skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information density of federal regulations is much much higher though. It's written in a higher level language and even shells out to precedence to interpret a lot of it.
Well there was no other choice except voting against all and disrupting election process which would never happen with out some major unification across America. Not happening today.

So here we are taking sharp 90 degree turn at the fork. We would rather have a clown in the white house (with mysterious bag of tricks) than continuing with the current policies.
Funny how many people in tech think because they're good with computers they're somehow smarter than climate scientists.
someone posted this to HN the other day https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Crocker%27s_rules .. I thought it was quite good, it means sometimes articles like this, with their emotional language gives you information that is useful... IF you refuse to take offense to it.
America has enough shale oil to be a net energy exporter, which means no more dealing with Venezuela or need for huge defense spending to protect strategic resources across the world. So I dunno, I can see why developing those resources might be in our interest.
70 decades ago, if I were a billionaire, I'd have no choice but to stay in the US and pay that tax rate. Europe is rebuilding from a war, Asia is an agrarian back-water and South America is about to start experimenting with Communism. Yeah, where am I going to run to, Mars?

Now it's different. I'll be laughing with my other billionaire buddies about your tax rate plans while snorting coke of a hooker's tits on my private yacht and watching the Monaco F1 GP from the harbor. I've got all the luxuries I need over there, and in fact, everywhere, that I previously could only enjoy in the US. I can talk with who I need to talk to over Skype, I can do my business, banking, everything, remotely.

It's not like other countries don't have equal or better infrastructure. It's not like I can get clean water and food only in the US that would somehow make this a magical place I'd never leave.

So why would I just sit quietly and let you tax me at 90%, exactly?
A similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12912608
It may not wear out your drive, but it will waste power and take up CPU time and I/O bandwidth unnecessarily!
In a lot of countries people find it perfectly reasonable for the doctor to say something like "Your father is old, and we can operate to remove his tumor, but he's not going to live much longer no matter what we do. We don't have unlimited resources so we're not going to operate."

People in the US aren't use to making those kinds of tradeoffs, which is why we spend half of our medical dollars on the last year of people's lives. We might decide not to operate, but financial considerations won't enter into the decision.

That's why I will be surprised if anything the government does short of rationing care will affect the cost of medicine in the US. It's about expectations.
I am ok with Thiel thinking Trump would win. What was a disappointment for me is that Thiel actually believes Trump was a good candidate and (I speculate) agrees with his platform. Also, apparently has no problem with the incendiary and hateful speech of Trump
> He ran on the Republican ticket, but he's hardly your standard Republican. He says he's not free trade, yet wants to do things to help big business, yet wants to impose huge tariffs and taxes on businesses that outsource and offshore to save money.

Well, he didn't get much out of his Republican alignment. The party rejected him. I don't think he's pro big business per se, as more protectionist. Viewed in that light, it makes perfect sense. American companies making products consumed in America should employ Americans. He's remarkably consistent when it comes to that.

> Trump has said some really outlandish things as it comes to foreign policy. Encouraging the proliferation of nuclear weapons, abandoning our allies, letting certain parts of the world fend for themselves.

Trump is a negotiator. He always comes to the table with outlandish proposals and expects to be talked down. I think that's one thing people don't seem to fully realize, how many caveats his statements have. China/Russia/Taiwan won't be offended at his statements, at least not enough to start a shooting war. They'll realize it as what it is, a negotiating gambit to try to stake out a stronger position at the table, and they know how to play the game.

> But this is again an issue where nothing with him is clear. He never presented a clear proposal no what he intends to do on immigration besides being tough and building a wall.

This is true. And also a source of misunderstanding. He won't take office until January. Why would you nail down policy proposals now that you might have thrown back in your face later if the situation changes? It'd be like saying in your job interview what you'd be doing at your job that you start 3 months for now. You'd probably say "These are the main goals I want to accomplish, I'll figure out the rest of it once I get the lay of the land".

> but if you follow this through his SCOTUS noms will play a huge role on the rights and privileges of that demographic going forward.

Nowhere in the Constitution are LGBT rights enshrined. The judicial branch interprets the law, the legislative branch passes the laws, and the executive branch enforces the laws.

Trump simply said that he supports LGBT people to the fullest extent of the law (or words to that effect). I prefer that over Clinton, who gets lots of money from regimes that prefer a harsh line against practicing homosexuality.
If I understand the task correctly, it is to map a word into another word that belongs to the set of words that have the same letter frequency distribution.

