skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is the real reason for lot of regulations. Big Companies lobby for certain kind of regulations mainly to:

Squeeze the SMB and make it harder for new business to enter and survive in the market.
You're right. I grew up in a very small rural town. I have a tendency to not take them seriously. The problem for me is that I've never heard any other group of people spew so much hate and bigotry as people in that small town. The treatment of minorities in that town was heartbreaking. The way I was treated for not blindly accepting the christian faith was terrible. I used to hide physics book under my bed so they would not be taken from me and thrown away.

As an adult, I find it really difficult to care about their problems at all. However, the fact is, unless we do show compassion and take their issues seriously, the current situation will only get worse.
I'm sorry, but how does this actually help you decide whether to hire or not hire a person?

For example, if I reply "hire", would that impact my application positively or negatively?
I think it's different from an exam because the candidate is working on their own laptop, with their own tools, with full access to Google, StackOverflow, etc.

If for some reason they don't have a portable dev environment I guess we could provide it but that does hamper the process somewhat because it's not really "in their element" anymore.

I don't know how you really prepare for such an interview, other than actually having the portable dev environment and being well rested.

The only thing we use the whiteboard for is understanding the problem statement and sketching out the steps to creating the solution, as in, things a whiteboard is actually meant to be used for.
> Yes, it shouldn't come to that.

This bears repeating.
I feel like murder (or most major crimes really) is a very special case. I'd prefer a system where the default is a life sentence (a lifetime for a life feels just) but the option to release after n years if relatives/family of the victim agree to it.
It's probably very impractical but would appeal most to my personal understanding of justice.
> The vast majority of their time is spent in less than a dozen states, who have a total population less than that of New York and California combined, just because the race in those states is neck and neck.

Those are the swing states, which are the most politically-balanced — this means that they are the most-centrist states. Campaigning to win them is campaigning to win the centre.

> The executive branch isn't bicameral so applying federalism to it is just depriving the majority of their choice.

Why should 50.01% get their choice and 49.99 suffer? Why not build a system which encourages centrism and attempting to appeal to all? That's the one we have.

Note that no candidate got a majority of popular votes in the election.

> The national and state legislatures is where our federalism belongs, not in our executive branch.

That makes no sense: the federal executive is the federal executive, and should be just as federalist as the rest of our federal government (hence my support for returning to state legislatures appointing electors, and getting rid of the popular vote altogether).
We can save a good percentage of those 35k people that die every year, at least a few 9/11's a year with just a bit of funding for traffic safety improvements.

I remember as a kid going to a section of railroad track with my mother, where I then asked her why we were here. She said to me "This is where I saved 4 lives a year, this 6 block section of track." One section of sidewalk and a small wood pedestrian bridge saved 2 to 3 kids and 1 to 2 adults (mostly women on their morning jog) from dying every year.

That was one of her proudest accomplishments, even if it was one of the most minor projects she ever did. Simple safety improvements can save many lives, and economically are a great investment. Every dead person is a net loss for the US economically & socially.

On a tangent here, we can fight for a better future, but we need to get Americans protesting for it in streets all across America.
Yeah, I agree that the Scouts can be a bad place for that kind of things, which is why I think it might not be good for all childrens.

(I had been a Scout for a few year and got a lot of benefits from it, but I know that my brother bullied a lot the younger scouts, so this is a real problem)
Totally agreed - very flawed study.
I would love an open hardware alternative. Decent quality speakers, a microphone array, high quality case that you can put in your living room. We already have some open source platforms ([1],[2],[3]), but no good hardware to put it in.

I love these products and I can see myself using it daily, but I don't want to be dragged into Google's or Amazon's walled gardens.

[1] http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/hardware/
[2] http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/sirius/
[3] https://mycroft.ai/
My G doesn't have a compass, so the AR portion of the game doesn't work at all. Could be that's what GP is talking about.
Sounds like you are noting that brute force is a very effective technique. Combined with explaining being a tough skill.

It is seductive to want things to be elegant. It is costly to wait for the elegant solution.
People expect retail workers to be nice to folk during and after they are "foul-mouthing them in their face." If we expect this from the folks near the bottom of the chain, why should we not expect this from the police?

Being an ill-tempered individual doesn't make one a criminal. Nor should it.
The XX dévoile un beau message d’espoir dans son nouveau single “Hold On”
One thing that I got from my time as a scout is to live and work with people I can't stand, which is something that has helped me a lot since that time.
I don't see anything about them being okay with hurting the country, but I see a lot about them wanting President Obama to fail, and fail badly. Do you blame them? Do you not think that Democrats want Mr. Trump to fail badly, and are having these same conversations?
Native-English speakers are the world's worst communicators
Trump wants to overturn Roe v Wade. Pence wants conversion therapy for LGBTQ people. How about you get your fucked up politics away from my body?
Micro nukes have a tactical purpose, though nobody will ever talk about it, and they can have very big consequences.

For example: the 'end' of the Korean war.

When the Americans/UN pushed back invading North Koreans all the way to the Chinese border, the Chinese got fidgety and decided to join the fight. With overwhelming numbers, mass casualties - no problem. The used bodies or bullets - no matter, and pushed the Americans back.

It was Eisenhower who basically did a 'tactical nuke' demonstration (mind you these were artillery based nukes) - as an indication that this is what he would do if the Chinese pushed further.

Thus creating a kind of stalemate ... both sides weary of more war, there was a 'ceasefire' put in place that exists to this day.

Yes, it's scary, but it's also a reality.
> it's a pretty standard procedure to train NNs through GAs but usually not very efficient (e.g. compared to backtracking).

Different applications, though. Backtracking in the normal sense needs input and expected output (e.g. lots of training data), while GA/EA learns to solve it without explicit wrong/correct actions, just the score at the end.
Make sharing bookmarks delicious again
To me 'fast' means more than startup time. The headline is just clickbait.

The time you are reporting is also not that 'fast'. Other tools start in a fraction of that time.
Is that true? Regulatory bodies get their authority from congressional legislation. Can a president unilaterally tell the bureaucracy to stop doing what they are mandated to do by law?
Examples would include the Toyota RAV4, Jeep Renegade, Audi Q5, BMW X1/X3/X5/X6, Ford Edge, Nissan Juke, and the beloved Pontiac Aztek.
Nominet uses TV signals to bring broadband to rural Scotland
Have any data to support that? Anecdotally, the Scout Troops in my area are all fairly blue collar.
Here in Germany it is the same. Being a scout/guide strongly correlates with high(er) parental income, high(er) education and having no migratory background.

(This is not just anecdotal but are findings that the RDP (Ring of German scout organizations) made a couple years ago.)
US elections has the lowest voter turnout in the free world
Top tier developers usually have a very hard to find skill. And working on site jumps wages quite a bit.
Thanks, Can I use my fiverr profile show my work?
Upcoming: QEMU Advent Calendar 2016
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2016-09/msg00029.html

The QEMU Advent Calendar website features a QEMU disk image each day of December until Christmas.

Each day a new disk image file becomes available for download. A QEMU command-line is posted along with the disk image file as the recommended way to start the disk image.

The disk images contain interesting operating systems and software that runs under the QEMU emulator. Some of them are well-known operating systems, old and new, others are custom demos and neat algorithms.

The disk images are created by volunteers from the QEMU community to showcase cool software that QEMU can run.

PS: There are still some slots, if you are interested in contributing any fun disk image, feel free to contact (huth@tuxfamily.org or kashyapc@fedoraproject.org) or find us on #qemu on IRC on OFTC
when people act as if the world is crazy today they have no idea what the military and politicians were doing a scant fifty years ago.

people need to understand that the crazy they see today has been around for a long time and those in power need to be kept in constant check
Visualization of the unspent transaction outputs in the Bitcoin Blockchain
This is a website I created just for fun to visualize the distribution of the unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) in the Bitcoin blockchain.

Each pixel in the images represents one block. So the first pixel (counted left to right from the top) is the genesis/first block. If you hover over that pixel in the first image (orange), you'll see that it has a block height of 1, and 1 unspent transaction output in it. If you hover over the same pixel in the other image (blue), you will see that it has a combined value of 50 BTC.

So by looking at these two images, you can see how the UTXOs ("coins") are distributed over the whole blockchain. You can also see where most of the value is stored with the blue image.

Naturally, a lot of the "coins" and its value are concentrated at the end of the blockchain. But it's also possible to see that there's a lot of unspent coins in the blocks of early 2013. The same applies to the blocks in mid 2015.

Let me know if you have any questions :)
If you simply google this incentive you'll see that it's history long predates any popular notion of environmental preservation.
>Most EU immigration is to London and the South East, somewhere that already feels like it's creaking at the seems and overcrowded.

> Limiting immigration would alleviate some of the pressure.

First of all, housing is an economic issue.

Second, London voted overwhelmingly for remain. I live in London. No-one here seriously thinks that London’s housing crisis can be solved by stopping immigration. Nor did the country vote Leave because people in the North were particularly interested in solving London’s housing crisis.

Third, London out of all areas of the UK would be harmed the most by greater restrictions on immigration, and the vast majority of the people who live here know that.

>I also find it strange when people bring up racism in the context of limiting migration from the EU - a region primarily peopled by white Europeans.

