skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well imagine if it got everyone stuck in some sort of delayed gratification treadmill that lasted their whole lives without any benefit to them. Just endless suffering with a carefully crafted and personalized vision of future eternal bliss for the promise of obedience. The few remaining humans being kept around for biodiversity purposes being subject to this.
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> However, in the event your project is not working, this gives you a great back-out clause. Simply refund everyone that you captured money from and close the Stripe account or use it for your next test project.

Seems like an interesting loophole, but don't you have time limits associated with refunds?
bdcravens is correct. It's not that comment, it's the subthread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950743) in the context of a long history of abuse.
Do you remember circa when this was? I was there for a few years and I remember a couple of amusing incidents of people sending "I'll be late today" to thousands of 10k+ people. Presumably that wasn't manager-approved.
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I think this is an important point - geopolitical issues are part of the equation. When Russia was invading (or liberating, based on your viewpoint) Kiev, energy reliance on Russia did play a key part in some nations willingness/unwillingness to take part in sanctions/retaliation.

Given that - if 90% of a shared resource is controlled by one or two large entities (made up numbers), that puts you in a weaker position as one of the smaller entities in the 10%.
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These efforts are actually more related than you might think. One problem with the current state of molecular biology is that mechanisms are represented as graphs comprised of nodes (genes and molecules) and activities (inhibition, activation, catalysis, etc.); however, these graphs are generally representations at whole-genome scale. Within each single cell, only a subset of the genome is expressed, which greatly limits the size and complexity of the graph in actual incarnations within cells and therefore simplifies the problem.
I always see this as a bullet point discounting other more advanced tools. How many chart types exactly do you need? As far as I can tell, most analyses that anyone needs to do on tabular data (so ignoring graph like analytics) requires maybe 6 different chart types (bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, heatmaps). Those cover basically every possible combination of numeric and categorical data axes (including color and size of elements).
While it seemed like it was a great idea when it started, this introduction and removal unfortunately seems like a prime example of when using the new shiny didn't work out, and using traditional approaches would have saved time and effort.
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No Xamarin Studio on the mac vs on Windows. Logical I think because Windows has the real Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio Windows is based on GTK# (AFAIK, I think the mac UI is native Xam since last year) it is limited on the Windows side / feels quirky.
When I was in college e-mail was everything. Facebook was only just getting off the ground, so when an event was happening or a club was recruiting the best way to get the word out was to send an e-mail to the listserv, which then sent it to specific class years or to the whole campus.

Problem was this listserv wasn't moderated at all. Any club president or anyone else who wanted access could get it, and the messages weren't screened for content before being distributed to every e-mail address on the list.

One such club president wrote an e-mail to the ex of his current girl that began, "Me and Jessica fucked like rabbits..." and he accidentally included the listserv address for the entire campus on that e-mail. The guy was generally well known as an active student with great grades who didn't get in trouble, so when a catty lovers quarrel was made public to thousands of students and faculty by his own hand it was kinda entertaining.
There is no epaper in pebble. You can get ~25 microwatts per cm2 per K temp difference (according to Linear). Enough for the Sharp memory display and simple clock circuit.
Unacceptable by who? Some universal morality? Come on.
In my situation, I work from home a lot, but also go in the office 3 days a week or so for face time (per my role, and I work with great people) - we're a small bootstrapped company solving some boring problems in fun ways :-)
"Just hide them! I wonder why Nobel laureate Niels Bohr and future Nobel laureate George de Hevesy didn't think of that."

Because they are geniuses and probably over-think everything.

It would take 20 minutes to find a spot to hide them, and they wouldn't be recovered for 1000 years if people weren't the wiser. But it would be pointless because you can remove the markings with any hard objects, basically instantly.

The Nazis were not 'hunting' for this stuff, even if they were, it wouldn't be worth any effort.

Step 1) take a hammer to them and remove the markings. Gold is soft and malleable. Evidence = gone. 5 minutes.

If you're worried about having arbitrary bits of unmarked gold:

+ Throw it in the garbage next door
+ Throw it in a bag in the harbour
+ Bury them in the lane or garden around the corner
+ Throw it in the sewer

It's just a couple of small bits of unmarked gold at that point. Wherever it's found - or not - it's meaningless.
This is the argument I keep giving.

Everytime I explain to someone my fears of him are based in things he said I get two different responses:

1. Incredulous, almost as if they pretend it didn't happen. Comparing it to republicans freaking out over Obama taking everyones guns. When I remind them Obama never said he would take everyones guns, but Trump has said he will do the things that are major red flags to me.... They just brush it off as inconsequential.

2. They say no president actually keeps the promises they make in their campaign. Which is even more confusing because then why did you vote for him? These people I assume are the "not hillary" people.

