skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that mean that Russia will disclose details of its participation in Ukraine's current war, and pay back those who suffered it? If not - who cares what that guy says?
I spoke with a business owner during a real "Going Out Of Business Sale". They had a unfinished furniture store (buy a wood table that hasn't been finished, and finish it yourself etc). They had been making everything in Canada (where the store was located) using Canadian labour and paying Canadian wages. He said he could no longer compete with the companies that would send raw wood to Vietnam, have citizens build the products for $0.17/hour and ship it back. He also didn't want to go through the incredible logistics of all that, so he just closed down his business.
d'oh, must've missed that, thanks
Collecting a W-9 takes 2 minutes, and is only required for payments above $600.
Hah, that is highly unrealistic, tech "leaders" have much less power in California than they realize, and there isn't a sufficient critical mass to get anywhere near real independence movements like the Catalonian independence movement.
thanks, they should at least add a subtitle to describe what it is about.
Why would you want to be a remote worker in a place with a higher cost of living?!
That is how the federal government pressures states to do _everything_
In the sense that we would be doing to ourselves what we did to Cuba.
The blockchains we're discussing here are about uniform replication & inter-node agreement, so constant performance is as the system scales is the goal. Our implementation of ScalableBFT runs at 8k-12k transactions per second, not 5-15 tps, and it maintains this performance as cluster size increases (up to some limit, we haven't managed to test it past the limit yet and think it's around 5k-15k nodes).

The other deterministic BFT systems like PBFT and SmartBFT are a little bit faster for small cluster sizes but slow down for every added node, encountering full system locks before 256 nodes. It's worth noting that these systems generally do not do pubkey sig verification on every command, instead relying on consensus and direct replication via TLS for authorship guarantees. The drawback, of course, is that an attacker is one server (the client's TLS server) away from inputting fake commands that the system deems real + smart contract authority is handled logically and not cryptographically... we see the CEO and the Mail Clerk having different keys to be a huge benefit from a Bitcoin-like approach.

This makes the bottleneck for us crypto-verification. Verifying 8k-12k signatures per seconds is pretty tricky if you don't skimp out on the crypto, which a lot of vendors are doing in the name of speed.
Yes. Another simple representation if you assume a maximum number of occurrences per letter:

(defvar *alphabet* "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")

(defconstant capacity-in-bits 3)

(defun key (word)
(loop with key = 0
with max-occurrences = (1- (ash 1 capacity-in-bits))
for letter across *alphabet*
for i upfrom 0
for occurrences = (count letter word)
do (if (> occurrences max-occurrences)
(error "too many occurrences")
(setf (ldb (byte capacity-in-bits (* i capacity-in-bits)) key)
occurrences))
finally (return key)))
Yup, on point. This is a method of Steganography.
The elections were easy to notice the decent.

I kept hearing things like ..
"Let's stick to the facts" and then it would be followed by complete opinion.

It became disheartening.
Why You Won’t Get Your Day in Court – By Jed S. Rakoff
HFCS is sugar, except it comes from corn instead of cane.
Security Vulnerability Disclosure Is Still a Minefield
> can disappear into nothing, leaving just the energy", but gravitons [1] can do the same thing.

I'm not convinced they can vanish, unlikely photons there is nothing that can stop a graviton, they are able to travel through all matter.

So given they have unlimited range, how would one vanish?

> A gravitational wave is made of a huge amount of gravitons

That is not established at all!! Not to mention it's mathematically identical to saying gravity is made up of gravitons, and we certainly have not established gravitons exist even for plain gravity.

After all a gravity wave is just a modulation in gravitational force, not some new entity.
The Geek Keep: Tasting and chewing explored in virtual reality
Yeah I'll occasionally switch to music on my phone if I'm doing a lot of memory intensive tasks. Having Spotify and Chrome open is like a RAM kiss of death.
I didn't say that nothing could be done. However, we need to understand that it's going to be even more difficult:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/solar-stocks-tank-and-lead-...

