skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, would not put limits on the ability of politicians to pander in ways that I would find implausible.

But in the case of religion (even Buddhism), I find it plausible. Demographics and expectations about religion are changing. Religious belief and alignment does appear to be softening. See: http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-...

More broadly, I think the models of cognitive dissonance and tribal behavior are sometimes more important than arbitrary labels. If enough voters feel comfortable with a candidate (on their own terms) they can dismiss any number of externally-imposed labels about their candidate.
We elected a community organizer before Trump. At least Trump has been someone with responsibility before being elected President.
Thanks for an awesome product. How long was this acquisition on your Trello board?
I see. I would guess that macros on typed NimNodes are indeed unstable and underused :\

Please don't give up on us. I see that you've already created a couple of issues, if we forget about them then please keep pinging us on GitHub or IRC.
> This strategy is easily beaten though by stealing most pots and then not paying off the infrequent big bets (strong hands don't come often enough).

To dig deeper:

Or you can try actively punishing the big hands by folding out early. Of course, that strategy opens you up to being bled by your opponent bluffing strong hands. Attempting to actively punish the big hands here is a deviation. This is what jspiral means by "deviations from perfection".
Good lord, ten pages.
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I suspect a lot of rich people have eschewed politics out of several concerns, including whether certain aspects of their personal history, business history, or business holdings nullify their chances of being elected.

It's pretty clear that the Trump election has changed the calculus quite a bit in this regard. I expect to see more celebrity candidates going forward, at least in the near term.
If you're looking to get a (more) timely response, I recommend emailing them (email address available from the Contact link in the footer).
Yep, being good at this is what separates great players from mediocre. If AI can figure it out, humans are toast.
Hey guys, looking for as much feedback as possible, to improve not only this repo, but generally as well.

Thanks.
haha, why is the best comment at the bottom of the page?
As someone who shares a lot more political opinions with Zuckerberg than Trump, having the man who controls Facebook holding political office has just as much potential for corruption as Trump does, and is almost as scary.

Politicians have a lot of levers to shape media coverage without owning one of the largest sources of information in the modern world.
Thank you, I will do that.
A couple of weeks before they got accepted? Wow!

I considered become a DD about 10 years ago, but a friend was going through the process and it took them over a year with at least one restart-from-scratch because the bureaucracy had been lost or something.

> Regis NM did start somewhere in 2003. There was a period of him being on hold, in 2006 we did continue the process, which used some time, but most of the delay up to now is, again, my fault. Seems like all the few NMs left in my AM queue do have some huge level of patience available somewhere...

https://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2007/08/msg00046.ht...

I wonder if Debian has improved their process or replaced the ineffective people since. Do they still have the second-class-citizen system (whose name I can't remember offhand)?
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What law/regulation/contract is requiring healthcare providers to take Medicare?
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> "Generics are useful, but each of the implementation methods we have seen so far have significant tradeoffs, and the benefits are outweighed by the costs of the methods we've seen."

I think what people tend to disagree with is the last part. There is a lot of leeway in estimating the costs and benefits and people end up with very different estimates.
I also suspect it's a lot harder to advance technologically when you live underwater. One of the big boosts to human evolution was the mastery of fire and development of cooking.
Lisp-Stat (or XLispStat) didn't just use Lisp syntax, it was a Lisp.

I've used XLispStat, S-PLUS (a commercial version or R), and SAS. SAS had the most comprehensive statistical libraries, but I never liked the language. I liked xlispstat but the statistical libraries weren't as good as those of SAS or S-PLUS. For data mining, I settled for S-PLUS, which was sufficiently lispy, and had a REPL. So it wasn't just the syntax (or lack of it).

Beyond being dynamically typed and having a REPL, Python isn't particularly Lispy: it's less functional, and it has no (linked) lists or symbols. It's quicker to develop in than most of the non-Lisp alternatives, though.
His other business will be marketed using direct mail. A day or two after the anonymous post card is sent, another post card is sent, offering the boss a chance to pay for the identity of the previous card's sender.
The problem with dystopian sci-fi novels is that their plots are usually dependent on social dynamics that don't capture the full range of human behavior. For example, you don't read many sci-fi novels that have a character like John D. Rockafeller (who used his wealth and power to stand up to Prohibition).

