect size'.
As a matter of fact I communicate with some people who I would almost certainly have no way of communicating with or, in fact, knowing if they are alive or dead.

(I moved a lot as a child)

I get your point that it's not the only solution to this problem. But it is currently the best choice, even if only because of the network effect.

>I wish people would stop kidding themselves that Facebook is the same as the Internet as a whole.

I never said that. That's ridiculous. I said it's complex enough that summing it up in a single dismissive sentence is probably disingenuous.

>Please don't pretend that cutting it off would mean you couldnt communicate with your friends anymore.

Never said that either.
Its not clear he's done anything wrong. Shipping Aluminum to Mexico? What's the problem.
I take you are an extrovert who really doesn't understand at all what it means to be introvert (and who probably doesn't understand any other people with any different psychology than yours, according to your words and tone).

"Introverts are people who have not spent the time developing social skills." Really? Yeah, sure, they are just lazy bastards, I guess. And please stop naming 'skill' something that generally consists of wasting other people's time because you need to tell the world everything about about your so interesting self, or because you need to drown each piece of information in an ocean of unnecessary blah-blah, or plain seductive lies...

Yes, some extroverts can't bear to stay alone and need a group around them and if possible an audience. Guess what, I know a few and I even like the company of a few of them (those who are not in tech, obviously, so that they have something interesting to tell). When it is not in a work situation, I can offer them my listening and they can talk 95% of the conversation; this is fine for both and I can leave when I want. But I don't want any of this at work, thank you, especially considering it often comes from a manager that you cannot dismiss easily, since this kind of showmen and talking machines generally end up in that position.

I've had one that was telling me about his grocery list before leaving the office to go home. Well, I knew he would be trouble: when he recruited me, he almost only spokes about himself during the interview. I mean, THE GUY SPENT SEVERAL MINUTES TELLING ME ABOUT HIS BLOODY DOG DURING THE INTERVIEW. He would never stop talking, on the phone, in random offices, disturbing people who were trying to work to tell them for the third time about the wonders he'd achieved. And that would last 12 hours a day because he wouldn't stand being alone, he needed someone to talk to (and listen passively if possible) all the time, so he stayed at the office as long as possible because they was a captive (though not captivated) audience always available there.

I've never seen an introvert being such a nuisance. I've seen many extroverts being PITA and sometimes not understanding that they annoyed everyone, or even though they understood it from people's attitude or people telling them, not being able to stop going on all the time.
High suffering/kg ratio, really?
>91% of seafood consumed in the United States is imported, and half of it is farmed. Yet only one-thousandth of 1 percent of imports are inspected for fraud.

That shouldn't, by itself, be a problem, right? Any importation is a big deal that requires a license and someone putting their name down as having responsibility for it.

Even with low inspection, as soon as you find the fraud, you fine that importer and cut them off until they have their act together, right? Why doesn't that work as an incentive to prevent blatant abuses?
There's industry-level misrepresentation at play here, not just nefarious one-offs by the local fishmonger. On the Pacific coast of the US many retailers (whole foods, etc.) sell fish from the genus Sebastes ("rockfish") as "pacific snapper," though it isn't in Lutjanidae (snappers). From what I've gathered, this practice is old enough that many of the fishermen don't know it isn't what people on the East Coast would consider a snapper.

Having grown up on the Gulf, I was amazed how cheap snapper was the first time I bought it, then promptly disappointed by how bad it was by comparison.
Looks interesting. It reminds a bit of the ARFF format. I can't tell whether WSL allows comments though which I think would be useful. Also insisting that no null entries are possible will probably lead to incompatible versions of the format when people are unable to avoid nulls.

One thing that could be nice would be a field to indicate the physical unit of each data type.
The 2008 financial crisis destroyed millions of hard workings people's retirement savings, jobs, and recent college graduates hopes of finding a job. No one went to jail over that. This is clearly a case of someone not having the right lawyers and political connections as engineers are people who actually create value as is often the case they can be successful without those two.
http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/fry/MolEcol.pdf has a table of π for subspecies of the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia). The smallest value on that list is 0.00095 or 1 in 1052.

The next smallest values are 0.00171 and 0.00204 while the largest is 0.00800 .

For the rock pigeon (~12 recognized subspecies), π = 3.6E-3 (1 in 277) says http://www.chinabird.org/news/Science-2013-Shapiro-science.p... .

Mice (three main lineages) also have a larger value of π than humans, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2219490/ :

> This study allows us to compare patterns of DNA sequence variation in mice to patterns seen in humans, the only other mammalian species for which extensive population samples of DNA sequence variation have been obtained. Levels of variation on the X chromosome in mice are nearly identical to levels of nucleotide diversity at X-linked introns in humans (π = 0.07%; Hammer et al. 2004), although levels of variation on the autosomes appear to be roughly twice as high in mice (π = 0.26%: Table 4) as in humans (π = 0.11%; Li and Sadler 1991; Aquadro et al. 2001).

