skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how introversion and extroversion are mutually exclusive. Sometimes I prefer being alone and concentrating on something (eg. thinking, writing, coding, etc), other times I prefer socializing with other people.

What does that make me - someone who's sometimes introverted and sometimes extroverted? In that case these labels aren't very useful are they? Not to mention everything is relative. I'm more social than the average software engineer, but less social than the average salesperson.
The problem is that both of your assumptions are true. The fact is that the law is constantly being discovered. To the extent that an area of law is well explored, a layperson should be empowered to handle it alone, but to the extent that it is not, it requires abilities that have not been instilled in the average citizen.
Didnt know that about Caml. Neat. Perhaps a subset of Ocaml with formal semantics can do well, too.
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Talk about scientific illiteracy in science media.

> “traveling salesman problem”

They quoted it - which means they obviously don't know what they are talking about - and then go on to talk about esoteric things (Ising machine) as if that's some sort of justification.

An Ising machine is also a Turing machine and the traveling salesman problem is NP complete. Which means no breakthroughs. It can however, maybe, be more performant at certain kind of problems (like statistical solutions to optimization problems... like the traveling salesman problem). Like a GPU is more performant at doing lots of floating point operations at once; but not that it will be any faster, in the large scale, at solving hard problems like the traveling salesman problem.

And they present it with a vague description which makes it sound like it might just be some sort of quantum system. It isn't. The failure to provide facts, to challenge assertions and claims, to actually know, in our news media is super annoying.

And the clickbait, uggh.
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Any strategy a human can think of, they can also code as a program. The difficulty is in expressing one's strategy clearly.
Yes, and no. Each bill is subject to revisions, but once it is passed, it is a single patch – you could imagine that each bill is a branch in git, developed in commits one after another, and then the latest status is squashed and merged.
> might be interpreted by a religious person

By anyone. Once you entertain the concept of soul, then all the rest follows automatically. I don't see that someone non-religious could understand it any differently (other than not entertaining the concept of soul in the first place).
Using TrustOptim for Unconstrained Nonlinear Optimization with Sparse Hessians
Hedge funds and quant finance pays way way way more than Google/Facebook/etc.

To whatever extent they have trouble attracting researchers it's because you will never be able to publish anything or talk about your work in a finance firm. Academia is status/reputation/ego driven (not that there's anything wrong with this).
And unlike on a plane you have enough space to actually use your laptop.
I am the same. I've got a ~10 hour drive later this week and I never even seriously thought about flying. Much rather take my own car, even if door-to-door is a few hours more. When we someday have fully-autonomous cars I predict a vast collapse in short-mid haul air travel.
Why are so many people Singapore working into their 70s?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/what-reti...
Why doesn't Microsoft let people control updates or antivirus options? These questions run deep.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/medical-equipment-crashes-dur...
For me it's more that breaking out of that comfort zone will let me get more opportunities for myself and meet more interesting people.
Thank you for your perspective. It's quite helpful. However, I wouldn't even a plain text searchable database be better than nothing? And I don't understand how this can be monopolized by Westlaw when law should be public domain…
Forcing non-optimal decisions based on an arbitrary notion of "fairness" will only weaken our institutions and breed resentment: "group A gets loan approval with a lower credit score than members of my group, what gives!?"

It also increases the fragility of the group you're trying to help by acclimating them to lower standards.

The success of Asian and Jewish people suggests that things can correct themselves over time. The law should stay out of it.

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/asian-americans-lead...

http://www.zakkeith.com/articles%2Cblogs%2Cforums/anti-Chine...
Okay. If you don't think the FDA fulfills a useful function, I'm not going to change your mind.
We get them directly from the source.

Previous attempts at accomplishing our mission saw organizations scraping government websites and re-hosting the laws on prettier websites. The problem was that a) the laws were only as up-to-date as the law the governments made available (which, unfortunately, are not up-to-date at all) and b) the projects were not sustainable because no one pays to access the law and websites needed updating every time the law changed.

Sites like these are potentially very harmful. They haven't been updated in years and people who stumble upon them and miss the fine print end up relying on laws that have long since changed.

Because timeliness matters, the only way to guarantee that we get it is by working directly with the governments. So we build software into the law drafting, codifying, and publishing process that governments can really benefit from and enjoy using. The software changes the economics of codification and publication and permits publishing the laws freely and openly.
You can also use the Perspectives plugin to have other servers check the certificate.

https://perspectives-project.org/
Tesla does not have the world's experts in visual SLAM. Those people are in academia, or at Google/Microsoft.

