skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thomas, I've been thinking about this as well. Here are some additional mechanics that could be used to build a "YC" for democratic candidates:

1) 8 week Training Program - an eight-week training program targeted at lawyers, entrepreneurs, and others who are interested in serving as state and federal legislatures. Candidates have their training and expenses paid for, and they learn all of the key things they need to know to win. It's an open process, where people all over the country can apply, and the program becomes prestigious over time, like Echoing Green or YC.

- Public Speaking Training
- Social Media Growth Hacking
- Fundraising and Donor Management
- Policy Issue Training

2) Shared News: A hacker news type site for democratically minded people to share political articles. Builds inbound attention to the accelerator.

3) Blog: Articles about what it is like to become a politician. It features lots of examples and profiles. Shows everyday people they can do it as well.
- What does the career path look like for someone who joins the House of Representatives?
- How do state senators support themselves?

4) Funder Network: Candidates get introductions to top funders from the state who can help. Each candidate gets a certain amount of intros, and the accelerator manages the process.

5) Fundraising Tools: the candidate is trained in how to use tools, such as a CRM, to manage the process. I've seen a lot of startups struggle with setting up the right infrastructure, and I'm sure candidates have the same challenges.

6) Public Speaking Training: Politicians need to be electrifying. Have politicians train with TV media experts to become compelling in front of the crowd.

7) Digital Profile: Help candidates set up a website, volunteer management tools, and social media tools. Create a standard set of tools for candidates.

9) Growth Hacking Team: a small squad of growth hackers who devise strategies for growth hacking political candidates. This team builds software and strategies, and these tools are disseminated to candidates through the training program. Think of it like a consulting firm within the program.

9) Intern Pool: Many early-stage state legislatures rely on interns to provide the manpower needed for the procedural aspects of campaigning and running office. The accelerator can help recruit thousands of interns from different sources, and it can provide each candidate with a constant stream of interns to provide the manpower needed to win. Interns are given credit for being part of the fellowship program (like YC fellows) and are part of a cohort with shared events, message board, hr people they can talk to.

10) MOOC: make a public MOOC to let people view the training program. This makes people excited about the program and interested in applying. It also helps scale the program, similar to How to Start a Startup.

If you'd like to follow up, my email is in my username.
I had completely forgotten that kvass is a bit alcoholic on my last trip to visit my family, until I realized that I was having a very good time indeed having started drinking it when I woke up early in the morning.

Makes me wonder a bit about just how much of that stuff I drank as a kid, because I certainly don't remember moderating myself then, either.
Why is this labeled Q1 2017? It's still January. Is the convention to use this to report results for Oct, Nov, Dec of the previous year?
Thanks for the links!

Right off, I want to clearly state that I'm not a lawyer, so my ability to judge the merits of these cases is very suspect. To the point where I'm hesitant to attempt to address them at all for fear of appearing exceedingly ignorant.

With the UN resolution, I see the inconsistency between their avowed reason for not joining the other groups (we don't get involved in international issues). The rest of the article is speculation as to the real reason why, on which I think reasonable people can disagree on. It's not clear to me that this is a clear-cut case of consistent anti-conservative bias. For example, I can imagine without too much difficulty American religious conservatives wanting protection from defamation of religion.

For the wedding photography case, I don't think it's a free speech issue: I think it's a protected-class issue which falls under the Civil Rights Act and its extensions, as in this instance the wedding photographer is acting as a business providing a service, and depending on the jurisdiction, the couple may be a protected class. I'm exceedingly unsure about this whole area of law, though, I'd defer to just about anyone. I don't know how judges decide the balance between free speech and the Civil Rights Act, though I'm sure there's precedent and guidelines.
Man makes business out of identifying market, finding supplier, ordering product, reselling at higher price.

Amazing.
> I.E. there are lots of people looking for jobs, but most of them either couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag

I wonder if the average skill is that low (kind of) or if it seems that way because only the most desperate are willing to jump through the elaborate hoops we create for hiring.
We also prop up US agriculture against foreign competition, so prices are not set on a free market.

Also, many of the poor don't get a good education with the current system.

Imagine if the current school system was completely free-market, and we were seeing the same performance as the public schools. There would be complete outrage and calls for nationalization. But somehow government gets the benefit of the doubt, and the only comeback is "but, but the poor."

Government schools do not respond to consumers, since the process is political. Thus, we have our current mess. There must be a better way. We've given the government over 100 years to get things right. Why don't we try something different?
I drank kvass as a kid in Russia all the time in the summer.

I don't know which is worse for a kid, on average: a light buzz on most days, or getting sick from drinking tainted water.
I have no interest in misrepresenting your opinion so I will happily narrow my comment.

