skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government is strongly limited by time. There's a hard ceiling on the amount of things that can be proposed, debated, and voted on within a term. Consequently, if there are things in the statute that are no longer used it's often better to simply ignore them than to spend precious time in the house arguing about removing them. It might only take 5 minutes to call the house to order, have someone stand up and say "We don't need a law banning witchcraft any more" and then have a vote where the result is a foregone conclusion, that's 5 minutes that the government isn't doing something useful that will actually impact people's lives.

The repeal of pointless old laws comes up relatively often here in the UK. Some of our laws are really old - the government was talking about repealing some that were passed almost 750 years ago recently http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30334812
Of course there's usually a rational justifiable reason, but that doesn't mean it's still a valid one.

And yet... consider the Secret Service thing. Congress was reluctant to concentrate federal law-enforcement power in one agency. And the history of the FBI shows that may have been the right idea.
Karl Marx have put a great deal of time thinking about this. He's ideas are the basis of the Soviet Union. I believe he's analysis of our current system/economy is a real mind-opener and a must-read. Here's a quick intro on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWF_0lkBhjY&list=PLvoAL-KSZ3...

Imo, this is the system we need + human humility (e.g. to prevent corruption). Implementing it tho, will need everyone's cooperation; hence my writing of this comment.
>astonishingly wealthy in historic or global terms

Like if we compare a junior sys.admin to some kid of the similar age from an african village that has problems with drinkable water? Yes, well, no shit.
Critics still can't get their head around "taking it seriously but not literally".
> In Europe, states may be unhappy that work has been done without tax payment.

Well, it's a good thing we have (now domestic only) banking secrecy in Switzerland, for exactly these reasons. You only get into trouble when your livelihood doesn't make sense from what you earn and own - as long as you pay what's generally considered a 'fair' amount of tax, no-one will blink an eye and come after your documentation. And even if for some reason the government finds out, all that will happen is a penalty tax ranging from 20 to 300% of the missed revenue, usually 100%. There is an explicit difference between tax fraud (document forgery, which could mean jail) and tax evasion (when you 'forgot' to declare something, which leads to above penalty.

Overall, the system is set up so that the government can't abuse its asymmetric power over individuals, instead keeping it as close as possible to an 'employee' of the people.
Expertise yes, but not necessarily desire to keep your information private. There are many expert cryptographers who are much more public than Satoshi.
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This problem also has an "infamous" and very simpe, elegant solution described in Programming Pearls:

"The idea is to give words that are anagrams a common signature, sort all the words together by their signatures, and then print them."

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Anagram-P...
When I closed it (played some games, then checked on it after about 1.5 hours), it was generation 22, Alive 2/50, Score 561,000.
No company is going to pay someone for an interview project assignment when they know they could easily make candidates jump through hoops for free.
One of the Redux utility functions I reuse across projects [1] would live in an ActionDispatcherFactoryFactory class in Java, but it can just be an 8 line function in JavaScript.

[1] https://gist.github.com/insin/526b7b006039c16f8b2987a8037217...
I wasn't saying Ukraine doesn't have it's own literature though.
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I think person who is either very well compensated for that or with slave mentality would sign such a contract. Either way I don't think those people are a target group of this post.
At the grad level students get really good at rationalizing and predicting reactions. We did bimonthly exercise called mechanism club where someone would pick some chemical reactions from the literature and basically volunteers would come up to the chalkboard and push electrons till the reaction was complete.
>> Disregarding the rules of the game because "the elite cheats anyway" is a terrible idea.

We have to play games all the day where "the other party cheats anyway". But there are only two games where your efforts to make things work out are divided by 140.000.000. Election and lottery.

>> There are cheaters and people making.. "clever use of game mechanics", let's say. But the vote does matter.

Yes, votes does matter. And your vote matters as well. But its relevance is divided by 140.000.000. Good luck, man!

>> In fact, one of the main reasons the system is so broken today is because there isn't enough vote.

And this is because the non-voters have better things to do with their lives than playing the sucker's game.

>> You know, if it was that easy, I'd be the one sitting on billions of dollars right now.

Only because we could not cheat our way to the top does not mean that the people at the top are saints. Maybe they are just better cheaters than you and me.
Bernie Sanders statement on Trump
Comparing a hash-table to a trie is difficult in practice.

Theoretically, they are equally fast. Both take O(length of word) time. You could give an advantage to the trie because it allows for early failure detection, whilst the hash table requires processing the full word.

In practice though, for short words (e.g. < block size of the hash) the hash might effectively be constant time. Finally, cache behavior is going to really matter tries require a pointer dereference for each character (you can mitigate this someone by storing non-branching paths along the trie better). Such dereferences tend to really wreck a cache.

