skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about you, but I seem to need to get around at about the same time as a lot of other people (and usually in the same direction).
If that's what's holding you back:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=django+python
Because an attack like that gives you short term access which isn't particularly valuable to a nation state. It was quickly found out and stopped.
The other impressive bit about Bezos is his knack for bargain hunting. I don't think he's paid more than a billion dollars for any of his acquisitions. Twitch, Zappos, and Kiva were all just under a billion. Wildly impressive given the advantages that each provide!
Often not intentionally, but in practice, yes.

There are two cases, really.

Where they intend to do it, they just draw the lines in 2d by lat/long or whatever, and if it goes through the middle of a building, oh well. The number of states still doing this is small -10 or less I believe.

When they don't, you see cases like New York city, where they don't theoretically split by Apartment, but if you look at the official data, you discover addresses in the same apartment building have been given different voting districts or whatever (this happens for all political district types). This is quite common. Remember that they use the same data, so they give you wrong answers too (until you get it corrected)! For reps you just give a wrong answer or nothing if you can detect it, but for things like voting, you tell them to call their state or whatever, because you can't risk it.
Do you mean accountable in the sense of the aviation industry (which hasn't had a major US airline crash in over 15 years) or the default political process?
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Clearly you shared some common interests. Was there a second date?
Yuck. In that future, the genius born into that village will have to work for that corporation, by a contract that his/her parents signed. Alternately, the genius will be raised with a sense of being morally obligated to work for that corporation. This is pretty close to dystopian nightmare stuff.
Sounds like a good browser extension to me.

I'd also like to have filters and conversions to preserve reasonable ideographs (e.g. ㊗), but optionally swap in a plain-text equivalent when warranted.
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Or, rather, that reducing the sentence duration will not increase crime.
There are so many obvious counterexamples to your claim as others have pointed out. Mongolia was and is a tiny nation but had one of the largest empires the world has ever seen.
He said there were four offers within two days, so the final price may have been significantly higher than the original asking price.
I've actually felt this same way for a while now. This past year or so I've worked hard (imo) to "get" the benefits of strong typing, but can't shake the feeling that the tradeoffs just aren't worth it. I was hoping the verbosity, complexity, etc (strong types), would give me more confidence and security in my code. It always seems like a false sense of security though and I'm currnently on the fence as to whether or not it's worth it.

Is there any studies done showing that strong typing is actually a disadvantage? I've seen some stating the opposite, but nothing really stood out to me. Sorry for the long rant, but at this point I can't find anything empirically stating one is better than the other.
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> Clojure is a hosted language, CL isn't.

There is nothing in the CL standard which says a single word about it. The idea of the standard is that it is possible to have different implementations: native on some CISC/RISC/Lisp CPU, on top of C, on top of a virtual machine, on top of the JVM, using the LLWM, etc etc...

> That wouldn't be possible on the JVM. CL's condition system is unique to CL AFAIK.

Let's run ABCL on the JVM, on my ARM-based ODROID:

Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.3.3
Java 1.8.0-ea Oracle Corporation
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
Low-level initialization completed in 1.242 seconds.
Startup completed in 6.577 seconds.
Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
CL-USER(1): (handler-case (and (evenp 2)
(/ 3 0)
(oddp 1))
(error (c)
(princ c)
(values)))
Arithmetic error DIVISION-BY-ZERO signalled.

oops, it supports the CL condition system...
So sad to see/experience c2 as a Javascript-dependent experience.
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I lost access somehow to my original account because my pseudonym was a pseudonym. Alas.
Agriculture already is heavily subsidizing corn, wheat, soy, all for the precious meat, eggs and milk. It's heaven in the keto world.

Do you see billions of dollars for the broccoli industry in subsidies? Don't think so.

Keto is a diet for the rich, plant-based diet with occasional meat (once per month) for the poor.

The energy efficiency of the plant to flesh conversion is ridiculously low. Feeding a world on the keto is a luxurious feat. Plant-based diet is a much more rational choice for feeding the world.
Looks like you made it to #2 on the daily front page (bested only by Zuckerberg haha) :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-12-19
Yeah that would probably not go well at all. However, there's no reason you can't have a polite conversation where you imply you know the sheriff personally. You can ask something like "How is Laurie doing?" and then something relevant like "My sister used to hang out with her in San Jose State" and "How are those new jail cameras working out? I heard she bought them herself! Wow!" just based off of Wikipedia [1] and some news articles [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith

[2] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/02/santa-clara-coun...
That would raise the cost of healthy food if it is done wastefully. If the government purchases produce, that bids the price upward. If the produce is unconsumed and then rots, then there is no countervailing downward pressure on price. This would lead to lower dietary consumption of produce.

