skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you put other people at risk

Ok. How big is this risk?

I mean, it's not like the risk itself is something wrong, right? I can risk failure in a game even if a chance for success is tiny because I have a quicksave just before. I can risk being hit by lightning by going out on a sunny day without caring at all. It's the level of risk - how probable something is and how severe the consequences when it happens - that's important.

> It is very likely that you injure yourself,

First how "very" likely it is? The probability of injury and the extent of the harm will depend, in large part, on the individual person ability.

You made a claim in absolute terms, but even if we agree to tone it down a little and say that it is more likely to get injured when unseated, the question remains: how much more likely?

You risk injury and death every time you fly. You find the risk acceptable because you need to get somewhere fast. The person sitting in the aisle feels similarly, only their "need to get somewhere" is greater than yours (or their risk assessment differs from yours).

> and worse yet, someone else.

Again, how probable this is? How much of a threat am I to the people next to me?

And what's more important, do people around me accept the risk? If they do, what is wrong with my behavior? On what grounds are you assuming that the other passengers were not ok with the extra ones? There's no mention of this in the article.

In short: you're simplifying the problem a little too much. Even if something indeed increases some risk, it's not enough to regard that as bad. You need to take things like the degree of risk and the willingness to take the risk in people in a particular situation into account, too.
The github project has a license file that says MIT
I admire many aspects of the stoic outlook, but Nietzsche's criticism is delightfully needle-sharp.
I had to use Tabula to extract a decade of SAT scores from PDFs for each state/year. It was a nightmare, but I managed it. More recently, I was hoping to do something similar with decennial census data, but it was just too much. Far, far too many groups publish data to PDF, which is about as bad as if they just deleted it straight-out. It's very upsetting.
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-times-warrants-ca...

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3897406/New-York-Tim...
It is sad that nobody else mentioned it or care about it.

I don't even know what most of these tools have to do with "sexiness" and find myself angry that people just enjoy. Is there any possible critics over there or is everything supposed to be considered as (awesome|cool|hip|sexy)?
There's going to be a day where there won't be any more annual letters from him.
glad to hear that!
I can't recommend enough "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by Irvine, William B.

I am 2/3 into it, maybe one of the best philosophy book I've ever read.
> Funny how these details change.

Not funny, but weird.
Perhaps if the announcement had some couched language that explained it was a trial balloon, and could go away at any time that would be fine. It did not: https://blog.google/products/spaces/introducing-spaces-tool-...

The issue is that it's an established pattern, so it may limit adoption on other new services they launch.
The very beauty and reason behind filter is in that it does not care about its arguments. It is a logical construct - if predicate is satisfied - keep it.

The ADTs, type-tagging, predicate logic and duck-typing are superior and less cluttered than homogeneous box-like variables and restricted homogeneous conditionals are - the cost of static typing.

Yes, one could shot himself in the foot, but one also could run instead of crawl.
Everyone I know from #FrogTwitter got banned so the remaining few went back and deleted all their tweets.
The problem with this argument in this case is that she put herself out in front of ‘the mob’. She actively promoted her ‘achievement’ to a public audience. Presumably she would have been happy for any level of adulation from the public. So when it turns around to public revulsion, that's just the other side of the sword, which she first actively employed.

I would have more sympathy for your argument if this story was about some form of private cheating. But this was cheating on a public stage, one that she particularly sought out.
I opened an issue about the semantic problem. What makes me worried is more sexism, harassment, rape culture.

https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy/issues/59
Thanks for that link.

Last time I did a Twitter pruning session to remove unwanted drivel, I did it manually and it took me a couple of hours. Thank God I'm only an occasional Twitterer, so I only had a couple of hundred to wade through.

What I'm really waiting for though, to make good on my desire to abandon Twitter completely, is for alternatives like GNUsocial[0] to offer the ability to import your existing Twitter archive. But, as is so often the case with open source projects, they prefer to fuck about with "me too" enhancements like adding 'transgender muslim emoji' support, rather than actually providing incentives for people to migrate easily from Twitter.

[0] https://gnu.io/social/try/
A Brief History of God
Google should start a lifetime project so help people have a better apriori understanding of where and when its going.
(Sr. Net Eng at $ISP)

Netflow data is extremely helpful, although not on its own (it will also identify legitimate customers running their own mail servers). It's a good start, though.
People have gotten fired over their political views. Thin-skinned losers can't handle all the tolerance
That's an unfair reading of my comment. And as others have mentioned below, I'm invested in thinking about how to sustainably grow wood because I'm commercially invested.
Yes. But why do you want that? Why the need to state this at the moment?
It's really not more surprising than the thought there are still new, well-funded and high profile companies that have seriously misguided ways of dealing with sexual harassment complaints.
No need to over-react. You're the only one talking about convicting her based on the video. It's perfectly fine for people to comment on what we see.
I know this is a little off topic for the parent but this seems where all the DOD people are collating.

