skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence seems to suggest that the people the state wants out of general circulation fare no better when they're tossed in prison or otherwise hounded/destroyed.

You also require doctors acting as criminals, with weak oversight to make your fears come true, in addition to a criminal government. If a government goes really wrong, and wants you out of the way, they'll get their way. Jean Seberg for example, didn't need to be locked up to be destroyed. We didn't need to lock people in hospitals to ruin their lives, we just used a blacklist.

You shouldn't be so frightened by your personal history that you lose sight of the fact that the root cause is a government out of control, not the means they use.
Bit of a harsh critique, though I appreciate reading people's comments on my writing. Ultimately, doing some writing over the past few months has taught me that I shouldn't necessarily underestimate people's ability to understand scientific concepts if only I take the time to explain them properly. I'm sorry that what I wrote wasn't sufficiently comprehensible :-( Also, I never took a philosophy class. None of what I said was meant to be pretentious or superior - I was just putting out there some concepts I found interesting.
I seriously just used this a couple weeks ago. Was thinking about implementing some more features as I had to drop down to manually editing the XML.
I also assumed the exact same thing! I know the rules state that the title should match, but in this case the original title is really ambiguous.
Self-Publish, don't write for a Publisher
What kind of job(s) do you think you're interested in?

I moved from academia to a data science job, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

My background: Math PhD from a top school, though my research was very abstract - not really related to machine learning, algorithms, or statistics. I had some coding experience in undergrad but none in grad school.

My path: I did the Insight Data Science bootcamp (http://insightdatascience.com/), which was very effective for me.

There are really two things I got out of the bootcamp that made it effective:

1) Connections

2) Impressive project(s) to show off & get your foot in the door.

You may be able to do these things without the help of a bootcamp, and I think especially if you're more interested in coding, there are a ton of good bootcamps that can provide you with the connections and last little bit of training to land a good job.
Yes! Rod Vagg (technical chair of Node.js) is one of the pioneers of this way of developing software. He was recently on the podcast "Request For Commits" discussing this very topic!

Liberal Contribution and Governance Models
https://changelog.com/rfc-7/
Deskjet
The Blackbird Violin: CARVED FROM HIS GRANDFATHER’S TOMBSTONE. AND MAMMOTH TUSKS
Besides the "cult of shareholder value", there is also an opposite fallacy where the more difficult to measure a division's payoff, the more leeway they have in blowing through cash. Many of the "moonshots" seem like the kind of thing that sure, might have some kind of long-term payoff, but not necessarily one captured by Google, or that justifies arbitrary levels of investment. A company can survive such a tax even if it's negative payoff, especially if other divisions are crapping gold bricks, but at some point you have to figure out what your long-term expectation is and calibrate expenditures to that level.
Except Google doesn't need to care about shareholder value for anyone except the class 1 shareholders, is the founders.
Damn, me too. Money is nice though, amirite?!
Great story. My similar experience was in the mid 1990s. I had written a tool call PicWeb Viewer that would recursively walk directories and subdirectories containing photos, create thumbnail images, and generate simple HTML to navigate everything. My code was so simple but worked fine. I released the source code and over the next few years several people contributed modifications that made my simple bit of code awesome.
> I'm surprised/disappointed that government hasn't been more instrumental in pushing forward an agenda of promoting self-driving cars

The DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and Urban Challenge in 2007 are what started it all.

Now that Google, Uber and others are racing to commercialize, all the government has to do is not overregulate. No need to "push forward an agenda".

(FWIW DARPA, then known as ARPA, did the same thing the internet a few decades ago.)
Seems like there must be a difference, because people pay substantial premiums for it. Air travel isn't cheap, and the cost correlates fairly well with the CO2 emissions produced, so if people are going to Australia instead of the next big coast they must think it's worth a decent amount.

