skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Threats of violence, and by extension government, are not always evil.

Of course. But my objection is that libertarians like to imply that violence coercion is inherently bad for rhetorical effect when criticising government.

>Using violence to punush someone for refusing to hand over a share of currency they receive in private trade, or for being 'too successful' at selling a widget and therefore being categorised as a monopolist, is not.

Well clearly we disagree. I think asking participants in society to pay for the benefits it affords, and discouraging anti-competitive practices are perfectly reasonable uses of violent coercion, and lead to better outcomes overall.

If you disagree that those policies are effective, that's fine. But please don't elevate your economic theories to morality.

>at least learn the basics, like what the Non Aggression Principle is (notice it's not called the Non Violence Principle).

I know what the NAP is, and I agree right up until libertarians start trying to define aggression to include theft. Honestly, the NAP seems at best like an awkward attempt to simplify a political philosophy, and at worst like a rhetorical device to hide property rights inside something that seems superficially unobjectionable.

>Libertarianism is just the formalization of common decency and common sense.

Yes, that's certainly how it likes to portray itself, but my impression is that as soon it gets into details, it's all about property rights.

I think society should be designed in the way that leads to the best utilitarian outcomes, and I think property rights are a very effective tool and should be part of that system. But they are not perfect, they are not morality, and they're certainly not "common decency".
It shouldn't be an ad network's job to adjudicate truth, especially given Google's monopolistic position. They should stick to selling and reselling eyeballs and clicks, and regulating things directly material to that, e.g. deceitful ad placement.
If you don't, just self host!
What is the right dynamic between support and development organizations?
Who should be responsible for modifying code to implement fixes?

What is a typical enterprise support organizations main responsibilities?

What are the characteristics of highly functional or dysfunctional support and development organizations?
Hey liked the video, did you upload your slides anywhere?
Plug: if want to write crisper, try my game, Worrd Warrior.

It's an online game gets you away from the stuffy platitudes of books and pits you against other writers to see who can get the message across best.

http://worrdwarrior.com

I haven't updated it in a little bit, but I'm preparing an update that will position it for competitions in local schools & companies, kind of like a spelling bee but actually useful.
I suspect your familiarity is with areas that are much higher cost than average. I've owned houses in two different MSAs in the top 25 in the US and the land value was much lower than 80% of the total value. Land value is also very demand-driven though local zoning regulations (multi-family units, proximity to commercial zones, etc.) do drive some of that demand.
Unfortunately, your response seems very political and not objective.
errr, that's the point, it's basic and simple, it doesn't support the same feature set, but, in many cases, you can get away without all the features.....

like when you can make powerpoints without ever needing to draw, in fact, not having drawing tools means you keep your things simpler and don't over complicate the essential thing you are doing.

it certainly won't suit everyone though, and for me, I went Jira -> Trello -> Youtrack and got a nice blend of things.
Tiny homes are 150 to 250 square feet homes that that can be built anywhere from ~$20,000 to ~$50,000. The person who figures out how to mass produce these houses (each one is only about maybe the size of two RVs) for ~$10,000 will change this world.
As it often goes, both extreme political views (liberal pro-science vs. conservative, ignore-science) have some good points to make, and some unjustified beliefs that harm mutual understanding. May I suggest that you do not try to challenge your father's views on scientists directly head-on. Give him an example of a scientist and a contribution that may be interesting on their own. It's much less likely that the refrain will be used to discard your effort. Perhaps tell him about a scientist who wasn't a liberal, perhaps had some similar views as your father has - but still believed in science. Tell him about Teller, who was as far from being a liberal as it goes, pushing for hardline foreign policy and bigger and better nuclear weapons. Still he was a brilliant scientist and he perceived the potential danger of climate change due to fossil fuels already in 50's. Tell him about Fleming, an army doctor who investigated sepsis, discovered pennicilin and helped bring the humanity a cure to many bacterial diseases.
There's a difference between the system being open and the test tools being open. Mozilla has open sourced most of its fuzzers [1], but only after they are no longer finding existing bugs. The fuzzers are then used to prevent regressions.

[1] https://github.com/MozillaSecurity
For a counterpoint, see the answers on this Quora:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-not-more-widel...

Medical diagnosis in the general case, esp with mis- or disinformation from patients, is quite complex. The data sets available aren't that good given the built-in biases & missing data. What we're seeing is deep learning can help when it focuses on one, little thing with a ton of good data available while ignoring everything else. That's what MYCIN did back when this concept started. That's not enough to replace MD's any time soon.