So the burden is on you to propose a system that would be less-wasteful than our current method of destributing produce. Government-run systems can be more efficient (see: NHS), but the details matter.

EDIT: by details, I mean the specifics of "give people food". If putting it on their doorstep every morning, is it already cooked? Who chooses what is in the packages? How do you know how many people live somewhere? Can I use the unretreived packages to find empty houses to rob?
That's a great talk and has had a lot of influence. It's specifically referenced in Project Valhalla's proposal: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169
You are assumming they higher beings are functioning on timescales comparable to ours. Imagine a colony of microbes on an agar block writing out morse code intended for us - but there is no-one and the labs are locked for the night. Yet they keep trying for generations...

Alternatively - the spatial scales are very different and an entire galaxy or ours is not observable by their 'naked' eyes.
The secret is that we are all idiots. Some just refuse to recognize it and act like jerks because of it. None of us actually "know" most of what we know.

It's unprofessional to start calling names. It's generally uncouth to even start the argument unless you have really strong evidence and can back off when that proves insufficient. Don't be bothered when they don't have the evidence to back it up, but when they do have the evidence fix whatever caused them say it and keep some evidence.
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Let's put this another way. I agree that having to deal with negative people is draining. However, does fixing that require a big house? From what I know you don't need a lot of money (by Western standards) to find somewhere else you prefer to live. What's holding you back from living somewhere new (whether that's a new country or somewhere with fewer problems in your current country)?
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Take it with a grain of salt, but it has been ranked first for six consecutive years in the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...
Example in a similar vein, was trying to split Chinese characters by ',', but they were separated by '，'.
No, we were pretty different. But I did introduce her to my former boss. Don't know if they hit it off or not.
good tips, lady.

where can i download your crypto library?
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Sounds like one of the least painful startup shutdowns out there.

1. Still possible to run the software.
2. Data transfer is being handled.
3. Other resources will still be available.

And from the sound of it, it was profitable to the owners while they ran it, if not as much as they wanted. So in the end, everyone made out, the community still has the benefit of everything Kadira created.

Given how many startup creations and collapses seem like an economic waste in retrospect, I have to say this at least sounds like one of the most effective projects, economically, that I've seen "fail".

Maybe the only think missing to top off this cake would be slapping an open source license on that self-hosted version so people can continue to improve it and run with it.
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From the headline only: no.

Why? Because we still have political strife in the world, and political strife has been the root cause of famine for over a thousand years.

If anything our political systems are gearing us up for even more devastating famines, as countries turn inward and more oppressive.
Exactly. The default of the major search engines is we type in what we're looking for and usually get results. The commenter had a different experience with DuckDuckGo enough times to avoid it. We immediately know it gets inferior results to the status quo search engines. Many will avoid it on that basis. Other commenters might show up with detailed information on what kinds of queries succeed or fail. People wanting to use a mix of search engines, esp surveillance-oriented & private, might find that information helpful.

Yet, the original comment was sensible just because of two things:

1. Everyone on the Internet that uses a search engine knows what a good or bad one is. It has one purpose: turn your query into information you can use. If people say it doesn't or it's "shitty," then it's not doing it's job as a search engine effectively. All we really need to know.

2. The more specific information is better directed at the DuckDuckGo support or development teams to help them improve their alogrithms. Posting piles of data in Hacker News comments would only seem useful for the use-case I described above, people studying effectiveness of search engines via terms + results (better done elsewhere), or people reverse engineering DuckDuckGo's algorithm. I don't see why we'd expect people to produce or post that data as it's a lot of work and screen space.
Watched, didn't hear anything that contradicts what I wrote. Can you be more specific?

The closest I can find is when McAfee says: "If it looks like the Russians it isn't the Russians." I said "It looks like the Russians." These statements don't contradict each other.

We do disagree on attribution, but I haven't discussed that in this thread. He is radically skeptical about ever attributing any state sponsored hacking, although in the same interview he does attribute Stuxnet to the US/Israel and the OPM hack to China.
I find this reply interesting, because as a developer I feel like #3 is pretty much the only hard thing I have to deal with: translating human intention, which is sometimes paradoxical, into code. It can be hard enough when it's your intention, it's even harder when it's someone else's, and can be a huge time sink when it's multiple someone else's. Corner cases especially, where there is no answer that can completely satisfy all the stakeholders, becomes a balancing act.
Some programming, some design tools.

