skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish I could vanish back into my tradecraft. I'm am quite jealous of people who can do this.

But the year I came out as non-binary is the same year my country elected a President with a VP candidate that wants to make discrimination against me not only legal but protected. E.g., under Pence's prior proposals someone could fire me because I am NB to "protect their moral conviction" and even if that firing was against corporate policy it could not be punished or easily recanted. His prior two attempts at the law also were written in a way where local and state laws could not override the federal law, which makes it even scarier.

So I actually need to watch the news and remain "plugged in" because it's very much a situation for me where I am now exposed to a lot of potential damage.

As such I do not feel that burying my head in the proverbial sand is a luxury I can't afford. For those who can, enjoy it.
Automatic UV Mapping Using Harmonic Mapping: A Tutorial and Introduction
CPP isn't for government employees, it's for everyone. The government doesn't run the pension plan for it's employees, they have corporations that do that, so they're independent of the government, and won't allow them to play shenanigans with being underfunded.
Once you know their agenda, you can filter. At least they're not hysterical. Part of the problem is the very different meaning that the word 'liberal' has in the UK.
I'm not so sure. In London there's a lot of construction going around, but at the same time a lot of buying for investment purposes, properties which are not even rented afterwards.
Hello, I'm the author. Some weeks ago, I posted here a reference
implementation of automatic UV-mapping with harmonic
mapping(https://github.com/Erkaman/auto_uv_map). I promised that I
would write an article that explains the mathematics of the source
code, and here it is.

I wanted to write this article because all the existing literature on
this topic is pretty difficult, and I wanted to see if I could solve
that issue by writing my own article about it. But as I was writing
it, I discovered that this stuff is pretty damn hard to explain, and
it made me sort of understand why all the existing literature is hard
to read.

But my hope is that this article at least succeeds in explaining the
intuition behind the technique. If there's anything that is not clear
in the article, please ask here, and I will attempt to explain.
It is definitely true for Poland. As for UK, I had a flatmate with intense head/chest pain wait for 4 hours for an ambulance because he was diagnosed over the phone as not being an urgent case (which was probaby right, as he did not die in the meantime) and that was the wait time for non-dying people.
Building ripgrep did require a lot of experience, indeed, but it had almost nothing to do with Rust. The experience is in text search specifically, which you'll need regardless of the language you're using. If you look at the regex crate for example, there's basically no use of unsafe at all. The only use is to elide bounds checks in some very carefully crafted tight loops. But again, most of that work was done irrespective of Rust and just figuring out the right way to unroll the DFA loop(s).

Optimization tricks in Rust are the same as you'll find in C++. It might be worth you comparing the C++ implementation of Snappy with my Rust implementation, for example. You'll see the same kinds of tricks employed in C++ as in Rust (avoiding memcpy in favor of unaligned loads/stores).
I don't think it can truly be said that TARP turned profit[...]
And it is impossible to know profitability of securities without
knowing their Sharpe ratio,

I think you're mis-interpreting the Sharpe Ratio and saying something different. Profit -- ex-ante or post-ante (edit: ex-post, brain fart!) -- is always a profit.[0] Whereas, you're arguing that the profit (on a risk-adjusted basis) wasn't that good.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharperatio.asp
If you can't staff properly to service a market, maybe you shouldn't be in it. Having someone to answer level 1 support requests (and escalate with proper "on-call" pay when necessary) isn't that expensive.
> What would need rebuilt is all the infrastructure for automating supply chains, and such an aggressive economic move would be highly likely to unite the American people in a singular cause against their new economic foe

i want to argue the opposing side of this a little. i would argue that present-day America is actually extremely difficult to unite.

i don't believe the imagined "aggressive economic move" would unite the American people. "the American people" is just a diverse bunch of competing economic actors and political interest groups operating inside US geographical boundaries.

WWII is the last thing that really united "the American people" to the extent that you describe, and that was characterized by direct acts of war resulting in human fatalities (e.g. u-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic, Pearl Harbor, bombing raids on our British ally, etc).

a purely economic move like that is a lot less likely to unite the American people than an actual military attack. what's more, today, even real American human fatalities don't unite America. when the San Bernardino attacks happened, half the country was arguing for more gun control laws and the other half was screaming "Islamic fundamentalism." going to a larger event, did even 9/11 unite "the American people" in a way comparable to WWII? if it did, it didn't last long.

when i try to understand why, say, Apple, does its manufacturing in China, i read from various sources that it's not just cheaper labor, but also the availability of a very large number of engineers on short notice and the ability to build factories way, way faster -- no bureaucratic red tape and far fewer environmental reviews and roadblocks. i don't see a way to match that in the US system. a lot of people really love environmental protection laws.

i don't see where something as low-intensity and undramatic as "an aggressive economic move" by China would be enough to unite the people in an effort to repeal environmental laws and motivate sociology and psychology majors switch to EE and CS.
Are you a native German speaker or did you also learn? Any recommendations? I have heard the Goethe Institute is great but its very expensive.
> Self-improvement is more important than worrying about things outside of your control or that have little impact on your life.