Furthermore, we need cheap clean energy everywhere in the world. Fossil fuels are not going away fast enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
Is the current system working? My insurance rate has gone from $66 per month for a HDHP to $277 per month 3 years later under the healthcare law for the essentially the same HDHP plan. At that rate of increase I wouldn't be able to afford it at all any more in a few short years so what does it matter?
You'll have a much easier time finding a decent JavaScript dev who can quickly get up to speed with Knockout (or Vue/Mithril/etc)... compared to finding someone with "3 years experience in Mega Framework X", where X is only a couple of months old.

Now, if you might have an argument if you mean recruiting in terms of, "What sexy thing will help me attract rock star 10X JavaScript devs, who haven't used X professionally yet but are dying to do so?". However, the problem with that argument is that people who come to you for the latest trendy edge will leave if you don't chase the next trend every six months. In fact, even today they're already more interested in the React shop next door.

Frankly, if you're willing to be a bit less sexy with your front-end tech stack, you can hire more stable and affordable developers and probably be better off altogether.
Most companies avoid having the same person do the same job for a long time. Fresh blood sees things differently and might re-try something that failed in the past. Don't forget that generally speaking a congressman doesn't usually start his political career in congress.
That's a lie. Trump courted and accepted money from special interests - there was even a Planet Money podcast on it.
Huh? gerrymandering doesn't affect the presidential race. It doesn't affect the senate either. The president obviously can't make the senate not say "fuck you", whether popularly elected or not. You'd think he'd have done so already, no? The sitting president was elected with the popular vote, but what has that done to prevent brutal assaults on voter rights?
Could you explain your thoughts on how those two ideas are necessarily inconsistent with each other?
Is a little more structured and upfront than others I've seen
Yeah, sounds interesting. Ping us at info@kadena.io so we can chat more/keep in touch.

Pact should be O/S Sunday or Monday, we're putting the finishing touches on the web editor now and the Atom plugin is already out there[1] though without a binary to run alongside it there's not much to see.

[1]: https://atom.io/packages/language-pact
Keeping up with the treadmill is just getting exhausting. I'm too young to be getting this cynical. I'm happy that most of my codebase is built on battle-tested, well-understood, libraries that are 3-5 years old... Happiness really is a boring stack.
I think streamlining the process to fire under-performing federal employees is much needed. More so than a hiring freeze or reduction.
But is that money really doing anything over seas? Is it actually being put to work or just sitting in accounts?
Nor have most poor Mexicans I assume
Googling yields a not pay walled one
Paper title is
Composing Scalable Nonlinear Algebraic Solvers
Good to know I live in one of the staging states, at least I get the beta features sooner.
If people need to save, someone has to borrow. So where should all that money saved in USD go? The high risk stock market? The reason the US dollar is so powerful in the world is that there is always a safe place to park a large amount of them (the US gov) when you need to use them later. Take that away, and the dollar becomes much less appealing internationally. Treasury rates (what you call interest) are actually negative ATM when inflation is considered (we make money by borrowing it).

We should be spending more wisely, but debt economics is not as simple as it seems.
Global union without borders? Yes please. How do we get there?
True. They're both simple sugars. HFCS has a higher fructose/glucose ratio than cane sugar. There are several varieties of HFCS which differ in their fructose percentage. It can be useful to know this distinction as fructose and glucose are metabolized differently.
The man behind the USC/L.A. Times poll that predicted Trump winning
I'd also like to know why it's flagged. It's a very important document right now.
I agree with you. I came to SV in 2012 to study and loved it here up until 2015 or so. Ever since then I got tired of the life here and how crowded it is everywhere. If I wanted to stay here, I would also need a visa after I am graduating in Spring 2017.

So, right now my plan is to use what I already have (a European Passport) and move back and take advantage of the stuff Europe offers me!
Will they? I've seen contracts saying you can't work for competitors, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one that forbids all other employment.