These are yet more examples which demonstrate that human genetic diversity, despite the many claims by MustardTiger, is not greater than "virtually all subspecies distinctions made in the animal kingdom".
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Send it back, with documentation, and do a chargeback on the card used to purchase it.

It will be very difficult to contest a chargeback for something you returned.
Their good standing in the community would have obviously helped them approach players/candidates (or at least led to a high response rate - even if the response was 'no thanks'), but it's unfair to accuse them of selling out the community. They built a free game, and the way I understood it was that players of that game might get a congrats when reaching a certain level, and that might be followed by a "Hiya" from Patrick saying something along the lines of "you're a good player, and if you're interested in jobs we can help you with that too".

Getting that "Hiya" from Patrick was basically the cost of the game - not unlike having to watch an ad - which I think players should be fine with if they really like the game and also understand that the business is indeed a recruiting venture.

At least that was my understanding based on what I read and a couple conversations with Patrick.
>The work I do makes a difference. Not in a "I make something people use" difference,...

I'd just be happy with that. Most of the work I've done professionally hasn't gone anywhere; it's always "we missed the market window" or "upper management decided on a new strategy". I can't point to that many things I got to work on that actually made it into the market and were used by people for long. One place (a semiconductor company) had a successful though buggy product and large customers in place, with the product already deployed into the field, and the software I wrote got used by some customers, but then suddenly the company decided they weren't making a big enough profit margin on this part (even though the profits were guaranteed and extremely low-risk as the customers had the part designed-in), so they simply quit the market and laid off our entire team.

Making something people use would be a step up. Rescuing people and feeding starving kids is a pipe dream, but then again I work on embedded devices, not big data or analytics or anything like that so that's not exactly a position that'd be easy for me to find if I really wanted it.
Lol pp41 "..GO TO HELL"
>and be optimized to take SNAP food benefits.

You can't buy prepared food with food stamps, a fact welfare bashers seem totally ignorant of.
It should be called "mislabeled fish" then. "Fake fish" sounds like they're selling you chicken or something, which is way more terrifying for someone trying to eat fish -- not everyone cares exactly what the species is so long as it's fish, but they'd freak out it wasn't even some kind of fish.

Take note of [1]:

> Escolar is considered by the FDA and most fish experts to be Tuna

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolar#Mislabeling
That's really interesting! Our experience was: we didn't need to do any outbound sales work at all (our entire client base was cold inbounds), and we could close a contract with 1-2 phone calls. Our referrals I think with 1 exception? all got interviews.

But we're sourcing non-traditional candidates, and the --- you know what, I'm getting ahead of myself on a blog post I'm still tuning up.

In any case, that might explain what was so painful about the business for us: we had high frequency exposure to the worst part of it.
>I'm not sure how this supports your point

Why not? What subspecies has more than 10% of the species wide variation? I can't find any. This is what I meant. Just to report facts you have to try to couch it in politically correct disinfo. "This will make it sound like races aren't real, even though the data clearly shows they are". Just like "we're 99.8% the same DNA!". Yeah, but most of that DNA is also the same as a banana's. What matters is the differences, not the basic requirements for life.

>What species are separated by a pi value of 1 in 10000 or less?

I said subspecies. I won't be able to continue this conversation unfortunately, "you are submitting too fast". HN doesn't seem to approve of discussion.
That's what I thought at first. The interesting thing about the article is that it shows the native population was already pretty diverse by the time of first contact with the Europeans.

Also, a minor nit picking. Even if slaves brought to Mexico came from a very specific Portuguese enclaves within the African continent, the population within Africa is extremely diverse. It would not surprise me if they brought about as much diversity as the other two source "races", for lack of a better word. It seems a bit too simple to have them reduced to a note margin as in "imported Africans".
AFAIK, we're already committed to a 2C rise by 2100 even if we stop any and all CO2 emissions today.

And those models don't take into account potential feedback loops.
I'm happy for Patrick.

I have to say, to me the downfall of starfighter was predictable. I LOVED microcorruption it was something I could get in fairly quickly and enjoy. But starfighter was requiring too much commitment to get the basics of operation and if I'm looking for a job I'd rather invest that time into brushing up my algorithms (since that's the hiring criteria these days...) rather than reading some background to play a "game" to eventually beat challenges and maybe get a job interview :/
The problems of power abuse and effective communications are ancient ones. There's nothing that prevents private individuals or corporations from abusing power either, and there's a very long history of them having done just that.

Government, for better or worse, is a vehicle for channeling and aggregating power, in a way that at best benefits society as a whole, expresses the preferences of the majority, and respects the rights of the minority. It's far from perfect. But it's better than most alternatives.

Facebook is granted rights by governments, ultimately also to benefit the public at large. Facebook is not itself a government, though it transacts the online communications of a population larger than all but the very largest countries.
"People like free shit" is puerile. Most people don't steal. It's quite a jump to go from being basically honest to being a thief.