Actually I was careful to say “racist and/or xenophobic” in anticipation of this kind of pedantry, but I guess I needn’t have bothered. The current climate is such that even Polish people aren’t considered sufficiently Anglo-Saxon to be entitled to live here!
I'll second that. When interviewing for jobs recently the sheer volume of tasks being handed out to prove I can program was a real problem - I work five days a week, my wife works Saturdays and I look after our son. That leaves an hour here or there available in the evenings (when I'll do a bad job because its 10:30pm), or taking a chunk of time out of the only real time we get together as a family.

If you apply for say 4 jobs and they all want 2 hour work samples you've just taken on an entire extra work day to apply for jobs. I can't even just take a day off work and batch them because of the way applying for jobs works.

Honestly, I don't know the right answer. From the other side of the table I like this approach because it lets me assess how someone thinks about solving problems and writing code, but its just reinforcing a culture where only young people without any real responsibilities outside of work can get into the industry.
In school we have studied a scenario that is exactly like this: "The effects of IoT security on utility and daily life functions"

From hacking boilers to stop water delivery, to locking people outside their doors.

The next few years will be very fun for "infoSec" people.
I recently heard some advice from foreign students in the Netherlands, to not mention ones time in the scouts to Dutch co-students.

Apparently it's looked down upon enough that it's best to keep it quiet, especially if you're trying to get a room in a house rented by students.

Can a Dutch person comment on this? Is this true, and if so, why?
Well if they do sell some of it then its an idea time for those who can and want to protect the environment long term step forward.

People need to see it as an opportunity and then take it.
If you want to be taken seriously as an engineer, you better never mention your fiverr profile again.

But yea, you can if you want. But I won't provide code audits for free, if that's what you're getting at.
New theory of gravity suggests there's no such thing as dark matter
Discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712998
I'm not sure if you willfully misread that and you enjoy being wrong, or if you made a mistake and need to re-read my response.
Given two of the worst presidential candidates in recent history compared to 2008 when you had two great candidates (and I say this as a hardcore leftist), it's not that surprising people stayed home.
That can sometimes be a deceptive trap, though. What if there isn't a lib or wrapper for Qt (or whatever it happens to be, physics, networking, etc) in your language of choice? I've gone searching the net for solutions to roadblocks in the past to find "this would be perfect... if only it worked in my language." Do you write your own wrapper, try to use something else, switch languages, etc. It can be a vicious cycle that ultimately has you not making progress.
This reminds me of a section (I think it might be the beginning) of "Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where he recounts fixing radios as a youngster, and the outrage of a client of his that he at times would just sit and stare at the radio. Apparently the guy went around town telling people about this incredible thing he had witnessed -- this kid he knew fixed radios "by thinking."

For every incredibly complicated algorithm designed to solve some really huge problem and deployed at massive scales, there are another thousand little problems at a far lower scale. I did a project at a school once using a GA to automatically create class rosters based on gender balance, student social networks, and grade distribution. This used to be a two-week long guidance counselor project at the school. Now they press a button.

Everyone in this forum clearly understands the impact that software is having on the world. But nevertheless, I still think we underestimate the impact that a more computationally literate society with more readily available computing power can have. I think examples like this excellently written piece of code highlight that.

Here is one -- admittedly very bright -- person who can from the comfort of his browser come up with such a fascinating and ingenious solution to this computational problem. Yes, it is being used for flappy bird, but this would easily extend to maybe a whole set of domain of problems that he/his company/his community could be facing. Yes, it is flappy bird, but this alone could serve as the motivation for an incredible course in a high-school dealing with topics from coding to the theory of evolution. "The Evolution of Cooperation" had a similar effect on me -- Axelrod uses nothing but very elementary Algebra to make such a strong and insightful argument that got me thinking like nothing ever had before.

Here's hoping we make this kind of "play", and this sort of thinking, as widespread as possible in society.
Sail across the Pacific! I mean it's incredibly slow but guilt free, if you buy a used boat.

Yes I know it's impractical advice but it's technically not wrong and hopefully also funny.
They did try to compensate for such things, but I always wonder if studies can compensate enough. Two households with the same income can have very different socioeconomic status, which may influence both mental health and the amount of scouting.
My dad is in the early stages of dementia and has repeatedly said he'd prefer to die than live on as a husk of a human.

Interestingly, he's got one of the weird dementias, called "primary progressive aphasia", which is slowly robbing him of the ability to speak. There are cognitive deficits as well, but the main issue is that he has trouble formulating sentences. So if we lived in Colorado, when he actually wanted to die, he would be unable to fulfill these requirements.

Also interestingly, part of his motivation is explicitly monetary: he wants his life savings to go to his family, not a nursing home.

