skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a functioning society, there are always going to be rules. Rules depend on someone or something enforcing them. If a society decides to adopt 'liberty' defined as the lack of all rules and no enforcement to create the dependency you mention, then this will merely breed a different kind of rules. Whoever is strongest will make the new rules and liberty will disappear as quickly as is was put in place.

Defining liberty as an absence of dependency cannot work in any society because it's going to degenerate into an unfree one more or less immediately. What's worthwhile to pursue is that all rules apply to everyone in the same way and that everyone has a realistic opportunity to shape the rules together with all the other people. This means participation in the political process, division of powers, transparency to avoid corruption, education for everyone, and enough executive power to prevent some random billionaire from unilaterally seizing power. It does not mean abolishing the organization tasked with guaranteeing those rights.
Microsoft provides a few hints how to choose a ML algorithm depending on the prediction problem (regressio, classification, etc).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/1/A613E11E-8F9C-4...
You're right and I'm right too. I tapped the link on my phone and went to Google Play. The description there is different and it reads

> Skuuddle is a powerful tool that mines your existing phonebook contacts, Facebook friends, and even acquaintances to expand your active social group.

That seems at odds with the features on the desktop site which I checked right now.
While I am in steadfast disagreement about airdrop being any good, cat5/6 being outdated, and flash drives all using FAT, I think he hit close to the mark. But I feel he failed to really focus on Ownership. Flash drives give a physical sense of tangability and location in the world. For important information, most of us feel better "knowing where it is". For all the technical reasons it may or may not be true, our human psychology makes it a superior format for many.
Flux's biggest benefit for me was just making sleep something I thought about, what really works for me is not using screens for a good bit of time before bed. I can't quantify the days I wake up feeling great very well but I do feel the difference if I go to bed overstimulated from too much time on screens, arguing on the internet or whatever.
I assume Windows in the VM would have the same problem. I guess that would be the biggest reason for avoiding a VM, if you're trying to run a game.
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Oh man, these Onion writers are really getting creative. Whats that, this is real life?! Oh.
In my experience it's because of slavishly following PCI-DSS standards (and probably other similar things). For example section 5.1 says:

5.1 Deploy anti-virus software on all systems commonly affected by malicious software (particularly personal computers and servers).

Presumably unless the software was explicitly "deployed" (rather than being bundled with Windows), they don't feel like they are complying.
Company does not own you, you can leave whenever you feel like (obviously need to stay your notice period which is stated in contract).

If you want to leave you should leave. If I was your co-worker I probably would not care much.
Actually, prior to the EPA property rights were the method of pollution control. However, under property rights there was 0 pollution allowed. Courts began to consider that some pollution must be allowed to allow the economy to thrive.

So the EPA came into formation not exactly for the purpose to stop pollution, but to decide just how much is allowable.
The percentage of the population that has these 'mega-commutes' is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Bringing it up as an argument about why EVs are 'long from being usable' is why they are getting down-voted.
Are you aware of stats for how many of the cancelled currency was deposited? I heard stories of families losing significant fractions of their savings, but of course that's anecdote, not data.
Yes, this happens in my browser games. When the user clicks back to the tab it fires off all the frames that have been queued up, moving everything in hyperspeed until it's up to date. I don't really mind though, since it's multiplayer it's supposed to catch up but doesn't need to render when unfocused.
One sq mile, one vote!
Interesting. Then the domain is not that terrible as I thought. Too many "eleme" in the names. :-)
You don't have to be using shady software.. All you have to do is browse the internet.

As long as code execution vulnerabilities in web browsers and common plugins (adobe, etc.) exist.. and they still do, 'drive-by downloading' will continue to spread malware, adware, and ransomware.
From my tech support days it seemed like every antivirus or firewall software I encountered had its own unique uninstallation software that you had to download separately if you wanted to completely wipe it off your machine. I don't understand why their standard uninstalls don't do this in the first place.
> Higher-kinded

I made small research and I see higher-kinded types very similar to generics, what is the main difference?

> union types

You have Multiple Inheritance in kotlin, which does more or less the same.

> the real value proposition for moving from Java to Scala or Ceylon is "replace all your magic annotation/XML-based proxying/bytecode manipulation with ordinary library functions that follow the ordinary rules of the language"

I don't get this. Xml in java code? Ceylon and Scala I think they compile to bytecode too. Sorry, it doesn't make any sense to me the sentence. Can you explain it?
So how was Vue for an enterprise application?
Was surprised on mobile that the InputNumber field doesn't spawn a dialer pad (tapping it brings up the alpha keyboard). There are some elements here, for sure, that just seem to be minimally skinned and not fully thought out. Bummer, because I have a lot of work based around enterprise design systems and I love seeing fresh takes on these types of components... not much depth in this library, unfortunately.
The study is about employee happiness, not about company success.
If you want you house lights to do the same thing, get some Philips Hue bulbs and this app I wrote: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/circadian-hue-for-philips-hu...

My old office didn't get much external light, so I wrote this app to give me a sense of time of day. Now I have a better office I still use it.
I think one of the biggest saps of motivation in that situation is that even successes are meaningless. Because one instinctively doubts the whole thing then (even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it still doesn't make one feel great).
Under a second to do an avg across 1.1 billion rows spread over four machines. That's pretty amazing.
I feel like most of the issues stem from lack of self-respect.
People THINK they can't get a new job so they don't.
They THINK they can't do better for themselves and their family so they don't.
They stick it out, wait for retirement, and die 5 years later.

And that's terrible.

I come from an unusual background.
I didn't finish college.
Neither did my wife.

But when we started a family and realized what we had wasn't going to work; we changed it for ourselves and our family.

I mean, when the alternative solution is death and despair, why aren't more people doing something for themselves?

Every time I was in a position where I felt taken advantage of, or not compensated enough for who I am or what I do, I moved on to (hopefully) bigger and better.

Work is work and it should remain that way. Too many people are trying to build their careers on hopes and dreams of what they always wanted to be, but the pool isn't that big and not everyone is invited to it. When you make sacrifices for the thing you always wanted, you initially ignore the extra hours it takes, the less money it makes, and the lack of respect it may have for you.

I can't understand why people aren't adopting the mentality of Baby Boomer's had with "work" and "career", this new Millennial way obviously isn't working.

Kudos to Brenda's daughter, for changing things for herself and her family.
How to close deals on cold calls?
>Do you not believe grigori Perelman's proof of the poincare conjecture?

Yes, because his peers spent serious time checking it and found no flaws. Peer reviewed doesn't need publication in a journal.

>Do you believe in arsenic life?

No, because peers found it flawed.

You're conflating peer review with simply getting past initial peer reviews. The more peers that review a claim, the more likely it is correct. The flawed ones are almost always not reviewed much at all.

And I'd bet there is a significant gap in correctness between things that are barely peer reviewed over things that are not.
There's a "web" link under the submission title. Click that, and then the first result should be what you want. Using an incognito window seems to be best.
but what if I dont want to give any feedback at all? When I am using an app, I only want to use the app, not rate it, and not giving feedback.
99% of the time, yes. But not always.

Technical detail in this case... we were creating rows with a BLOB column in Sybase. If you passed in NULL, Sybase did not allocate space for the blob. But if you passed in 0, it allocated 8k.

We had been storing data in the blobs, in the dozens-to-hundreds of k size range. Sometimes we didn't store data in a row, but mostly we did. The data got moved to the filesystem, resulting in a huge performance boost. Because we pulled the blobs out of Sybase, we massively downsized the databases, to about 10% of their original size - which was still a few times larger than what was needed for an entire production season (about three months of data).

Now, this is where I badmouth co-workers... I had argued strenuously for removing that BLOB column completely, as it smelled wrong to me to leave it. But the tech lead, a rather nervous man who was always afraid of things breaking unexpectedly, insisted we leave it there, because removing it might break something else (I wouldn't be introduced to the Lava Flow Antipattern until years later...) (also, welcome to the world of coding in C without testing frameworks).

The code worked fine in testing. Beautifully. But testing couldn't even fill 1% of a database. The wasted space from the BLOB allocation was invisible... until production started, and rows were 100 times larger than they should have been on our biggest table. Oops.

Thankfully, Sybase has excellent documentation. The gleaming row of carefully indexed, spiral-bound manuals helped me find detailed example code quicky, which got me to the latent bug. We'd never noticed the 8k being allocated for empty blobs before because they were swamped by the size of the actual blobs.
All the other basic human rights flow from self-determination. If you don't control your own wealth, someone else does. If someone else controls the wealth, you'll have to do as they say in order to access that wealth. In effect, you'll never be free.
Very nice cheat sheet!
'Facts' don't have an independent objective existence, unfortunately. 'Things that occurred' ( the literal etymology of 'facts' ) always require some form of interpretation in order to bring them into our domain of comprehension, and that's where the fuzziness enters.

In epistimology one discusses 'justified belief'; an apparently valid belief obtained in a repeatable and seemingly rigorous manner. But still subject to interpretation through our lens of 'knowledge'.

Think about the current cosmological debates about Dark Energy. Something like 5,000 papers have been published; it seems to be a 'fact' that Dark Energy exists and exerts an influence, but in 200 years from now we might have a justified belief that it does not as some aspects of relativity were incorrect.
Maple:

http://woodbat.org/
Interesting - the benchmarks prove otherwise - it is as fast as other new solutions. So i think you never actually used it in production at any scale.

If angular 1.5 was OK for thousands of devs over recent years then Polymer that is comparable to ng2 or react is more then enough.

Not to mention that for a world without polymer - some of biggest enterprises in the world are betting on it (and I don't mean just google here).
Incognito is a viable backup plan in this scenario.
> The reality is that in order to effectively manage, you have to understand what the doers are actually doing.

Actually it is not. One of the best bosses I ever had had no clue what I was doing. He was smart enough to admit that he didn't know how to do my job. He was excellent at his job though: figuring out who were good people and removing roadblocks from their way. He identified a few good programmers to do the technical interview part while he focused on are the people he was hiring good fits for the people he already had.

If you cannot have a great manager who will get out of your way, then a manager who understands what you are doing means at least when he tells you to do something it was probably what you were going to do anyway.

The worst boss I've ever seen took some programming classes as a door into management - he knew enough to be dangerous when telling programmers what to do, but not enough to be helpful.
He literally just explained this. Democrats then are not the same Democrats now.

The people (southern whites) that committed violence against blacks who were democrats back then, are very, very likely to be Republican these days.
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My last paragraph isn't conjecture based on hearsay. It's more like 40 years of (sometimes first hand) experience and observing a lot of people. Ignore it at your own risk.
If you're referring to "Dark Background and Light Text" by Mikhail Khvoinitsky, I can vouch for it. It also works surprisingly well on mobile:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/dark-backgrou...
The majority of poor students already know that they're getting a free ride; shoving it down their throats in public helps no one. Actually, it would likely lead to even more resentment which would probably even leak into the classroom environment. On the other hand, I would argue that the vast majority of rich students don't appreciate their position at all.
> doing an MBA was viable a route into Finance since at least the 80s.

That makes sense to me actually, since you need to have a high level understanding of how businesses work and what stuff the C-suite needs to be doing in order to understand how to value a business.

The C-suite might be the one place where the "generic management skills" might actually be really useful. But middle management and day to day supervisory functions? You can't manage what you don't know, and if you don't understand the processes of the people you're managing you're blind.
I think that's implied by the first sentence: "I don't want to specially handle my car every day", which seems like a claim that you need to do that with Teslas. Which is only true if you want to travel 5 or 600 miles on one charge every single day, which basically nobody does.
Actually, I like Edge. It's not my daily browser, and won't be unless it gets ported to macOS, but I use it about a third of the time on my home PC.
Having been reading HN for years, I can confirm that yummyfajitas is not kidding.

Although I think he was referring to financial aid rather than graduate stipends.
How to Deal with Populism
> Lots of kids will use free vpns to get their SAT/ACT/AP scores a day or so early.

I don't understand - how does a VPN help there? Are schools actually blocking the websites that publish the test results?
The day it opened to the world was the day it died
No need to appeal to roads or police,

where is the money in that private deal coming from if not the state? And what it is the state if not and element (for best or worst) of how we, as a society, have chosen to organize?
So if you and I are on a desert island, and you have some money, and I have a right to a job, then you are required to offer me a job. I have a right to it, correct? But in so doing, I make you my slave, since you are obligated to employ me. So my "right" to a job violates your right to liberty.

Thus the distinction between negative and positive rights. The fundamental (natural) rights of life, liberty, and property are negative rights in that others may not violate those rights with impunity. (I have a right to defend my life with violence)

Jobs, healthcare, education, income, etc are all positive rights, in that they require someone else to act in order to fulfill my right to those things. Thus all positive rights eventually violate the natural rights of another, since when reduced to the desert island example, the other becomes my slave.

We're on a desert island and:

I have a right to education, and you're a teacher

I have a right to a kidney transplant, and you have two kidneys

I have a right to healthcare, and you're a doctor

I have a right to eat, and you have lots of food

I have a right to shelter, and you have the only hut on the island

In all of these cases, you become my slave, since you are forced to fulfill my "right" to something.

Of course, we're talking about a legal ethic here, not a moral one. If I need shelter, and you have the only hut on the island, then it would be properly moral for you to share with me, but I cannot legally compel you to do so, from a natural rights perspective.
Here's a trick that used to work in 2005:

You could search for people with a favorite movie, then filter by dorm. You'd write on their wall, invariably the person who listed the movie would own it on DVD, you'd walk over and borrow it.