Maybe it's not worth enough considering the damage done to the climate, but the only way to get people in general to care is to bake that cost into the price they pay. Telling them that going to Delaware is as good as going to Australia will just make them think you're a nut.

Going without electricity and central heating would be huge, but reducing your electricity consumption and turning your thermostat down a couple of degrees is a pretty small sacrifice, and can easily save more CO2 than a typical person's airline travel.

And yes, there are plenty of people advocating for conservation in every imaginable area. But it seems like air travel is the first and often only target for complaints of hypocrisy. I haven't seen anyone say, "How many people advocating for action on climate change eat beef, or had fruit from another continent for breakfast?"
That doesn't work.

Here's the even more subtle version of that bug: https://play.golang.org/p/IVQ9MwyDGP

What you actually need to be careful to do is always return interfaces when possible because mixing interfaces and structs breaks shit.

You then also have to always return explicitly 'nil' when you mean nil. That's what GetACat messes up; if you want to return nil from a function that returns an interface, never return a struct you know to be nil, always return the literal value nil.
Yea like those Buddhist suicide bombers...
Depending on background, quant at hf will get you there.
Looking at the first YouTube result of Super Hexagon, since I haven't played it before, holy crap I think this playing game will already do brain damage! ;)
It was inevitable. These monopolies / near-monopolies seem to follow a pattern:

-IBM was at its peak in the '80s before losing its direction and beginning layoffs and a long slow collapse, reducing it to its current state as a shadow of its former self.

-Microsoft was at its peak in the '90s before losing its direction and is now starting its collapse with major layoffs a couple of years ago.

-Google was at its peak in the '00s and is starting to lose its direction.

-Amazon is at its peak now in the '10s.
MQTT is just a protocol, so not sure how that helps.

0MQ doesn't sound like it is the right solution either, but yeah... often you pick the wrong tool and learn something in the process.
Thanks, both of you!
Crazy! Ever tried to undo it using the opposite stimulus from what you did originally?
You'd probably be interested in the research of Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber on this very point: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to-...
People Argue Just to Win, Scholars Assert - The New York Times
There are a lot of recent grads out there with CV and machine learning experience. Maybe not 5000 but there are more than the article makes it sound like.

When we had a CV internship listed we got multiple applications per day with minimal promotion. A reasonable percentage of them were decent (experience, working towards post grad, etc). CV is cool shit so tons of people want to do it.
It's a reaction to the Perl community, which whom Python once competed. Perl programmers absolutely loved writing very clever "one liner" programs (look up Perl Golf). Python programmers therefore took pride in writing code that wasn't "clever."
Thanks, I respect the points you're making about charity, and especially about the need to start somewhere (i.e. with ourselves), but we shouldn't lose sight of the enormous and unconscionable waste much of what we already give with that in mind is subject to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12514062
The "end" of the story is when Digital Homicide drops the lawsuit against Jim Sterling/it is thrown out of court.
Many people prefer fresh air. What's so hard to understand? I just had dinner so why would I want to smell sausages now? Less is more!
Why can't Americans vote online?
Probably something like "stop ruining our planet".
It's based off of an earlier paragraph about her trading business suits for hoodies. It's self referential to a running metaphor.
Google actively supports the party that created ISIS and actively engages in censorship of the truth regarding the crimes of those involved. I can't even begin to read this article, the whole precept triggers vomit. Google has become everything they said they were not ;their "don't be evil" motto is a joke as they are involved in so many things that are destroying my nation ( the US) as well as others around the world.

Please, let's not put a golden light on this demon, they are a regressive, oppressive company working with nations around the globe to subjugate its citizens into a prison.

If they support the Democratic Party of the United States, which they do in many ways, they are, in effect, an arm of ISIS. If you disagree, you most definitely have not done your homework as it is abundantly clear through leaked emails and cables. So, please, I can't stomach anymore BS PR nonsense .
I respect several points you made, but there's no reason for me to rebuttal since the argument became unintelligible with your first sentence.