So in the end, it's better cache behaviour for the hash table vs early stopping for the trie. Cache misses are so expensive, I'd guess the hash table wins in most situations, but that is really a guess.
There are several co-working spaces in Prague:

* PaperHub at Paralelni Polis - https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/koncepty/coworking/

* ImpactHub - http://www.hubpraha.cz/en/

* Node5 - http://node5.cz/#about
For example when he criticized Megyn Kelly as having "blood coming out of her wherever" implying that she asked him a tough question because she was having her period.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/donald-trump-cnn-megy...

And here is a long list of examples compiled by the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexis...
'Let's Go Work Even Harder': Mark Zuckerberg Responds to Election
Thanks for the link to the location and explanation! This is fascinating.
> If I had to guess, I'd suggest that it's a combination of technical debt and bad processes inherited from their startup days, combined with a management focus on features that support monetisation goals rather than basic maintenance.

I wish it was that. I'm not claiming to know, but AFAIR they've done at least two overhauls which I believe changed both dependencies, interface and logic, which suggests they had at least the opportunity to clean out any technical debt.

But for sure, something in the client development is broken. I remember reporting that bug too, as well as others.
I believe jblows games (braid, the witness) have less lines of code than one would typically expect. I think you should assume hes not writing code like a government contractor.
There's a big difference acting on instinct and heuristics, versus actually thinking witch is very slow.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Sometimes it's valid, sometimes it's not -- are we disagreeing or does "and yet..." mean something completely different than what I think it implies?
Couldn't they do something that's "repeatably random"? So that in case of a bug, you can extract some information from your kernel on its current randomisation, and then another kernel can use this information to repeat your random layout.

E.g. use pseudorandom numbers, store the seed somewhere. In case of a bug, extract that seed, pass it on to the dev, and he'll run his kernel with that seed to reproduce.
If you're being sued by your employer for breaching a moonlighting agreement, you've already lost. It doesn't matter whether you win or not.
"Between a quarter to half of California's state budget comes from the federal government"

I think you're trying to make it seem higher than it is. Per your link, it's 25%.
What's the easiest way to win a competition?

How does the prisoner's dilemma apply to markets?
They just rolled out v. 10.0.42 which according to them addresses the issue.
> When I was a kid in Iraq (1990~) going to school by yourself was very natural. Our school was nearby so we walked every day.

I don't think you understand.

I walked to school also, from age 7 or so.

Japan is different in that many of these children take public transportation in places likes Tokyo and that they do this very very young.

On top of that it's not uncommon for parents to send their children on errands also alone. We're talking large densely populated metropolis.

This is something very peculiar to Japan (I'm not saying unique) and I suppose very different from your experience.
No, nobody is saying that about Russia\Ukraine. Modern Russia comes from were we pushed mongols away and from Grand Duchy of Moscow (est. 1283). This, however, can't change the fact the Kievan Rus' (fell 1240) is the root for both countries.

All I was saying is that we do share more than some people thing or want to believe, just because of the recent events.
>What bit the DNC in the ass in a big way last night was that they completely miscalculated the importance of a large portion of the electorate that Trump actively courted, nominated a candidate that had almost no chance of swaying these voters, and ignored and denigrated them for the entire campaign. Whoops. Calling this a 'blind spot' would probably be an understatement.

Yes to humility. I'm fine with the party doing some self-analysis and changing how they do things. I just don't think the math supports this narrative. Did Trump actually bring in new voters to his party? That was the story in the primary (and apparently now) but I don't think the data matched it then. It seems he did well with Republicans. Would any Democratic candidate have swayed rural white voters, or any white voters?

And suppose we take away the arguments about Trump's racist stuff. Say all these portion of voters really did vote because they had been ignored and are worried about their jobs and economic uncertainty. I don't think Trump's stated policies will help them. I think they're wrong to think trade policies and immigration are causing their problems. And if the story about this populist uprising is true, these don't seem to want a social safety net, expanded access to health care, environmental regulation, or unions, as much as they want a wall to keep out Mexicans. The DNC doesn't need to sway these voters. They're Republicans.

And finally, she got more votes. How terrible could Hillary have been if she got more votes? We need to keep this election in perspective. It was very very close. There are still a lot of people that want Democrats in office.
I find it ironic that some of the strongest shouters of "Freedom!" are anti-LGBT. The US has some powerfully conservative morals. In my own travels as a foreigner across the US (a straight white anglo male), I found that there were plenty of times I had to watch what I said or did. The big cities where people don't chant "Freedom" is where people acted freer, and the rural areas were opposite (broadly speaking).

