skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By which you mean taxpayers will subsidize operating costs.

Yeah, exactly.

> I wonder exactly how regressive the wealth transfer from the average middle-class California taxpayer to the California weekly-commute bullet-train businessperson will be, in practice.

Yeah. And a lot of the funding for the rail project is already coming from Federal and State coffers (via taxpayer money or deficit spending), so this wealth transfer is already happening. There's at least $6 billion already allocated from Federal funding programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Fin...) and the Proposition 1A required Federal Funds matching the $9.95 billion approved by bonds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_1A_(200...). I don't know if the $6 billion in stimulus money "counts" towards the $9.95 billion in matching funds, nor do I know if the funds have been fully matched.
Presidents may not hold anywhere near as much power as we believe. Eisenhower seemed to be very concerned in his warning of this when he was leaving office half a century ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
It still boggles my mind that there is no (good) way to search all an organization's repos at once. The docs (e.g. [0] but also in other places) claim you can just put "org:foo" in the search bar, but it has never worked for me.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/
Oh sorry, you're right. I had my mind in individual hobbyist software projects. For a project with as many contributors as Python, the copyright date should definitely be listed to avoid trying to contact the developers (most of which will be long gone) for the date of creation once you believe the copyright has expired.
What about the 5th amendment? I think we can agree without too much of a stretch that our storage data is just an extension of our mind (verily, suppose someone had illegal data stored on their drive and an idedic memory? Destroying the data on the hard drive wouldn't destroy the data in their mind), and thus just as protected by our right not to testify against ourself?
The Jewish flight from Europe and concurrent Zionism is significantly different is character to the current Israeli behaviour, which is undoubtedly seeking to illegally expel Palestinians from the West Bank. But to say that the Palestinians and their allies had no role in this process is also absurd. The plight of the Palestinians is dire, but their actions must also be weighted. In many ways they have the Israelis they deserve, and the Israelis have the Hamas they deserve.

The American far right is so disconnected from reality and humanity as to render their arguments null and void. I am not arguing their positions.

I don't think though that any mass migration of a persecuted people is an invasion, no matter how much the current inhabitants don't like them.

When the state of Israel was attacked by an existential threat it defended itself, and it now occupies the terrain required to defend itself. The continual threat from Syria more than justifies holding the Golan Heights. The rocket attacks from Gaza on heavily populated areas (and control by Hamas) certainly justify some blockade. The West Bank territory squeezes so close to Tel Aviv that ceding it to a regime that might rocket them is impossible.

The Israelis use of heavy weapons on Gaza is indefensible, as are the continued growth of West Bank settlements. But they fall short of being comparable in any way with the Holocaust.
In pedophilia specifically? I doubt it. But it's not a far inference from dopamine's role in sexual arousal and satisfaction [1], and its role in drug addiction [2].

While it would be a stretch to postulate that the effect of child pornography on those disposed to it exactly matches that of drugs which provoke massive dopamine release on those who take them, the effects of dopamine on sexual behavior in the human male, and its role in the brain's reward system in general, lend I think considerable plausibility to the hypothesis that engaging in pedophilic behavior centered around child pornography, and obtaining sexual satisfaction thereby, tends to potentiate further engagement in the same behavior.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01497634940...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2696819/
These are not "needs" that are failing to be delivered; the only need a worker serves is the boss' "need" to make profit within capitalism. I care wholly for the needs of humans, not for the needs of the person I'm selling my labour to.

The boss is a human who makes his money by meeting the needs of other humans. You help him to do it.

I do not want to be forced. I don't want anyone to be forced.

So if I choose not to provide for your needs, no action will be taken against me? Somehow I doubt that the absence of force is what you had in mind.
Wtf is happening?

I want to believe that the different gauge standards is a bit like the proliferation of programming languages in software - they solve their slightly different problem space well. Is this true?
Folks down-voting: I know "subsidized by the government" == "subsidized by the taxpayers". My phrasing wasn't intended as a judgment on the merits of such action, just as a possible scenario in response to the GP's question.
10 hours later: nothing convincing. I got one for an Amex card and he got one for Discover, but nothing exact. His other ads were verizon, geico, halls, lay's, AT&T. Mine were only local news sites -- paper, radio and tv.
I hate web because it provides a user interface instead of a programming interface.

If I don't like the existing user interface to a standardized machine-readable protocol/format, I can write my own user interface for my own needs, as can anyone else, which has two big advantages: People with different needs can have user interfaces that match their respective needs, even while working on the same project, and that leads to easier innovation (when people share their respective solutions).

