skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays I find myself using excel as a ghetto tool for data munging: compare 2 lists with match(), copying tables from web tools and filtering them in creative ways. Text to columns is your friend. Also copy stuff into Notepad++ if I need to run a quick regex.

Now if only Excel had good Regex built in.
Something that has always rankled me with respect to this view of Stallman as a high-caliber role model is the name calling the original commenter mentioned. Of all the people I look up to and aspire to be more like, not a single one employs that particular childish style of "discourse".
I have thus far failed to get an answer from anyone as to what the revenue of this tax, albeit tiny, is being used for. As it stands it just pads the grocer's bottom line. Whereas it should be used to fund research and protecting the environs. But everyone is mum. At least in California.
Article focuses way too much on gender, not enough on economics. Smug style in American Liberalism is way more comprehensive:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...
This is a good point. Once Uber/Lyft are deployed in most cities/stop expanding, it will be interesting to see what they do to maintain their revenue. Right now, they can borrow like crazy since they are "expanding" (and keep prices fairly low); but once that stabilizes, it will be interesting to see if it can remain profitable without increasing prices.

If Im being honest though: your cousin needs to plan to actively get out right now. Driving uber may be OK now, but they've made it pretty clear that they will rely on autonomous vehicles and are doing everything they can to get there first.
This is from reason.org, which would have pre-conceived notions about such a ban.
People, Not Data. Again
Do any (many?) of their projects omit "any later version" in the license statements?

They can't use that to retroactively close off submitted works, but project using other licenses can't do that either.
I see now what you were getting at with respect to the influence of trade and war. That makes a lot of sense to me. I was pushing back at the absolutism of your statement. I agree that the trend of world violence is downward and the trend of global trade is upward.

I think statements like "The world has known only ONE model of peace" don't reflect the nuance of the claims made by your references. For example, the hypothesis of "The Impact of War on Trade: An Interrupted Times-Series Study" is "trade promotes peace".

The Jackson paper[0] includes a stronger statement: "In the context of the alliances we have analyzed, trade motives are essential to avoiding wars and sustaining stable networks,", but all like all good science, acknowledges "in the context of the alliances we have analyzed".

Like I said, the premises and findings of these papers make sense to me, and I don't find them surprising, but I don't think they support such an absolute statement.

Thanks again for the links! I wouldn't have likely have come across them otherwise. Good stuff!

[0]: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15277
Not in Chicago but I re-use the thicker bags.
The Vanishing Secrets of Video Games
Fonts and design play a huge role in how we understand and relate to the world. Most of this happens with us being unaware. But if a specific font is easier to read, or more pleasant to look at, that will alter our mood, outlook, and productivity.

What your arguing is a bit like saying 8-bit non-antialiased fonts running CDE in Emacs has the same value prop as running Atom on a mac today. It's just not true, otherwise the market would look very different.
But nobody outside google, yahoo or bing knows exactly what is the 100% correct way.

Moving a domain is always a high risk operation for your search results position.
Throwaway mentality on a global scale is not good for the environment. Re-use and recycle is good for the environment.

Would a "see spot" diagram help?

The conclusions don't mention that banning plastic bags is meant to be one contribution towards fixing our throwaway culture, not the silver bullet that saves us all.

Pointing your finger at some report and rejoicing "see, we can keep throwing plastic bags by the millions onto landfill, the PDF says we can!" is not "caring about nature".

Opting for products with less packaging is a good thing to do for the environment. Maybe buy more things in bulk. Avoid those stupid little individual tubs of yoghurt. Avoid 600ml bottles of water. Avoid that 250ml latte cup... I'm sure you can think of others if you try.
> it's because you disregarded that Richard puts his ethical argument for the implications to humanity first

No. I have spent three years living apart from my family on military deployments. I know what it means to make this ethical argument and live by it in a self-sacrificing way. Many people cannot make this work, which isn't the same as forcing a divisive choice upon those of us who can.
Have you watched any of them? I just watched "Build a Self Driving Car in 5 Min" and the content was good. My only complaint is that his demo used end-to-end learning, which isn't how most self-driving cars actually work (but he acknowledges this).
The U.S. government decidedly does NOT think climate change is economically advantageous, and they have fought any measures against it tooth and nail.
Surely there are areas between web dev and quant that you can do and are interesting.
I winced at your description of your colleague - and am reading this on a phone with an attached power cable that is frayed, taped up and then re-frayed with exposed wires. I still maintain that strain reducers would help.
Nice try, but it's really the same things in both comments.
Ted Chiang reads the introduction to his latest short story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ZtZZIyuJw&t=2m50s

[20 mins]
> it settled on one that has since become a byword for failure: Edsel

The Ford Edsel didn't fail because of the name. It was a hyped "advanced" product that also had build quality issues, and questionable styling. Mechanics didn't trust the combustion technology so they couldn't recommend the "new" tech. A lot of simple reasons that people didn't buy it.