So a possible solution is to define a representation for a letter frequency distribution, and use an associative data type for the mapping.

Since the problem does not concern itself with prefixes, there is no need for a prefix tree - in Python, a simple dict would do.

A few words about style: when you write code, you have to come up with names for variables, functions, and other things. In this case, it seems you just went ahead and wrote down the first thing that came to mind, which is sometimes verbose because you're still in problem exploration mode and things are not clear. It's OK to do that, but please consider re-naming later on, so that instead of a first-thing-I-thought-of name, you'll have a name that gives the reader a sense of clarity. The process of doing that usually leads to better understanding of the problem and perhaps better code. With experience, you'll find that the need to re-name is reduced.

As a rule of thumb, the length of the name should correlate with the its scope. Names with indefinite scope tend to be long, while names with limited scopes tend to be shorter.

Finally, I encourage you to write more posts, and hope my critique is helpful.
This is a stroke of genius by Peter Thiel. In hindsight, he was hedged. If Clinton won, his Trump endorsement would have been chalked up to his contrarian, eccentric bent. If Trump won -and he did- Thiel's bet would have a huge return.

His self-interest aside, this is a huge deal for Palantir, the company that he helped found and has many federal governments as their client. Also, in a sense, Thiel ensured that Silicon Valley didn't completely lose touch with the White House and will have some leverage in influencing them. For starters, immigration is a key issue for Silicon Valley for which Thiel can be a voice of reason to influence the new administration.

I don't agree with many things Thiel says or does. That said, this was a brilliant execution.
> I hope you still understood what I meant

It wouldn't be HN without autistically pedantic nits on scope and definition that add nothing of value to the discourse.
I don't know exactly, but there are probably oil reserves in places like Alaska that would be cheaper to extract if it were allowed.
> But than again, Elm is not too easy. This means that almost every developer I see that is already involved in Elm is a seasoned developer. Getting experienced developers on board means that they are immediately productive, which means we gain more per hour.

Not really seeing this as a strong point. It feels like the same mindset that drove me away from Scala (and many others [0]!). Sure, it might be good for the company in short term, but what happens when you run out of experienced Elm developers? At least Elm fairs fairly better with having usable samples on their own (clean) site.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-internals/r2Gn...
German: "Not entirely atrocious" → American: "Amazingly fantastically awesome"
Cool. Looks like the housing/case is 3d printed, but it looked odd and I didn't know what the "washing station" thing was. Now I learned about Polyjet 3D Printing.
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I would argue a trie is not that good compared to a hash. Each letter is going to be a list (which you have to search), or have a fixed sized array pointing to the next letter (could be problematic with languages that use more than a-zA-z).

I just don't want to pretend that its trie or check all 235,887 words every time.

This blog post could have been something much more, had it not stuck with the naive search every word method as the only alternative to a trie.
Ask HN: I'm done with my MSc and college. I have some freetime now. What now?
So my main goal is to be a great developer. I know that this is very broad and very subjective. I just want to be an all around decent coder, who understands things deeply and who can engage in meaningful tech conversations (debating architecture solutions, problem solving etc).

I know being a good programmer involves reading a lot and writing a lot of code. I have problems in both these areas. Regarding reading: I don't know which tech blogs/people to follow, I don't know the best books to read and I overall have the awful habit of skimming though articles when I stumble upon them. I don't know why.

Regarding coding on my free time: I just don't know what to code. I know people say to solve problems you face everyday, I just don't know any. I try to make stuff like reinventing the wheel but that does not really inspire or motivate me. I know that probably reading more would help me with this.

I think the fundamental problem underlying all these is that I don't have any real interests. All throughout highschool and college my only real interest besides finishing my degree was (is) playing video games. I can't finish any technical article, follow and participate in discussions in reddit or here because I just don't read articles in depth, and thus I can't think and formulate opinions on these subjects. What screwed am I?

The technologies that I think I might enjoy learning would be: the JS ecosystem (react, angular, ES6, etc), learning more about Rails development besides the basics which I know have a good grasp on, maybe learn more about app development (I'm fairly comfortable with Java) and doing somekind of desktop applications (electron or C++?). Following tutorials for this technologies seems pointless. Figuring out simple and yet useful projects do build with said tools also seems difficult, since I don't know what to build.
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I sympathize with the pain of being called 'ignorant', but we need to get away from the fear of calling things as they are.

