skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it is. If 100% of the population is above the poverty line, how much does mobility matter?

Similarly, if 20% of the population is always below the poverty line, zero sum mobility means that for every person rising out of poverty, someone else sinks into it.

I think the metric we should focus on is reducing poverty.
>The only equilibrium is complete transparency. Which, if it was universal, would be a great outcome!

The problem with this is it also needs to be matched by universal processing power.

If the NSA released to you every financial transaction it had ever made, no matter how trivial, you'd be so completely swamped by information you'd never be able to store it, let alone process it.

Transparency doesn't do anything on it's own, it has to be backed by scrutiny.
I studied Prolog in college (3rd CS year course, 2003).

I concluded it didn't deliver on its promise.

The promise was that, as in the article, you 'Say what you want, not how you want it done.'

In practice, once you start writing non-trivial programs, you run into situations where they take ages to run, as Prolog does its search in the background.

So, you have to start using all these languages features to control and optimize the search, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_(logic_programming)

And you end up spending a lot of time reasoning about the how that it said you didn't have to care about.

I concluded that, as a result of performance issues, the core Prolog abstraction 'leaks' too frequently for it to be worthwhile. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction)

Its a great promise, if a smarter language or implementation could achieve it, but overall I concluded that if I was going to have to spend all this time reasoning about the how anyway, I might as well just deal with that up-front, rather than after-the-fact.

I'd love to hear a contrasting opinion (I got pretty good at it, but only over months, not years, of use). But I suspect this is the reason why Prolog didn't make it. It looks good at the start, but it doesn't deliver.
Why Many On-Demand Platforms Fail
Just wondering why do you recommend this particular lecture so highly ?
Things haven't changed much since the other day, so probably all of it.
And EasyDNS have a blog post[0] about why it actually is a good idea (disclosure: I agree).

[0] http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/
I searched DDG and github for "every programmer." Man, I gotta get busy, that's a lot to know.
Wireless Oculus Prototype
Definitive listing of all urban stairways in San Francisco
React Melody Composer – Compose Your Own Melody with This React GUI
Below 26 is your killer. Statistically, people marry later than before, and women are more educated (both 'than before' and 'than men'). Women have more career opportunities than before, so why would they want to marry at 26 (or sub-26, as you put it). That kills their opportunities for careers and post-collegiate education. Family values? That's one specific to your region of the country (I'm in a less pious part of the U.S., thankfully). No debt? That's a hard one given how much more 'the critical things' (health care, education, housing, not talking about computers) cost to millenials.

What you described are pre-1980 criteria in a post-2010 world.
To be clear, I understand the student in question cannot have access to an actual 6502-based machine but a simple 8-bit computer (without a lot of custom chips for graphics/sounds/etc) is easily understandable by a reasonably intelligent person and the CPU itself can be expressed in a simple state machine. Given the documentation for a real machine, the student can run by hand the system clock and understand memory latency, the instructions that can be executed, the interrupts, etc. That's a level of fundamental understanding that the vast majority of newly-minted "programmers" have not and will never attain.
I understood none of that FOLdeROL
Soylent's glycemic index is comparable to 1-2 servings of fruit:

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/212769503-Glycemic...

http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycem...
Building a botnet using unfirewalled tutorial VMs
Or the whole AI is about to be everywhere because it's working well on a few problems thing. That led to AI winter with LISP and Prolog taking brunt of it at language level. At least we haven't seen articles like that recently, right? ;)
Haven't seen it, but I'll check it out. Thanks for the pointer.
The Last Mile is now up and running in 4 California state prisons. Folsom Women's Facility, Ironwood State Prison, Chuckawalla State Prison, and of course San Quentin.

We're going to be expanding into a few more in 2017. You can see some of the details of how we setup the classroom here: https://github.com/thelastmile/intranet
Fair enough, atheist is probably technically the wrong term but it's a convenient shorthand for not believing the tenets of any particular religion.
JUnit was created by Kent Beck et al to support automated testing with what came to be known as XP and subsequently TDD. This inspired subsequent testing frameworks such as TestNG and implementations for other languages like nUnit.
> This seems like a _terrible_ mistake.

I can at least confirm with certainty that it sometimes is a terrible mistake.

I port things. One approach I sometimes use is to stub in noop implementations of platform specific things. I generally use #pragmas or the like to generate a warning to come back to (which I can always later crank up to an error to ensure I've gone back and implemented everything.) It's common that the original authors were also "kind enough" to leave some noop implementations of their own - although usually not with the helpful #pragmas.

End result: Thousands of failing unit tests, most of which were passing for more than a year. Some are innocuous as minor string formatting changes caused by minor libc differences - but even that can be concerning if you want consistent, reliable results that don't vary by platform and threaten to cause platform specific edge cases.