The name, of course, was that of Henry Ford's son, Edsel Ford. The product was expected to be "the future", but it unfortunately didn't work in the present well enough.

It got a bad rep, like the Corvair, and consumers stayed away in droves.
> AirBnB: Transforms residential housing into (in most jurisdictions) illegal hotels.

Huge part of this is actually state over-regulation. People just can't build houses. If local folks can earn some money on the side by renting out their houses, this is a good thing. Why tourists should be forced to pay for over-expensive hotels?
Instead of pressing companies like AirBnB, people should press governments to remove regulations that are not necessary only serve to hire civil servants out of family members of ruling parties (not to mention pocketing bribes to give permissions to build) and make the money for the privileged.

By asking for even more regulation, you are just tightening the loop on your neck.
DIY Transparent Rocket Engine
Again I ask: who are you talking about? Just because someone supports a candidate does not mean that they support all of what that candidate believes. Frequently, they even oppose those stances, and actively work to change them. Not everyone is a partisan.
This is an "ad hominem fallacy." The attributes or beliefs of the entity making an argument are entirely irrelevant to whether the argument is correct. The argument must be evaluated solely on its own merits.
Deep Learning with Generative Adverserial Networks – ICLR 2017 Discoveries
Just use Electrum, bread wallet for iOS or one of the many other spv clients. No need to run a full node, haven't needed to for years.
I use RSS everywhere I can. It allows me to build a central source for everything I'm interested in.

Quicklisp is par for the course with Common Lisp nowadays, and the dependencies all look fairly normal to me.

If you were going for production code, I'd throw Huchentoot behind Nginx.
Introducing Open 2017 – what are platform co-ops?
Interesting. Here in Holland they banned the free thin plastic bags everywhere a while ago. To buy a plastic bag of any kind costs about 10 eurocents.

Judging from my own behavior as a rather lazy consumer and from observing the people around me, it seems to have been pretty effective. Most of the people around me bring a bag to the store and personally I buy many fewer 10c bags these days.
> But the threat of unbridled autocracy was less present under Obama than it will be under Trump.

The creation of the laws is the creation of the autocratic power. The temperment of who ever is in power at a particular point is irrelivent. By creating the law you automatically open the door to use those laws.
Because, no matter what their shiny marketing materials may tell you, SV is a purely profit driven machine where only money is sacred. It is no different from the banking, health care or consumer goods companies that have been extracting wealth from our society at any cost. Sure, there might be some marginal trickle-down benefits, but be certain that has little to do with their actual goals.
My friend and I estimate an extra 45 seconds at every checkout for this stupid tax. I say this because they always ask (regardless if you brought your own bags) if you want new bags and it'll cost $0.10. Couple that with the fact on average people visit three stores per week, make an average of $60/hour and that there are roughly 7 million people in the bay area and you get this bag tax costing the bay area an estimate:

$15,750,000 per week in lost productivity from wasted time at check outs

(.75 minutes per checkout X 3 times per week / 60 minutes per hour) X $60 an hour average salary X 7 million people

To me the tax is insane and doesn't help the environment. It just got voted on and passed too. Just force paper bag use, and the environment would be cleaner. Simple, it'll save the economy and do more.

I realize this seems like an (and is likely a slight) over estimate of the cost. However, you can do it yourself, we waste a lot of times due to this.
Wow, really? I just don't see how this is a spam. They definitely add some value, unlike some other stuff out there.
> we will decide how everyone lives

everyone? Dial back the extremism for a minute. Get off Facebook.
Sorry, but I don't buy that you care "a lot about nature and the environment" if you oppose environmentalism in general. We do a lot as human beings to harm the environment, and climate scientists generally agree there is a point of no return that we're heading towards. I'd cite a source or two, but we all know there are plenty of sources and by now you're either going to believe the overwhelming evidence or you're going to live in denial. Even if that were not the case, pollution in general is and has been visibly harmful to a number of ecosystems - oil spills, smog, etc. have an obvious negative impact on humans and animals alike. If you cared about the environment as you claim you do you would not oppose efforts to lessen the damage we do to it.
>>cab drivers can have racial prejudices

So do riders!

I've always claimed that one of the primary reasons Uber is popular is because its drivers are predominantly white or Asian.

In contrast, many taxi companies employ immigrants from places like India and Africa, who often times have their culture in full display in front of the rider (wearing non-Western clothing, talking loudly on the phone in another language, having various cultural/religious decorations/texts around the car, etc.) all of which your average American views with a certain level of disdain.
Why is it irrelevant?
1 cent per user per year sounds very small when most online business gets valued at 1 usd / month per user times 3 years.
A coding bootcamp is fine, but it won't get you much closer to doing block chain or deep learning work.

