skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would this accomplish?
64% of murders currently result in an conviction. At what percentage would it no longer be the perpetrators responsibility for the crime and instead be the fault of the lawmakers lack of ability to bring him to justice?
Its better to live with a solid grasp and understanding of the past and evaluate things on that basis, than to exist with a short term memory and perpetual fantasy of the future...

But the latter helps to exploit you more...So I guess that is where the big shot entrepreneurs/corporations/governments want you..
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I have a son now, and I was sort of considering trying to introduce him to abstract algebra and category theory kind of early, because it seems like something that might be easier to understand if you know less about math than if you know more about it.
...unless your revenue is fine, but you've hired a couple thousand more people than you should.
Which explains Linus Torvalds' comment:

To me, you'll always just be "tytso"
anyone who sees this got any links? I think it'll be a great way to spend a friday night
https://np.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/55r7i4/your... should be a wakeup call.. why couldn't Popcorn time work with cryptocurrency?
You're talking about the very people who build the systems here, not hackers. Standards bodies facilitate the work of implementers, they are not regulatory agencies.
I'm surprised by the author -- I never would have pegged Krauthammer as a math enthusiast. I wonder what the backstory is there.
JS is wanted unlimited memory consumption in the language specs. JS is good, but impossible for low-memory tasks.
Basic flappy bird clone for 80's the zx spectrum – British 80's home computer
I've done up a detailed write up on request of some people. Checkout it out here:
http://jabelone.com.au/blog/make-autonomous-car-code-include...
Openness is not something one actor decrees. It is something promoted by a whole ecosystem. If W3C is the only opponent to DRMs, yes, it won't amount to enough resistance. If Firefox alone refuses to implement W3C-approved DRM standards, yes, it won't amount to enough resistance.

But if Apple does a DRM tech in Safari, that it is not approved by W3C, that it is not implemented in Firefox, how do you think they will get it into Chrome and IE? Heh, they'll have to pay a lot of money to Google and MS, or to accept reciprocal agreements, segmenting their markets, complicating the development of their tech.

It will slow them down, like it has so far. And if it slows them enough that they move slower than the tech they want to regulate, we win.

So yes, the W3C is just a stone thrown in the middle of the stream, trying to slow it down. It won't make much by itself. But at least it knows it wants to be a part of the dam.
So from an accounting perspective is the Government just one more highly paid executive?
Not directly comparable for two important reasons:

The Good Friday Agreement was signed before the Rome Statutes on War Crimes came into effect (in no small part as a response to similar "blank-slate" deals in the 80's and early 90's). That means that signatory countries are bound by international law to prosecute and punish war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after their signing, proportionally to the severity of the crime.
That's what I mean by first-world justice. Even in Ireland, no crimes under the Rome statute after 2002 can be met with the level of impunity the FARC-Santos deal guarantees.

And with respect to McGuinness, even if the Rome statute had been in effect during his participation in the IRA, he was never charged with anything resembling a war crime, even after the Saville Inquiry. He would be more akin to a member of the shady, FARC-friendly political party "Marcha Patriotica". The crimes of the FARC leadership, on the other hand, are fully documented, and sentenced in-absentia. Most of them have over 400 years of cumulative sentences, including murder, extortion, torture, kidnapping, child recruitment etc. All constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.
See my profile.

Edit: I'm not sure why email is not showing up. Here is an old site with contact info: https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/
"Constraint" means something different to Cassowary than it does to us here, and isn't obviously useful. An optimized matrix library (Eigen, BLAS, LAPACK, etc.) would provide a modest speedup without too much work.

So yeah, the constraints in SolveSpace are nonlinear. They're solved by a Newton-ish method, which for underconstrained sketches also minimizes at each step the sum of the squares of the distances that any un-dragged points move (plus some other stuff). The Jacobian matrix is computed by an internal symbolic algebra system, allowing considerable flexibility in the range of user-facing constraints without a combinatorial explosion of hand-coded special cases.

As whitequark notes, the final solution of the constraint equations is a relatively small part of the overall work. The difficulty is mostly in writing them, to handle many useful cases in relatively few lines of code, and to converge reasonably in the Newton's method.

For a dramatic speedup, we could partition the constraint equations into roughly-triangular form, and then solve sub-systems in dependency order. Practical sketches seem to have a lot of such structure, and a visualization of that graph would be an interesting expression of the design intent. (To be clear, this isn't a spreadsheet; you still have to numerically solve systems of multiple equations, just not all of your equations at once.) I wrote an earlier solver that did this in some cases, but SolveSpace doesn't at all.
I agree that vilifying UDP doesn't really help anyone, but that's kindof besides the point.