The 100k car/driver thing is a red herring. Steering angle / brake / acceleration info is not the kind of data you need for this task. Big useless data is still useless data, even if it's big.

The right kind of data, if this is to be treated as an ML problem, is a 3D model of the environment (this would be the label), along with camera data (this would be the data). Ironically you need LIDAR to get those labels. It bears noting that the state of the art in visual SLAM is not ML based (it's really difficult to get the "ML" problem I just described to actually work - and it's not for lack of data, Google probably has petabytes of this data from their cars).
From what I've read WSL is kind of amazing but not stable enough yet.
Work the System, by Sam Carpenter.

Put into words what I intuitively tried to grasp: That a business (and our lifes, really) is comprised of systems that can be optimized independently of the rest, allowing for kaizen-style incremental, steady improvement of everything.
Ridesharing can reduce traffic by 300%
For everyone's information: GNU Social/OStatus is also known as the Google Buzz protocol stack. Weird twist of history how GNU ended up covertly becoming this federated protocol stack.
Wow Go has really gained traction. Coming from a Python, PHP, JavaScript background I have been contemplating learning Go or Elixir this year. I am drawn to Elixir because of the functional approach which is different than what I am used to.
It's for a good cause.
Horrific, inexplicable tragedies happen in hospitals and emergency rooms because in the normal chaos of medical emergencies and communication snafus, surgeons don't properly wash their hands or mark which limb is meant to be amputated [0]. But your experience with such institutions is that while they may fuck up the routine small things and kill patients, they are yet able to pivot like well-oiled military units when their information technology infrastructure is unexpectedly cut?

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
Feels like there is a type mismatch error in the title. Survival of the fittest covers all fitness functions, so we can't contrast it with kindness. Something like "survival of the cruelest" or the "strongest" would be more correct though it doesn't read as well.
how can the touchpad be both bigger and smaller than the previous model?
This is not a solution for almost anyone, but I've found that flying is the one thing where being 5ft2 is really extremely very beneficial. Makes flying totally awesome.

Even economy plus is weird because it just means I can't reach the touch screen without leaning forward :D

You can solve most of the other problems by being super late to your flight. Cuts the waiting and queuing but does mean you have to check your bags. Often this is okay or even preferable because less stuff to haul around airport.

Oh and noise cancellation headphones have changed my life. You can actually hear the stewardess when they talk to you because your ears aren't worn out from the engine noise. It's amazing! Easily the best $300 I ever spent in terms of improving airplanes.
It could be worse. They could be putting people in boxes and treating them as live cargo. However, that would be an improvement over the alternative of mailing oneself:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strangely-successfu...
I use conemu with WSL... it's the best one available for Windows, but it still pales in comparison to the default macOS terminal, and even the one that ships with Elementary. The customziation, tabs, layout, fonts all work fine but seem a bit bolted on.
That's right. If anything flying can be the most dignified way of traveling. I just came back from a trip to Europe and was upgraded so I had access to a lounge with "free" massages, nice food and drinks and then boarded a plane where I had a seat that could be made into a bed and also had a table my wife and I could eat together at. And then enjoy the cheese cart and have a seat at the bar for another cocktail before laying down for a cat nap.

The point is airlines are giving people options. Flying is unbelievably cheap if you want it to be but you get what you pay for - a safe flight in a moderately uncomfortable seat. People wanted cheap and they're getting it.

I wish more airlines offered more classes of service though. Flying United to Europe you either have crummy economy (exit rows are fine but the service still is poor) or rather expensive first. More options for mid-tier service where you have larger, more comfortable seating and nice food options similar to Virgins "Premium Economy" service which is is quite nice at a reasonable ask for those that find a couple hundred dollars extra worth it. I find it worth it for 8 hour+ flights to have some extra comfort so I feel better when landing.
Tesla is crying like a little baby?

Give me a break...
You can configure shortcuts to jump to a specific desktop on macOS.
And hope you're investing at the right times:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
"Escape taxes" is a bit harsh. If the tourists are a net benefit, who cares if it's perfectly fair or not?

If you are really concerned about this inequity, you need to also consider the services that tourists don't use, such as schools, and most of the roads outside of tourist-trap areas.
TIL cashiers are considered salespeople.
Finland launches trial program to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income
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The airline industry operates on decreasingly small margins. Airlines have no other choice but pull these kind of measures to stay afloat.
Alternatively, couldn't one use CTRL-[ instead of ESC?