Trump told everyone what they wanted to hear, even if it conflicted with something else he said. I guess some form of confirmation bias comes into play where they heard what that liked, ignored the contradictions they didn't and voted for him anyways.

Which seems insane to me.
I find your argument utterly bizarre. You're saying "these are all members of a category, therefore you must accept ALL of them or NONE of them". But your choice of category is arbitrary! Why make it "currently executed subsidies" instead of "all possible subsidies" instead of "subsidies that were done in ancient Sumeria" instead of "subsidies that primarily aid those less well off"? I have no problem doing what you're calling out because what you're calling out is reality. You're proving far too much.
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No, no, the situation you describe is much better than in the USA. My friends are all over the country too, much like yours, but my country is _much_ bigger. I wish they were merely sprawled around an area the size of the Netherlands.
Correct URL:

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How much power do you actually get out of the TEM?
When you hire someone to fix your car, you are still liable (to have it break), so learn how to fix it yourself.

When you hire someone to fix your body, you are still liable (to die), so better study all the medical textbooks and stay on top of latest research.
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Here is an opinion of a Mexican guy.

I remember back in the day when Mexican president Carlos Salinas promoted the NAFTA deal as a solution to our problems. I started to disagree when reason came to me (I was too young when it happened), few reasons:

- I believed in a more protectionist system that encouraged internal growth. I still do to a point.
- Trading is good as long as you don't compromise internal production and employment. NAFTA is way too aggressive in this sense.
- It will triggered this bad "us-american?" behavior of consumerism and materialism.

Well, here we are 22 years after and it's evident the system got exhausted, even for US-Americans who were supposed to be the strong link in this chain.

Is killing NAFTA a good idea? maybe. I don't know. We are so deep into these waters that it has to be a small "chunk by chunk" change, and even so, it'll be chaos.

What I am sure we need, is to find a new balance, going all protectionist will be a huge mistake, just like this crazy aggressive neoliberalism that allowed companies behave irresponsible. Believe me, the consequences of this 20+ years trade system in Mexico are massive.

Wait, I'm not a pro-Trump crazy Mexican, keep reading.

As I said, we need a new balance. To my eyes, Trump is an extremist and a dangerous man, he doesn't sound or act like a guy that could bring this balance. I think USA voters made a huge mistake on electing him. But, at the same time, they had 2 very poor choices. They just chose the worst one.

The years to come will be interesting ones... that is given.
Too bad most of tools targeting mobile phones come only as shady, Windows-only, closed-source, DRM-laden (requires unnecessarily expensive adapter) solutions.

That's capitalism for you - every vendor wants their piece of the cake by keeping their reverse-engineering efforts secret. Nothing else is preventing an open-source and open-hardware ecosystem from thriving by reusing existing tools (eg. OpenOCD and any FT2232-based adapter clone).
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Thanks for the sources, I'll have to check them out. We've recently spent a considerable amount of time tracking, analyzing and evolving our PagerDuty alerting[0], learnings of which we've shared in a blog post.

[0] https://goshippo.com/blog/evolution-our-pagerduty-playbook-f...
my system (linux mint, based on ubuntu 14.04.1) might be affected. the versions match, the files are there.

i'm loath to download and execute the test file though.

while i'm almost completely sure this post is legit, i also don't want to delete the gstreamer-0.1 in case it trashes something important. think of trolls recommending the deletion of system32 to speed up the system and free disk space.

can i remove this safely? is there more information from another credible source?
Pentecostalism is as about as a specific term as "christianity" or "monotheism" or "paganism" comes when it comes down to actual beliefs, practice of worship, doctrines, etc. The largest of those groups, "Assemblies of God" defer in key areas of doctrine, faith, and worship from the next 8 or so on that list. You may argue the differences aren't worth the seperation, but consider even in the American Protestant landscape -- even the Presbyterian Church, which is a specific kind of Protestant is heavily fractured between it's more liberal wing, the PC-USA, and it's more conservative group, the PCA. Baptists not apart of the Southern Baptist Convention differ heavily from those not a part of the SBC. Methodists and Lutherans face similar key distinctions. If all of these groups were united in belief, practice, doctrine, and key tenants of the faith, I would agree with your statement, however this is not the case.
I love how the images are in grayscale!

Represents the fact that all these photos were taken during the graveyard hours far better than if they were in color.
It depends on a temperature gradient. One side has to be warm, the other side has to be cold. If you put it in a pocket it stops generating power.
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I thought about this after I posted, but since I was using a mobile app I couldn't edit at the time.

