skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, that's interesting. I was always puzzled when my Dad would suggest that the reason my PhD is taking so long is that we didn't do some thing that the advisor is maybe expecting in the way of guanxi. It was preposterous of course but maybe in this context it made sense to him.
Yes, borrowing can increase the leverage on an investment. It can magnify gains, but it can also magnify losses.

No, you cannot use leverage to reduce taxes to zero. You are confused if you think that. Go play with the numbers some more. Don't forget that you have to pay taxes on the investment gains you make with borrowed money (as you did in your example).
Despite the title, the article acknowledges illusory giving is not the only possibility.

> non-illusory matching may exist in some other circumstances. A couple possibilities: coordination matching and influence matching.

The author doesn't think much of those either, but IMO he's wrong and both would certainly qualify as genuine 1:1 matching.
> So, that's anecdote instead of data. But cul-de-sacs are a safer place for kids

You agree that it's not days and yet you assert the truth of cul de sac safety based on your anecdote. :/

I wonder if data actually backs this up or not. Arterials are almost certainly less safe than cul de sacs just based on traffic volume and speed, but I wonder if that's the case for reasonably quiet residential streets. I've seen idiots driving through small residential streets at dangerous speeds occasionally, but I've also seen idiots screech in and out of driveways to turn around on cul de sacs.
A bank transfer is rarely atomic unless within the same bank (and even then it depends how centralised their operations are). A transfer decomposes into operations on two separate accounts, which may involve additional steps (e.g. the sending bank will record having received a request to transfer it, record it's taken money out of the source account, record settlement, record the transfer has completed, etc.)

When talking about the operations being commutative, we're generally talking about each individual account, though it may apply wider as well.

In any case, the difference is that we are not talking about the elements of a given operation. You are right that if you see the operations as being "balance = balance + x" or "balance = balance - y", then the subtraction in the latter is not commutative.

But the operations seen as indivisible units are commutative.

Consider the operations instead as a list, such as e.g. "add(x); sub(y)" (in reality, of course, we'd record each transaction into a ledger, and store a lot more information about each).

See that list as an expression with ";" as the operator. This is commutative - the operands to ";" can be reordered at will. That ability to reorder individual operations is what we're talking about in this context, not the details of each operation.
Where Does Apple Go with Facial Recognition?
Easy- Duverger's Law. One of Clinton or Trump will be president. If you vote for one of those two people, you get to influence that outcome. I view voting as a strategic act, not a moral stand.
Google search is definitely blocked. (Source: I'm in China.) The "unblocked" there seems to be a typo since the "duration of blockage" column says "to present", which is correct.

Regarding social media, of course, the local social media are popular enough that practically nobody would use the American ones even if they were all unblocked tomorrow.
What has proved it to be false?
AT&T and Comcast helped elected official write plan to stall Google Fiber
Yeah, a private email account which was used extensively for official government business.

With no work email account ever setup.

It's a matter of law that any and all work related emails on a personal email address are to be handed over for future FOIA requests, etc. upon leaving office.

If I used my personal email address for all communication with my companies clients for work, they'd demand all of those emails when I left the company.
Why do that sound very damn close to the various X extensions that has come and gone over the years?
>For starters, you completely glossed over the Holocaust

Actually, I'm pretty sure I didn't...

But I do concede your point. I oversimplified to the point of misrepresentation. Please accept my apology and my assurances that this was accidental. Roma do indeed have a bone to pick with several peoples in Europe.

Still, I have to wonder what your underlying point is. Are you claiming that they're sociologically comparable to Black Americans? Black Americans are by-and-large law-abiding, hard-working, and desire nothing more to become an integral part of American society. They're angry precisely because they feel marginalized. Roma aren't particularly angry. They want to be marginal, as evidenced by the fact that they behave the same way even with peoples that have not been so horrific to them, so it can't be that...

Surely you aren't claiming that this justifies their all-but-systematic prostituting of their women, exploitation of their children, larceny, fraud and violence...

Your point is taken, but my points still stand.
Why would that be the case? How do you think the law works? Just because the President breaks the law doesn't magically change the law...
He did have models, and they correctly predicted Trump's victory. He chose to disregard them. Then he wrote a mea culpa article explaining his mistake, which he is unlikely to repeat.
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Sorry about that. Thanks for reminding me to remain civil.
It's a pretty common tactic, especially in discovery for civil cases. Law firms routinely pay people to type up printed documents so they can be keyword searched.

I agree it should be a matter of contempt of court when clearly used as a delaying tactic.
They're shadowing builtins. Python's list type can't be referenced by its name in the defined sum function and Python's sum function can't be used in or after the new function's definition.