It's worth keeping in mind that some of America's founding fathers were also among the wealthiest people in the country (e.g. John Hancock).
Apple might not be perfect, but they are ahead of the alternatives in terms of privacy and security.

Apple builds iOS to sell hardware. Google builds Android to vacuum up more data to sell.

Have you had a look at the iOS Security white paper [1]?

"Spotlight Suggestions never sends exact location, instead blurring the location on the client before sending."

"iOS also uses a randomized MAC address [...] so it can’t be used to persistently track a device by passive observers of Wi-Fi traffic."

Spotlight: "Unlike most search engines, however, Apple’s search service does not use a persistent personal identifier across a user’s search history to tie queries to a user or device; instead, Apple devices use a temporary anonymous session ID for at most a 15-minute period before discarding that ID."

Apple Pay: "Full card numbers are not stored on the device or on Apple servers. Instead, a unique Device Account Number is created, encrypted, and then stored in the Secure Element. This unique Device Account Number is encrypted in such a way that Apple can’t access it."

iMessage: "Apple does not log messages or attachments, and their contents are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data."

FaceTime: "The audio/video contents of FaceTime calls are protected by end-to-end encryption, so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data."

"Location Services can be turned off using a single switch in Settings, or users can approve access for each app that uses the service. [...] Additionally, users are given fine-grained control over system services’ use of location information."

Plus you have fine-grained controls for access to microphone, camera, pictures, etc. per app. Has Android caught up with that, or is it still all or don't use the app?

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
They bought 19M users for $425M, it's $22 per user, I don't know how many users pay for the service?

PS: their pricing page says $10 / year and user
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What about AI for blockchains?
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> Because he maintains that installation and you don't?

Or not. You're devs are on-call, aren't they? They are maintaining their own software, right?
I doubt they are. Disk encryption (FileVault) may be somewhat more common on Macs than on your average Windows machine, but I still bet it's more the exception than the rule. I don't think it's enabled by default and I doubt most people go to the work of enabling it.
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Zuckerberg wouldn't be the first atheist to become more religious after getting married and having a child.
That is what blind trusts are for. This isn't a new thing. People who own businesses have been elected to office before. Yes, there can be "conflicts of interest", but it's not like he's going to sneak into office and start making Facebook-friendly laws without anyone realizing he owns Facebook.

"Probably illegal" is unhelpful non-information. It's either illegal or not. We do have a process for becoming a candidate that verifies whether all legal requirements have been met, you know this, right?
No atheists really are the worst. (Perhaps it would be better to say they would be considered the worst by the stereotypical stereotypical American?)
I don't understand why you're being downvoted, considering this one fact:

PRISM was ran on a budget of $200,000/year.

This may be enough money to put together and maintain a sad-looking web portal that lets you make requests for user data against Google, Apple, and Yahoo's legal compliance departments.

This is by no means enough to do bulk data collection for billions of users. (That was the domain of the other hundred-odd programs that the NSA runs.)
Do you migrate you workstation to FreeBSD too, or your servers and the like only?

In any case I want to take this opportunity to note that FreeBSD is quite nice as a daily driver on your workstation. The only missing thing is bug-free suspend/hibernate, which works for some and for some doesn't.

edit: added missing adverbs.
> it does not mean that such cooperation is fair

"Fair" is subjective. Our moral intuitions give us fairly consistent answers for simple cases, but most cases are not simple.

One response to this problem is to point out that a free market is the best mechanism we know of for maximizing "fairness" in the sense of bargaining power. But free markets are actually pretty rare. For example, large corporations' wage structures, which dictate the terms of many people's employment contracts, are not the products of a free market; they are the products of the corporations' internal processes, which are dictated by top-down centralized control. (To some extent they are also products of negotiations, for example with labor unions, but that just extends the top-down centralized control to the unions.) So an obvious way to make cooperation fairer is to decrease the average size of corporations, in order to expose more transactions to free markets. In the absence of regulation, I suspect that this is what would actually happen, because most large corporations are the products of regulation, not of free market competition.
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Anyone noticed a small joke 2170 released in 2017.
We don't count zero's
I am knew to the shared memory concept. I am familiar with named pipes. Could you please elaborate a bit, I'm curios.