The response could have been started differently - 'that statement does not recognize the substantial subsidies in...' - but pundits have begun to bristle at being called wrong. The proliferation of misinformation/lies has been a huge issue this campaign, and we would do well to limit it whenever possible.
No problem, I understood what you meant. :)
How the polls, including ours, missed Trump's victory
You'd think by now politicians --- you have one job! --- would learn that this message always loses. Attack the candidate, never the candidate's supporters. Trump offers a corollary, which is simply "if you're attacking someone other than the candidate, just be super specific about who you're attacking".

The "deplorable" thing cost Clinton. The attacks on the Khan family don't seem to have cost Trump much at all.
We're focused on private deployments currently but are playing with the idea of a public chain. The issue is that it would look so different from what people are used to that we're having a hard time with the monetization strategy/figuring out what people would use it for.

For one, there's no Mining so what's the meaning of the initial coins? Also, it'd be much closer to an AWS Lambda + Stripe/Ripple than anything else which makes fee structures tricky. The big reason is that we would run all of the nodes ourselves because our core IP is ScalableBFT and we think that's the most valuable bit.

It's the first/only deterministic BFT Consensus that can scale into the 1000's of nodes + maintain constant performance as it scales. Being a bit of a breakthrough, we are keeping the protocol and its implementation proprietary.
Well, considering Newt is one of Trump's key advisers....
So, can anyone shed some more light on what "Nextcloud" (the software/OS part) actually is? As far as I can gather it's more or less a fork of owncloud by one of the owncloud maintainers, paired with ubuntu core, and turned into a kind-a-sorta groupware and file server? But for some reason lacking an ldap/kerberos/ad/directory server - so it can't be the only part of a small office network - you still need ldap/AD set-up?

I'm not entirely sure I see the value proposition here.
I'm not claiming an opinion one way or the other about whether this is the case in this situation, but it can be in your best interest to be prevented from doing something. It's easier to win a game of chicken if you remove your steering wheel. You don't get intimidated as often into voting a particular way if there's no way to prove how you voted. If you can effectively work for thirty hours straight, employers will want to demand that from you. And generally speaking, not being able to do something means that other agents won't try to pressure you into doing it.

In this case, it's something like "if you can have more money by AirBnBing out your place on weekends, then landlords can raise your rent by approximately that amount and since people now afford it, you've got no option other than accepting the rent increase and paying for it through AirBnB".
Apart from the content, why is it even called a "contract"? There's no terms and obligations for the "American voter" in there.
I think they always said "creators"
If you dig immutable, auto-curried, data-last methods there's also lodash/fp modules –

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/FP-Guide
But if 16 GB is more than enough, and you already have that, why upgrade in the first place?
TensorFlow - Google’s machine learning system, open sourced for everyone (2015)
Democrats always embraced tech more.
HN is neither twitter nor a blog.
Typo in the title : it's Phoenix, not Phoeniz.
It happened with Apple in general too - almost overnight, every seemed to ditch their windows machines and replace them with macbook pros.

In part, that was because of things like ios, where a mac was mandatory. In part it was because of things like Ruby which was simply much easier on a mac and in part it was because having a "real" unix shell is so damn useful.
Fine, but if this guy's proposals fuck up my RAW workflow then he and all his ideas can burn in hell. I want quality, not speed, and I could care less whether the image lives on an SD card or in the cloud. Nevermind the fact that a lot of photography happens away from the cloud, out in the wilderness, and if we march forward into this brave new world of thin devices and cloud integration then these photographers will get left in the dust... thereby preserving the older (and superior IMO) workflow.

Creative professionals are not very interested in keeping up with the curve. In art, mastery over media is a lifetime endeavor and it somewhat assumes that the medium will not change very much. Disruptions affect one's ability to produce quality output for a good long time, because they have to relearn the medium. Pretty much the only people who are OK with that on a regular basis are tech nerds (and not artists)
I thought nobody remembered that!
Tempting, but I have used it heavily 30+ hours so it doesn't seem right to return it. I like the MacBook and I will buy the apple care insurance so I won't worry about it's robustness.
That's my guess too, but large numbers of new drilling sites - especially remote ones - would drive up costs while simultaneously helping to keep per-barrel prices low. Just sounds like a terrible ROI to me.
Your property isn't a hotel and you didn't expect it to be one when you bought it.
“Sunlight is abundant beyond the energy needs of the entire
human race”. (Los Alamos National Laboratory [http://www.lanl.gov/discover/publications/1663/2015-may/pero...].) This is their back of the envelope calculation.
Some may dispute that point.

The law does not.

The governing bodies of the US have repeatedly affirmed that access to abortion is a woman's right.