I think that "tax rents" is the method whereby this can be done, if it can be done at all.
Oh, wow, it's beautiful and it uses the firebaseio stream instead of parsing the HTML. Outstanding job!
I remain confused by all the weird things people think we were trying to do with that business. "Trying to convince people that the best way to get paid more was by improving their tech skills" is one of those things. Whatever it is that got published that created this impression, I disavow.

I feel like, doing recruiting through work sample challenges is basically 80-90% of my whole brand.
I can appreciate a lot of what you're saying. Self-advocacy (aka being assertive, etc) is hands down the best way to get anything out of life. However, a lot of what people are talking about here is not just the absence of provided quiet places or any other thing. It's the active resistance to building a workspace that can facilitate a variety of workers, instead of the assumed extrovert everyone wants you to be.
If the original poster considers the word "Randian" offensive then perhaps they shouldn't post catchphrases like "people want free shit" taken from alt-right image macros.
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> Right now, the deployment and configuration of an application is supposed to be separated but I feel they need to be just a bit more coupled.

You can dynamically configure kubernetes from within the cluster. You can either use client-go library or talk to the api server directly with rest. For other languages than Golang you may need to set up proxy server, but it's a single kubectl command.

So all the basic functionality is there, but IMO configuration should be separate if it is possible - having it in source control is nice. I only use dynamic api for scheduling kubernetes jobs.
Yep, pretty much this, it's the limited liability you incorporate for.
> This guy isn't the "fall guy" or just a poor engineer hung out to try instead of an exec, he deserves to go to prison based on the material facts of his plea:

Um, yeah, that case is so good that they needed a plea bargain ... um ... sure.

I really don't understand why this guy is signing a plea deal. This is a classic example of a case complicated enough that the jurors would almost certainly be unable to come to "beyond a reasonable doubt" (the standard for criminal charges in the US).

I wonder what's really going on.
The way I look at is this, self-hosting should be the norm and not the exception today. We have plenty of hardware solutions for this but the consumer end of the problem is largely due to ISPs not wanting to be what they are: utilities. If we could politically fix that problem (regulate Comcast and company properly) then I think the rest should be obvious for people. The rest comes down to making hardware solutions as simple as pressing a button and go from home.
The answer about the existing challenges is "I don't know".

But the answer about will there be challenges we maintain is "very yes".
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Albeit doable with Lambda and Cassandra. ;)
I could change...

I just cloned the repo, opened it in Android Studio and after a few version tweaks in its Gradle setup, it sprang to life on my Nexus. So I can attest that it's painless to clone and build it, which in my experience with open source is 95% of the battle (where the other 95% is getting the PR accepted :-/ )
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Any given API change, content promotion or censorship, freebooting support (or restrictions), represents a taking of usefruct or allocation amongst various parties. With little or no recourse to them.
I think most people don't realize how subtle both depression and anxiety can be (probably other disorders, but these are the ones I have direct experience with and talk to others about).

Introversion/extroversion as a spectrum is a real thing. But it's dangerous to use them as reasons for behaviors that are also strongly correlated with other conditions. You're potentially masking the real problems and letting them fester.

I've been in shitty work environments. Being by myself in the evenings and weekends gave me the energy to go back into it and start again. Using the "I'm an introvert" reasoning would have been valid: it was an open plan, I was right on top of other people, little-to-no privacy. But that wasn't the cause, it was the stress of the place (contractor, no benefits, could be fired at any time), that was dragging me down each day. It took me almost a year to realize that, because I did use the introvert reasoning. Addressing it, by leaving, got me to another physically equivalent environment, where I wasn't stressed by the environment (found other stressors, but by then I had mostly learned to recognize anxiety/depression and my reaction to them as a separate thing).
I suspect why it all happened is that emissions are invisible for the most part so it's easy to not see it as a big deal.

It's just regulations getting in the way.

The reality is that people's health are effected by the emissions now and for some time to come. I bet early deaths can be attributed to the extra pollution these cars put out and all of it could have been avoided.
The wealthy make money in one of two ways ( most likely a mix ). We munge these two together in the concept "profit".

If the wealthy make money by consumer surplus, then that money is honorably had and we want them to make more of it. They are doing well by doing good.

If the money is made by rent-seeking, then we should tax it.

Now all you have to do is figure out rent-seeking. :)
It is posited that in fact it is clear - in the article no less!

>In Mexico, Mr. Shen was implementing an audacious plan, according to people familiar with the matter: A network of trading companies could route hundreds of thousands of tons of aluminum from China to Mexico, where a plant would melt it for shipment to the U.S., evading trade restrictions and claiming North American Free Trade Agreement benefits.
Facebook has reversed its stance and is reinstating posts featuring 1972's "The Terror of War" picture, according to

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12865670/facebook-censorshi...

"Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance, the value of permitting sharing outweighs the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed"