skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked though multiple pages and came away empty.

Just seems to be a cacophony of clipart and banal assertions. I feel I am being sold something. It feels like the power-point a "consultant" would use to train you in a certification in entrepreneurship...
+1 for drainpipe theory! As a ChemE grad student I took an EE control class after basically forgetting all the circuits knowledge I learned as an undergraduate (my high school didn't teach electronics and magnetism!). Water analogies were the only way I could do the problems with circuits. Drainpipe theory actually made me wonder what was ever so hard about that part of physics class...
I almost fell out of my [wheel]chair when I read the title. LOL!
That's probably not the best analogy. Because of the tensions between the city and its state, the following might be more apt.

Bilbao is a part of Spain, Barcelona is a part of Spain, Seville is a part of Spain (Spain has had to deal with a lot of pro-independence populations), Donetsk is a part of Ukraine, Grozny is a part of Russia, London is a part of the UK (they did seem pretty unhappy about the vote...), Lhasa is a part of China, Taipei is a part of China/Taiwan (unique in currently being independent), Quebec is a part of Canada, San Juan is a part of the US.

If a city doesn't want to be part of its encompassing political state, then it absolutely has the right to treat with rest of the world in an attempt to realize those goals. And the rest of the world has a right to respond however they feel appropriate.
i did actually leave programming (almost 10 years ago) for a job as a people manager (of programmers/test). it's a lot more fun to write code as opposed to dealing with all the nuances of personalities, politics, processes, etc. i do have a few side projects which have allowed me to stay as a pretty effective coder, but at the end of the day, i'm also doing a lot of non-development things on my side project like go to market definition, managing people, project management, and slideware.

there are definitely very tedious things that programmers have to deal with like unmarshalling and marshalling data across backend to frontend components or test automation (think of having a multi-tier system with ios app, database, email service for forgotten password and having to automate all of that). but at the end of the day, the thing i like most about programming is the ability to see the things i create doing something useful. seeing the end result that's of high quality gives me a sense of pride. i'm definitely a maker, it's what i was born to do. but at the end of the day it's about risk/reward and opportunity cost, at this point there's just too much to give up, and the side project isnt panning out yet.

on a slight tangent, i have an electrical/computer engineering background and was supposed to go into hardware like most of my classmates, but i ended up liking the fact that i had something tangible after hours of programming, even though it was virtual, and with hardware i'd have nothing to show for it, but a pic controller lighting up some led's, a breadboard with a bunch of mixed logic implementing some simple thing, or some vhdl state machine that effectively did something simple. no offense to all the engineers working on this type of thing, but it just wasnt as exciting to me.

i find that there's some balance to it all, like getting paid well, but also having hobbies on the side that you can soak yourself into. but then again, i've heard many a story about people doing what they love and for lots of money.
So, you're just doubling down on your claims without providing any kind of counter evidence? Your initial statement was vote-swapping was definitely illegal. Now, you're walking back and revising to say it is definitively illegal in certain regions.

What jurisdictions outside the Ninth Circuit have expressly forbidden the practice of vote-swapping? I've performed a cursory search of US laws against vote-pairing and vote-swapping. I have found nothing. Please, share your knowledge of what parts of the US have enacted legislation that makes non-pecuniary pairing/swapping illegal.

Based on what evidence I can find, I'm making no strong claims. Please point me in the right direction to revise my understanding, if it is indeed in error.
You're pinning too much on supposed bad teachers, and not enough on your past-self's youthful incomplete understanding.

1/2 of a pie is 2/4 of a pie, 2 slices of four is the same fraction as 1 slice of 2. It's exactly the same idea as the equivalence classes, where the ratio matters but the description does not. You just didn't understand that at the time.

> the very idea of discussing solutions to an equation will never be allowed in an elementary school classroom.

My kid is in first grade and his homework is to solve equations of the form "7+2=__" and "9-__=7"
Just a few concluding notes here on my end:

Yes, I understand why people are angry. People get angry about all number of thigs, more or less justifiably.

The problem is that most of the cures being proffered for this percieved unfairness will not solve the problem. To reduce the disparity between the wealthiest and the rest, are people talking about, you know, ending mortgage and property tax deductions, liberalizing the education sector, permitting more housebuilding, ending moral-hazard-generating bailouts of companies and banks? A little, but hardly. What you hear is that the "people" want tariffs (impacting the poorest, who disproportionately consume cheap imports), higher minimum wages (which slightly raise the incomes of some workers, at the expense of making youth, people with minimal educations, ex-prisoners and the disabled unemployable), and trade unionization (which benefit those in the union, but those shut out of the union scarcely at all.)

I'll also note that this era of stagnation for the developed-world middle class has also coincided with a huge growth in the incomes of most of the rest of the world - these are not totally unconnected. Sure, we can be nationalists about it, but there are big benefits to the rest of the world from globalization.

I think there are sensible ways to diminish these income disparities. But I don't really that many people advocating for them - mostly I hear the old protectionist mantras, and I just do not agree with that.
The parts of OSX I'd like to see open-sourced are exactly the parts Apple will never open up. I'd love for their desktop environment to be open-source - if I could have that running on top of, say, Arch, I'd be incredibly happy. But the desktop environment is one of the big things Apple uses to sell their computers, and it wouldn't make sense to give it away like that.
I just finished "The Originals" and he basically has a whole chapter on how first movers advantage is bullshit.

Taken from the book:

* Studies show this does not exist

* Since market is more defined when settlers enter, they can focus on providing superior quality instead of deliberating about what to offer in the first place

* Risk seekers are drawn to being first, and they're prone to impulsive decisions. Risk-adverse entrepreneurs watch from the sidelines, waiting for the right opportunity and balancing their risk portfolios before entering.

* Failure rates aof 47%/8% (first movers / settlers)
This is not quite accurate as stated: the problem is the combination of a data structure that is not amenable to type inference with an API that would only be efficient if type inference had perfect knowledge of the contents of a DataFrame. There is a lot of work being done to develop a new API that has none of these problems and provides very high performance, which demonstrates that Julia's JIT is up to the task so long as you choose an appropriate API. Julia, like any language, has intrinsic limitations, but this is not a good example: it's an example of how good API design for Julia differs from good API design for other systems.
Yes, that's my point.
I think the main counterpoint is that as soon as the USG starts to seriously abuse this power the rest of the West will coordinate around a different hegemony, probably the EU, but maybe the UK + Canada / AUS / NZ. The internet and western democracies generally are naturally open, and abusing this power will do more harm than good.
As someone who is not a developer and doesn't know that much about open source licenses, is this something you have to do? If I built something using React, I have to publish their license with my code? If I build something with Javascript, do I have to publish their license as well?

Do I have to tell everyone what technologies I've used to built my software, or...? That seems weird to me, but again I'm not a developer so I've never dealt with that. I've never released a license with my Bash scripts.
As you say yourself, "Beijing has little regard for rules that constrain their power to act." Why would calmly and firmly articulated objections or public statements supporting the rule of law make any difference? That's a rather naive constructivist fantasy.
I see, but I prefer mine, plus I want to let all the people have the source code, I am not interested in closed source apps.
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I'm assuming you don't want to tell us where you live, so please update us on whether it showed up on the map or not.
Or just "size 4, size 5", etc, with the "/32" as overall metadata
Tell legislators how voting went, good or bad, the effective, old fashioned way
The particular crashes you cite didn't hurt me. We're not all in this together when Jaimie Dimon is enjoying his luxuries. Why would we all be in it together when he makes a dumb investment?
I could see a system that would prevent you from getting a ballot in multiple locations. Since the vote is supposedly anonymous, I'm not sure how they'd purge a cast ballot.
This should be the top comment.
I'm sure they'd like to host prestige events like the Olympics or the World Cup.
His original tweets:

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/795424579715940352
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/795429334286635008
Lots of people already buy cars that are not the cheapest possible car. Sure, if electric vehicles were cheaper than an equivalent gas-powered car, then that would be awesome... but even if that isn't true yet, there are a lot of people who'd like an electric car anyway.
Okay, ask yourself exactly what these protests can hope to accomplish. Protests happen all the time, everywhere. Nobody hears about them because the state controls the media. Nothing happens because the Communist Party has plenty of people there taking notes on who is there and they keep careful tabs on them.

If it starts to look like they're getting uppity, they'll get a visit from their local Party leadership and gently encouraged to stop their foolishness. Escalate as appropriate.

Defeatism is precisely appropriate here. You have to ask yourself how badly you want change. Enough to put your family's livelihood at risk?

Nothing here is worth fighting a war over, and that's what it would take to meaningfully change the way politics is conducted in China. Everybody's best bet is to just fall in line and hope the Party doesn't totally bungle this five year plan.
Technically, yes. You can even just start using 100 rupee bills instead.

But what this does is adds cost to doing business secretly in cash. Also it increases the threat of government taking another bold move in the future to flush out more stores of black money. Basically, it increases the risk of operating outside official accounting, making that option more scary and less appealing.

Watch for real estate crash in New Delhi. On paper there wont be a crash but sharp growth, because the declared transaction value is about 40% of the real transactions, the remaining being in cash. With this move, declared values will move up, while actual values will move down.
How do you force people to live near their jobs?