What you'll find is we can at best supplement the decision-making practices of MD's by running their data through a bunch of ML systems in parallel to try to suggest things they might miss. This data will overtime feed into the ML systems to improve them. Augmented Intelligence, not Artificial Intelligence, will remain the best way to do things due to all the stuff in doctors' brains from their professional experience that's not in machine learning datasets.
Just because some dudes in suits or some bureaucracy academic had not talked about it yet

Well, as you know, things aren't true or factual until Science™ has confirmed it as such with a statistically significant quadruple-blind placebo trial. After all, many anecdotes from employees that they are happier with a competent and capable leader most certainly do NOT equal data.

There could possibly be some outside factor, like a competent and capable leader ensures the water-cooler filter is actually being changed on a monthly basis, which is really the reason for all that employee happiness.

I've always wondered if I can start a mgmt consulting company that exclusively focuses on doing Science™ that researches facts that are already known to be true to just about everyone outside the skeptical academic bubble. Just sit back and let the grant money roll in while I spend it producing papers and managerial books on things like "Can more advisers help your plans succeed?" or just about any other applied statement from the Biblical book of Proverbs.
Have you seen the sorority video that broke all stereotypes?
I use it all the time (in macOS and Linux) for running MikroTik's[1] configuration tool (named "winbox.exe").

[1] http://www.mikrotik.com/
This article is about deceptive publishers pretending to be well-known sites, not about anybody trying to be an arbiter of truth.
It isn't specifically a Hadoop company, but MapR is significantly different in that there are many unique selling points for the products, an ability to address legacy as well as forward needs and most of the revenue is high margin product sales. The proof is in the pudding (less than 1% attrition over life of company)

(I work there)
I think they're metal, and it's using an electromagnet to pick them up.

...I've seen 3D printed faux-sandstone back in, um, 2012 or so? And news reports show that Dubai has just announced a 3D printed office, although I can't find any pictures of it in construction.

Here's a (moderately terrible) video of a 3D printed building in the Phillipines under construction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSakUtxXYY

And here's a much better one of what looks like similar technology in a testbed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPJdpGV8mE
Should they go to different schools? No.

But corporate learning should be done away with. Any system that involves all students learning at the same pace just isn't cutting it. There will still be teachers and subjects, but it is more defined by how fast or slow each individual student can learn.

Do this, and you wont need different schools.
> All proceeds will be used towards buying a new pair of pyjamas

(Emphasis mine.) It's going to be hard to stick by the terms of that if you get a lot of contacts. :-)
I guess it's not a surprise, but apparently gitlab does this too. kudos to both!
Notably absent from that first link is mention of the elegantly fast-growing Goodstein sequences [1]

[1] http://tromp.github.io/pearls.html#goodstein
If we're trading intuitions, my intuition is that "the leaders of the next generation" will have mostly negative effects on society.

It's hard for me to take what you're saying seriously. You are disagreeing with the idea that leaders should be well-prepared to do their jobs, because you think they mainly are going to harm people. Therefore, you reason, we should not attempt to improve their education, because (by your argument) we want them as incompetent as possible, to minimize the damage they can do.

For me, if even one kid has a strong desire to learn and is hampered by a bad school, I think that's worthy of attention.

You seem to miss the point that everything is relative. Badness of schools is relative; there is always a "worst" school out there hampering someone. Attention is also relative; giving attention one place means taking it away from somewhere else.

If anything, hard power tends to corrupt teenagers.

Who is suggesting giving power to teenagers?
Embedded environment in this context means hardware low on resources, e.g. microcontrollers. Your perception of that word is "embedded into the C/C++ program". These are two different things. I agree that Lua (like some other languages) were designed to be embedded into C/C++ apps.
Now it is $100. May be due to unprecedented response.
I see. They basically try to remove the money that was coming back into the economy through bribes.

To reduce bribery (bad for way more clear reasons) they went after the money that was used for bribing. Taking money from the hands of people that dodged taxes is just nice educational side effect.
A limitation of bookmarklets is that it can't run on sites that use CSP to block external JavaScript. For example, I use a bookmarklet for Pinboard and I can't pin pages on github.com. Here are the Firefox and Chrome bug reports requesting that bookmarklets bypass CSP:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866522

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=233903
Frankly it seems to me he was railroaded into an academic career. Makes me wonder if gifted programs are ultimately in the student's interest.
> additional complexity for instances where there might be more than one live session spawned by a user

I'm trying to imagine the situation that makes that worth supporting?

That's not going to be a development server used by an entire team, for example, because whose Github credentials would be on it?