> Conservatives are the ones that created this nightmare in the days after 9/11. "Liberals" simply did not remove it.

What reason is there to believe that the core of the Democratic party was not fully supportive of activist intervention overseas and domestic spying? Why portray this creation as a result of Conservatives?
Is it technically feasible for cheap consumer devices to foil or at least detect such spoofing?
I bet it writes to a log file. It just doesn't alert anyone on failure so the log just grows and grows daily with the same error.
I've seen people with little portable credit card readers that connect with cellphone...surely that is something a driver could get themselves. Or could use paypal. Anyway, I think LibreTaxi should emphasise that they don't prohibit other forms of payment, provided that both the driver and passenger agree when accepting the ride. LibeTaxi simply doesn't "support" other payment options.
It was also full of draftees.
Millions of program builds vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks
They don't micromanage. Lenient with coming and going, just as long as the work is done (or close to done). They order lunch quite often which is nice. Although I don't have a need, they're very understanding with your schedule versus your kids schedule.
The 1060 is monster card. I don't know if it was meant to be put in such a thin and small frame. The blade 14 has issues with throttling.
This is flat out wrong, the cost per MWh for stored electricity compares favorably to the natural gas peaker plants that it's replacing, at least when they're built on a usual schedule.

I would also like to see evidence for th claim about reusing existing hydroelectric plants, because that does not seem to be consistent with anything I've seen before. It would be very welcome news to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56R_qHTLVI
If it was paying rake like online players do, then that winrate would drop into single digits.
reminds me of jvtoups emacs-lisp stacking monad (IIRC)
"I intend to" is actually a phrased deliberately used a lot during military mission briefings. I always wondered why, I guess it's deliberate.
I don't miss any of the "joys" of having to deal with cigarette smokers. The streets of Melbourne are no longer littered with butts. Waste bins no longer catch fire from careless half-stubbed cigarettes falling inside. I can walk along the footpaths here without having to smell the acrid stench. I can go to a pub and not have to wash my clothes when I get home to get the smell out. It's incredible. Every country should do it.
We have 2 people on rotation and anything like this you pair with someone else and talk through it. As we like to say "It's only a mistake if we both make it."
And yet all the panic portrayed by the press is generated by the 130k figure.
Yes, because everything I've said is provably true. This is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact.

Didn't you look at the audiences (and flags) in Trump's rallies? Didn't you hear him attacking Mexicans as rapists, attacking an American judge for being of Mexican heritage, insulting a non-white Gold Star family, and on and on?

Trump has a long history of racism, dating back to being sued along with his father for not renting to non-whites. He has also boasted about his superior "German genes".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yh0jAxOxGE

America First

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2qf7rkWEAAyxja.jpg

Also look up all the cartoons from Dr Seuss Went to War, like this one
http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb4164680v/_2.jpg
We have to compete against millions of our own country folk at our local examinations, which are way more difficult than the american equivalents.

It's much harder in America because it doesn't matter how you do on the examinations. Your fate is decided by personal opinions and relationships and what your local school thinks of you. There is no simple IIT exam or A-level or Baccalaureate or Sooneung where you can just study hard, write a great exam and get admitted.

How we dreamed of the ease foreign students had with their exams! Instead it's a deep dreary slog of obsequiousness, obedience, busy work, group projects, supplication, and being seen but seldom heard. And the results are secret evaluations you're never entitled to see and which are never documented in public.

But that's all for undergrad.

The fact remains that the only exam that matters much in top tier grad admissions for US schools is the TOEFL and that's only for foreigners. Documented research work experience is much more important than any test.
Forth is trivial to learn but takes serious effort to master, like Lisp and C. I'm a humble beginner myself when it comes to Forth. A match operator is a possibility, but too much of that will ruin all that's good about Forth. I already added word scoped variables, and I already feel like I'm balancing near the point of negative return.
It doesn't make much sense to call a synth either additive or subtractive if it contains both methods.
Like TJ watson said "fire you? I just spent ten million dollars training you."
Columbia University has an Artificial Intelligence MicroMasters on EdX, first cohort started this month. It's free, or 1200$ if you want Columbia course credit.
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The cost of smoking in Australia is probably the main thing that has cut smoking rates. At $20+ a pack smoking is so expensive.

It's also worth noting that Nicorette is much cheaper than in the US. The moment you start using that you save money in Australia.