If you care, please read the 10-page letter. The statistics used were out of proportion backed by limited user stories, and why is UC Berkeley considering removing the content? Page 4-7 may have some clues. But I wouln't really know since I have no idea what I am talking about.

FYI, Harvard and MIT were received with the same letters few months ago. It was on the New York Times, but I could still be wrong since I have no idea what I'm talking about.
I'm not suggesting it, I outright stated it in my comment. My point is that potentially logical connections can (or must) be made subconsciously and that that is an aspect of how the faculty of reason works.

Here is an example you experience every single day and even right now if you type a reply to my comment. If you want to express an idea in words you don't consciously and methodically select words from a dictionary, no. The words come automatically with nary a thought, you just issue the command to summon the words to express your idea.

Without this ability you (and more specifically reason) could not function at all, ergo, intuition and subconscious processes must be a component of reason, reason being our faculty for processing information.
Firefox is slow, Lodash is fast
ha! small world, I am from Bangladesh too!

anyway, the fish dish that you mentioned ( i.e. "Shutki")is kinda on the extreme/fringe side of Bengali cuisine. its not adored by many people. heck even my own parents do not like it. although me & my siblings love it!
Where do you get the idea that Google peaked in the '00s? Their net income has been rising dramatically every year (2015 more than doubled 2009):

http://www.statista.com/statistics/266472/googles-net-income...

I think people are conflating "a company at its peak" with "shiny new company that is the center of media hype", which are completely different things.
That has huge issues with equity.

Especially a transportation-based tax. Right now, the major US cities are having an affordability crisis. Bad decisions have led to a housing shortage, and many residents (NIMBY, really) are convinced that these are correct decisions, that people who can’t afford it should just move out. So, we have people living in Stockton who commute to San Francisco for work, because they can’t afford to live in San Francisco.

A tax per mile is a regressive tax on the poor people who don’t live in walking distance of their workplace.
This announcement raises all sorts of red flags, not just for Udacity in particular, but for Silicon Valley as a whole.

This is the story:

Online correspondence school announces it's making a self-driving car, and issuing "nanodegrees" of dubious reputability.

I'm sorry, but what does a correspondence school have to do with self-driving cars? How does this promote the core business? How does even relate to the core business? Does Udacity have any technical talent that would even be relevant to this? (I'm betting they don't have any computer vision experts.)

This strikes me as a company with too much money, and not enough supervision.

This is not going to end well, for anyone.
Ok, practical. An oscilloscope that can probe a high speed bus like PCIe is priced in the same range as a house. Not to mention motherboards are 8-10 layer PCBs, which makes it pretty tough. The high level of integration is also going to make it rather difficult to get inside a lot of the parts and listen in, much less the sheer amount of stuff one person would have to know to understand what is going on from the bottom up is a lot more unreasonable than it is on a relatively primitive machine (architecture wise) like the Alto.
There's a rule-of-thumb that academic research takes 10–15 years to be commercialized, so we're right on schedule now 10 years after DARPA's 2005 and 2007 Challenges. :)
Is that game available for download? (Missing: the pursuit of Terry Hughes)
It's likely that Descartes would've disagreed with you on this point.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism/#1....

Intuition is a form of rational insight. ....

The Intuition/Deduction Thesis: Some propositions in a particular subject area, S, are knowable by us by intuition alone;
still others are knowable by being deduced from intuited propositions.
Where can I get my hands on this computer training?
I may be reading unwritten lines, but is Google selling its advertising platform to the US Government as a way to show targeted people anti-ISIS messaging?
> And yet my heaviest and most important conversations are with Teller. When our parents died, we were the first ones we went to. When I was going to have children and get married, he was the first person I talked to.
That mail workflow is good, and I use it too, but not in Emacs; most of the task management tools for OSX can link back to a specific email.

