skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking into the culture from afar, it does appear to be more than just the repercussions of 'red scare' tactics.

The impression I get is that in some parts of the country there's a general distrust in government, alongside a trust in entrepreneurship. Neither of which seems stupid to me.

I'd also say that government spending is an easier sell in metropolitan areas as public investments in cities make a bigger impact on quality of life. Public transport is a good example of this, if I was in a rural setting I wouldn't expect much in the way of public transport spending, but I'd expect it in a city.

However, whilst it's healthy not to trust in government too much, the same is true of trusting big business to act in your interest. Government should act to keep companies in line with public interest. Whether that involves big government or not is debatable, but I don't think it'd be a good idea to have any one single company that had larger influence on the general population than the government does.
Lenovo have been repeatedly caught doing this. They have shown that they do not want or plan to have this as an opt-in - instead they are trying to hide it better. It's obvious that it's their strategy, not some one time "mistake". (They put it in BIOS even! (!)).
http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
Thank you for the compliment!

This paper of Strachey's looks very interesting; thank you! Essentials of Programming Languages argues that we can understand many of the important differences between programming languages by way of what kinds of different lvalues (approximately EOPL's "denoted values") and rvalues (approximately EOPL's "expressed values") the language has. For example, in C, you can have a variable that denotes an array, while in Python, your variable can only denote a pointer to an array ("list").

This obviously ties in rather closely with the theme of the essay.
I find getting too little sleep very stressful. I'm required to keep doing the same things, but less able to handle those demands. When I don't get enough sleep, I've got worse health, constant headaches, and neck aches. It's its own stressor, as well as having separate negative effects.
All this talk of 35 vs 45 hours a week makes me sad that medical residents are clocking 80 hours.
It's a really good question. I've tried researching it before and it seems to be an open question whether blending destroys fiber.

But even if the fiber stays intact you're going to drink and potentially overdose on a smoothie more easily than a while fruit.
Is there some easy way for me to automatically cross-post my twitter posts to Mastodon?
Switzerland is great, but should we be using it as an example for other countries to follow? Most other countries can't expect a substantial portion of their tax base to come from banks holding trillions of dollars of dictators' assets, physical commodity trading, and multinational pharma conglomerates (not to mention the impact on the local economy of the spending of the very well-paid employees of said institutions).

I'm not trying to hate on Switzerland by saying this....my grandfather emigrated from there, I have many cousins still there, it's an amazing place, virtually everyone is super healthy and multilingual, they have forward-thinking socially liberal laws, etc.....but let's call a spade a spade when it comes to how they are able to afford everything.
I would be interested to know what the premium was.
I like this... especially the private feature!!!!
When Gitea gets support for consuming OAuth2 this will be make possible

Tracking Issue is https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/26
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I would feel like there was a noose around my neck if I couldn't move without paying $30k in realtors fees (and possibly incurring capital loss depending on timing).
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Pretty elitist. Also slightly outdated.
Define 'you'. A black kid that grew up in the projects? Or a middle class white kid in the suburbs?
I confirm we aim to (and do :-) ) make a profit. I just can't wrap my mind around the idea that drafting a deck of slides full of buzzwords is enough to get a fat check from VCs...
I have seen this argument before and can't say whether this is meant as a joke. By the same logic you replaced your secretary (for type writer), your telephone operator, your travel agent and so on. In all these instances the experience is better and faster without another human present.
> Another way to look at this problem is by data size. Let's assume we are training a NN using a data set of 10,000 pages text. The total number of pages of all possible knowledge in the world (ever) is an incalculable number, but let's assume it is a sextillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Then the question is, how much of the sextillion pages of data can be handled by training a NN using 10,000 pages? The answer would obviously be too small compared to the whole.

> On the other hand, grammar rules and ontological semantics mastered by the human brain can handle the entire sextillion (since those pages were written by human). If you know how to read and write, the entire sextillion will be understandable to you. This is the horrifying truth between the capabilities of the human brain versus the current state of neural networks.

This bit especially doesn't make any sense. I'm a human who has been reading all my life, does that mean I understand every grammar rule or ontological semantic ever created? Of course not! I barely understand all of them in my own language! My 'neural network' (brain) would need a bit more 'training' (studying) before that could happen. Even more, if all I had read in my life were 10,000 pages (which still may be true).
Swiss and Germans are similar. They are perfectionists, hard workers and appreciate timeliness. They aren't as flexible, innovative and jovial as the Americans. Compared to the Germans Swiss are more polite and don't say what they think. Germans tend to shout if they are angry about something, while it's typical for the Swiss to start a complaint with «Sorry». The language (Swiss German) is also different. Germans don't understand the Swiss if they talk Swiss German. They find the Swiss accent in the Standard German cute.