I've never seen a codebase where even 10% of the failures are that innocuous.
But it didn't reach a broader audience. Nobody reads books (2006), that's why they made a movie "Kill The Messenger" (2014).

But the movie had a horrible US release despite its huge starpower, was successful only internationally and won some prices on US festivals. It opened on 427 screens (medium), had good reviews and stayed 2 weeks big, but gathered only 2.5M USD. That's a horrible number with that many screens and a 5M budget.
An explanation would be the complete lack of advertising by the producers Focus Pictures. It was buried.
There was a private petition to re-release the movie after several weeks of silence, which gained huge momentum, and was quite a controversy.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)...

- http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=killthemessenger.htm

- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216491/business?ref_=ttrel_sa_3
I'm sticking with my initial suggestion. If you want to make certain tags mandatory then those could be the ones you might categorize by so that you have a way of letting people explore your content through browsing. Still, the decision is easier than choosing your categorization criteria and then populating all of the values.
GP probably didn't mean "9 years ago" (the article was published over 9 years ago) when saying "the other day." 9 years is a long time in the tech world. It's a valid question.
Yeah, neither Uber nor AirBnB area a zero sum game, esp. ABnB.

There is some 'growing the pie' at the margins, but I'd suggest that Uber Corp. grabs more than what is created, and that drivers et. al. are holding the losing end of the stick.

The power imbalance between Uber Corp. and drivers is quite massive. Esp. without employment status.

Uber is designed to suck every last penny of real margin out of the system, and leave drivers with the absolute minimum.

Worse: because many drivers make short term decisions about their costs, and don't calculate wear and tear into their decisions, it's probably that Uber driving is borderline unprofitable.

Imagine if there was one factory in the world where you could work. You got $10 an hour - just enough to stay alive. But - you are going to get sick and die in 10 years from the toxicity. Well, the real 'market price' for such dangerous work might be $20/hour - enough to pay for health insurance and medicine, but because of short term decisions made by workers who are desperate - it's $10/hour i.e. a 'long term money losing venture' to work in the factory.

I generally like Uber as a concept, but we can't ignore these issues.
Magento 1.7 has over 300 tables, see http://www.magereverse.com/ Magento 2.x has probably even more. You can download the software including a demo store https://www.magentocommerce.com/download
There's a TON of industrial programming that is leaps and bounds beyond CRUD applications. I develop machine vision applications, and although my days of programming in the field are behind me, I have seen many similar environments over the last 15 years.
Explaining the importance of privacy to the average Joe
Masses of regulations are complex and require lawyers - even small business tax is a mess.
"After the dust has settled in this election, the divisions within the Democratic ranks will likely re-emerge" -- as a lifelong democract/progressive I can say honestly that the divisions have NOT been mended for this election.

I'm supporting Jill Stein even though I feel she's a little over the top personality wise and a little odd. Bernie was the right amount of crazy progressive while working within the confines of what he was given. I will never support another Democrat until the party is ripped a part or totally reformed. Case closed. The only exception are ones that run under against trade, have strong climate change policies, and are against corporate money and corruption in politics.

We desperately need to pass the anti-corruption act on a national level getting all corporate donations out of politics. Money is a 'vote' and corporations should not have a say it's "we the people" not "we the corporations and a few people who we allow to matter".
Uber already produces enormous amounts of consumer surplus. Two examples would be making it possible to get a ride while black and making it possible to get a ride while in San Francisco. If you feel they should go out of business unless they can live up to your standards cool but taxi regulators will be just as effective at protecting consumers after Uber goes out of business as before it existed.
We use Datalog every day in a React-Native application, via the datascript db (https://github.com/tonsky/datascript).
Has been a very positive experience so far.

Thinking in "facts" / binary relations is itself a refreshing approach.
You wrote that no one with half a brain would buy the spin. Since I bought the spin, you are implying that I have less than half a brain. That is another way of saying I'm stupid.

How is that not what you wrote?

And your comment was not "directed at no one". You addressed quite a lot of people "people with half a brain", "people without half a brain", "people who bought the spin", "people who didn't buy the spin", and the author.
Like what? Remember that taxis drivers are also independent contractors[1]. Is there evidence that a better business model is possible?

[1] http://www.unitedworkerscongress.org/taxi-drivers.html
Ah, how else could one advance the discussion much without anecdotal experience with this particular topic?
Equality of Opportunity in Machine Learning
Ask HN: Is this you too? The upside of being always on
We could very well provide VPSes, cloud services, domains and/or SSD web hosting where you could also host unlimited domains (now you can host one domain per account)
I think associating this particular mummification practice performed by monks of Shingon sect of buddhism with buddhism itself isn't right. They took some buddhist teachings in 806 and modified them a bit. The founder of Shingon was a student of a Chinese teacher, who was a student of a Hindu teacher. Derogations are bound to happen.