I programmatically simulated the movements as paths at 30fps into a series of data points, then imported into Animate CC and tweaked the tweening by hand, then exported to a series of PNGs, then imported PNGs into Photoshop as a movie sequence, finally exported as gif.

The superior tweening capabilities of Animate CC and the excellent gif compression of Photoshop makes tuning the animation super easy.

Perhaps next time I'll programmatically draw gif frames, for the fun of it.
You're suggesting that a foreign country supplied the FBI with forged evidence, and the FBI said, "Well, this doesn't match our own investigation, but I guess we'll just assume it's true anyway, now let's announce it to the world on our official letterhead"? Does that sound likely to you?
The article I shared with you previously was about the learning curve.
Two things come to mind here: First, a "rack rate" typically means an advertised rate, which gets discounted under a variety of circumstances. Second, I believe that's gross, not net.
>Ethically, this is a really frightening argument. Same argument with different words: We have to have people hungering to death to provide a disincentive for population growth.

Not to endorse GP's point, but people move to places with income / food before they start to starve. Like, this scenario plays out a million times a day with old ladies that put a bunch of cat food outside their house, after a couple decades there's 10x as many cats living in a 100 metre radius and the lady dies and then shortly after all the cats die too, of hunger or killed by the municipality. With no old lady to begin with the cats wouldn't have starved, they'd just spread out over a larger area so that they don't have to compete over other sources of food like vermin or trash.
I think I've seen those videos.
For a 40 hour week and 150 tasks per week to track, you have just 16 minutes per week per task. 16 minutes, to understand what's going on with a task that requires 13-20 hours to complete. How can you possibly develop an understanding of any of these tasks? I'm guessing that you can't, and that your 'tracking' must be limited to updating Basecamp with whether or not the task is on-track or blocked.
I would argue that there's a break even if you put those two variables in a bubble. I don't know who wouldn't.
I'm a ddg fan. You guys should have a big, conspicuous WHY? button on the homepage that links to all this. The 'Learn More' link takes me to what you guys don't do, which is good, but it's light on the why.
Well then why don't you give me all of yours. Imagine the good I'd be doing you.
At its peak, Yahoo!'s results were quantifibly better than Google's for over a year, but no one noticed/cared.

Google search has been "good enough" for years, and so has the competition.

Multiple companies have burnt billions proving that search relevance will not convert users on its own.

If you want to crush Google, you need some compelling reason for people to switch (voice? privacy?), or you need to maintain good relevance until Google screws up badly enough. Maybe they will fire half the search team during an economic downturn in the 2020's, for example. At that point, you can use cash reserves to poach most of the top 10% of the remaining team.

The problem with long games like this is that you might screw up or lose focus before Google does. This happened at Yahoo.

Switching industry sectors, Microsoft had tons of negative press about 8, 8.1 and then 10's force upgrade/privacy debacle. With a mediocre or better hardware launch, Apple probably would have cleaned up. Instead, Apple's MacOS lines happened to falter in the same years as Windows did. Now, Windows devices are earning lukewarm to positive comparisons against Apple devices.
This sort of sentiment explains why socialist Europe will never be able to build successful companies like Google/FB.
It is a meta search engine. Note that they never mention the share breakdown of these "sources".
What percentage of queries DDG itself answer? Probably very few.
I completely agree on every point. Developers are such a creative bunch, I'm just surprised this has gone on so long. I went into this wary but hopeful that mobile dev had gotten to a good point, but I am just not seeing it.

I'd love to be able to just hook my editor up to a cloud environment that took care of all this for me :-)
Punishment is almost always gratuitous. Aside from the handful of people whom society needs to be protected from, prison is always counter-productive. One of the recent stories linked here talks about how the brain doesn't really finish developing until the mid-20's, and that 20-something "kids" frequently get locked up for impulsiveness...

I had a passenger who got fined $1000 for letting his medical marijuana card expire. In the future, this fellow has it on his record that he is a political criminal who didn't hurt anyone, and a zealous brain-dead prosecutor might use this prior conviction to advocate for prison.

Another passenger had recently been released from a 2-year prison sentence. Her crime was sharing a single opiate pill with a friend. The cop was chuckling as he wrote her up. This one had gotten fat on prison food, which is not very nutritious. Several of her fellow inmates died from the neglect. (I guess police officers have to be rather disconnected from the consequences of their job. "I don't make the rules, I just enforce them" is a cop-out.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, etc) recently had this to say:

Being nice counts the most when
you are nice to people ignored
by others, deprived of attention,
or devoid of friends. The rest is
largely theater.