It's curious that the article doesn't mention e-cigarettes. It's funny how harm minimisation is pushed by academic researchers when it comes to most drugs but isn't discussed that much when it comes to tobacco. They have been pretty much banned in Australia.
Steve Jobs and John Lasseter Interviewed by Charlie Rose (1996)
60 Minutes investigates hidden motors and pro cycling
Does that prevent postgres from modifying it?
Why not empower the people who pay for the product? The consumer? (students / parents)

> They're the ones who care the most about kids' learning

Sad that some parents care less than their teachers, but that's probably the root of 75% of education problems.
It also, at the very least, voids the warranty on your potentially $160,000 car.
I'm going to keep it short and sweet - not because I don't care; conversely: I do and I want to get the message through. This is an "I'm an old hacker and I'm here to set your straight" message and it's not gonna be pretty. You're free to disagree; I'm not here to argue, only to offer a heavy bit of advice.

1. Your P/PC balance is completely lopsided. You seem to be focusing only on acquiring ideas and knowledge but not actually using them.

2. 500+ tabs, 20k bookmarks? Are you aware that at this rate you'll never get anything done because consumption of information will take 100% of your life, with an ever-growing TODO list of things to read? This is borderline addiction.

3. Execution is a skill. If you ever tried to do any of the things you read so much about (as opposed to just reading & talking), you'd find you completely lack experience in doing. You seem to be living under an illusion that you're acquiring skills. You are not.

You sound smart. Very smart. Almost too smart for your own good. But intelligence - and knowledge - is not enough. You need to jump off that psychological cliff before you build it up so high the fear will stop you from ever making the first step.

Having said that: close your web browser. Open your editor. You already have enough inspiration; now you need code. That's all you'll hear from me.

Kosma.

PS. If you follow my advice and start building things instead if just thinking about it, you'll find your creations don't even begin to live up to your expectations. That's normal; it simply shows the discrepancy between what you are and what you could be.
Hyperinflation needs to go really off the charts for people to switch to other currency.

Source: lived under a hyperinflation of 1900%/year and people did not switch currencies.
Please stop insinuating people buying a MacBook are somehow stupid b/c they're easily manipulated by shiny surfaces or brands, or simply incapable of learning a new system.

There are many many comments you can easily find where Mac users give specific reasons as to why they prefer them, such as macOS and its Unix-ness, build quality, screen quality, attention to detail, battery live, and the sorry state of Linux on the desktop.

To insist on the reasons you're giving is acting in bad faith.
maybe this works? a bit? https://nochio.com/story?id=1l9JdB8IghJ9JnsqWZDuA11W
The first paper linked (page 5 of http://vixra.org/pdf/1606.0328v1.pdf) makes a cute connection that was new to me.

It starts with the familiar formula for on-line computation of the sample mean (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_var...) --

mu_n <- mu_n-1 + (1/n) (z_n - mu_n-1)

This corrects the mean "mu" based on the new observation "z_n".

The paper then uses this simple expression to motivate the Kalman filter update equation, in which a new observation z_n is used to compute an innovation (or error signal) y:

y = z_n - H x_n-1

The innovation is then used to update the state-estimate x,

x_n = x_n-1 + K y

The two updates are formally identical, with the Kalman state "x" being analogous to the running-mean "mu". I had never noticed the connection. There is a similar connection to the on-line variance.
This sounds eerily like something a Chinese government propaganda person would say.
There's also this one if anyone is interested in helping out with the DB side of things: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/specialist/database/
Certainly supports the arguments of the black lives matter movement.
Perfect! Thanks. I'm going to retire some boxes ;)
I've been there myself, it was at the start of my career and almost ended it. I know how incredibly emotional this kind of thing can be. Just understand you aren't the first, you wont be the last and shit happens. If you are ever in Philly I'll buy you a beer if you drink, and a dinner if you don't.
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that all three were primarily social activities - you'd go and meet your friends for a drink at the bar, or some coffee at the coffeeshop, or to smoke cigars at a lounge. If your friends are all drinking coffee, you're likely going to start seeking a caffeine buzz rather than an alcohol one.
I think I'd rather make the production systems stand out, and add the emojis there. My prompts have a red background, but emoji prompts just tickle me, somehow.
Actually...I am doing some of that also.
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This is why you have lots of copies of your data. Matt Raney has a great talk about designing for failure that includes details on Uber's "worst outage ever." It too involved postgresql replication and mistaking on host for another, but they didn't lose any data because they had more than a dozen live copies of their database.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNeZYVIfskc&t=26m54s

This isn't an alternative to working backups, of course, but it is an additional safety net. Plus it can give you a lot more options when handling an incident.
The video is just a demo. There will be news to the right of Fox News, don't worry. Also note that the farthest left source shown is HuffPo. We'll likely include farther left sources also, like Occupy Democrats. Ultimately, the list of sources will be driven by the crowdsourced voting. There is also voting on partisanship ratings.