San Francisco rents are higher than rents in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or Cupertino, but younger workers at Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc., still choose to live in San Francisco because these suburban towns are so fricking' boring. Try to go to a restaurant after 9 p.m. in Cupertino.

The theory that people want to live adjacent to where they work is bogus. They want a way to get to work without driving or massive congestion. In this area, the private transportation networks set up by companies solve this for a lot of workers. And the same sorts of transportation systems exist in other countries. I've seen them in Taiwan and Korea as well.
But what advantages does settling the ocean have compared to say, settling Wyoming (which with 6 people per square mile is much, much closer to the average population density of the ocean than the average population density of land)?

With settling Mars we mitigate a number of potential extinction events, and fulfill some science fiction dreams. Living in the ocean also helps with both goals, but to a much lesser degree.
Living on Mars = living inside a crapped space your entire life and never being able to breathe fresh air, or take a walk outside.

Maybe in 1000 years Mars will be nice.

I think until then - nice for a short visit.

Living in a box would get tiring very, very quickly.
The idea that you might want to focus your effort on a tiny subset of a coherently structured course's contents seems short-sighted to me.

The class you're currently looking at might only need that tiny subset, but what about classes you'll be interested in taking in the future? Do you really think it's more likely that that same tiny subset will be sufficient, or is it more likely that the utility of the class as a whole studied deeply rather than shallowly will allow you to tackle more advanced topics?

The analogy to building a foundation is very apt and especially so for a subject as ubiquitous and illuminating as linear algebra.

The course prerequisite list is, I think, usually a good balance of the right amount of information. You should usually prioritize understanding those subjects deeply if you want a high ROI thing to spend your time on.
There are many more resources for learning R, given that the language is older. These resources have become much better in recent years and I think there has been no better time to learn R. Probably the best introduction to data science in R is Hadley Wickham's latest book: http://r4ds.had.co.nz

Learning your second language is much easier than learning your first. You'll be more familiar with programming concepts and terms that make it easier to search for how to do X in that language.

Julia is still relatively new and not quite ready (in my opinion) for new programmers. Things change relatively quickly and I think that could add a lot of confusion that gets in the way of learning.

That being said, I think Julia is a pretty great language. I really love the way it has grown and I'm excited to see how it matures.
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I have been a fan of Mazzy Star for a couple of years, as well as of Hope Sandoval's solo work, she just has an awesome voice.

Lush, I only discovered about four weeks back, but I went in head over heels, they are just great.

And, yes, I agree, there is a certain affinity between this kind of music and dim lighting. It doesn't work in broad daylight. ;-)
> experienced C programmers don't

C leaves a lot undefined. These were tiny examples, and many were undefined for more than one reason. Experienced C programmers rely on undefined behavior all the time: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-October/....
I can personally guarantee you it is literally every bank.

Even if they have a fancy tool, someone is using an Excel spreadsheet to figure out how to subvert it.
The i8 only has a small battery. It has a high price because it's a luxurious high-performance car.
> You cant even use a online voip phone number for this app.

That's incorrect. Signal works perfectly fine with any mobile, landline or VoIP number.
Living in North America is not that-that different from living in Europe.

There is no 'green grass' on Mars, literally or metaphorically. There isn't even any 'air'.
Anything that can make dailymotion a stronger YouTube competitor is a good thing. If they can achieve more engagement by outsourcing some of the delivery then I think it is great, they might be able to focus on more user-centric features.
I was able to drop anti-depressants with 1 super-well-prepared LSD experience in nature. Since then, I do meditation daily, up to 1.5 hours at most (Jon Kabat-Zinn's mindful meditation method). Plus, I redo LSD once every 6 months. This worked extremely well.

The pharma industry hates me for saying that. Not sorry.
At least in New York, if you aren't on the voter list you cast an affidavit ballot. This is reviewed for accuracy. If it passes, the envelope is opened and the vote counted. If it fails, the vote is discarded (a letter is also supposed to be sent).

If you are on the voter rolls and vote, your vote is counted. If you aren't, it's tougher to be as certain.
This treaty will be shred to pieces the moment anyone with power gets a serious economic and colonization interest in space. It's utterly worthless.
How do you like it? Have a relative just starting in that field.

Is it mostly sales because you are a service based business? And how does the fee structure work out? Better part than programming?
If the engineering is done correctly, the new models remain backward-compatible with the old.
"Consider one study from 1974. Researchers had an attractive female interviewer stop one group of men crossing a scary suspension bridge and another one crossing a bridge that wasn’t scary. The women asked the men to fill out a questionnaire. The men on the scary bridge responded to the questions with more sexual content, and were significantly more likely to try to contact the interviewer after it was over. This suggests that the men on the scary bridge interpreted (unconsciously) their body’s reaction to the bridge as added attraction to the interviewer."

