skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree if it was the case that Niantic was targeting this specific beach, but instead it's all beaches because the algorithm distributes Pokemon evenly throughout the world regardless of location (this isn't the actual case but it's still an algorithm that chooses most spawning of Pokemon).

Niantic created a game that incentives people to go to anywhere in the world and get Pokemon. They don't have to go to this beach, and if it's trespassing then it's still an illegal action. Very similar to driving while texting. Is that the driver's fault or the phones fault? What if the phone company could stop alerts if the phone is going over 60 mph?

My spin is Why should Niantic subsidize the players poor choices? Or why should Niantic subsidize the government more than it already does through tax revenue?

In this case, if I were running Niantic, I would remove the game from the country in question. My game is the way it is, if it is illegal to operate in your country that is perfectly fine. Let me know and I'll go somewhere else. That is all assuming one big thing, I can afford to be harsh about this. If so (which Niantic can) then that is probably what I'd do. It's perfectly fine for you to make laws that don't enable games like PokemonGo, and a verdict against Niantic could be interpreted like that. How could I know that I wouldn't be sued again in that country?

Of course Niantic will just black out this beach and problem solved, but hey that's what I'd do.

Edit: I appreciated your answer and perspective though. I just wanted to say thanks for the well thought out reply.
I'm a little skeptical that you have mastery of "all other languages" such as to compare.
Do you have citations corroborating this hypothesis, or are you just speculating?
Cool stuff, congrats.

I really like your idea of having a "willitwork" page that dynamically lists the specific deficiencies in the user's browser. So many web applications just silently fail. This is way better. Every web application should have a willitwork page.
That's a good example of what I'd consider to be a mildly unsafe use of stash, since if anything goes wrong you can lose unsaved changes. It's easier to forget what you're doing if you have merge conflicts during your rebase, or end up stashing something else while you rebase.

The safer alternative workflow is:

git commit -am "WIP" # Just throw your uncommitted changes into a commit
git rebase -i origin/master # you might want to checkout my git rearrange command above
git reset --soft HEAD^ # now un-stage your uncommitted changes and keep working

The advantage of this is getting your uncommitted changes into a commit that can be easily recovered if anything goes wrong. Even though you get rid of the commit, this process is all stored in the reflog, and you can undo any of it easily and without resorting to fsck.
Papier looks very nice. Is anyone aware of something similar for Firefox?
Come on, correlation != causation
> a generous severance package, as well as generous benefits if the company does exceptionally well, are on the table, to simultaneously soften the blow if he takes a bad risk

So a pay gap of up to (and sometimes over) 1000x between CEOs and rank-and-filers, given all the saving and investing that the CEO could do just like any Average Joe, would not be enough to "soften" any "blows"? Huh.
So the students shouldn't have representation from the place where thy live anywhere from 9 to 12 months out of the year, but instead have repeentation in a place they live 0 to 3 months in? That doesn't make any sense.

Also, Austin is... wait for it... THE STATE CAPITAL, with a population of 912,000 people. UT Austin Has an enrollment of 50,000. Even if we held for sake of argument your statement that college students should vote in "home" districts where they don't live for more than half the year, and for simplicity say that all 50,000 students are not from Austin, what of the remaining 862,000 Austin residents? Don't they deserve to have their city represented, like every other city of similar size?

Calling Austin a "college town" is as nonsensical as calling Boston one.

The reason why college towns get gerrymandered to dilute their representative power in Republican dominated states has everything to do with the fact the fact that college students tend to vote Democratic. This is the same reason why "voter fraud" became an excuse to target minority voting patterns. It's a partisan power to try to create and maintain structural bias into the electoral system.
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I was always under the impression that java would kinda self-implode when it was put together with the modern web.
I think the idea is just fundamentally flawed.
I can see why the normalized approach is difficult to make performant, but it seems much simpler.
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ever since the Chinese published that they can now use entanglent to transmit information faster than light. following it up with that quantum comms satelite recently im not sure what to think anymore.

surely a better answer is "we dont actually know anymore"

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601658/first-demonstratio...
Nice description and first steps. Ideal moves would probably be the following:

1.Modifying front-end for Frama-C flow or similar tool to take a subset of Rust with specs, generate the VC’s, and feed them to supported provers. He seems to be doing something similar but Im sure there’s some good tools to build on.

2. For manual and high-assurance, embed Rust into Simpl/HOL that seL4 used. Do an AutoCorres tool with that. You now have ability to pull similar effort with translation validation to machine code. Next, extend COGENT to generate Rust subset Simpl supports. You can now do, like their C example, a whole filesystem functionally that outputs verified Rust or machine code. Optionally extend the COGENT tool with QuickCheck, QuickSpec, etc esp where tests/specs can translate to Rust to. Quite a foundation for other Rust developments to build on. Including redoing Rust compiler in COGENT at least for certified, reference version. ;)
I do agree with this one.
At least in this case there are treaties that prevent space based weapons platforms.
More taxes is not free market in any form. Considering the alternatives are not yet inexpensive enough for general consumption combined with the fact any tax on oil/coal/carbon etc would likely get pushed down to the consumer, it's largely just punishing consumers who are acting rationally and within their means.