One could argue that in a source meant to teach Python, it shouldn't use examples that don't follow best practices. I feel that as a resource to, from the page, "learn how to write code, the basics and see examples" that it doesn't really matter too much.
Same here (name.surname). Next Gmail account will be a guid because I get far too much junk. At one point I set up a Google group for my namesakes. If I recognise the context I forward it.

Wish I could turn off Gmail equating namesurname with name.surname. That's far more than 50% of it.

The lingerie pic was nice. Poor lady was very pleased I'd deleted it!
You might think that, but no more people die in cul-de-sac than without. Most likely because grids are easer to deal with as a driver so they can more easily see people. But with curves all over the place people tend to be far more distracted.
Thanks, I enjoyed this. Today on the HN frontpage is, "Is Tesla telling us the truth over autopilot spat?"
Bill Maher is an antivaxxer. Sorry.
Is it very different though? Both fall within, as explained in the article, the ambiguity and mental paralysis coming from being unable to determine whether or not a threat exists.
IMO the pendulum swings both ways. I'd bet money many a PHD could not delete a file properly.
Interesting. Is that because of the rate of heat transfer through the rocks to get to the pipe or because you need a longer pipe to exchange heat with the ground?
A lot of the time there is no "correct" output.

E.g. a search result from a search engine is outdated the moment it has been generated - new pages come into existence all the time, and besides the index is unlikely to be up todate.

What matters is whether "close enough" is sufficient, and a large proportion of time it is: E.g. for the search engine example don't care if I get every single page that matched my query right at the moment I pressed submit. I care that I find something that meets my expectations.

Getting "good enough" results and getting them at a reasonable time beats not getting results or waiting ages because the system is insisting on maintaining global consistency.

Yes, there are cases where "good enough" means you need global consistency, but they are far fewer than people tend to think.
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DNA from the deep? Antikythera shipwreck yields ancient human bones
+1
> non-trivial aspects of Chinese society and culture
Literally never heard of this company. Serious question: How can I find a company that is likely to get acquired by Google?
If you don't have a big enough field the ground surrounding the pipe changes temperature too much.
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I was initially confused as to how the FBI were able to track that StackOverflow post in which Ulbricht changed the appearance of his account name...that wouldn't show up in the public edit log for a question, right?

Then reading through the complaint, it seems like Ulbricht was undone by registering on Stack Overflow using his GMail account, which the FBI had tracked his Comcast IP to (didn't hurt that the gmail address was his real name), and then asked StackOverflow for the records relating to that GMail address: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/801103-172770276-ulb...

sidenote: The Slate article links to the complaint on Scribd, and now it's deleted from Scribd for some reason.
Firebase uses a non-relational database correct? Shouldn't they then run into issues with problems that do not lend well to non-relational databases? I don't see how Firebase could have been anywhere near as pervasive as PHP.
Or you have to deal with real world constraints, which can - and do - involve having equipment where e.g. attaching external KVMs etc. is not always an option that is made available to you (cost constraints; space constraints).
Coincidentally, I was just reading this the other day. I've been programming for the Nintendo NES. The most common high level language that people use for NES Homebrew development is C with cc65[1]. The output of the compiler is passable, but C is just not well suited to the 6502 processor. Eventually I'd like to write a compiler for a high level language that used these ideas.

[1] http://cc65.github.io/cc65
Undeniably the case that it works really well, however, especially given how easy it is to arrange for the people holding the fundraiser. Broadcasting a matching fund is news, adds an extra touch to potential donors, inspires people to donate when they wouldn't otherwise have done so, and costs very little in additional administrative time.

Administrative time is always at a premium in non-profits, and optimizing for lower overhead in time and work is a reason for many things that might otherwise seem a little puzzling in their persistence.
I don't see quotes on that page, just a few opening paragraphs and "Loading..." where I'd expect content to be. The opening paragraph is has a misquote/misstatement of its own so I'm a bit suspicious. The linked articles from the opening are also all-headline, little substance.

I don't mean this as a defence of Trump, but people seem to read into statements to determine his racism/bigotry/whatever. AFAIK he has not technically made a racist statement in any of his campaigning, for instance.
I ran IT for a financial firm that went through an FBI investigation, if i had done this (like they asked repeatedly) I would have gone to jail.
I mean, yeah, but first and foremost you should probably strive to avoid committing felonies.
They use direct-drive electric motors. Those are motors that you typically see on washing machines. They have super high torque but low speed which works in their use case.
What is Aleppo?
Seems to me like one could just as easily conclude that people who are generally more perceptive/aware would do better on the trading floor.
Sounded like it was clearly "you" as legal Mexicans and other immigrants. The rest of the sentence is about illegals -- he's not, afaik, made any claims about Mexicans in general. If he was actually making a racist statement, then immigration status wouldn't matter.
Great response, looking forward to seeing their reply.
I learned to program in PHP and builtins tripped me up a LOT as a new programmer. Talk about wrapping your head around some things when you're brand new.
Evil can be harnessed to good with appropriate incentives. You can't incent a stupid person to be smart.
Ask HN: Working with very non technical co-founder with domain expertise
I'm building a SaaS product that fills a huge need in a niche industry.