Are there other good reasons to use mu4e? I'm an Emacs person, but not yet an "I do my email in Emacs" person.
The Walmart bit draws a parallel between factory labor and US consumerism along the lines of: global capitalism inserts laborers into Southeast Asian manufacturing assemblages and similarly corrals consumers into Northern Californian box stores.

While I think the comparison is at least interesting if not actually useful (to help think about the effects and consequences of transnational capital), that bit of reportage misrepresents the municipal reality that SF does not have a Walmart.

In fact, SF has been a bit of an outlier regarding the corporate giant Walmart, and some of SF's elected officials have vigorously opposed Walmart's setting up shop in SF. [0] Four years later, the Walmart closest to SF (Oakland) closed. [1] Presently, the closest Walmart to SF is 18 miles away (42 mins by car, which is an eternity in the Bay Area) in San Leandro.

The homelessness in SF is dispiriting and, yes, a sign of US sociopolitical attitudes about wealth and social welfare. Another sign of US sociopolitical attitudes (SF's in particular) is its continued rejection of Walmart which is notorious among Bay Area liberals (and conservatives, for that matter) for its anti-union and anti-employee policies.

[0] https://www.baycitizen.org/news/development/san-francisco-po... (bad cert, sorry)

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Walmart-to-close-nearl...

EDIT: readability; rhetorical emphasis on political opinion about Walmart
You can try the Ga Tech OMSCS. It's fully online, is the same as the on campus version, and costs about $8000.
Thanks for your suggestion! What filters would you like to see there? I have had some comments also along the lines of it being not obvious enough what the "sort" buttons do; Do you think the page is to "bare bones?"

As for the C2600, I do not believe it is stable yet, and still being worked on. I deliberately don't put "trunk" only builds on the page because not everyone is sufficiently technical to deal with them. It should show up soon though by the looks of things (will be stable soon-ish).
> a scientific mystery that is rattling the foundations of curling

I'm Canadian and it was hard to not wonder if I was reading the Onion
"From 2013 to 2015 San Francisco experienced a 2% increase in the total number of homeless, while the nation as a whole saw a 5.2% decrease."

When I see a change in some hot button statistic, I always ask why.

Why are these homeless numbers decreasing? Are the homeless people finding homes or are they dying? Or maybe they're moving or being moved somewhere else.

I heard there was once a plan to round up all the homeless people in San Francisco and ship them off to Treasure Island. Would that have solved the "problem" or would it just be a case of "out of sight, out of mind"?

I've also been told that a lot of homeless people in NYC, for instance, just die in the brutal winters -- especially if they're forced outdoors by police, everpresent locked and unwelcoming doors, and horrific shelters.

Similar questions should be asked about why homeless numbers are rising in SF.
Rather than being pedantic like most of these replies which describe lobbyings definition, but to take your intent to mean" lobbying in which large amounts of dollars change hands between special interests and politicians in which case the politicians are then passing laws (sometimes written by the lobbyists themselves) that directly benefit these special interest groups, often at the cost of the public at large.

To answer you, I'll ask my own question: Who makes the laws? As long as the foxes guard the hen house, we should expect no change. As long as politicians can quit their jobs one day, and get a $500,000/yr salary working for the lobbyists the next day[1], we should expect no changes. There are very clear and very obvious problems in how our government works. In my opinion, as silly as allowing the banks/Wall Street to regulate themselves, allowing Congress to regulate themselves is equally as bad. Until this is no longer the case, clear cut bribery will continue in the home of the free. (because freedom isn't free, somebody's got to buy the politician off.)

[1] To be honest, you can't do this today, you must wait (I could be wrong here, this is from memory, too lazy to look up the current law) 2 years before becoming a lobbyist after working in Congress/Fed Gov't, however, this law has had negligible impact at best.
I've run into for loop go routine one just the other day... reminded me of groovy and it's closure scopes too.
"I raised a piece up, too, examining the gauziness of the meat draped over my chopsticks. I placed it in my mouth—there was next to no flavor though the texture was delicate, like a fine sweet film. And while the skin had great bounce, it was basically flavorless, too."

