skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, saying that "the outcome is pretty darn good, therefore yay capitalism" is missing the crucial question - when do the good parts happen, when do the bad parts happen, and how to preserve the former while getting rid of the latter.

Ideologies are mind poison.
Yeah, that was probably phrased poorly. I wanted to criticize the "just rewrite it in Rust" evangelists, not the Rust makers.
I was going to post asking what experience Mark has in government but then I remembered the American population just voted to elect a reality TV 'star' and rich-from-daddies-money mediocre businessman as President. So yeah I guess Mark is highly qualified in that he has several times Trump's net worth.
That's my point. Sometimes solutions simply aren't scalable... I think democracy is one of them.

That's not a bad thing. We have a solution, we know we can implement it. It's unscalable but still very easy on the individual level.
This is brilliant guerrilla marketing, Larry.

I understand that the people who are being sent these, are ripe prospects for your consulting services!

Good job thinking outside the box.
Funny, just two/three weeks ago I was saying that I really needed a dag of pipes in a shell script that I was writing...
Huh, that's wacky.

Still, Das Keyboard has been making a Mac-specific keyboard for many years now, you'd think they'd at least reach out to Apple to see if they can get their keyboard recognized as having a Fn key (or, alternatively, provide a kext that adds support themselves). But the one time I asked them about it, they didn't seem to even care about how the Fn key behaves, so I doubt they've even made an attempt.
>"I am suddenly unreasonably angry"

I don't believe your anger is unreasonable.
A polite reminder: some people predict population dynamics for living.

For example, the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/population-projection...

If you look for dinosaurs, the WB also have a 1984 report on topic: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496471468156899142... (see p. 186, "Population data supplement")

The UN, IMF, and most national agencies also release their numbers.

In general, world GDP growth — and its correlates, like HDI — is stable enough to predict population growth. As a country gets richer, fertility falls: women get careers, jobs require more education for children, people start to rely on savings, instead of family. The aggregate numbers are smooth and predictable. At least, for a reasonable time horizon.

But you need to fine-tune the model at the right aggregation level. For example, the US, EU, Japan have similar GDP levels, but fertility in the US remains high. Census data helps settle down these issues.
Recent announcements and actions by Zuck suggest that he's going to run for office one day.

1) Reveals he is no longer an atheist (http://nypost.com/2017/01/02/mark-zuckerberg-reveals-hes-no-...)
2) 2017 New Years goal to meet people in every 50 state (http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-personal-goal...)

etc.
I really enjoy this. Keep the good work up~
Code Schools Tiers 1 2 and 3 like Law Schools
> Niche hardware like this doesn't cost next to nothing when made in small quantities.

You could use some off the shelf components like an ESP8266 or ESP32 module to dramatically reduce your cost. A hand full a discrete components, an electret microphone, auto gain amplifier, and a voltage regulator aren't going to set you back more than $10. A custom PCB is going to be $5 per unit max. The BOM is easily under $20 for a limited run of 10 to 20 units.

The most expensive things are going to be the enclosure and assembly. If you find an off the self enclosure then your costs drop considerably.

You could have a working prototype cobbled together in a day.
"Anarchist" is antipodal to the "nationalist" part of "nationalist mercantilism", which is historically associated with "capitalism" in such a way that many people confuse the two.

This is exactly why some people prefer the term "propertarian anarchist" to "anarcho-capitalist", so as to avoid arguing over the meanings of words rather than the tenets of the school of thought.

An anarcho-capitalist cannot make and enforce any law establishing rights in property, but instead recognized that by societal convention, people can claim objects for their exclusive use, and defend such claims by voluntarily respecting the reasonable claims of all other participants in the society.

If you have faithfully watched the television series of The Walking Dead, "The Claimed Gang" that was featured in season 4, episode 11, were basically anarcho-capitalists. If you said "claimed", whatever it was became yours, and if you violated someone else's claim, you got a beatdown from the whole gang.
> If you follow the history of that particular issue, you'll see that the Go team's (official) view has always been that there are tradeoffs involved, and that none of the existing proposals for implementing generics are sufficient improvements over the status quo

They should have thought about it at the very beginning of Go design. it's easy to say now "We didn't find a good way to implement generics" when their design choices made implementing generics insanely hard at first place.

Well actually,they thought about it, where does append,delete,make and co come from? how do these functions know their arguments and return types at compile time? generics.

Furthermore it's not all or nothing. Go could have supported parametric functions in user land just like append,make or delete without implementing full-on generics. They just don't want to bother with that, because it's impossible to retrofit generics now without breaking the reflect package. The rest is just excuses to evade the issue.

> Generics are not free

Creating a modern statically typed language WITHOUT generics isn't free either. Just like implicit interfaces are not free, just like the reflect package is not free, just like using interface{} somewhere isn't free, just like telling people to use code generators isn't free.
From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project
Jared Kushner to Be Named Senior White House Adviser
The words "truth" and "god" are not synonyms. I don't know if there is a god, but I feel quite certain there are things that are true.
I dunno¹, but solar will probably make energy much cheaper in the coming decades.

1 - Of course, obviously I do know. The answer is just completely irrelevant to the discussion.
I've been using Fork (git-fork.com), and it's fantastic. Similar UI to SourceTree on the surface, but more obvious in other ways. It's blazing fast, and the author is super responsive to requests and to make fixes.
LOL. I didn't see anything in the FAQ bout it being sock-proof? Maybe the second revision with have this feature?
Looking at Your Home Planet from Mars
You're right, your system works for you, but could you explain why you expect it to work for other people with different situations and experiences from your own?

I don't believe it's applicable very widely at all. For example, when it comes to "braving the consequences," the consequences affect those beyond ourselves, such as our dependents. I could be extremely courageous and then brave, but it doesn't feed children, in-laws or pay the mortgage if the consequences involve getting fired or demoted.
The FBI has been repeatedly caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-f...

http://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-planted-bugs-california-cou...

When caught they feign a mixture of complete denial, ignorance, and "I didn't know it was illegal", and they are approximately never held personally responsible by judges.
It depends if you are talking about detail or color accuracy. I shot medium format for years until digital just passed it by on both.
The natural range of humans is far more expansive than the natural range of squirrels.
Since the WiFi is the only source of emissions, you can avoid FCC certification by using a pre-certified module like an ESP8266 or ESP32 or one of the many offerings from TI.
SF CEO Calls Rural Americans Racist; Institutes Xenophobic Hiring Rule
Jason Les and Dong Kim both played in the previous competition, with Doug Polk (arguably the best heads up player in the world). They're reasonably in the discussion, and other factors such as interest and availability possibly factored in.
I quite like Confluence (as in, better than Sharepoint as Wiki in enterprise gigs). But I'm always wondering if Confluence customers are aware that they're creating a huge data silo for their knowledge base documents that can only be accessed using proprietary Confluence software for years to come.
Unless you're entering your sudo password with every other command you type, it doesn't seem like it would make much difference either way, it's pretty darn fast already.
I assumed they did that for free.
Depending on how wide is the peak detection window, they might send enough data to detect how long consecutive words are. I have a vague impression that I've read once that this, together with a language model, can be used to guess what's being spoken ~10% of the time or so.
That is a valid critique of my context. I presumed a Post-Enlighment Western world view of a European atheist bent.

Unfortunately Buddhists and Jains don't get away any better. They have an underlying belief in a Universal truth. The Universe can punish (at least for Buddhists; I have trouble pinning Jains down on from a karmic perspective since I'm not terribly familiar with them).

Edit: critic -> critique
The west hasnt invaded anyone or shot down any airliners though has it?
That is irrelevant. Uber is not going to become so cheap that even the poorest person can afford it, neither are taxis some new and exciting discovery. Uber is not going to replace mass transit either, because the traffic problem will become impossible to solve. Therefore optimizing a city for uber does not mean it is optimized in general.
All ethics are entirely manmade, so this is not particularly helpful. Are you ok with torturing criminals, as long as they seem like they'd be willing to torture you?
I have also thought about the applications blockchains could have for AI. However I didn't consider blockchains as a means to store data but rather as a way to reliably track the performance/quality of various AI services. You can read about it here: http://jcfrei.com/the-ai-economy-bitcoin/
ES proposal: import()
Then don't vote for Zuckerberg? Technically, if he were to be a representative or other elected government official, he would be obligated to uphold the interests of his constituents, not the company he owns, just like any other representative.

Granted, it might be a concern that he would use his position to help his company, which is why officials usually have to put their assets in a blind trust.

He would still have to get elected first, though. So if you're basically expecting that he's going to be corrupt, then don't vote for him and encourage others not to.
“No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important,” he wrote.
This is a great way of putting it, your last part especially - assigning hand ranges is one of the things many players would probably attribute to gut or feel. Some implicit decision making ability that causes them to prune away vast parts of the possible tree and then make quick decisions on the remaining ones. Often based on knowing opponent history, observing patterns, etc.
Would be a massive conflict of interest.

Zuck is also setting himself up for President, which is a little egoist. That said, anyone thinking that is on some level ...
Or maybe we're just not buying into cryptography being pushed by a company that has a marketing department.
Thanks for the suggestion! I downloaded the free chapter from the book and I'm going to check it out tonight. If I enjoy it, I might have to buy the physical and electronic copy!
As an actual complete n00b, in online poker, how are tells communicated when you can't see someone's facial expressions or body language? My guess is the dollar value of bets, and the timing side channel?
Yep, the two products are even written in separate languages!

Bitbucket Server is written in Java and bitbucket.org is written in Python.

I was dumbfounded when I found out they were two separate codebases.
But who will develop it? That's going to be damn expensive. That's why I have all my b&w gear still. If I get the bug to shoot film I can develop it myself.
The problem is not only not recording audio, but also not accidentally recording enough data to reconstruct words spoken. Silence detection on a sufficiently short timescale might allow you to guess sentences.
It really isn't that hard in Texas Hold'em most of the time. You are usually only calculating for a few hands, and can memorize odds in advance (since while the combinations of cards is gigantic, the number of actual categories of combinations isn't that many)
Moderators - am I allowed to comment on this front page article?
Thank you for the suggestion!
> The truth is that one does not need generics.

Sure ,when you can use interface {} AKA void pointers everywhere, you certainly don't need generics /s

You need generics if you want to avoid context.Context.Value(interface {})interface {} like API. You need generics if your goal is type safety AT COMPILE TIME. Obviously it's not one of the goals of Go /s ...
Global resources are finite. The resources of the solar system are finite. The visible universe is finite.

Finite is not another word for "meager."

Discussions of physical resource limits would be better if pessimistic prognosticators did not write as if finite-is-meager, and if optimistic prognosticators did not write as if plentiful-is-infinite.
Players can and will target others as "easier" and selectively get in fights with them. If nothing else, you'll certainly avoid getting into fights with a player that continuously beats you.
The Israeli desalination plant "Sorek can produce a thousand liters (264 gal) of drinking water for 58 cents." And it can produce 624Km3/day or 150M m3 of water a year. That's 20% of Israeli domestic consumption.

That's $0.002 per gallon, about what CA water costs. All fresh from the sea.

75X cheaper than the 0.15 cents per gallon @mojomark estimates in the thread below that it would cost in fuel costs alone for a tanker to ship water from alaska.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...

I can't tell exactly, but the $0.58/1000 liters seems to be amortizing the $400M investment cost, because it's on a 25 year Build - Operate - Transfer contract.
Add comment in code and use free version of PVS-Studio static C/C++/C# analyser
Being tribal just aligns well with the platform incentive: the more people use it, the better is return on investment for every participant. The participants are not required to be conscious about this; the evolution will favor them anyway if they are really numerous.
This assumes uniform gene pools that never change. In other words, it denies evolution.

For each nation, he extrapolates various existing trends. This wouldn't be too bad if people within each nation were uniform. They are not. Given the choice between having children and having other luxury, people do not all make the same decision. The mental traits that influence this decision are inheritable, both genetically (brain structure and chemistry) and culturally (religion and more). It should be obvious that the portion of people who decide to have kids will increase. We'll be back to exponential growth until we hit real resource limits and start dying in squalor.

This is unavoidable. Anything done to stop it will be overcome, because those best at overcoming impediments to reproduction will come to dominate the gene pool.
The advantage of using the shell are the hundreds of powerful command-line tools you can use. Increasingly, there are Perl/Python/Ruby packages that offer similar functionality, but these require some ceremony to use and therefore prohibit rapid prototyping and experimentation.
Atlassian isn't Google or FB that they can buy something for $425M and then sunset the product. It is more likely that they will probably provide Trello as an option for their users to better manage their projects.
This[1] article from December points to a lawsuit reported by Bloomberg allegging that Marc Andreessen helped Zuckerberg push a measure through a special committee of shareholders that would allow him to maintain "voting control of the company, even if he sells most of his stock".

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/09/mark-zuckerberg-may-be-eyeing...
>What if I and a group of other people want to organize and work together, in exchange for wages with fully voluntary other people?

There's no problem with that, but the people working for you wouldn't be very clever - there would be no reason to sell your labour under Communism. In fact, it would be so backward, the exploitation so evident, that nobody would even bother. Why would you want to work for wages when there are no wages under Communism?

Nobody is going to stop you from doing it. Communism is stateless. But you'd be pretty stupid to be doing it, and it would be a massive waste of time and resources. Nobody in their right mind would work for wages in a system where everyone else gets the product of their labour.
Spotify has a job for Obama
He finally realized the true value of being part of the influential Jewish diaspora/community
Yes but I think the velocity of Dystopianism since 2001 might be much greater than anything experienced before then.
That's much easier said than done.

At the end of the day, Facebook almost reaches 2 billion people. Good luck beating that and a net worth of $50 billion.
"Technically, if he were to be a representative or other elected government official, he would be obligated to uphold the interests of his constituents, not the company he owns, just like any other representative."

"Technically" it would be a massive conflict of interest and probably illegal.