Are you passing the reference to an mmap adress, or using the shm systemcalls? In what language are you programming in? Does race conditions endanger the shared memory? If so, how does using semaphores help?

Sorry, if I asked a lot of questions, feel free to answer any/none of them :)
The problem with your characterization of things is companies like the one I'm in where us "Developers" have replaced the gatekeepers entirely. We have no dedicated SysOps, and yet our production environment stays up just fine.
"From a practical standpoint, our research suggests that, when faced with long tasks (such as studying before a final exam or doing your taxes), it is best to impose brief breaks on yourself. Brief mental breaks will actually help you stay focused on your task!”

http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/02/09/taking-breaks-found-...
MongoDB's Debian packaging is very different from Debian's own packaging. The MongoDB people decided almost a year ago that Debian users only get to use one init/rc system each for Debian 7 and Debian 8.

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/333195/5132
We have been living in a dystopian sci-fi novel since 33 AD. Or, if you prefer, 66 million years ago.
I watched that, and I think his understanding of what a "statistical tie" is is extremely dodgy (https://youtu.be/gz9FJfe2YGE?t=10m43s). What's up with that?

Edit: he does make a good point later on that playing thousands of games is exhausting, which would affect the reliability of the comparison between the AI and the pros. I don't know anything about poker, but it sounds plausible. Presumably this means they should make the AI so good that it can demonstrate its greatness quicker than a human gets tired.
Why do you say "balkanization" and what do you mean by it?

Why might it be bad? Why might it be good?

There are so many factors. For one, I'd rather have someone in government who understands technology. So many parts of government are lacking in basic technical capability.

On the other hand, I find Facebook's awareness of the social fabric to be somewhere between inchoate (that's charitable) and a convenient illusion that is fundamentally mostly marketing-driven. (I don't fault a company for being market-driven; however, such incentives are not structured to properly serve people and communities).

But I don't know too much about Facebook's social design as compared to Zuck's goals for possibly serving in government or where he would like Facebook to go.
Agreed. I would say one difference in poker is that strategy can be (and is, constantly) adapted over the life of a competition (and over the span of several competitions). Tempo, adjustments, stack and blind management/inflection points, even opponent avoidance in certain circumstances - I expect some of those to be things that humans may hold an edge to some degree. Those factor in a lot differently in other types of games (tournament play especially). I don't understand AI well enough to know what would be the hardest possible game for AI to conquer.
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Hey, everybody!

I threw together siftrss over the last week to scratch my own itch. My girlfriend works in a specialized field for which there are seldom job opportunities. I monitor RSS feeds for her, but many don't let me restrict the results by location, so I would have to manually weed out the vast majority of them, hoping for something in the area. Now I just have siftrss do it for me. I'd be delighted if someone else got some use out of it as well.

Someday I'd like to get around to implementing some more complex filters with logical operators, but for the time being it's covering 100% of my use cases. Let me know what you think!
Was there any example where this was not (unexpectedly) many (physically typed) emails? Why did I even read this...

"If people express interested or thank for it unasked" might fit better.
You could, except that none of those descriptions are true.
In fact Merriam Webster [1] very explicitly advocates for "gauge":

> The verb gauge, which refers to measuring or estimating, also has a variant gage. This variant appears to show up primarily in informal sources, though not often. Gauge is by far the preferred spelling in general usage for both the noun and the verb; we encourage you use it.