In California, it's illegal to prevent employees from moonlighting: https://californiaemploymentlaw.foxrothschild.com/2015/03/ar...
The Refragmentation (January 2016)
Just do it (but not on their time or hardware lol); their process for finding these things out is REALLY slow unless your thing goes really public

Also, fuck Google and their ridiculously limiting anti-entrepreneurial IP agreement
The primary difference there appears to be that the Sanders campaign answered a request for where their numbers came from with references, and the Trump campaign did not respond, leaving the (different) author to attempt to research the topic themself.
I was actually messing around wrt vim.

You can sometimes tell who's a longtime vim user vs. who's a longtime emacs user by whether they remapped Ctrl to Caps or Esc to Caps. :P
Basically it's like saying you want to ban illegal drugs from entering the country.
Donald Trump is our president-elect, so let’s get to work
Or a $200 donation to their fave charity
They'll figure it out if other methods get cut off. It's not hard.
I'm just guessing, but I imagine it means all federal funding related to immigration enforcement... not all federal funding.
My current employer (ThoughtWorks) interviews like this. I had a week to do the problem they gave me (it was unpaid).

It was the best interview I've ever done. I rode a huge wave of emotions the entire time and learned A TON.

Technical minutiae interviews like The one I did at Google really suck
Money is speech
Nonlinear climate sensitivity and its implications for future greenhouse warming
Hey, that sounds really awesome. Curious - what did you make?

I worked on a similar side project and was thinking about doing more with it, but the first VC I talked to was like "you're too young and don't have a PhD", but as a youngster people look at you differently -- "holy smokes, hes 5 and built a self-driving vacuum cleaner" and will want to meet with you more often and give you advice.
The Future of USDS: Trump, Civic Tech and the Lesson of GDS
It could be. Here's a python implementation:

from collections import Counter

freq_to_words = {}
make_freq = lambda word: tuple(sorted(dict(Counter(word)).items()))

with open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r') as f:
for line in f.read().split('\n'):
freq = make_freq(line)
if freq not in freq_to_words:
freq_to_words[freq] = []
freq_to_words[freq].append(line)

print freq_to_words[make_freq('gas')] # ['gas', 'sag']

For time complexities, this requires O(n) preprocessing but can do O(1) lookups, since it's a hash structure.
big corporations do not employ the majority of jobs in america.

http://smallbusiness.house.gov/uploadedfiles/april_recess_sm...
In one sense I would suspect typical high level political speak. On the other hand, if you are going to go into detail, do you make it seem as easy as 3 days of action?

So weird - thanks for linking that by the way.
I did look at both candidate's websites. Though a link to this .pdf was not easy to find. This is exactly the sort of thing that I expect the media to link me to, rather than an (after-the-fact) HN post.

I read news websites every single day and never saw anything close to the clarity of his positions presented here.
equivalent to sugar, as far as i understand
How do you know if a wire transfer is from a U.S. Citizen?
The problem with anagrams is you'd have to test all permutations of a word, which is n! hash lookups. Alternately you could store all prefixes in the set and prune the permutations that way. Slightly more interesting than word in set(words).
I personally think the US Digital Service needs to reposition themselves as an apolitical organization. Patriots and techies who work on making America better.
That only makes sense if you're talking about people who are unemployed. As someone who is already employed full-time, I simply don't have the time to solve your problems for free just to see if you'd like to invite me over for an interview.

I avoid these problems like the plague and very much prefer to whiteboard. If you pay me consultant rates, I can more easily justify the effort.
I know its only a small fee, but legally wouldn't this require issuing a 1099?
Likely part of their valuation is built around expected future growth and innovation. It becomes hard to maintain that story if you cut your engineering too deep.
Not particularly. Putin has a history of injecting himself into Western politics, so in turn, he has invited some talk to his own doorstep.

Remember the time in 2013 when he wrote an op-ed in the NYT addressed directly to the American people?
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-...