So, if the flavor is nothing special, is the danger posed by the dish the whole point of consuming fugu?
I have an EMF+ library I started the barebones of in LibreOffice. [1]

Largely due to my depression and desperate need to get a job, I never got much past an initial read of the EMF+ files, but I'd love to see someone take my branch on git, split it into its own library and then work with someone to integrate it into the Drawing Layer. [2]

1. https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=priv...

2. https://people.freedesktop.org/~thorsten/talks/fosdem_2014_s...
Good. That makes me even more confident that I am right. I disagree with some of his math so its a draw anyway.
no. I don't trust many apps other than maybe apple. I assume anything I enter will be sold to the highest bidder.
I've read that GM received a taxpayer funded cash infusion of around $49 billion around 2009-10. I've also read that after the Treasury sold it's last shares of GM the final loss to taxpayers was somewhere in the $9.5-$10 billion range. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Tesla's subsidies have ever reached that level. I believe Tesla is staying afloat largely due to investor capital, or am I incorrect?

Disclosure: I work at SpaceX as a technician so I may be biased.
Most of the projects gunning for L4 have sensor arrays comparable to Google's, with the exception of Uber, who has 3× more: 20 cameras and 7 lidars amongst all the rest. I'm pretty sure Uber's in it to develop a commercial product, although the PR probably doesn't hurt either.

Thrun guesses that Lidar will ultimately be unnessecary, and I think that by the time the hard AI problems are solved, he'll be proven right. Humans navigate with a pair of eyeballs and not much else, after all. But while extraneous sensors can always be removed, not having enough could hamper progress.
Funding source isn't really relevant. NYC has a guaranteed right to shelter [1], they'd be providing the same services regardless of state funding.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/wealth-poverty/behind...
If that guy was paid in liquor by everyone who benefited from his contributions, he'd develop cirrhosis.
Not sure what craziness you think I don't perceive. My initial comment is to demonstrate how a person in my generation that is doing relatively well financially, are not versed in the economic concepts the parent comment provided (debt cycle). That it is not normal for us to know such concepts.
Interesting article, interesting person.

I'm never quite comfortable with portraits that just sing endless praise and are devoid of any kind of critical reflection, though (apart from the subtle hint that her work takes precendence over her son).

BTW, I tried to look up Alphabets and Googles revenue/earnings by segment, but the information out there is relatively sparse. Anybody have a good link? (Apart from [1]).

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOGL&fstype=ii
So when can I finally pay you and take the nanodegree? ;-) Why do you limit the number of seats for the program?

When Sebastian sent me the new nanodegree heads up I was mildly excited and now as you filled in the actual content I can't wait. With MIT's Underactuated Robotics at edX (which was fun) this is probably the most exciting set of courses I can see on the Internet these days!
>One can only assume that this individual believes Germany's concentration camps and what occurred therein were just "cultural relativism" and "propaganda" too and that Germany was "doing what it felt was necessary to protect itself".

One can only assume this individual didn't bother to read all the words I wrote before deciding they knew what I believe.

I specifically said I didn't subscribe to the views I enumerated, but those views certainly do exist. Personally, I think Imperial Japan was incredibly evil. I also think the atomic bombings were evil. Hell, many Japanese feel the atomic bombings were justified - and Japanese legislators contributed to the very peace constitution that "emasculated" them, because they felt (justifiably) betrayed by the Emperor's ambitions.

But since we're discussing the way Japan may view the atomic bombings and how that event affected Japan's culture, reducing that culture to the thought-terminating cliche of "profound evil" adds nothing to the discussion.
>Your complaint sounds like those people who get mad when someone rats them out for cheating in class.

The legal system is so complex that we are all always cheating.

People only call for strict enforcement of the rules when they don't like you. It is a wonderful thing to get the government to attack your enemies for you.