Now, github currently provides the low-barrier solution that seems to be good enough for many people, which is why the development of tools for email-based workflows is stagnating, instead building more lock-in for github, and preventing any serious improvement in workflows.

So, your hate for email is for practical reasons, but those practical reasons are not inherent properties of email, but rather the result of github trying to capture the market for later exploitation, and you are happy to help them for the momentary convenience, while probably not realizing how much potential convenience you are missing out on as a side effect.
can you point to an example?
Or just say you forgot the password.
Verizon brings back unlimited data plans
e^x = an infinite series

if you substitute x = iz

you can split the even and odd terms of the infinite series into cos and sin

e^iz = cos z + i sin z

evaluating at z = pi yields

cos pi + i sin pi

-1 + 0i = -1

the exponential function maps the imaginary axis to the unit circle. pi gets mapped to -1.

This shows its true, but the "why" and real understanding requires calculus and the first week of complex analysis. Otherwise you are just parroting a set of facts.
> They're at the intersection of rising inequality and rising concern over what we eat. But that limits them too; trying for "mass-market luxury" is a precarious position.

Thanks, that's basically the best expression of some of the things I've always felt about them without managing to put words on it. They basically have a classic strategy of Luxury, without selling high-end stuff like Harrods/Hediard, the tier they happen to be dominant on is something I would awkwardly label good and healthy. I've always found profoundly immoral the idea that access to this kind of food should be reserved to wealthy people, that it implies a certain cultural baggage, and that it can be used to signal social status.

In my neighborhood, I've realized that whole foods on Saturday morning as become a sort of meeting point for the local socialites, which are often perfect caricatures. It's fascinating to witness two acquaintances bump into each other, and almost directly perform a review of the content of their cart, it's almost like if their heilroom tomatoes had replaced their rolexes. Actually, it's funny because I realize I often do something not just remotely similar, when the guy in front of me has a huge cart entirely filled with stuff I know will be expensive: I cant help but to think "wow, he must be packed", then the unavoidable voyeurism related to damage assessment. If it ends up being a 4 digit number and the guy apple pays quickly with zero emotion on his face, it can be intense.

Your analysis of how the competition will exploit the weakness of their strange position is spot on.
Nope. I was flagged for "secondary inspection" at the southern border. (Mind you, I am as white as you can get). Long story, short. I acted like a bit of an entitled jerk, and was surrounded by 15 CBP agents, had my head slammed on a metal table, cuffed, phone and wallet taken, and then I was taken to a windowless room (with a couple of older Hispanic guys who I remember thinking could be "disappeared" fairly easily without anyone knowing). I asked for my phone to make a call, but was denied. When I demanded rights, an agent told me that they didn't apply at the border and referred me to some Patriot Act notices on the wall. I felt powerless, and completely at their mercy. The agents told me that they would be searching my car without me authorizing it or being present (I remember thinking that they could plant something and notify CHP to pick me up a few miles up the road). After discussing things with the supervisor, I was let go but had my SENTRI pass revoked. Later, I contacted some lawyers who all advised that at the border, I didn't have the same rights, and that I had no case of any sort. Now, I am grateful it happened to me (because I stopped acting like an entitled asshole), but it left me feeling a whole lot less free, and it makes me feel more uncomfortable to travel internationally, which is a shame.
Online dating conmen 'using love letter templates'
Cool, I didn't know about those projects. I have been using sed for a long time to refactor Python!

I think the goals are actually similar -- refactoring is a style-preserving transformation that is similar to changing the language. At Google there is a bunch of work on converting C++ 03 to 11 to 14 to 17, etc. and they're using similar techniques with Clang. That's an example of a refactoring that's also changing the language.

I think it would be nice to make a "LST-aware sed". Once you have the parsers, I don't think it's that hard to add something like that on top. The parsers are of course a lot of labor!
It's 2017. You may not need cloud provider since hard drive and processor costs are way below than it was few years ago. It would be cheaper in the long run.
Texas Central is about 1/3 of the way through right of way acquisition on their Houston to Dallas route.

http://www.texascentral.com/alignment-maps/

They're partnering with Japan National Railways and planning on running the N700-I Bullet total system (the international version of the Tokaido Shinkansen).
But changing the current title "Coeliac disease" to celiac disease in Wikipedia might reduce confusion, and since celiac death rates are quite high if undiagnosed, over millions of users, save some lives.

(Against this, search engines are now very good at matching synonyms.)