I tried to be nice to all my passengers, especially those who were having a rough day. One day I got a person going to the drive-through liquor store. I spent a few extra minutes talking to this person. After her taxi ride, I called back a time or two. There was a bit of hope in her voice - 'someone cares'. But on the third day she didn't answer, and I got distracted. Apparently she sobered up, but I didn't know that until later. After about two months this one started drinking again, found my card, and she called me because she just wanted someone nice to talk to.

This one had tried (really hard) to stay sober after almost 2-years in prison for her 3rd DUI. But life happened, and she hadn't learned how to cope in minimum-security prison.

I worked with her regularly over the course of about two years. She'd sober up, get a job, have a bad day at work, relapse... Finally I turned her over to her family (who previously had tried the "maybe mom will stop drinking if we ignore her" strategy), and she has really turned the corner now that she knows her kids are there to support her. Her son recently trusted her to watch her grandkids overnight. Prison didn't enable this transformation. (she originally fell into the alcoholic's pit when she found that vodka helped her anxiety better than the Xanax prescription. Benzodiazepines only work for about 4 weeks, before the patient's anxiety levels become worse than before.)

I'm still thinking about whether I should say more about this passenger. The Difference Between Boys and Girls [1] is about another passenger who did quite well after meeting me.

[1] http://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys-...
Yep!

Almost all the code I write is up on my Github with an appropriate license. Almost all of it nobody really cares about, barring a couple of projects with forks and even some pull requests which I get to as I have time.

The thing is that, for products, abandoned code is strictly better than no code. We see this all the time with games--classic games only get supported once their source is released. The same is true for non-game software.

People who turn up their nose at "yucky" code that works or shipped are not worth considering in the same league as the folks that actually built something. Real artists ship, everything else is just people wanking about best practices.
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Bad news for smaller app developers: when Android becomes monopoly, apps will be pulled left and right from Google Play.
That Apple might expect to sell fewer phones in the post-holiday quarter than the holiday quarter, that I buy. That sales are more sluggish than expected, I don't. At least not based on unsourced claims.

I've seen reports like this so often that I don't think I'd know what to do if one didn't appear. And so far, they mostly happen on years that are later demonstrated to include record sales of the product we're told is selling poorly.

I've begun to suspect that analysts literally make these up trying to provoke a response from Apple, since Apple normally only shares numbers during quarterly earnings, and they don't want to wait that long.
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Could you explain what you mean here?
I am new to Erlang. I assume that you mean writing a linked-in driver or NIFs. Unless you need very low and precisely controlled latency for your computation-heavy code, too, why not write it, e.g., in Python with NumPy and talk to the Python process over a port?
Can anybody tell me why no cafés in San Francisco stay open late? Sightglass closes at 7pm, Ritual at 8pm. The latest I know of is Haus on 24th St at 9pm. That's way too early for what's supposed to be a real city.
I'm not in insurance but I assume that it is the nature of pooled risk that there will be a million one-off cases (or N cases where N is the number of members in the pool). Given that, is it possible or even desirable to make changes based on what happened to this specific insured business? Would the cost of that change, be it increased premiums or an outright refusal to insure, outweigh the cost of a smaller pool? I guess that's something for the AI to decide.
Thanks for these suggestions (thanks also to dunham in sibling comment). I was having a hard time finding/evaluating the paid options, it's great to have your insights.
Speaking of salary negotiation, Patrick's article[0] on it is one of the single most valuable things I've read in my career. I can probably attribute about 25% of my salary to it.

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Economic signaling based on opinion of good/bad is the bane of the free market. Pollution tax: yes; you are being taxed for affecting others. Soda tax: no; you are hurting no one but yourself, and it is a stretch to say otherwise. Not that we should be providing government healthcare anyway.

But to the previous commenter's point, free food is exactly how you end up with famines. We are NOT beyond the era of great famines. Food production rose faster than population in the 20th century but there is only so much land, so much sunlight. It will catch up. When there are good times, people multiply. Poverty is inherent to nature -- some bears are born rich (big and strong), while others scrape by their entire lives, and may or may not reproduce. If they all had as much salmon as they wanted, their population would increase until there was poverty again. Same principle, in the long term at least. Only workaround is eugenics, and I would rather have freedom to reproduce and poverty than totalitarianism and the "theoretical promise" of no poverty.
His SoC ISA reverse engineering through FPGA MitM made me smile a lot.
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@patio11, there's a broken link to your post about salary negotiation. It's currently relative and needs a leading slash.

<a href="2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/">previous writing on the subject</a>