skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine driving 6-7 hours vs. flying. As it is for especially tight schedules I can get up at 4:30am to catch a 6:00am flight, and be at a 9am meeting in downtown Chicago with 45 minutes to prep. That's including the 20 minute uber on the MSP side and 45 minute Blue Line ride to the loop. I can't remember the last time I spent more than 5 minutes in security on either end. Door to door is 3.5-4 hours pretty reliably.

I have colleagues that prefer to drive that, and I only do it if it's the last option available. For me, the driving is my full day and them I'm exhausted while taking a flight I can nap or do work - much less unproductive time.

I think a 4-5 hour one-day drive is about my limit before I'll look hard at flight options. I also don't mind taking a flight for work on my "own time" since I find the whole process rather peaceful and can just zone out reading/catching up on news. Driving you'll have to pay me :)

To each their own though - I know without precheck and being able to jump the standby list flying would be much more miserable. It's certainly a race to the bottom that's sad to watch.
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One would hope that the participants have been given a long term guarantee that this program will apply to them, perhaps 5 or 10 years. Without the guarantee, the results would be unreliable.
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> The reasons this problem exists are complex, but they boil down to the fact that laws and the links between them are not being published in ways computers can easily process, making it difficult to extract the valuable information they contain. If the format were computer-friendly, it is easy to imagine leveraging the links between laws to improve search results.

This is totally untrue. Legal documents are linked together with citations written according to very precise rules, which lawyers spend a lot of time getting correct. Almost all laws and cases are published in a quasi-append-only record: sequential publications in reporters organized by volume and page number. So unlike URLs on the Internet, 47 F.3d 167 will always refer to the same page of the same case. Forever. Most agency decisions, etc, have similar sequential records. Statues and regulations are precisely identified by structured citations as well. WestLaw and Lexis have no problem parsing these, and will happily find you all the cases that cite to say a specific Supreme Court case from 1880.

The reasons lawyers use terms and connectors searches instead of a "Google-like" engine is because the underlying concept of Page Rank absolutely sucks for legal research. Page Rank equates in-degree in the link graph with relevance. This will get you highly cited cases that you knew anyway that are only tangentially related to the cases you actually need.

In a legal brief, a couple of trial court decisions that are factually similar but uncited are infinitely more valuable than a highly cited Supreme Court case that happens to pertain to the same general area of law.
The point of TANSTAAFL isn't that you'll never eat for free. It's that someone pays for your lunch. In an externality, someone pays for your lunch involuntarily.
* President Obama is quite obviously an incredibly kind man *

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/12/reflecting-o...
The common argument against this (to be clear: I think this argument is hogwash, but it should be mentioned) is that the government will then change laws to make it harder for market forces to compete. Which I find smacks of a certain kind of "but then we'll loooooose", but it is a concern, if generally low-impact.
Basic income works for limited period of time. If you have some savings, you can try it yourself: you pay money, money gone, it works. The problem is how to make it profitable.

IMHO, Finland hope that with basic income they will spend less on prisons or social workers in long term.

IMHO, main risk for basic income is exponential growth of money eaters in long run (>50 years).
Yeah, I found I needed to set up some keyboard shortcuts for controlling mute/volume levels, but other than that it's been pretty set-and-forget (timezones not being a problem on a desktop).

The time I spent setting those things up has been more than made up for over the last year as I've spent less time managing windows and more time just doing work.
Yeah, that is what I meant. The revision of the bill would be some meta-history that doesn't quite fit the darcs metaphor.

I also hear the applying of all these patches is a slow manual process only done periodically? :|
Basic Income is another failed Utopiasm and it depresses me that seemingly intelligent people are falling for its populist simplicities. But this is the age of Trump so I should expect no less.
I'm taking Vorinostat in order to help extinguish my social anxiety. It has always seemed that I get more anxious after repeated exposure to certain stimuli. Eventually it'll be the point where I just throw up on the floor.
2000 randomly selected unemployed people

That's how they're selecting the participants for the trial; but continuing to be unemployed is not a requirement for receiving the $587. (Indeed, this is the whole point: They want to see if the existing system of unemployment benefits is creating a disincentive to finding work.)
They also have the highest median individual wealth in the world.
Could you elaborate on the 'demographic inversion' that's incoming?
Is “Master” AlphaGo? (searching Twitter)
> Very few strings attached

20 Years ago maybe, now there are so many strings no one knows what to expect from centerlink.

My mum has to get a doctors certificate every year to prove that my sister is still down syndrome. I doubt she's going to grow out of that extra chromosome.
Gowdy discusses quite a few such statements with Comey here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC1Mc6-RDyQ

> Why mention that she was raised in Saudi Arabia?