Can't be said better.
He can just pick a country outside the EMU: UK, Czech Republic, Sweeden, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. The last ones are in danger of entering the Eurozone, ceding control over their currencies to the EU and possibly getting in trouble like Greece did. Capital is already fleeing out of Europe to the US. I'd say it's a bad move to move to Europe right now, unless it's for college/uni and maybe job prospects afterwards. Although he's going to have a hard time as an American citizen because of silly tax agreements the US has with other countries.
For "getting a feel", I find video is fine. For actual learning, I agree not so efficient, but video can be excellent for deciding whether a person is interested in digging deeper.
At my university this is the only officially supported way to access your email on Android, that was pretty horrifying when I was a freshman (so much so that I went without email on my phone for the entire first semester.)

If you hunt around enough though you can find the parameters needed to use IMAP.
Or it means the state has made too many promises without allocating sufficient funds to cover them.

Government would be so much cheaper if they didn't pay the workers and instead just made them straight up slaves! Also, they need to find workers that don't need food or energy, since those cost money.
re: "He gets people fired for making jokes"

This seems like putting a spin on things. Following a link in the article, you might want to read what Anil actually wrote (in particular, search for "Update"):

http://anildash.com/2013/09/my-meeting-with-pax.html
Moreover a hundred years ago, it definitely had to be Jews.
Neither of those are small or mid-size cities.

Throwing out $200k as a typical middle-class income just demonstrates the bubble the OP lives in. I live in one of the wealthiest counties in the nation (Fairfax) and we don't come anywhere close to a $200k median household income.
I feel like you completely missed this part...

> On the other hand, they're perfectly comfortable with me telling them, "I'll be in a bit late today because last night was rough". Give and take.

I'm comfortable waking up at 3am in the morning if it's needed, and my clients are comfortable with me not always being in a seat from 9 to 6. Flexibility on both ends, give and take. Plus, they are always appreciative of any effort, in or out of normal work hours. I love the clients I work with. We're a team.
If you only know the top number but not the bottom one, you can't really compute utilization. Also, spring festival (Chinese new year) means much of the utilization comes "all at once", so the trains are packed for a few weeks each year, but can be much more empty the rest of the year. Anyways, it isn't as simple as laying more tracks between cities.
US could do that too. Iraq war bill 2 - 6 trillion. Oops! Nevermind!
> I've generally considered out-of-hours checks to emanate from employees. There will always be employees who want to do a bit of extra, stay a bit longer, answer emails at 10pm, to help make progress in their career and get promotions.

Another reason one might want to check email outside of work is to make work easier the next day. If something starts to go wrong at 9 PM, and I see an email alert from a monitoring system, I might be able to ssh in and fix the problem in a few minutes. If I wait until the next morning, the failure could be affecting other systems and I might be facing a whole day of annoying and tedious tracing the results throughout the system and fixing bad database items. Yuck.

I'd much rather hit "pause" on the cable box, or step to a reasonably safe spot and cast invisibility on myself in EverQuest, or stick a bookmark at my place in what I'm reading, at 9 PM and take care of it and then get back to my TV show/game/book and then have a nice day at work the next day where I can work on coding new things, than give myself a really crappy work day in order to save a few minutes of slight inconvenience at home.
Being from a country that has commercial news (clickbaity, alarmist, etc.) I'm finding it ok to watch the news from European public TV. You get to know what's going on in the world but avoid most of the emotional drain.
Top 12 Clojure Programming Books
If one absolutely wants real-time collaborative editing then the only (long-term) solution I see is something like a deep learning solution that continuously semantically analyzes the merged state for semantic errors. In a particular problem domain this might be 5-10 years out. In the general case, this starts to approach the level of difficulty of AGI and hence who knows when that'll happen :)

Some practical solutions are that the document starts out in a 'real-time collaborative editing' phase. After this phase is over, the document moves to a 'review' phase where the document is reviewed for semantic errors and those errors are fixed using a 'non-real-time' approach.

The only way I see at this time to avoid silent semantic errors in the first place are non-real-time approaches.

The best practices here are optimistic locking/leasing of "semantically-connected regions" (could be defined as a paragraph, document, multi-docset, worksheet, slide etc.) along with semantically useful diffs (diffs that are meaningful for an end user) for conflicts.