Even still, It takes some insight to comprehend their self-mummification practices. I suppose it weren't just a bunch of pointless suicides.

That said, there aren't such practices in Hinduism or most, as it turns out(?) Buddhist philosophies (such as tibetan buddhism).
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Health Care is not like building roads.

I live in Quebec, Canada and the healthcare here is among the worst in the civilized world.

Also - it's illegal to pay a doctor to fix you. Canada is the only place in the world where it's illegal to pay someone to cure you of something. It's basically communist.

The American system is untenable, but 'single payer' is not the solution.

Successful countries that do it are tiny. Sweden is smaller than Los Angeles. Swtizerland does it at the cantonal level, which on average is 800 000 citizens. Can you imagine your entire hospital and insurance system being in blocks of 800 000?

Maybe at the state level, subsidies, regulating drug prices etc. etc. - but full-on national level 'single payer' would be a huge disaster, beyond contemplation.

Also in many single payer systems - the guy who snuck across the border illegally gets the exact same healthcare as you, working professional, paid a million in taxes, dutiful citizen etc..

I think there should be coverage for everyone, but single-payer is not the path.
Remember that Uber replaced a model (taxis) wherein drivers not only where also independent contractors, as they had to pay at the start of each day to rent a medallion, not knowing if they would earn enough to compensate.

Uber's model seems strictly better than what has existed for decades.
Niel Fraser, the guy who created the Blockly block programming toolkit also created a JS Interpreter which allows single stepping of code. https://neil.fraser.name/software/JS-Interpreter/docs.html
I browsed the comments hoping there would be a better alternative in the comments. Could not have hoped to find a better article. Thank you, the first two chapters are a great read. Bookmarked for the weekend.

On the date of publication and rapid changes in tech world. It might be a bit older but the generic concepts are still great to learn if you only heard the terms before but don't know the details.
Signing up for a job as an independent contractor agreed upon by both the contractor and the company...and then after the fact being told that they are actually employees isn't protecting either party involved in the initial agreement. It's using the government to protect OUTSIDE parties by by crippling the business with additional expenses.
That's great! Chris, Beverly, & the rest of the team, have done an incredible job with The Last Mile. It's an awesome program and great to see the continued success.
If it's like the comment algo, it seems to take time into account. Brand new stuff has a short boost.
I may be wrong, but I don't necessarily see this as a place to give tips about doing our getting away with illegal activities, even if it is directly related to the article.
Assuming by God you mean Christian God. Buddhism brings views which you can associate with God, but they're not the idea of a being watching over us.
I have to question that given that one of the main revelations of the leak was how the DNC and WaPo are joined at the hip.
It was for an audience that would. The rest would be unlikely to be helpful. Filtering trick. ;)

Anyway, here's the work the result will build on whose description is useful to wider audience:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jared/milawa/Web/

https://cakeml.org/
Several countries offer tax schemes to support local movie productions: private investment in local movie production is incentivized by way of tax breaks to the investors.

I am not aware of equivalent tax breaks offered to investors to support science or technology development, it is seems to me it could be a great way to incentivize scientific progress.

Does anyone know why tax schemes to support science are not being used?
I remember reading this here a while back - wonder what happened:
https://neil.fraser.name/news/2015/04/13/

But like others in this post I would recommend CS unplugged.

And depending on how long he is in there for he might want to look at:

How to Design Programs - This is a good book, and although it's in Scheme, it teaches how to create appropriate levels of abstraction, which seems to be something many programmers struggle with.

Concepts, Techniques & Models of Computer Programs - Discusses the different paradigms and how they are inter-related.

Also something a bit more vocational like The Pragmatic Programmer or Clean Code / Clean Coder probably wouldn't hurt either.

If he can read all of those he will be very well prepared to do some actual programming when he gets out.

SICP not a bad shout either, although I've not got past the first chapter.
But the children in the mines contractually agreed to their positions! Who is the government to interfere with this business partnership?
Not a word about the UK's NHS?
How Remote Workers Do the Right Way: 13 Dos and Don’ts
> I am very keenly aware of every stupid thing Trump has ever said,