Thanks for pointing out how this could come across though. We certainly don't want to turn anyone off, even inadvertently.
"Um" - a Brainfuck derivative
The British had a 99 year lease - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a-lease-no-one-thoug....
Thanks for saying that; it's essential to reframe the discussion. A few thoughts:

1) The Obama administration's college rankings (I don't know if they are still around) at one point were using the earnings of graduates as a basis.

2) Often you hear people evaluating college based on their first job. Not only are employment skills not the goal, as you point out, but consider the absurdity of valuing education based on what is probably the least important, worst paying job you'll ever get, with a payoff of probably 1-2 years.

3) Looking at the shocking political and environmental problems in 'advanced' countries right now, perhaps more education in the non-vocational fields of liberal arts, including history, political science, and literary criticism, and in the sciences, providing an understanding of nature and scientific method, is more important than ever.

4) A useful way of looking at it: [0]

"The Yale Report of 1828" -- an influential document written by Jeremiah Day (who was at the time president of Yale), one of his trustees, and a committee of faculty -- distinguished between "the discipline" and "the furniture" of the mind. Mastering a specific body of knowledge -- acquiring "the furniture" -- is of little permanent value in a rapidly changing world. Students who aspire to be leaders in business. medicine, law, government, or academia need "the discipline" of mind -- the ability to adapt to constantly changing circumstances, confront new facts, and find creative ways to solve problems.

I'd add that it's not just leaders, but everyone who needs these skills.

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[0] Richard C. Levin, President of Yale, in "Top of the Class: The Rise of Asia's Universities"

https://www.foreignaffairs.org/articles/china/2010-05-01/top...
More than loving your service we like you guys as people and trust you to get things straightened out. I wouldn't host my code with anyone else despite this.
I actually did it to a Dell laptop about 4-5 years ago. Somehow I got the power cable tangled in the office chair I was sitting on, and when I moved the chair the laptop fell to the floor. Managed to put a small crack in the body, although I didn't notice any other damage, and everything appeared to function fine after that. Never bothered trying to get it fixed, I just lived with the crack for a few more months until I got the laptop replaced (for completely unrelated reasons – I moved to a different team at work, and members of my new team were eligible for beefier machines than my old team were.) I was lucky, could easily have resulted in much worse damage than it did.
If you limit the charge of the lithium battery to something like 4.0v versus 4.2v (70-75% capacity) you can double or triple the amount the useful cycles.

All of this is nice because electric motors are essentially infinitely rebuild-able provided they are not burned out or abused.

There is absolutely no question that electric motors are superior to gasoline motors in every way. More torque, simpler, less maintenance. The problem has always been the batteries.

Provided the batteries can be replaced without destroying a car and there isn't some sort of DRM protecting the car from third party batteries there isn't any reason why you would want to buy a new car except to waste money.
You don't have to list everything it can possibly do, but you can tell me what it's main functions are, list the incompatibilities, list the integrations offered etc. You can have online documentation "how to do x with $product" articles. You can tell me who it isn't suited for, etc.

I never said not to have salesmen, just don't make it the only way to get this basic information.
This is a more interesting question that it might seem. For a Sunday afternoon read, please take a look to Jonesforth [1] for an implementation of a basic Forth for Linux/32 bits. It's written in literate style and it reads like a nice book.

If you are not that interested in the implementation of the compiler (and if so you might be missing the ultimate point of Forth), Starting Forth [2] is a classic resource.

Edit: formatting

[1] https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth

[2] https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
I had a conversation with friends who live in LA yesterday about the fact that they thought smoking is more prevalent in Melbourne than in the LA.

Amused by the timing :-)

(If I'd guessed, I would've assumed smoking was less prevalent in Melbourne (because of the reasons mentioned in the article, but mostly the cost), although I've not actually paid enough attention to compare.)

(We all agreed it seemed more common in Europe, very vaguely speaking.)
Is there such a thing as "conflict free lithium"?
> iPad sales continue to implode, down 19%

I'm a bit surprised by this. I got to try out a iPad Pro with the pencil yesterday for the first time and came away very impressed.
Perhaps she would enjoy a nice game of chess.
I'm yet to see a game of Diplomacy every actually end, so that makes it difficult. The only reason this game is difficult for AI is the social interaction required to play the game. If the computer was given a means of making offers and private communication with other players, it would be much like any other game. Rules, game state, probability, goal state, etc.
The author states:

>"Concurrency: Concurrency is the scheduling of work to happen over multiple processors (or multiple nodes in a system)"

This is not correct. You can have concurrency on a single CPU with multiple threads.