skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first instinct was to point you to a colleague's page, Justin Grimmer, who does analysis of free-form text such as Congressional press releases (and other statements). I swear he had direct links to zip files of this bulk text data but can't find them on a quick glance. Here's his research listing just to give an idea of what he's able to analyze from this public data: http://www.justingrimmer.org/research.html

As for why there aren't newer, or at least more of a variety of public datasets as canonical as the iris, diamond, Titanic survivors, MovieLens, etc...I'm baffled too (being a recent newcomer to academia).

If scraping is difficult for you, Socrata has made finding data exponentially easier than what it was a few years ago. Here's a great place to start: http://www.opendatanetwork.com/
My uncle lives in an area where a new house must be on a minimum sized lot of 1 acre. A nearby area requires 5 acres for a new house! I'd never heard of those kinds of restrictions before.
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I think the current level of airline security is overkill, but I'm always a little surprised to see people advocating for having none. In the late 60s and early 70s, US airliners were getting hijacked at a rate of once every week or two. Once basic security screening was introduced, it became far more rare.

Making people take off their shoes and empty their water bottles is a bit silly, but basic checks for guns and bombs are a good idea.
Sorry if that came across harsh, I was trying to correct the conversation, not be critical or snide. I figured it was a typoish thing.
I work for a large healthcare organization and multiple times have seen group messages instructing staff not to use surveymonkey since the data was hosted in the States, and something about the Patriot act allowing US authorities to view the data without warrants or something.
Innovation usually happens when there is scarcity of resources.
If I watch a Youtube video not logged in, in private browsing mode, in a different browser than where I am logged into Google, I end up seeing suggestions that are very much related to what I just watched when I use a logged in Youtube app on another device. And this is on a very shared Internet connection.
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Don't you mean "bad news for a debt driven economy"?
A lot of us landlords barely cover the mortgage with how much we can charge in rent. We don't simply get to increase prices and expect tenants to keep paying.
Portland is also apparently going to be majorly screwed in case of a big earthquake.[1] I considered moving there until I read about this.

[1] - http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-...
The company cafeteria was once a staple of American business. They usually were not free, but were below cost. It was just easier and cheaper for everybody than getting everybody out of the building and back.

I used to work for a subsidiary of an auto company, and I got a new company car every year. But those cars were used partly as test vehicles; they were maintained at the company garage by company employees, so they had a benchmark on maintenance problems. The company could make a tax case for that not being income. This only works if your employees are using your own product.
It's funny you mention this, because I went to law school for a while and love law in the way that mathematicians love theorems. Hollywood does have quite a lot of lawyers working on scripts - or rather, the ownership and business development of them. Lawyers have high standing within the professional film community; in fact the best way to get a producer to look at a script is to have it sent in by an entertainment lawyer, and quite a lot of lawyers write fiction because they're professionally trained to analyze and explain complex narratives insofar as they do trial/appeal work.

My thesis is not that Hollywood doesn't know stuff or won't hire experts, but that Nerds (in various fields) don't appreciate the business necessity to dumb the story down for the widest possible audience. Nerds are very interested in their specialist subject and often lose sight of the fact that too much detail is boring.

stories are ultimately about emotional identification, and too much intellectual detail can be just as boring as too much action (eg Michael Bay's Transformers films are often criticized for fight scenes that are so long and intense that people lose track of who's winning and after a while stop even caring, because it's just one big explosion after another).

If I made an accurate movie about lawyers at work, lawyers and paralegals would love it, and I might even have a small indie hit on my hands if the other elements were good. But most people would be bored to tears because they don't have all the background knowledge and experience to fully appreciate it, and they want to be entertained more than they want to be educated.
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Thanks! No idea how I missed that in all my digging but that looks much better than the mingw route.
So essentially this whole debate centers around how realistic one thinks the CPI-U-RS rates are... If you think they underestimate the purchasing power of money in 2016, then you'll disagree with the conclusions of the washpost article.
> we should be teaching that life is hard and you should count your lucky stars if you are able to afford anymore more than an apartment

Interestingly, my father did his best to instill this lesson with his persistently defeatist and pessimistic outlook on everything.