It was such a tight-knit community you could go "I saw you on facebook, can I have your stuff? Don't worry I'm on facebook too and will give it back"
Dow Crosses 20K Milestone for First Time
At the time, region predicted support more than party: northern Democrats and Republicans voted for the civil rights act, while southern Democrats and Republicans voted against it. With a handful of exceptions on both sides.
I have never seen the problem this post refers to. My default browser is Chrome, and has remained such ever since I installed Windows 10. W10 doesn't mess with my settings.
Is it just me or do you have to have a linkedin account to read the article?
Seems like Python could use more TCL influence in regards to "split" and other nuances, from your description.
If you eat it you can ingest the dosage confirmed to kill dogs.
Test this, next time someone offers you a compliment answer "I think you are right, Thank You," or "I agree, Thank You."
Without Data Are We Just Telling Nice Stories?
Somebody's been listening to the Hello Internet podcast.
Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office
I would have loved some checks and balances on Obama, Alas, he is the one that set this up.
After enough presidents have unlimited runs, something has to change.
what about:

usefulMetric = wantComplexCalc == false ? simpleCalc(foo)
: complexity <= 40 ? regularComplexCalc(foo)
: /* else */ superComplexCacl(foo)
;
Except the scientists, I don't think he could replicate their job. Otherwise, I can see it.

Such a great show. I rewatch it about once a year. Really wish it had at least one more season, though.
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> Is it always running, or does the user have to do something to start it up?

Looks like the latter: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/commands.html#fish_config
no. even human translation doesn't work as good as being able to communicate in a language yourself. machine translation is awesome and it would become a useful tool for rudimentary stuff, but that's it
Line is losing users
Pluralsight got me up and running with StreamInsight so much faster than if I would've had to slog through manual pages and the sparse blogosphere myself. It can be difficult to find content that isn't web related and I'm glad it was there.
This sounds like the plot to an epic stoner flick.
If literally means figuratively sometimes and literally others, doesn't it then essentially lack any purpose whatsoever? It is meaningless in that case.
As far as I know, these guys are totally independent;

https://www.av-comparatives.org/about-us/

I may be wrong, but I can't find any info as to their sponsors other than universities and volunteer researchers.

And I'm not sure how that addresses what I said about Defender being borderline useless, because they come up short across most tests from what I remember.

Unless it has drastically improved in the last year.
Fair, but by definition, what you owe in tax is not your property.

It's everyone's, in the form of the government.
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If I click the link to a new UI lib from my phone and the demo is janky as fuck I'm not going to pull it into my project. Maybe I'm just being an asshole.
I see. Smaller image size and lower memory usage was the critical factor informing the decsion to use Scala and not Java?

If we're talking server provisiong cost bread ($) I think factoring in the costs of stack switch, code rewrites and salaries should be on the table too!

p.s. Have been writing Go code since the day it was released. My comment has nothing to do with their decision du jour.
I found flights to New York on flychecker at 346 €
Such as Windows 10 running on ARM. I bet that was a big deal for many OS devs at MS.
What do the contracts state? Can you leave without legal consequences? Do you need to call a lawyer to confirm? Is there a union rep you can turn to? The way you describe it the deployment might turn into a tire fire. I'd rather not be there when that happens personally. I would need to comply with my legal requirements nontheless.
Holy crap. I am dying rofl.
It's not absurd at all, and your first example is nonsensical.

There's a fundamental difference between creative capitalism, which is the application of intelligence and organisation to the creation of new resources and opportunities from new materials and ideas, and extractive rentier capitalism, which is a zero sum game that works on the principle of monopolised control of limited resources - to the extent that it may actually deliberately limit those resources purely for profit. (See also Enron, pharmaceuticals, OPEC, and many other examples.)

If I own a significant amount of property in a town I can increase rents to "the level the market will bear" - which will have the sole effect of enriching myself at the expense of everyone else in the town.

Proponents of capitalism who don't understand how capitalism actually works always say "Yes, but someone can always compete with me and charge lower rents."

Except they won't, and this never happens, because once an exploitative individual begins creating a monopoly, the feedback loop never works in that direction. It's incredibly hard to destroy a monopoly through market means alone, and lower prices certainly aren't enough to do it on their own.

Why worry about monopolies? Because they're the inevitable outcome of limited ownership. Unequal access to resources is magnified until either a monopoly or a cartel results.

Any suggestion that equates the ability to create this outcome with a basic human right is preposterous. A more nuanced definition of economic rights would severely limit rentier capitalism while encouraging creative capitalism - but intervening to maintain innovation before monopolies or cartels become the main political and economic players.