skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same - had two and both died. No recourse for an obviously defective product.
'Check Your Backups Work' Day
At one point, we had more trade schools. Somehow they fell out of fashion as the 70s became the 90s. Perhaps we should bring back publicly funded trade schools (including IT!), and allow universities to morph back into pure education.
Nice post.

I also really like you "space-vim" project. Another similarly named project — "SpaceVim" http://spacevim.org/ — was posted recently. "SpaceVim" was really upsetting because it missed so many of the important ideas of Spacemacs, such as pneumonic keybindings. "SpaceVim" is a garden variety vim distribution coopting the "Spacemacs" name, but you stayed true to the "Spacemacs" principles. Nice work!
Do you think that would be okay? Are you asking a question?
I worked in software to help manage this for a while. There are still checklists but they are produced ahead of schedule. Every instrument a nurse takes off the tray is counted and then checked at the end for instance.
CEO of a LLC is legal if you're in sole control of the company but yeh, owner/founder is fine too. I used to call myself Founder when the company was just me.
Tickets, tags, labels, users information/data and more. Sounds like they also host snippets out of the PostgreSQL database.

310 GB for a database is not all that large.
Really? What are their use cases?

Mac users, sure. But almost all macbook pro users I know tend to be saavy.
Largely superseded? This is a sarcastic comment, right?

In case it isn't: the assertion that these are superseded is categorically false. For any reasonably computationally difficult problem, being able to capture the structure of a problem is hugely powerful, rather than blindly throwing deep learning algorithms at it. Just becuase you can doesn't mean you should.

For example, algorithms for convex problems in particular can be orders of magnitude more efficient than naive nonlinear approaches. Also consider the case where the problem has some (possibly sparse) structure, where custom solvers can render trivial otherwise computationally intractable problems.
To add something, and to clarify (though I don't think you've made any mistake here, but many people misunderstand this subject):

The 33%-each Nash Equilibrium is the mixed strategy Nash Equilibrium of the micro game (i.e. a single round of RPS, averaged over all possible randomizations).

This is in no way the Nash strategy of the tournament game, which is "win the tournament given a pool of unknown participants and a set of rules for whom you face when". You have to add additional assumptions (e.g. that everyone else is going to play the uniform random strategy) in order for uniform random to be the Nash strategy for the tournament game.

If the pool includes players who deviate from the single-round nash equilibrium strategy, there is opportunity to exploit them (and in doing so, open yourself to possible exploitation). This is why pure random play can often perform very poorly at the tournament game.
I'm a racial and religious minority who's in an interracial relationship. so, as you've already guessed, I long for the Jim Crow days of yore.
I still use a keyboard with a PS/2 connector (Hangs head in shame). It's an old (at least 10 years) Kensiko ergonomic one I rescued from a giveaway pile and have never been able to find a good enough replacement for.

Pretty sure they don't make USB Type C adapters for PS/2.
Those who oppose would still consider this participation.
Which is exactly my point. The ACLU deals in protection of civil liberties of which in this case it is clear no rights were violated. So the ACLU has just become an advocate for liberal politics, which is precisely my criticism of the organization: it pretends to be a principled organization that protects civil rights when it instead is just an advocate for leftist politics.
> we can't pretend we didn't have some part in this surveillance overreach

Agreed, whether "we" refers to the voters or the IT industry.
Ohh my god!! I am less competent then!!
Its crazy on a practical level because those tech companies aren't going to lose their cheap source of exploitable Labor..they'll figure a way around it. it's crazy because the country is going to be losing out on so much tax money from these countries Outsourcing and moving their operations overseas or to Canada.
Fair enough. I'd certainly take a conservative, equilibrium approach when playing against a very skilled opponent.
do you happen to have the link for that video (and related discussion if posted on HN)?
It's "would have", not "would of".
The bathroom debate that, like so many issues of the last several years, was borne from GOP legislative and executive action, but blamed on the Democrats for standing against it?

Who exactly has lost their minds here?
I guess the reason I think we no longer be that is the fact that this is a very different country from back then. after all, we have twitter! /s.

but I see your point and concede that it can be a dangerous slippery slope.
Every 2 years I upgrade my iPhone, and every 2 years I get to buy the best phone I've ever owned. Not worth arguing in these places about religious wars. I try to appreciate how amazing everything is rather than lose my mind over a plug changing formats.
The previous government was nowhere near the same. Where Trump is openly xenophobic, the Harper Conservatives were more dog whistle stuff, e.g. stripping citizenship from duals who were guilty of terrorist charges and proposing the creation of a hotline to report "barbaric cultural practices".

IMO, the unchanging thing about Canadians is we want to be able to look down our noses at Americans. This is a stupid way to govern, but it runs deep in the Canadian psyche. Trump has caused many people here to realize that our self-righteousness is at risk if we permit such a candidate to run, let alone win, here.

Consequently, the more moderate candidates in the ongoing Conservative leadership race are reaping windfalls from every mean-spirited or xenophobic thing that Trump does. After the shooting at a mosque in Quebec, Michael Chong (a front-runner in the leadership race) denounced demagogues like Trump and Leitch (she of "barbaric cultural practices" fame, also a leadership candidate)--and it was well-received by conservatives and liberals alike.

And, for additional context, the last time my hometown elected a non-conservative was 49 years ago, so if they're rejecting such leaders, I'm reasonably confident the broader country will, too.
> In 2003, during her tenure on the national board, she became a strong critic of the ACLU leadership and was centrally involved in a series of controversies that culminated in a highly publicized effort to prohibit board members from criticizing the ACLU.

Wow, that's shameful.
"To me that stuff is implied with copyleft, because how else could it work?"

The "copy" in Copyleft gives you your answer - it ought to be about sharing copyrights to code, not patents. You don't have to grab patents (which expire in twenty years.) Copypatentleft is what we really have, instead, with GPL, and that's a whole different beast.

So, it is of course logically possible to confer the copyright to code that exploits a patented idea without conferring the patent rights at the same time. That would mean that not everyone could use some shared code, without a license, even though they have a copyright license and can share and examine it. The patent holder would retain their patent rights. Why respect patent rights? Because the majority of value in American businesses is IP - trade secrets and patents being the bulk of that. GPL is therefore a non-starter in the corporate world, more often that not. You don't have to share patents. If you insist, then your code gets duplicated under another "more permissive" open software license at enormous expense, that's all.

If you want my work on your community code, great! If you want my ideas - my patented ideas, um, no.
Yea. You can list/detect then ignore certain signals, which would foil it. Wouldn't be that hard.

You can build a simple module: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/gps-basics

I'm guessing you can probably get good data from phones too but I haven't looked into it.
Yes, North Korea has a full-ownership policy too. I hear it's quite efficient.
Admittedly it's been a few years since I considered getting into this field but the last time I checked there weren't that many positions available and most of them required graduate degrees from good schools. Seems that even companies with a significant ML emphasis employ a lot fewer ML specialists than nuts & bolts coders.
And the inverse for an Australian native, its quite confronting that smoking is a lot more prevalent elsewhere.
In some ways, and in some states, you do. You also take on a greater responsibility to the public, to whom you're offering products and services, that you would not shoulder as an individual.
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> one gallon per man per day

No it wasn't. There was never a time that a whole gallon per day was a normal rum ration. It was a gallon of beer, later a half pint of rum. A half pint of strong rum is still a lot to consume every day, but it's nowhere near a gallon.

Over time it was reduced until it turned into basically a shot, and then even that was stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration
As I understand it, there's a pretty significant tradeoff involved. If you want a USB-C cable that does everything, you're going to pay a lot more and get something that's much thicker than you need to, say, charge an iPhone.

So yes, ideally all Apple cables would do everything imaginable, but I understand why they didn't choose to do that.
Enthusiast?

If they were real enthusiasts, they would be for things like the Thunderbolt 3.0, the TPM, the touchbar, the excellent battery life and noise levels...

If they were real enthusiasts, they would know about USB-C more than "Hurr durr dongles"
At the point when we have a Mars base, I think people will find it acceptable. Of course, people will die on a base on Mars, from all sorts of causes.

But for now, it's exploration, and the radiation exposure is almost a guarantee of cancer. I think NASA will have to figure something out before people are willing to accept half of Mars-bound astronauts dying horribly during the mission.
Multiple states going Red would beg to differ... As would a 1030+ seat swing from Blue to Red...
Can you provide links to the comments where people are having problems downvoting if they have 501 karma or more?

There is no other criteria for downvoting that I know of. When I achieved the threshold, the downvote button appeared. I didn't have to apply for anything, no one emailed me and said "We think you're swell! You get to downvote!"

I get the impression that you think there's some sort of secret down voting group. I haven't seen any evidence of that, either in behavior, or mentioned in comments.

It's fine if you don't want to downvote. There's no requirement to do so, and many people don't.
You don't have to buy new devices, you just buy the connecting cable, done.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.

> For accounting purposes, a firm is allowed to define a "quarter" as either a span of 3 months or else a span of 13 weeks. A "year" is then four quarters. ... Consequently, a firm that defines its quarters in terms of weeks needs to hold a 14-week quarter every four or five years. [1]

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/06/_14_week_quar...
The ACLU used to be an entirely admirable organization. It has devolved into mostly political advocacy and attention-seeking, but still does some good work. Not black/white, every institution has its own history. But YC is entirely diluting their brand wading into this mess.

The A.C.L.U. has has about 250,000+ members, a $15-20 million annual budget (hardly a startup mentality), an extensive network of state affiliates and local chapters, backed up by a national office with headquarters in New York, a legislative office in Washington and regional offices in Atlanta and Denver.

There are fifty-one affiliates - every state except North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho, plus 3 in California, and one in D.C. (not sure about state offices anymore, I think that is correct), - have their own staffs and their own boards, plus at least one representative on the national board, which sets policy for the whole organization.

The state affiliates do make independent decisions about which cases to take and which local legislation to lobby for or against. They frequently take cases in areas where the national organization has not yet adopted a policy. But they also get smacked down when they run afoul of national board.

It is the national board sets a "policy" agenda and then seeks out cases to pursue that agenda. That board meets for a weekend four times a year to iron out the policy.

That natl/local split accounts for some of the diversity, but in truth it is mostly partisan organization based on board membership.
They tweeted a link to that document on their status account. It is unusually candid.
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No it does not

A mountain is a part of spacetime. But it does not "exist" for the mountain.

Certainly the mountain is affected by the environment and can be modelled with the spacetime concepts. But the mountain does not perceive anything, and therefore cannot compute isExist (spacetime)
The Sydney Publican guide to dealing with smoking bans.

Step 1. Open a pokies room with a slated wall

Step 2. Let people smoke in it and call it "outside"
I think the laws that only permit outdoor smoking (a certain distance away from entryways/exits), have been so effective because of the social incentives they create. Speaking as an ex-smoker, having to go outside a bar to smoke with the rest of the smoking leper colony, while all your friends are inside having fun without you, is a very powerful social motivator. I honestly feel that this, more than anything else (increased price, graphic health warnings on packets etc.), has been the major contributor to lowered smoking rates.

As an aside, I really don't agree with the popular notion that increasing excise (tax) on cigarettes contributes very much to declining rates of smoking. The demand for cigarettes is highly inelastic (i.e. consumers are not very sensitive to changes in price). Heavy taxation of goods with inelastic demand simply results in higher revenue for the government and, eventually, the formation of black markets. Same goes for fuel excise btw: although the (hilarious) justification given is 'road maintenance/user-pays', it is coincidentally another good with highly inelastic demand (making it a pretty efficient tax-base, up to a point). And fuel is such a poor proxy for 'road damage' anyway.

EDIT: Also the argument that smokers cause the (public) health-care system to incur additional costs is pretty suspect. Although he's an ultra-right wing nut, and was practically booed off the stage when he made this point, I think Nick Minchin (former leader of the opposition in the Senate) was right when he suggested heavy smokers cost the public health-case system less overall: they tend to die quickly from an acute disease (e.g. lung cancer) at a relatively young age. This means they die before they hit that 'old age' when individual health-care costs sky-rocket.
My key point is that they are not removed. The NSC is huge. It has groups and subgroups galore. Every president moves people around between committees. The law allows for that, but still stipulates they are members of the committee.

Best breakdown I found is this page - see the tables for an easy visual): http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/...
And no matter what they do, Jobs will be rolling in his grave. It's the law.
Why should it matter how often I charge my computer? The matter at hand is, when my computer requires charging, what is the best way to accomplish it. So you have constructed a use case which is neither based in reality, nor relevant.

First, there is no such animal as a person sitting in a cafe with a laptop who is not plugged into the wall.

This is easily observed by simply entering a cafe and looking at the people in it. It doesn't matter that people's batteries CAN last a long time without being charged, most people simply don't do that unless there is no other option.

Second, I don't bring my computer home and plug it into a stationary dock to allow it to charge like some kind of cordless phone from the 90s. I pick a spot where I want to perform my computer tasks, and when my battery gets low (as it often does because claims of long battery life are largely based on some wildly ideal case) I go grab my charger from the other room and plug it in wherever I am sitting.

This is THE typical use case for a laptop computer. Note my use of capital letters. The use case that you have described is strange to the point of being an anomaly. A person who behaves this way is likely not a person at all, but rather a character in the sims.

My charger comes to me. My house was built with outlets every 10 feet or so along the walls for almost exactly this purpose. I do not do all of my computing immediately adjacent the walls, and I frequently just leave my computer where it is while I go do something else.

Do you not behave this way? If your laptop gets low, do you resignedly go back to your safe table, or do you stay on your couch, like a god damned American.
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Similarly, poker tournaments are only profitable for a professional because so many weak players will register -- the "dead money" so to speak.
In practice the "something very special" thing comes down to how well you can bullshit admissions. If you helped kids polish their essays, you know this.

The annual number of 18yos who have done genuinely remarkable things is less than the size of the Ivy league freshman list.
Hmm. I know Canadians that have dual US and Canadian citizenship, and they had to jump through all sorts of hoops ~ 6 years ago. They live in the US. Not sure about the details.
There's "pent up demand" because people were waiting for the MBP and bought it, and didn't buy any PC.
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And if you did it every day, you wouldn't feel it at all. But, your liver would.
> Oh, I see. The title of the HN submission has been creatively edited and is not the title of the original Nature article.

Well yeah, they seem to have put it into laymans terms, but as a layman it appears to be an accurate representation of the article. It's certainly more descriptive than "The Dipole Repeller", so not click bait.
Ahh, right, right. The people were given to one country by another. Silly people.
Is that actually making any progress?

The only information that I could find just said that it was being considered, and that was from July 2016.
I strongly argue against those types of abbreviations in naming, for exactly the points you make.

Here's how I view it:

The distinction between prod and dev is pretty clear cut. The words "dev" and "prod" have significantly different shapes and are immediately unambiguous. There's no need to remember a superhero vs astronomical object distinction.

As the number of database server instances grows, you've got another level of naming issues that arises when needing to distinguish between hosts and db server instances—and perhaps even database/schema independence if necessary. Staying consistent and easy-to-use with an arbitrary naming scheme becomes increasingly unwieldy, in my opinion.
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Maybe my favorite feature of tmux, which I don't see mentioned here, is that I can configure it to start up in a certain way.

Using tmuxinator, I might set up a config for a rails project, for instance.

That way when I start tmux I get a vim editor in one window, a bash prompt in the next (for git), a rails server in the third, tests in the fourth, maybe another process in the 5th like sidekiq or something if required. Note, these (tmux-)windows all live inside of one terminal window.

So once you spend about 2 minutes writing that config, you can always start up your environment with tmuxinator start project-name and a few seconds later you're good to go.
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If you walk in on a weekday near the end of the day, generally you can get an appointment with a 20 - 30 minute wait time right there in the store.

I always do this because I know they will have a cancelation, and I really hate booking a week out for something that is bothering me today.
I am not too sure what the difference is between documentations and manuals other than the format. The funny thing is if you don’t provide a manual people ask where is the manual, but if you do they don’t read it.
Just use two dongles at the same time. PS/2 to USB A, then USB A-to-C cable.
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> Realistically, I'd like to see a minimal federal government that was intelligently run as a LEO/Military/Justice/Treaty as its primary responsibilities and actually enforced the constitutional rights of Americans instead of restricting them. But that will never happen.

It also doesn't work when anyone can freely migrate between the states. You can't have large social assistance programs and high taxes in one state and the opposite in an adjacent state and not expect an unsustainable influx of low income people into the state with more benefits and high income people and businesses into the state with lower taxes.

The problem with the federal government is that it's structurally too susceptible to special interests. Instead of an exception-free flat tax and a UBI that nobody can cheat, you get a tax code full of deductions for donors and a welfare system full of subsidies for industries with strong lobbies like insurance and finance. Instead of a normal-sized military that defends the country, you have a corrupt money train into the military industrial complex.

Probably the only fix for it is to put the important bits in the constitution, e.g. there shall be a flat value added tax the rate to be set by Congress, Congress may provide a universal basic income to every citizen in the same cash amount, no other federal taxes or federal social assistance shall exist, military spending in peacetime is capped at 5% of GDP (where "peacetime" means "no enemy soldiers on US soil"). Remove as much discretion and complexity from the federal government as possible, and if something isn't suited to be done simply and uniformly then the states have to do it.
Smokers choose to be smokers. Smokers choose to inflict their smoke on others when they smoke around other people. Smokers make excuses for not dealing with their butts properly(oh they didn't provide an ashtray so it's not my fault).
Interesting angle. I'd say the courts haven't ruled on this.

FreeType wasn't created by Microsoft, obviously. It has no license for M's patented tech so it can't include the code live, period. I presume that FreeType is trying to skirt the law by making it easy for users to break the law without, they hope, being seen as breaking the law themselves. I don't know what the court would decide if Microsoft sued. Presumably FreeType would say that the code was there just to help future programmers catch up when the patent expires. I'm guessing they wouldn't win that one.

So, I'm going to say it's not a sufficient example.
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Well, with sufficiently good spec definitions you can know (and generate examples of) exactly what is expected to be "in this map".

Oh, spec also serves as documentation!

Maybe you'll like more now. :)
I'm glad you like it. That's because I'm both a vimmer and a spacemacs user -_-.