This experience has reaffirmed my position in favor of right-to-die, but it really is a complex issue. If gran-gran doesn't want to go to the gas chamber, there should be stringent protections in place to keep her family from sending her there.
Shouldn't really have to go to google for you but here's the first link: http://www.landtrustalliance.org/topics/taxes/income-tax-inc...

And by the way, Trump uses these deals extensively. When he builds a golf course he'll donate the right to build condos on ~30% of the property to avoid taxes.
1. Why russians? We actually neighbors (40 minutes from my home to Finland), we like them and we prefer to be friends with them.

2. Everybody can be smart after the case :) I'm sure now the'll design something more safe.
Robot solves Rubik’s Cube in just 0.637 seconds
Does anyone have the number for this election?
Thanks @hkernbach. I've prepared just a lab in scope of the Data Bases course, and did my best to produce such materials for the students that could be useful for their future career and statups.
Latin America: The Future of US Nearshoring
The erlang ecosystem has new-found life with Elixir. The ecosystem for Elixir is rock-solid. Very high quality libraries abound.
The latest experiment in tech, economics, and psychology: Zcash
> E = h*(nu)

Yes, but the question is whether that is due to the material not being able to produce non-quantized photons. Stated differently, suppose we had a different way of generating photons, then could we theoretically create them in a non-quantized way?
Reveal.js and TableTop.js = presentations driven by gdocs
I mean, you could always just ask that the payment be donated to a charity instead, right?

But since almost everything we do is in some way technically illegal, it is important for everyone to be able to function under that premise.

I mean, just to cut the check technically the employer would need a W-9, a work for hire contract, and who knows what else. Let's call the lawyer and spend $5k deciding whether we can do this, and then decide 6 months later it's too risky.... Or, we do it, get better hires, execute on our plans better, meet revenue targets, and succeed in the market, by not following all the rules, just the rules that matter.

Knowing the rules to follow and the rules to forget is the hardest part, but a crucial skill in life and business. The more you push the envelope, the faster you can run, and the more likely you are to combust. See Zenefits...
I feel like I'm right there with John McClane!
It is very likely US citizens will be deported in the process, think about how many people it took to round up just 110,000 Japanese[1] during WW2 to put in concentration camps in the US, now think of it on the scale of tens of millions.

What do we do with the millions that are undocumented but have no nationality? Where can we put them? Are they perchance actually US Citizens that have been in the US since we took over vast swaths of Mexico?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
I was called all variants of that several times on my lifetime. Also Ramallah and all kinds of names. And I'm completely straight European up to (at least) 6 generations ago. So what?

Hate crimes are still a thing. Violence is still a crime. How's that different from BLM feeling emboldened from whatever emboldens them?

The guy wants conversion therapy, I want a billion dollars, you want safe spaces. Not everyone gets what they want. Deal.With.It.
Just a small/random additional tidbit...I'd guess that Münster is probably one of the cities in Germany with the most interest in good police work from a PR point of view because the German police university (Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei) is located there :)
One problematic thing about looking at the popular vote is that voter turnout is lower in non-swing states : here's a graph I just threw together for the results vs voter turnout - http://imgur.com/a/i42cY . There is a clear trend that the swing states had higher turnout.

This makes it basically impossible to tell what the real overall feeling of the country was - you don't know how many people choose not to vote because they think their vote counts for less.
What was "crazy" about the US making very concrete preparations like this one for the threat of the Red Army pouring through the Fulda Gap into western Europe? (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)...)

Now, Stalin and Khrushchev, you could well say they're crazy (the latter's peers judged him so after the Cuban Missile Crisis), but one thing seared into the minds of the Westerners fighting the Cold War in this period was the price of ignoring people like them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II).
Follow the Data: 3 Steps ECommerce Merchants Should Take to Avoid Fraud
For developing 2D games, I've found the combination of Love2D [0], Bump.lau [1], anim8 [2], and Gamera [3] to be extremely productive for me. This is a Lua game engine with additional libraries for collision detection, animation, and moveable/zoomable camera.

I'm an embedded C++ programmer by day so I've almost certainly done many of the things on the OP's list. It wasn't until I set C++ aside after 15 years or so and gave Lua a chance that I finally started making real headway on my Secret Agent Sam remake.

[0] http://love2d.org/
[1] https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua
[2] https://github.com/kikito/anim8
[3] https://github.com/kikito/gamera

(Note: I'm not kikito, just an appreciative user of his work)
Not sure it make sense. How to choose/decide about religion (or the opposite) without knowing about it. It's like refuse to send him to elemental art/math/chemistry class until he choose the university himself.
And the another thing, you have enjoyed it (as a whole package), yet you deny this from your child? Sounds a bit strange.