My Co Founder is completely non technical and barely knows how to use a computer. He has built a prototype in google spreadsheets, and he got around 20 businesses to start using it (it's running their whole business & workflow!). They're begging him to build an app on the web or desktop that's more complete with more features & abilities.

This is where I've come in. My Co Founder is a family member in his mid 50s. I'm trying to understand his vision and I've went through his Google Spreadsheets version/example repeatedly, but I know next to nothing about the industry and processes. It's hard to get an idea of what users want and how to build it and make it intuitive for users.

My Co Founder has no idea how to spec & detail it out to communicate to me how the product should function and look.
Has anyone else experienced the same situation that can give some advice? We already have ~20 and growing businesses using a free, MVP version spreadsheet, and many of which are committed to subscribing for a more complete version that would be paid ($50K ARR if half of them subscribe).

Any suggestions or advice is appreciated. Thanks
capital gains tax is lower, no?
I am a java programmer and I want to head towards web development. My first thought was learning JSP, Servlet and then move towards different frameworks like Spring. I don't know much - but can you tell me why JavaEE is an awful technology?
Why are 50 and 60 excluded? Wikipedia seems to think they exist, but it could be wrong.
> I would attribute most of the difference to this, but I would go further in that there just aren't that many successful international games period.

LoL, WoW, Hearthstone, DotA 2 are some of the most popular games and they're popular world-wide, not just in the US and they're competitive games. DotA 2, for example, has servers for different regions so at least the language barrier issue is not as bad.

Bootstrapping is not an issue when you have good marketing, because you can have a large "launch" that people were waiting for. Maybe a single-player mode is useful to bring in people who are not confident in their skills as well.
Or just restore from a backup?
Yep, but it became under their jurisdiction when it was discovered that she did government business via the private server. There are various different reasons why (and when) her email was requested by investigators. If I'm not mistaken, the existence of Clinton's private server was alluded to when Guccifer 1.0 hacked Sidney Blumenthal's emails, which included memos to her private address:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker...

In an unrelated tangent, when the Secretary of State's original search found few emails involving Clinton's ostensible state.gov address, a Tumblr meme (which was in support of Clinton) caught someone's eye who then inquired how Clinton was sending messages if they weren't showing up on her state.gov account: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2016/06/hillar...
I can understand you wanting it spelled correctly but maybe add ian@ as an alias? For those times where mistakes seem likely.
Why I started developing in Node.js again?
The fact that those items have more negative impact on her electability than her mentorship under Henry Kissinger is terribly depressing.
That's not my experience. My experience is that operating systems outside of AWS is not much different in terms of staff time than operating systems on AWS, and for most people network availability issues are far down the list of outage reasons.

I've not ever seen any non-AWS setups where manpower or network stability contributed anywhere remotely enough to operations to eat up the cost advantage over hosting elsewhere.

There are good reasons to use AWS, if you can leverage their various services, and hosting isn't a large part of your cost, but price is not it.
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This entire article's threads are a gigantic dumpster fire. If you replaced the word "Roma" with "Black people" the mods would have (rightly) nuked the entire discussion from orbit by now. It's as if all of a sudden HN turned into Storefront for just one article. Now back to reading about Angular and React.js. Jeez
Is Julia 1.0 still scheduled for approximately Summer/Fall 2017?

I really like/liked Julia, but some things breaking between 0.2 and 0.4 made me use it a bit less.
Still, a bit tasteless.
Doesn't it seem that the rising "unemployable" cohort having all that free time, and the wealthy having none is not somehow related? "Unemployable" seems perjorative, so let's use Arnold Kling's ( Tyler Cowan's?) ZMP ( Zero Marginal Product ) workers.

You get the feeling that in years past, the ZMP would have been given some measure of slack, and allowed to work their way into a more productive status. But that's what's changed. I think there's been a cultural shift - look at the relatively unpleasant reports on how peoples jobs are now. Plus, unemployment ( especially if you're of an age to live with parents in their McMansion or even your old bedroom in a more modest home ) is a lot more comfortable than it used to be.