Having someone own/control/influence a major chunk of the media establishment and also have public responsibility is a pretty serious problem.

5th estate needs to be separate from the others :)
If you are talking about order of operations, all of the sixth graders that I teach know how to evaluate that expression. While it's true that I had to teach them * means multiply and / means divide, they can quickly pick that up. Our school is all honors and the students are above average intelligence, but they are not all math or tech geeks.

On the other hand, I have taught courses at the high school level at the same school based on "How to Design Programs" [1] using the Racket language. Although I can explain the concept of (+ 6 (* 1 0) (/ -2 2)) rather easily, the students make mistakes writing expressions for several weeks.

1: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
It seems most of the "anti-poaching" cases that have come up on HN end in favor of the employees (in California at least). Curious if there's national precedent.
Really likely. Code doesn't mean much, it's mostly about how you present it
Yeah, this is how you get people to build a lead list for you.
> Obviously if we came in one day to see an octopus in the flounder tank the mystery would be solved day 1.

It's hard not to speculate that the octopus had a sufficiently sophisticated model of its keepers in relation to itself (which implies self-consciousness) that it knew this.

I can come up with other theories (some territorial affinity, perhaps), and I'm sure people have. I wonder which have been tested/explored...
It's a problem with macro heavy code in Nim currently. Macros on typed NimNode still touch too many undocumented/unspecified Nim internals, that it always takes me some time to actually figure out what is the culprit.

On the other hand, code without much typed macro transformations is really solid now, c.f. [0], the repo you are watching.

[0] https://github.com/jcosborn/qex
They don't really have a history of doing that. Greenhopper was acquired and integrated into JIRA as JIRA Agile. Hipchat was acquired and now it lives on and nicely integrates with nearly all Atlassian products (JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, etc).

My guess is they'll keep Trello running for a while as-is, and slowly rework it to become "JIRA Lite". It will likely have Trello-like functionality with JIRA branding, and some sort of migration path to the heavier JIRA for companies that have grown a lot.
Every couple years somebody else comes out of the woodwork with a new theory about who Shakespeare was. We just don't know a lot about the guy and there's not we can do about it.
Got any advice for ways to bundle stuff written in Rust, Go, Ruby, or Node? All of these languages come with package-managers that encourage reusing packages from their respective ecosystems.

I packaged a Github clone called Gogs (written in Go) for Debian/Ubuntu, complete with Lintian support. But I had to compromise on the 'rules' file and add a "get-orig-source" target that uses Go's package manager to grab all of the dependencies. I used that rule to grab all of the source files required to create the source package (which can then be built in isolation).

But if I understand Debian's official packaging rules, this is verboten because it winds up including a bunch of interconnected third-party libraries. Since I didn't write Gogs or any of its dependencies, I can't exactly go through and eliminate all external dependencies. And even if I could, much of Go's standard library exists only in ecosystem form.

How should a prospective package maintainer handle these kinds of ecosystems? Trying to distro-package every library (Perl-style) would be a Herculean effort, and could conceivably be met with hostility by the upstreams.

There is so much software being written in Go/Rust/Ruby/Node/etc. How can we go about packaging it?
What about https://dnscrypt.org/?
And don't forget the announcement where he said he's no longer an atheist and religion is important.
How does Apple guard against such infiltrators tarnishing their brand?
Usually when we talk about tragedy, we are talking about a human experience. I am not sure why you are talking about the 'universe'.
It's unfair and rather cruel to pit humans vs computers. How about we use the AI to design a poker variant that is unbeatable by another AI ?
I think direct care models, in all but name, are probably coming. I might be wrong, but the way federal governance in the US is headed it seems increasingly rather than decreasingly likely.

In our region there are already hospital systems that are owned as subsidiaries by corporations that also own insurance companies. These corporations are gobbling up smaller hospitals as those merge and then subsequently get purchased by regional systems.

The monopoly in the provision is problematic enough, but it reaches new levels of problems when they are also merging with insurance companies.

So for some people, even if they aren't getting direct care technically, they are, because their choices are limited geographically for all intents and purposes to one provider, and their insurance is coming from the same provider.

The challenge these direct care models faced, as alluded to by other posters, is in competing with conglomerates that offer a complete spectrum of care. You either cater to people who can afford it, or have to lower costs enough to make it reasonable for people who might not otherwise. The first option limits your customer base; the second is not really currently feasible given government regulation and how it inhibits competition in delivery models.

I worry about the future of health care in the US, only because I don't see the GOP implementing anything other than the not-too distant status quo, which was broken. I sympathize with their stated ideal of reducing costs and increasing competition, but it seems like doublepeak for reducing costs and decreasing competition for established financial interests and increasing competition for everyone else. The net effect will just be squeezing more and more money out of the common individual.