The analogy is you wouldn't necessarily take the Olive Garden line cook training class if you wanted to be a French chef. Sure, it won't hurt to learn how to use a knife and it might be a decent Step 0, but it won't get you much of the way towards your goal.

You should really consider a more in-depth CS education, whether that's through a traditional university or something like a Coursera / Udacity nano degree in your areas of interest.

As a practical matter, it might be better to stay employed while you pursue that. But that's up to you. Plan on spending some significant time learning (1-2 years at least) before you can do what you want, not just a few weeks.

You're very smart to consider getting into something like deep learning. The opportunities will be good over the next 10 years like you said - but only for those who are really good at it. It's a very technical field that requires lots of continuing learning. The competition for the best jobs is high. Don't get into coding unless you are very excited about it and willing to invest in learning it for the rest of your life.

If you are excited about coding and willing to put years of learning into it, go for it! But otherwise you could take the impressive skills you already have and find a way to reinvent yourself and apply them in the deep learning industry without becoming the actual coder yourself.
Trump won't listen to traditional environmental groups. I think what is needed is for a right-wing organization to offer a conservative non-denier as an alternative, and mount a large public campaign to pressure Trump to change course.

Perhaps the scariest part of Trump is that he is such an unknown blank slate, but that also offers an opportunity if we recognize it.

I'm contacting my Republican Senator and making an, admittedly, futile attempt to appeal to his reason. Please consider doing the same: http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/
The parent poster gave an example of hypocritical behavior:

> He talks about the virtues of unfettered capitalism while his lobbyists keep India from playing in American satellite markets.
I voted for Clinton. I would have been very concerned by mass surveillance still if she were President-elect now, and I would have advocated major reforms or removal of domestic surveillance programs just the same. Stop making things so black and white. Mass domestic surveillance is bad, whoever is doing it.
If you're going to run a payment system this way, by generating addresses and then checking if they've confirmed, the better way to do it (rather than pre-generating a batch), is to use hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. This way, instead of having to re-generate a batch of one-time receiving addresses to use on a regular basis, you generate a master key and then use the algorithm to generate addresses without having to use a full Bitcoin node (there are libraries in Python, JS, and all the common languages, look for "BIP 32" or "HD Wallet"). All you need to generate the deterministic addresses on your server is the master public key, thus there's less security risk (if the master public key is disclosed, it threatens the privacy of your users, but not the integrity of your funds).

If you don't want to bother generating the deterministic keys online, you could pre-generate thousands, even millions of them if you want. And keep both the private and public master keys offline. It also is a safer approach since you can securely store the master private key in a offline hardware wallet and not have to worry about keeping track of hundreds of private keys.

Long time since I've been active in Bitcoin, but this is the way I would have run a payment service without using a full node.
Please show where I said anything about "support of the NSA programs in the past."

Please show where I said anything about the "left".

This is a problem that both democrats and republicans suffer from. Remember when the PATRIOT Act was proposed and enacted? Most democrats thought it was an unbelievably unconstitutional overreach that would be the end of the world, and republicans mostly saw it as a necessary tool that didn't even really have any constitutional concerns worth mentioning. Magically these perspectives flipped when Obama got into power. This happens every single time.

*I would also note that journalists' "tolerance" for the NSA programs over the last 8 years is essentially tacit support. Nearly all of the network media's coverage of the NSA issues over the last few years has been centered on whether the effectiveness of the programs justify their existence. There has been virtually no network condemnation of these programs based on their illegality and unconstitutionality, whereas that was a major focus from 2001 to 2007.
i'm curious where this information comes from. a lot of it jars heavily against personal experience and measurements i can do for myself.

the idea that floating point division is that much more expensive than multiplication for instance... the only difference afaik is latency, not timing.

the idea that an indirect call and a virtual function call are so close as well... when it is a read followed by an indirect call- whilst giving timings for some of the reads are considerably greater than either is an utter nonsense on inspection.

take with a great pinch of salt and remember the one correct way to judge timings is to measure them in context instead of guessing based on information that could well be wrong.

imo this kind of article is harmful and misses the more important lesson to learn: measure, measure, measure.
> or rather facilitating illegal actions.

This is a very disingenuous statement, because it is illegal only because it's made illegal to kill the service model they are using. It's like GM sponsoring a law banning Toyotas and then saying - well, look at those criminals - they are making illegal stuff! How shameful of them! No, it's shameful to use the law as a club to bash competition and prevent innovation instead of what it was meant to - to protect people from harm.

> Losing crazy amounts of VC cash to compete against traditional companies that must be cashflow positive.