I'm currently working in a research team at NJIT's CSTR. We're looking to do a lot of raytracing for a project that we are working on. We've talked to one of our friends at JHAPL and they said they use 3 internally, 2 were DOD projects and 1 was PHARLAP. He also claimed that PHARLAP was neither the fastest nor the best and that the only reason he mentioned it was that it's not export controlled and we can get our hands on it. We've started interfacing with PHARLAP and the progrnosis does not look good at all. ~12 seconds/trace, I assume because we're going from python->matlab->fortran then back from fortran->matlab->python.

Does anyone here work on those other 2 raytracers? If you do work on one of those I'd love to get an email from you to see if we can get our hands on a copy of it (either from the code.mil project or via some contract for internal use only).

If you'd like to know more my boss would love to do a telecon if you work on one of these.

We were planning on writing our own which would be a hard endevour so if anything we'd rather just improve someone else's raytracer to include the loss calculations we need.
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There was a comment to that effect on HN the other day with a reference but even without that just googling around makes it pretty clear the thing is not some mystery compound - effects, countermeasures, antidotes, etc are all well-known. 'Secret chemical agent' is something like the gas used in the Nord-Ost hostage crisis - 15 years later, it's not publicly known what it was to begin with.
"In Berkshire’s 2005 annual report, I argued that active investment
management by professionals – in aggregate – would over a period of years underperform the returns achieved by rank amateurs who simply sat still. I explained that the massive fees levied by a variety of “helpers” would leave their clients – again in aggregate – worse off than if the amateurs simply invested in an unmanaged low-cost index fund. ”

He then goes on to show how that's been true, and that a standard index fund outperforms almost every hedge funds even before extra fees to the hedge funds are taken into account.

It's not the first time this has been pointed out, and it suggests that for non-multimillionaires, an index fund is always the most rational choice.

You get close to the return you'd get by investing in real estate, with the added benefit of index funds being much more easily liquifiable.
You should ask, "what keeps lions from eating lions" if you want to go that route and then see what happens to your higher authority argument.
It seems like google and bing should be able to sue cloudflare for the hours they're spending cleaning up their mess.
Yeah you can device such a reasoning - theologians from monotheistic religions do that. I guess for some this is comforting. It is certainly a bleak world where anybody can be hit by such a tragedy without any higher reason or justice. I just happen to find your viewpoint ("really, its for their own good") much more bleak and horrible.
The transparency and humble tone is pretty unique.

"Unfortunately, I followed the GEICO purchase by foolishly using Berkshire stock"

"It was, nevertheless, a terrible mistake on my part"

"Despite that cautious approach, I made one particularly egregious error"

I bet you don't find that sort of thing in many other annual shareholder letters.
That might work. If said 3rd parties were interested in helping. Most of them might be but it just takes one party refusing to help and then you've still got the data out there.
Until someone makes an AI Buffett simulator.
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It's true, people pay for cachet, social proof, etc. And when the competition uses the same ASIN and grabs the buy box from your listing of unique items, the sale goes to them simply because the add to cart button is associated with their product not yours as a result of winning the buy box. And when they win the buy box, they get the benefit of all the social proof you've cultivated via reviews on the product listing.

I'm not trying to dissuade you, or my mom, for that matter. Just sharing my experience as the HN ethic suggests I should. There's numerous strategies to deal with the Amazon cockroach problem, including staying one step ahead with better products. It's just it can get a little soul sucking...and best to know what to expect so you can prepare the best you can.
Kudos for writing about Stoicism. However, I think it's pretty weak article. No mentions of negative visualization or Seneca while both are roots of the Stoic philosophy.
There was no panic. I was woken at 0126 UTC the day Tavis got in contact. The immediate priority was shut off the leak, but the larger impact was obvious.

Two questions came to mind: "how do we clean up search engine caches?" (Tavis helped with Google), and "has anyone actively exploited this in the past?"

Internally, I prioritized clean up because we knew that this would become public at some point and I felt we had a duty of care to clean up the mess to protect people.
Oh. Seems to be something called readme.io? http://readme.io/
Those European commercial forests are cut at a younger age than these tropical plantations, as these plantations are growing far denser wood than European sycamore, beech, and alder wood.

Usually any plantation grown wood will be certified by some organization, FSC or another. Red grandis, genuine mahogany, and teak are the usual suspects in this category. All woods popularly known for furniture making.