Victim blaming is wrong because you divorce someone's intentional decision to cause harm from their responsibility for the resulting harm. To take the classical example: It's not inherently wrong to tell people that they should avoid situations that empirically have an increased risk of being raped. It's only wrong if you then claim that the perpetrator is not responsible for what they did because the victim didn't heed that advice.

Now, whether ISPs are victims isn't really that clear. First of all, the DDoS packets consume bandwidth, which can cause increased expenses without corresponding increased income. Secondly, at least the very moment you expect them to implement BCP 38, they absolutely are. Implementing BCP 38 is additional work that's only required in order to handle the bad behavior of other people that the ISP is not responsible for, aka harm due to someone else's malicious actions.

But also, the comment that you responded to above was about DNS cache poisoning, not about DDoS. By randomizing DNS transaction IDs, you absolutely can make DNS cache poisoning harder, and I think the responsible thing to do is to protect against that attack vector. ISPs should be doing more to prevent spoofing, but that doesn't mean that it's responsible to leave your users open to spoofing-based attacks that you should be able to relatively easily prevent.
There are some sophisticated answer being given, but the simplest answer is that everything is obvious once it's been explained. It's a good principle to remember.
Nobody's cowering from the difficulty; many of us go to Burning Man precisely because we are strongly motivated to invest in community-building, and the combination of a challenging physical environment and a wide-open social environment make it a great place to exercise and improve our skills. People very commonly come back and build interesting new community organizations in the "real world" using the skills and connections they've developed through their trips to Burning Man.

A temporary city turns out to be a great place for experimenting with new or at least different ideas about social organization, because it reduces the risk. Every organization has an opportunity to rebuild itself every year, so you can always decide to try something new, if you think it might work better than what you did before; if it fails, well, you just muddle through until it's time to go home and then try something different next year. There's a rhythm of organizational renewal and evolution that comes from the evanescence of the infrastructure. At home, organizations are never so flexible, and you get far fewer chances to go through the process of building one, so it's harder to develop the kind of experience that makes you good at it.

Furthermore, you can't underestimate the significance of the prohibition on commerce. Capitalism is such a pervasive element of everyday life that it's easy not to notice just how often our communities solve hard problems by simply retreating, and restating the problem in the form of a transaction. You can't get away with that at Burning Man; you have to engage with people socially if you want to get anything done. It's an extra layer of discipline that makes things harder, but more satisfying - not easier.
Thanks for the mention! :) In the mean time checkout the write up on my blog.
http://jabelone.com.au/blog/make-autonomous-car-code-include...
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Do you micro the workers or focus on the macro game?
> ... how easy it is to accidentally configure a mailserver ...

Should be "... how easy it is to accidentally configure a Sendmail server..."
I'm Russian, and I regularly follow Russian news. I can tell you two things.

One, coverage of Trump in Russian media (which is almost entirely government-owned or controlled) is generally positive, and that of Clinton is generally very negative. You can clearly see the political preferences they're trying to push.

And two, it's actually a fairly easy sell to the public, because it plays well into the "degenerate West" narrative that Russian propaganda has been using as one of its lynchpins for several years now. When Trump comes out and says that he's against political correctness and immigration, he becomes a part of that narrative, as some sort of valiant crusader against "degeneracy", and his popular support becomes a "proof" of its existence.
Beautifully written. It sounds like you have a wonderful mother!
Interview with Nicholas Stone, CEO of Bluestone Lane NY
> Of course anyone who's ever gotten into a fight in middle school can see the fatal fault with this line of thinking :(

Of course, anyone who has grown up around gangs can see the fault in "We must retaliate for all insults or they will quit fearing us and take our territory." Occasionally, you wind up with everybody dead or in the hospital.

Fortunately, our leaders are mostly adults who understand that there is nuance to diplomacy.
> For the record, I've never been to Burning Man, nor seriously tempted to change that.

I agree with you that any place or event where a man can get burned is a risk to men. In fact, the name says it all; the event must involve a man getting burnt or at least the threat of it.

Maybe it should be a women-and-other-non-men-only event. If so, it's name could be: "An Event Wherest Shall Be No Risk Of Burning To Women And Other Non-men," and all who dispute this may be charged with "Planning To Commit Man-arson." Everyone starting to make pamphlets and other paraphernalia should probably start changing things now. No one must ever again say the word "man" with any sort of incendiary verb, adjective, adverb, or noun in the same sentence. For example, an acceptable pairing could be: "That fire is burning. Have a man put it out."