You could say that this is the approach taken by version control systems like git, where the semantically-connected region is the File/Document.

Semantically useful diffs for anything other than text documents is a non-trivial problem in itself. But is still more tractable than avoiding or detecting silent semantic errors with OT.
You can study for cheap and get a student visa in Germany, Austria or an ex Eastern Block country, get a job until senior developer there, then work for a US company.

Forget Italy. Italy is probably nice to live in, but it's at risk of becoming the next Greece right now. Big problems in the banking sector, 1st country for refugees to enter through along with Greece.
Did you live through people claiming the ozone layer was disappearing? And the ensuing global action to remedy it?

At the current rate and compliance with the Montreal protocol we should be back to pre-CFC levels in 30 years or so
Point 1 is ridiculous. What company in the public eye would allow an exec to tweet the n* word, jesus, and sex acts all at the same time and do nothing about it?

Anil could have begged BI to forgive him and it wouldn't have helped. Pax placed a time bomb under his own bed with that tweet and it was destined to go off if BI ever found it.
>That is a very old number and anyways only comes from consumers who are not consuming but saving for emergency health care, or increasingly unaffordable housing.

They're still saving and those savings keep a lid on Chinese inflation which makes projects like this affordable.

>China desperately needs for its consumers to actually consume to move away from an export oriented economy, which is especially sensitive to trade friction.

There's a lot of talk in the CCP about shifting China's economy to becoming more consumer driven but there isn't a lot of appetite to actually do the things which would make that happen - namely some sort of social security/nationalized health insurance system.

The Chinese will thus continue to be terrified of getting old and sick and will and save accordingly, and those savings will no doubt continue to get recycled into projects like this as well as subsidizing state run SMEs with cheap loans.
I've worked there. It definitely did a lot of damage to my psyche.

Even if you work for a foreign company, the way personal relationships work is very different from the states. That had taken me a decade to realize.

I'm glad you didn't make the same mistake I did.
Somehow I can't understand how a life saving medical device would require a smartphone of a certain brand, but even if this is the case you could have gotten the iPhone 6 for example
That doesn't actually generalize GP, but presents a very different issue (neither of the examples you claim to be "abstracting" involve challenging the possibility of the announced innovation.) GP is more "Announcement: Innovation! Response: Questions about utility and/or unintended consequences."
I don't think that's a "maybe".
Good question. The right aways are important and quite persistent, but the bridges and tack will need to be maintained/rebuilt/upgraded periodically no matter how much they are used.
It's not entirely inconceivable that the middle class is 6% of the population, or less.

<pedant>That's not how this works. Middle-class, is by definition, somewhere in the middle of the household income range. Exact position is open to debate, but you can't just declare "only the top 6% are middle class!"</pedant>
Thanks, I had skipped to random parts and missed this one.
Here is a transcript:

"The game has to have a copy of that Nintendo logo inside. If it doesn't match, the game does not boot. This was meant so that Nintendo could control which games are released for the platform, because all games had to contain the logo, which is not just a copyright violation but also a trademark violation if you include that and don't have Nintendo's permission".

Neat :)
yep, and my (lame) workaround is to activate notifications for the Gmail app, which I never use. When I get a notification, I then open up the Mail app, which downloads the message. Clunky, but it works (as long as I remember to open the the Gmail app after restarting the phone, which is apparently required for the notifications to work).
> I wasn't able to save nearly as much as I did in NYC

Never having lived in the US, is the savings you are talking about in terms of percentage of your cost? i.e. if the only cost you have is rent and its 2800 vs 700, i would need to save at least 4 times as much to cover the difference.
You're right.

I didn't mean literally everything. I mean everything that has more benefits than costs. I consider consistent curly brace style to fit in that category.
> I don't think the average person actually likes exploring topics in extreme depth to figure out "the truth"

That is because the average person believes they are playing a zero-sum game, in which competition is inescapable

And because each side has a set of values that must be protected, anything that threatens those values needs to be defeated.

Whether the thing threatening the values has an underlying "truth" that matches up with the surface is less relevant.

* EDIT - also, enlightenment-rationalism is a liberal value; just present people the facts, they will reason to the right conclusion (science!)... false — people don't think so literally about things (they think metaphorically); they think inside a frame shaped by the value framework.
But in this case the alternative is to punish workers for having work/life balance. The "younger workers who are willing to work harder than their entrenched counterparts" are an actively harmful influence, and all this does is level the playing field.
I do not think that big city life should be a luxury, any more than the internet or computing should be a luxuries.