These all grow much slower than the forests you typically see in Maine/Oregon, which extends their biological impact. This also greatly raises their costs, which is where increased commercial usage would encourage more of this type of sustainable growth and harvesting.
Sure, but it's easy to be humble when you're essentially an institution. In fact, it's better that way, because it appears honest. It's far harder for an unproven fund manager to admit making egregious mistakes without making his shareholders nervous. Buffett has 50 years of beating the market to soothe stakeholder concerns. Most other managers don't.
They died because the web is so large that it's somewhere between cost-prohibitive and impossible to index directory-style manually (which is how directories used to be maintained). And nobody's come up with a way to automate it that's been effective and not subject to gaming by spammers.

Additionally, categorization is useful for quickly answering only a tiny subset of query types.
Some of my best ideas have come to me after hours of twaddling away with no particular goal in mind in SimCity.

We as devs tend to seek optimal solutions as if they were a simple numeric quantity, where more/higher=better. We know this is not how things are, but the mental model is seductive in in its simplicity.

What I have learned over the years is that it is the constant change between different forms of attention and focus that drive me to be my best. Which means time, real time, away from what I do for work. And when I return to work after doing so, I appreciate it all the more.

You might be interested in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book, Flow, if you have not yet read it. Although it has nothing to do with game playing per se, it helped clarify many aspects of my thinking when it came to why I felt I was 'wasting' time while gaming, and why I was wrong in that assessment.

https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-...
Life expectancy of 86 year old male is 5.4 years.
The problem with assertions is that sometimes they mean people get woken up in the middle of the night for an issue that would have been caught hours/days/weeks before by a statically-typed language. If you don't have 100% test coverage in Python you just can't rule that possibilility out. I say this as a full-time Python engineer and I've been woken up at 3am by things that slipped through testing and would have been caught in (say) Java or C#.

Now, it is arguable whether it's worthwhile to take that chance to make development quicker and more flexible. I can definitely see that. Also, if you have to wait a long time for the compiler then that might actually be a loss in aggregate.

It does suck trying to refactor large Python codebases though. Running and fixing the tests over and over until errors go down to zero is no fun.
Thinking that framing God as a contradiction will convince people not to believe in it is naive.

People have been saying the same things for 2,000 years. The only development is that we can say it's been longer now.
People who work with the industry know more about the industry. My comment relies on my experience.
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>> You get close to the return you'd get by investing in real estate

Close to the return on unleveraged real estate investing. Most real estate investing is significantly leveraged, to a larger extent than possible (or recommended) for stock market investing.
I have my origin servers firewalled to allow only traffic from CloudFlare servers and would do the same in case I switched to OVH, but even so it would cause a lot of trouble if the origin server IP addresses were revealed since this would let the attackers target the network I'm on directly.
What is perhaps most interesting about stoicism is how it influenced cognitive therapy and CBT in a big way. These forms of therapy, along with derivatives that integrate practical ideas from Buddhism such as DBT and radical acceptance therapy, have been seen to perform as well as medication and in some cases providing longer term improvements.

I think both the stoics and Buddhism were definitely on to something.
Why compare rails to PHP and node for server costs? They are all similar. If you care about server costs you use Java or Scala or something with actual performance...
By now I feel I will some day read the unthinkable:

Alphabet Shutting Down Google
Same here... And this made me realize how painful it can be to change password on some website.
I would change the title to actually describe what the service does. It has nothing to do with Unicorns other than the fact that its logo is a unicorn.

From what I've seen, HN people don't appreciate marketing copies and you probably won't get enough upvotes you deserve with the product you've built.
Trump, Tillerson, DeVos, Koch brothers, Goldman Sachs, and on and on. I think there are plenty of people willing to stretch moral and ethical boundaries in order to make more money.
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online.net. They run promotions all the time from which I got my machines from, but they're insanely cheap as is. Uptime has been 100% for the past few months.
I tried an experiment, integrated into my workflow, and now I have to migrate everything to a competitor.

If that happens often enough, I may just start off with the competitor.
Or, to try and understand people's dynamics and behavior as good as they understand tech.
No one else's mistake other than ours.
It's different than competition in a traditional market, where each competitor sets up their own storefront and does battle. On Amazon, you build the storefront, write the marketing copy, take the risks of choosing and testing products, building product reputations and testimonials, then Amazon enables literally anyone to come into what you've built, move your products to the back room, and sell their similar stuff on your end caps, and walk out of your store with the money you should have made.