Best not to discourage Westerners from returning a salvo of commentary, don't you agree? Especially considering that most of us don't have editorial access to the news pages that our countrymen read.
I haven't figured out how to make myself happy in life; creating a societal structure that allows for everyone to find what makes them happy is far beyond my limited capabilities. Ensuring that people don't go hungry or die from exposure is within my grasp.
Because only the tiniest fraction of a percent of tourists overstay visas, and tourism is $1.5 trillion industry in the U.S.

Denying tourists from entire countries will result in a loss of jobs. You don't cut of your arm because of a papercut.
Yes, exactly. It does not require any Constitutional amendment (which would be difficult and time-consuming) to make the Electoral College almost identical to the popular vote.
That's not at all what I am saying. I am talking about the same effect that exists with social desirability bias(0)

People just self-regulate their views depending on how is perceived in the environment

(0) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias
> I think you may be the one misunderstanding in this instance.

He states very clearly he is only deporting the 2 million Criminals...not the 11 million Illegals.

I really think you are the one who misunderstood his intent.

Edit: I relooked at the contract and I see where we are both coming from. There are two sections that address illegal immigration.
The first, which I was focusing on addresses WHO WE WILL DEPORT. The second section, discussing the wall, mentions jail penalties for people who are deported and re-enter.

In short, if we only deport the people trump says hell deport in this agreement, than I am right. If he deports all illegal immigrants, than you are right. Personally, I think the belief he will deport more than the dangerous criminals is not really reality based, despite his campaign rhetoric...(but, I've been wrong before.)

Here is the quote:
" FOURTH, begin removing the more than two million
criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel
visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back."
0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses released
A large portion of engineering calculations overall requires something like three significant digits of precision; the problem is that these digits need to be accurate, i.e. we need a good error estimate, consistent with that precision. Most numerical algorithms do not
provide such estimates, and so we've fallen into a cargo cult of excess precision, hoping that it will save us from the accuracy loss in the calculation. It often works, but occasionally fails, and we have no idea which one happened.

I have a simple example of that: a polynomial
rp(x,y):=1335/4y^6+x^2(11x^2y^2-y^6+(-121)y^4-2)+11/2y^8+x/(2*y)
that evaluates to about 1.1726 in both single and double precision, but whose real value is -0.827....

So, the bottom line is that I'd gladly trade off precision for better accuracy guarantees---but it turns out that's surprisingly hard in general case.
To be fair, is it the media's responsibility to make sure an important policy document is easy to find? What does it say about the Trump campaign that the document was hard to find on their own campaign website?
But there you go.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And they vote for someone who is going to give them a job.

"Tough" doesn't (didn't) cut it.
Let's get Trump to accept climate change
> If you think a wall is going to do this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.

Maybe you are right, but whats the alternative. The status quo of doing nothing?

I will almost always side with action vs. inaction. (not to say I'm right, just to say I would rather try and fail than not try because some random naysayers have more faith in the cartels than our ability to secure a border.)

Edit: I copied and pasted the wrong quote, so I fixed it.
I know you'll dismiss this because of the source, but that's your problem.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/8/10/1118614/-Biden-Mitch...
Upvoting you to help prevent your comment from reaching oblivion - I don't agree with you, but I think what you said is a common belief.

The thing is, it's a vastly different kind of pressure. When I am coding as part of a job - by myself or with others - there is no inner monologue in the corner of my brain doing something like this:

"Could do that or... no damn, that's O(n^2), damn I'm taking too long that one looks bored, if I instead put those keys in a hash... no, I'm sure there's a better way, running out of time though, is he looking at his phone now? Okay, what was the profile of merge sort again? ... oh, shit! She felt like she had to offer me a guiding hint, I'm doing it wrong!"

And it never stops going. It picks apart every choice I make, and by five minutes into the interview I come across as a sub-articulate mess.

In no other high-pressure situation does this happen to me. Hell, this past summer I actually spoke at a conference and I didn't have the kind of trouble I do in an interview.