I'm a centre-left in my own country, which would be far left in the US. Gay marriage is a non-issue to me, because it doesn't affect anyone that is not involved and consenting. I'm of the opinion that if those religious people who oppose it because it brings the devil or some such, if they want to ban it because of their beliefs, then they should step forward and provide some proof. If you want to meddle in a stranger's life, there should at least be some evidence, rather than a hunch.

Unfortunately I don't have a good answer for you, apart from the intolerant christians simply turning to religion because of easy answers. There's plenty of christians in the US who don't bludgeon their neighbours with their faith, and those people generally are up for discussion. It's like the Church of England in the UK - they're christian, but they're also perfectly normal people that can live beside people who don't behave the same as them. But if you're the kind of person who finds asking searching questions difficult, then a loud defense of your religion helps keep you 'safe'.

As for the smugness, I find it hilarious when conservatives talk about how smug progressives are, even as they're using a dismissive tone as they describe that smugness. The main article is a classic example of this, and my comment was just meant to point out that both sides do this tactic that the author so despises.

Unfortunately, the only way to get people to change these kind of deeply-held beliefs is to get them to ask themselves questions about it, and they may get there of their own accord. But if the other side isn't listening, then those questions can't be seeded.

A shorter form of my opinions on gay marriage is this: it's fucking outrageous that a completely unrelated person can get in the way of a loved one making important decisions for their partner (like medical care). Is there a need for debate on it? No, not if you're for 'Freedom'. And, of course, if a person is not for 'Freedom', then they must Hate America :)
Watch Snowden sound off on Trump live on November 10
They reacted to the mess on the community forums and just rolled out fix with version 10.0.42
Hillary was undone by her own sexism. Her loss and Trump's win is the final bankruptcy of feminist ideology, reaping what it sowed.

When Obama ran, did he repeatedly suggest people should vote for him because he was black? I don't recall so. I remember him talking about his policies and beliefs.

Hillary's campaign rapidly devolved after the primaries to "vote for me because I'm not Trump and I'm a (in my view) super competent woman". Her supporters slogan became "I'm with her".

The bigger problem though is how the Dems cleared the way for her to run almost unopposed except for Bernie, an independent who didn't give a crap what the Democrats thought. Trump defeated many primary challengers. Where were the D alternatives to Hillary? Apparently the idea spread that it was Hillary's "turn", that after a black man there should be a woman, and wouldn't that be a nice historical motif.

So the Dems tipped the playing field towards one of the weakest, most easily attacked candidates in US history. She can't give speeches. She has few policy ideas beyond starting a war with Russia (NFZ in Syria). She exudes corruption. She epitomises the widely disliked status quo. She has more skeletons in her closet than a medical student. She would have been the continuation of a dynasty. Yet somewhere, the groupthink-saturated world that decides these things decided it was time for a female President and after that her qualifications became irrelevant. Feminists, both male and female, became so transfixed with breaking "the last glass ceiling" that they grabbed the first female to come along and demanded she be made top dog.

Disagree? Give me a better explanation for how the Democrats mysteriously found themselves with an almost empty stable of primary challengers to Clinton.

People and especially women need to stop talking about gender imbalances or the "injustice" of them or how to fix them - it's yesterday's conversation. Trying to "fix" these non-problems by tipping the playing field towards women gives you Trump, a man who is the walking embodiment of not giving a shit about feminists. If the Dems had simply treated HRC as anyone else, they might be in power now.
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That wouldn't work today, though. People have a much higher expectation of what a piece of hardware can do and looks like.
> The company is actually extremely popular among younger women.

Maybe not that popular if they're going bankrupt?
It is worth remembering that

Revenue != Number of machines
Typically when people say "that doesn't mean it's still a valid one", what they really mean is "it isn't still valid".
Was it that Spotify (even if closed) hijacks bluetooth "play" from another audio application that is currently open and active?

That annoyed me to no end as well. I had to get another app to forcifully intercept any play call and trigger a pre-defined application instead. Which is... not optimal. I'm glad this thread is on HN, bugs with Spotify clients not getting fixed for months/years have annoyed me since I signed up in 2008.
Not true everywhere. In the Netherlands I'm expected to learn courses in my own time. A new major version of the opensource system we extend came out recently, it's completely different, and I'm expected to read it in my evenings and weekends.

I mean, I'm okay with investing in my own knowledge, but at some point it's just too much.
The first reply on the top of that page is a classic

"Isn't installing Spotify in a regular HDD an option?"

Just completely ignore the problem and find a way to let you pretend it doesn't exist.
Problem is, many companies are only playing interviews.

When you want to hire people who gets the job done it is no harder than:

1. Please tell me about a project you have done, a sw book you read, a hard bug you solved, really anything you like about computing etc.