(Cited from another reply.) This misses the point. Most importantly, like Clinton (but really far MORE than Clinton), nothing he says has any particular aim other than objective emotion of the moment (except in the rare case there is another equally vacuous cause). Nor can you reliably predict behavior based on past statements by presidential candidates. It's a joke that people citing these clowns have clearly not understood. That being said, Trump likes economic and populist conflict, not actual war. He defers to experts for physical conflict and has no incentive to initiate as he is fundamentally an egoist. Would he rather spend 100 million on moving some ships around, or put his face on Rushmore. It's that simple.
Different angle: Possibly a great opportunity to start low with CPU architecture, memory layout, and basic concepts in OS design. It'll really help further down the line and doesn't require any computer to execute code on.
That, OTOH, might be funny for a second time. Maybe.
I'm a fellow rooter also concerned about device security. I think full disk encryption, with the unlock key encrypted with a passphrase not stored on the device gives me more than the security that was lost by rooting my phone. Even recovery can't touch the OS or my files without me feeding it the passphrase.
I find it quite interesting to know how things work for gay men. If he does not tell me, I would not know.
I always ask myself: can a person that looks like me, is as smart, has as much money etc... be successful in this situation?

The answer (for me) has is almost always "yes" and so the question becomes how did they do it? What failing of mine should I repair?
Does your nick has anything to do with Burzum?
I think it's fair to say that an inability to effectively evaluate the choices is implicit in "too much choice". It becomes too much when it becomes too difficult to evaluate.
>How does one know what the correct target ratio is for their field?

One can look at the distribution of m:f in the list of eligible applicants, or more generally in university graduate numbers. It will be subject to noise, but the 'natural' outcome should be at least in the same ballpark.

>I have blind faith in the general equality of the sexes. I'm not saying I'm right, I fully acknowledge it's an article of faith.

Blind faith is not necessary here. Nor is a belief in 'male superiority in certain fields'. I agree that given equal qualifications, gender should not affect performance to a great degree, yet affirmative action vastly skews recruitment to one side in this case and only makes sense if it turns out gender does affect performance and women are somehow vastly better (without this effect being picked up and accounted for by the market).
The issue really isn't using DV (domain validation) or EV (extended validation), but the fact that the validation chain a particular client sees can be different from what everybody sees. The CA system could by augmented by various distributed trust and result consensus systems.
Studying binary trees for your exam/assignment/interview? Try BinaryTree
Texas www.allmandlaw.com/Blog/2009/December/7-Facts-You-Need-To-Know-About-Repossession-In-T.aspx

Under Texas law, your vehicle may be repossessed even if it is "only" late. That means that if you payment was due on November 1st and you haven't paid by November 10th it is possible to find your vehicle was repossessed by the 11th of November.
The Financer or Leaser does not need to go to court in order to repossess you vehicle, nor are they required to give you advance warning.
The repo man is allowed to come onto your property to repossess you vehicle; but they are not allowed to disturb the peace to do so. Also, if your repo man needs to come onto your property to repossess your property, they are not allowed to destroy or damage you property to carry out the repossession.
There's no way for the computer to know which way is correct and which way is a mirror image.
Forgot to add the link so you can see what such a process might look like. Here's slides and a paper on one that merged HOL and ACL2. But it verified that in HOL4, not ACL2.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD06/presentations/...

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/acl206/papers/gordon.pdf
I just copied your data by reading this comment, though.
SICP might be a good programming book, but I'm not sure it's a good book. If your friend doesn't have programming experience something like "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" might be an easier way to start. Here is the first paragraph from each for comparison:

SICP: "We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells."

Code: "You're 10 years old. Your best friend lives across the street. In fact, the windows of your bedrooms face each other. Every night, after your parents have declared bedtime at the usual indecently early hour, you still need to exchange thoughts, observations, secrets, gossip, jokes, and dreams. No one can blame you. After all, the impulse to communicate is one of the most human of traits."
Not really true. There are many women out there who marry below 26, even with career opportunities. Debt tends to be low, though not zero. And family values are high. However, they do tend to be from a set of ethnicities that are not extreme Western or American.

The women you may be referring to are unbounded, liberal, and non-restrictive. The set of men they tend to attract are less serious, less guided, are more short-termed. Marriage for them before 30 is a situation of rarity.

> Statistically, people marry later than before.

True when you include certain cultural demographics.
Or the Connection Machine, where the individual processors were arranged in a hypercube.
From a quick look through, most of it. Modern x86 micro-architectures still use integrated memory controllers and ~3 level CPU caches.

All the timings are a little faster, the caches a little bigger, and the buses a little wider, but it's still basically the same stuff with different names.
Damn stupid way to book a reservation in one of the Bürgerämt in Berlin
> Mano, M and Kime, C Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals, 2nd ed Prentice Hall, 2001

"Featuring a strong emphasis on the fundamentals underlying contemporary logic design using hardware description languages, synthesis, and verification,"

You mean to tell me that set theory is too abstract, but full-adders and VHDL are right up his alley.
> iphone camera kills the nexus 5's

The Nexus 5X's camera also kills the Nexus 5's. Nexus 5's camera was poor.