I now (in my 30s) make more than both of my parents combined.
Ugh. The sooner Tesla pass by the "we're safer than human drivers" mark the better because hearing stories about how a single guy who died, while absolutely tragic, is getting tedious when put in context of the the vast number of regular deaths on the road. My heart only bleeds so much for a guy I never met, who took a chance that he knew the risks of, when considering the grander goal at play here.
Gold standard has nothing to do with it. What money is, at a fundamental level, is a promise you can later redeem for real goods and services. Why there's so much mortgage and student loan debt follows directly from the demographic changes - the retiring generation needs promises to provide real goods and services (both directly through saving, and indirectly through pensions and the like), so capital markets seek out the best opportunities to extract these promises and provide them.
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Geniune question. For Wire: what is missing from what code they have available?

https://github.com/wireapp
Has industry given up making software development easier for ordinary people?
I find zero to be an interesting concept in the applied math world because depending on how you want to visualize it, it leads to different numerical methods. For example, think of how we represent a zero vector on a computer. Basically, we have an array of floating point numbers, but it's sort of hard to exactly pin down when we want to define this array as zero. We could look at all of the individual elements; we could sum them; etc.

Anyway, the two most used methods are to call a vector zero when its norm is zero or to call a vector zero when it's orthogonal to all other vectors in the space. The first approach leads to least-squares approaches, which gives things like GMRES or QMR in linear algebra or first-order system least-squares (FOSLS) finite element methods. The second approach leads to Galerkin and Petrov-Galerkin algorithms, which gives things like CG in linear algebra or more standard Galerkin or Petro-Galerkin finite element methods.

Anyway, that's just an aside, but I wanted to add that how we visualize zero has a definite computational, algorithmic affect.
My lizard brain disagrees with you.
I'm curious about this limitation:

> Descendant and child combinators are unsupported

Are conditional applications of rules also unsupported, like `:hover` and media queries? That's a big deal in terms of runtime perf, too.
Yesterday I reviewed all the headlines and saw none of the usual political click-bait sprinkled among them with their inevitable 200+ post flame wars. It was wonderful; like having a cast removed or getting a tooth fixed. I hope your experiment leads to a similar policy.
Those rules that were overridden were basically QA bikeshedding about variable names in something that has never changed before, and insisting on tacking on refactoring while trying to put out fires.

The engineer did their due diligence, wrote tests to make sure it had the desired behaviour, and got it done in minimal time. Clearing technical debt in old modules should be done, I agree, but not while trying to put out fires. It adds considerable risk to a change which should not have any impact except for the request.
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I know that FP has tools for that. But if the problem is primarily managing mutable state, isn't a tools that lets you directly see what you're doing a better fit?

Are the FP tools as efficient as the direct, C-style approach? For an OS, that matters.

Are the FP tools as easy to reason about correctly (especially in a section you're not familiar with)? For an OS that's worked on by thousands of people, that matters.

In this context, what is "ST"? And, what are the larger problems with monad transformers?
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I wouldn't be surprised if large number of parents of the 30-in-197X'ers were massively impacted by ww2.

Imagine growing up during the great depression and 'losing' 2-4 years of your young adulthood in the army. You'd expect that'd set you back earnings-wise by the time you hit 30.

It'd be a surprise if the folks turning 30 in 1972 didnt make more than their parents, if you compare depression+world war to the postwar rebound (especially in the USA)
Could my parents afford an iPhone? No of course not. Among many other things.

$$$ isn't the only quality of life indicator.

When doing this calculation, you of course adjust for these things. an iPhone would cost billions of dollars in 1970. Is that the figure we should use? Probably not. But it means that these calculations are largely arbitrary since we don't know the true value of an iPhone to a person in 1970.
The place to change that is the primaries.
And please please please make sure your server is configured to support Perfect Forward Secrecy.

https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/
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> It's a neat idea, but I think it's an idea ahead of it's time still. There have been docking laptops forever and even that doesn't seem to have taken the world by storm.

Probably not the world, but the customers I deal with, surely yes.

Laptops with docking station have been my work tool since 2006.
This is based on a history of recessions. Unfortunately this one is different (really)... We've never had interest rates so low for so long. It's possible, and I consider it likely, that those younger will be even more affected. Consider the possibility that parents run out of money and living in the basement isn't even an option. Also consider there is a decent chance for another recession before this one is even over.
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That doesn't sound like good fortune for Google.
Fun - I like the assistants! But: how do you share an anonymous IO page with a link ... anonymously (other than the random link)? What's the difference between creating a pseudonym on twitter and also a pseudonym on medium etc.?
This question is not "how to learn fast" it's "how to learn python fast". Those are different issues. In my post, if you consider it then you'll know that the answer depends on you, and depends on what programming languages you already know.

I could give you something simple like, "learn python fast by equating it to other things you know" but I can't say anything specific since I don't know you or what you know.
I'm in Montreal. If I understand, most of the speed boost I might feel will be EC2 instances and CloudFront stuff. Will it have any effect on S3's latency ?
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Ha! So that's the guide the managers at my previous workplace were following! Explains a lot. ... I did say previous workplace.
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RIP to the freight dogs though:

"2013: A UPS flight crashed on approach to Birmingham, Alabama, killing the two pilots."
I'm honestly shocked that someone would give them such access to their machine.

More than the absurd test rules, which seem quite common in some educational or testing environments, the fact the he would relinquish so much of his privacy and security makes me think he doesn't know his own worth.

It's OK to indulge them in some things but it's not OK to lose perspective and forget it's a negotiation. If you surrender to every demand, how can you negotiate later on? With what?
I totally agree that the UI is absolute dogshit, but I don't think I'm willing to definitively call this out as a dark pattern when it definitely could be shitty design.

That's my problem with this website - it would have more impact if it was more honest/genuine and only called out websites which are definitely 100% dark patterns. Or perhaps they could show questionable websites further down under a slightly different heading - to show that they do recognize it's not black and white.
Yeah, media queries and pseudo selectors (such as :hover) are supported. These tend to be really important for critical CSS. Descendent combinators are possible but to a greater degree involve tradeoffs. I posted my thoughts on this on this issue: https://github.com/rtsao/styletron/issues/27#issuecomment-26...
I deliberately wrote the "h" in lowercase, even though the ASCII character is uppercase, because I was advising looking only at the five least-significant bits, which won't tell you the case. Sorry for the confusion.
Wasn't it already obvious that it's impossible to define 'politics' with any consensus? What makes a 'no politics' idea nice anyway is that it doesn't have to be defined with consensus to work. Whatever multi-dimensional definitions people have still end up converging an awful lot on actual items. Plus as moderators you can always use your own personal judgment, which you don't have to justify, and which is necessary to help drive the site in a direction you want it to go. Otherwise it will drift towards being like every other site. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/) Still, I hope for more experiments in the future, and maybe even re-runs. (Going to ever try the 'pending comments' experiment again?)
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The word is "serf", but your claim makes no sense anyway. A serf is not someone who receives money from their government. In fact, the whole point of Basic Income is you get the money even if you don't do any work at all, which is basically the complete opposite of a serf.
No, the measure of a programmer is the change in productivity a company suffers were the programmer to leave.
> Want to read/write pretty-arbitrary JSON? Good luck)

I'm surprised this myth perdures.

Reading arbitrary anything is trivial in a statically typed language: use a hash map.

There. You're merely emulating what a dynamically typed language gives you, of course, but it's trivial. And at least, statically typed languages give you the choice: you can be dynamic or static. You don't have such a choice when you don't have types.
> Hah, one of the side effects of doing embedded programming

or reverse engineering hardware or software :)
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Data Locality is going to continue to be a strong driver for cloud providers getting a presence in different countries.

It feels like it's post-Snowden (but it may be I wasn't paying enough attention before then), but more and more countries have been passing data locality laws and are less willing to have their data residing in the US.
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Open source requires the ability to fork and Signal isn't forkable.
Battery, reliability, memory usage, are all part of the reason I use Safari.

I've found Chrome to be fairly unstable. We had a case last year with our corporate website relaunch, where a single user reported that our site was crashing Chrome for them and we probably had 60 or 70 people try to unsuccessfully recreate the bug, we tried Browserstack and Sauce to try and had no luck.

Another time we had a few users report incorrect fonts and traced that to a bad build of Chrome that was out for a week or so and the users that updated that week had broken fonts until they updated again.

Then there was the time one of our analytics suites broke when tracking certain links on our site since the request body to their service contained 'cgi-bin' in it, they blackholed the tracking request, and their (rather poor quality) script blocked the page until the request returned - no timeout set at all. This would completely lock Chrome for 10+ minutes when Safari would force a timeout after 20 seconds or so.

All those stories make it clear to me that the most stable option is Safari.

p.s. Not to mention the number of sites I run into now that only work in Chrome because the developers can't be bothered to do cross browser testing. Chrome is like the new Internet Explorer at this point.
I hope you contribute the questions and answer to SO then! Rising tide lifts all boats!
Sure, you could read it that way - I only mentioned the Jurassic films to point out that they avoid getting bogged down in the specifics of genetic science.