Whiteboarding, paired coding, participating in architecture design - these things come easily. In the context of an interview, though, it goes out the window.
But people want to cut funds to those departments in America right ?
Bertrand Russell “Why I Am Not a Christian” 1927
You perfectly verbalized what was bothering me about this reply
Was it Petrarch who argued against Scholasticism on the grounds that an uneducated plowman natively reasons in syllogisms? How wrong he was...
Elm is great and Purescript even better. I haven't though heard anyone building apps using Elm on both back-end and front-end.

I have enourmous respect for Anders Hejlsberg and his work but Typescript is not an answer. Typescript is limited in sense that from the beginning it was doomed to be just a superset of Javascript. And we all know about deficiencies and "bad parts" of Javascript.

Languages do matter and those with strong functional emphasis are better, because they enforce you to pursue specific discipline that allows you to write better code.

Of all functional languages (more or less popular today) in my opinion the best option is Clojure and Clojurescript. Clojurescript is simply amazing. It's robust, easy to learn, fast, adaptable, pragmatic, can cover your needs on all major platforms including iOS and Android.
For a long time advocates of statically typed languages would point to one "weakness" of Clojure - its dynamically typed nature. But to begin with dynamism of Clojure types always considered its strength. Besides, Clojure today carries an instrument far more powerful than static types - http://clojure.org/about/spec.
Clojure community is growing, language is gaining popularity. Because behind seemingly innocuous, and even arguably (at the first sight) not very appealing lispy syntax, there is an incredible elegance, power and true astonishment.
The Verge have speculated [1] that the new Touch Bar found in the latest MBPs is a gateway to running iOS apps natively, with no emulation.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13454052/apple-macbook-pr...
Brain–spine interface alleviating gait deficits after spinal injury in primates
This is mostly a misconception. Depending on the type of HFCS, it may have slightly more or slightly less fructose than table sugar, which the human body is especially adept at breaking into glucose and fructose.

HFCS is probably not significantly different from table sugar as far as human metabolism goes.
The obvious rebuttal to this is that those small towns now control the government. You want progressive policies? Well, tough.

Rural areas are coping with exploding rates of meth, heroin, and opioid abuse, and a lot of that is directly caused by the absolutely shit quality of life they all have.

You're far from the first liberal to regard rural people with contempt, and that's a big part of why we now have President Trump to contend with.

Maybe it's time to start taking other people's problems a little more seriously.
"The costs outweigh the benefits for employers"

That's funny, I thought this was a employee's market... Better get with the program, bub.

I'm actually in favor of 100% transparent salaries. I've yet to hear a compelling argument against it that wasn't simply "it feels icky."
I recently wrote a basic trie in Nim for fun, I started with a preallocated array and then rewrote parts to hashtables, it's simpler since you don't need to care about the dictionary size and it can have space savings depending on how the table grows. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a fancy bitmapping approach though, or if you could be more efficient if you had n-gram statistics. (And as mentioned elsewhere for the purposes of storing/searching a dictionary you could just have a flat hashtable indexed by the words, or a bloom filter if you only care about certainly not existing...)
this infographic shows just how razor thin the win was for Trump and how it was delivered via the electoral college:

http://i.imgur.com/FZEjdCF.jpg

these are facts, one can decide to deride them in a childish attempt to obfuscate or wallow in ignorance or one can choose to objectively discuss them as they are
Somewhat off-topic, but there's a professor at UC Davis whose blog I've followed for several years who advocates open, reproducible science. Your daughter might be interested in the the workshops his lab runs: https://dib-training.readthedocs.io/en/pub/. The next one is Nov 17.
Standalone server for the programming game Screeps open-sourced
It was very disheartening, but perhaps I was already of a steel heart. I remember going out to Michigan days after caucusing for Bernie & watching him lose to Hillary, and there was such an intense resentment for what happened to Bernie inside the DNC out there, that I am not suprised at what happened.

Its a state full of good people, tired of the current economic system. Trump will likely not make things better for them, but to many out there it was that or Ms. Walmart.