It was unfair to make character accusations for such a minor thing. I'm so suspicious of "shills" ala reddit posters that I didn't take the time to look at your comment history or consider that you may be a real person and not a paid account.

Non-sarcastically, I'm trying to get better at that.
no problems, but actually we started using angular pre 1.0 and a lot of things are just messy right now, we have lots of different ways how to define a controller and the upgrade path is extremly bad for us also since we are coming from Scala we feel the pain of the lacking type system (typescript would of course resolve that, however we don't want to hook ourself again in the claws of google, we gone trough GWT to Angular already).
If you're wanting to build an app that has cryptographic capabilities, you might run into some trouble if you're expecting to be able to do it in JavaScript without touching any ObjC/Java (an expectation that I don't believe to be highly unreasonable)

React Natives's JavaScript runtime doesn't support WebCrypto. People have resorted to browserifying Node's crypto module (and the rest of Node's built-in modules, as a result) which gives you everything besides a RNG (a RNG cannot be browserified for obvious reasons).

I guess what I'm saying is: I sure hope you aren't trying to do anything too exotic with React Native without first getting ankle-deep in some native code.
Just remove the libgstnsf.so file which will not break gstreamer.

sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gstreamer-0.10/libgstnsf.so
> If random really means random, then that's presumably true by definition.

No it's not. Randomness is always with respect to a given distribution. There is nothing special about the uniform distribution over a threshold. The space of strategies also include strategies where your opponent redraw only when they hit a number between 0.1 and 0.2, or where they redraw if the second decimal digit of the first draw is even.

> The thing is that maximizing the expected value is optimal in the absence of any information about the opponent's strategy.

Your statement is meaningless without a prior on the strategy. Under which prior is maximizing the expected value optimal? If you assume the other party randomly picks a threshold between 0 and 1, then the optimal answer is (sqrt(39)-3)/6 not 0.5. Not that this prior makes any sense. It's far more sensible to assume a strategic opponent.

Rethrowing below 0.5 is typically the optimal strategy when the opponent has no strategy at all, i.e. always or never rethrows.
keep in mind though, that was in part a geopolitical security strategy (energy security), as the USA was deeply reliant on foreign oil. (This was before the Alberta oil sands was viable, and fracking wasn't even a known option)

Of course, can't say that's a good reason to continue the subsidies today though.
Good points -

A debate on whether or not being represented should be sacrificed for the sake of expediency and getting things done is an important one to have. From my perspective, getting less done could be a feature of such a system rather than a bug.

Perhaps the federal government would focus on large problems in need of a countrywide consensus with smaller things bouncing back to the states?
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This IMO gets it completely wrong. An independent candidate who comes within 2% of a plurality and victory and performs >15% better than the Democrat does not deserve to be called a spoiler. Why does the Democrat deserve the win regardless of what voters evidently want?

If anyone is a spoiler, it must be the Democratic candidate.

Your reasoning may be well-intentioned, but it is yet more 3rd-party-blaming.
You are misrepresenting the opposing argument being made.

The opposing argument is that people are making is as follows: 'climate-alarmists' misuse climate-science as a means of making political change.

It is not a denial of all climate-change science.

I don't care to argue this topic because I'm not expert nor do I care to pretend to be one on the topic of climate change, but this misrepresentation of the opposing views is part of the liberal-bubble so many people live in - all while smugly assuring themselves how much smarter they are than everyone else.
Well I hope you are not equating the discussion happening in this thread with the 'political correctness police jumping on someone'. The only discussion happening here seems to be about whether it is appropriate or not. No one is suggesting that the author be punished or admonished for it.

It seems like a very valid thing to discuss, and suggesting that people might be 'triggered' for even bringing it up only serves to undermine a legitimate discussion on it.

No one here seems emotionally distraught by the author's words. Rather, all of the discussions about the inappropriateness of the remarks seem to be pitched in a constructive and explanatory way, without regard to whether they were offended by them or not.
This becomes more and more painfully true the larger a codebase becomes, especially when you're the sole developer working on a personal project trying to get anywhere.
Perks are terrible. Pay me in straight dollars please, not company scrip.
Have you ever worked support? Of course the percentage is an exaggeration, but seriously, many people are idiots and won't take no or "that's not our product" for an answer.
Unacceptable for communication in a professional setting in North America or Europe. I don't buy the argument that it's acceptable to behave as he does in the workplace in Finland any more than it's acceptable in the US or any other such country.

It's also just generally a disrespectful way to treat other human beings, and that is pretty universal, actually.

But to be frank, I think that context was perfectly clear in my post.
Thanks, that's really cool. I'll try to make head or tails of the article and look a bit more into the reunification. If that could be carried off, interest levels in the language(s) would potentially rocket.