I doubt anyone is going to remove CTRL or [ anytime soon, so getting used to that would future-proof you quite well.
How is driving safer than air travel?

Just a quick googling got me this: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/13/news/economy/train-plane-car...

Cars and trucks: 5.75 deaths per billion miles
Commercial air travel: 0.06 deaths per billion miles
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Oh hello fellow Montanan. I grew up here, so it's a little different for me.
KLM has an interesting feature where you can bid on Business/First seats.
There is nothing original in textbooks? They just need to cite the relevant papers? I find it perfectly intuitive that it is harder to come up with an original argument/idea than it is to summarize one you've already heard.

Papers are very condensed and probably scrutinized more than textbooks are, via the peer review process. Papers have to have proofs for any theorems, whereas textbooks might omit them (especially the less important ones).

Also, to be fair, a textbook might rely on a dozen different papers in the span of a single page (just taking key insights or arguments for the papers).
There is a extremly large difference between passiv listening and recording everything and cleverly hacking the Signal app, or even forcing OWS to do it for them. The cost differences alone are massive, not to mention that its harder to do while remaining hidden.

Yes its not perfect, but calling it a illusion of safety is just overly negative. If the NSA really wants you, they will get you, but that does not mean all your safty is illusion.
> Technically it's 90% of peak salary but "spiking" is culturally accepted, so in practice you can have more than 100% of your final year salary in pension benefits.

A "last minute" raise has essentially no effect, since even before the recent move to a 36-month base, the pension base was the average of the highest 12 months.

"Spiking" isn't last-minute raises, it's a catch-all name for a wide variety of strategies (some of which are merely reasonable and legitimate tactics given the rules, and some of which are outright frauds on their own which have greater effect when combined with tactical timing with the retirement rules) for maximizing pension base by (under the 12-month rule) maximizing pay in the last 12 months. Among the strategies:

+ Securing a higher-base-pay for just that period (most abusively -- and also most rarely -- a collaboration with higher leadership to give an employee a highly paid position with paper duties to justify the high pay that the employee actually isn't expected to perform.)

+ Maximizing overtime, in positions eligible for overtime pay, during the last 12 months (again, with some notable abuses where the overtime work is work not really necessary to the agency mission or, in more extreme cases, outright fraudulent work-on-paper.)

+ Maximizing any non-base, non-overtime pay that figures into retirement base calculations.
Premium Economy cabins (better than domestic first class but not as nice as lie-flat business class seats) are coming to both Delta and American international flights in 2017.
नए साल में किस्मत चमकाना हो तो करें राशि अनुसार ये सरल उपाय
Complete protection from the NSA is not your typical user's need. Having your message opaque to bulk surveillance is about as good as a typical user can expect. If you are the explicit target of a state level actor, you're not going to win. If the Mossad wants to Mossad you, you're gonna get Mossaded.
Full title is "Tesla: Famous Korean Actor Who is Suing Us 'Threatened to Use His Celebrity Status in Korea to Hurt Tesla'"

In my opinion, a more accurate shortening would be "Korean Actor Sues Tesla".

First line:

On Friday, a South Korean celebrity named Ji Chang Son filed a lawsuit against Tesla, which alleged his Model X spontaneously accelerated as he was parking it into his garage, ramming through his living room, and injuring him as well as his son, who was in the car with him.
"there is no server-side state that the attacker has to guess"

That part is certainly true when django isn't using sessions.

I think that in normal use the tokens are still always generated on the server, not the client, though. The problem is that like you said, there is no way to validate that without some server state, so even though the server is expected to have generated the token, it can't distinguish and invalidate a token generated by anyone else as long as it's in the correct format.
CaseText (https://CaseText.com) is pretty close to Google for law. They have a new tool that is aimed at lawyers doing legal research where they suggest other relevant cases based on the cases you're already citing.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with CaseText but I do know the CEO as a result of being a legal operations software CEO and being in YC with them.
It's worth noting that convex.jl is developed by the same folks as cvx (matlab) and cvxpy (python). They all provide access to the same solvers with similar abstraction and usability.
Why limit the experiment to unemployed people? It would be interesting to see what people already earning a living do when receiving this no-strings-attached income.
I live in NYC and whenever I go to DC I always take the train. It's about the same time as flying but with less chances of delays. I flew once and was delayed for 8 hours and have taken the train ever since. I drove once but that was slightly slower than the train and not as relaxing as sitting back with a drink and a laptop.

To Boston though I usually fly. It is actually much faster if you leave at the right times to avoid traffic which you'd want to do if driving too. It's about 100% faster in my experience.