By reducing taxes for green tech companies the focus is on acellerating the time when it can become widely available for consumers and consumers can purchase it without large economic trade-off. As a result the coal industry, which is already in steady decline, with continue to go in that direction. Oil will get squeezed.

Only at that point would it make sense to punish consumption of the harmful energy. But doing so now is just wishful thinking and harming the already strugglign middle class.
What do you mean by closure in this case?
A while back I came to the following conclusion : "We often attribute our success to our skills and talent and failure to luck - while quite often it is the other way around." :)
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"Sincerely, the PR firm for the company making $5,900 chairs."
At the time candyjapan had their fraud problems, Recurly didn't have very good support for these services. Since then, we've formed a partnership with Kount:

https://recurly.com/press/recurly-teams-up-with-kount-to-hel...
https://docs.recurly.com/docs/kount

You get some basic protections for free but you can also integrate with your Kount account if you want to customize.
Amazing. If this is fast enough, I imagine it could do wonders for games (terrain and background generation).
Maybe it could be interesting to place Penrose tiles with the simple algorithm, but color them with your algorithm just like you're currently coloring squares.
Although it's the article's fault, not the submitter's, I think it's worth noting that the accurate headline appears to be "$5,900 chair may be the tech world's new key to productivity, says owner of company selling them".

EDIT: Jinx with ceejayoz (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12613784)!
Looking at the exits here, why do people say adtech is out of fashion. I mean, there are some really big exits here.
We should be past it because it's incomplete and wrong.

So fire the bad CEOs. I did not imply that all CEOs are all good drivers, and it doesn't matter if some are. They are in the position to make decisions that change the course of the company, whereas an individual engineer or sales person isn't doing that, and doesn't have that responsibility. Magic brain power skills are not required so I am not sure why you are bringing that up.
The current Intel chipset we selected does only support RAM up to a max of 8GB. We heard the Qubes users loud and clear and the request for 16GB RAM. We will only be able to offer this in a next revision though.
The question isn't if the CEO is working 100x as hard or is 100x as smart. Their decisions have an impact across the organization, so even if they were just a little smarter, they would make a big difference.
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>the demolition of Penn Station kicked off the historic preservation movement

That's the retconned mythology. Based on what I've read, it's not clear how true it is.

It's probably also worth noting that Penn Station had been decaying for years and, with the bankruptcy of Penn Central because of a long-term decline in rail traffic, it's not clear what the mechanism to save Penn Station would have been at the time.

I don't disagree it's a pity--especially given how generally uninspired that whole area of Midtown is. But the NYC of fifty years ago was a very different place.
The article buried the lead, so here's your TLDR summary:

- GIMP & Photoshop use the same O(n²) algorithm

- GIMP's implementation is single threaded, while photoshop's is multithreaded and therefore performs much faster on modern multi-core CPUs

- Photopea uses a different algorithm with O(n) characteristics

- O(n) in a single threaded javascript is faster than O(n²) in parallel C/C++ for large values of n

- For photo editing, we used to work with relatively small photos, so algorithm choice didn't matter so much. But with modern digital cameras algorithm choice matters as we are seeing photo filters now working with larger values of n (pixel radius in this case).

Therefore, choosing the right algorithm matters.
I tried using and liking pgAdmin 4 beta for a few months. Even simple things like copy-paste from clipboard using Cmd-C/V, exporting/importing data to/from my local machine, etc were a hassle. Add to that the slow startup, sluggishness, and poor UX. I'm happily using Valentina Studio now. A small data point for others who may come to this thread looking for PostgreSQL GUI tools.
Committing your entire working copy to a separate branch can work just like a safe stash:

$ git branch
master
* cool-feature-1
$ git checkout -b stash-2016.09.30T01.10
$ git add -A; git commit -m "stashing WIP for later; maybe add some commentary to remind myself what I'm doing"
$ git branch
master
cool-feature-1
* stash-2016.09.30T01.10
$ git checkout master
$ git branch
* master
cool-feature-1
stash-2016.09.30T01.10
# do other things
# later...
$ git checkout cool-feature-1
$ git merge --no-commit --no-ff stash-2016.09.30T01.10
Automatic merge went well; stopped before committing as requested
$ git reset
$ git status
On branch cool-feature-1
Untracked files:
...

And now your old WIP is back, ready to keep working, and in the meantime you could have pushed up your "stash" to a remote and grabbed it back.