2.a (This guy seems smart) Let's discuss compensation and you can start your probation period asap.

2.b (This guy is not smart nor passionate) Thank you for coming in, but we don't want to hire you.

edit: I used this method with great success, imo programming exercises are just an indirection that only adds noise and loosely correlates with on the job performance anyway
I have seen numerous cases where they would have no clue when to even start when giving the initiative. A pretty good sign of the level of japanese colleges and universities.
Maybe Flattr [0] is close enough? You set a monthly budget, pick things to support over the course of the month, and at the end of the month those things automatically get their slice of your pre-set budget.

[0] https://flattr.com/
Apparently they have released new version with a fix to this issue. you should check whether it updates to 10.0.42
I would also hire the dude on the spot, and probably his/her friends too.
Is it only me who finds this website unreadable?
For me it was 1st generation and I was wondering what this project was all about. Until I hit F5, now it's 50 generations and still to successfull bird in sight.
> Now people freak out if a child is without adult supervision for 5 minutes, because of pedo-paranoia

pedo-paranoia was also a think while I was growing up. I totally remember the talk regarding not accepting rides from people nor candy. My parents deny that they ever said such things because those were "idyllic times", but they sure did.
Thanks for your feedback, but I'm still concerned and would appreciate some more.

I think a difference I've seen this election is between verifiable facts and debate-able opinions. I can listen and probe intently until my partners face is blue but, for example, if they believe the world is flat, there's very little middle ground we can get opinion-wise since we fundamentally disagree about the shape of the earth.

I try to be as open as possible to differences in opinions and try my best to accept conflicting evidence to my world view. But, if someone is trying to convince me of something a couple google searches could easily disprove, I end up exasperated by the discussion. What do I do there? Not trust google?

My knee jerk thought is that these folks have been misinformed by people they trust. I want to help fix that, not lecture them. The tactics dont matter as much as the result.
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That article has very suspect figures. It says that all the major candidates had supporters with median incomes above the national median income. Which tells me that the population they're polling isn't representative.
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A better approach will be to recommend statistics resources to make this a better or serious recommendation.

Could you be kind enough to do that? Otherwise, your evaluation of the recommendation is not serious!
I used to spend summers in Japan to get an extra two months of schooling as American schools were out... Walking to school at age six was a daily activity. Summers in Okinawa regularly reach 30C or higher; and the particular town I was in was mostly agricultural gravel roads between home and school. The process wasn't completed alone; I typically grouped together with four or five cousins that lived nearby and we all walked the ~2km together.
World of Tanks? War on Terror?

Come on people. You saved 9 characters in that post title.
Yes, that is very nicely presented.
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Did VC tank the company? As I recall from her book and interviews, she built her business on revenue and only took on capital much later.
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> Tech giants all have teams all over the world and it works OK, but they pay top rates for local standards and have proper management chain top down.

Having teams all over the world is a very different cost and business model from outsourcing.

With overseas teams they tend to either be salary matched to market and the quality not so great or good wage even by US (but maybe not SV) standards but getting the very best people.

Outsourcing is much more of a mess because markup is ~3x.
People keep saying this but compiling seems super CPU bound so im confused.
Where are you pulling that 140.000.000 from? You're so focused on it.

Once you remove the percentage of people who don't vote and take the electoral college into account, that number is way lower and we haven't even begun to touch how one person can mass influence votes.

Just because you yourself have one single vote doesn't mean your voice is one in a sea of hundreds of millions. Far from it.

> And this is because the non-voters have better things to do with their lives than playing the sucker's game.

Why do you think so much effort is spent on preventing various inconvenient groups of people to vote?

It's funny how a lot of people downplay their own voice in a democracy. You have far more influence than you can imagine.

You strike me as quite terribly close minded though, and I don't really feel like convincing people when they adopt such a cynical attitude, so if you're actually interested you can read the excellent Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.
Right, but you can take a foreign tax exemption or credit.

You can make a US tax free $100k in Hong Kong with the exemption. Going the credit route takes what you pay in local taxes and deducts that from what you pay in the US, so in European countries with high taxes, you still don't pay any more.

Still have to file though.
Wow, that is one expensive case. The cost of the material to print that on default settings on that printer is 150 EUR.
>but Japanese young adults are not nearly as independent as western kids.

You can totally see this while travelling. Very few japanese youngsters travel abroad and even fewer do so alone.

This is in contrast with say young Koreans. I meet those in droves usually either alone or groups of 2/3.

I don't understand what happens between childhood independence and hikikomori but something definitely happens.
The volume on S&P and DJIA futures surely is sufficient to be legit?