The French and Italian speaking Swiss yet are another story.

Source: I am half Swiss and half German and have family in both countries. I live in Switzerland.
I really want to give you guys money, but can't trust you without having client and server side source. I need client side source so third parties can freely audit your work. I need server side source so I can store my data at some random colo and wrap the rack in tinfoil (more realisitcally, so I know I can just switch providers if you are out of business in ten years).

Have you considered licensing your stuff using the BSL: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2016/08/applying-business-sou...

This would let me pay you to continue your (very important!) work, and let me recommend your service to others.

[edit: For people not familiar with the BSL: It makes it easy to say things like:

"This release of the software is free for the first 100MB, then $10/TB after that. Licensing the software gives you non-transferrable rights similar to a BSD license. On Jan 2, 2027, the above usage restriction will expire, leaving the software with a BSD-style license"

You bump the expiry date on each release, so cheapskates have to wait 10 years for new features, and the developers have to continuously improve the software to maintain a revenue stream.]
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Recently Nassim Taleb said mostly the same thing. That while your average citizen is probably better off in EU versus US, at the same time the average citizen is mostly locked into his "class" in Europe, versus US.

https://medium.com/incerto/inequality-and-skin-in-the-game-d...
This NASA article on COPV failure is enlightening.
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/nesc/home/Feature_COPVs_Jan-201...

Turns out COPV's have a tendency to explode semi randomly, with failure modes that are not fully understood
I feel like this sort of thing should be done with a proper template engine rather than just string formatting.
Not if they have shown that they can go so far as to put in BIOS. Imagine the level of effort it requires to develop something like this? If that is true, why not develop a small dedicated chip for it and put it somewhere unaccessible on the motherboard? (I mean, it's likely that they did or will do this.)
http://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
Is the waiting list of people wanting to immigrate from other rich countries really decades long?
72% of Americans support paid leave programs: http://www.apnorc.org/news-media/Pages/News+Media/Poll-shows...

58% support universal health care: http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-...

62% support debt-free college: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-01/majority-...

92% would prefer wealth distribution to look like Sweden: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/american...

What some believe Americans want or will accept is still odds with the reality. The actual problem in this country is that our representatives do not represent most Americans; they represent the interests of the wealthy. We live in a plutocratic oligarchy with only the trappings of representative democracy:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-second-gilde...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oli...
I am being pragmatic. Having lived (currently living) in a pseudo socialist state, I do not think UBI/welfare state is going to last. May be I am wrong in sense of not knowing how people will change given the choice.

Minimum social infrastructure elevates the bottom for everyone. If people can rise from that bottom further, maybe we can work towards elevating the bottom further and further as time passes.
There are lots of countries in the world that are less well off than the U.S. I have not made any claims about living conditions in those countries being worse or better than the U.S. I've not made any claims about people coming from poorer countries being dumb or even people coming from richer countries to the U.S. being dumb.

I made the claim that the U.S. is not as nice a place to live as many other rich countries. Objectively speaking this is a true statement. The U.S. ranks lower on many measurements of living standards. Of course there are counterexamples in that some people have a better standard of living in the U.S. than they did in another country but we need to be mindful that the plural of anecdote is not data.
An interesting comment I read once from someone in the US said people in the US who aren't rich expect to be rich some day and being poor is just a temporary situation.

In the EU or any European country the goal seems to be to assist everyone not just the poor. In the US it seems like people berate the poor for not working hard enough or call them communist for asking for social assistance (ACA/"Obama care" etc.).

As a Canadian I used to have a good bead on people in the US now I don't know what's going on there. These days it seems like freedom in the US means freedom to hate or punish others rather than freedom for a person to live a healthy safe life.
Doesn't DCMA kind of help here? If you distribute the content and the
rights owner does not care, there's nobody to file the takedown notice.

Of course even if it worked this way, this only solves some distribution issues. You still couldn't use the content for other purposes.
New Food Delivery Chatbot
If you intend on doing crime then really it is safer to not use computers for the kind of fraud people like Trump do. In a democracy we demand accountability, can be overcome the normal accounting rules and run the entire us budget off the back of a napkin lol
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>Signal isn't even that popular

WhatsApp integrated¹ Signal's secure messaging protocol. Since then, at least one government was unable to compel² the company to produce unencrypted messages from users under investigation.