Because it shows how easily the information could escape the US to other countries, even inadvertently. I haven't claimed anything regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, nor was I aware it had been claimed regarding her.

> Kim knew that giving the national security information to a reporter would get that information seen by a foreign nation to its benefit (violation of the Espionage Act). Then he lied about it to the FBI (violation of I8 U.S.C. § IOOI(a)(2)). Clinton did neither.

That North Korean photo we're talking about was discussed with one of her press guys and none of these people who accessed this were cleared for TS information other than Hillary herself. Huma was found emailing Wiener from Hillary's device in at least one case (probably how his laptop got roped into that).

Incidentally, here's the warrant for Wiener's laptop (which mentions all the TS info on this uncleared server, among other things): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1NKixAl7kHoVmp5MkFfTEgwc2s...

And here's the email where they discuss the NK photo they were worried about: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/10587
> That said, the inflationary and disinflationary effects are likely to not apply equally across all goods; if you raise income taxes in order to fund a basic income system, you'll likely see increased inflation on low-end goods (since the people who purchase them have more money to spend) and decreased inflation on high-end goods (since the people who purchase those have less money to spend).

This is true, but it's worth pointing out that it applies equally to anything that transfers wealth from the rich to the poor. You get the same effect from a significant increase in charitable giving from the rich, or a reduction in apartment rents, or an economic boom that reduces the unemployment rate.

And it's assuming that a basic income would actually do that. You could have one that simply replaces the existing tax code and welfare system without inherently being any more or less progressive on net. You could have one that does the opposite -- you could lower the effective tax rate on the rich and have a very small UBI.

How progressive you want the government to be in terms of income redistribution is completely independent of whether a UBI is preferable to means-tested welfare.
Could somebody living in Finland comment on what 560 euros per month will get you?

Edit: Looking at some stats here [1] and it looks like 565 euros is enough to rent an apartment outside of city center. It also looks like one could potentially find something for 450 which leaves pretty decent money for food and perhaps a bicycle for transportation? Definitely not enough if you consider utilities though. That's some rough living.

[1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
> The optimal data structure for that is not recursive, it’s 2D array of small square blocks of pixels. If pixels are bits, I’d bet on either 8x8 or 16x16 blocks.

If the image is very large and contains large contiguous regions of solid colors, then a quadtree that doesn't subdivide homogeneous regions can be a much faster approach than a flat pile-o-pixels.

Either way, this article isn't about rotating images.
Australia's income growth has been some of the best in the world over the last couple of decades, and unlike our friends in the US, it's been experienced by working and upper class alike. There are issues, of course, but their presence doesn't belie Australia's relatively elevated position on the inequality-adjusted human development indices.

Figure 4 on page 10 of this pdf shows that the lowest income decile has seen real income growth of over 40% in just 20 years:

http://www.pc.gov.au/research/supporting/income-distribution...
The Carbon-Overwrapped Pressure Vessels are quite different from the large-scale carbon fiber tanks they're building now. The new large tanks are designed to be able to contain large quantities of propellant at moderate pressures, possibly without a liner, while the COPVs are meant to contain pressurant gas at extremely high pressure, with a metal liner. SpaceX has been using COPVs to hold helium pressurant since the first Falcon 9 back in 2010. This is not a new technology. What is new is the large propellant tanks, which have not been done before at this scale, and have not been used in Falcon 9s at any point.