There might be something terribly wrong with this, but if there's not, then I don't understand why git stash doesn't do something similar to this by default.
Yep, the numbers I ran are already doing exactly what you suggest. Looking exclusively at the 10 lost packages and considering how likely it should be that 9 of them would belong to one category, compared to our expectation (which is that they would be equally likely to have come from either category, coming from the fact that the same number of packages were shipped with Atheist labeling as without).

The statistics is entirely identical to flipping a coin 10 times and asking the following questions:
* Given that I saw 9 heads and 1 tail, how likely is it that the coin is a fair coin. This is the p-value which was about 0.0098 (less than 1% chance)
* Given that we are only tossing 10 coins, how likely are we to have seen a statistically significant bias with the predicted bias in place. This is the statistical power, which was 74%.

As you suggest in your other comment, the stats only point to a bias, the origin of the bias is left for people to decide. That said, the packages were sent in pairs, so subdividing the country into states and offices is irrelevant since a given states saw the same number of packages from each category as did each given office, the statistics are saying that on average (across the whole country) there is a bias.

To ease your worries a little, this is not saying the USPS hates Atheist packages 9x more than non-Atheist packages, most of the packages were delivered successfully. All this is saying is that, for the ones that were lost, it is very likely that they were lost because of their labeling. This is the effect you would expect to see if 97.3% of USPS employees treated the packages identically and the other 2.7% have a strong bias.

If we had more specifics about the delayed packages as well, we could get a more nuanced picture, I suspect we would find that 80+% of USPS employees are unbiased, some 10-15% might have some bias against Atheist labeling (would delay an Atheist labeled package), and 2-3% have a strong bias against Atheist labeling (would lose an Atheist labeled package).

If I was at USPS, I would push to conduct an experiment to try to identify which offices were most likely to have some bias one way or another (not necessarily specifically about Atheism, one could test whatever they wanted presumably).
Ha! You're right, that's silly, thanks! I didn't even notice. I don't remember why, it's been a long time, but I think I had a tricky pipe command to figure out the upstream branch-point a long time ago before I learned about merge-base and @{u}.
weird coincidence. just installed pgsql-portable 9.6.0 and tried the included pgadmin4 on Win10 x64. very slow to start :(

will keep using the excellent http://www.heidisql.com/

probably not as fully featured for serious admin tasks, but it's fast, lightweight and works well for daily db tasks for SQLserver, mysql variants and postgres. i encourage everyone to donate.
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I was going to post something similar. Us humans sure do love our social hierarchies. Most people find it untenable that random chance and/or the independent actions of a multitude of phenomena make up a great deal of what we perceive as reality. We are heavily biased towards order both as a means to explain the world around us and operate within it. It's why so many people fall prey to conspiracy theories. There's a comfort in knowing everything is under control. I have a pet hypothesis that the invention of Gods went like this:

Uggg: When I look up at the sky, I more or less see the same thing day after day. However, the events that happen infrequently, the eclipses, blood moons, shooting stars, gamma Ray bursts, etc. shows a level of variance and complexity beyond measure and comprehension.

Krug: Even though it looks random and chaotic, there's gotta be some big guy up there behind the curtain. Otherwise, what's the point?

Uggg:Yeah, that's too depressing. Life is brutish enough as it is. We're still part of the frakkin food chain! Let's not consider existentialism for another 20,000 years. Big wizard guy in the sky it is!

That type of thinking permeates in all facets, so we think it's only natural the guy on top is the essential person in a company.

I've had the fortune of working at startups that were comprised of intelligent and talented people from bottom to top. In fact, at a couple of gigs, the ceo doggedly tried to keep their original vision as their fortunes sank. It was the non c-level employees that recommended and executed plans to pivot.

There are those rare unicorns like Elon and Jobs. Although they consistently work with some of the most talented people in the world across multiple disciplines, they set forth a vision that would be considered ludicrous by almost any standard. Yet, whether it's by cult of personality or some other rare trait they consistently have success across different fields. Also, it is important to distinguish founder/CEO's who generally risk all they have on something that is likely to fail.

Just throwing numbers out there, but I'd wager that 95% of current CEO don't come up with anything groundbreaking and are executing pretty standardized plans for the duration of their tenure. Personal relationships do matter, but their importance generally has an inverse relationship to the size of your company
Agree, I think that discounting Midtown entirely as a concrete bore lacks enough nuance. There are certain parts of Midtown that are quite pleasant (well, assuming you're cool with lots of people).

Each of the Avenues have their own character, it so happens that 7th Ave and 8th Ave tends to be seedy, under-utilized, deserted, and altogether unpleasant.

Compare with, say, 5th Ave or 6th Ave, which even in its most tourist-trap-laden spots are actually reasonably pleasant places to be.

Or like you said, further east. I don't really consider Murray Hill/Kips Bay part of Midtown, but even Midtown East (42nd thru 59th) is rather nice and suffers from few/none of the problems that plague 7th and 8th Ave.