The example I thought of for mutual-intelligibility btw was Swedish/Norwegian/Danish - but perhaps it's not that close? With Swedish as a third language I can still understand most Norwegian TV in general use or those subject areas I'm more familiar with.
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> But for vast majority of real world users RSS is quite misterious piece of technology.

I would imagine that the "vast majority of real world users" of this email-to-RSS converter know exactly what RSS is

:)
>Of a community dragging their feets while avoiding to upgrade at all costs, with developers being forced to backport features into the 2.x branch.

A minor problem compared to dealing with developers continually using poor paradigms for eternity because C++ did not want to break compatibility.

And I believe the developers who backport to 2.x are not those who implement the features in 3.x. The latter don't care at all about 2.x. Those who backport do not see it as a "pain" but as a new feature to add to their language.
That's exactly the correct analogy, and yes, for Boy Scouts that's true.

Venturing, on the other hand, is entirely youth-led, with the adult playing the role of a coach.
There's this bizarre thing going on on HN, reddit, and other tech sites. We saw it with Linus and we see it again with Trump. Suddenly, all these people are making excuses for terrible behaviors and outrageous claims. Usually following a "he didn't really mean that" playbook of justifications like "productivity" or "politics" like either excuses acting like a child.

Why are we afraid to call people out on the shit they say? Is this some new level of political correctness? Or do we just see these people as something to project onto and dismiss anything counter to that?

No idea, but it seems we live in strange times where a man's own words are ignored for feel-good conclusions that have no merit or basis in reality.
The test file, if your system is affected, will only open a calculator. (if you are concerned whether it has been modified to an actual attack file, you can compare it to the one on the page in a hex editor.)

Don't delete gstreamer-0.10, because many things rely on it. It is however safe to delete libgstnsf.so.
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Who says that your supermarket needs to be in the Valley? In Michigan you can live like a member of the elite on $400K a year. In Detroit you could live like a king.
Screening would be fine. Banning outright would not be.

And the screening must be universal. Not just based on whatever ideology used by violent extremist currently is.
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Yes, we do each of those things because we want to strongly encourage their use. The unfairness is supposed to be outweighed by the social benefits to all by this encouragement. This is a good thing IF we think it's a good thing for people to:

- Go to parks more, and be more relaxed and healthy, benefiting everyone

- Get more education more, benefiting all of society

- Drive more.... thus creating more traffic, accidents, and pollution??

One of these things is not like the other!

At the very least, if you want to encourage people travelling (for some reason, not clear what the benefit is) you should be fair and equally subsidize car usage, transit usage, and bike/walk usage. (In much of the USA, parking is free, usage of most freeways is free, but trains and buses cost money and bike/walking is made difficult. The only conclusion to draw is that government wants to encourage usage of cars instead of non-car transport mediums, for unfathomable reasons)
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From my own experience: Once you reach an audience in the hundreds of millions you're bombarded with edge cases issues daily..you just chose to prioritize addressing them or not.

That they make it to the mainstream, which in this case caused us to have this specific conversation is very unusual and can take a lot of time.
How about late stage startups that have plans to go public(my situation) ? In this environment, we are still small enough to where you can make a name for yourself and stable enough where pay and benefits are good. There is a mix of people: family, married no kids, single. When we hit the exit, people who come in the last couple of years will get something, but nothing like the early employee's.
I don't really see the spread of capitalism as a virus, and indeed none of the founding Marxists did either. While capital's inherent drive to expand is the core of most imperialist theories (and therefore "bad"), the accompanying spread of bourgeois ideology to the entire globe--and with it the social integration of the whole of humanity on scale which was previously unimaginable--is unquestionably a good thing.

So Theil's anti-political phases are interesting to me as a demonstration of how ideology and capital condition each other.

On Silicon Valley, the anti-political technocratic ideology it seems to be producing is a minor phenomenon. There may be something to the notion of bits vs. atoms as the "stuff" of production, but what gets obscured is that capital and the law of value rules here nonetheless.

On Girard, Theil's affinity with those ideas seems to me to be bound up with his struggle to reconcile his libertarianism with Christianity. My guess is that if he dropped the Christianity, the Girardian thought would fall away.

My main point is that Theil is a particularly good "personification of capital" and that if you drop the stupid anti-capitalist politics and see capital as neither good nor bad but simply the ruling principle of the world, then it can explain a lot.
Barring edge cases, Condorcet methods can be described like single-elimination tournaments which pretty much everyone is familiar with.

Yes, graph theory comes into play for tie breaking (assuming we can agree that cyclic Condorcet paradoxes are ties of sorts), but the core of the idea is already understood by an overwhelming majority in concept if not by name.