So no, you shouldn't have been bolder with a public post.
I'm pretty sure it's actually a typo. Approximately 30% of income is capital income, but that includes dividends and interest payments, not just capital gains.
There is definateky value provided in exchange for rent. Rent is paying to stay in someone elses building or what not, not just the land. you are essentially paying the landlord instead of building your own home.

If you think there is no value to living inside, well, that's just delusional.
I am a huge fan of the Kareem/Magic era Lakers. I have read both of Kareem's autobiographies, Magic's autobiography, Jerry West's autobiography, and others. But I'm sick of Kareem's shit.

While the article hints at it, I will say directly what they will not: Kareem endured much racism, as undoubtedly did his peers, but Kareem is also a petulant and self-absorbed.

Ever since Kareem retired, he's been on a campaign to explain to the world how they just misunderstand him. For example, here's a NY Times article from 2004 with essentially the same "I'm misunderstood" through-line: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/sports/pro-basketball-a-le...

Notice that 1) even Isaiah Thomas' was under the impression that "Abdul-Jabbar supposedly had time for no one", and 2) even after being thankful for the time Kareem gave Thomas, Thomas said "I never saw that side of him that a lot of people talk about."

Consider also that no one in the NBA - prior to Thomas in 2004, 15 years after Kareem's retirement - was interested in employing him as a coach or execute. To quote the article: "So why has Abdul-Jabbar had only minimal involvement in the N.B.A. since he began lobbying for a return in 1995? It goes back to his reputation, which even he admits was somewhat well deserved."
graduated 2004 or 2014? [if former, why entry level?]

have you tapped into CMU's alumni network? asked your professors about companies they know about?
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You need to get yourself a place to work outside of home.
> don't rightfully belong to anyone

Where did you get this idea?
Won't this be a matter of writing drivers?
> The title does not infer contrast between fitness and kindness

The titel "Forget X, it's Y that matters" is pretty close to the definition of a contrast.

Regarding your other thoughts: it'd be great if it were that easy, and I even agree that the sort of kindness Bill Gates and Barack Obama exhibit is probably a useful trait.

But the causality isn't quite clear. My impression is that these success stories are the result of combining (a) extreme intelligence and (b) extreme happiness, and that kindness is the natural result if, for example, they have absolute confidence in themselves and no longer feel any kind of threat from competition.

But I'd say the "Big 5" model provides a more complete set of traits that have become more and more relevant over time:

- Openness to experience
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- (Lack of) Neuroticism

There's also absolutely no doubt that aggression, the desire to punish wrongdoing by others and other violent traits have at some point been important for survival of the individual and the group, and probably still are, at a diminished level.

> Fitness in a world of more than a few is entirely dependent on symbiotic, cohesive, gentile...

Let's not forget the immune system. It's one of many "magic" inventions that made larger societies possible.
My favorite quote

"many top hedge funds and trading shops came to NIPS to run career booths, but there was a surprising lack of interest from attendees (attendees were more interested in the likes of Apple, Facebook, Deepmind, Google, etc).

At a regular college career fair in the East Coast, these roles are reversed. The talent pool at NIPS seems to be far more interested in tech and open-ended research than making money."
If you have one of those mileage credit cards and put everything including rent on the card, it can go pretty fast.

Or if you travel a lot for work.
I think you can throw out support for these legacy technologies IF:

1. Doing so results in competitive advantage--such as being able to move significantly faster, being able to maintain significantly cleaner codebase, etc.

2. Your library does something unique that no one else does - If there are tons of other libraries that do the same thing, you will be thrown into a feature war. I guess that's fine and there's nothing wrong with that but I personally wouldn't want to be in that position.
This is wholeheartedly welcome, lets hope 2017 brings more news like this. Not at all surprised that it is being done in Finland.
Baby boomers exiting the workforce, along with lower birth rates (and some increasing anti-immigrant sentiment that curtails the normal set of solutions) will lead to issues with healthcare affordability and end of life care. But these are issues that all Western countries are dealing with, and I have no reason to believe that Australia would be harder hit than many others due in part to the success of our mandatory saving schemes.
That article actually says that the top 1% have 50% of the net wealth.