I think much of the problem comes down to the under-development of the Far West Side. The east side of Manhattan is extensively developed for commercial and residential use all the way to the edge of the water. The west side on the other hand continues to be a mix of light industry, auto shops, warehouses, and general usage that discourages public traffic.

The development of Hudson Yards (the form of which I disagree with) will hopefully alleviate some of this problem. As it is the area around Penn serves no useful purpose for anyone besides commuters passing through. The introduction of mass residential and commercial use should hopefully fix some of this.
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Rather funny how for all that talk of ergonomics he's using one of those horrible Apple keyboards with about 0.1mm of key travel.
I love the fact that it took Ballmer to leave for them to really get serious about cutting-edge tech again. Bill Gates are probably wishing he never met Ballmer at Harvard.
I think, though, Ycombinator is premised on the idea technical people can learn a CEO's job much easier than vice versa. I'm pretty sure he says something very close to that in one of his essays. (Business being relatively easy to learn for a talented technical person.)
Van Gogh is most known for his painting, but he also created drawings. For example, he drew a pen and ink version of Starry Night [1]. I particularly like Windmills at Montmartre [2]. I think it'd be easy to argue his talent and skill carry over into his drawing.

I say all this to quote him writing to his brother: "I cannot tell you how happy I am that I have taken up drawing again. I had been thinking about it for a long time, but always considered it impossible and beyond my abilities." [3]

[1] http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Drawing/1574/Starry-Ni...

[2] http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Drawing/1729/Windmills...

[3] http://www.vangoghgallery.com/drawings/
Well, that would work if people/government don't break treaties of all kind on daily basis. Solution must be in roots not a patch on top of pile (of bullshit we created over time)
That's nice but treaties have been broken and what can be done will be done eventually. It all comes down to power.
"Lay down on my lap and we can start this code review."
These "JavaScript is stupid, why don't you all see that!! Why! Why! Why?!??!!" rants are really entertaining nowadays. The author has also invented a (perverse?) extension of Atwood's Law (which law predicted React Native): anything that can be blamed on JavaScript will be blamed on JavaScript. If JavaScript ran for president it would be Hillary Clinton, and every other language would occupy one thread on Trump's Toupee.
On the other hand, my CEO is probably stressed 24/7 about the company, whereas I can just go home and not think about work.
Seconded on Google Dictionary. I use that everyday it seems.
Speaking of gluing separate issues on top of each other:

If the US government had the same kinds of online services they have in Estonia, could those services withstand the kind of DDoS attack recently used against krebsonsecurity?
Design by Contract: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignByContract

Which is a key element of the Eiffel language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language) ).

SPARK Ada also includes this concept of pre/post conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

I haven't programmed in the latter, but I'd like to. Since I'm often in the maintenance end of the software cycle I don't have much opportunity (professionally) to introduce new languages (new tools, yes, but not new languages).

I have a coworker who thinks we do this with asserts (in C and C++), but it's only half the battle. The asserts only tell us that our exercised version of the program (through our non-comprehensive testing) hasn't failed pre/post-conditions. It's helpful, but not sufficient.
Are you talking about the Cloud ML service that was in private Alpha? Would love to hear if your opinion has changed now that it's Beta. Alpha products tend to have rough edges all around.

(work at GCP)
Let me get that OKed with HR first.
The fetishization of office equipment must correlate to economic bubbles somehow.

Exercise, standing regularly, and basic good ergonomics solves all the problems much better than this monstrosity.
That is true. I actually started my journey with Pandas and then switched to R for the ecco-system and zero based for data science drove me nuts.

But I do feel that the goal is a clone.

"Python has long been great for data munging and preparation, but less so for data analysis and modeling. pandas helps fill this gap, enabling you to carry out your entire data analysis workflow in Python without having to switch to a more domain specific language like R." http://pandas.pydata.org/
Can you explain the joke? I don't see how it is funny
See for yourself, Stuart Halloway (clojure committer) can explain it much better than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTQ-M_uSo8
But this is more like you are willing to pay $5 for pictures people take of themselves with a tree. There are tons of trees: trees are everywhere. There also happen to be trees outside the boundaries of national parks and on the grounds of military training zones. Do you then need to tell you "you will not be paid if the photo is of a tree you should not have been able to stand next to"? Why are people choosing to get their photos with trees that are in territory that creates a nuisance? (FWIW, I think it is fine to ask Niantic to not put Pokemon there, and I also would hope Niantic satisfies their request; but making there be legal damages over this seems incorrect.)
This is a joke, right? Are standup desks no longer a thing?

Yes, ergonomics are important. Get a separate keyboard and mouse, put your laptop on a pile of books to raise the screen, done.
This is great chart. If I was an acquirer that hasn't bought anyone, this is what I want to dig into
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