There's no one 'correct' way to analyse a film's symbolism/ideology, not even the author's intention. Many films have been written to express one point of view and been interpreted a completely different way by the majority of the audience. An interesting example is the Hunger Games series of books and films. Left-wingers consider it a metaphor for plucky workers oppressed by selfish capitalists, right-wingers consider it a metaphor for decent country folk being oppressed by degenerate city-dwellers.
In the late 60s and early 70s, US airliners were
getting hijacked at a rate of once every week or two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings is pretty dramatic
No problem. It's worked fantastically for me for the past 8 years (professionally, Windows at work so I had to use this option).
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To be fair, the fact that JavaScript needs a custom syntax (requiring preprocessing) for a problem this specific is upsetting. By contrast, the Haskell solution has just uses the IO monad - effectful-computations returning something of type `a` become first class and have type `IO a`. If you want to get dicey about atomic operations you have the `STM` monad. If you want to make very clear when you sequence versus race operations (and more along those lines) you have the `Async` monad. None of these need a special syntax - they are just regular monads.

That said, I agree that the article should at least mention the likes of `await`...
Keep in mind too, there are also things like air marshals and bullet proof cockpit doors that can't be opened from the outside and other measures like that.

Not all the security improvements are at the screening check level.
I agree that it won't happen easily. Which is why I phrased it the way I did. But I do think that it must happen eventually (and really, it's just a stepping stone on the path to a post-scarcity society).
Degrees and certifications aren't about finding aptitude. They're about protecting the hiring agent from the political fallout of bad hires. "It's not my fault I hired someone who couldn't program well. I mean, he went to Stanford."
Someone said this on another forum and I disagree with them as I disagree with you. I've found plenty of games through Steam that I wouldn't have known about otherwise.
> the more limited conclusion that our finitude enhances or upholds the meaning in the lives of some individuals in four different ways

Yes, that sounds right. Meaning is individual and subjective. So does death give live meaning? Well, as meaning is what you choose and make of it, the answer seems obvious: yes, for some people.
I was a Web Dev for about a decade and I swore by Firefox (started using at 0.6) and then later I switched to Chrome. Recently I've been solely focused on mobile application development and I don't really need most of the development tools that Chrome offers (even though Safari has most of them). At the end of the day, I just need a fast browser without bloat to go here, stack overflow, google, web-based documentation sites, github, product hunt, designer news, youtube and a few other sites.

Chrome is extremely bloated and resource intense on macOS. Each subsequent tab you open linearly increase your CPU and memory Usage. I need CPU cycles to build code, not load gifs from a website that I have in the background. Safari has way better memory and CPU management than any other browser on macOS. The only thing I use Chrome for are websites that require Flash since it's built in.

I just had my friend who uses Chrome take a screenshot of his Activity monitor - He has one "Google Chrome Helper" that's using more resources than my entire Safari browsing experience - http://imgur.com/pMHkKsz
I am 40, and it was a nostalgic conservative thing among my parents' generation. For my parents and their fundamentalist subculture, it was almost a religious obligation, tied up in ideas about gender roles.
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If you believe patents make any economic sense, then the term patent troll is basically just an epithet meant for rhetorical effect.

If the function of patents is to incentive capital markets to invest in products and processes that otherwise wouldn't see any investment because of the lack of a profit motive, then patent trolls are a good thing. The whole point of a patent is to grant a monopoly. Whether a patent holder enforcing the monopoly is a non-practicing entity (NPE) is immaterial.

Indeed, by the logic of the patent system so-called trolls are an unmitigated positive. They add liquidity to the patent system. Liquidity means the patent system, theoretically, is more efficient at incentivizing research and design.

If you have a problem with patent trolls, then it means you have a problem with something _else_ fundamental to the patent system. Maybe if you followed your beliefs to their logical end, you would question the validity of the necessity of patents. Alternatively, maybe what so-called patent trolls are exposing is the fact that patents are too freely granted, or granted for too long. Or that being able to sell patents at all, whether to NPEs or other companies, is just an end-run around anti-trust laws, which would otherwise blunt how rigidly a company could leverage patent rights in a market.

In any event, there's nothing negative about patent trolls, per se. They're simply exposing fundamental flaws in the patent system. I fear that focusing on so-called patent trolls will simply result in superficial legislative and judicial solutions.
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Or even worse you start writing code for "testability" and it becomes a bloated mess of one- or few-liner functions that are only called in one location by some other function.
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