I drove to Chicago once and that was about 12 or 13 hours. I've flown a bunch of times and it takes, door to door (depending on when you leave, etc) about 4 hours total. So it's much faster.
If you speak to Christians who believe in souls (not philosophers or Jewish theologians, who have boundless capacities for mental contortions), they'll agree that teleportation/copying is problematic to the idea of souls. Who goes to heaven in these situations?
But many, if not most, of those things are things I would prefer to not pay for, and I would prefer that my seat on a given flight not subsidize the overpacking drunken Luddite who hits all those items in one swoop. The cost for an airline to serve me vs serving that high needs customer is very different, why should I pay for the extra service without seeing the benefit?
Both of those claims seem... off to me. Specifically, this is a reductionist view of them that makes them sound easier. I do not claim they are harder, just different. Each difficult in their own way.

I would be interested in seeing the publication times for many text books. Empirically, we should see something in the difficulty in relation to the time it took to create. Right?

Edit, since I saw your point of referencing many papers in a single page. Don't papers do the same?
"racist computers" is the funniest trend since "sexist babies"

It should be obvious that if an ML algorithm is trained on sufficient real-world data, it won't be racist - it'll just not be politically correct
The price is that high for a reason: sf has a lot to offer. Networking opportunities, job market liquidity (see all the ONSITE SF posts in this very thread), etc. Perhaps not 3.6 more, but it definitely beats a cabin in the Siberian tundra.

By correcting for rent, you give people that advantage for free. That's why it's unfair.
I understand this statistic and get why it's often referenced, but how about this question instead? "Per accident, which has higher likelihood of death?"

I feel that's what worries people. Ya, per mile traveled its less likely, but per accident I imagine is a much different story.
I really don't think most software engineers are flying business class. Any significant distance that would merit it, is SERIOUS money. Even for someone making six figures.
> The overtime thing is the most galling, since it's generally straight-up theft of government resources. There's no legitimate government purpose to the extra hours.

That's true in some extreme cases, though the more usual case is simply bias in which employees get assigned legitimate overtime, in which case there is a legitimate government purpose in the extra hours, it's just that the cost to the government of those extra hours is unnecessarily maximized.

Though in either case I wouldn't say either form of overtime spi king is the most galling form of spiking.
Any idea of what the cost to, say, buy up all the case laws would be? And what is the law on republishing said copies?
What about his politics do you disagree with?
Ah, cholesterol plaques in arteries are in fact the ghost of inflammation past, and specifically macrophage-mediated inflammation. In medicine this is far from a departure from the prevailing hypothesis -- it is a consolidation of multiple lines of evidence.
> Don't overload operators for anything other than math. It just confuses people.

Do you think << and >> in iostreams confuses people?

> unique_ptr and move semantics have promise, but it may be too soon for those features.

What makes it "too soon" for unique_ptr (or shared_ptr)? These are the most useful and long-overdue improvements to C++ I can think of in its entire history.
That sounds excellent. I'm a United person (easiest airport to get to and they dominate it - Delta doesn't even have a terminal. EWR if you're interested) and I'm not sure they do. They are rolling out a new first class service which looks nice but no idea on improving to a Premium Economy cabin.

Delta has impressed me lately. I may make the switch and just deal with the extra haul to JFK which is about 20 minutes more for me if United can't or won't improve their lousy, outdated aircraft for international flights to Europe.

United does fly nicely outfitted aircraft to Asia and Australia but I don't get out that way nearly as much.
Interesting story, but I think the researcher who found the flaw probably doesn't have much experience with large organizations, he says they didn't take it seriously because it "shouldn’t take over an hour to contact your IT guy and kill an rsync daemon." After he called the CEO. I'd say an hour is an unreasonably aggressive timeline if you're contacting the CEO... it likely takes some time just to figure out who needs to shut off the service.
I've used FreeBSD as a desktop OS, briefly. I've also used a number of Linux distributions as desktop OSes since the late 1990s.

The bottom line is that Linux tends to have better hardware support, especially for laptop hardware and power management.

When you run into problems, you'll usually have a much easier time finding vendor support or online community help for a Linux distribution than for FreeBSD.

Under the hood, FreeBSD is a lot simpler than Linux, and a lot of people like it for that reason. But if you want a generic Gnome/KDE/tiling WM/etc. desktop experience, and you don't need any BSD-specific features, I think Linux is the way to go. After all, we are talking about a replacement for MacOS here, which is pretty well integrated with the hardware and does not require a lot of tinkering to get working.