Even so, it could just give a list of session IDs in such a case, and ask which of 1/2/3. The additional complexity is only that the lookup value is a list of strings instead of a single one, surely?
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I heard before that a problem with heart monitoring for ML is that most of the samples out there are with abnormal hearts rather than normal and false alarms. As in, there's not enough published data to establish a baseline for high accuracy across general population. Most claims like this cite rules protecting medical records/data. Never got to ask a specialist in the field for confirmation or rejection of that claim.

So, how true or false is it?
I agree. I struggled through Zinsser and didn't highlight much.

My colleagues and I have read over 50 books about writing and our 11 favorites are here: http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/writing/

In answer to your question, “Handbook of Technical Writing” by Alred et al is good, but I'd start with the first half of “Keys to Great Writing” by Stephen Wilbers, which deserves its Amazon rating of 4.8/5.0.
That website is awful. Is it yours? A bunch of links are dead and the auto-playing video made me seasick. I was trying to figure out whether there's a model with a double bed or you're just supposed to stay single forever, but gave up.
i asked about this before, and it was brushed off as "routers are giving ICMP a lower priority, so you'll see higher ping times because of that." if it's all the way through it might be an issue but if it's certain hops, it was brushed off as that.

AT&T did have issues in north Texas yesterday, though. And there's probably a DDoS going on somewhere right now.
The difference is that I can't access Netflix content after the end of my subscription. With your model I could pay for a month, load as much as I can and watch for the next 6 months. Repeat as necessary.

I'd enjoy a way _to buy_ not DRMed, high quality digital movies. But I don't have any illusions that a subscription model is feasible without DRM.
So what land is your tiny one story home going to sit on (and be connected to utilities)? Of course, if you're flexible where you live such things exist and are called mobile homes.
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I'm not going to tell you what you should do, especially without knowing the details of the situation, but it's probably helpful to hear a third party's description of what your options were 3 weeks ago, if you ever find yourself in the same position again:

The leave option : This area is always hot and there are a lot of jobs, so if you're unhappy you can find another position rapidly. Life is short. If you're being jerked around go ahead and find something else where that is going to be less likely. Greener pastures (usually) exist in this land of abundance.

The stay option : Staying for a month after production shows character and is something you can learn A LOT from. Maybe you've been to production many times before but there is always something to learn, even when it's a flaming shit-show. Especially when it is. The period of moving into prod is often rough, and sometimes only the strong pull through it. Even if you stay for only a month, you will be getting valuable experience and stories to tell. Stories that are actually most valuable when told in your next interview, and every subsequent interview in your career. Think about it from a hiring manager's perspective. Would you rather hear a story about an employee who had gripes with the team and leadership but who was hungry for special experience and felt a duty to help during the first month of production? Or would you rather hear a story about an employee who had those gripes and left as soon as prod was launched, when the team is in a bit of a critical point. It's true that when you get to prod, the bulk of the initial development work is done ... but there is a substantial chunk left which is making sure it stays propped up when it falls over in all of the various ways it usually does in the first month. The "story" of staying just for 1 month is definitely better. It's less comfortable but rewards more experience and anecdotes. However, make sure you do get out soon if you recognize a need to do so.

As for your current situation, I would say it shows some character that you want to help through with the push to prod. I would say ask, and if both employers are agreeable then do it. But if either employer doesn't like the idea much, then don't push hard for it. Just start your new job. Employer #1 might not like the idea much either. Once it's clear that someone is exiting sometimes it's best to not have them mingling very much. On the other side, if they are really eager to have you stay an additional week when they know you have already signed an offer with employer #2 and have a start date, they might not have your best interests in mind, which sounds like it is in line with your thoughts about them.
Ask HN: What “side projects” were able to reach large numbers of users?
You might be able to run unsigned extensions in Firefox Nightly or Developer Edition by setting the about:config pref "xpinstall.signatures.required" = false.

Mozilla is testing a "TreeStyleTabs Lite" UI called Tab Center. You can install it using the Mozilla Test Pilot addon:

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center
Why have this conversation though? Even if you were right, you'd save a hundred times more people by advocating for better road safety.

I'm not even against gun control. I'm merely against useless legislation and fear-based politics. The movement consistently fails to show interest in the results they're supposedly fighting for (less deaths) and just the means they propose (less guns).
> if RBI is not releasing the data how are these Bloomberg or any other entity getting their numbers?