Given the popularity of WhatsApp, I think its safe to say a lot of people are now using a relatively secure messaging protocol.

¹ https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/

² https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2016/05/03/whatsapp-...
Yup, it's absolutely getting to that point, but not for $$$ reasons. Shopify Plus, their enterprise plan is fixed price. This is why I spent much of the holidays writing our own custom cart.
You could probably get an order of magnitude estimate by looking up the price of a $1 million term life insurance policy for someone her age and multiplying.

I assume they would get some kind of "bulk" discount, but it'll at least give you an idea.
> We had a hospital stay before the birth, emergency c-section (the cord was around my son's neck), hospital stay after the birth, and about 2 weeks of him staying in the neonatal ICU. I think the bill came to around $30,000 (covered by insurance), and I think we paid a couple of $20 copays.

If you that's the case and you hadn't already hit a larger yearly out-of-pocket-max through other bills, then your insurance is uncommonly good to put it mildly. If you additionally didn't have to fight with insurance to get that stuff covered so completely then you have ZOMGWTF good insurance.
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Bird is the word? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4
FWIW, Rust's syntax is based on Python's, but yeah, you can't access value fields in Rust's syntax.
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I regard the bullet points you listed under "Always afraid of innovation" as features, not bugs. If it matters am Romanian, but I never really fully understood why people would willingly make public their most personal details, which is what happens when you purchase everything by CC: someone, somewhere, knows if you're a man or a woman, if you eat kosher food or not, if you're in a stable relationship, if you're depressed, if you're an alcoholic, if you have eating disorders etc etc.
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Land may be scarce but housing isn't. We can keep building half-empty 60-story condos and taking rich foreigners' money until the cows come home.
I am a paying customer for storage and use your free Encryptr app and service.

I have no problem with your use of the phrase zero knowledge, but I understand the complaints.
Why would it be less susceptible? Isn't it the same company that makes them?
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The NSA would be able to see what he's doing, the kind of blanket surveillance he wants would also catch his own wrongdoing, so he wants to do things Mafia style
I think your statement is spot on in context of giving cash to people in resource stripped geographies. As charities handling social programs are detached from ground realities.

But in context of democratic, developed states and cities; UBI/welfare is not a good solution. Minimum social infrastructure is what we should strive towards. So, when people fall from safety nets; that fall can be contained. With passage of time; we can work towards elevating that net further.
Desktop size android apps don't sound very appealing to me
My point exactly. What does that have to do with the EU?

If Brexit proponents feel Britain should work with English-speaking former colonies on the other side of the planet, that's fine -- but why come up with lies about the EU to advance that goal?
Is there any reason we can't demand worker benefits and continue to keep blackballing illegal?
This doesn't play nice federating with the GNU Social codebase. Things that should travel across simply disappears. It needs more work.
Thank you for pointing out how that part is confusing! It's certainly true that C usually does not have a garbage collector.

As chubot said, what I was saying is that C and similar languages take (the simplified ur-form of) the COBOL memory model and add pointers to it, and programmers in these languages mostly use pointers when they want one of the things you can't get in the COBOL memory model: aliasing, nullability, cyclic relationships, or dynamic memory allocation.

You could very reasonably argue that the distinction between GC'd and non-GC'd languages is more profound than that, since in a GC'd language you can make all your data immutable and toss around entire subgraphs of the object graph as if they were integers, simply by referring to them by a pointer, not worrying when or if they get deallocated. While I agree that this is a big difference, I think the differences I'm focusing on in the essay are actually even more pervasive — so pervasive that we rarely even take note of them at all. That's why I feel justified in lumping Golang with C instead of Lisp here.
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> ... and even race.

I think this is an important point. Switzerland, and most of Europe, is predominantly white. I feel like there is something to say about homogeneity.
"plz tell me the differences"

Seriously? The only common thing between Switzerland and Venezuela is that they are on the same planet. If you ask for examples for difference you just prove that you are rather uneducated.
imgur is probably a better place to post this :)
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I would agree with you if you had an article by a journalist who interviewed someone from the FAA who has read the report and provided any comments to contrast with the company's press release. But as other pointed out, your link is not that.
Amazon's Beatdown Survival Guide (sheesh)
Just run a simulation for Belgium, you are way below the average.
It's revealing when you read older books pontificating about why computers can never be as smart as humans. They would say things like a computer will never be able to write poetry, prove a theorem or play chess like an expert. Now that computers have achieved all of that of course the goalposts have shifted.
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