I know, you didn't like the hint of political correctness in the particular Korean example. That's a judgement call, I might agree with you in general, but with such an emotional topic (comfort women, atrocities, etc) I wouldn't resent the change.
That whole myth will inevitably be revealed as a coup by the soybean industry, right? Right up there with the hogwash of the food pyramid.
Thats actually a good point
Rain-X has wiper fluid that reapplies the treatment somehow. I haven't needed to manually reapply in over three years.
Nope but if I pay a few K for a service I expect it to scale to perfomance at least comparable to a very low end device. Why would I use DRBD in a Postgres cluster? I am not underestimating anything I am simply pointing out that RDS is overpriced and crappy service. A proper setup & operation of a postgres cluster is manageable task. What you totally can not manage on AWS is the risks of having single tenant that is using 30% of resources or having lengthy multi AZ outages due to bugs in extremely complex control layer etc.
Exactly how does it know how to send email from the command line? I'm using gmail. Am I supposed to figure out how to configure gmail for SMTP, put the server and creds in a config file somewhere, and hope I don't bump up against any ISP firewalls or Google security tricks?

Or see Manishearth's comment above.

Meanwhile, you may have to create a Github account and fork the repo for PRs, but I don't see any way for that to not be trivial. Yeah, you gotta know Git, but at least Github has nice easy buttons to guide you through doing things.
To be fair i3 being the lower end offering with just 2 cores isn't really competing against any of the server products Intel offers.

Quad (and more) core i5 and i7 that do have near-equivalent Xeon parts do have ECC disabled.
Yah that's not going to happen. Lot of that is Fab trade secret.

You'll have to use your best guess or intuition on this.
Not everyone tries to get out of it. Some people even enjoy doing their civic duty.
"Participation is limited to the following eligible groups:

Employees of KCP&L or City of Kansas City, MO: must present proof of employment (such a pay stub)

Customers of KCP&L: must present utility bill"
If by "picking and trading stocks" you mean putting money on type A funds when the market is trending, it can be quite profitable at a lower volatility rate.
Artificial Intuition – A Breakthrough Cognitive Paradigm
I guess this is one aspect of academia that seems to be more humane than corporations. Faculty advisers and universities have interests that are aligned with their graduate students. When the students do great research and win awards, the adviser and university gets credit. While there are of course horror stories when they don't get along, academia at least still believes in investing in people, and not just using them for the product of their work.

A corporation would never take a new grad, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of 1:1 time to teach and mentor them, put that person's name front and center on all the products they've worked on, and celebrate when that person moves up to another company.
Paywalled. Not saying it's not a good resource, just putting that out there so others are aware.
The one bright spot is this leads me to hope they can't decrypt at will via some non-public method.
Past a certain size, it's impossible to care for all employees on a personal level. It's nothing malicious. You just physically cannot connect with them any more.

I personally think the cutoff point is somewhere between 30-50 employees.
In 1985, when I first got out of college and started having spare money, I was finally in the position to build a Z80 computer (having spent a couple years in HS using trs-80s). I got the Steve Ciarcia book, started designing my own machine ... then I realized that a 68K CPU was only about $20 more. So I scrapped my Z80 plans and build a 68000 board instead. No regrets.
I've plugged Robin's previous posts and materials many times, because they really are that good. If you're looking to get into React, I'm sure this course will be worth looking into. (For one excellent example of his writing, you might want to look at his recent post "Tips to Learn React + Redux in 2017": https://www.robinwieruch.de/tips-to-learn-react-redux/ ).

If you're looking for more material to learn React, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, ES6, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a source of solid info on more advanced topics.
Size = 0 is a common case, useful to highlight, and (I think) should have a common hash value. __init__.py files are a great place to look if they're not empty, but most are.
Medium has to compete with the rest of the blogging ecosystem, where many of their articles are actually cross-posted from personal blogs. The rest of that entire world, content is free or donation-driven, so the value of a Medium post is effectively nil. Arguably negative, for the feel-good garbage and corporate submarine PR.
Samsung chief in second grilling over corruption claims
GoDaddy CEO: Americans Won't Be Smart Enough to Fill Tech Jobs for Decades
It's not specifically a tech term, e.g. spec scripts in the entertainment business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_script
People say they didn't commit murders, too. Sometimes they claim that their wife ran off to Russia and that the whole murder case is an attempt by the Russian Mafia to frame the defendant.

Strangely enough, the courts are happy to decide something smells like bullshit and imprison people because of it.
This is an excellent example of open, transparent communication between founder and end user. Great job giving updates so frequently!
It would if they then syndicated the posts to publications around the world. German newspapers and magazines, for example, could have their pick of prominent writers they otherwise would not have access to and couldn't afford.
If it's a good idea, many people will have it. You have to win through better execution.
A New Twist on Adding Data Persistence to Containers
What if instead of worrying about whether the districts are fair, we worried about making it so that the fairness of the districts doesn't matter?