The medical view of abortion is that it is a safe, legal medical procedure.

Whatever you believe--and you are free to believe anything--about fetuses changes neither the legal view nor the medical view of abortion.
Is there an age limit?
1) because we have more negotiation power than they do.
Good question and I would say the difference is the current regime and their actions.

Germans have been very cautious after WW2. They haven't been acting aggressively, they haven't been holding parades to celebrate Nazis as heroes, they don't have statues of Hitler in the middle of their cities.

Meanwhile Russia still celebrates everything Soviet as the biggest heroes that have ever lived, and have an amazing number of Stalin statues/paintings everywhere. Then they fund & organize attacks on Georgia [1], and annex Crimea [2]. Then, as recently as 2014, the FSB came into Estonia and abducted one of our intelligence agents. [3] This agent was denied contact with anyone, and was given premission to only use a Russian appointed lawyer. In a charade of a trial he was quickly sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was later exchanged for a FSB agent who was sitting in our prison. [4]

So you see, it's not only about precedence, but it's also about the continuation of the theme and actual real events that keep happening.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eston_Kohver

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Dressen
Take a walk, work out, or read fiction.
What are your climate science credentials?
Have you tried using 'jj' or 'jk' instead?
If fracking issues are real, all the potential diseased persons will also free houses and jobs too. How do you like that smart.
> Cancel UN climate payments, use money instead on America water and environmental issues. Sounds good to me. Let China and India clean up their own mess, while we clean up our messes.

What the hell. How ignorant is that.
That I think is a huge problem in our government. Why can't I vote for both smaller military and bigger NASA at the same time?

Why when I decide climate change is super important do I also have to align with 15 other unrelated policies as well?

Parties are all-or-nothing and that's painful. Because I find that no party represents me in more than like 20% of my political positions.

I should be able to delegate better.
> It's odd that Trump is a businessman, yet his list of solutions includes all kinds of tariffs and trade restrictions to rein in business. There's a reason Western countries don't use tariffs much anymore: they're counterproductive if you want to stimulate growth. But I guess that old economics lesson is about to be put to another test.

It's pretty clear he was never a good businessman. He was good at finding loopholes and exploiting people and policies. Now I imagine we'll start to see that kind of shoddy policy making at a national level. And "shoddy" is giving him a large benefit of the doubt. It feels like an intentional attempt to maximize short-term benefits with complete disregard for long-term consequences.
Coal mining and related production is a large employer. It's about propping up small coal-towns.
La Habana, Cuba!

It was the cheapest interesting flight from google flight suggestions. We decided to go and it was great.

We rented a casa on airbnb and bought tickets 2 weeks before.

I don't speak spanish and it was fine.

We simply enjoyed walking and exploring the 3 main parts of the city. If you go for more than a week, you could visit more of the island.

Cuba is safe, even alone at night.
Deficits don't work that way..

If people want to give us goods and services in exchange for green bills that we can print at will, all the better.
>If you really think about it. We only need this wall because of Mexico, so why should we pay if we dont have to?

If you really think about it, we don't need the wall at all because people will just dig holes underneath it, like they have with all the other walls and fencing we have built.

1,954 miles is a long way to go - https://theintercept.com/2016/10/18/best-of-luck-with-the-wa...
Had to google that one myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city
Blockchains are a solution looking for a problem.

There's a very small niche problem that blockchain is actively solving and that is the enrichment of ICO founders.

Ethereum, Zcash, Ripple, Siacoin, Monero are all essentially the penny stock pump & dump scams of the early days of the internet.

Right now we got a lot of big movers courting blockchain companies but so far we see that it's a horrible ecosystem for building mission critical and scalable apps that is already being solved by AWS, GCE, Azure etc.

Ethereum especially is the biggest blunder out of the blockchain party. Can't scale (capped at low double digit transactions per second) due to it's overly distributed and trustless mechanisms with a huge security vulnerability surface thanks to a turing complete piece-of-crap language called Solidity.

I strongly suspect that we will see the demise of ICOs and blockchain bubble popping when regulators move in as they have previously done with fantasy sports betting startups.

To the adventurous and greedy individual thinking of launching blockchain ICOs: don't count on your coin != fiat because that won't matter when a bunch of people feel victimized enough and start courting the SEC.

disclaimer: I actually hold above cryptocoins but overall extremely pessimistic and feel pretty stupid buying into it.
15 days of uptime and Spotify wrote alone 620 GB (Total 1,07 TB). RiP my SSD...
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