And should you complain, Amazon treats you like their bitch, this despite the fact that paying commission on every sale makes you a customer.
Pragmatic thought: service providers like this should disclose their languages and practices for every part of their infrastructure. If one says they write in-house code that handles sensitive customer data in unsafe languages (instead of, say, a managed language or even formally verified code) then we have something to help decide which provider to use.

Yes software is hard, but that means we should use the best tools and focus the effort on the problems that aren't trivially avoidable.
I would love to get down there too, but unless I guess the reality is it's profitable to cut it all down and the political will is there, not sure what else we can do...
That seems better to me then letting it run for a couple of years first.
Hedge funds make perfect sense for people who want to hedge their capital in specific ways. A hedge fund doesn't need to outperform the market to deliver tremendous value to their customers.

Secondly, every trade has a counterparty. So somebody necessarily has to be at the loser's end of every trade. For every investment fund that makes oversize profits another fund loses money. It all evens out. That doesn't mean it's entirely zero sum, though, because money still flows from bad businesses towards good businesses as a result. The incentives for professional money managers are also totally misaligned: funds performance is reported quarterly leading to a short term bias; fund managers get a bonus if they invest irresponsibly but get lucky; customers are unsophisticated so it's one big lemon market.

I agree that index funds make a lot of sense for non-millionaires (and single digit millionaires), but that's simply because it takes a lot of effort to beat the market even by a few percent so you need a lot of assets for it to be worthwhile.
The both statements you have quoted are still valid.

Moreover, if you would think a bit you would realize that the world around you is duck-typed. At least at the level of proteins.

One more thing. Every ontological attempt to use naive categories would fail and end up in duck-typing-like approach, because it reflects how the mother nature is.
So you can deal with pain, but you simply can't bear the non-existence of the pain-giver.

Sounds like a fetish.
This story, if true, does seem to point to some complicity: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/02/18/killer-wome...

Mentions being recruited months ago, and practice sessions that included injecting the victim. I don't know that a reasonable person would conclude that an injection was a normal thing to do in a prank.

Of course, news is often misreported, so yeah...innocent until proven guilty. But people will speculate, and there are some things that feel fishy.
Not if you use a low TTL. And no, I'd rather not have my traffic run or even terminate through every intelligence agency on the planet, even if that means accepting a few drops in the timeframe it takes to propagate.
> Don't worry, Keep is there to stay.

You mean it's a keeper? Sorry, it had to be said.
Oh, thanks for the tip. I was just trying to have a little fun, but you're right that it's not very descriptive. I'll change it.
If Optimizely and Asana stopped existing, most people would never notice. They would definitely notice if Uber vanished.

Doubly so if the fixes Uber made to city governments were also to vanish.
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Per month, just to clarify.
I always think "ok maybe this was when Joe was new 10 years ago". Maybe it was some panic fix. Then I check the log and the terrible code was usually written by Joe yesterday, with no time pressure. Sigh
Why is something an extension, that can just be a Greasemonkey script ?
Cleary, he meant leveraged real-estate investing.

Non-leveraged real estate investing would give you hardly 1-2 % p.a.
>Most real estate investing is significantly leveraged, to a larger extent than possible (or recommended) for stock market investing.

But the market will adjust to cheap leverage. Easy money, house prices go up, you get less value per dollar. So the benefit of leverage is diminished at least a bit.
Optical fibre with Einstein effect
Interestingly enough, this has been scientifically investigated - I posted about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13724476
Yes and that line of reasoning works as long as you don't think to deeply about the logic of it. But you cant really escape the fundamental paradox of a God which is both almighty and benevolent. All monotheistic religions have to struggle with this.

The Book of Job in the Bible for example posits that God is almighty but not at all fair. He basically causes Job to suffer on a whim. Not out of some kind of theological necessity, but simply as a cruel experiment. There is no paradox here, because there is no claim that God is always just and benevolent.
It's been a constant source of confusion for me as well, as articles posted on social media sites like HN will refer to one delivery mechanism, and the comments to those articles will refer to the other. It's really odd.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13720147, where the article refers to the two women rubbing it on their hands and then his face. The top comment from tlow, however, refers to the article pointing to "atomization" instead of "dermal" and then something else completely absent from the article about the women attempting to aid him "with bare hands". Nobody seems to really call him out for the inconsistency either.

"An atomized version targeting the respiratory system and not the dermal would explain why two women attempting to aid "with bare hands" would not have been harmed."
The USA/USG is and has been a tyranny for many years now.
I bet NSA didn't even have to make any network requests on this one. They either got backdoors in most cache servers or have already duplicated their contents.
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"As an experiment I downloaded my entire archive"

This is still possible? I've done this when the feature was new and tried it again a few weeks ago and there was nothing. Thought it is broken.