If we used mixed member proportional representation, the districts could be draw using any method and we could still be sure that all voters would be represented fairly.
That's not what thinthread did, just because they tested it on past data, the entire point, if you have been listening at all to Drake or Binney, is that a good program gives you only the data you need, and makes the haystack smaller so you can find the correct data points before attack.

The entire SAIC program it was replaced with was a contractors wet dream but nothing but a million data firehouses shoved into a warehouse with no real deciphering capability, and it demonstrably and provably hurt and continues to hurt national security.

Hayden single handedly did more to damage national security by terminating thinthread than any single terrorist organization, full stop. Was it a panacea? No, of course not, but it would have been the correct thing to do, unless of course Binney and Drake are completely lying and the data this comment is based on is false.

So, when it's neither incompetence or malice, as most would claim of Hayden, fraud is the only option left. Of course, they aren't mutually exclusive.
You're right and you're wrong. The problem is we don't even know what "overeating" is yet on an individual basis. Some people can pack away thousands of calories a day, not do a lick of exercise, and be fine. Others (like me) have to severely restrain their eating (to say less than 1500 calories a day) to prevent weight gain.

Once we figure out how to accurately measure basic metabolic process, we'll have gone a long way toward figuring out this woeful conundrum.
Wow ! What an awesomely informative article !!!
What can Rust do for astrophysics?
Identifying Variables That Might Be Better Predictors
OpenGL Have Fun – A Go package that makes life with OpenGL enjoyable
Which means it will happen most likely. Even techies make stupid mistakes, such as me not changing my Skype password the other day, and had the account breeched. Sigh
The TSA's primary mandate is just to socialize legal liability for terrorist attacks away from the airlines.

Their secondary mandate is crony capitalism.

Their tertiary mandate is to acclimatize the population to the trappings of the unconstitutional American police state.

Only the latter would be substantially aided by encroachment onto rail, so I'm not too worried about it for now.
We do have Blue Zones from which we can study the genetic aspect:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

It's a very young science so it's hard to say what we'll be able to do with it. To date, not much research has been done on aging. We could learn a lot in 50 years. The world of 1967 was a lot different than today, for example.

And I would think that the world will change more in the next 50 years than it has in the last 100.
In the linked ACLU post, the 2nd-5th bullets are a great example. The second bullet specifically enumerates the government position on border searches. The 4th and 5th bullets detail what the Border Patrol can do away from the immediate vicinity of the border.

But the 3rd bullet, which is key to the notion of the 100 mile "constitution free zone", is more mysterious. It states that Customs has "broad—though not limitless—powers" without detailing them.

Many readers of this ACLU post and coverage of it have come away with a false idea that Customs and Border Protection has some magic wand. The facts are very different.

Here are the referenced sections, forgive any formatting issues.

> - According to the government, however, these basic constitutional principles do not apply fully at our borders. For example, at border crossings (also called "ports of entry"), federal authorities do not need a warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing to justify conducting what courts have called a "routine search," such as searching luggage or a vehicle.

> -Even in places far removed from the border, deep into the interior of the country, immigration officials enjoy broad—though not limitless—powers. Specifically, federal regulations give U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authority to operate within 100 miles of any U.S. "external boundary."

> -In this 100-mile zone, Border Patrol agents have certain extra-Constitutional powers. For instance, Border Patrol can operate immigration checkpoints.

> - Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without "reasonable suspicion" of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a "hunch"). Similarly, Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or "probable cause" (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).
Seriously? No.

Maybe about the price of a print magazine, though.
10 Articles and Tutorials about Outliers
This Show HN from mid-December on Robin's blog post looks related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170837

Lots of upvotes, some discussion there.
The standard for US criminal law is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt". I think "100% proof" is a close enough summary of that phrase... If the proof doesn't 100% convince the jury, then reasonable doubt still exists and prosecution should fail.
Leaving aside excessive and largely ineffective security screening for flights in the US (and pretty much everywhere else), a lot of European high speed trains absolutely have metal detectors, luggage inspection, and document inspection. As do many buildings.

It doesn't take long to go through most of the time but then going through Pre-Check probably averages me 10 minutes. But I do leave a good buffer.

It's probably a bad idea to predicate travel time estimates on arriving at the train 3 minutes before it leaves and getting on.
Denim Dilemma: U.S. cotton farmers worry about Trump’s trade policies
The question is what causes overeating. With some people it's obviously bad habits, but we also know that thyroid problems, anxiety, adhd and other brain issues can cause overeating.