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gage
> usually there was some excuse - soviet system brought state instituted terror to a whole new levem [sic]

Perhaps on an absolute basis, the Soviets were the worst, but on a relative-to-population basis history is littered with meaningless massacre.
I think Trello fills a niche for people who don't need all of the features that JIRA provides, but they need something to track tickets/cards/whatever you want to call them. The products are pretty different but I can envision an overlap of users. I use both currently and if I didn't have Trello, I might have to use JIRA for everything.
he broke back into his own tank after

Octopus have dens that they only leave to eat and mate. they always return to their den after, and they only move every few weeks. So wouldnt that be normal behavior?

I guess he could have moved his den to the flounder tank.. but maybe he just found out where it was, and caught him before he decided where to move to. or maybe there was something about the flounder tank that made it difficult to find a good spot.
Americans have this odd tendency to vote for celebrities.
Ok, so for everyone that can barely use that terrible website, the number that they have in 2050 is 9.71 billion. Someone else can try to figure out how to download that data and then give an actual estimate as to when the population will flat-line. Maybe find a way to get it into excel and then apply a log fit to it, or soemthing. Hell, I ain't gonna mess with that terrible site again.

Edit: Forgot to thank my parent comment for finding the data in the first place!
Good article, but awful modal ads on that site.

Anyway, is anyone here using steamos or a steambox? Valve made a lot of noise about Linux but I haven't seen many people use it for gaming yet.
I don't view child porn, but I still never let techs look at my drives. You never know what they'll do with your data.

As an example, one Geek Squad tech took a female art student's naked art photos and shared them online: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suit-claims-best-bu...
I think the point is that he could use his immense power and unique platform to win regardless of what you or I might want.

And to put it in context, powerful businessmen with no prior gov't experience are now emboldened to run for the highest office (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-dimon-idUSKBN...) which, as an aside, doesn't require putting your assets in a blind trust.
I work on (among other things) a soft-realtime streaming runtime where we care about microsecond latency, so I care about the cost of the common data path. You made a good point about the surrounding code being more simplistic making it more amenable to optimizations. But, I still see that as the "cost" of exceptions.
Here's a question for you: what if the Go team add user-defined generic types to the language, and people start demanding HKTs? What then? Do you implement them and hope nobody asks for dependent types? Where do you draw the line?
Maybe he is thinking that the advent of virtual reality sex will replace real sex so the birthrate really will reach 0 ;-)
You can't claim that Bitbucket has syntax highlighting and then post proof that isn't actually proof. Well you can, but why bother?

I just checked our Bitbucket. There's no syntax highlighting for any of our used languages for diffs. There is no option to enable or disable it. When you do a search for it, it's still an open issue in BitBucket's public issue tracker[0].

If you've got some wizardry working that isn't an external script, hook it up.

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/8673/add-syntax-hig...
> I just think they should be about 1 week in length.
> I usually need a couple of weeks recovery time

And exactly like a real sprint (running very fast) a period of resting is necessary after such an effort, usually longer than the execution time spent.
> I was referring to clinical staff.

Ah, that makes more sense.

> I don't know about IT staff, but I imagine that it would have to be competitive to the local market.

Nope. That's what I'm curious about: salary for IT positions at the big hospital systems I'm familiar with is surprisingly crap. It's the same pattern at big law firms. There's lots of money to be made at those places, but definitely not for IT people.

Not a problem (for me), just something I'm curious about.
Interesting. I never did E-6 processing. But I have to say it's a lot more involved processing than b&w [1]. But nice to have a color process to do from home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-6_process
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It's not a blind trust if he knows what's in it.
Not hardly: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gage%2Cgauge&y...

The ~1920-~1960 bump is surprising, but not significant when "gauge" has one as well, and especially when taken alongside the solid difference of usage frequency that's persisted since before the American Civil War. If you favor prescriptivism in general, that's your lookout, but to argue that "gage" in this context might not be a misspelling seems quixotic at best.
Nope - the last workplace-provided insurance I had was my parents.
A new CERN experiment targets even higher energies
I'm usually surprised in tournaments by the number of people willing to play with me after I've sat quietly folding for the first three rounds... By all means, everyone should fold and give me the blinds, but there always seems to be a player or two who bite!
What Trello has needed since day-1 was a self-hosting option. Many companies won't allow their customers to use it since there's no formal agreement on data protection.