The Bloomberg report is based on sources. For a moment, lets discard the Bloomberg reports and look at actual numbers from RBI. The data from RBI on December 13 shows that 80% of the demonetized currency was already back into the banks. RBI has not released data beyond that point of time. Based on a reasonable guesstimate, I would expect the final number to definitely touch 90% or above. Besides, we already know that unaccounted income in cash is 6% - so don't expect a number lesser than 90%.
I programmed games on my calculator, wrote stories and poems, printed out stories to read in tiny 4pt font so the teacher wouldn't notice, and constantly doodled drawings to keep my mind occupied. I sometimes think I learned more doing that than I did in school (at least until college, which was like a brutal wake-up call I wasn't prepared for).

Honestly I think the worst part is when teachers would get annoyed that you weren't 'paying attention' and force you to stop doing the crap that's keeping your mind busy and 'focus on school', even though you already get pretty much straight A's.
My prior comment may not have been 100% correct. I believe the specific research that lead to the so called 4% rule did include a mix of stocks and bonds. As you point out, you would tend to roll back your risk tolerance as you reach retirement. Here's more on it for anyone interested:

http://blog.cordantwealth.com/how-much-can-i-spend-in-retire...?
Report on a General Problem Solving Program (1959) [pdf]
I was about to comment about this topic, but you said everything I wanted to! Have an up vote!
Amazon isn't confident enough in their solution such that they will only support customers with high levels of regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. HIPAA) if they are using dedicated physical hosts.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/frequently-asked-quest...
No, I had given up on controller-based gaming when I invested the time and money into attempting the experience and had such a rough go at it. I've gone through decades of using different types of controllers on the computer to different tunes of success.

I don't have a tremendous amount of time for games at the moment. Certainly not enough that I want to be tinkering with, or resetting things, when I'm ready to play.

I received a PS4 for the holidays and it's consistently delivered the experience I was hoping to find so I haven't revisited attempting a controller on the computer.
Can confirm that I had issues with packets being massively dropped somewhere in *.telia.net for minutes at at time on a connection within Europe.

Seems to all be resolved by now, though.
> 8i = ∞

I'd say that's more a pun than a joke.
I feel like I need PhD for steam controller configuration.

There should be some companion AI app to speed out process of setting this up. ;)
Nope.
It's similar though, cause some of the concepts, and the code, were reused.
mJS does not need an embedding API, really. The intent is that FFI is used.
> Edit: BTW, my point was that your previous point is nonsensical. The fact that the State can suspend one right doesn't mean that right is less important.

You're analysing my point backwards. Fundamental right aren't more important because the state can't suspect them... they are more important, so the state shouldn't suspend them.

Do we now agree, or do you still disagree even with the order corrected?

> Also you don't seem to understand that "social democracy" is actually what happens in every western country, even the USA.

Okay, slow down and take the time to read what I actually wrote, because you're quoting and arguing against something I didn't say... and being kinda rude with it. I'm fine being easy-going about your manners, but if you're not going to bother reading what I wrote then writing more is kinda pointless.
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Does this incorporate enough changes compared to KeePassX to warrant an audit?
Just two minor points - be careful not to treat "agricultural goods" and "food" as the same. As one example, the US is a major (THE major) producer and exporter of corn...but a dizzying amount of that corn is NOT for direct human consumption. It's largely animal feed, and a few industrial uses.

This also serves as a reminder that there are relative advantages. The US is great (climate-wise) for producing corn, soybean, etc, but there are some OTHER foods that we are less good at producing than other countries, be it climate or infrastructure. Basic trade principles show that it's better all around if everyone focuses on their specialties and trades rather than each trying to be fully self-sufficient.

So it's a bit simplistic to say our grocery prices will rise only to the point where it makes sense to switch to domestic production...that switch implies a lot of inefficiencies, which means that there is an upper cap on how much prices can rise, but not that we want to get to that point.
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I can't publicly comment on future product plans.
This reads exactly like a press release, especially the way it addresses the limitations of the robot.

Makes me think of PG's essay Submarine: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
There's plenty of land in the United States. Maybe it'll sit on some of that?
David Foster Wallace wrote about the tyranny of irony more than 20 years ago.

https://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
Why "must" it be connected to the Internet for the architect (or more realistically the contractor) to make changes? Why can't they do it on site from a console?
>Of course. But my objection is that libertarians like to imply that violence coercion is inherently bad for rhetorical effect when criticising government.

I was implying that using threats of violence against non-violent people engaging in voluntary trade with other consenting adults is wrong.

>Well clearly we disagree. I think asking participants in society to pay for the benefits it affords, and discouraging anti-competitive practices are perfectly reasonable uses of violent coercion

So you're willing to use violent coercion against non-violent people for their refusal to pay a debt they did not voluntarily assume and/or for their engaging in too much voluntary trade with other consenting adults. Your moral framework is essentially sociopathic.
Nice!
I wasn't aware of lua ffi api, thank you!