There's been a long-term trend towards advancing the age at which people join the workforce. People had moral reservations about the abolition of child labor - after all, it had worked out okay for them. It's only when unemployment began to be a more palpable problem that the mores concerning child labor shifted. Even then, my own father was pressed into service as farm labor as recently as the 1940s. This was standard.

As production has become less and less labor intensive, the workplace becomes more and more about social signalling. And as the population of firms becomes increasingly about maintaining old guard products and services and less about actually advancing the footprint of the firm from within ( with low cost financing enabling M&A activity instead ) firms are rapidly shedding workers. You don't even need offshoring or Chinese production to explain this. All you need is the Jack Welch "neutron bomb" effect.

We see increasingly ambitious tech efforts, not the sort of thing a half dozen people can do in a year or two, to sell for a few million.

But mainly, as the workplace becomes overtly inhospitable and the cost of slacking goes down, the equilibrium shifts.
I agree that the choice of names is unfortunate. Still I think it's permissible in example code to redefine functions with your own implementation. At this point shadowing built-ins is unlikely to confuse anybody.
> he didn't use the language of tokenization

If by that you mean he didn't say "tokenization" specifically, sure. But "strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails" sounds kind of like tokenization, doesn't it? Sounds to me like how I might ask about it if I don't know the exact words for it.

All I know for certain is that I sure hope nothing important ever rests on the exact phrasing of something I've written on reddit.
Unless you're interviewing at a three-person startup, the company doesn't need your business experience, sales knowledge, or whatever else. That's what managers are hired for. $BIGCO gives you a whiteboarding interview because they're hiring you for your engineering skills, nothing else. The managers are usually better than you at corporate strategy and big-picture thinking. If not, why are you applying to be an engineer?

It took me a long time to understand this, too. It might be true that you're e.g. a good designer, but you're being hired as an engineer, so they want you to focus specifically on engineering. Why? Because that's the domain in which you offer the greatest marginal returns to the company. There's a virtually limitless amount of engineering to be done, and a limited number of hours in the day. Priorities.
think notepad vs ms word. imagine if you had to debug one of them...
I remember... WAY back in the day... On the Ataris there was a language called Action! It was pretty good!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action!_(programming_language)
Great explanation, that cleared the whole thing up. Thank you!
Agreed. I think a good approximate description of "creepy" might be "ambiguous or novel, absent overt signaling of pacific intent".

Or, more crudely: "wtf" - "oh, it's harmless".

What's interesting to me is that under such a definition there's a clear notion of intentionality. Something can only be creepy when it's behavior is directed towards an object. While it might be tempting to point towards places that are creepy (e.g. abandoned hospital), I would suggest that these are eerie rather than creepy.
I was hoping that the article would explain the increase in the popularity of 'creepy':

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=creepy
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=creepy&year_st...
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I think OP is asking because Udacity said they would give you the money back if you don't get a job after graduating.
Because she's trying to assign guilt by association. I'm sure most people that support white supremacy are, in fact, Trump supporters.

Does that logically make all Trump supporters white supremacists?

And what is wrong with a bit of Nationalism? I personally feel globalization has most been a clever campaign to allow large business to play wage arbitrage. The current division of wealth in the US supports my idea.
Except where the numbering is magical such as the renaming of hwy666 when some groups suddenly decided the number was satanic[1]

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_491
They have been right several times in the past couple months.

/r/conspiracy and /r/the_donald have been pretty prophetic.
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More relevantly, both disqualifying.
I'm not an American, and I am not very sure if my view is correct. But is the press really hostile to HRC?
I have heard that Facebook also has a rigorous screening process for acquihires too, and people get sent away althought with a generous severance package.
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Superficially it can seem similar to western ideas of connections and bribes, but it's not, it's different. There are different dynamics at play, so, while in the end, both facilitate transactions, they work differently and the barriers work differently.
Mediocrity expands to fill the space and time available.

Mediocre solutions are fixed with an endless array of tools. Learning tools takes time. And that's just to break even. And around we go again.

Can we really say the average web experience is better than the average of 10 or just 5 years ago? (Hint: Nope.) Find someone who is less frustrated with technology and you'll find someone who has given up on technology.
Once we have a taste of what's possible it's really hard to accept that the status quo is good enough. With Prime Now I can get a lot of things ordered, shipped, and delivered within 2 hours, with live updates when the delivery person is on their way and arrives outside my house. I remember the days of multi-week ground shipping, I'm really glad we kept pushing the limits.
In my experience senior people tend to do this as much if not more than everyone else, though.
Man that sounds perfect :)
NY police used a virtual 'wanted poster' to help catch bombing suspect
Certainly part of the explanation of the paradox is that a great deal of what elites work on is (intentionally or not) finding ways to automate lower-skilled folks out of a job.