But, even it that were to happen, I agree, the risk is great.
OneNote. I keep a crazy amount of notes that it's the best I've found. Excellent Mac and iPhone clients.
English motherfucker do you speak it ?
It's tongue and cheek deterrent, it's effectively ex-communcaiton from their social circles which is where they get their attaboy/girl encouragement that this is acceptable behaviour. They don't see themselves as part of the hoi polloi, and bending the rules to their advantage is called "smart".
Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

Time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

Addresses: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

Geography: http://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/?p=15187&lang=en
That made me think of this article from a few years ago: https://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians...
Thanks for the reference, I'll have to find a copy.
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edited, if I could show prior professional code that he fine. But the level of Mon competes is staggering.

I've seen this mentality and I hate it. I have GitHub and a number of personal projects. But the projects that have full quality are private business ventures, in private repositories. Not to mention I have other hobbies. Before I give my GitHub I always stress it's a scratchpad.

My code on GitHub in a grade rating scale is under 50℅ an f. I get it running and that's it. For documentation, unit tests, that's on my private repositories.

I couldn't fathom approaching an interviewer with an NDA. I get enough flak for wanting to run my own business. Saying I'll show you my quality code, but you can't talk about it. That won't fly. I'd have less apprehension if so many companies didn't claim anything developed, on or off clock, is said companies property.
What about applying concurrency to more problems? So many of the basic ideas were discovered and tried a long time ago, but widespread application of concurrency still hasn't caught on.
Grad School Survival Advice from Nick Feamster and Alex Gray
My family came from South America to the US where people use their father's and mother's last names as part of their full name. Sure enough, that's what's on my green card, social security card, and driver's license. But since in real life we only use one last name, all of my non-government but still important stuff (college, work, etc.) only has one last name. And in real life only my family knows I even have another last name.

I've had countless problems with this and delays in getting stuff transmitted or done because people won't believe it's me or won't understand why I have a second last name (which I or my family never asked for when moving here). If just one extra word causes problems, I can't imagine what other cultures have to deal with! No wonder European immigrants a hundred years ago Americanized their names when moving here :-)
Could have.
> These emails were _illegally_ hacked! If you had a _shred_ of dignity you wouldn't even look at them. It should be illegal.

The bigger point is that you shouldn't regard them as credible without corroboration. It's very easy to make things up.

We accept the truth of the Snowden documents because every time we can cross-check the information, it proves correct.
There has actually been an unverified rumor, ostensibly from Putin's inner circle, that Putin was extremely spooked by Qaddafi's eventual fate (to remind, he was tortured and raped with a stick before being shot in the stomach and slowly bled to death).

And when the massive pro-democracy protests against electoral fraud in 2011 election started 2 months later, he started to take it as a personal threat. The rumor claims that this emotional response was a significant contribution to the course change (towards more authoritarianism) that followed.
> The former gives you Send and Sync constraints for free.

Uh, no, it gives you thread safety for free.

When my comment was talking about Send and Sync I was talking about the specific way Rust's typesystem enforces thread safety. I'm not saying that other languages don't, I'm saying that Rust's method of enforcing it might be one of the few unique things it does
JB Straubel at Tesla too
I guess it's also worth mentioning that the generic classification "goes back decades, to before Mylan even purchased EpiPen."

Also worth quoting from TFA; "The federal government issued a rule this year requiring all companies with drugs that have been approved under what the Food and Drug Administration calls a new drug application to either reclassify them as brand-name drugs or seek a waiver. Mylan had previously said it would seek such a waiver, but on Friday it said it agreed that the EpiPen would be classified as a branded drug beginning in April of next year."

A quick settlement in this case relieves both parties, as by no means was the government in a good position for accepting the lower rebates for decades and just now turning around and crying fowl.

But by all means, populist outcries are fun to watch, lets waive those pitchforks and yell "off with their heads!"
ya eating crickets is also supposed to be protein dense, its good thing tho, because red meats are devastating to the eco system. Id be down to try some cricket flower cookies :D
I'm pretty sure backpage has been on LE radar at least since CL shuttered their adult services section. It's pretty widely known as a site used to hire prostitutes, those three women were probably more representative than you think.
Well, if only a handful ever get investigated because the police are understaffed... well then follow the funding. You get the regulatory environment you vote for.
If this interests you, his biography My Brain is Open, is a great read:

https://www.amazon.com/MY-BRAIN-OPEN-Mathematical-Journeys/d...
I'm not sure that is true. It's a popular theory, certainly, but another popular theory is that he genuinely believes in all that Third Rome, Russia as savior of the world pseudo-religious bullshit. With the guy being in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal, this is not something that we'll want to test experimentally.
> relatively trivial

No, that's the point, it isn't, because of various optimizations it turns off. I need to think about exactly what they were, but it's not as simple as isolating the has selectors.
Simplicity first. How do you start thinking of a complicated data model when collecting one sample is nearly 100 million dollars? A good data model develops when you know what questions you want to ask of the data.