While it is beneficial to improve districts, the migratory upgrading of urban areas is an economic model that may be problematic for the population. People need to get work done and take care of their families, not constantly deal with a series of dismal choices and life-uprooting changes.

Instead of waiting for price bubbles, wage bubbles, hostile populations causing problems due to inadequate conditions, perhaps cities should work on the infrastructure of growth.

There are many necessary conditions for civilization that governments enforce or produce. I argue that generating NYC conditions for the general population is one of them.
> Every news outlet is biased

...ranging from slightly to hugely.

> Subscribe to at least one whose bias you agree with, and one you don't.

Yet you'll have zero guarantee that any number of outlets you pick will cover the whole spectrum. They might very well span a very small spectrum.
But remember the US has first world problems. Chinese were absolutely baffled by the Flint water crisis....why would stupid Americans think tap water was safe to drink even after boiling?

Drainage in the USA is also a magnitude better than in china. I'm sure hey could use upgrades, and I'm sure there is a bias to showy projects, but it is nothing compared to what happens in the guo.
TV news is such a joke, in 20 minutes you get to see 1 important topic of the day and a couple random things you don't even want to know about in a hope that they will tell you something interesting which will not be the case.

Using the web you can narrow that down to 5 minutes without occupying your mind memory too much to something uninteresting which I think is important to keep some room to fill in or use for your creativity.

Also for other reasons that TVs are not productive, I ditched that thing 10 years ago after getting out of college. Never missed it.
That's terrible to read. I'd hoped that Apple had just happened upon a streak of decisions that were inconvenient to users, and might reverse the trajectory. At less than 1/5 of $230B (more than 1/6?), and obviously at an extremely high profit margin, there's essentially no way.

I had been really optimistic about the adoption of USB-C, since it is as an open standard, but the discovery of such enormous licensing revenues that are essentially without expense to Apple, makes it almost inevitable that they will begin insisting peripherals get permission from Apple, too.
Oh. I thought there was something particular about removable batteries. It wasn't clear to me at all that planned obsolescence is what you were referring to.
Bob Fano and Jay Forrester
An interesting story from that time period - German intelligence was reporting that the US had a locomotive that weighed 1.2 million pounds (including the tender) and could pull a 3,600 ton (US) consist of railcars up a 1.14% grade, and also run at 80 mph on flat land. This was the Union Pacific articulated Big Boy. And Hitler didn't believe such an engine was possible, much less that the UP had 25 of them in service. So he directed that the forecasts of American transportation exclude these "absurd" numbers.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/bigboy/
My Measurable, Specific New Year Resolutions
> Each state / region has vastly different cultures and standards of living.

The culture in the US varies some from region to region (midwest vs northwest vs south etc), but it's absolutely false to say that the differences are "vast", especially on the state-to-state level. Standards of living vary much more between urban/rural even within states than they do across states generally.

Leaving aside the fact that EU states speak completely different languages, the cultural differences there are much, much more pronounced. Everyone in the US speaks the same language, watches the same TV shows, follows the same sports, shops at the same chain stores, etc, etc.

Your comparison of the political structures is also quite off, though not very relevant to the question of cultural homogeneity.
> However, the page should be a static document

SPAs are almost always not rendered server-side. They can be, but it's harder so they aren't.
I've been doing this for a few years now, and I highly recommend. I am still subscribed to various tech news feeds, but haven't watched the TV news edition, or browsed to any news website just to check the news in a very long time.
I still get the important news by hearsay, Facebook, work talk, etc. I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
This is true regardless of being a workaholic.
I've been a part of successful product companies but haven't founded one.

The question of how to scale a product company has a very situational answer; it depends on how valuable the product is to its users and what the customer acquisition strategy is.

I think it's cognitively harder, at least in business terms, to scale a product company --- you have so many more variables to play with. But I also believe what Steve Blank says about this, in the sense that once you get a good set of values for those variables, the business sort of scales itself, in the same sense that a well-designed airplane "wants" to stay in the sky.

The business side of scaling a consulting company is mostly about people management and recruiting.

I think they're equivalently hard from a technical perspective. Maybe a consultancy is just a little bit technically harder.
Ethereum: Etherisc Smart Contracts for Disrupting Parametric Insurance
I live in such a city. We are trying to make the city more desirable to economic growth. One factor is that people will tend to locate their businesses where they want to live, so it makes sense to add amenities associated with upper middle class lifestyle, such as good public schools and bike infrastructure.

But there are some things that we don't control. Probably the most important engine of growth in the entire state is located in our city -- the university -- but the city doesn't operate it, and we have no voice in state government thanks to partisan gerrymandering.