Personally, I would conclude that the men felt more confident about their chances after having demonstrated their capabilities as worthy mates. Additionally, after having overcome the bridge, they were now ready to try their chances at the challenge of wooing the researcher.
With all due respect, that sounds like straight-up circular logic to me. You're arguing that 1/2 = 2/4 because "1/2 [...] is [...] 2/4". You're just restating the conclusion as an explanation of itself, which is completely unsatisfactory.

Another way of putting it:

> 2 slices of four is the same fraction as 1 slice of 2.

The phrase "is the same fraction as" is obviously inappropriate and explicitly circular and self-referential in any definition of "fraction". I don't think you've thought about this as deeply as you think you have.
> potential partners definitely evaluate each other based on criteria like fitness, appearance, and intelligence, which have genetic components

To have sex, yes, but I'm not sure it translates in any meaningful in the number of surviving offsprings we have, therefore eliminating selection pressure at the human scale. We have removed a good chunk of selection pressure, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Selection pressure, however, is still a very real phenomenon for the micro-biology inhabiting and interacting with our bodies.
I'm implying, and directly said, that the tropes aren't relatable or interesting despite trying so hard to be LIKE EVERY OTHER GAME AND THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE AND THREAD

You think your rebuttals are original but they are just rehashing the same arguments from the past 30 years and completely unproductive. Assume I already know the counterpoints, you went for the lowest hanging fruit of them all.

Firewatch is an interesting one to call out, much like Journey as the author imagined, because those games try to be more interesting. They were created by artists and gamers tired of AAA titles and tropes. But they continue to fail to interest this other broad audience that is repulsed by the idea of games, but as the author realized, are actually entertained by immersive experiences.
Hidden in your argument there is an even bigger one: traditional car manufacturers have outsourced almost everything to their high level suppliers except for the engines. When they switch to EV they give up on the only part where they have a considerable depth of added value. They could become their own cell manufacturers (and in fact almost all of them have tried, before learning that batteries are too much of a commodity for them to be competitive on the small scale of early EV introduction), but there is zero knowledge transfer opportunity from ICE to battery.

It's not difficult for them to build EV. But it is nearly impossible for them to do so earning money, when they are essentially repackaging third party batteries into shells consisting of all the other stuff they are buying from their existing suppliers.
I recommend the Elements of Style, 3rd ed. https://amzn.com/0205191584

(I flipped through the 4th edition, and the examples and stuff seemed overmodernized. It felt diluted.)
Those were caused because Cisco by default (optimistically) partitioned a big chunk of the routing table memory for v6 routes. The fix was to reduce the memory usage for v6 and give that memory back for v4 routes. So really it was allocating so much space for v6 before there was any need that caused those outages.
While this sounds great on face value, I doubt this'll solve the root of the problem. Why did we have so much black money in India? Coz people didn't want to pay taxes. Why didn't people want to pay taxes? Because they got nothing in return. Governments (esp Indian) have been historically self serving and power hungry. Tax money is usually either lost by PSUs loaning to the Mallyas of the world or other corrupt bullshit (overpaying for public infra, raw materials - contracts going to the highest briber etc.)

So unless that changes (more difficult than logistically declaring pieces of paper illegal), maybe people will start hoarding other stores of value in the future and figure out other ways to evade taxes. Am I being too cynical?
I doubt anyone's currently using Julia for the fast path of low latency trading. Usually it goes from FPGAs for sub-milli work, C++ on GPUs then either C++ or Java for multi-milli work. In my experience.

I'd expect most of the Julia usage in this space would be to replace any R or Matlab in the back testing engines if at all.

I didn't get the impression from the article that they were really talking about low latency anyway.

That's not to suggest that Julia doesn't have a place in Finance. I think it's a great language and there are a bunch of places I can see it being very valuable. Just doubt that low latency fast path is one of them in the near term.
Fighting illegal black economy is fine, but withdrawal of notes is not for that. There are other hidden agenda to this. RBI cannot go back from its promise of providing the value of the currency. This is psychological experimentation. Today Rs. 500 is withdrawn, tomorrow all currency could be withdrawn. This trying to deploy state power but without bearing any fair cost
Isn't that just relativistic quantum field theory?
Intuitive but wrong (and doggedly persistent) idea #1: "electric current is moving electrons". It is moving photons, exciting (largely) stationary electrons. I can't stress how crucial overcoming that misconception was when I was doing EE.
Well, I've heard robots are replacing human beings at work. Sooner or later, they will also replace presidents and prime ministers. Didn't Multivac and the other robots save the world from human kind after all?