But "net wealth" is a really weird statistic. The top 20% of the world has somewhere around 125% of the world's net wealth, because many people are in debt.
I grant you that oil is found in and around the earth we all share. However, value comes in when you extract it into a usable form for others. I think you have to consider this value add when discussing resources. If you do, it tracks my original comment.
It's (part of) agreeableness in the Big Five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Fi...
Sure, there is a component of rent that comes from the structure. But that isn't the component that causes the price difference between an apartment in San Francisco or Manhattan and the same size apartment in West Texas or Detroit.
As a tall person, I would happily pay 33% more for a seat with 33% more pitch. (Which is a great deal for the airline because I would be paying to haul empty space that weighs nothing, rather than the weight of [human+bags+seat]/3.
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Yeah, agreed. Optic-based systems could theoretically be very fast at combinatoric and even FLOP heavy problems.
It's a good law, but not always easy to follow. Sometimes traffic is moving along slowly, and then suddenly stops when you're already into the intersection. This mainly happens when you're immediately behind a large vehicle like a city bus and can't see what's further up ahead.
For those of us too lazy to click a link, would you mind providing a summary or a few dot-points of interest.
> That's about a quarter of current US federal budget

Only some will be given free money, and almost all of them will be spent since receivers are poor and cannot save it, would be quite a boost to the economy. It's a very direct way of implementing Keynesian policies.
Looking at Gabriel's 1985 book on the performance of Lisp systems (lispm posted a link in another thread: http://rpgpoet.com/Files/Timrep.pdf) we see many benchmarks using 0 GC time. His "Boyer" theorem-proving benchmark (p.133, 142/294) very commonly uses as much time in the "GC" column as in the "CPU" column (½ of the total), twice as much on SAIL (⅔ of the total), and almost never less than about half as much (⅓ of the total).

I'd like to claim that one of the four configurations of VAX Franz Lisp shone here, since it spent only about ⅐ of its total execution time in the GC. However, it spent roughly as much absolute time in the GC as the other three Franz Lisp configurations; it's just that it took 6× as long as normal to do the non-GC part of the benchmark; "normal", for context, was several times slower than SAIL. It's not clear that this counts as a performance improvement in any sense!

But, since many of his benchmarks use 0 GC time, I don't think I can justify the statement that GC just before the introduction of generational GC normally used 50% of a program's total run time; most programs did not consist primarily of evaluating tree-rewriting rules, which obviously are allocation-intensive. (Boyer isn't the worst, though. On Vaughan Pratt's Deriv symbolic differentiation benchmark, SAIL spends almost 90% of its total CPU time in the GC, though some other collectors handle it better.)

Reading through some of the other benchmarks, Franz Lisp commonly comes out rather GC-heavy, though less so than SAIL; on div2, for example, Franz spends 80% of its time in the GC. It may be significant that Wilensky was using Franz to write the book I got my original impression from.

I'm somewhat surprised that the FFT benchmark is written to use GC time, since normally I think of FFTs as not requiring any allocation at all, much less significant
numbers of allocations of separate objects...

So, in conclusion, I do think it's justifiable to say that there were significant classes of programs for which all Lisp systems continued to spend ⅓ to ½ of their time in the GC, or 80% to 90% in bad cases, right up until the introduction of generational GC shortly after Gabriel's book. But it's probably not justifiable to apply that statement generally to all Lisp programs. Your 5%–10% number sounds quite reasonable as an overall average.
You may not collect personal data of EU residents if you're operating from Hong Kong. If you did, you'd be doing so lawlessly and likely fined. How exactly this could be enforced is a different matter, but likely there are ways to do so, like arresting Hong Kong property if the amount due is high enough. Maybe if you operated from within China, and have enough backing, you could try to ignore it.

So, if you want to make a service for EU residents, make sure you're not collecting any personal information. Should be fine for a MMOG, but probably impossible for an online store.
A single poor decision, such as panic selling during the 2008 recession, can irreversibly ruin peoples' retirement unless they are young and have time to catch back up.

I hear this a lot, but does anyone have actual statistics on how often people try to micromanage their 401k or other retirement accounts? Everyone I've talked to just picks one of the target retirement date funds and leaves it on autopilot.