Looking back and expecting otherwise is probably a case of hindsight-bias. Also worth emphasising is that the technology (and methodology) is moving very fast.
Story behind your name was pretty amazing. Ever find out the story behind his?
I fell kind of ashamed of saying, but: the Mac Notes app, with data synchronized with my Google or iCloud account. Tried Evernote more than once, and gave up all the times I tried.
The New Math hadn't made it to Amarillo, Texas, by the time I graduated in 1986. I remember multiplication drills and the other good, old stuff.

(And it never did me any harm. Twitch, twitch.)

I learned different bases, sets, and the things I associate with New Math in either the limited high school computer classes or college. To be honest, I don't know if that's good or bad.
Breathing pure oxygen is also harmful.
Sometimes it makes me sad to read something like this and see it be so readily dismissed from the real world because of complexity. It makes me wonder how much precision matters in practice vs principle.

> Even a simpler such algorithm would be unlikely to have practical implications, Brams cautioned, since the cake portions that players receive would typically include many tiny crumbs from different parts of the cake — not a feasible approach if you’re dividing something like a tract of land.
> If the Obama administration is going to complain to the public about Russia fucking with American elections, they should be just as willing to retaliate for it in some public manner; if that's diplomatic, so be it in the realm of the UN/ICJ.

I suspect this announcement is the first step, actually. You don't call someone out publicly unless you plan to go somewhere with it.

My suspicion is that the announcement was probably timed with some hacking activity of our own so Russia will get the message that they are playing against a dangerous opponent.
I am tired of the Catholics trying to rewrite history. I got deep into this issue several times.

First, go to the source. We have the documents from Galileo trials, so first, read what was actually said. http://www.tc.umn.edu/~allch001/galileo/library/1616docs.htm
Here is the most relevant part:

Proposition to be assessed:

(1) The sun is the center of the world and completely
devoid of local motion.

Assessement: All said that this proposition is foolish
and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it
explicitly contradicts many places the sense of Holy
Scripture, according to the literal meaning of the words
and according to the common interpretation and
understanding of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of
theology.

(2) The earth is not the center of the world, nor
motionless, but it moves as a whole and also with diurnal
motion.

Assessment: All said that this proposition receives the
same judgement in philosophy and that in regard to
theological truth it is at least errouneous in faith.

Here, "philosophy" more or less means science. So, yes, Galileo was criticized on scientific grounds, which is totally fine as indeed, there were some problems with his theory (like the lack of movement of stars).

But Galileo was called an heretic because he contradicted the literal meaning of the bible. "formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts many places the sense of Holy Scripture, according to the literal meaning of the words and according to the common interpretation and understanding of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of theology" : this is your regular creationist saying that the bible has to be interpreted literally and that you are a heretic if you don't. Problem: said creationist can throw you in jail if you don't abide to his worldview.

That's why from this time (from a bit earlier actually) universities found it primordial to gain independence from the clergy and that science and religion diverged from each other.

Is this religious assessment coherent with others? Of course not! Religion is not much about coherency. Copernicus heliocentrism was well accepted by the church as he was less confrontational, richer and more religious.

Did Galileo act like an asshole? Maybe, though church did need some trolling at this time. Was his condemnation political? Most certainly! But the salient point is that the motivation may have been political, the justification was religious. And that was unacceptable to scientists that you could justify dogmatism and rewrite science books for political motives. The refusal of this is what gave us modern science.
Oh sorry, yap, was thinking about RethinkDB.
Questions like this aren't uncommon, but a lot of people find it very frustrating.

A fantastic small developer makes what looks like another amazing game, and as soon as it's out people are looking for open-source clones so they don't have to pay.

On a form full of professional developers, who usually get paid for making software.

That may not be what was meant, but the it has to be open source or I don't care posts are not constructive. Real developers like the guys who made Threes get screwed over by this kind of stuff.

Can't we just appreciate a cool game someone made?
Russia can do whatever it wants in its jurisdiction.

But it cannot be allowed to dictate the bilateral terms between other countries. If Ukraine or Poland wants to be in NATO, it's not up to Russia to say "no". Especially given the histories of those countries, and Russia's role therein.

And that's basically what that "OMG NATO is surrounding Russia" thing boils down to.
And fire bombing of most of Japan, knowing very well that they would torch hundred of thousands of civilians including women and children.

And the ongoing killing of prisoners who surrendered (a US army speciality in the Pacific, no prisoners, just kill them all)