So borrowing money from investors to compete with somebody is now a despicable thing, maybe even a crime?

> It's not a level playing field.

Sure it is. Level playing field does not mean everybody has the same sum of money.

> Uber is devaluing the medallions they've invested in.

The value of medallions was created by artificially choking the market until what was supposed to be simple permit issue to open a business now is a million-dollar investment way out of the reach of a common person. On the way creating a severe shortage in services and severe price distortions, since drivers now have to cover the costs of there million-dollar medallions.

> Is this really how we want the world to see us?

As people trying new things instead of just doing what always been done and letting incumbent interests tell us they are there for our own good and don't dare to question them? Sure thing!
Companies have this ridiculous idea that you have to either be a PM or a developer but you can't be both. Virtually everybody in an organization except developers wants to reinforce the view that developers are just dumb coders who's only purpose is to implement the whims of everyone else in the company as fast as possible. Every PM thinks they would be successful if only they had more devs to boss around. Becoming a developer is not going to be like you think.

Even as a former PM, PM's at your company will try to exert power over you if you are a dev. They will be backed up by executive management, board members, investors, the media who all have an interest in maintaining this outdated view of the programmer who takes the specifications and simply types in the code. Why not fire PM's and just hire PM's that code? PM's don't like that, executives (who don't code) don't like that, even the janitor doesn't like that. Nobody likes that except for devs and devs have no power in companies because of self reinforcing old school ideas about job roles.
That's not the way the law works though. You don't get to decide which ones are worth following.
> All that happened was now every store gives you a free "reusable bag." ... They are not reusable bags.

I don't get it. How do these "reusable bag" look like?

This is a typical reusable bag we use where I live: http://imgur.com/a/GLT0t

I myself I've had these bags for probably more than 10 yrs (paid $1-piece at the time), and I still use them.
> Obama supporters were all for mass surveillance when it was their guy doing it.

Not many of the Obama supporters I know.

Of course they were more willing to forgive it! That's going to be the case. Partly because humans don't like admitting they were wrong. Partly because it's legitimate to trade off issues against each other. Partly because we're introducing selection bias - if it's enough to turn you off Obama entirely, you're not an "Obama supporter".

But there's miles between overly generous forgiveness and support. It was commonly named as an area where they were disappointed in Obama.
Could you point to one or more?
From the Irish perspective [1], when the bag tax was introduced in 2002: it was promoted as an anti-litter measure. By that metric, it was successful: plastic bags went from 5% of litter to less than 1%.

This paper talks about the Irish experience but not from an anti-litter perspective, rather looking at how total plastic bag usage shifted. And it's definitely true with a bag tax in place, you need buy more bags, because they don't accumulate through grocery purchases. But that wasn't what the tax was for.

And of course it raises revenue in a way that is easy to avoid if you're motivated, so it is naturally progressive.

[1] http://www.marlisco.eu/The_plastic_bag_levy.en.html?articles...
Does it make you a defender of the liberal west to take in so many foreign refugees (without the necessary resources for cultural and economic assimilation) that your citizens revolt and move to far right nationalist parties? Because that is what's likely to happen in Germany and France, largely thanks to Merkel. I believe she had good intentions but the outcome could be disastrous.
I do vote; what I don't do is let my imagination and bias run wild with insinuation, and I'm not lazy about my evidence. When I have confronted others about what's actually in the Wikileaks dump, nobody has failed to get past the "produce a link to primary evidence supporting your claim" step. Intellectually honest people at least reason from primary evidence when it's available to them.

It's pretty amazing that you can't even do that, and yet you want to lecture and condescend me.
That's an interesting use of the word 'abuse'. I think that with a power balance as unequal as it is Apple needs to show a ton of compassion and restraint in its dealings but I don't think you could say that they were abusing their power.
Yes please. I use spreadsheets a ton but am lost when it comes to VLookup, pivot tables, linking to different sheets. Will be watching to see where this goes.

From a business standpoint I could see spending a few dollars to learn more about spreadsheets. Yes, these resources are available in other places (there may even be an organized set of Spreadsheet tutorials out there) but I didn't see that on HN this morning.
You may not agree with me but don't call it nonsense.

From the article about the fallback path: "This mechanism is not designed for booting permanently-installed OSes."

Plus there is only one fallback path so we're back to the situation of multiple OSes fighting over the fallback path.

And from the article a disadvantage of the BIOS: "It’s inconvenient to deal with – you need special utilities to write the MBR, and just about the only way to find out what’s in one is to dd the contents out and examine them."

But now with UEFI we need a special utility to manipulate the EFI NVRAM variables. The motherboard setup only lists the names of the entries. No editing and no listing of the details.

So my criticism is valid. The information stored in the UEFI bootmanager NVRAM should have been in a file(s) in the system partition.